Mission: Impossible - Season 5 Episode 7 Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)
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.
Year: 1973
Genre: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: United States of America
Studio: CBS
Director: Bruce Geller
Cast: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bob Johnson, Lynda Day George
Crew: William Woodfield (Writer), Bruce Geller (Executive Producer), Barry Crane (Producer), Robert H. Justman (Producer), Allan Balter (Producer), William Woodfield (Producer)
First Air Date: Sep 17, 1966
Last Air date: Mar 30, 1973
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 171 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.60/10 by 268.00 users
Popularity: 107.353
Language: English
Episode
The Killer
Flip Side
The Innocent
Homecoming
Flight
My Friend, My Enemy
Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)
Decoy
The Amateur
Hunted
The Rebel
Squeeze Play (aka Sicily)
The Hostage
Takeover
Cat's Paw
The Missile (aka Torpedo)
The Field
Blast
The Cataflaque
Kitara (aka The Bigot)
A Ghost Story
The Party
The Merchant