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Mission: Impossible III

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Mission: Impossible III, also known as M:I-3, is the 2006 sequel to the 2000 film Mission: Impossible II about the superspy Ethan Hunt finds him once again in trouble after his retired as the training personnel of IMF.

Directed by J. J. Abrams. Written by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci.
The Mission Begins 05:05:06. Taglines

Ethan Hunt

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  • [to Luther] In Germany, you asked me what it is I see in Julia. What I see in Julia is life before all this. And it's good.
  • [before jumping down from the wall of Vatican City] Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
  • I've got a charge in my head, I'm going to die unless you kill me.
  • [about to get electrocuted] Throw the switch on and off. [slight pause] Don't forget the off.

Luther Stickell

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  • Well, well, well, if it isn't Mr. "Those who can't do, teach" back in the field. Hey, Ethan -- don't worry. We're gonna get the girl. Or have you been away for so long you've forgotten how good we are?
  • The look in your eye is a pain in my ass, you know that right?
  • Wait, wait, Ethan, I'm not saying I have a better idea, but there's a point where bold becomes stupid.
  • (after Ethan successfully landed on the building) He made it...he made it! [quietly] I knew he'd make it.

John Musgrave

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  • I know we've joked about it, but I'm always this close on begging you to stop training our people and get your ass back in the field.
  • (In video) This message, let's call it my excellent engagement gift to you, will self-destruct in five seconds.
  • It's complicated.

Owen Davian

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  • (first lines) We put an explosive charge in your head. Does that sound familiar?
  • Oh no, it's fine. I always spill red wine on my white custom-made shirt.
  • You don't have any idea what the hell's going on, do you? I mean, you saw what I did to your little blonde friend at the factory, right? Well... Well, that was nothing. That was... fun. That was fun.
  • What I'm selling... and who I'm selling it to... is the last thing you should be concerned about... Ethan.
  • [to Ethan, on phone] You hung me outside of an airplane. You can always tell someone's character by the way they treat those they don't need to treat well.
  • You only had five seconds left, do you realize that?
  • Didn't I tell you she'd call out your name? And I told you I was gonna kill you in front of her? Well, I'm gonna kill her in front of you.

Others

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  • Julia Mead: That's how it is with Rick! He's fine, he's fine and suddenly he's naked and hugging everyone.
  • Lindsey Farris (dying line) Ethan! Thank you... I-
  • Julia Mead: Tell me it's real. I mean us. Tell me it's real.
  • Declan Gormley: [Response to Luther] Please, when do I not copy? All I do is copy.
  • Zhen: [Mocking Declan] All I do is copy.
  • Brassel: Now I am... not a stranger to disrespect; you don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for -- what I will lose my sleep over, and I love my sleep -- is the idea of an irresponsible, rogue agent working in my office. So... I'm going to slow things way down here. You can look at me with those judgemental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not, I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.
  • Benji Dunn: [panicked] I just looked it up. Okay, you're on Interpol's most wanted list. And that, by the way, is a spectacular list to be on.
  • Benji Dunn: [talking while working on computer] Maybe we can share, uh, a jail cell together, you know? If this goes tits-up, which it will. The location of that number is Shanghai. There, I just told you. Shanghai. I've just aided and abetted an enemy of the state. Fantastic. Thank you.

Dialogue

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(Musgrave meets Ethan in 7/11)
Musgrave: Thanks for coming, can't decide what size Slurpee to get.
Ethan: I usually go for the 900-ouncer. (Musgrave sniggers)
Luther: [On radio] So Raider One, at some point, we got to go over this whole "getting married" thing.
Ethan: Negative, Observer, I don't respect you nearly enough to have that conversation.
Luther: Well you may not respect me, but for now you got my voice stuck in your head.
(Ethan and Lindsey is held back in the factory by a henchman, who shoots madly at them)
Lindsey: I'm out, how many rounds have you got?
Ethan: [Checking his magazine] Enough.
[Ethan jumps out and fires in slow motion, killing the henchman with a single shot]
Ethan: [tosses the gun away] Now I'm out.
(during the helicopter chase)
Declan Gormley: Guys, a Batman is hot!
[the missile flies past them, narrowing missing the chopper]
Declan: Alright that was lucky, we only get one of these.
[Soon after this, the enemy chopper locks another missile on them]
Brassel: I read your brief on Agent Farris. The words you used were "beyond capable". That still stand, Mr. Hunt?
Ethan: Mr. Brassel--
Brassel: Does it stand?
Ethan: Yes, sir, it does.
Brassel: 'Cause we've got a corpse downstairs that says otherwise. Killed by a detonator implanted in her skull through the nasal cavity.
Ethan: Mr. Brassel, it's unacceptable to judge Agent Farris's competence based on--
Brassel: It's unacceptable that chocolate makes you fat, but I've eaten my share and guess what? Now, I approved Agent Farris' surveillance op based on your evaulations, Mr. Hunt, of a woman who allowed herself to be captured. So you go to recover her, you encounter a dozen men, you don't grab any of them?
Ethan: Our objective, Mr. Brassel, was to recover Agent Farris. Davian employs a cellular structure at his organization; the men there more than likely had no information.
Brassel: Who's drawing these conclusions? Is it you?
Musgrave: I am, sir, based upon the--
Brassel: I'm not on you yet! You allowed Farris to board your chopper without a scan; that explosive device could have taken you all out! There is one reason that you are sitting here before me today, and that is luck! Because your operation was poorly conceived, and executed worse!
Musgrave: Two laptops were recovered, I may--
Brassel: I'm aware of that. We've talked to Tech-Services. They doubt if they can reconstitute the drives. "Crispy", I believe is what they called them. Worthless.
Musgrave: Mr. Brassel, as the Operation Manager of this office, I have the authority--
Brassel: Excuse me, did you just throw a title at me, Mr. Musgrave? I don't care if your daddy plays golf with the President. This is Intelligence. So far I haven't seen any. You think this op was worth the risk, Mr. Hunt? [Gets up and approaches Hunt and Musgrave] What do you know about Owen Davian? [Holding a pile of files] He was the one who brought Gas Centrifuge technology to Korea, from Pakistan; [chucks a pile of sheets in front of Ethan] he was also the man who sold Toxin Five, to the Armahad Republic Jihad. [chucks another pile in front of him] He's a man who provides, provides, provides. [chucking paper at each instance of the word "provides"] And he remains invisible, he's a goddamn invisible man. [turns to Musgrave] Wells, not Ellison, in case you want to be cute again. We can't find him. He knows it. It's emboldened him. I've been trying to bring Davian down since the day that I got here. Do you know what I got for it?
Musgrave: It has never been confirmed that the Toxin Five theft was Davian--
Brassel: Mr. Musgrave, please don't interrupt me when I'm asking rhetorical questions. [To Ethan] Your operation has achieved one thing: you have reminded Davian that he is winning. And now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and inform Mr. and Mrs. Farris that their baby girl was killed in a head-on collision on I-95.
Luther: Listen, man, I don't mean to cross the line, but... was there something going on between you two? You and Lindsey?
[Ethan turns and stares at him]
Ethan: Lindsey was like my little sister.
Luther: And you never... slept with your little sister, right?
[Ethan stares at him incredulously]
Ethan: Hey brother, if I don't ask you, who will?
Luther: What the hell is Davian doing at the Vatican?
Benji: Uh, it's all got to do with "the Rabbit's Foot".
Ethan: Rabbit's Foot?
Benji: Yeah, well, I'm assuming it's like code-word for something he's going to sell to an unspecified buyer for 850 million dollars, by the way. Or maybe it's not a code-word, maybe it's just a really, really expensive bunny appendage.
Ethan: You have no idea what it is?
Benji: It's interesting - I used to have this professor at Oxford, okay? Doctor Wickham, his name was and he was, like, this massive fat guy, you know? Huge, big guy. We used to call him - you know, well, I won't tell you what we used to call him. He taught biomolecular kinetics and cellular dynamics. And he used to sort of scare the underclassmen with this story about how the world would eventually be eviscerated by technology. You see, it was inevitable that a-a-a compound would be created which he referred to as the 'Anti-God'. It was like an accelerated mutator or sort of, you know, like a, a, an unstoppable force of destructive power, that would just lay waste to everything - to buildings and parks and streets and children and ice cream parlors, you know? So whenever I see, like, a rogue organization willing to spend this amount of money on a mystery tech, I always assume... it's the Anti-God. End-of-the-world kinda stuff, you know? [pauses, Ethan and Luther gaze at him thoughtfully] But no, I don't have any idea what it is. I was just speculating.
Ethan: Tomorrow is perhaps the only time we'll be able to predict where Davian will be: at Vatican City. Our mission, is to get in there, and kidnap Davian.
Luther: I don't know why he's so happy. I did remind him that the Vatican is the Vatican. A 109 acres Sovereign State in the middle of Rome, surrounded by a sixty foot wall, which is monitored 24/7, with over 200 CCTV cameras!
Ethan: That's not even what makes it a challenge.
Declan: Now we've pissed off every Italian in Rome, go do what you gotta do.
Ethan: Don't forget to smoke.
Declan: Delta, do you copy?
Zhen: [mocking Declan] All I do is copy.
Declan: That's funny. Get ready to move into position.
Zhen: I'm already there.
Luther: Listen, man, I didn't mean to be so cavalier the other day about you getting engaged.
Ethan: I know that. Thanks.
Luther: But a normal relationship isn't viable for people like us.
Ethan: I don't agree with that.
Luther: Then I'm smarter than you.
[Luther tries to convince Ethan to give up trying to get married while making the facial mask of Davian.]
Luther: I'm not proud of it, I'm not happy about it, but I've lived with women a few times, and it doesn't ever make it for two years. You can't
Ethan: Thanks for your advice, but it's different for me than it is for you; I'm not in the field anymore.
Luther: Oh, okay, here's your retirement present. [hands him the mask, Ethan puts it on] Now, our job is always gonna be something between you and a woman. Always.
Ethan: Luther, listen to me.
Luther: Dishonesty. A dishonesty that poisons everything.
Ethan: I think I need to tell you something.
Luther: Stop talking. This isn't about you, Ethan. And whoever this girl is, you're going to end up messing her life too. Don't do it.
Ethan: [Grabs Luther's wrists] Jules and I got married two days ago.
Luther: [pause] Congratulations.
Ethan: Thanks. [applauses come from the hall outside] Thanks.
(Ethan peeps through the trapdoor in Zhen's car and greets Luther and Declan, who are holding Davian in the manhole of the sewers beneath)
Ethan: [deadpan] What's up.
Luther: [deadpan] Nuthin', what's up with you?
Ethan: [deadpan] Nothin'.
Ethan: You're dead, Mr. Davian. There were witnesses.
Davian: That was you in the bathroom?
Ethan: And you're gonna tell us everything. Every buyer you've worked with, every organization.
Davian: What the hell is your name?
Ethan: Names, contacts, inventory lists...
Davian: You have a wife, girlfriend?
Ethan: It's up to you how this goes.
Davian: Because you know know I'm gonna do next? I'm gonna find her, whoever she is. I'm gonna find her and I'm gonna hurt her.
Ethan: You were apprehended carrying details of the location of something codenamed the Rabbit's Foot.
Davian: I'm gonna make her bleed and cry and call out your name. And you're not gonna be able to do shit, you know why?
Ethan: What is the Rabbit's Foot.
Davian: Because you're gonna be this close to dead.
Ethan: And who is the buyer.
Davian: And then I'm gonna kill you right in front of her.
(Ethan leaves the walkie-talkie in front of a cassette player after escaping from the custody, and Sister Sledge's We are family is heard playing through the walkie-talkie)
Brassel: You've got to be kidding me.
Ethan: Now, if I get out with Julia, we win. If I don't, then... Look, then she's dead anyway. And so am I. You know? Goddamn it, it's 8:11-- it's 8:12. And we have two hours before they kill my wife. Are you in or not?
Luther: Of course we're in.
Ethan: [Radio] I have the Rabbit's Foot, but I can't make it to the roof!
Declan: What the hell do you mean you can't make it to the roof? Where are you?
Ethan: Look up! Look up! Look up!
[Declan and Zhen look up to see Ethan jumping out of the window of the building, barely a hundred metres above the ground]
Ethan: Thanks again. I'll see you back home.
Luther: Ethan... you know they're probably planning to kill you both.
Ethan: Then I won't see you back home.
(Musgrave reveals himself to be the traitor)
Ethan: You told him. That's how Davian knew Lindsey was coming, you told him.
Musgrave: I thought you could get her back. But I wasn't going to let Brassel, of all people, undo the work I'd done. I took action, Ethan. On the behalf of the working families of our country, the Armed Forces, the White House. I'd had enough of Brassel and his sanctimony. IMF Executive Director -- he's an affirmative action poster boy. You grab Davian like he wanted, then what? Davian's a weed. You cut him out, two more spring up just like him the next day. Arrest him, then what? You use him. Collaborate with him. And it's Christmas. In 18 hours, the Rabbit's Foot will be delievered to its Middle Eastern buyer, and we'll have credible intel to prove it. UN security counsil will get a report by this time tomorrow, we're talking a military strike within a week. And when the sand settles, our country will do what it does best: clean up. Infrastructure. Democracy wins.
(After Ethan and Julia escaped from Davian)
Julia: So, I was just thinking... I was thinking you might want to tell me why we're in China.
Ethan: I know. I...work for an Agency. It's called the IMF.
Julia: What does it stand for?
Ethan: Impossible Mission Force.
Julia: [laughs] Shut up.
Ethan: No, I'm not kidding. You don't understand, everything I'm telling you is top secret.
Julia: You can trust me.
Ethan: Yeah, I know.
(Last lines)
Brassel: You should know the White House has contacted me. Now, there's a job that they are very interested in speaking with you about.
Ethan: [grins] Thank you... but I have a lot to think about.
Brassel: You aren't considering quitting, are you, Ethan?
Ethan: I'm considering going on my honeymoon.
Brassel: Have fun.
Ethan: Thank you.
Brassel: Yeah.
[they both laugh, Ethan turns to leave]
Ethan: [turns back to Brassel] Hey, uh, one thing... the Rabbit's Foot, what is it?
Brassel: Promise me you'll stay and I'll tell you.
Ethan: [pause, then laughs] I'll send you a postcard.
Brassel: Fair enough.

Taglines

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  • The Mission Begins 05:05:06.

Cast

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See also

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