- Pete: You know, I would think out of respect for an older man, and your superior, you would have the common decency to be a little bit winded!
- [hicking behind MacGyver]
- [first lines]
- MacGyver: [voice-over narration] For the past two months, I'd been taking groups of Phoenix Foundation field operatives into the wilderness, pitting them against nature and themselves. If they made it through the three grueling days of survival testing, they were re-certified for field duty and life went on pretty much the same as always. If they didn't make it, like Bill Foye, they were reassigned to other duties.