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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 10 Episode 1 - A Death in Hong Kong
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - A Death in Hong Kong

    S10:E1

    A trader working on a merger dies at a Chinese banquet in Hong Kong.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  2. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Condition: Red
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Condition: Red

    S2:E1

    Vincent attempts to thwart the alien infiltration of a Air Defense Command Unit.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 18 - Counter-attack
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Counter-attack

    S2:E18

    David deceives the aliens that he is willing to work with them for a fee, all the while with a plan of attack in mind.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  4. undefined Season 10 Episode 16 - Time to Die
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Time to Die

    S10:E16

    A step-father may have been eliminated by his step-son, a graffiti artist.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 13 - The Captive
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #5 - The Captive

    S2:E13

    A Russian ambassador summons David Vincent after he finds that a burglar caught inside the embassy is an alien.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  6. undefined Season 2 Episode 24 - The Life Seekers
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #6 - The Life Seekers

    S2:E24

    A pair of aliens who want to return to their home planet and make a political argument against the invasion of Earth ask David Vincent to help them elude an intensive police manhunt.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - Wheels
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Wheels

    S1:E7

    In the country of Valeria, the IMF must assure that the corrupt Nationalist party's rigged voting machine doesn't give them the election.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  8. undefined Season 12 Episode 14 - Murder in Tempo
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Murder in Tempo

    S12:E14

    A much disliked singer gets a jolt from an electric guitar during a rehearsal for a rock concert benefit in Cabot Cove.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  9. undefined Season 5 Episode 4 - Homecoming
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Homecoming

    S5:E4

    When Jim returns to his hometown of Norville to donate family property to the community, he finds it plagued by a serial killer. Jim secretly brings in Barney to help investigate. A disturbed Vietnam vet is the suspected killer but Jim and Barney figure out he's innocent and get him out of jail one step ahead of a mob, then call in the rest of the IMF team to find the real killer.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  10. undefined Season 4 Episode 24 - Death Squad
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Death Squad

    S4:E24

    Barney kills a man in self-defense and is marked for execution by the victim's brother, a chief of police who heads a death squad.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 25 - Shock
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Shock

    S1:E25

    Enemy operative Kiri has kidnapped U.S. envoy Carl Wilson and has an imposter, Gort, who is impersonating him to discredit a U.S. trade agreement. The team have to rescue Wilson and foil the impersonation before Kiri kills Wilson. Cinnamon impersonates Wilson's niece while Willy kidnaps Gort and Briggs-as-Wilson takes Gort's place, pretending to be Gort. The team put Gort in an asylum and give him electro-shock to scramble his memories, then claim he is is a delusional accountant. Under the threat of more electro-shock, Gort tells them the full details of his delusion: that he's to kill an American official and leave Wilson to take the blame. Barney and Willy replace the unconscious Wilson at the reception with a drugged Gort set to look like a suicide, then Briggs-as-Gort-as-Wilson takes a shot at the official. Briggs returns and reveals that "Wilson" is actually Gort, who was in Keri's employ.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  12. undefined Season 4 Episode 4 - The Controllers (2)
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Controllers (2)

    S4:E4

    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.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  13. undefined Season 4 Episode 18 - Gitano (aka Toys)
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Gitano (aka Toys)

    S4:E18

    A 12-year-old king whose life is in danger is rescued by gypsies - Paris and Willie in disguise - and forced to dress up like a girl to fool his assassins.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  14. undefined Season 4 Episode 19 - Phantoms
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Phantoms

    S4:E19

    A murderous dictator's belief in ghosts is used against him when Barney fashions a clever system that projects spirits of his dead victims before his eyes.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  15. undefined Season 4 Episode 20 - Terror
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Terror

    S4:E20

    Jim and his team must infiltrate a prison in order to block the release of a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist about to be pardoned.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  16. undefined Season 4 Episode 21 - Lover's Knot
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Lover's Knot

    S4:E21

    While in London to break a spy ring, Paris develops feelings for the beautiful Lady Weston after he is cast as a jealous lover in a romantic triangle.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  17. undefined Season 5 Episode 3 - The Innocent
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Innocent

    S5:E3

    In the Middle East Willy and Barney infiltrate a chemical plant to gain access to Dehominant-B, a quick-acting lethal gas. Barney is exposed to Dehominant-A while trying to get to the computer and crippled - Willy escapes and Barney is captured. Barney is interrogated and only has four hours to live. The team find out that Dr. Jerry Carlin, a dropout, is the only other person with the skills to access the computer. When Carlin rejects the team's appeal for help, Jim and Paris frame Carlin's girlfriend and threaten to keep her in jail unless he helps them. Dana provides a distract and Paris takes the head scientist Vazan's place and have Barney first fake a confession implicating the technicians and then his own death - they get Barney to the autopsy room where Doug revives him in the nick of time. Jim and Carlin take the incriminated technicians' place and Carlin manages to ruin the Dehominant and erase the computer, then everyone escapes with Vazan.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  18. undefined Season 6 Episode 20 - Double Dead
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Double Dead

    S6:E20

    Shanks and Blake are Syndicate men who run the loan shark racket in the Islands and are preparing to transfer $10 million to the mainland, leading to the Syndicate expanding their operations there. The IMF must stop the Syndicate's expansion. In Hawaii the IMF's in-and-out operation goes bad when Willy is captured and turned over to Dr. Matier, who injects him with a near-lethal truth serum. To get Willy out and finish the mission, Casey approaches Shanks and drugs him into helping the IMF steal the $10 million, while Jim approaches Blake and claims to be a Syndicate man from the mainland. The IMF make Shanks ""disappear,"" presumed dead, to convince Blake his partner sold him out. Then Casey wakes up Shanks and Jim and Blake confront him - Casey's fake ""confession"" seals the deal but then Syndicate man Barney fake-shoots Jim and Casey just as Syndicate man Bolt arrives. Confused, Bolt takes them all to Willy hoping his information will straighten things out. Willy manages to escape wit

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  19. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - The Controllers (1)
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - The Controllers (1)

    S4:E3

    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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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  20. undefined Season 4 Episode 6 - Commandante
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Commandante

    S4:E6

    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.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Trek
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Trek

    S2:E2

    The country of Santales sold a collection of Incan gold artifacts to save its economy, which were stolen by Jack Cole. Cole's accomplices are killed and Colonel Cardoza of Santales is in charge of extracting the location of the artifacts from Cole. However, Cardoza is a tratiro who plans to take the artifacts and leave Santales in financial ruin. The IMF must both recover the treasure and expose Cardoza. Phelps goes in as Cardoza's fence, and plots with the Colonel to get Cole to reveal the treasure. Phelps is thrown in with Cole, and they manage to escape thanks to Cardoza's set-up with Jim. Jim ""kills"" Rollin (disguised as an Indian) for his horses, and the Rollin reports to Cardoza's superior, General Diaz, that Cardoza is the one looking for the trasure. Cole takes Phelps and Cardoza to the trasure, and Cardoza kills Cole. As Diaz's men close in, Jim leaves via a helicopter, leaving Cardoza to try and explain why he has the treasure and was working with Cole.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - The Condemned
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Condemned

    S2:E19

    In Spain, David Webster, a friend of Jim's, is framed for murder by his girlfriend. Acting on Jim's personal behalf, the team goes into action. Rollin and Willy, disguised as priests, hide Webster in his own cell thanks to a collapsible wall. The murdered man, Corley, had apparently stolen a Greek crown worth ten million dollars. Constantine, the financier for the theft, hires Jim to get the crown back. Rollin, disguised as Wsbter, confronts the girlfriend and she flees to her accomplice, who is killed in a fall. The accomplice is actually the dead man Corley, disguised with plastic surgery. The dead man, rendered unrecognizable due to a shotgun blast to the face, was a plant. They find the crown but must clear Webster. Rollin disguises himself as Corley and fakes an escape from the police which ends in a rigged car crash. The police, having it confirmed that Corley was guilty all along, recover the crown from where the IMF planted it in the car and go back to Webster's cell to find hi

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 18 - The Trial
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Trial

    S1:E18

    Josef Varsh plans to put an American on trial on false charges, discredit the West, and gain power. Rollin, disguised as Dan, meets with a woman who sold out her boyfriend/Western spy. Meanwhile, Briggs himself is with the Deputy Minister, a rival of Varsh's and a reformer. Rollin-as-Briggs leaves behind evidence implicating himself, and Varsh has the real Briggs arrested. Kudnov, who knows Dan is innocent, insists that Varsh let Briggs go, so Varsh orders him killed. The IMF team makes the Deputy Minister vanish - now they have to get the Deputy Minister and the girlfriend into court to testify and make Varsh look foolish.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  24. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - The Mercenaries
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Mercenaries

    S3:E4

    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. Krim ""kills"" Rollin and then coerces Jim into moving it without revealing the secret gold to his aides. Krim tells the guards to ignore the truck with what he believes his gold, unaware that Barney has melted the real gold belonging to the army, melted it down to remove it from the vault, and put in the truck. While Krim's suspicious aide Gruner kills him over the betrayal, Jim drives away with the gold and the hidden IMFers, immune to being searched because of Krim's last orders.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 14 - The Test Case
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Test Case

    S3:E14

    A scientist of an enemy power, Dr. Oswald Beck, has developed a bacteria which causes cerebral spinal meningitis and mutated it into a form that kills and then becomes inert after a few hours. The IMF must destroy the preliminary culture and stop Beck. Rollin replaces the prisoner chosen for a test of Beck's bacteria, and Barney switches the bacteria cylinder for one with knockout gas and then uses a balloon to capture the gas. Rollin ""dies"" but then Jim, who has infiltrated the base as a military medic, ""discovers"" that Rollin isn't dead. Meanwhile, Barney releases the knockout gas into the control room, knocking out Beck's superiors. Beck thinks they are dying from his bacteria and believes they'll think he's a traitor who tried to kill them rather than the test subject. He flees but is shot while Jim destroys the bacteria.

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    Writer:Laurence Heath

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Laurence Heath Ratings Summary

"A Death in Hong Kong" is the best rated episode written by Laurence Heath. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 9/12/1993 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Condition: Red".