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Mission: Impossible Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
The Widow
Sun, Sep 10, 196750 mins
Jim Phelps is the new leader of the Impossible Missions Force, with no explanation, or even reference made, about the departure of predecessor Dan Briggs. First up for Phelps is a mission involving the drug trade. Cresnik and Walters have cornered the heroin market and sell it at a handsome profit to gangs around the world. Phelps devises an operation which will drive a wedge between the heroin dealers and their customers.
Episode 2
Trek
Sun, Sep 17, 196750 mins
Jack Cole was arrested and imprisoned for stealing art treasures of a Latin nation. The mission for Phelps and the IM team is to get the objects back. But that won't be easy. Cole's being tortured by the colonel who heads the prison -- and the colonel's a traitor who wants the treasure for himself. The IMF plans calls for playing the 2 men, each deadly, off each other.
Episode 3
The Survivors
Sun, Sep 24, 196750 mins
An enemy agent's kidnapped 2 scientists and their wives and is holding them in San Francisco. He wants a third scientist, who can help develop an ultimate weapon. Phelps devises a plan where he'll pose as the scientist being sought, whilst the rest of the IM force fakes an earthquake.
Episode 4
The Bank
Sun, Oct 1, 196750 mins
Belzig, head of a bank in East Berlin, tricks unwary people anxious to escape to the West that he can help them. Instead, he steals their money and kills them. He's amassing a fortune to launch a new Nazi movement. The mission for the IM force is to put him out of business.
Episode 5
The Slave: Part 1
Sun, Oct 8, 196750 mins
The Impossible Missions Force takes on the absolute ruler of a Middle East nation who is running a secret slave market. Barney poses as a slave, part of an effort to construct a replica of the slave cells, before escaping. Phelps poses as a slave trader and Rollin as an Interpol investigator. Finally, Cinnamon will be the bait for the trap. The ruler of the country has a brother who married a British wife, Amara. The brother, if he assumed power, would abolish slavery in the country -- but he has accepted assurances that slavery doesn't exist there. As part of the plan, Willy abducts Amara and she is put in the IMF replica of the slave cell.
Episode 6
The Slave: Part 2
Sun, Oct 15, 196750 mins
Phelps & Co. continue their plan to smash the renegade slavery operation of the absolute ruler of a Middle Eastern nation. Phelps, posing as a slave trader, works his way into the confidence of the ruler. In that role, Phelps "sells" Cinnamon into slavery. Meanwhile, the rest of the IMF team is preparing to pull a switch that will force the ruler's brother to confront the situation and force the end of slavery in his nation.
Episode 7
Operation 'Heart'
Sun, Oct 22, 196750 mins
Cinnamon poses as the wife of an archaeologist with a serious heart condition. He needs to be rescued, and an assassination plot needs to be foiled.
Episode 8
The Money Machine
Sun, Oct 29, 196750 mins
The IM force target's DuBruis, a corrupt financial speculator in an African nation. Phelps and the IM force get DuBruis's attention with counterfeit money, virtually the same as the nation's currency. The elaborate plan calls for Cinnamon to tempt DuBruis with supposed insider information about a mining company, whilst Phelps and Rollin pose as criminals who've developed computerized counterfeiting.
Episode 9
The Seal
Sun, Nov 5, 196750 mins
Taggert, a U.S. industrialist, has acquired a jade figure, which has great religious significance to Kuala Rokat. That nation is a small but strategically located nation which borders China. Taggert's acquisition threatens to undo years of sensitive U.S. diplomacy but there is no legal way to force him to give the figure back. Phelps devises a plan which, among other things, calls for causing havoc with Taggert's mainframe computer, Rollin impersonating an academic from Kuala Rokat and using a highly trained cat in getting the jade away from Taggert.
Episode 10
Sweet Charity
Sun, Nov 12, 196750 mins
The Hagars, a married couple, collect money for charity, but keep it for themselves in the form of platinum bars they keep hidden under their pool table. Phelps and his "Impossible Mission Force" must retrieve the platinum and put an end to the Hagars' scam once and for all.
Episode 11
The Council: Part 1
Sun, Nov 19, 196750 mins
A top mob leader, Frank Wayne, is endangering the U.S. economy. Phelps's plan attacks Wayne on various fronts. First the IMF watches as Jimmy Bibo, one of Wayne's associates is forced to dig his own grave. The IMF has a doctor ready to revive Bibo -- if Wayne's killer leaves the scene in time. Second, Phelps has a cover as an ambitious prosecutor on Wayne's trail. Finally, Rollin is ready to take Wayne's place. But once Rollin has made the switch, other mob bosses want "Wayne" to leave the country -- which will ruin the complicated plan.
Episode 12
The Council: Part 2
Sun, Nov 26, 196750 mins
IMF agent Rollin Hand, impersonating mobster Frank Wayne, has a counter-proposal for the other mob bosses. He says he'll undergo plastic surgery to look like a different man. In comes Cinnamon. In reality, she is undoing Rollin's makeup; she can afford no mistakes because the other mob bosses are watching the entire time. Meanwhile, a doctor working for the IMF is performing plastic surgery on the real Wayne -- making him to look like Rollin. All of this is part of Phelps's plan aimed at getting access to Wayne's records. But Phelps himself will face an attempted hit before the mission can be concluded.
Episode 13
The Astrologer
Sun, Dec 3, 196750 mins
An opposition leader of an Eastern Bloc nation has been captured by the chief of the country's secret police. Also seized was microfilm with a list of people who secretly support the opposition. Phelps develops a plan that plays upon the astrology obsession the nation's leader has. Cinnamon poses as a famous astrologer while Barney and Rollin will have to operate from the cargo compartment of a plane transporting the captured opposition leader.
Episode 14
Echo of Yesterday
Sun, Dec 10, 196750 mins
The team has to stop a German who is being groomed to be another Hitler. They decide to get his biggest backer, a German industrialist who knew Hitler to turn on him. And part of their plan is to get the industrialist to relive his wife's death at the hands of Hitler.
Episode 15
The Photographer
Sun, Dec 17, 196750 mins
The team's latest mission has them trying to root out a network of spies, who were brought in by an American photographer. The problem is the code that he and his handlers communicate with is unbreakable. So they devise a plan to get him to reveal the method of decoding his communications. And their plan has him asking for Cinnamon to pose for him. During their photo shoot she displays knowledge of bio chemistry which the photographer decides to exploit.
Episode 16
The Spy
Sun, Jan 7, 196850 mins
The exact rendering of a map is duplicated in order to fool a female spy. It's the second part of an overlay that details NATO's missile defense system.
Episode 17
A Game of Chess
Sun, Jan 14, 196850 mins
The IMF's target is an international chess grandmaster who also is planning to steal gold seized from the opposition movement of an unnamed Soviet Bloc country. Rollin poses as an amateur chess player, helped by a computer Barney is running that is unbeatable at chess. The plan, devised by Phelps, also calls for a devious way of snatching the gold from both the chess player and the authorities.
Episode 18
The Emerald
Sun, Jan 21, 196850 mins
An emerald, with vital U.S. security information attached and hidden on it, has fallen into the hands of an arms dealer. What's more, a Soviet Bloc agent is determined to secure the emerald. Both will be on a cruise ship. Phelps and the IMF must both get the emerald and neutralize the opposition agent. Phelps' plan involves a high stakes poker game utilizing Barney's technology and Rollin's sleight of hand. But that's only the beginning.
Episode 19
The Condemned
Sun, Jan 28, 196860 mins
Jim learns that an old friend was convicted of murder in a foreign country, so he goes to see him. He swears to Jim that he is innocent and Jim believes him. But he is about to be executed the next day. So he asks Rollin, Barney, and Willy to help. They start by going to the prison where his friend is being held and put a special panel where his friend can hide so he they can't execute him. Jim then decides to look into the dead man and he learns that the man was in business with a criminal over a jeweled crown. So they trick the woman who helped frame Jim's friend and learn something unexpected.
Episode 20
The Counterfeiter
Sun, Feb 4, 196850 mins
Halder, who runs respectable medical clinics, is really a counterfeiter of drugs responsible for many deaths. The Impossible Missions Force aims to prove Halder's involvement in the production of the counterfeit drugs. As part of the plan, Phelps will pose as a federal drug enforcement agent who's willing to go on the take.
Episode 21
The Town
Sun, Feb 18, 196850 mins
Jim Phelps is kidnapped by townspeople after learning they are part of an assassination network. The clock is ticking as a pair of assassins are en route to a perform a hit. The 'Force' must find and save Jim, then try to stop the impending assassination.
Episode 22
The Killing
Sun, Feb 25, 196850 mins
Bert Gordon has created a criminal organization that will get rid of anyone, anywhere -- no bodies are ever found. Gordon is untouchable through conventional means of investigation and prosecution. Phelps devises a plan that takes advantage of Gordon's superstitions. Phelps and Cinnamon pose as a bickering couple, where the wife is eager to employ Gordon's services. The IMF will also make it appear that the dead are trying to reach people in the world of the living. The goal is to manipulate Gordon into a fix where even he cannot escape from the law.
Episode 23
The Phoenix
Sun, Mar 3, 196850 mins
When the curator of a museum plans to turn an experimental alloy over to a foreign power, the IMF creates a diversion - an attempt on his life.
Episode 24
Trial by Fury
Sun, Mar 10, 196850 mins
The IMF goes to a prison camp inside a totalitarian Latin American country. At the camp, an opposition leader is kept in isolation. One of his followers arranged to be arrested and has become a trustee, helping to get the opposition leader's messages out to his countrymen. Prisoners believe the trustee to be an informer. Phelps and Barney arrive as prisoners, aiming to expose the real informer. They're aided by Cinnamon (posing as a Red Cross official) and Rollin (as a guard). The question is whether Phelps can work fast enough to save an innocent man's life.
Episode 25
Recovery
Sun, Mar 17, 196850 mins
A U.S. bomber crashes behind the Iron Curtain. Its Fail-Safe device, however, failed to self destruct. A brilliant U.S. scientist who defected to the unnamed country is supervising efforts to take the device apart, which will yield valuable information about the entire U.S. defense system. The IMF must recover the Fail-Safe device and abduct the scientist. As part of the plan devised by Phelps, Rollin and Cinnamon will pose as U.S. scientists on a tour.
