这次的任务并非来自总部，Briggs好友的女儿被犯罪团伙绑架，来交换指控犯罪团伙头目的重要证人，证人在警方的严密保护下，Briggs陷入了两难。做是绑票，不做女孩会因此而死，他如何平衡这一杆称，他的团队又如何帮助他做到呢？

Mobster Frank Egan kidnaps the daughter of Dan's friend and uses her as a hostage to force Dan and the team to break out a key witness, Augie Gorman, against him. After several failed ploys, Barney manages to contaminate Gorman's water supply inside the hotel safehouse where the police are keeping him. The team has taken over the hospital room and use a rotating examination table to switch Gorman for IMF member Steve (who resembles him). At the exchange, Egan tries to double-cross Dan, but the IMF team leader has a trick or two of his own to make sure things go smoothly and Gorman gets what's coming to him.

Un gangster enlève la fille d'un ami de Briggs afin de le forcer à faire sortir de la protection de la police un témoin censé témoigner contre lui.

El único episodio de la serie en el que la fuerza de Misiones Imposibles no es enviada a una misión del gobierno, sino que es obligada a trabajar para un criminal llamado Egan, que ha secuestrado a la hija de un amigo de Briggs. Egan pretende que la FMI capture a un testigo fuertemente protegido que va a declarar contra él y, aunque saben planea matarlo, Briggs y los suyos están determinados a no darle al criminal esa oportunidad…