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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning ending explained

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As a fellow gaming enthusiast, I completely get it if you’re finding it tough to recall all the details of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” with “The Final Reckoning” almost here. It’s been quite a while since we dived into that action-packed world!

Here’s a helpful summary for you, recapping the key points of “Dead Reckoning” such as its thrilling cliffhanger, ensuring you won’t be left bewildered when “The Final Reckoning” dives into discussions about the Entity and Sevastopol.

Ahead lie plot twists from the movie “Dead Reckoning”. If you’re here, it means you have either watched it already or are planning to watch it before “The Final Reckoning” and need a refresher.

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning ending explained

In an unprecedented twist for the Mission: Impossible series, the primary antagonist isn’t a cunning global threat, but rather an Artificial Intelligence named The Entity.

This advanced artificial intelligence has the ability to comprehend, perceive, and manage a vast array of situations. It can manipulate real-time images, deceive submarine sensors, mimic various human voices, foresee logical conclusions from extensive data, and do so much more.

From my gaming perspective, I’d call the Entity a “sentient, adaptive, fact-devouring digital pest”. It floats in a realm beyond the physical world, making it reliant on guardians to keep it safe.

In this rendition, let’s say that Gabriel makes an appearance, selected by the AI system due to his past relationship with Ethan Hunt. It was a moment from Ethan’s history yet unexplored in films – prior to the occurrences depicted in “Mission: Impossible” of 1996 – where Ethan joined the Impossible Mission Force (IMF). This decision was driven by the tragic murder of a woman he deeply cared for, orchestrated by Gabriel. As you might guess, encountering Gabriel stirs up painful recollections that Ethan had hoped to leave behind.

The Entity selected Gabriel as he appears to be the sole individual equipped and determined to annihilate it, a fact that terrifies the Entity. Global leaders are considering exploiting it, but Tom Cruise’s character aims to eradicate it entirely, making him the Entity’s most formidable adversary.

In the opening of “Dead Reckoning”, we discover that the only method to nullify The Entity is by retrieving its encrypted code, which is concealed within a submerged safe. To prevent access, The Entity intentionally sank the Sevastopol submarine carrying it. This action scattered the two halves of the key required to open the vault’s door across the globe.

Following perilous pursuits through urban landscapes such as Abu Dhabi, Rome, and Venice, Ethan Hunt manages to secure the key after a hazardous altercation aboard the Orient Express. However, there’s a significant hurdle: he remains clueless about the vault’s whereabouts.

Gabriel and his associate, Paris, are the sole possessors of this specific information, having acquired it from Denlinger, the Director of National Intelligence, who underestimated Gabriel’s loyalty and ended up in a fatal encounter with him instead. With The Entity foreseeing Paris’s potential betrayal, Gabriel preemptively stabs her before she could act on it.

In a twist of fate, Gabriel, Paris manages to outlive everyone else, ensuring Ethan and Grace’s survival from certain doom. What’s more, she unveils the location of the vault – it’s on Sevastopol! And here’s the kicker: Paris isn’t fully deceased at the end of the movie, and in “The Final Reckoning,” she aligns herself with Ethan.

After gathering all his necessary items, Ethan makes an exciting exit by leaping from the Orient Express while wearing a parachute.

As a devoted admirer, I find myself boarding a train, where fate introduces me to Eugene Kittridge. Following the guidelines set by Hunt’s squad, I step forward as a prospective operative for the Impossible Mission Force. With my abilities as a chameleon, I manage to convincingly impersonate Alana ‘The White Widow’ Mitsopolis, showcasing my espionage skills. It appears that I have graduated from a simple thief to an international undercover agent.

Who dies in Mission: Impossible 7?

Prior to the dramatic conclusion of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, the series took fans by surprise when it wrote off one of its most beloved characters since her debut in Ghost Protocol (Mission: Impossible 5), namely Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust.

Interestingly, in the latest Mission: Impossible film, the narrative initially suggests that Ilsa perishes in a desert gunfight. However, it’s eventually revealed that Ethan had been deceiving everyone to allow Ilsa to go into hiding temporarily.

Instead, she links up with the team in Venice, aiming to gather additional details about The Entity during Alana’s gathering. At this event, Gabriel discloses that the AI intends to control Ethan, leaving him with a challenging decision: saving Ilsa or Grace. Regrettably, his choice won’t be his own in the end.

Following The Entity deceiving Ethan into navigating Venice’s tight alleyways, Isla chooses to intervene in a struggle between Grace and Gabriel that transpires on an adjacent bridge. After a fierce battle, Gabriel ends up taking Grace’s life, abandoning her corpse for Ethan to discover just a while later.

It transpires that The Entity aimed to reenact a distressing event (where Ethan felt helpless while Gabriel killed someone significant in his life). Consequently, the secret agent is overcome with fury and ultimately takes revenge by killing Gabriel, the sole individual who possesses the location of the AI programme’s origin.

Isn’t it a bit convoluted to disguise your whereabouts? Or perhaps this mechanical device takes perverse pleasure in doing so.

In a different phrasing, we can say: Ethan refrains from harming Gabriel at this moment, but perhaps such an event will unfold in “The Final Reckoning.

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning is now available to watch on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.

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2025-05-16 14:50

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