Question

This person was called a “mind-reading, shapeshifting, incarnation of chaos” by Jasper Briggs. Alan Hunley described this man as “uniquely trained and highly motivated - a specialist without equal (-5[1])- immune to any countermeasures” and “the living manifestation of destiny,” without realizing they were in the same room. August Walker worked with this man to recover three plutonium cores (15[1])and later asked “How many times has his (*) government betrayed him, disavowed him, cast him (10[1])aside?” (10[1])when trying to frame this man as the extremist John Lark. In response to Ilsa Faust asking “What the hell is [this man] doing?”, Benji Dunn replied “I (10[1])find (10[1])it best not to look.” For 10 points, name this agent (10[1])of the IMF who, after objecting to a mission as difficult, received the response “Well, this is not mission difficult, it’s mission impossible.” ■END■

ANSWER: Ethan Hunt [accept either]
<Film | Mission: Impossible | LZ>
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