Produceder: Laurance Haeath
Writer: Mann Rubin
Dir.: Murray Golden

Jim Phelps: Peter Graves
Paris: Leonard Nimoy
Dana Lambert: Lesley (Ann) Warren
Barney Collier: Greg Morris
Willy Armitage: Peter Lupus

Colonel Alex Kohler: Lawrence Dobkin
Captain Maxfield: Rex Holman
John Darcy: Robert Doqui

Kitara is the code name of John Darcy, leader of the liberation movement in the African nation called "Bocamo", which is totally under white control, ruling by implementing racial segregation. A provincial governor, Colonel Alex Kohler, and his Captain (Maxfield) have taken Darcy prisoner and are going to torture him to find out whether he is Kitara and about the names of the leading people in the liberation movement. The IMF is to free Darcy and to end Kohler's tyranny. 

Before being caught Darcy has stolen a truck full of gold which belonged to the government. Now Darcy is kept in a container in spite of tremendous heat. Soon he has company: Barney is kept in the neighboring part of the same container, just a metal wall between them, because he tried to loot Kohler's house. Barney makes contact using the Morse code alphabet. Believing he might not survive this, Darcy tells Barney via the same code where the gold is hidden. Barney tells him that they try to get him out. Barney later tells Jim where the gold is. Jim finds it and leaves it as it is. 

Doug and Jim also enter the scene, as state officials, who are after Kitara, too. In a conversation with Kohler the topic touches black–white issues as well. It is interesting but hardly to believe for Kohler, who is an orphan, that there is an ailment called "Lamposa hycondra" which reveals white people to be originally black after several years. They simply get their true color back after having "posed" as another color since their youth. Thanks to Barney who installed an apparatus in the bathroom which operates through the light bulbs and which causes the pigments to show extremely in the skin - turning a person's skin into a very dark shade, Kohler turns black during the night after he had had a shower and was exposed to that light for some time. 

As Kohler awakes in the morning, he discovers that he has turned black and hides as much as he can from any contact to other people. Though Kohler had a picture of himself with his grandfather, he does not totally know who his parents were. Journalist Dana manages to see Kohler in his condition. She promises not to tell anybody and takes sides with him: She introduces Kohler to a shopkeeper (Paris). The shopkeeper is a very neat, meticulous and prissy gentleman with white gloves and shares with Kohler that he, too, is black – to a 16th. Indeed the shopkeeper can help Kohler with his photo: First he looks it up in his archive and finds another copy of it – the original where both are black. Kohler wonders how this is possible. 

No problem for the shopkeeper. He uses a small brush and carefully brushes over Kohler's picture which results in revealing the original colors of the photo: Both are black. The shopkeeper comforts Kohler by saying that this practice was a common procedure for black people at the time to let themselves be photographed as whites. And the shopkeeper is willing to help a fellow black person even further. When Maxfield and others come to arrest Kohler believing that he is Kitara (saying that this explains why Kohler was not able to find Kitara or the gold for so long) the shopkeeper makes it possible for Kohler to escape and even drives him to safety – to a hut (the same hut the gold is hidden in). But in spite of all efforts to run away, Kohler is caught and the gold is retrieved the same place he was trying to run away.