Name: Episode 7 — Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)
Released: 1970-10-31
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Lynda Day George, Bob Johnson

Mission: Impossible (1966 – 1973)

1966 • 7 seasons • Action & Adventure, Crime • TV-PG

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Episode 7 — Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)

Released: 1970-10-31 • Action & Adventure/Crime/Drama

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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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Episode air date	31.10.1970
Episode runtime	—
Episode rating	6.50
Genres	Action & Adventure / Crime / Drama
TMDB series rating	7.6
IMDb series rating	7.9
Series status	Ended
Age rating	6+
Country	US

Mission: Impossible (1966 – 1973)

Episode 7 — Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)

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