Mission: Impossible Season 5 Episode 7 Butterfly (aka Poor Butterfly) 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.
- Released: 1970-10-31
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Stars: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bob Johnson, Lynda Day George
- Director: William Woodfield, Barry Crane, Robert H. Justman, William Woodfield, Bruce Geller
