Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ending explained [SPOILER ALERT]

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Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is on its way to being the summer blockbuster. Directed by Chris McQuarrie, the first installment of MI: 7 is in theaters now worldwide, and running well at the box office. If you have seen Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One or need information on it, here is our take on what the ending means.

Let us first understand what Mission: Impossible 7 is about.

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his aides Benji (Simon Pegg) and Luther (Ving Rhames) along with Grace (Hayley Atwell) are on a mission to stop a rogue artificial intelligence (AI) program called The Entity. There are two halves of a key that are needed to either control the AI or destroy it. Ethan’s crew is racing against the mysterious Gabriel (Esai Morales), who is The Entity’s closest aide in the real world. In the fight on the Orient Express, Gabriel ends up with the key and escapes. But it is Ethan who has the actual key and not Gabriel. A surprise rescuer for Ethan is Gabriel’s henchwoman Paris (Pom Klementieff). She informs Ethan that the key in question will help get The Entity’s source code, which is on a Russian submarine in the Bering Sea.

SPOILER — The US director of national intelligence (played by Cary Elwes) is killed by Gabriel. Gabriel also wants either Grace or ex-MI6 agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) to die. It is Ilsa, a love interest and aide to Ethan, who manages to save Grace. While fighting Gabriel, Ilsa succumbs to a knife injury. Ethan is not able to save Ilsa.

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