1.) MacGyver's place in Alaska- Hand built shed for storing firewood- "a ramshackle lean-to shed constructed of branches and ferns, tarpaulins and what looked like a small aeroplane's wing."
Cabin was probably hand made too. -"filled with rugs and deerskins on floor...piles of newspapers and magazines stood beneath the truckle bed in the corner."
2.) (Page 15) Mac bought some jazz records in Anchorage. Pete asked if he had some sort of music machine. Mac's reply: "Nope," MacGyver puffed at his tea. "Nope, no music machine. Been working on windpower. Trouble is storage. I've worked out the invertor, but it's still not efficient. Still, records are like books. You can look at them and just imagine what's inside."
3.) (Page 18) Mac's new breakfast machine- in MacGyver's words: "My new breakfast machine. You'll like this. See, the pivot arm is triggered by the alarm clock- you've got an ordinary nine volt battery here and it carries the egg from the tray to the pan like so..." (eggs got dropped on the floor. echoes of "Countdown"? I wonder if this machine still has a few bugs too. :-)
Mac: "Hey, and sorry if it was a wasted journey." "Wasted?" Thornton feigned amazement, "How can I call a trip wasted when,......., not to mention watching two dozen eggs getting smashed every which way? I often wondered what you got up to out here on your own. Now I know. When they ask me back at centre, 'Hey, what's tough man MacGyver doing these days?' I'll know what to tell them. 'Oh, he's living up on an ice floe practising new methods of scrambling eggs on the floor.'"
4.) (Page 44) MacGyver's "parlour game" (highlight space under "answer" for solution)
IX
"See if you can turn that into a six by adding, removing or shifting just one line. Oh, and before you ask, no, you can't turn it upside down." -MacGyver
Answer:
SIX
5.) (Page 55) Told Charlie how to make goggles using scissors on Mac's knife to cut a domino from a blanket, long enough to tie at the back of his head. Put a real narrow slit for each eye. Also gave Charlie black shoe polish to black up around his eyes.
6.) (Page 57) Determined rough directions using his wristwatch
7.) Constructed shelter when plane crashed. "Used port wing of the burned out plane as the roof and constructed walls of six inch thick snow-blocks to build what amounted to a tunnel some four feet high." "Carpeted the floor of the shelter with life jackets and aluminum-coated plastic film blankets." "Used charred papers and upholstery from the plane for further floor insulation. Two sleeping-bags lay on top."
8.) (Page 58) Used birch branches to make a sled to carry equipment.
9.) (Page 59) Bandaged Silva's feet with strips of a blanket, using upholstery as lint.
10.) (Pages 60 and 61) Told Catherine Silva to dip matches in nail varnish to make them waterproof.
11.) (Page73) Built another shelter. Chopped down 2 small birches and laid them diagonally against a third and larger tree. Cut some ice blocks, roughly 20 inches long and 18 inches wide, and, by carving off slivers so that they lay obliquely on one another, constructed 2 small triangular walls on either side. He lay more branches on the roof of this lean-to, then his blankets, the life-jackets, and a great deal of snow. Set up a "carpet of insulation" to top it off.
12.) (Pages 89 and 90) Cut through a live, electrified fence.- First, scrabbled at the snow at the base of the fence. Rubbed aluminum frame of his knapsack backwards and forwards in the snow until thick ice formed along its sides. He flung it hard against the fence. It landed upright. The frame rocked back against the banked-up snow at its base, then forward again to rest flush against the wire. The aluminum conducted the current, so Mac could cut the wire in the centre. Dived through hole in fence, followed by Silva.
13.)(Page 91) Mac told Catherine to use the scent bottle from her washbag or reticule as Mac called it, to ward off wolves. "See a wolf, rip off your coat, sprinkle it with scent, chuck it as far away from you as you can. Should keep them occupied for a while. Musk, civet, you know? Attracts other animals just like it attracts men."
14.) (Page 97) Took the door off the hinges to get into Roscow's lab.
15.) (Page 99) Mac- "What is it?", he asked. Silva- "I've been doing some MacGyvering," she whispered in his ear. "If you were setting up a security system round these parts, what would you use?" "Ultra-violet - no good," MacGyver closed his eyes. "Camera'd frost and you need a permanent staff to watch. Electric fence- he's done that." "Think cold," she prompted. "Heat-seekers! Infra-red heat-seeking equipment! Of course! Catherine, I love you!"
16.) (Pages 99 and 100) Used door from lab as a shield to get through heat-seeking security system by spreading snow over door and pounding it down, then carrying it before him down a ramp to another corridor.
17.) (Page 106) Mixed ammonia with iodine for explosion. When mixed together, they precipitate black crystals. "While the paste is wet, it's stable. Let it dry, boom! Huge great explosion soon as anyone touches it. No harm done. Just a big bang and a heck of a flash. Used to put it on the windowsills in my house when I was a boy. Shortened my old grandmother's life, I reckon."- MacGyver
18.) (Page 106) Set fire to shoe polish and shoved a ripped up duster into it. Used it to help dry the above mixture.
19.) (Page 108) "His voice rumbled on. MacGyver took in little of what he was saying. MacGyver was busy. With the large blade on his Swiss Army Knife, he scraped a small amount of the precious paste onto the floor behind the sofa."
20.) (Page 109) Dipped the paste from above on the stems of 12 flowers and three large oval leaves off of a bush. Then he carefully laid the leaves on top of the bushes before him and flicked the flowers onto or over the plants on the tiled floor.
21.) (Page 115) Catherine stamped on leaves to set off explosions. Almost before she had moved, MacGyver had snatched up a paperweight. At the first explosion, he flung it hard and fast, straight at Pierce's astonished face. Then he smashed his left elbow into Roscow's collarbone and got him to drop his gun.
22.) (Page 117 +118) Took vat of bacteria out of missile, but it turned out to be a dummy. The real missile rose around it and was ready to shoot off to Russia. Mac got Catherine Silva to sneeze on the vat of bacteria as time was running out with a minute or so before it shot off. "Natural bacteria are more powerful than the tailored ones," MacGyver yelled.
"Funny thing about these tailored bacteria, you know," MacGyver mumbled, "they're kinda weak, you know. Put it another way, naturally evolved bacteria are real strong. Average human sneeze contains thousands and thousands of microbes, right? Why do you think we wear surgical masks? Those microbes get into a nice medium, all those sugars and growth promoters, and they start growing and spreading and beating up everything that gets in their way. That missile thing, provided no trigger-happy jet pilot decides to shoot it down, is set to be flying for six hours or so. Then it crashes somewhere near Yakutsk or something and the automatic time switch releases all the bacteria. Only thing is, in that time, those bacteria have been colonized by natural ones. A few Russians may get a bad cold, but nothing more serious than that." "You absolutely sure about that?" asked Thornton. "Never been absolutely sure about anything in my life," MacGyver drawled, "but it's about as sure-fire as a thing can be..."