- [first lines]
- MacGyver: [voice-over narration] Tommy Giordano was a good friend of mine. Had been since the first time I gave him a bath and got wetter than he did. I'd known Tommy's mom, Mary Ruth, since I first came to the Phoenix Foundation. She was a lab technician - one of the best. Her husband Richard was a successful surgeon. They had everything a family could want, except a happy marriage. The divorce was hard.
- MacGyver: See, you gotta live somewhere. So, somebody has to have custody. They both understand that.
- Tommy Giordano: Is that a rule?
- MacGyver: It's better, it's a fact.
- Tommy Giordano: [precociously] Like two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, and it never changes, that kind of fact?
- Joseph 'Uncle Joe' Catano: What'd you want him for?
- Dr. Richard Giordano: Because he's mine.
- Joseph 'Uncle Joe' Catano: But he's not a silk tie... or an alpaca sweater. He's a kid, Richie, a kid.