Tom Cruise credited as playing...
Ethan Hunt
- Benji Dunn: [explaining Ethan's gloves] Easy way to remember: blue is glue.
- Ethan Hunt: And when it's red?
- Benji Dunn: Dead.
- William Brandt: 22 minutes to door knock.
- Ethan Hunt: The countdown is not helping.
- William Brandt: I'm just saying.
- Ethan Hunt: Did you jump?
- William Brandt: [hovering over a giant fan] Should I not have jumped? Cause I jumped!
- Ethan Hunt: The Secretary is dead. The President has invoked Ghost Protocol. We're shut down. No satellite, safe house, support, or extraction. The four of us and the contents of this car are all that remains of the IMF.
- Ethan Hunt: European male. Fifties. About six-foot, 180 pounds.
- [shows Brandt a drawing on his hand]
- Ethan Hunt: Blue eyes. Who is he?
- William Brandt: A crude drawing, but by your description, that could be Kurt Hendricks. 190 IQ. Served in Swedish Special Forces. Professor of physics, Stockholm University. Specialist in nuclear endgame theory. Asked to resign... well, because he's crazy.
- Ethan Hunt: IMF's been looking for an emerging extremist, code name Cobalt. He's determined to detonate a nuclear weapon however he can. We know Moreau's worked for him before.
- Jane Carter: What else does IMF know about him?
- Ethan Hunt: As much as you do now.
- IMF Secretary: The President has initiated Ghost Protocol. The entire IMF has been disavowed.
- Ethan Hunt: So what happens now?
- IMF Secretary: Now, I've been ordered to take you back to Washington, where the DOD will label you as a rogue extremist and hang the Kremlin bombing on you and your team. Unless, you were to escape somewhere between here and the airport, having assaulted Mr. Brandt and me.
- Brandt: Sir?
- IMF Secretary: You would then illegally scrounge whatever material you could from a backup supply cache that I've overlooked. The same cache where your team are waiting for further orders.
- Brandt: Sir, you may want to...
- IMF Secretary: You will then disappear, and this conversation never having taken place, your intentions would be unclear. But if any one of your team is caught or killed, they will be branded terrorists, out to incite global nuclear war.
- [handing Ethan a USB drive]
- IMF Secretary: Your mission, should you choose to accept it.
- Jane Carter: You mind telling me what you were doing in a Russian prison?
- Ethan Hunt: You mind telling me why you broke me out?
- Jane Carter: This wasn't a rescue mission?
- Ethan Hunt: Let me put it this way. If the Secretary wanted me out of there, it must be pretty bad out here.