Even more than inserting a sense of confidence in both the characters and the audience, feedback in "Final Calculation" shows that Ethan has the opportunity to affect fate. In fact, it can be what he was always predisposed. Early in the film is revealed that the entity is the foot of the rabbit, which was a mysterious weapon that Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) had Ethan stole in exchange for the life of his then wife, Iaululia (Michel Monagan), in "Mission: Impossible 3."

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Ethan is desperate in this discovery, realizing that this means that he has played an integral if an unwanted part in the liberation of the subject. Ethan has always been characterized as a man who refuses to sacrifice innocent lives, a mandate born of losing his entire team at the beginning of the "mission: impossible". During his tenure, McCari stepped up the Antet of Ethan's personal mission, following the origin back to the loss of still mysterious woman, Mariella Gariga, who was killed by Gabriel (Esai Morales)-Incident.

However, there is another, more optimistic side of this equation: Ethan can inadvertently free the subject, but he is also the only one that can stop. Re -discovery of William Donlo (Rolf Saxon), who was sent to Alaska as a result of Heist on Ethan Nock's list in the first movie Mission: Impossible, allows Ethan to see that he inadvertently did not destroy the life of this man, but gave him the opportunity to find a new goal. Donlo returns Ethan's subject, accidentally left behind: a knife that once belonged to Franz Krieger (Jeanan Renault), a traitor who, along with Jonon Wojt, helped kill Ethan's original team. While that knife took something from Ethan, it ended up returning something to someone else. There are two sides of each coin.

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This lesson is personified in the discovery that Asper Briggs (Vigam) is actually Jimim Phelps, Runior, a fact that explains man's hostility to Hunt and the IMF. Briggs/Phelps initially rejects Ethan's apology and ceasefire, but eventually accepts it at the end of the film, after Ethan once again achieved the impossible and killed the subject.

When all of these return calls and Easter eggs are taken together, it is clear that they are not simply self-partitions for references or even lazy fan services, but elements in a larger thesis. With them, the series "Mission: Impossible" becomes a unique exercise in the mythical making, applying almost rich attributes of character (and characters) that are still sick human. It may sound impossible, but hey, that's what Hunt and his team achieve every day.