Unimaginable — The Ultimate Reckoning Concept, Defined

Spoilers for “Mission: Unimaginable – The Ultimate Reckoning” comply with.

Ethan Hunt has had his ultimate reckoning, and “Mission: Unimaginable — The Ultimate Reckoning” has change into a field workplace win. The movie is completely loaded with Easter eggs, call-backs, and fan-favorite characters returning to take pleasure in their overdue second within the solar.

However there may be one character whose absence is felt in each body of the very lengthy film: Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust. First launched in Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Unimaginable – Rogue Nation” as the final word foil to Tom Cruise’s celebrity spy Ethan Hunt, Isla gained viewers’s over together with her uber-capable spy expertise and her incapacity to wink. The movie ended up altering the complete path of the “Mission: Unimaginable” franchise, and Isla isn’t any small motive why. 

That is why when Ilsa died in “Mission: Unimaginable — Useless Reckoning,” many within the viewers had been simply as heartbroken as Ethan Hunt. McQuarrie admitted that it was a “actually robust resolution” to lose Ilsa however insisted that it was an necessary a part of Ethan’s story that he be pressured to say goodbye to her.

Since “Ultimate Reckoning” has been marketed as the ultimate movie within the collection, many followers had been upset to seek out we did not get one final second with Ilsa earlier than Ethan hung up his hat for good. However what if, just like the professional spy she was, Ilsa was hiding proper below our noses?

Simply earlier than the credit roll on Ethan’s ultimate journey, the ultimate remnants of the Unimaginable Mission Drive reunite in Trafalgar Sq. to say their goodbyes earlier than going their separate methods. We get to see Benji, Paris, Theo, and Grace bid farewell to Ethan as he declares victory over the villainous AI often called the Entity.

However as Ethan walks away, many eagle eyed Ilsa followers observed a mysterious lady with a remarkably acquainted hairdo strolling alongside Ethan within the ultimate shot of the movie (there’s already bootleg footage of this second floating across the web, in the event you’re incline to seek for it).

The one factor we all know for positive about this lady is not Rebecca Ferguson. For one factor, she was busy filming the Apple TV+ sci-fi collection “Silo” on the time they had been making “The Ultimate Reckoning.” And in addition, it will be prison negligence on McQuarrie’s half to deliver her on set and never let her kick some ass like previous instances.

That being stated, the resemblance is uncanny, a lot in order that it actually appears just like the filmmakers took a shot of Ferguson strolling from a earlier “Mission” and digitally inserted it right here. This could possibly be a sly Easter egg buried into the ultimate frames of the movie, or perhaps that is all only a coincidence and that is not Ilsa/Rebecca Ferguson in any respect.

Perhaps it is a case of followers coping, determined to see Ilsa once more. Or is that this a tease of what may come subsequent within the “Mission: Unimaginable” story? Solely Ethan Hunt may give us the reply to that query, if he chooses to simply accept his subsequent mission.