The essential episodes of Mission: Impossible
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Mission: Impossible — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Jim Phelps comes out of retirement to head a new team... in the search for the man who killed his protege, an assassin who does everything randomly to make it impossible to anticipate his next move.
- 02
The team must convince a young mobster to turn evidence against the older mobster that he's partnered with.
- 03
The team must lure a drug lord onto America territory--and ensure his arrest--by convincing him that his long-lost son is still alive.
- 04
The grandsons of four World War II Nazis come out of hiding to collect the cache of gold that their grandfathers hid... and Nicholas must go undercover as one of them to find out the cache's location first.
- 05
The team goes after an Australian arms dealer and recruits the local Aborigine tribe to help them.
- 06
The team must get a defecting scientist and chess master out of Czechoslovakia in the middle of the world chess championships, under heavy guard by his Soviet masters.
- 07
The team goes up against an ex-MI6 agent selling chemical weapons. To stop him, Jim must team up with a KGB operative who he's battled in the past... and must now rely on to save his life.
- 08
The team goes up against its most dangerous opponent: a former IMF scientist driven insane by a head injury, who plans to frame Jim for the murder of his former female teammates.
- 09
The team goes after the Golden Serpent, an international opium-smuggling operation, with the help of their inside man... Grant's father, Barney Collier.
- 10
With Barney presumed dead, the IM team has no choice but to continue with their mission against the Golden Serpent, pitting the organization's leader and Prince Selimun against each other.
- 11
The team goes after an assassin who is targeting a princess for death.
- 12
The IMF must rescue a dissident priest from a security tower and find a missing holy relic, all under the eye of the sadistic Defense Minister.
- 13
Nicholas poses as a terrorist scientist who has undergone plastic surgery, to find the contaminated wheat seeds that the scientist's organization plans to use to destroy America's wheat crop.
- 14
The team goes after someone who can program innocent people into assassins... and an undercover Nicholas ends up programmed to kill a national leader.
- 15
The IMF take on the curator of an Egyptian museum who wants to bring back Egypt's ancient past... with himself as Pharaoh.
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