Mission: Impossible · Film
The Prague embassy job falls apart
Ethan works the party as a senator while the team lifts the NOC list, until the elevator plan turns deadly and a man goes down.
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64 moments.
Mission: Impossible · Film
Ambush on the Charles Bridge
Ethan defies Jim's abort and chases Golitsyn through Prague's night streets as his team is picked off one by one.
Mission: Impossible · Film
The exploding aquarium escape
Framed as the mole, Ethan turns Kittridge's accusation around, blows the restaurant's giant fish tanks and flees through the flood.
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Firemen ruse to get into CIA headquarters
A fake fire alarm gets the crew past the guards in firefighter gear while Kittridge, upstairs, profiles what Ethan is after.
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The wire drop into the Langley vault
Ethan is lowered from the vent on cables into a silent, heat- and pressure-alarmed room to copy the NOC list.
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Donloe returns early and the vault nearly blows
The analyst comes back as the download finishes; the crew scrambles out, and Kittridge later exiles Donloe to Alaska.
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Helicopter chase into the Channel Tunnel
Ethan clings to the speeding TGV roof, a helicopter on a tether follows into the tunnel, and he ends it with the gum.
Ethan stalls his own prison break to free Bogdan
Benji runs a Moscow prison riot from a laptop while Ethan, timed to a Dean Martin song, detours to bring an informant out with him.
Hanaway's Budapest file grab ends in an ambush
A rooftop intercept goes right until a second crew crashes it, and Hanaway is gunned down by the assassin Moreau.
Benji babbles his way into the Kremlin
Disguised as a general, Ethan walks the checkpoints with a starstruck, nervous Benji at his side, then slips into the archive.
The archive is empty and the Kremlin blows
Ethan finds the file gone, hears someone else on their frequency and aborts, seconds before an explosion tears through the Kremlin.
Framed for the blast, Ethan escapes the hospital
A Russian agent tells Ethan he will suffer for the bombing; Ethan breaks out of his restraints, flees through the window and calls for extraction.
Motorcade ambush and the plunge into the river
Gunmen hit the car mid-goodbye; Ethan drags Brandt out of the sinking wreck and outwits the shooters in the water.
Ethan climbs the outside of the Burj Khalifa
With the server room unreachable from inside, Ethan scales the glass tower on failing gloves, then swings back down to the team with no line to spare.
No masks: the double-room swap at the Burj
Without disguises, Jane and Ethan play Moreau and Wistrom to each other, bluffing through a tense exchange while the codes are copied.
Jane fights Moreau as the con falls apart
The deal turns deadly: Ethan chases Wistrom, the Russians catch up, and Jane's brawl with Moreau ends at an open window.
Sandstorm chase through Dubai
Ethan chases Wistrom blind through a sandstorm on foot and by car, tracking a beeping signal until a crash ends the pursuit.
Pluto, Venus and the leap of faith in Mumbai
At Brij Nath's party Benji objects to his code name while Brandt is talked into jumping into the server shaft.
Jane gets the code as Hendricks seizes the satellite
Jane lets Brij Nath chase her upstairs, Ethan takes out Hendricks' men, and Brandt cooks in the relay room as the system is hijacked.
Ethan battles Hendricks for the launch case
With a missile in the air, Ethan fights Hendricks through an automated car park while the team races to restore power.
Mission: Impossible II · Film
The 747 hijack: 'Ethan' peels off his face and crashes the plane
Nekhorvich trusts the friend beside him with Chimera, until the cabin pressure drops, the mask comes off and Ambrose's crew bails out.
Mission: Impossible II · Film
Ethan's free solo cliff climb and the sunglasses briefing
A rope-free climb over a canyon to rock music, capped by the classic briefing and a cheeky reply about holidays.
Mission: Impossible II · Film
The racetrack pickpocket: lifting Ambrose's memory card
Guided by Ethan's earpiece, Nyah charms Ambrose into a bet and lifts the envelope while Billy deals with a tail.
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The Biocyte break-in: rooftop drop and destroying the virus
Ethan leaps from a chopper through the atrium on a 40-second window, then torches Chimera stocks while Luther spots Nyah inside.
Mission: Impossible II · Film
Shootout and escape from Ambrose's compound
Doves and a requiem as Ethan shoots his way out of the fortress and bikes off over the bridge with Luther covering.
Mission: Impossible II · Film
The motorcycle chase and head-on joust
Racing to reach Nyah on the cliffs, Ethan and Ambrose duel on motorbikes through a firefight before colliding mid-air.
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Ethan and Ambrose's beach fight to the finish
A brutal hand-to-hand brawl on the sand while Luther and Billy find Nyah at the cliff edge, ending in a final shot.
Mission: Impossible III · Film
The Berlin factory raid to rescue Lindsey Farris
Ethan's team breaches a guarded factory, wakes the drugged Lindsey and fights their way out to the evac truck.
Mission: Impossible III · Film
Helicopter chase through the wind farm with a charge in Lindsey's head
Pursued by a missile-firing gunship, Ethan races to short out the explosive in Lindsey's skull with a defibrillator.
Mission: Impossible III · Film
Breaching the Vatican wall
Ethan lays out the plan, the team stages a Roman traffic row as cover, and Ethan climbs the wall and slips into the gala.