Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Who Is Gabriel & What Does He Really Want?

By the end of “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” two main things about Gabriel are clear. He’s a techno-zealot determined to help the Entity expand its powers, and he has a personal vendetta against Ethan Hunt. What we don’t get are clear motivations or a connection between the two.

Ethan describes Gabriel as a sadistic psychopath who “sees death as a gift he wants to share with the rest of the world.” So it’s a safe bet that Gabriel was involved in terrorism or other major crimes even before he killed Marie. Since Ethan wasn’t in the IMF at the time, though, it’s confusing why Gabriel would make him a target. It’s also a mystery how he managed to stay hidden for so long, only to reemerge with the Entity.

Gabriel’s loyalty to the AI is a little easier to justify. If he truly is a madman with a penchant for violence, there’s no better ally to have than an omniscient superintelligence with a vendetta against humanity. There could be more going on between Gabriel and the AI, but until we learn what he’s been up to for all these years, it’s hard to know for sure. We do see him wearing a VR headset during one scene at the end of “Dead Reckoning Part One,” which suggests that he communes with the Entity in cyberspace, learning secrets no other human knows.

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