| “ | Since your father's death, your family's farm has been in receivership. Now, suddenly, they're flush with over a hundred twenty grand in the bank, your father's illness was supposed to wipe out that bank account. Dying slowly in America after all, can be a very expensive proposition. | ” |
Nathan Hunt is the husband of Margaret Hunt and the father of senior field agent for the Impossible Mission Force, Ethan Hunt. A dairy farmer with his brother Donald, he died from a prolonged illness which wiped out the family savings and cause the family farm to go into receivership just prior to the first Mission: Impossible,