- Ethan Hunt: [speaking in italian] Thank you officers. Please. You can wait ouside. Thank you.
- [the police leave the area]
- Grace: You. You did this.
- Ethan Hunt: I called the police. I didn't tell them about your colorful past.
- [throwing a file folder]
- Ethan Hunt: That's on you. You put-pocketed the key on another passenger before you were arrested. You exchanged details and arranged to meet later on. Right now somewhere out there hasn't the slightest clue they're holding on to that key for you. An unwitting courier. The perfect accomplice
- [describing the person Grace has used as a mule to carry an item]
- Ethan Hunt: I'm guessing a man... middle aged? A man waiting his whole life to be noticed by a woman like you. An orphan. Highly intelligent. Inherently resourceful. Growing up in the poverty left you longing for the finer things. Other's people's things. Someone saw your potential and helped you hone your skills. Skills that gave you the life thought you wanted. Tailored clothes, fine dining, luxury hotels. Skills that kept you one step ahead of the law, until now.
- Grace: You can't blame a girl for trying to make a dishonest living.
- Ethan Hunt: You had no idea what you stealing. Otherwise you never would stolen it.
- Grace: Tell you what. You get me out of here, and I'll take you straight to the key.
- Ethan Hunt: I have a better idea. You're gonna tell me everything. Then I'll think about getting out of here. Now start with who hired you. And don't lie to me, because I'll know.
- Grace: I have no idea who hired me. Contact with the client was almost entirely electronic.
- Ethan Hunt: Email?
- Grace: Texts.
- Ethan Hunt: Encrypted?
- Grace: Naturally.
- Ethan Hunt: Almost?
- Grace: Pardon?
- Ethan Hunt: You said contact with client was "almost" entirely electronic.
- Grace: There was a dead drop in a cafe in Luxembourg. An envelope.
- Ethan Hunt: What was in the envelope?
- Grace: A ticket to Abu Dhabi. And... a picture of you. My instructions were to follow you at the airport. You'd be taling a mark. Said mark would have a key and four million in criptocurrency. That drive was useless, by the way. It was empty. The only hope I have of getting paid is to deliver your half of the key.
- Ethan Hunt: And you were instructed to deliever it to...
- Grace: Venice. Party at Ducake Palace, Tomorrow. Midnight Venice.
- Ethan Hunt: [looking at the door] You expecting someone?
- Grace: Your friends from the airport. Saw them in the halleay a few minutes ago.
- Ethan Hunt: You could have said something sooner.
- Grace: Well, they we're chaising you, not me.
- India Zulu 254: What is the oath?
- Ethan Hunt: We live and die in the shadows, for those we hold close, and for those we never meet.
- [from trailer]
- Eugene Kittridge: Your days of fighting for the so-called greater good are over. This is our chance to control the truth. The concepts of right and wrong for everyone for centuries to come. You're fighting to save an ideal that doesn't exist. Never did. You need to pick a side.
- Ethan Hunt: [to Grace] I swear your life will always matter more to me than my own.
- Grace: You don't even know me.
- Ethan Hunt: What difference does *that* make?
- [last lines]
- Eugene Kittridge: [voice-over] We cannot escape the past. Some of us are doomed to repeat it. Grace may believe you saved her from her fate, but you and I both know you merely bought her time. But that's the pattern, isn't it? A cross you've been left to bear. The closer someone gets to you, the harder it is to keep them alive.
- Benji Dunn: [seeing Ethan parachute down] Thank God.
- Eugene Kittridge: [voice-over, continued] A new day brings a new burden. The key is only the beginning. Wherever it leads, wherever it takes to get there, you'll have to do it on your own. Should you fail in your mission, the Entity wins. Gabriel wins. And the world will pay the ultimate price. Should any members of your team be caught or killed, their sacrifice will have been in vain. So hurry. There isn't much time. The world doesn't know it, but they're counting on you. Good luck, Ethan.
- [from trailer]
- Gabriel: His fate is written. Shall we write yours too?
- Ethan Hunt: If anything happens to them, there's no place you and your God will be safe. There's no place that I won't go to kill you. That is written.
- Ilsa Faust: It's my first time in Venice.
- Ethan Hunt: It's mine too.
- [Ilsa snuggles up to him, then the scene cuts to them holding hands on a night-time gondola cruise]
- [from trailer]
- Luther Stickell: Ethan, what's your objective? What's your ultimate objective?
- Ethan Hunt: Your life will always matter more to me than my own.
- Luther Stickell: None of our lives can matter more than this mission.
- Ethan Hunt: I don't accept that.
- [from trailer]
- Eugene Kittridge: Our lives are the sum of our choices. And we cannot escape the past. Ethan, this mission of yours is going to cost you... dearly.
- Ethan Hunt: [As he rides a motorcycle higher up the mountain] When do I start going downhill?
- Benji Dunn: [Knowing that "the jump" is coming] Won't be long.
- Eugene Kittridge: [To Ethan Hunt, while deep inside the secure intelligence facility] How do you plan on getting out of here?
- [Looks over to see Ethan putting on a "Kitterige" mask]
- Eugene Kittridge: Of course.
- Grace: [talking about Ilsa] Am I the reason she's dead?
- Luther Stickell: No, she's the reason you're alive.
- Ethan Hunt: Which way? Left or right?
- The Entity: It doesn't matter.
- Ethan Hunt: What do you mean it doesn't matter? Where is she?
- The Entity: She's on her way to the Minich Bridge, where Gabriel is waiting. You will never get there in time. But you can, Ilsa. I know what matters most to you, Ethan.
- Ethan Hunt: This isn't Benji.
- The Entity: No, it's not. But you are done.
- Luther Stickell: I packed you a BASE parachute and a speed wing, depending on how you need to leave the train. And I modified our comms to use sky wave radio. Not as reliable as satellite, but completely analogue, immune to the Entity.
- Ethan Hunt: Got it.
- Luther Stickell: This is where I leave you. This is the drive from the laptop I was using last night. If there's even a trace of the Entity's encoding in there, I'll find it. But it's going to take everything I've got. I have to work complete offline in a place where the Entity can't find me. I have to go.
- Ethan Hunt: I understand.
- Luther Stickell: Now, I have to ask you a question. Not as your partner, but as your friend. What's your objective?
- Ethan Hunt: Kill the Entity.
- Luther Stickell: What about killing Gabriel?
- Ethan Hunt: He knows what the key unlocks. If we need him alive, I wouldn't have forgotten it.
- Luther Stickell: Will you still remember that when you're looking him in the eye? Think about it. Why else would the Entity want him to kill someone you care about? Everyone else thinks they can control the Entity. Only YOU want to kill it. In some probable future, it sees you winning, Ethan. And it's afraid. It's afraid of you taking Gabriel alive and forcing him to tell you what the key unlocks. I believe it's counting on one of two probable outcomes. In one outcome, you die on that train. In another outcome, you kill Gabriel. In both cases, the Entity wins.
- Ethan Hunt: Luther, I think you're right.
- Luther Stickell: Get the key, get off the train, ALIVE, do NOT kill Gabriel. And do not, I repeat, do NOT alter the plan.
- Eugene Kittridge: The next war isn't going to be a cold war, it'll be a shooting war, a ballistic war ; over a rapidly-dwindling eco-system. The last of the world's energy, drinkable water, breathable air.
- Ethan Hunt: [to Gabriel, in regards to Grace and Ilsa] If anything happens to them, there's no place on Earth where you or your God will be safe from me. There's no place where I won't go to kill you. THAT is written.
- Briggs: [about Ethan Hunt] Listen up. An American operative with a grievance against his country is missing and has malfunctioned. His agenda represents a threat to our national interests, and he must be neutralized at all cost. Anything in this man's possession is of vital importance and must be captured intact. The man himself is expendable. He is not to be underestimated: a master of infiltration, deception, sabotage and psych warfare. For all intents and purposes, ladies and gentlemen, a mind-reading, shape-shifting incarnation of chaos. So, for your safety, and the safety of those around you, do not consider him secure unless you have driven a wooden stake through his open heart. This is not a drill.
- Eugene Kittridge: [Last lines, voiceover] The world doesn't know it, but they're counting on you. Good luck, Ethan.
- Captain: We are the state of the art, of war. The most fearsome killing machine ever devised by man, and we are impossible to find.
- Eugene Kittridge: [Warning Ethan Hunt about the bounty hunters chasing Isla] They never bring their fugitive back alive, and rarely in one piece.
- Grace: Are you Okay?
- Ethan Hunt: Are YOU Okay?
- Grace: The key! Tell me you have the key!
- Ethan Hunt: Where is the key?
- Ethan Hunt: Wait, wait, wait! What's happpening?
- Grace: I'm done. I'm not doing this.
- Ethan Hunt: People are chasing us.
- Grace: Yes they are. Now you're driving. Now come on.
- Gabriel: [Ethan] doesn't care whether people live or die. He cares only about his objective. And right now, the only thing standing in his way... is you.
- Grace: Why should I believe you?
- Gabriel: You shouldn't; you've stepped into a world of lies, Grace. Nothing anyone says is true. Just remember that, when he promises to protect you.
- Ethan Hunt: Benji, I think, I... I must 've made a wrong turn somewhere
- Benji Dunn: No. No, that's it. That's it.
- Ethan Hunt: What? How can this be it?
- Benji Dunn: You can see the train right?
- Ethan Hunt: [Ethan hears the train whistle] Yes. I can see the train. What about it?
- Benji Dunn: And you have a parachute.
- Ethan Hunt: Got a parachute? What do you expect me to do?
- Benji Dunn: Well just, you know... Jump
- Ethan Hunt: Just jump?
- Benji Dunn: Yeah!
- Ethan Hunt: Benji, it doesn't work like that. I'm not that high. There's ledges sticking out everywhere. I'm gonna hit them before the parachute even opens! Even if I could get the parachute open, I don't know if I can make it across the valley and intercep and land safely on a moving train! Do you copy?
- Benji Dunn: Yes! I copy! Look, I am just trying to help you, okay? I need you to take a step back and pull yourself together! Because I am under a lot of pressure right now!
- Ethan Hunt: Ok, just think, just think. What do I do? I've to get away from this mountain.
- [Ethan spots a ramp-like rock and, in a moment of quick decision, accelerates his motorcycle to top speed, evoking memories of Marie and Ilsa that drive him forward. The scene becomes intense as Ethan charges forward, facing risk and uncertainty as he attempts to board the train and stop the threat. Memories of his loved ones motivate him to take action]
- Benji Dunn: Did you make it? Are you ok?
- Ethan Hunt: [Ethan breathing hard] I'm trying to get away from this mountain.
- [Ethan opens the parachute]
- Benji Dunn: A self-aware, self-learning, truth-eating digital parasite infesting all cyberspace. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
- Luther Stickell: And the two halves of this key just might provide the means of controlling this Entity.
- Benji Dunn: Meaning every government on the planet would kill us just to get that key.
- Luther Stickell: Including our own.
- Ethan Hunt: Exactly.
- Benji Dunn: Putting us on an unsanctioned mission which has gone rogue before it even started.
- Luther Stickell: Meaning this very conversation is technically an act of treason.
- Benji Dunn: Or as we like to call it, Monday.
- Luther Stickell: So what's the play?
- Ethan Hunt: A buyer's coming in on flight 746 from Amsterdam for a 30-minutes layover, at which time he is hoping to purchase that half of the key.
- Benji Dunn: [Ethan gives Benji the key] And it stands to reason the buyer will have the other half of the key somewhere on their person.
- Luther Stickell: Being the only way to authenticate our half.
- Benji Dunn: So how do we identify the buyer.
- Ethan Hunt: [Ethan takes out an ashtray-shaped Geiger counter] This Geiger counter will detect a radiological signature of the dragon's egg embed in the buyer's key.
- [Ethan takes out an sunglasses]
- Ethan Hunt: The augmented-reality overlay in these glasses will lead us to it.
- Benji Dunn: [Benji puts the sunglasses] Oh, that's very clever.
- [Benji takes out the sunglasses]
- Benji Dunn: So, you ID the buyer, pick his pockets, Bob's your uncle.
- Ethan Hunt: No.
- Benji Dunn: No. Of course not.
- Ethan Hunt: The complete key is of no value if we don't know what it unlocks.
- Luther Stickell: So you're going to sell the buyer our half of the key.
- Benji Dunn: While we figure out the buyer's connecting flight and book you seat on that plane.
- Luther Stickell: [Benji gives Luher the key] So you can follow the key wherever it goes.
- Benji Dunn: Which you hope is into the hands of someone who know what it unlocks.
- Ethan Hunt: Precisely. Finding the completed key is only the beginning
- Ethan Hunt: We can't be sure anything is real outside of this very conversation. None of you should be here.
- Ilsa Faust: Ethan..
- Ethan Hunt: No. You don't know Gabriel. I do. It's not the killing he enjoys. It's the suffering it causes. And he knows the best way to get to me is trought all of you. And if Gabriel knows me...
- Luther Stickell: The Entity knows.
- Ethan Hunt: There's a reason he wants me here. There's... There's a reason he wants you here. It wants you here.
- Benji Dunn: Who or what is the most important thing to you?
- Ethan Hunt: No. You have to go. You all have to go.
- Benji Dunn: Ethan, what if it wants us to leave?
- Luther Stickell: Like you made us leave the airport.
- Ilsa Faust: And what if it wants you alone at the party tonight?
- Ethan Hunt: Then I go alone. At least I don't have all of you to worry about.
- Ilsa Faust: This is exactly why I didn't want to tell you.
- Luther Stickell: Ethan, you're playing four-dimensional chess with an algoritm.
- Benji Dunn: The Entity knows who we are. Any move we make, it's probably considered it. Anything we do, we have to assume that it's counting on us to do it.
- Luther Stickell: If you want to beat this thing, you have to start thinking like it. Cold, logical, unemotional.
- Ilsa Faust: If that key really does grant control of the Entity, Gabriel is the last person on Earth who should have it.
- Luther Stickell: She's right, Ethan. Gabriel cannot have that key. And none of our lives can matter more than this mission.
- Ethan Hunt: I don't accept that.
- Luther Stickell: Without a team, your life won't be measured in years, or even months...
- Benji Dunn: It'll be measured in hours.
- Gabriel: [after escaping the train, only to find a lighter in his pocket instead of the key] EEEEEETHAN!
- Eugene Kittridge: [Ethan throws a gas grenade making everyone sleep except Kittridge who has a gas mask, Ethan takes off his mask and sits in front of Kittridge] I understand. You're upset.
- Ethan Hunt: I'm not upset, Kittridge. You wanted me to listen. This is me listening.
- Eugene Kittridge: All right. I put the bounty on Ilsa's head. I also told you how to find her! And i didn't ask her to steal the key. She did that for reasons her own. But that's the pattern, isn't it? You get her out of trouble and she always found her way back in.
- Ethan Hunt: [a flashback is shown where Ethan looks at Ilsa's unconscious corpse, however, she wakes up and begins to attack him] Wait! Ilsa. Ilsa, wait! wait! wait! It's me.
- [Ethan caresses Ilsa's neck and notices that the key hangs on her neck]
- Ethan Hunt: It's okay.
- [Ethan hugs Ilsa, hands her the key, and Ilsa puts on a bandana and gets on a horse. Ethan starts shooting to buy Ilsa time]
- Ethan Hunt: Listen to me! You're dead! You stay dead!
- Ilsa Faust: Ethan, wait!
- [Ethan starts shooting to Ilsa's horse]
- Eugene Kittridge: [Back in present Ethan continues to sit across from Kittridge] I'm not going to apologize to you, Hunt. It's my job to use you. Just like it's your job to be use. Did you accomplish your mission or not?
- Ethan Hunt: Wherever the other half of this is, whatever the completed key unlocks, I will find it.
- Ethan Hunt: And then what?
- Ethan Hunt: No one should be trusted with the control of the Entity. I mean to kill it.
- Eugene Kittridge: Ethan, the next world war isn't gonna be a cold one. It's gonna be a shooting war, a ballistic war over a rapidly shrinking ecosystem. It's gonna be a war for the last of our dwindling energy, drinkable water, breathable air. Whoever controls the Entity controls the truth. The concepts of right and wrong can be clearly defined for everyone for centuries to come.
- Ethan Hunt: Do you even hear yourself?
- Eugene Kittridge: Your days of fighting for the so-called greater good are over. You need to pick a side.
- Ethan Hunt: I'm on the same side I've always been on. Stay out of way.
- Eugene Kittridge: We're gonna be coming after you. The world's gonna be coming after you. And one way or another this mission of yours is going to cost you... dearly.
- [the phone starts ringing]
- Eugene Kittridge: If I don't get that, we're gonna have company real soon.
- [Ethan nods for Kittridge to answer the phone]
- Eugene Kittridge: [Kittridge answers the phone] Hello?
- Adjutant: Director Denlinger, please.
- Eugene Kittridge: Director is unavailable at the moment, How can I help you?
- Adjutant: To whom am I speaking
- Eugene Kittridge: CIA director Eugene Kittridge.
- Adjutant: Designator?
- Eugene Kittridge: Base note, lowercase, all one word.
- Adjutant: Sir, we have a situation.
- Eugene Kittridge: Not kidding.
- Adjutant: Your adjutants was found unconscious in his home ten minutes ago. It appears he was drugged.
- Eugene Kittridge: I understand.
- Adjutant: I don't think you do, sir. Security has him entering this facility 15 minutes ago.
- Eugene Kittridge: I understand, thank you.
- Adjutant: Are you able to speak freely?
- Eugene Kittridge: No, thank you.
- Adjutant: A security team is on their way. If you're in any danger, simply hang up the phone before I count to five. One, two...
- Eugene Kittridge: [to Ethan Hunt, while deep inside the secure intelligence facility] How do you plan on getting out of here?
- [Looks over to see Ethan putting on a "Kitteridge" mask]
- Eugene Kittridge: Of course.
- [Ethan fires a tranquilizer dart at Kittridge]
- Ethan Hunt: No, it can'be.
- Benji Dunn: What is it?
- Ethan Hunt: Luther, Benji. Abort. Get out.
- Luther Stickell: Where do we rendezvous
- Ethan Hunt: We don't! This mission is terminated. Get out now.
- The White Widow: Good evening, everyone, If it isn't John Lark. Except it isn't, actually. But until you're ready to tell me your real name, Lark will have to do.
- Ethan Hunt: It's good to see you, Alana.
- Benji Dunn: [taking a laptop] All right. We know Grace has one half of the key. We also know she's gonna be at the Ducale at midnight.
- [leaving the laptop in a table]
- Benji Dunn: And now we have a pretty good idea as to who will be waiting for her there. The event is being hosted by none other than our favorite international arms trafficker and black marketeer, Alana Mitsopolis.
- Ilsa Faust: The White Widow.
- Benji Dunn: Does she know who actually are does or she still think you're the notorius mass murder John Lark?
- Ethan Hunt: Who says I'm not?
- Luther Stickell: Didn't she put a price on your head in Paris?
- Ilsa Faust: She did indeed. She and Ethan, they worked out. You never tell me how.
- Ethan Hunt: Can we continue, please?
- Ethan Hunt: [riding in a motorcycle] Talk to me, Benji!
- Benji Dunn: No need to worry, Ethan.
- [looking at the train]
- Benji Dunn: The train on scheudle and you're a few minutes early, so we have plenty of time.
- Ethan Hunt: Are you sure?
- Benji Dunn: Yeah, I am looking at the train right now. It should be slowing down for the curve in exactly two minutes.
- Ethan Hunt: Just keep me on the track, whatever it takes.
- Benji Dunn: Will do. I'll see you at the rendezvous.
- Luther Stickell: You saw him, didn't you?
- Ethan Hunt: I wasn't sure.
- Benji Dunn: Well, who is he?
- [a flashback is shown where Gabriel kills Marie in front of Ethan's eyes]
- Ethan Hunt: Someone I trough... died a long time ago. In another life. Before the IMF. Before I was offered the Choice. And in a very real sense, he made me who I am today.
- The White Widow: Gabriel represents another interested party. In fact, this party was arranged by that interested party.
- Gabriel: You could even say that this party *is* that interested party.