On Christmas Eve, MacGyver tries to help the priest of a poor church locate a stolen Madonna figure, help his friend Cynthia figure out how to keep the Challenger Club solvent and figure out a strange street woman who seems to have a miracle up her sleeve.

MacGyver is participating in a project to help potential high school drop outs. One of the students work at a construction site with his dad. While there, the kid discovers that the site may be unsafe after witnessesing a safety inspector being bribed.