One of the best characters Christopher McQuarrie introduced to the <em>Mission: Impossible </em>franchise during his tenure was inarguably Rebecca Ferguson's Ilsa Faust, and I was certainly one of the many disappointed by her death in <em>Dead Reckoning</em>. That being said, McQuarrie's recent explanation that he didn't want to undo her death simply because of the backlash, and wanted to retain the franchise's stakes, actually makes me glad that <em>The Final Reckoning </em>didn't try to retcon that, as it would've betrayed the rest of the high stakes the movie had.
