Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Frederick Schmidt, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Esai Morales, Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Cary Elwes
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Action thriller sequel written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) continues to follow Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team of IMF operatives and allies on another mission.
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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.
Kittridge: [recorded message] Good evening, Mr. Hunt. It’s been a long time. Our lives are the sum of our choices. And we cannot escape the past. Thirty years ago, you were offered the choice. Join the IMF, or spend your life in prison. Because of your unique natural talents, your government forgave you. But we will never forget. Just as you will never forget the death that brought you to us all those years ago. This is to remind you of your oath and allegiance to us. The stakes of this mission are higher than ever. Your habitual rogue behavior will not be tolerated. Should you choose to accept, it is imperative that you listen.
Kittridge: [to Ethan, recorded message] Find the bounty hunters, and you may just find her. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to acquire the key and deliver it to us. What happens to Ilsa after that is up to you. As always, if any members of your team are caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Ethan.
NSA: The Entity has since become sentient.
Denlinger: You’re telling me this thing has a mind of its own?
NRO: Whatever its ultimate goal is, we’re powerless to stop it.
JSOC: The full force of its energy is now directed at a single objective.
NRO: The world’s intelligence networks.
DIA: The very truth as we know it.
JSOC: Humans are the weakest link in any security chain, especially when dealing with a godless, stateless, amoral enemy.
NSA: One that has been patiently listening, reading, watching.
NRO: Harvesting our deepest personal secrets for years.
DIA: Able to beguile, blackmail, bribe, or be anyone it wants. And to manipulate us at will through our total dependence on a carefully constructed digital reality.
Denlinger: An enemy that is everywhere, and nowhere, and has no center.
Kittridge: [to Denlinger] You don’t want to kill it, sir. You want to control it.
Denlinger: [referring to Ethan] Who the hell is this guy?
Kittridge: That’s classified.
Denlinger: I’m the goddamn Director of National Intelligence. What exactly is it I’m not supposed to know about?
Kittridge: The IMF.
Denlinger: The world bank.
Kittridge: No, that’s the International Monetary Fund. No, I mean the other IMF. Ours.
Denlinger: What does it stand for?
Kittridge: Impossible Mission Force.
Denlinger: You’re not serious.
DIA: I’m afraid he is.
'Our lives are the sum of our choices. And we cannot escape the past.' - Kittridge (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) Share on X
Kittridge: And what do they do exactly?
JSOC: It’s just as the name implies. Whatever the rest of us can’t.
Kittridge: And who is in charge?
NRO: They’re not ones to take orders in the traditional sense. We more or less leave word.
Denlinger: So let me get this straight. When there’s a mission none of you can handle, you just leave word for a nameless man, and hope he gets the job done. Is that it?
JSOC: Should he choose to accept it.
Denlinger: What the hell kind of outfit gets to choose what orders to accept?
Kittridge: I understand. You’re upset.
Ethan Hunt: I’m not upset, Kittridge. You wanted me to listen. This is me listening.
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 of use.
Kittridge: Ethan, the next world war isn’t going to be a cold one. It’s going to be a shooting war, it’s going to be a ballistic war over a rapidly shrinking ecosystem. It’s going to 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?
'Humans are the weakest link in any security chain.' - JSOC (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) Share on X
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 my way.
Kittridge: I can’t do that. We’re going to be coming after you. The world’s going to be coming after you. And one way or another, this mission of yours is going to cost you dearly.
Briggs: [referring to Ethan] An American operative with a grievance against his country is missing and has malfunctioned.
Briggs: [referring to Ethan] 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.
Degas: [referring to Hunt] This guy, you know him?
Briggs: Not personally.
Degas: But it is personal.
'A self-aware, self-learning, truth-eating digital parasite infesting all of cyberspace. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later.' - Benji Dunn (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) Share on X
Luther Stickell: Ethan, what just happened?
Ethan Hunt: He was bumped.
Luther Stickell: Bumped? What do you mean, bumped?
Ethan Hunt: [referring to Grace] That woman picked his pocket.
Grace: I’m not interested.
Ethan Hunt: Give me a chance.
Grace: I’ll scream.
Ethan Hunt: Please do.
Ethan Hunt: We both know you’re a good pickpocket. Let’s see what kind of put-pocket you are.
Grace: You expect me to put it back.
Ethan Hunt: Oh, I know you will. You’re a thief. You want the money. And I can give it to you. Your choice. You’re in, or you’re out.
Ethan Hunt: You should know we’re not the only interested party. If I tell you to run, you run.
Grace: Run? This is getting exciting.
Benji Dunn: The wheels, they spell out a message. U-R-DUNN.
Luther Stickell: No way. Not yet we aren’t.
Benji Dunn: No. No. Luther, not D-O-N-E. D-U-N-N. It’s my last name. It knows who I am.
'Always approaching, but never arrives. Tomorrow.' - Grace (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) Share on X
Benji Dunn: “Are you afraid of death?” What kind of a riddle is that?
Luther Stickell: It’s not a riddle. It’s a psychometric test. The more questions you answer, the more it’ll know about you.
Benji Dunn: “Are you afraid of death?” No!
Luther Stickell: Did it work?
Benji Dunn: I lied. It knows.
Luther Stickell: Just tell it the truth. Say it.
Benji Dunn: “Are you afraid of death?” Yes! Who isn’t?
Benji Dunn: “Who or what is the most important thing to you?”
Luther Stickell: Say it.
Benji Dunn: But if I…
Luther Stickell: There’s no other choice. Say it.
Benji Dunn: My friends.
Benji Dunn: “What gets bigger the more you take away?”
Luther Stickell: A hole.
Ethan Hunt: Why didn’t you tell me this?
Benji Dunn: Well, you had a lot going on. We didn’t want to bother you.
Ethan Hunt: Listen to me. A nuclear bomb is something you bother me with immediately.
'We cannot escape the past. Some of us are doomed to repeat it.' - Kittridge (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) Share on X
Benji Dunn: Why do we always end up in these situations?
Grace: You can’t blame a girl for trying to make a dishonest living.
Ethan Hunt: You expecting someone?
Grace: Your friends from the airport. Saw them in the hallway a few minutes ago.
Ethan Hunt: You could have said something sooner.
Grace: Well, they were chasing you, not me.
Grace: Is there anyone not chasing us?
Benji Dunn: [referring to The White Widow] Does she know who you actually are, or does she still think you’re the globally notorious mass murderer John Lark?
Ethan Hunt: Who says I’m not?
Ethan Hunt: 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 through all of you. And if Gabriel knows me…
Luther Stickell: The Entity knows.
Luther Stickell: Ethan, you’re playing four-dimensional chess with an algorithm.
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.
Luther Stickell: None of our lives can matter more than this mission.
Ethan Hunt: I don’t accept that.
Gabriel: [referring to Ethan] You’ve stepped into a world of lies, Grace. Nothing anyone says is true. Just remember that when he promises to protect you.
