Ethan Hunt quotes from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

Ethan Hunt

There's no nations on this one. There's no rival ideologies, no dogma. It's who keeps their head and who panics.

Ethan Hunt

Just... keep telling yourself: "It's only pain."

Ethan Hunt

Take care of your team.

Ethan Hunt

The world's nuclear powers are in a paranoid downward spiral. Every nation had a chance to take their missiles offline, but no one trusted anyone else to do that. Your State Department is warning you that diplomatic channels are breaking down. Everyone who still has control of their arsenals is considering a first strike, just like you are. The intelligence community knows that the Entity is learning as it goes. It's getting smarter, it's getting stronger. They know that we have only 72 hours before every other nuclear arsenal on Earth is under the Entity's control. Three days before it focuses the full force of its energy on the toughest, most secure defense system on the planet: ours, at which point, the Defense Department will have no choice but to insist that you open that case, enter the codes, and launch an all-out preemptive strike on the world's eight other nuclear arsenals before the Entity takes control of ours. Madam President, either you destroy the world or the Entity does. In any case, it is checkmate.

Ethan Hunt

I need you to trust me, one last time.

Ethan Hunt

Hagar! You spend too much! Time! On the internet!

Luther Stickell

Sorry about the decor; the Ritz was booked solid.

Ethan Hunt

Well, some drapes, a few throw-pillows, and...

Benji Dunn

Yeah! Mini-bar?

Foosball table!

Ethan

You just bought yourself a world of trouble, Grace.

Grace

The whole world's in trouble, Ethan. You're the only one I trust to save it.

Ethan

You think I'm gonna get the source code and bring it to you?

Gabriel

I don't think, I know. I'm gonna let you go, then you're gonna find the Entity's source code and bring it to me in exchange for Grace. Then I'll take control of the Entity -- the proverbial genie you let out.

Luther

...the Rabbit's Foot.

Benji

The Anti-God?!

Gabriel

It wasn't a biological or a chemical weapon you took from Shanghai. The vial you traded for Julia contained malicious code. The primordial digital ooze from which a weapon evolved. A weapon the East couldn't make work. A weapon the West might never have made on their own.

Benji

You didn't know what you were stealing! None of us did!

Ethan

But I knew why I was stealing it. They kidnapped my wife. Stealing the Rabbit's Foot was the only way I could get her back. I sank that submarine as much as the Entity did.

Gabriel

Without you, Ethan, there'd be no Entity. And if you don't find that sub in the next few days...

Grace

It's the end of the world as we know it.

Gabriel

And it'll all be his fault. He knows it. [to Ethan] Look at me. Tell me I'm wrong.

Luther

What are we gonna do? Retire? Go fishing? This is my mission. This is what I was born to do.

Ethan

Luther, I can't-- I can't...

Luther

There's nothing you need to say, brother. I know. I know. I'm right where I wanna be.

Mister... without our decompression chamber, you'll die for sure.

Ethan

Sir, your decompression chamber was never part of our plan.

Oh. Okay. What exactly is your plan?

We haven't been formally introduced. I'm--

Ethan

William Donloe. Langley. We met thirty years ago... Almost.

So you're him.

Ethan

I understand I owe you my life. I don't know how to make amends for what I've done to yours.

That's a matter of perspective, friend. If you hadn't broken into the vault thirty years ago, I'd probably still be there. I'd probably even think I was happy. I never would've found the only home that's ever brought me peace and I certainly never would've met the woman I love. There's nothing to be sorry about. I owe you my life.

Gabriel

You're beat, Ethan. If not today, some other place. Some other time. As long as I have this, wherever I go, you will follow. And the Podkova will come to me. That is written.

Ethan

Nothing is written.

Gabriel

I'm not sure Luther would agree. Now, tell me I win.

Ethan

...You win.

Gabriel

I like the sound of that. Say it again.