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Mission: Impossible Season 3 Episode 4

The Mercenaries

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AIRED: 10/27/68

The IMF must bring down Colonel Hans Krim, the head of a mercenary army who has a ton of loot in gold bars hidden away in an inaccessible enclave. Rollin enlists while Jim and Cinnamon pose as gunrunners with Willy and Barney hidden in their truck. Rollin fakes finding a cache of gold and is then tortured into revealing it.moreless

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The IMF at its most devious!

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By jclind, Nov 04, 2007

This is by far my favorite episode. I watched this show as a kid when it first ran, then caught it a few times on reruns. Of all the episodes, this one stood out as one of, if not my very, favorite. The plot to melt the gold out of the vault was positively ingenious! The only flaw I can find in the whole idea is that it's unlikely that a vault with a mining tunnel conveniently located underneath would be able to support such a heavy load, but this is admittedly really nit-picking and in no way detracts from the story.

The device they used was truly a work of genius. Every angle was thought out, from the beginning when a ball bearing is dropped on the floor to locate the lowest point in the vault, to the paint sprayer that popped up out of the top to cover up the thin layer of gold left as the molten metal flowed out, it was the best of the Impossible Mission Force!

I finally got a copy of the episode years later and it was just as good as I'd recalled. And, as was one of the series' trademarks, it had the classic "What happened? I've been had!" look of horror as their target realized his unhappy fate. Then the textbook IMF get-away as the icing on the cake - the plan was executed flawlessly.

"Mission Impossible", "The Untouchables" and "The Prisoner" will always be my top three favorite shows of all times, along with the late 60's episodes of "Dragnet" and "Twin Peaks". This is TV at its best in my book . . .moreless
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Peter Graves	James Phelps (1967-1973)
Martin Landau	Rollin Hand (1966-69)
Barbara Bain	Cinnamon Carter (1966-1969)
Greg Morris	Barney Collier
Peter Lupus	Willy Armitage
Bob Johnson	IMF Voice on Tape (uncredited, 1966-1973)

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Pernell Roberts	Colonel Hans Krim	Guest Star
Skip Homeier	Major Jan Gruner	Guest Star
Vic Tayback	Sergeant Gorte	Guest Star

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- Krim: Tell me, Lieutenant, did the 20th leave something valuable here?
  Rollin: Only our honor, Colonel.
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- Krim: Let me tell you something. I like the fighting and the killing. And any professional soldier who tells you different is a liar. Now we're all butchers because the killing makes everything better. Food tastes. Booze hits. And even a woman... (looks at Cinnamon)
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