Mission: Impossible - Season 5 Episode 13 The Hostage
After completing a mission Paris is undercover as an American businessman and still in disguise when he is kidnapped by Latin American revolutionaries led by terrorist Robert Siomney - they ask for the release of three prisoners in return for Paris' life. Paris fakes a disease forcing the government to drop medication, which the IMF has planted a tracking device in. Once they know where the revolutionaries' compound is, Jim fakes the exceution of two of the prisoners, putting pressure on the revolutionary leader Jorge Cabal since his son Luis is the third prisoner. Dana poses as Luis' girlfriend to get close to Jorge so Siomney orders her covert death to keep Jorge on track - Barney takes the killer's place and rescues Dana. Then Jim fakes Luis' death as well - Barney fake-kills Paris and then they reveal that Luis got a last-minute reprieve. With nothing else to bargain with, Jorge turns over Siomney, Barney in disguise, and the ""dead"" Paris in return for the government commuting his
Year: 1993
Genre: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: United States of America
Studio: CBS
Director: Bruce Geller
Cast: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bob Johnson
Crew: William Woodfield (Producer), Barry Crane (Producer), Robert H. Justman (Producer), William Woodfield (Writer), Bruce Geller (Executive Producer), Allan Balter (Producer)
First Air Date: Apr 05, 1968
Last Air date: May 02, 1993
Season: 7 Season
Episode: 171 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.60/10 by 276.00 users
Popularity: 82.881
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
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