That's it. Ethan Hunt's final mission has come to a close. The Mission: Impossible 🅘– The Final Reckoning ending may be definitive in some respects but, in others, there was plenty of dense exposition and plotting that may have passed you by.

In truth, you may still have plenty of questions about how The Final Reckoning's third act went down, especially given the rush of set-pieces, twists and turns that🍌 populated the screen in its final hour as the clock ticked down towards armageddon.

To help you make sense of what you've just seen, we have a guide – should you ch🗹oose to accept it – to the ending of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. That includes a recap of the m🃏ajor story beats in its climactic struggle between Ethan, Gabriel, and The Entity, surprise character reveals, and – finally – going through each major pressing point beat by beat.

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning ending recap

From The Final🉐 Reckoning's first moments, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), Gabriel (Esai Morales), and𝓀 AI superweapon The Entity are on a collision course.

That all culminates in a daring plan from Hunt and his IMF team (including Hayley Atwell's pickpocket Grace, Pom Klementieff's straight-talking Paris, Greg Tarzan Davis' agent Degas, and Simon Pegg's trusty ally Benji) to the Entity's source code from inside the sonarspheඣre at the bottom of the sunken Sevastapol submarine. From there, they will be able to connect it to the (sadly deceased) Luther's poison pill – which is currently held by Gabriel.

This being Mission: Impossible, of course, it's🗹 not quite so simple. To obtain the coordinates to the submarine, Grace, Paris, Benji, and Degas travel to St. Matthew Island and obtain the location from former CIA coding legend Bill Donloe.

After a fight with the Russians, Donloe eventually sends the coordinates to Ethan on the USS Ohio as the team gets ready to rescue the legendary IMF agent from the next step on 🐈the mission: heading down into the submarine to collect the source code.

After achieving his objective, Ethan escapes the submarine but must leave hiꦇs suit behind after it obstructs his exit strategy. Tom Cruise's action hero swimꦛs to the surface in the Bering Sea but ultimately succumbs to the pressure. He is quickly rescued by Grace and nursed back to health inside the decompression chamber.

Meanwhile, the Entity continues to take 🍰control over the world's major nuclear powers. The likes of North Korea, Israel, France, and Pakistan quickly fall, with Russia, China, and the U.K. not far behind – leaving the U.S. (and Angela Bassett's President Sloane) as the lone nuclear power standing between the end of days and the Entity.

Now, the plan gets 🍸more straightforward – at least in concept. Ethan must deliver the source code to Gabriel outside the Doomsday Vault in South Africa, but – as ever – he has an ace up his sleeve: a 5D data drive designed by Luther that will trap the Entity once the poison pill enters the source code. The catch? The "digital toxin" has to be connected at the exact right time &ndash🍎; within 100 milliseconds – to avert nuclear armageddon and capture the 'genie' inside its own bottle.

As we near DEFCON 1, the President is given s📖everal world targets to nuke to cripple their arsenals – including one US location as a twisted gesture of goodwiღll.

Gabriel arrives outside ꩵthe vault and demands the Source Code. Jim Phelps and his CIA team, including Kittridge, get the jump on them, but Gabriel's forces get the one up and he flees.

Leaving a nucl🐓earও bomb behind, Gabriel escapes on his biplane and Ethan chases him in a backup by clinging on to the landing gear.

One person needs to stay behind tꩲo handle the b🌄omb, but Bill, his wife, and Degas stay behind.

A woun🐠ded Benji is taken into the Vault by Grace and Paris, the latter of which operates on his collapsed lung while Grace hacks the server.

Instead of ordering a strike, the President wants their missiles taken offline. A bodyguard – presumably a Children of the Atom cult member – tries to assassinate the POTUS after she refuses to send nukes. General Sidney kills the bodyguard, but is fatally wounde🍌d in the process.

Ethan gets on Gabriel's plane and, after a stru♔ggle, breaks Gabriel's arm and takes the Entity's poison pill software. Gabriel tries to escape with his parachute but collides with the plane and dies.

The bomb detonation is pa🌟rtially averted thanks to a trip🌞le cut from Bill, his wife, and Degas and they run behind the server room to avoid the reduced blast radius.

Ethan's parachute catches fire as he attempts to put the poison pill in the podkova and stop the Entity, but he manages to do it and the AI is trapped in the 5D drive. The w📖orld's power is briefly switched off before restarting.

Ethan survives with an emergency parachute. The poison pill also contains a goodbye from Luther, who offers up a message of hope: 💯"One such future is built on kindness, trust, and mutual understanding – should we choose to accept." Ethan is picked up by Phelps – who offers a reconciliatory ♎handshake – and Kittridge.

The gang (Benji, Paris, Degas, and Grace) reunite briefly in London with Etha🗹n. Ethan is given the Entity by Grace as they all disappear into the crowd, their mission over.

"I’d rather just people see it and enjoy and we’ve had an amazing time doing it and it’s been a lot of fun and I just want you all𓆏 to enjoy it," Cruise said. "Enjoy this and know everything is the culmination has come to this moment right now."

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