Before and after Ethan Hunt arrives on the USS Ohio, the vessel is engaged in a hunt for a rather infamous submarine that’s part of a larger maneuver. As the world is manipulated by The Entity, the lines between peace and war were already blurred enough, and then Ethan Hunt went to supposedly “poke the bear.”

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