Brandt
So what you're saying is there is no ledger, which means we have no proof that the Syndicate even exists. So we're back to square one, only now we're all wanted by the CIA. [sarcastically] I'm so proud of us.
Scenes with Brandt
8 scenes Brandt
Brandt
The package is on the plane.
Benji
Yeah, I know. We're currently formulating a Plan B. Although, technically, it's a Plan C.
Brandt
This isn't going very well.
Benji
I am aware of that, Brandt; you're not helping.
Brandt
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.
Brandt
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.
Brandt
This man you saw, can you find him?
Ethan
I won't stop until I do.
Brandt
This may very well be our last mission, Ethan. Make it count. [hangs up]
Hunley
Less than 24 hours after we interviewed Benji Dunn about Ethan Hunt, he was on a plane to Vienna with tickets to the opera, and within six hours of his arrival, the Chancellor was dead! Now, that may be circumstances to some public defender, but to the CIA, that is actionable intelligence!
Brandt
Consider for the moment the possibility that Ethan's investigation lead him to the opera and that he's the one with the actionable intelligence.
Hunley
In any case, finding Hunt is no longer a pet project! The Special Activities Division will now have full discretion.
Brandt
You mean shoot to kill.
Hunley
Whether Hunt lives or dies is entirely up to him.
Brandt
[during car chase in Casablanca, alongside Luther]
It's a high-speed chase! You just had to get the 4x4, didn't you?
Luther
Don't blame me; you chose the car!
Brandt
You just had to have it!
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.
Brandt
My thoughts exactly.
Benji
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.
Benji
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.
Hunley
I'm not interested in playing games, Brandt.
Brandt
And I'm not interested in seeing my friends get killed either. So if I'm going to betray them, we're going to do this in my terms and my terms only, do you understand? Keep your phone on, instruction will follow. [hangs up]
Brandt
When the Prime Minister found out about the Syndicate, Atlee attacked him.
Prime Minister
Yes, that's true.
Brandt
And then you saved the Prime Minister, sir.
Prime Minister
Did he? I'm very grateful.
