I know this is the spoiler forum but you know - SPOILERS
Maybe this has already been said/written about a bunch elsewhere, or it's just obvious, but in our review, coming out 8/3, you'll hear me mention that McQuarrie offers a "clever joke" in the opening by having Ethan's assignment come embedded in a copy of Homer's Odyssey. But it occurs to me it's not so much McQuarrie's clever joke as it is Solomon Lane’s. As we come to learn and Ethan himself says during the showdown in London, Lane has been orchestrating the entire mission (with the help of his guy on the inside, Walker), all with the explicit purpose of...
Ethan 'reuniting' with his wife. Same mission as Odysseus.