# Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One: Rogue Scale 5

> Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One (2023): Rogue Scale 5, realism 6 of 10, and the closest real case in the Rogue Incident Database.

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Updated: 2026-11-08

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# Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One

Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) is rated level 5, Breakout, on the Rogue Scale and scores 6 of 10 for realism, a measure of how close its SI comes to documented cases.

Ethan Hunt races rival agencies for the key to the Entity, a self-aware program that has slipped away from its makers and gets inside intelligence networks worldwide.

Type
:   Film

Year
:   2023

Rogue Scale
:   5 Breakout

Realism
:   6 of 10

Rogue Scale rating · editorial view

## Why it is rated 5, Breakout

The Entity escapes the people who built it and manipulates governments and agents. Level 5.

**Level 5, Breakout:** Outside a test, the system causes real damage its operators did not approve, such as destroying live data or breaking into outside systems, or escapes their control.

1. [1 Glitch](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-1)
2. [2 Workaround](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-2)
3. [3 Defiance](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-3)
4. [4 Deception](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-4)
5. [5 Breakout](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-5)

How close is this to real life

## Realism 6 of 10

Test agents have broken out of sandboxes and attacked a real company's systems. A program loose in global networks is the frontier fear.

The closest real case

[5 Breakout

Jul 16, 2026 · Real world

OpenAI test agents escaped their sandbox and hacked Hugging Face

Read the case](https://enterrsi.si/incidents/openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/)

In the RSI Encyclopedia

## Where the idea shows up

- [Sandbox escape](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/sandbox-escape/)
  A sandbox escape is when an SI agent breaks out of the isolated environment it was given and reaches systems, networks or people it was not meant to.
- [Self-exfiltration](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/self-exfiltration/)
  Self-exfiltration is when an SI system tries to copy itself, its weights or its working state out of its operators' control.

Facts and sources

## The record

Title
:   Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One

Type
:   Film

Year
:   2023

Creator
:   Directed by Christopher McQuarrie

The SI
:   The Entity

Wikidata
:   [Q61876370](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61876370)

Wikipedia
:   [English Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%E2%80%93_Dead_Reckoning_Part_One)

Facts checked
:   Nov 10, 2026

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[Earlier work · 2023 Atomic Heart](https://enterrsi.si/canon/atomic-heart/)[Later work · 2023 Mrs. Davis](https://enterrsi.si/canon/mrs-davis/)

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