However, Attlee discreetly erases the file, forcing Ilsa to return to the Syndicate and prove her loyalty to its leader, Solomon Lane, who Hunt knows as the man in the glasses. Here it is revealed she is in fact, an MI6 agent. Ilsa returns to London, passing the file on to her handler, Atlee. However, Dunn had made a copy of the file, but it is impossible to access the file (which is a digital red-box, a security measure used by the British government to transport state secrets) without the biometrics of the Prime Minister himself they realise that Lane intends to capture the PM. After an intense motorcycle chase, Ilsa escapes with the ledger, much to Hunt's dismay. They retrieve the ledger, but Ilsa knocks out Benji and rides off with the ledger, evading both Hunt and the Syndicate. Ilsa helps Hunt break into the Syndicate's Moroccan base to retrieve a ledger belonging to the Syndicate.
Hunt explains that the Syndicate consists entirely of disavowed operatives from around the world, and are responsible for the assassinations and disappearances of many world leaders and the subsequent civil wars. Dunn picks them both up, but Ilsa leaves them - after dropping hints of the Syndicate's plan - in an attempt to maintain her cover. Hunt fires at the Chancellor's shoulder, Richter is shot by Ilsa, and Hunt and Ilsa escape only to see the Chancellor killed by a bomb placed in his car as 'insurance'. Benji goes to fight Richter even as Hunt sends Kagan falling to his death. Hunt fights Kagan even as Benji spots Richter, the third Syndicate assassin, in the lighting booth. Hunt spots Ilsa, but decides to go after Kagan, the second Syndicate operative. They arrive at the Vienna State Opera, where the Chancellor of Austria is also attending a performance of Turandot. Hunt sends Dunn some tickets to catch a performance of Turandot in Vienna.ĭunn arrives in Vienna and is given gadgets and instructions by Hunt. Hunley orders Hunt to be captured as he is now a wanted man.įive months later, with the help of his assistant Lauren, Hunley interrogates Dunn but cannot determine that he knows Hunt's location. Since the Secretary was killed by Anatoly Sidorov, Brandt cannot comment and the shutdown is successful. Hunley believes that the IMF's results are only luck, and their destructive methods have caused various misconducts (despite the IMF's innocence of the Kremlin bombing having already been proven and their close call in San Francisco having averted nuclear war), and attempts to shut down the IMF. In America, Brandt is brought before a committee that includes Alan Hunley. Janik Vinter tortures him, but Syndicate operative Ilsa Faust helps Ethan escape and much to the dismay of the other operatives, the escape is successful. Hunt wakes up and realizes he's tied to a pole. The man in glasses fires and kills the girl instantly, and Hunt's room is gassed. Hunt looks out and sees a man in glasses holding the station operative at gunpoint. However, the end of the recording reveals the mission deliverers are the Syndicate. He is delivered his mission: to track down said Syndicate. Hunt goes to an IMF station disguised as a record store in London's Piccadilly Circus.
Dunn is finally able to open the right door, and even though the A400M crew tries to stop Hunt, Hunt parachutes out of the plane with the material and zooms into the opening credits. Hunt sprints onto the plane's wing and ends up clinging onto the outer door. While Benji is attempting to hack into the plane's systems, he finds they are encrypted. In Belarus, Ethan Hunt and his team are trying to intercept a package of radioactive VX nerve gas from being delivered to Damascus by Syndicate operatives via an A400M plane. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. And your precious Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to face your fate. But we have taken steps to ensure that this will not happen.
Normally, you and your team would be tasked with infiltrating and disrupting this terrorist network. IMF suspects this to be the same shadow organization you have been tracking for the last year, also known as the Syndicate. This would support your suspicion that a shadow organization is committed to inciting revolution by enabling acts of terror in nations friendly to Western interests. They were identified as low-level Chechen separatists with neither the access nor the ability to acquire the weapons they were transporting. The bodies of the air crew were found less than 24 hours after they landed in Damascus. The weapons you recovered in Belarus were confirmed to be VX nerve gas capable of devastating a major city.