Episode
Mission: Impossible: The Numbers Game (aka: The Key)
Overview
The team tries to get a deposed dictator to divulge his Swiss bank account number by tricking him into believing World War III is about to begin.
Details
- Series
- Mission: Impossible
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1969-10-05
Episode context
The Numbers Game (aka: The Key) is Episode 2 in Season 4 of Mission: Impossible. It aired on 1969-10-05.
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Episode 1: The Code
In order to stop an invasion and shatter an alliance between two countries, the IMF team must photograph and break a code in a matter of minutes.
Episode 3: The Controllers (1)
Jim and a female agent pose as scientists who have invented a new drug in order to replace a real drug that turns people into willing slaves.
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Episode 4: The Controllers (2)
As Barney taints the water system with a mind-numbing drug, Jim is captured and put on trial, where he must discredit an enemy scientist.
Episode 5: Fool's Gold
Paris poses as a counterfeiter in order to gain access to a safe and destroy millions in phony money, as well as the plates used to make it.
Episode 6: Commandante
An imprisoned priest is about to be executed, so Jim and Willie pose as U.S. religious workers who are willing to trade guns in exchange for his safety.
Episode 7: Submarine
Upon his release, a prisoner plans to fund neo-Nazis with stolen money. So a submarine voyage is simulated in order to transport him to his contact.
Episode 8: Mastermind
As Barney Collier attempts to break into a safe that contains an incriminating file, Paris convinces a mob figure that he can read the mind of his double-crossing boss.
Episode 9: Robot
A country is unaware that its premier is dead and that a double is about to appoint a successor. So Barney Collier concocts a mechanical man to take his place.
Episode 10: The Double Circle
An art lover is made to believe he can own a priceless work of art, but it is really a plot to retrieve a valuable formula from his impenetrable safe.
Episode 11: The Brothers
A Middle Eastern king needs to be restored to the throne. So a medical operation is replicated where he will seemingly donate his kidney to his murderous brother.
Episode 12: Time Bomb
The IMF team has to try and gain access to a nuclear reactor complex, where a terminally ill officer plans to detonate an atomic bomb.
Episode 13: The Amnesiac
Jim Phelps poses as an amnesia victim in order to retrieve a stolen isotope, one that could make nuclear weapons affordable to any country.