Ethan finds her and offers her a way out. Believing she has it after him, Benji reveals her position with the searchlight, forcing her to try to flee while the building is surrounded by police. Benji saves Ilsa unknowingly and fights the criminal before Ilsa kills him. Realizing what Hunt did, Ilsa tries to kill him while Richter prepares to execute her from the control room for her failure. However, Ethan, who killed Kagan, thwarts her attempt by shooting the Chancellor in the shoulder as she fired. They then wait for a high note during a song to be able to shoot without being detected.
Seeping off behind the scenes of the full-fledged institution, Ilsa hides in the decoration pieces above the stage and prepares her sniper rifle (disguised as a musical instrument), all assisted by Ethan, who is here with his colleague Benji Dunn in the hope of identifying Lane (whose name he still does not know). However, Solomon Lane, the head of the Syndicate, also sends two other agents, Richter and Kagan, one to kill the chancellor and the second to kill her if she does not fulfill her mission. Six months later, Ilsa is tasked by the Syndicate to assassinate the Chancellor of Austria at the Vienna Opera House, Austria, in order to demonstrate her loyalty to the organization. Nevertheless, it will have allowed the protagonist to flee and continue his investigation onto the Syndicate. However, considering that she cannot escape with Ethan, Ilsa invites him to go alone and returns to Vinter, telling him that Ethan killed the guards alone and that she tried to stop him. The exceptional skills of the pair allows them to neutralize and kill all enemies, but they must flee the place before the arrival of reinforcements. Then, Ilsa throws the keys to Ethan, but the other minions attack her and she fights them, helped by Ethan, once released. The criminal operative then prepares to torture him with various butchering tools, but Ilsa distracts him long enough to allow Ethan to kicks him unconscious. Vinter and his cohorts then joint them and Janik brutally beats Ethan, and the latter tells Vinter that he knows who he is. She enters the room where the American is imprisoned and prepares the medicine, takes off her shoes and observes the man silently. In 2015, after agent of the Impossible Mission Force, Ethan Hunt, was captured by the Syndicate in London, Ilsa Faust is sent to question him while being held captive by terrorists, including Janik Vinter. Some point around 2013, she went undercover as a spy for MI6 by joining the Syndicate, a former British project consisted of former covert operatives from around the globe recruited onto clandestine operations before Solomon Lane, a rogue MI6 agent, hijacked and turned it into an international terrorist organization. During her time as an MI6 agent, her handler was Chief Atlee. She was later recruited and trained by MI6 as a highly trained agent. Ilsa's early life is unknown other than being born in October 19th, 1983. 1.2 Meeting Ethan Hunt for the first time.She is a former British intelligence operative employed by MI6 who worked for a criminal organization known as The Syndicate as a cover assassin before helping Ethan Hunt and his team of the Impossible Mission Force to fight her former colleagues. Ilsa Faust (born October 19, 1983) is the deuteragonist in the 2015 action/thriller film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and one of the main protagonists in its sequels, Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and Mission: Impossible 7 (2022). –Ilsa talks to Ethan about defeating the Syndicate, before dropping her off, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
If you want to bring down the Syndicate, you have to let me out.