Mission: Impossible · S05E07
Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly)
Summary
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.
Guest stars
- Benson Fong as Inspector Akita
- James Shigeta as Shiki
- Dale Ishimoto as Saburi
- Helen Funai as Nobu Kellem
- Khigh Dhiegh as Toshio Masaki
- Lisa Lu as Mioshi Kellem
- Russ Conway as Harry Kellem
- Fuji as Osaki