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DXS SAFE HOUSE

DXS Safe House

The DXS makes use of a number of secure safe houses. One property acquired by the DXS for this purpose was a large mansion on a gated estate, but it was off the list and unofficial and had been out of use for quite a while. Nevertheless, due to a recent breach in departmental security, Pete Thornton had chosen the mansion as a secure location where he could meet MacGyver after his mission and personally handle his high level debriefing.

Karen Blake, an employee of the Department who worked for Thornton, was assigned to pick up MacGyver upon his return from East Berlin and deliver him to the safe house where they were met by Thornton and Mrs. Chung, a cryptanalyst assigned to decode the sensitive microfilm that MacGyver had brought back. The meeting was top secret and even Thornton's own office was unaware of their location.

However, the breach in departmental security had been initiated by Quayle, a foreign agent who was assigned to destroy the microfilm and neutralize MacGyver. Quayle had encountered MacGyver in the past and he was anxious for a chance at redemption and retribution. In advance of MacGyver's arrival, Quayle had rigged the safe house with a series of booby-traps which he controlled from a central location in the basement. Quayle took great delight in his scheme, and as he triggered various traps including windows and doors that slammed shut and locked, electronic devices that short circuited and exploded, machine guns activated by motion detectors, and video and audio surveillance in nearly every room, he gleefully challenged MacGyver to come find him and to try to escape.

Mrs. Chung was accidentally injected with a sedative, and Thornton was knocked unconscious by a strong shock when Quayle electrified his radiophone. MacGyver used Quayle's enormous ego against him, and he and Karen made their way to the basement of the house where they cut Quayle's power supply and lured him into the main power room. There a makeshift water cannon forced Quayle against the rewired electrical panel and the electrical shock knocked him unconscious. As Thornton and Mrs. Chung recovered, Quayle was taken into custody, and the security leak that he had initiated was plugged.

Location: Greystone Mansion, 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills

Cross Reference: Karen Blake, Mrs. Chung, DXS, Quayle

Episode Reference: Deathlock