Ethan's team stages a fake Moscow interrogation
A drugged informant thinks she is in trouble in Russia; the whole room is a set, and a peeled-off mask shows who ran it.
Film · 1996
Mission: Impossible
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When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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Ethan Hunt's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible moment featuring Ethan Hunt, in story order. Played by Tom Cruise.
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Claire's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible moment featuring Claire, in story order. Played by Emmanuelle Béart.
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Jim Phelps's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible moment featuring Jim Phelps, in story order. Played by Jon Voight.
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Krieger's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible moment featuring Krieger, in story order. Played by Jean Reno.
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Kittridge's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible moment featuring Kittridge, in story order. Played by Henry Czerny.
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Luther's Best Moments
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Every Mission: Impossible moment featuring Luther, in story order. Played by Ving Rhames.
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25 in story order · 1h 18m
- 01
- 02
Jim Phelps receives the Prague mission on a plane
A coded in-flight movie request delivers the classic briefing tape: Golitsyn, the NOC list, the team, and the self-destruct.
- 03
Jim lays out the embassy plan as the team ribs Ethan
Jim assigns every role for the embassy job, then the crew teases Ethan about his cushy Chicago posting and Claire's coffee.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
Ethan calls Kittridge: the whole team is dead
From a phone box, a shaken Ethan reports the disaster to CIA's Kittridge, who arranges a meeting within the hour.
- 07
Ethan spots the second IMF team: it was a mole hunt
Over dinner Ethan points out the other agents who watched the operation, and Kittridge admits Prague was bait to catch a traitor.
- 08
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.
- 09
Ethan cracks Job 3:14 at the safe house
Replaying Kittridge's words, Ethan realises the mole's codename points to a Bible verse, and to a way of reaching him.
- 10
Claire walks in alive and Ethan nearly breaks
Claire turns up at the safe house; a paranoid Ethan holds her at gunpoint and grills her about the car and the bridge.
- 11
Hooded meeting with the arms dealer Max
Taken to Max blindfolded, Ethan bluffs: he is not Job, the stolen disk is bait, and he can deliver the real list.
- 12
Ethan dares Max to boot the bugged disk
Ethan warns that loading the bait disk will bring agents running, then counts down the minutes as Max tests his claim.
- 13
Max agrees to a $10 million deal for the full list
Unmasked as a woman, Max sets the price for the entire NOC list, and Ethan's one extra condition is that Job attends.
- 14
Recruiting Luther and Krieger for the Langley job
Ethan pitches two disavowed agents on robbing CIA headquarters; Luther scoffs until his own hacker legend is thrown back at him.
- 15
Ethan walks through the black vault's defences
Voiceprint, retina scan, key cards, then sound, heat and pressure sensors: Ethan explains every layer guarding the terminal.
- 16
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.
- 17
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.
- 18
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.
- 19
Ethan outplays Krieger with a disk sleight of hand
Krieger pulls a knife to claim the NOC list; Ethan reveals with a magic trick that he swapped the disks all along.
- 20
Ethan taunts Kittridge on a traced call
After his mother's arrest airs on TV, Ethan calls Kittridge and needles him while technicians race to pinpoint him.
- 21
Jim turns up alive at Liverpool Street
A wounded Jim finds Ethan in London, explains how he tracked him, and claims he saw who shot him on the bridge.
- 22
Ethan pictures what really happened in Prague
Jim names Kittridge; Ethan replays the night in his head, sees through the story, and Jim's bitter cold-war speech follows.
- 23
Confrontation in the baggage car
On the TGV, the betrayers meet over the money, and Ethan reveals how long he has known and why he played along.
- 24
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.
- 25
Farewell to Luther and a new mission offer
Luther toasts being back on the right side; on the flight home, Ethan is offered a familiar coded movie.