Jane Carter

Jane Carter is an IMF agent and a member of Ethan Hunt's team. After the death of her partner, Agent Trevor Hanaway, Carter teams with Hunt in an attempt to stop a Swedish-born Russian terrorist named Kurt Hendricks from facilitating a global nuclear war. In the process she struggles with the desire to kill an assassin named Sabine Moreau who has a connection to Hendricks and was directly responsible for Hanaway's death.

She was portrayed by Paula Patton.

Preventing Nuclear WarEdit
She was the leader of an operation to retrieve nuclear codes in Budapest. The operation went wrong and one of the agents, Trevor Hanaway was killed by an assassin named Sabine Moreau. Later, Carter assists Ethan Hunt escape from a Russian jail. She helps infiltrate the Moscow Kremlin which is blown up but she and the rest of the team manage to escape. Ethan meets up with her on a train car where he gives them a mission briefing. They travel to Dubai where Kurt Hendricks (in disguise as Wistrom) is staying at the Burj Khalifa. Carter convinced Wistrom and nuclear code expert Leonid Lisenker that they have exchanged the codes by pretending to be Moreau while Brandt and Dunn convince Moreau of the opposite. However, Moreau realizes that Brandt is an agent and escapes. Carter detains Moreau at the elevator and puts her under the supervision of Dunn. When Dunn hears news of Lisenker's death, Moreau attempts to kill him but Carter arrives just in time. An intense fight ensues between them, ending with Carter kicking Moreau out of a window to her death. Brandt accuses Carter of compromising the mission in order to get revenge for Hanaway's death. Carter and the team travel to Mumbai where Ethan learns Hendricks is. Jane seduces Indian telecommunications entrepreneur, Brij Nath. Nath takes Carter to a private room where Carter then manages to get Nath to give her the codes by threatening to break Nath's neck. She joins Brandt and Dunn after getting shot and slightly wounded in a gun fight. When a group of guards start attacking them, Carter manages to pull a lever which makes Ethan able to deactivate the nuclear missile from exploding in San Francisco.

Mission from Ethan
Eight weeks later, after recovering from their respective injuries, Ethan offers Carter and the rest of the team a new assignment which Carter accepts without much indecision.