Realizing that the Syndicate plans to assassinate the Ilsa partners with Hunt and Dunn to locate a file hidden by a Syndicate traitor on a high-security server terminal used to regulate a Moroccan power station. Between 2006 and 2011, Ethan and Julia were both together in Croatia until Hunt realized that the only way to protect her from death was to fake it.
The committee is skeptical, believing Hunley is trying to save face, but agree when Brandt again refuses to discuss operational matters without permission. Hunt and team are to take the blame for the attack, but they will be allowed to escape from government custody so that they may operate to track down Cobalt. nerve gas in Minsk, bound for Syria, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is convinced that he can prove the existence of Six months later, Hunt leads a CIA team to an empty safe house as a means of passing information on the Syndicate to Benji Dunn. Imprisoned in a bulletproof cell, he is gassed and taken into custody. He is capable of planning and undertaking very intricate schemes, particularly covert intrusions. The team capture nuclear weapons specialist, Ethan is tasked with extracting Solomon Lane from an armored convoy moving through Paris and provided with one of the plutonium cores as a payment in kind for the mission.
While reviving Ethan, Julia fatally shoots Musgrave. He lures Lane out into the open and into a trap set up by Stickell. Stickell discovers that the file is not a ledger of agents, but contains the location and access codes for billions of dollars in untraceable funds that Lane has been desperate to get to expand the Syndicate's operations.
When she does so, she injects herself with it, thus preventing Ambrose from simply killing her to get it.
He agrees to Lane's ultimatum to abduct the British Prime Minister and use his voice print to unlock the file.
Before he can disable it, it goes off and kills her. Upon passing the entrance and psychological examinations, Ethan was contacted by Colonel Briggs, who had joined the CIA in a high-level position a few years before and he believed Ethan would be perfect for an organization outside of the Agency. Upon graduating from Pennsylvania, he immediately sought employment with the Central Intelligence Agency. To convince Ethan to cooperate, Musgrave dials his phone for Ethan to hear Julia's voice to confirm she is alive. Latest Images. Ethan follows, leaps onto the helicopter's landing skids and attaches an explosive gum to the windshield.
He then takes a pistol to kill Julia. The next day, Max and Ethan arranges to meet aboard the TGV en route to Paris, with Claire and Luther aboard to provide backup.
The ensuing explosion kills Phelps and Krieger, with Ethan narrowly escaping. Even before Jim Phelps betrayed him, Ethan tended to act independently; that trait became his dominant one after his time as a fugitive. He slips them over his eyes, activating the camera inside and transmitting Phelps's image to Kittridge, proving beyond a doubt that Phelps is still alive. He is portrayed by Tom Cruise in all films to date. Ethan learns that Ambrose is holding Nyah and stops firing, during which Ambrose orders Nyah to retrieve the last sample. Enemies. As Ambrose takes Nyah and Ethan escapes from the laboratory in the ensuing gun battle between Ambrose's men and Biocyte security personnel, Ethan starts a 20-hour countdown on his watch before the virus takes over Nyah's body. Enemies. Fearing for Julia's safety, Ethan races to the hospital, only to find she has already been taken. He joins Benji and Luther for the mission, but fail when Ethan chooses to save Luther's life and the plutonium is taken by the Apostles. Kittridge is also aboard, having recently arrived in London and receives tickets for the TGV and a video watch from Ethan. He is highly idealistic and devises philosophical traps during debates. Suspecting that Walker is the leader of The Apostles and is John Lark, Ethan and his team hatch a plan to expose him by having Benji to disguise as Lane and send Hunley to capture him.
Finally, Hunt's personality is subdued in the first movie, but becomes more extravagant and extroverted during the next two. Kittridge, now in possession of the NOC list and Max's true identity, drops his investigation against Ethan and reinstates Luther as an IMF agent. Regrouping with Brandt and Stickell, Hunt and Dunn follow Ilsa back to London, where they debate the nature of their work. The team rescues Lindsey and collects two damaged laptop computers. A little while later, as Ethan is on a plane flying home, a flight attendant approaches him and through a coded phrase asked if he's ready for another mission; because of his actions during the crisis, Ethan was promoted to the position of team leader.
View all (8) images Top Rated Lists for Ethan Hunt 47 items Lego Dimensions Top contributors to this wiki. After recruiting Nyah, Ethan meets two members of his team - computer specialist Luther Stickell and Australian pilot The IMF team kidnaps McCloy and learns that Nekhorvich had actually injected himself with Chimera, the only way he could smuggle the virus from Biocyte, and had all the known samples of Bellerophon, now presently in Ambrose's hands.