The BEST episodes written by Howard Berk
#1 - Casino (aka Vacuum, Rumble)
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 21
Syndicate boss Orin Kerr runs the casinos and the IMF needs to get the evidence against him to put before the state legislature. Kerr's boss distrust him because of his extravagant lifestyle and Syndicate man Cameron plants a bug in Kerr's office, which the IMF taps into. The IMF then set Kerr up with fake conversations that make him look bad to his bosses - Cameron hears Casey and Kerr discussing a heist of the vault, and Jim shows up with a background indicating he pulled off a similar heist 12 years ago. Barney manages to steal the money out of the impregnable vault while Kerr thinks he can get the missing money from Jim's earlier bank heist by putting him into debt at the casino. Kerr follows Jim to the hidden money which is actually his own) and grabs it, and then Cameron shows up and demands to know why Kerr has carrying current currency. Dumbfounded, Barney intervenes and Kerr flees into the arms of the police, where he is forced to testify against the Syndicate in return for pr
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#2 - Encounter
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 7
Syndicate boss Frank Brady and his underling Martin Stoner are terrorizing Southwestern businessman, forcing them to partner with the Syndicate. The weakspot is Stoner's wife Lois, who has become an alcoholic under the pressures of her husband's work. The IMF capture her and dry her out while Casey takes her place. She goes on a retreat and Brady sends a killer, Dekker, to keep an eye on her and kill her if she talks. Willy infiltrates Brady's organization and finds out some information which he leaks to Casey, who reveals it in an encounter group session and Dekker seriously wounds her. Casey continues with the mission while Brady suspects that Stoner leaked the info to his wife. Willy sets up Brady's goons to be arrested and claims they were set up - Brady sends him to kill both Stoners. Willy fails and Stoner heads for the bank with "Lois" to get his Brady's records. Unfortunately the real Lois escapes and tips off Brady. Brady and Dekker go to the bank, and Dekker kills Martin Ston
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#3 - Blues (aka Hard Rock)
Mission: Impossible - Season 6 - Episode 10
Stu Gorman is a music-industry figurehead for the Syndicate. He and his financial expert, Belker, are taking control of the music industry and the IMF have to stop him. The IMF know that Gorman killed a witness, Judy, to keep her from testifying, so Barney auditions for Gorman using a song called "Judy's Gone Now" and claiming Judy had taped Gorman when he killed her, and he has the tape. Barney gets Gorman to pay blackmail while Willy fake-rigs Belker's car to explode and claims he's working for Gorman when caught. Belker gets lead to Jim as a corrupt policeman with the recording, and he and Jim agree to blackmail Gorman instead. The IMF gives Belker a fake tape of the murder scene and when Belker confronts Gorman, Gorman knows its a fake and admits he killed Judy, then tries to kill Belker. But the police show up - the IMF have Gorman's confession on tape.
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#4 - Robot
Mission: Impossible - Season 4 - Episode 9
A country is unaware that its premier is dead and that his double is about to appoint a successor. So Barney concocts a mechanical man to take his place.
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#5 - Counter Gambit
The Rockford Files - Season 1 - Episode 17
Jim is hired by a former prison mate to recover a pearl necklace stolen by his girlfriend, and after locating it, Jim is charged with stealing it and so must ask the victim and his old friend Angel to help him out...
#7 - Baker's Dozen
The Fall Guy - Season 3 - Episode 4
Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.
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#9 - Buried Alive
McMillan and Wife - Season 4 - Episode 3
A WWII intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered.
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#10 - Requiem for a Bride
McMillan and Wife - Season 5 - Episode 2
Commissioner McMillan celebrates an old friend's wedding, but the honeymoon ends when the bride is murdered, and the intended victim may be closer to home.
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#11 - Point of Law
McMillan and Wife - Season 5 - Episode 7
A naval lieutenant facing a court-martial on a murder charge is appointed counsel in the person of Commander McMillan, USNR.
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