

The IMF team splits up to stop Hendricks Carter sexually seduces Nath to get the satellite override code, while Hunt, Brandt and Dunn try to stop Hendricks and Wistrom from using Nath's broadcast station. The same information is provided by the Fog to Sidorov. The Fog directs Ethan towards Mumbai, where Hendricks is set to negotiate with Indian billionaire entrepreneur Brij Nath to gain control of an obsolete Soviet military satellite. Hendricks plans to use Leonid Lisenker, a cryptographer who has been kidnapped by Hendricks' right-hand man, a mercernary named Wistrom, to authenticate the codes. Hendricks used the Kremlin bombing to cover up his theft of a Russian launch-control device, and now is planning a trade with Moreau at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai to gain the required launch codes. Brandt and Hunt identify Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks, a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist, who seeks to start a nuclear war between the U.S. Hunt escapes along with Brandt and together they rendezvous with Carter and Dunn in a secret IMF bunker located in one of the carriages of a just-departed freight train. Sidorov's forces catch up to Hunt, and the Secretary is killed.

The Secretary, who has been severely reprimanded by Russian authorities, tells Hunt that the President had initiated "Ghost Protocol", disavowing IMF, but secretly orders Hunt to continue to pursue Cobalt. Hunt escapes and meets with the IMF Secretary who is in Moscow with his aide and intelligence analyst, William Brandt. Carter and Dunn escape, but Hunt is captured by SVR agent Anatoly Sidorov and charged with destroying the Kremlin. Hunt's team aborts the mission just as a bomb destroys much of the Kremlin. During the mission, an insider broadcasts the IMF team about a supposed detonation, thereby alerting the Kremlin Police. IMF tasks Hunt to infiltrate the Kremlin to gain more information on Cobalt. With the help of Jane Carter, Hanaway's handler, and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn, Hunt and Bogdan make their escape.

IMF agent Ethan Hunt has purposely become incarcerated in a Moscow prison to acquire Bogdan, a source of information on Cobalt. IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed in Budapest by assassin Sabine Moreau, who takes his file containing Russian nuclear launch codes so she can give them to a man known only as "Cobalt". A sequel, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, was released in July 2015.
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Ghost Protocol became the highest-grossing film in the series with $694 million, and the highest-grossing film starring Cruise.

Released in North America by Paramount Pictures on December 16, 2011, the film was a critical and commercial success. The IMF is implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to enact "Ghost Protocol", disavowing the organization, leaving Hunt and his team without back up. In the film, Hunt and his team race against time to find a nuclear extremist codenamed 'Cobalt' who gains access to Russian nuclear launch codes when a mission by Hunt's team goes wrong, resulting in the bombing of the Kremlin. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt, with Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and Paula Patton as his supporting team. It is the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series, and also Bird's first live-action film. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is a 2011 American action spy film directed by Brad Bird and written by Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec.
