The team travels to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai to intercept the meeting between Moreau and the villain, Kurt Hendricks.
This is the emotional and visual center of the script. In the Dubai Burj Khalifa sequence, the screenplay does something remarkable: it creates tension through incompetence rather than villainy. mission impossible ghost protocol script
Ethan enters: "Hendriks is going to the Indian Ocean. A Russian military satellite is about to de-orbit. He’ll steal its guidance system to launch a nuclear missile at the United States." The team travels to the Burj Khalifa in
Ethan, Jane, Benji, and Brandt regroup. They are cut off from the world. They analyze the Kremlin footage. The bomber was working for KURT HENDRICKS (COBALT) , a nuclear strategist who believes that nuclear war is a necessary "antibiotic" for humanity to evolve. Ethan enters: "Hendriks is going to the Indian Ocean
BRANDT: I've got an idea.