Jim Phelps is pulled out of retirement due to the death of his successor and protégé. He resumes his duties as the head of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF), assembling a new team of veterans from the field to carry out impossible missions across the globe. His new team consists of Nicolas Black, master of disguise; Max Harte, trained soldier; Grant Collier, engineering genius and son of former IMF member Barney Collier; Casey Randall, femme fatale; and Shannon Reed, femme fatale.