As Hunt is struggling to get back to the ceiling after stealing the famous NOC List, Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) accidentally drops his knife… and for a split second it looks like the heroes are totally screwed.
As soon as the blade drops, it will activate both the sound and motion censors, leading to inevitable capture.
Instead, the knife pierces the room’s computer desk just as William Donloe (Rolf Saxon) is entering the room, stopping the alarms from sounding.
Everybody remembers the sight of Ethan Hunt dangling from the ceiling of a secure vault in the CIA’s Langley Headquarters in the first Mission: Impossible, but what most probably don’t remember is how the whole thing almost completely falls apart at the very end.