BARRETT

Barrett had been hired by Kurt Neilson, a colonel with East German Intelligence, to recover and destroy a microfilm list of terrorist names and plans that MacGyver had acquired during a mission behind the Iron Curtain. Barrett had brought on two of his own men, Crisp and Polk, to assist with the assignment.

The four men were in position at the pier in San Pedro when MacGyver arrived with the intention of passing the list on to Pete Thornton. Pete instructed MacGyver to get the list to safety while he took on Neilson's men, and in a shootout that followed, Barrett shot Pete in the left arm. Meanwhile, MacGyver secretly hid the list in the base of a light standard in the parking lot, but he was apprehended by Neilson's men and brought to a warehouse on Tucker Street in San Pedro.

When MacGyver would not reveal where the list was hidden, Neilson injected him with a serum designed to use disorientation and pain to persuade him to give up the information. MacGyver was able to escape from his captors, and in his state of confusion and pain he was taken in by Lisa, a young runaway whom he had helped earlier and who hoped to return the favor. Neilson ordered Barrett and his men to search the area and recapture MacGyver, but they failed to find him, and Neilson accepted the death of the courier as the best possible outcome.

However, when MacGyver began to recover his memory, he returned to the warehouse, hoping to acquire the antidote. Using a smoke detector and a clever contraption of suspended water bottles and falling barrels, MacGyver was able to get the better of both Barrett and Polk and to knock them out with a final punch.

MacGyver was able to defeat Neilson and to recover the antidote from the sewer grate where Neilson had tossed it, and as Pete Thornton and his men arrived on the scene, they would take Neilson and his men into custody.

Portrayed by: J.P. Bumstead

Cross Reference: Crisp, Kurt Neilson, Polk, San Pedro

Episode Reference: Nightmares