Mission: Impossible

Season 5

Episode 7: Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)

TV-PGOct 31, 1970
Toshio Masaki, a powerful anti-American industrialist, kills his sister and frames her husband, an American businessman named Harry Kellem, so as to discredit America and discredit the Economic Council. Paris and Willy enter as a Kabuki artist and a fighter (along with Jim) while Barney and Dana sneak into the grounds and restage the murder as they believe it occurred but with no way of knowing how it ended well enough to convince Musaki. To create a distraction, Willy must engage in a fight with Osaki, Moshio's supposedly-unbeatable champion. Once the film is made Dana tries to blackmail Masaki and then Kellem's daughter Nobu. Paris tips the police to Dana's negotiations with Musaki and they show up as Musaki screens the film as Dana escapes (with Willy's help). Musaki panics and rips the film from the projector before it ends at the spot where the team couldn't recreate him performing the murder, thus confessing his guilt.
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Type
Scripted
Status
Ended
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English
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Guest Stars

Cast

Peter Graves
Jim Phelps
Greg Morris
Barney Collier
Peter Lupus
Willy Armitage
Bob Johnson
Man On Tape (voice)
Lesley Ann Warren
Dana Lambert
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