He confronts Hendricks. Hand-to-hand in a sandstorm of glass. Hendricks reveals Brandt's secret: he was Ethan's protection detail in Kiev. He failed. The guilt made him hide in analysis.
You're going to die.
He pulls a crumpled photo from his pocket: Hendricks. On the back, scrawled in Russian: "Kremlin. Next: Dubai. Burj Khalifa."
Ethan doesn't argue. He moves . He disables Hendricks' heart monitor without killing him—by inducing a controlled hypothermic arrest using a liquid nitrogen pipe. Heart slows. Signal stops. mission impossible ghost protocol script
The lights DIE.
He lands on a rooftop. Burning. Sirens. Across the square: a MAN IN A TRENCH COAT watches. He holds a device—the REAL codes. He nods, then melts into smoke.
An explosion rocks the Kremlin. Fire consumes the floor below. Ethan runs. He dives through a window just as a SECOND BLAST vaporizes the room behind him. He confronts Hendricks
ETHAN HUNT (40s, haunted but precise) scales a sheer glass wall inside the KREMLIN. No gloves. Sweat drips into his eyes. Below, a dozen Russian soldiers pass within feet.
CLIMAX TREATMENT – BURJ KHALIFA (Condensed) Ethan scales the exterior using magnetic gloves. One fails. He dangles. Brandt watches from inside a server room, frozen by vertigo.
That's not a plan. That's a panic with a beard. He failed
Translation: he believes the only way to prevent nuclear war is to start one . To prove deterrence is a lie. He's acquired a Russian broadcast module—think a dead man's switch. He can launch a missile from any phone.
(sighs) ...Probably fine.