All language subtitles for MacGyver S06E05 - The Wall

Romburg's Toys. How
may I help you?

Otto, it's MacGyver.

MacGyver. Where are you?

I'm in East Berlin at
Stasi headquarters,

or what's left of them, anyway.

Listen, Otto, I've
got some good news.

You have found my granddaughter?

Well, not yet, but
I've found Maria's Nam

on a list of orphans
the Stasi had on file.

I'm meeting with a guy later

who might have a line
on how to find her.

That is good news, huh
, but I was hoping...

Otto, if Maria's in East
Germany, I'll find her.

That's a promise.

I don't know how to
thank you, MacGyver.

I've been waiting 15 long
years for this moment.

I'll wait by the phone.
Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Herr MacGyver? Yeah.

Rolf Mossel. We spoke
on the telephone.

Yes, yes. Thank you
for meeting me.

Oh, a pleasure.

I have heard only good things

about your foundation's
work here.

Thank you very much. I understand you're
with the Citizen Freedom Committee.

Correct. We work
mostly in the field

helping people locate
their relatives.

I personally handled your
inquiry about a Maria Romburg.

How'd you do?

Uh, danke. Well,
you are in luck.

Certain files were looted when
the government was overthrown

and the people stormed
Stasi headquarters.

This was amongst them.

Uh, yeah. My German's a little weak.
Would you...

Yeah. Yeah.

Maria Romburg was a
ward of the State

from 1975 at the age of eight.

They educated her.

For the last two years, she has
been a teacher in Leipzig.

Catch the morning train.

You can be there by noon.

Thank you.

Hi. Um, sorry, I don't
mean to interrupt.

What is it you wish?

Well, my name is MacGyver.

Your grandfather sent me.
He's a friend of mine.

Why does my
grandfather send you?

Why does he not come himself?

His doctors recommended
against it.

I see.

And now that you've found me,
what exactly is it he wants?

To know that you're well.

I'm sure you can
tell him as much.

And to see you again.

Well, you can give my grandfather
a message for me, Mr. MacGyver.

You can tell him that
to me, he is dead.

Uh... Excuse me, wait. Whoa.

Look,

I know it's been a long time.

Can't you at least
think about it?

I've been thinking about it
since I was eight years old.

I can still see my father's
body on the barbed wire.

He died while my grandfather
ran to save his own life.

You were an 8-year-old child

who saw your father
and grandfather

betrayed by the Stasi.

Your grandfather had
no choice but to run.

Maria,

he has never stopped
looking for you.

He loves you.

He wants you to live with him.

In America?

Yes.

The Wall is down. You
both have choices now.

There's nothing to stop you
from being a family again.

No. Nothing but the memory
of a selfish old man

who would leave his son and
granddaughter to be executed

by the border guards.

Maria, I tried to explain
the circumstances...

No, Mr. MacGyver.

I want nothing to do with him.
I can't.

Okay.

Um...

This is from your grandfather.

Read it.

If you change your
mind before tomorrow,

my hotel number is
on the envelope.

I have to go. The children.

Looking for someone? Huh?

You took my picture.
Mein foto. Why?

So, your photo.

You know, high tech
equipment like this

makes you think The
Wall is still up.

There must be thousands of
out-of-work Stasi agents

wandering around the country
with nothing better to do.

Then again, maybe our new
government still can't resist

the need to watch you Americans.

I'm sorry if things did not
go well with the girl.

Yeah. You know, I
can't help thinking

that maybe I should
stick around,

maybe talk to her again.

Mr. MacGyver, you found her,

you gave her the letter
from her grandfather.

What more could you do?

MacGyver!

I think I would like
to change my mind,

if that is all right.

Uh, of course. Yeah.

Mr. Mossel, this is Maria.

Ahh.

Mr. Mossel's organization
helped us find you.

Thank you. You're welcome.

After the way I treated you,
you think I am crazy, yes?

No.

I think you needed
time, that's all.

I read my grandfather's letter.

He sounded so lonely.
So heartsick.

You were right, MacGyver.

The Wall is down.

I have the freedom to
decide for myself.

And when I see my grandfather,
I will know for sure, yes?

This is what makes my
job so worthwhile.

So, now what? Papers? Visas?

No, that's all been
taken care of.

Let's just go see
your grandpa, huh?

Thank you.

My pleasure.

Your plan seems to be
working, Huber, huh?

In a few days, the gold
will be in our hands.

Do you think he'll recognize me.

It's been so long. Maybe we
are both so different now.

Will you relax? You'll be fine.

Have I thanked you yet for
what you've done, MacGyver?

For keeping me from making
a terrible mistake?

About a thousand times, yes.

Wow! I'm in America!

First time here?

You mean you cannot tell I have
never before set even one foot

out of East Germany?

Not by the way you
speak English.

It's almost perfect.
Oh, thank you.

The state needed teachers of
English, so I was trained for this.

Oh, look!

The white zone is for the
loading and unloading

of passengers only.

No parking.

MacGyver, do you
have three quarters?

Quarters? Uh, yeah, sure.

In your old magazines people used
to smuggle across the border,

I kept seeing this one picture
of beautiful men and women

in beautiful swimsuits
drinking ice cold root beer.

And now it is my turn.

Maria!

Maria, my God,
let me look at you!

Oh, here.

Opa.

Uh, you two have a
lot to talk about.

I'm gonna take off.

Thank you, my friend.

MacGyver, what time must
we go back to immigration?

4:00. I'll pick you up.

Immigration? What is this about?

Oh, I'm sorry, Opa, but I must
go fill out some more papers.

There's so much
catching-up to do.

Put your toy away, Kurt.

I still cannot
believe I am here.

What are they doing?

The girl just arrived.

Oh, look.

It's such a wonderful
store, Opa.

My apartment's upstairs.

It's small, but
there's room for two.

Maria, look.

There's an old friend

who wanted to say hello.

She is lovely.

You don't remember her?
She was your favorite.

Oh, Birgit!

My precious little Birgit.

How could I have forgotten?

You insisted

we take her along
the night we...

I tucked her under my sweater
where she would be warm.

She's waited for you
all these years.

She knew some day you
would come for her.

And it was always in my
prayers that you would.

Come. You must be tired.

Yes. It's been a very long day.

There has not been one
word about the gold.

How do you know he still has it?

He has it.

He wouldn't dare double-cross us

while his granddaughter
was in our hands.

And now she is here, hmm.

So why do we wait?

Because it is our
plan from the start.

Because it is safer for us

to let the girl find
out where he hides it.

Do you have a problem
with that, Weise?

Oh, no. Not at all, Huber.

As you constantly remind
me, you are my superior.

But I still say,

give me 10 minutes
with the old man alone

and I promise you he will
beg us to take the gold.

Oh, Weise, will you stop?
Stop what? Huh?

We have no jobs.

We're almost out of money.

How are we supposed to exist?

You prefer to be
working for the Mossad

or the CIA,

I will be happy to write
a letter of recommendation,

Yeah.

In exchange for your
share of the gold.

Just cool it, huh?

Our operative knows what to do.

Just give her time.

A million bucks in gold.

Come on, men, it's
worth the wait.

I don't know. Something's
not right, Pete. I know it.

MacGyver, just
because she sat down

and immediately
fastened her seatbelt?

Now what does that prove? No,
no, it's more than that.

She knew how to make
the seat recline,

how to plug in her head phones.

She even asked the flight
attendant for a magazine.

I'm tellin' you, she behaved
just like a seasoned traveler.

Look, I admit that's a bit odd, but still..
. No, and then...

And then at the airport, she
asked me for three quarters

for a root beer.

Quarters, Pete?

She's never been out of East Germany
and she knows our coin system?

Look, you want to check her out?

We're going to check
her out, okay?

Come on. Thank you, thank you.

Willis.

Hi, MacGyver, welcome back.

Thanks, Willis.

Can you help me out here? Sure.

What do you think of that?

Looks like it could be KGB.

Most likely assembled
in East Germany.

Stasi? Yeah, could be.

Got any fingerprints there?

Yeah, couple of good ones.

Okay. Get them off to
Washington right away.

Oh, also, Pete,

could we run this through
the child finder program?

I want to see what a young
Maria would look like at 23.

Willis? No problem.
I'll have it tomorrow.

Thanks.

Okay.

You got everything you came for?
Yes.

Thank you for indulging me.
No problem.

Opa, you work too hard.

Most men your age
are retired by now.

Ja, perhaps, perhaps not.

I've been thinking, what if I
closed the store for a few months,

so you and I can
travel, see America.

Oh, that would be wonderful.

But would that not
cost a lot of money?

Let me worry about that.

I have something put away.

This is it! This is it! Mensch!

Come on, you old fool,
tell her where the gold is.

Move the laser up to the old
man's apartment window.

Hurry, they are coming in.

What did I have to
spend money on?

So, Opa, you mean you are rich?

Richer than ever, now
that you are here.

Opa, be serious.

You mean you are rich
from selling toys?

Well, I make enough
to be comfortable.

You keep the money
in a bank, yes?

So many questions about money.

Go get changed. MacGyver
will be here soon.

All right.

But tonight when I get back, we
will talk about everything. Yes?

Yes, Maria. I've had enough
of this talk, talk, talk.

He tells the girl nothing.

We were fools to cut
her into the deal.

Weise, we can do without
your impatience.

She's doing her best.

It appears we have a visitor.

Oh, it's the lover-boy.

Lover-boy.

Listen to you calling him.
And look at you.

Your jeans and bows and arrows.

I don't know you any more.

Just 10 years in this country and
you're more American than German.

Don't knock it till you try it.

Maria. That must be MacGyver.

I'll be right out, Opa.

Yes? Otto, it's me.

Come in. Maria will
be ready in a minute.

Hello, Otto!

MacGyver, hello.

So, have you gotten used to
seeing Maria all grown up yet?

She is some young
lady, is she not?

It's hard to believe she
was my little Liebchen.

Yeah, well she's
definitely a woman now.

Yes.

But in here, there is no change.

Only the same sweet,
innocent child.

I am ready, MacGyver.

Boy, I'll say.

Opa, why don't you come with us?

Yeah, then we'll all go
out to dinner afterwards.

Oh, thank you, but I
must work on my books.

All right, then we'll bring
something in for you.

Oh, no.

Opa, we insist.

This is America. Everybody
brings food in to eat.

Go! Go!

Here they come.

It must be for her
immigration appointment.

So we continue to wait
and wait and wait.

You got it.

What do you say we take a break?

Get something to eat?

Huber, you can buy.

You know a place that
takes traveler's checks?

Only if you have some ID.

You coming, Weise? No. My ulcer.

Too much American junk food.

You two go ahead. I'll
stay here and watch.

Weise!

We have much to talk
about, old man.

It was wonderful driving
through the city.

In spite of all your questions.

Oh, I was just trying to get to
know you better, that's all.

Why do you look at me like that?

Oh, I was just thinkin'

how happy your grandfather is

to have you here, that's all.

All those years, all the hate.

I never would have known
how wonderful he is,

if it wasn't for you.

Come. Let's try your Hawaiian
pizza with pineapple.

Where is the gold?

You have killed my son.

My granddaughter,
she is safe now.

The Iron Curtain is gone.

You have nothing to
threaten me with now.

Except your life, old man.

If you do not
give me the gold...

Where is the gold?

Maria, run! Call the police!

Hurry! Hurry!

MacGyver, you all right?
Oh, yeah.

He ran into me and fell.

MacGyver.

Everybody all right? Yeah.

Well, guess what, Pete?

The guy they just loaded
into that ambulance

is the same guy that
followed me in Leipzig.

But that's all we have, at least
until he regains consciousness.

No ID, no apparent motive.

His name is Helmut Weise.
He's a former Stasi agent.

You know those prints that we
lifted from that listening device?

They matched with Stasi files

provided by the Bonn government.
Stasi?

Yeah. Well, what's
he doing here?

Excellent question.
Let's ask Otto.

That man, he was a burglar, yes?

He was a Stasi agent, Otto.

Stasi in the United States?

Otto, he's the same man who
followed MacGyver in Leipzig.

And he was knockin' you
around for a reason.

Now, what's going on?

I thought when The
Wall came down,

and I had my Maria back,

it would all be over. But
it will never be over.

Otto,

I am your friend.

Now will you please
tell me the truth?

After that night when
they took Maria,

for years, they used her

to make me cooperate.

Telling me if I did not,

I would never see Maria again.

It has gone on for 15 years now.

Cooperate? In what way?

They used my store for a courier drop.
That's all.

A place to exchange papers
, microfilm, tapes.

Opa, how could you?

I had no choice. They
would have killed you.

You should have let them.

And die a second death?

Even worse than the first?

You are making no sense.

Not a day has gone by

that I have not re-lived
that night at the border.

I hear you crying "Opa, Opa!"

Then,

I was down in the ravine,

helpless,

looking up, as the border
guards killed my only son

and took you away.

I knew then

that I was more a
prisoner of the past

than I was a free man.

Excuse me.

Did you guys see that?
- See what?

I think there's a listening post
somewhere across the street.

You guys wait here.

They'll expose our laser beam.

Forget it. There's no time!

Up there, second floor.

We'll take the front.

This is the most sophisticated
laser technology I've seen.

It projects a beam of
light against a window,

and translates the
vibrations back into sound.

Sort of like a CD player.

Check out the origin, will you?
Will do.

Oh, Willis, how are you coming
on that child finder workup?

Uh, we have some
program glitches,

but I'll give you a holler
as soon as I have something.

All right. The medical
report on Weise.

Yeah, and? He's still in a coma.

Makes interesting
reading, though.

Seems he has more
than a fractured skull.

He took a shot to the throat hard
enough to rupture his larynx.

Well, that doesn't
make any sense.

I shoved the table into his
chest and he took off.

I never laid a hand on him.

Leaves only one
possibility, doesn't it?

MacGyver, good morning.

Maria.

Something wrong?

Well, maybe you can tell me.

The medical report says the guy
who broke in here last night

was struck in the throat before
he fell down the stairs.

What are you saying?

Maria, you were on
that stair landing.

He had to run right by you.

What?

MacGyver!

How could you think
such a thing?

How could I think anything else?

You had the time. You
had the position.

All right.

I will not deny it.

Not that you will understand.

Try me.

When he ran past me,
I acted on instinct,

fearing for my own life.

I should have killed him.

Men like Weise should not be allowed
to walk on the face of this earth.

You know this guy's name?

He was Stasi.

What about you, Maria?

Karate?

Enough hate to kill?

You don't learn that kind
of stuff in an orphanage.

No, you are right.

That took special training.

Maria?

No. What are you saying?

What do you think it was like in East
Germany as a child with no home?

An orphan. A ward of the State.

Stasi had a special
training school

for children like me who owed their
existence to their government.

When I was 16, I was allowed to
stay at the orphanage no longer.

I was chosen to
become a "sparrow."

A "sparrow?"

Oh, it's charming, yes
All birds of a feather.

The boys were known as "hawks."

For years, they taught us
how to manipulate people.

How to spy on our friends.

And yes, how to kill.

But you are a teacher.

Now.

That was my cover before The Wall
came down and put us out of business.

Before that,

I worked all over Europe and
America as a Stasi agent.

What about this Weise?

I only met him a month ago.

He helped recruit me.

To help them find where my
grandfather hid their gold.

Gold?

The people that Weise worked for

would exploit East
Germans for money

that would help buy them safe
passage across the border.

It was then converted to gold

and brought to the United
States for safekeeping.

It was brought to
my grandfather's.

She is an impostor! No, I'm not.

They knew I hated you
all those years.

They used that to get
me to cooperate.

They even promised me a share.

Who are you?

You are not my granddaughter!

No, Opa, it is me!

Opa, that night Papa was
killed and I was captured,

I didn't know what
really happened.

Not until I knew you.

Not until I heard my Opa speak
of that horrible night.

Mossel?

Not today, MacGyver.
The name is Huber.

Good show, Maria.

But we'll take it from here.

The gold, old man.

The gold, or you and
your friend are dead.

Okay, it's working now.
Here it comes.

Sorry for the delay, but
we had to disassemble

the image unit to
find the problem.

There you are, Mr. Thornton.

Maria Romburg, 15 years later.

That's not the same girl.
Not at all.

She's an impostor?

Yeah. Let's go.

Stasi, right? Haven't you heard?

The Wall is down.
There are no Stasi.

Now then, Romburg,

where is the gold?

I will never tell you.

You killed my son.

His life is in that gold.

Your son shot at a border guard.

We had no control over that.

You said there would
be no guards.

After you took all our
money, you wanted us dead.

Like all the others.

But you did manage to escape.

Yes, to become your slave.

Keeping your blood money for you

while you held my
granddaughter hostage.

You see,

you have your toys
and we have ours.

Such a beautiful girl.

It would be such a loss.

Romburg,

I do not want to put an arrow
through her beautiful throat.

She's your granddaughter.

That's what you say.

But I know different.
She is one of you.

You are trying to trick me.
Perhaps.

But you don't know that for
sure, do you, old man?

Where is the gold?

How sorry you'll be
when you find out

she really is your
granddaughter.

Last arrow, last chance.

Perhaps you would like
to say goodbye, yes?

Please, Opa,

I know these men. They
will kill us for sure.

No.

You are not my granddaughter.

Opa, please.

Opa!

Please! Opa!

Opa!

Don't let him do this! Please!

Opa!

Opa, please!

Opa!

Stop. Stop!

I will tell you.

You are a wise man, Romburg.

Now where do you hide the gold?

Upstairs at the store window.

The toy soldiers.

I'm impressed.

You are a very clever man.

Come.

We will make sure
he's telling the truth.

It's the gold.

We must hurry.

Kill MacGyver and the other two.
Now!

Huber, he's gone.

Kurt?

MacGyver! You okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.

Take care of these guys.

Oh, MacGyver.

Thank God. It's all right, Otto.

You're safe now and
no one can hurt you.

No, especially not
this young lady,

who claims to be
your granddaughter.

What?

She's a fraud,
MacGyver, a fraud!

No, Opa, tell them.

MacGyver, he is wrong.

Here.

Look at this. Look at the chin.

The jaw line.

That is a picture of what the
real Maria would look like now.

Well, you had me goin'.

I believed you.

MacGyver, no!

But I think I wanted to believe.

But it is me.

It's time to give it up.

You can't outsmart
computer imaging.

Please, you don't understand.

Five years ago, I was on
assignment in London.

There was an accident.

My jaw was broken
in three places.

There are hospital records of
the reconstructive surgery.

I am an old man.
Don't do this to me.

Why can't you believe me?

Wait. Yes, I will prove it.

Opa, look.

Here's the orange thread where
Mama sewed Birgit's arm back on.

I don't remember. It
was a long time ago.

But, Opa, you've
got to remember.

I came crying to you after
Valdi chewed it off.

Valdi, our dog?

Yeah. Valdi!

No, no, no, no.

The Stasi would
know about a puppy.

There were family pictures.

Would they know of our secret?

Would they know

that you let Valdi sleep in
my bed when Mama and Papa

were away on holiday?

Oh, my God!

No one could know about that.

Oh, Maria, my little Maria.

MacGyver? He scores!

Ooh, Maria, hi.

Oh, I am interrupting you, yes?

No, no, no, no. Come on in.
I-I'm

just, uh, setting
up a program here.

It's, uh, very
complicated stuff.

So how's your grandfather? Opa?

He's thrilled to tears.

You know the gold that was turned
over to the German government?

Yeah. They agreed to set up
a fund in my father's name

to help reunited families
begin all over again.

Well, that's terrific.

And, me, they are
allowing to stay.

That's even more terrific.

What are you gonna do?

Well, to start, I was hoping

that perhaps we might be able
to see each other more often.

More often?

You're the only American
I know, MacGyver.

And I think maybe the
only one I want to know.

Yeah, sure.

That'll be great, um...

Yeah. I travel a lot, you
know, uh, all over the world.

A lot. I love to travel.

And besides, Pete says with my
language skills and training,

perhaps there's a place
for me at Phoenix.

Pete said that, did he?

Yes.

Isn't that wonderful?

Yeah.

Yeah.