Ethan Hunt quotes from Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

Ethan Hunt

If anything happens to either of 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.

I understand, you're upset...

Ethan

I'm not upset, Kitteridge. You wanted me to listen. This is me listening.

Alright. I put the bounty on Ilsa's head. I also told you how to find her. But I didn't make her steal the key. She did that for reasons of her own. But that's the pattern, isn't it? You helped her out of trouble, and she always found her way back. I'm not gonna apologize to you, Hunt. It's my job to use you, just like it's your job to be of use. Did you accomplish your mission or not?

Ethan

Wherever the other half of this is, whatever the completed key unlocks, I will find it.

And then what?

Ethan

No-one should be trusted with control of the Entity. I mean to kill it.

Ethan, the next World War isn't gonna be a cold one, it's gonna be a shooting one. It's gonna be 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

Do you even hear yourself?!

Your days of fighting for the so-called "greater good" are over. You need to pick a side.

Ethan

I'm on the same side I've always been on. Stay out of my way.

I can't do that. 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 gonna cost you... dearly.

A self-aware, self-learning, truth-eating digital parasite... infesting all of cyberspace. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later!

And the two halves of this key just might provide the means of controlling this... "Entity".

Meaning every government on the planet would kill us just to get that key.

Including our own.

Ethan

Exactly.

Putting us on an unsanctioned mission which has gone rogue before it even started.

Meaning this very conversation is technically an act of treason.

Or, as we like to call it... "Monday".

When do I get my life back?

What life? I mean it. What life? I lived that life. We all did.

Nobody's making us do this, Grace. We're here because we wanna be.

I'll tell you what, I'll give you a one-off: I'll help you find the key, and your friends wipe my slate clean. A new name, little bit of walking around money, and I...

You'll be dead. Without a team, your life won't be measured in years, or even months...

...it'll be measured in hours.

But if I stay here, I'll be safe, you'll protect me. Is that it?

Yes.

Ethan

No. I can't promise you that. None of us can. But I swear, your life will always matter more to me than my own.