Mission: Impossible (1996)

Jim Phelps and his latest IMF team, who had just finished another mission in Kyiv, are sent to Prague to stop rogue agent Alexander Golitsyn from stealing the CIA NOC list. However, the mission unexpectedly fails after the list is stolen. Jack, who is hidden above an elevator, is killed when it mysteriously malfunctions and an emergency brake spike squashes his face in. Phelps’s camera shows a gun shooting him and falls over the side of the bridge. Hannah gets into the car where Claire was when it suddenly blows up, killing her. Sarah tails Golitsyn and finds him being murdered by someone unseen, Hunt finds her stabbed to death and she dies in his arms, with Golitsyn dying too leaving Ethan Hunt as the sole survivor. While IMF director Eugene Kittridge debriefs him, Hunt realizes that another IMF team was and is presently watching him and learns that the mission was a setup to lure out a mole within the IMF, believed to be working with an arms dealer named “Max” as part of “Job 314.” Hunt, realizing Kittridge suspects him of being the mole as he is the only survivor, escapes by using exploding chewing gum given to him by Jack before the mission.

After returning to the Prague safe house, Hunt realizes “Job 314” actually refers to Bible verse Job 3:14, “Job” being the mole’s code name. Claire, Phelps’ wife and fellow team agent who was thought to have been killed in a car bombing, arrives at the safe house, explaining that she escaped the car bombing after Phelps aborted the mission. Hunt arranges a meeting with the arms dealer Max to warn her that the NOC list she has is fake and equipped with a tracking device. Max chooses to believe him, and they escape together just as Kittridge and the other IMF team, following the tracking device, raid Max’s apartment. Hunt promises Max to give her the actual list in return for $10 million and Job’s identity.