The Final Reckoning is seemingly the end of Ethan Hunt’s story in the Mission: Impossible franchise, but it doesn’t have to close the whole series.

Tom Cruise set a Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps—16 fiery leaps for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, all done by himself

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.”