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Mission: Impossible: Season 2

16 episodes Premiered Sep 21, 1989 Updated Oct 5, 2026
Previously on Mission: Impossible

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Mission: Impossible Season 1.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (13): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

The Golden Serpent (1)

Sep 21, 1989 · 48 min

The IMF must take down Selimun, who works for the Golden Serpent triad running drugs. Complicating matters, Grant's father Barney has already infiltrated Selimun's operation, but i

S2·E2 Core

The Golden Serpent (2)

Sep 28, 1989 · 48 min

The team turn Selimun against his Golden Serpent masters, but when they kill him they must deal with the head of the organization to recover the hidden gold and destroy the Serpent

S2·E3 Core

The Princess

Oct 5, 1989 · 47 min

A militant group hires an assassin, Coyote, to take out the princess of a country who she is turning toward Western ways. The IMF must go undercover to infiltrate the group, find o

S2·E4 Core

Command Performance

Oct 12, 1989 · 48 min

The IMF team must rescue an imprisoned holy man and recover a holy relic which holds evidence of the Defense Minister's atrocities.

S2·E5 Core

Countdown

Oct 26, 1989 · 48 min

To prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb by a fanatic unaware that she is being mislead by a general seeking to take over his country, Grant must get close to the woman and find

S2·E6 Core

War Games

Nov 2, 1989 · 48 min

The IMF must stop the general of a European country from using a series of war games as a cover to invade a neighboring country.

S2·E7 Core

Target Earth

Nov 9, 1989 · 48 min

When an IMF operative at a commercial orbital launch site goes missing, Shannon takes her place, only to find herself trapped on a space shuttle in orbit when terrorists take it ov

S2·E8 Core

The Fuehrer's Children

Nov 16, 1989 · 48 min

The head of a neo-Nazi organization plans to ally similar groups with an elaborate computer scheme, and has a ""master plan"" which guarantees him success.

S2·E9 Core

Banshee

Nov 30, 1989 · 48 min

An Irish arms dealer plays both sides of the country's conflict against each other, and the IMF must trick them into uniting to defeat him.

S2·E10 Core

For Art's Sake

Dec 14, 1989 · 47 min

A valuable painting and a foreign country's national treasure is stolen by a master thief during its exhibition in the U.S., and the team must recover it before the situatioin turn

S2·E11 Core

Deadly Harvest

Jan 6, 1990 · 48 min

Terrorist Jouseff K., a native of the country of Orambach, plans to release a deadly virus over the wheat fields of the U.S. The team must stop the production of the virus in Oramb

S2·E12 Core

Cargo Cult

Jan 13, 1990 · 48 min

The IMF take on a criminal organization that is using the image of a vulcano-god and his prophet to scare a primitive tribe into mining gold for them.

S2·E13 Core

The Assassin

Jan 20, 1990 · 48 min

The team must discover the cause of a series of bizarre assassinations caused by seemingly innocent people, but Nicholas is targeted as the next killer.

S2·E14 Core

The Gunslinger

Feb 3, 1990 · 48 min

An arms dealer who runs a mock-Western town in Nevada is the team's next target.

S2·E15 Mytharc

Church Bells in Bogota

Feb 10, 1990 · 48 min

The IMF team is sent to Bogota in order to destroy a vicious druglord's operation. All attempts to even meet the druglord is met with failure - Nicholas as an arms dealer, Max as a

S2·E16 Mytharc

The Sands of Seth

Feb 24, 1990 · 48 min

When several progressive Egyptian leaders are killed, the IMF team is sent to stop the head of the department for ancient studies at the Cairo museum. It turns out that he has revi

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