William Brandt is an IMF agent, who was forced to work with fellow IMF agent Ethan Hunt after the Secretary of the Impossible Mission Force is killed. Brandt had known of Hunt before their mission and had been assigned a mission to protect Hunt and his former wife, Julia Meade. During his mission one day, Brandt followed Hunt for a run, leaving two agents to guard her. He returned to find the agents unconscious and Julia gone. Three days later, what was left of her apparent body was found. Since the events of Ghost Protocol, Brant became a major character in the Mission Impossible films.