Mission: Impossible – Viral Vengeance

Genre: Action/Thriller
Starring:

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt

Joseph C. Jukic as Jake Masters

Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell

Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust

Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn

Liam Neeson as Father Callahan, Ethan’s priest contact

COLD OPEN – DARKNESS BEFORE THE PLAGUE
INT. SECRET BIOWEAPONS BUNKER – HUNAN PROVINCE – NIGHT

Chinese military scientists in full biohazard gear handle a glass containment pod. Inside: a mutated monkey, its eyes glowing red, infected with a new strain of weaponized monkeypox. A colonel gives the order to begin global distribution protocols.

CUT TO: satellite surveillance footage hacked in real-time by Jake Masters, deep in a bunker below Prague. Jake, sleepless, locks in on the signal.

JAKE MASTERS (to himself):
Bingo. Found your dirty little secret.

ACT ONE – MISSION BRIEFING
INT. IMF SAFEHOUSE – PRAGUE – NIGHT

Ethan Hunt walks in. The room dims. A screen lights up with the IMF logo.

IMF VOICE:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves breaking into the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Intel confirms the existence of a genetically engineered strain of monkeypox—codenamed "Golgotha Strain"—designed to cause incurable festering sores.

Your team must infiltrate, secure the genome data, and destroy all samples. If captured, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge...

Self-destruct in 5...4...3...

Ethan turns to Jake Masters, who’s already decrypting the internal firewall blueprints.

ETHAN:
You up for another plague-level miracle?

JAKE:
Let’s make this monkey business disappear.

ACT TWO – INFILTRATION
EXT. WUHAN – NIGHT – SMOGGY AND HEAVILY GUARDED

Team IMF deploys via HALO jump into the outskirts. Drones scout the perimeter. Luther handles comms while Benji creates a fake viral outbreak alarm to distract internal staff.

INT. WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY – NIGHT

Ethan and Jake rappel through the ventilation shaft. Below them: a glowing blue lab holding thousands of vials.

JAKE (whispers):
This is their Armageddon in a bottle.

Alarms trip. Biohazard soldiers pour in. A vicious gunfight erupts. Jake hacks the cryogenic containment while Ethan fights hand-to-hand with a bioweapons specialist.

BENJI (over comms):
Ethan, the self-destruct’s on a 3-minute timer. Get out now!

JAKE (yelling):
Not until I burn every byte of this plague.

Jake detonates an EMP that fries all digital storage. Ethan smashes the last vial with a liquid thermite grenade.

ACT THREE – THE ESCAPE & REVELATION
EXT. RICE FIELDS OUTSIDE WUHAN – DAWN

The team races toward extraction, pursued by black choppers. A missile nearly clips their evac copter, but they narrowly escape into Hong Kong airspace.

INT. EXFIL HELICOPTER – IN FLIGHT

Everyone sits in silence. Jake holds a burnt fragment of the virus containment label: “Golgotha-16.” Ethan opens a small leather-bound book given to him by his priest before the mission.

ETHAN (reading solemnly):
"The first angel poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly and festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast..."
(Revelation 16:2)

JAKE:
We just stopped the first trumpet, brother.

ETHAN:
Let’s hope it buys humanity some time.

They look down as the sun rises, burning off the haze. But a final shot zooms in on a surviving infected monkey in a hidden crate, being shipped to an unknown location.

CUT TO BLACK.