7 Season
171 Episode
Mission: Impossible - Season 5 Episode 23 The Merchant
Failure impossible.
Armand Anderssarian is an illegal arms dealer who is about to complete a multi-million dollar deal selling arms to guerrilla groups around the world - the IMF must stop him. Jim pretends to be setting up a theft of a secret radar system and Anderssarian ""sponsors"" Jim with $5 million through Minister Sartori then plans to sell the system for $20 million. Meanwhile Anderssarian loses his $5 million to Paris (with Barney providing an assist) in a poker game. The IMF team perform a fake raid (under the scrutiny of Anderssarian's aide Leon) on a IMF-staged radar station but the stuff is useless and Sartori wants to be reimbursed. When Anderssarian can't do so Sartori takes care of him for good.
- Year: 1973
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Studio: CBS
- Keyword: secret agent, disguises, foreign intrigue
- Director: Bruce Geller
- Cast: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bob Johnson, Lynda Day George