Episode 19 of "MacGyver"
s01e19 Slow Death
Title: Slow Death
Original Air Date: 04/02/1986 on ABC
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Guest Stars: Alan Fudge (Paul Webster), Pamela Roylance (Diana Kingman), Tracey Reed (Andrea Collins), Kenneth Danziger (Peter Kramer), Warwick Sims (James Grant), Mark Tymchyshyn (Andy Ellis), Anthony DeFonte (Hassan), Carrell Myers (Unknown)
Plot Outline:
At the beginning of the episode, MacGyver literarly has to jump onto a moving train that he missed earlier to return top-secret files and documents to the US Government. Soon after, the train is stopped by a local tribe who takes all passengers hostage, until the men responsible for the death of the tribal leader's son is found among the passengers. The tribal leader and his men demand the identity of the men so they can execute them for selling medicine to his village, which was actually poison. To prove their point, the vigilantes refuse to give food and water to the passengers until the men are identified. And MacGyver, after learning the reasons for the hijacking, agrees to help the men find who they are looking for. MacGyver constructs a lie detector and sets about trying to find the guilty parties. But who is guilty...?
