Ethan Hunt Welcome to Vienna, Benji. Miss me?
Tied for most-quoted character in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015): in 8 of its 17 quotes
Most scenes with: Benji Dunn (3), Brandt (2)
You were just doing your job. That's all we're going to say about it.
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2 quotes Ethan Hunt Ethan Hunt That missing plane was carrying the Secretary of the World Bank. The fire bankrupted a global arms corporation. That wreck triggered a civil war. These are no accidents. They're links in a chain, the work of a single organization - the Syndicate. A rogue nation, trained to do what we do, with a new purpose. To destroy the system that created them, regardless of who's in their way.
Scenes with Ethan Hunt
5 scenes
The Committee has shut us down. Operations are being handed over to the CIA. There is no more IMF. I've been ordered to bring everyone in. Ethan...
Ethan I understand.
Ethan...
Ethan I understand, Brandt. We didn't have this conversation. I've disappeared in London. You don't know where I am, if I'm dead or alive.
This man you saw, can you find him?
Ethan I won't stop until I do.
This may very well be our last mission, Ethan. Make it count. [hangs up]
Ethan, this is what I signed up for! Let me help you find him.
Ethan That's why I brought you here in the first place, and look what happened! I can't protect you. That's why I need you to leave.
That's not your decision to make, Ethan! I am a field agent. I know the risks. More than that, I am your friend, no matter what I tell the polygraph every week. Now you called me because you needed my help, and you still do, so I am staying. And that is all we are gonna say about that.
Ethan ...okay.
Good! Then where do we start.
Ilsa
Lane, Atlee, my government, your government, they're all the same. We only think we're fighting for the right side, because that's what we choose to believe.
Ethan So where does that leave us?
Ilsa
The way I see it, you have three choices. One: you hand me and the disk over to the CIA, I am proof that the Syndicate exists, Lane becomes their problem and your work is done.
My thoughts exactly.
Works for me.
Ilsa
But you know they're not going to believe you, and you'll all be tried for treason. Lane goes free.
Luther
I'm afraid she has a point.
Ilsa
Two: you let me walk away to an uncertain fate, and use the disk as bait to trap Lane. But part of you suspects you've met your match. And being a gambler, you'll probably end up handing Lane that disk whether you want to or not.
That is entirely possible.
Ethan And option three?
Ilsa
Come away with me -- right now.
Luther
[Ethan quietly fills with confusion]
Oh, boy.
Ethan And what about Lane?
Ilsa
Forget about Lane. There will always be another Lane. There will always be people like us to deal with him. We've done our part and we've been cast aside. We can be anyone. We can do anything. It's only a matter of going.
Hunt, I hope you realize you've set US-UK relations back to the American Revolution.
Ethan Desperate times, desperate measures, sir.
Lane
From the moment I killed the young lady in the record shop, I knew you would...
[reciting what Lane is telling him over his earpiece]
...stop at nothing to catch me. I also knew Ilsa wouldn't have a choice. Whether she broke you that night you met or let you go, whether you let her run in Morocco, whether you went to Atlee or not...
Ethan You were certain we'd end up where we are, right now. Then again... so was I. I know you, Lane. Somewhere along the line, you had a crisis of faith. Human life didn't matter any more. Or maybe it never really did. Either way, you killed too many innocent people without ever asking who was giving the orders, or why. You blame the system for what you are, instead of yourself. You wanted revenge. But Rome wasn't destroyed in a day. You needed help, you needed money -- a lot of it. And you'll stop at nothing to get it. That's how I know I'm gonna put you in a box.
