ANDREA COLLINS

Andrea Collins was a passenger traveling alone on a train to Rajmir, India with fellow passengers that included Andy Ellis and Laura Dillion, Americans who had recently met and had begun a relationship, Diana Kingman, a meek American young woman travelling with her domineering mother Eleanor, James Grant, a British surgeon who had recently lost his right arm in an accident, Peter Kramer, a mysterious European traveling alone, Paul Webster, an American, Lyman and Blade, who wore the uniform of a conductor, and MacGyver.

Hassan was a leader of a small, impoverished village in India. The villagers had built a clinic and had bought medicines from two Western businessmen in Chattur, however the medicine had been tainted, and 26 people in the village had died, including Hassan's son. Hassan knew that the two men had boarded the train for Rajmir, but because he did not know their identities, he and his followers planted explosives to destroy a trestle bridge and hijack the train, and he announced that all Westerners aboard the train would be held hostage without food or water until they themselves identified the two men and turned them over to face justice.

Andrea struck up a friendship with MacGyver after he chased the train in a speeding taxi until the engineer slowed only enough to allow him to climb aboard the moving train. Her instincts told her there was more to MacGyver's urgency than he let on, but her experience in government told her not to press for details. She remained calm and objective throughout the ordeal and even sympathized with Hassan's situation, but her attempts to convince him that his methods were unreasonable were unsuccessful.

Having secured Hassan's promise that the men would be given a fair trial, MacGyver fashioned a makeshift lie detector using a sphygmomanometer and an alarm clock. When Paul Webster set off the alarm, he revealed that he and Blade had been responsible for the tainted drugs. Webster was killed in his attempt to escape, but Blade was taken into custody, and the other passengers were permitted to return to the train to continue their journey by another route.

Portrayed by: Tracy Reed

Cross Reference: Badur, Batu Das, Blade, Laura Dillon, Andy Ellis, James Grant, Hassan, India, Diana Kingman, Eleanor Kingman, Peter Kramer, Lyman, Paul Webster

Episode Reference: Slow Death