1Nikita
"Looks that can kill -- and a know-how that's deadlier. Nikita says goodbye to her past and plunges into a new world of training and danger when forced to join the secret anti-terrorist group Section One."Nikita, a street urchin, witnesses the brutal murder of a police officer. The killer goes after her too, but she is able to wrestle the knife from his hands. Moments after he runs away, the police arrive and arrest Nikita. She is sentenced to life in prison, without possibility of parole.One night, she is taken from her cell to Section One. There, she meets Michael, her mentor. She trains for two years before becoming an operative. Her first mission is a difficult one. She must think on her feet and create her own way out of a difficult situation. Upon completion of the mission, she is taken to her apartment, where she meets her neighbor and friend Carla.Nikita's second mission is ever more difficult for her. Michael tells her to kill someone and she cannot pull the trigger, causing the mission to go awry. Section One quickly organizes a third op to catch the terrorist. Nikita and her partner follow him down into a sewer and are held hostage. Michael saves them by shooting the terrorist, but comes under fire himself. In order for Nikita to save Michael, she must shoot the bad guy, her first time ever killing someone.
2Friend
"Knowing Nikita can be a dangerous thing! A childhood friend who contacts the Section operative suddenly finds her life in great peril. But an even greater peril awaits Nikita as she tries to protect her friend."Nikita's mission during this episode is to protect the leader of a country from terrorist attacks while he negotiates peace for his country. The rogue group makes multiple attempts on his life throughout the episode.A information gathering meet goes wrong when a childhood friend of Nikita's shows up at the bar, trying to get Nikita to remember her. Nikita tells Michael she was recognized and he tells her he'll take care of it. Nikita must kidnap her old friend before the Section can get ahold of her. By protecting her friend from the Section, Nikita puts herself at risk.One night, Nikita is kidnapped from her apartment, leaving her friend alone and unprotected. It is soon revealed that her friend is not who she claims to be; she is one of the terrorists! Michael saves Nikita but the lady terrorist gets away. As the country's leader boards his plane to return home, Nikita can sense her old "friend" is nearby and goes in search of her. The episode ends with a showdown between the two women.
3Simone
"Nikita's infiltration of a terrorist cell's subterranean ops center leads to the astonishing discovery of a captive woman long thought to be dead -- Michael's wife."When Section needs someone to play the role of disillusioned youth, they call on Nikita. She infiltrates a young cult-like terrorist group run by an eccentric techno-freak named Sparks. Nikita learns of Michael's complicated history regarding Sparks; he once led an op against Sparks and lost his wife in the process.In her short time there, Nikita learns that Simone is still alive. She tells Michael and they free her during the assault on the complex. Simone tells them where they can find Sparks. While Michael and Nikita are looking for him, Simone traps Sparks and begins the complex's self destruct sequence. Michael and Nikita escape in the nick of time, but Simone does not make it.
4Charity
"Philanthropist Alec Chandler puts his money where his heart is: he helps rescue homeless children from the streets. But the more Nikita learns about him, the closer she gets to revealing Chandler's dark secret."Nikita's mission in this episode is to get close to Alec Chandler. Section One tells her that he launders money. Nikita can't help but be drawn to Chandler as the episode progresses. Conflicted regarding her mission and her growing attraction to Chandler, Nikita has trouble balancing the two.Chandler has a charity event on his yacht and Nikita must place a listening device on the hull of the boat. She nearly gets caught by Chandler, but he instead blames one of his assistants.When Michael interrogates one of Chandler's lackeys, Nikita comes along and finds out that Chandler is in fact a slaver. He sells the homeless children from his shelters to foreign countries. Nikita is enraged and has trouble pretending around Chandler. While all this is going on, Chandler finds the listening device and figures out Nikita is a spy. When she goes to see him, he tells her he is going to sell her overseas with the children.Chandler goes to make a deal selling a truckload of kids, but Section is there and the shooting starts. Michael and Chandler ends up in a duel of wits; will Chandler drop the lighter and ignire the truckload of kids or will Michael shoot him first? Nikita, having escaped from Chandler's lackeys, sneaks up behind Chandler and kicks the lighter out of his hand. He dies in the explosion and Nikita is reprimanded by Operations for killing "a step to our next level".
5Mother
"Nikita is going home -- to a family she never knew. She poses as the long-lost daughter of a female terrorist whose posh lifestyle stands to grow more luxurious when she finds a buyer for a stolen nuclear device."Nikita's mission in this episode is to pose as a wealthy woman's daughter and find out where she and her husband have hidden a stolen nuclear trigger. Helen (the mother) is so kind to Nikita that the lines between her feelings and her job once again become blurred.Section soon realizes the couple will never trust Nikita enough in time, so they have the husband killed. Michael poses as a policeman come to deliver the news of his "car accident" to Helen. On their way to identify the body, Michael's team pulls the car over and drags Nikita and Helen into the woods. Helen does not want to tell Michael where the trigger is, so he allows his team to beat up Nikita. Helen still won't speak, so Michael oders Nikita to be shot. Helen finally stops Michael and tells him where to find the trigger.Nikita wakes up in Section's hospital a few days later and has but one request: "For as long as she [Helen] has left, let her believe I am her daughter."
6Love
"'Til death do they part. Nikita and Michael pose as a hip and somewhat kinky married couple in order to work on the inside of a group bent on unleashing a deadly nerve gas."Section One waylays a married duo of terrorists on their way to their next job. Nikita and Michael must take their place and act as if they are married. When they meet their boss Bauer, he doesn't like the vibe he gets from them and he sends them packing with the intent of killing them. Nikita and Michael escape and end up winning Bauer's trust.Bauer's mission is to set off a canister of nerve gas in a business building. Nikita wanrns Section when the attack is to take place so they can clear the building beforehand, but when the canister is set off, Nikita sees people inside the building choking. She grabs a gas mask and runs in to help, but it is too late. Michael follows Nikita and ends up saving Bauer who was injured during the set up.Bauer rewards Nikita and Michael by having them over for dinner with he and his wife. Bauer and his wife are swingers and want to sleep with Nikita and Michael. Michael convinces them that he and Nikita are monogamous, but Bauer then insists on watching Nikita and Michael have sex.Nikita puts on a strip tease to distract Bauer while Michael sets an explosive. In the confusion of the explosion, Michael and Nikita kidnap Bauer and force him to tell them where his next target is. They head to the train station to find the canisters of nerve gas. Nikita finds the gas on the train tracks and digs them up just in time.When they return to Section, Nikita sees Bauer having drinks and laughing with Operations. Madeline tells Nikita that Bauer is more valuable to Section alive as a source than dead.
7Treason
"Her probation status is over, but that only mires Nikita deeper in the workings of Section. Yet one thing about Nikita may never change: her willingness to sidestep regulations in order to help the innocent."Nikita is blamed by everyone when a mission goes wrong and a fellow operative (Roger) is shot in the leg. While talking with Walter, Nikita realizes Roger may not be all he seems. She returns to the scene of the failed mission and finds the casing from when Roger shot himself. Nikita confronts Roger and finds out that Suba, the terrorist, has his son hostage and is smuggling nuclear materials out of the country. Suba is using Roger for information in order to make sure his stolen merchandise leaves the country unimpeded.Nikita takes it on herself to save Roger's son and finds Suba when no one else, including Section, can. Operations is frustrated with Michael and Birchoff because of their lack of progress. Nikita comes to them and says she can bring them Suba, but she needs a headstart. She's learning how to play Section's game! She gets what she wants and saves Roger's son.When she returns to Section, she finds that Roger has been cancelled and cannot understand why. Madeline tells her, "You're a good operative, Nikita. Don't let your humanity get in the way."
8Escape
"Someone has been watching Nikita -- someone who now comes forward and offers a foolproof way of slipping free of Section's grasp. Is it the opportunity Nikita has sought? Or is it a covert test of her loyalty?"Nikita is confronted by a fellow member Section named Eric who offers her a way out of Section. He has designed a virus that will erase them from the database and they will become ghosts. Nikita wants to know if this is a test put forth by Section or if it is the real deal.Michael begins showing an active interest in Nikita. He asks her to dinner, comes over for coffee, kisses her, etc. throughout the episode. Nikita is suspicious of his motives.Nikita, Michael, and Eric go on a mission to recover two U.S. Marines from the custody of a terrorist and find one dead. The team splits up while searching for the second Marine and Eric tells Nikita it is time to go. But Nikita finds she cannot just leave the innocent to die and they miss their chance to run.On a follow-up mission, Nikita poses as a temp to rescue the second Marine. When Eric tells her it is time to go, she finds she cannot leave, this time because of Michael. Eric insists that Michael does not love Nikita, but she doesn't care. Eric promises to remove her from the virus and takes off by himself.After Nikita returns from the mission, she finds out that Eric's virus only erased him from the primary system, and that he's still in the backup system. Michael tells her Section will find him...and anyone who might have gone with him. Enraged, Nikita rips the cameras out of her apartment's walls and throws them down as a gauntlet to Operations. Cancel surveillance on Nikita or cancel her.
9Gray
"The secret is out. Someone has hacked into Section's computer and stolen the personnel file. The thief may have planted the microdisc with the file on an unsuspecting civilian -- a man that Nikita is asked to woo."Someone has hacked into Section's computer and stolen their directory. Harding (the hacker) contacts Section and organizes an auction between Michael and one of their most hated enemies, Illia Benko. Michael wins the bid on behalf of Section, but before he can receive the directory, Harding is killed by Benko.In his attempt to escape Benko, Harding boarded a bus and slipped the disc into an unsuspecting civilian's jacket. Madeline interviews each person that was on the bus at the time while Michael's teams searches their homes. Unable to find the directory, Section comes up with another plan. Nikita is asked to date Gray, one of the bus passengers, while Section works behind the scenes to make Benko think he has the disc.Benko grabs Nikita and puts a necklace armed with explosives on her. If she doesn't bring him the directory, he will blow up the necklace, and with it Nikita. Birchoff computer simulates Gray's voice in order to fool Benko into thinking she's doing what he wants. When Benko comes to the park to pick up the directory, Nikita blows up! Section has made a dummy Nikita and blows that up while the real Nikita slips behind Benko, putting him in the impossible situation of either killing them both or letting her go.After the mission, Nikita is on her way to have dinner with Gray and is stopped by Madeline. In the course of the conversation, Madeline tells Nikita the only real relationship she will ever have is with Section.
10Choice
"Is there room for romance in Nikita's dangerous life? Her relationship with an architect compromises her on-the-job effectiveness...and could put her beau in the crosshairs of rival agents and Section One alike."This episode opens with a drug deal gone bad, rogue CIA agents steal the drugs and the money for their own personal gain. The CIA asks Sections to find and destroy these rogue agents. Section figures out that the CIA agents are ripping off druglords to re-sell the product to a man named Valerie.Despite Madeline's warning, Nikita and Gray's relationship is reaching a serious level. Nikita and Gray go away on a weekend together, the location suggested to Gray by Nikita's "cousin" Michael. In a scene straight out of the Nikita movie, Section calls Nikita and asks her to shoot Valerie with a tranquilizer from the hotel's bathroom window.Nikita meets Gray's daughter and is late to a follow-up mission because she is babysitting for Gray. Operations and Madeline tell Nikita to end the relationship and she refuses. Their response (at Michael's suggestion) is to nearly run Gray over with a car, prompting Nikita to break up with him in order to save him from Section.Nikita is angry with Section, namely Michael, for this...until Michael tells her what Operations and Madeline's plans for Gray were. "You still believe in free will. In here there is no such thing," Michael tell her.
11Rescue
"Mission accomplished - but the cost is high when Michael is injured and left behind after a raid on a chemical weapons plant. Rescuing Michael is the new mission. And it leads to the revelation of a troubling Section secret."Michael is shot in the shoulder on a mission in Eastern Europe and left behind. He sneaks into a nurse named Angie's car and kidnaps her. In his time at her apartment, they strike up a tentative friendship.Nikita campaigns for Michael's retrieval and wins only when Operations decides to bring an old operative out with Michael. Nikita and Madeline venture back into the country as cosmetic saleswomen. Once there, Madeline induces a heart attack to get them into the hospital so Nikita can search the records.Meanwhile, Angie has stolen a laptop and cell phone for Michael and he communicates with Section, letting them know where he is. When Section contacts Madeline through her cosmetics case, an officer catches her and smashes the case. Madeline and Nikita must flee the hospital to avoid the police and they steal a car.Michael promises to save Angie from her country and bring her back with him. Nikita saw in the records that Angie has called in sick to work for the first time in three years and knows Michael must be with her. Another nurse informs the police of the same fact, so they go to Angie's apartment, where they find Angie alone. However, Petrosian (the head policeman) notices that Michael forgot to put the toilet seat down and Michael must fight his way out.Nikita and Madeline race up in the car as Michael and Angie exit the building and they get away. They hide near an airfield and communicate with Section. Angie sees the connection between Michael and Nikita. When the police arrive before the helicopter, Angie decides to save her new friends by stealing a rifle and running out into the line of fire. She is shot by the police and Michael is devastated. He wants to kill Petrosian, but Madeline stops him. Petrosian is the old operative Operations wanted retrieved.Nikita attempts to comfort Michael by saying, I'm sorry she died," and Michael's response is that he's glad she lived.
12Innocent
"Terrorists sneaks a nuclear device into the country, and Section finds that its only hope of locating it rests on a childlike pizza deliveryman (Maury Chaikin) who witnessed something suspicious."This episode opens with Birchoff's discovery of a plane carrying a live nuclear warhead into the country from Helsinki. Section begins tracking the plane, waiting for it to land so they can head off the terrorists.Rudy, a simple pizza deliveryman, gets lost looking for an address and ends up at the airport where the warhead has landed. He sees the men exchange what he calls "a fancy phone with gadgets on it" before driving away. Moments after they leave, Michael's team appears on the scene and takes Rudy in for questioning.No one in Section has the compassion to understand Rudy, save for Nikita. In her one-on-one conversation with Rudy, she quickly realizes how to get answers out of him...through kindness.The terrorist delivers a message to Section, giving them a 24 hour warning and reassuring them that he is the only person who knows the bombs location. He then shoots himself.Rudy's only concern is for his sister who has down syndrome. Nikita promises Rudy can talk to his sister after he helps identify the men he saw at the airport. Rudy has a unique ability to remember numbers and is able to give Birchoff the limo's license plate number. When Rudy figures out that he's not in a police station, Operations tells him he's in Section One, which is a death sentence.Section traces the limo's plate number to an embassy and Michael's team attends a party there in hopes Rudy can identify the second man. Rudy falsely identifies someone at the party as the man and sneaks away to go see his sister Belinda. Nikita and Michael track him to the assisted living home where she lives and bring him back to Section.After being yelled at by Operations, Rudy buckles down and looks at photos of people from the embassy party. He's distracted by Operations having a teleconference meeting with other leaders and points to the man he saw at the airport, one of the leaders!Operations leads a mission to acquire Guy, the man Rudy identified. They pull him into the back of the van and begin cutting fingers off in order to get the location out of him. Michael's team races to the site where the bomb is, but cannot disarm it; the code is too long to crack in time. Nikita remembers Rudy can retain numbers and asks where he is. Michel calls Section just in time to save Rudy from being cancelled. Rudy remembers enough of the code to help Birchoff disarm the bomb.Operations pulls Nikita into his office and tells her Rudy will be let go on a trial basis, with the stipulation that is he's found out by the enemy, Nikita herself will cancel him. She agrees. Section implants a tracking device in him and Nikita is allowed to escort him home.
13Recruit
"It's not a pass/fail program that Section recruits face. It's do or die. Nikita fully empathizes with their plight. However, there's no room for compassion when she's asked to decide the fate of a new recruit."This episode opens with Michael training a new recruit. Nikita, with Madeline and Operations, is looking on. Madeline tells Nikita she must choose whether the new recruit (Karyn) will join Section or be cancelled.Nikita takes Karyn into a firing sim for training. Karyn gives up before the sim is done and Nikita shows her how it is done. She explains that the sim is not about shooting, but about getting shot. Inspired by Nikita, Karyn tries again and her performance improves.Brian, Karen's former trainer, pulls Nikita aside and warns her that Karyn is sick and should not be allowed to join Section. Karyn comes on the next mission with Nikita. Karyn has trouble staying calm and must stop multiple times to get herself under control. When the shooting starts, Nikita looses track of Karyn and doesn't see her until they are exiting. Brian has been killed and Nikita sees Karyn running out the door.While debriefing back at Section, Karyn says she never saw Brian, which Nikita knows to be a lie. Nikita confronts Karyn the next day while they're training and Karyn confesses to killing him. She tells Nikita that Brian raped her.Nikita asks Birchoff to look into Karyn's psych file and he reports back to her just before they are to go on another mission. Karyn lied; she's been killing since she was seven. Brian was terrified of her and requested to be removed from her case.On the final mission, Nikita runs out of bullets and is about to be shot, but Karyn saves her. She then goes another step further and shoots both bodies on the helipad multiple times while laughing. "What a rush!" she says.Back at Section, Karyn confronts Nikita and reminds her that she saved her life. Nikita goes up to Operations's office and tells them to cancel her. Madeline informs Nikita that Karyn's already dead, that the decision was never truly hers to make. Nikita asks what would have happened if she'd wanted Karyn to join Section and is told, "...we would have had two problems."
14Gambit
"He's skilled, deadly and refuses to crack. Extreme interrogation techniques have no effect on a terrorist (Harris Yulin) who knows the whereabouts of a cache of Cobalt 60... but Section may yet have ploys that no terrorist would suspect."This episode gives the audience a deeper insight into Madeline. It opens with Madeline training in a VR (virtual reality) sim. Nikita comes in and Madeline briefs her on Kessler, their newest target.No one knows what Kessler looks like and he is impossible to find, so Section must follow the Cobalt. Michael and Nikita pose as guards in the defense contractor where the Cobalt is stored. Kessler kills the man who has access to the Cobalt room and takes his eye for the retinal scan. He then changes the code so Nikita can't get in. While pursuing him, Nikita is trapped between two bulletproof barriers and Kessler shoots a fellow operative. Michael stops Kessler, but he has handed off the Cobalt to someone else.Birchoff gives Operations and Madeline a background on Kessler for his debriefing. Madeline begins talking with Kessler and he knows more about her than Section knows about him. "He's getting to her," say sBirchoff. Madeline responds by injecting Kessler with a drug to cause pain. It doesn't seem to bother him. Section decides to bring in Kessler's daughter to try and break him.Kessler recounts what happened to Madeline as a child: she and her sister were playing at the tops of the stairs and they both wanted the doll. Madeline interrupts his story to inform him that Section has Annie, his daughter. Annie and her father are introduced. Kessler requests that he may touch Annie and he whispers to her about her mother, prompting her to lean in closer. Kessler bites her jugular to save her from what Section would do to her.Nikita and Madeline have a discussion regarding what Kessler said to her about her sister. Madeline finishes the story: she pushed her sister to get the doll and has felt guilty for her death ever since.Michael presents two expendable candidates to Madeline. His job is to beat up Kessler in an attempt to get him to talk. The ulterior motives behind this event are so Kessler can escape and feel as if he's fooled Section. Madeline watches as the operative dies and Kessler walks out the door.Michael's team follows the tracking device planted on Kessler and finds a dead man with the tracker stuck to his face. Kessler contacts Section and demands that Madeline come to him in exchange for the Cobalt. Operations doesn't want to risk letting Madeline go, but she is willing.Section has operatives following Madeline as she follows Kessler's directions to their meeting place, but Kessler has planted bombs in the field and they cannot follow her. She falls through the ground into a tunnel, where Kessler is waiting. As he reaches for her throat, she overcomes him and Nikita appears...along with the real Madeline. Michael had pulled a page from Kessler's book and worn a latex mask.The episode ends in Nikita's apartment. Madeline comes to visit Nikita for the first time. They share a pot of tea and when Nikita asks, Madeline says she's there to remember who she was.
15Obsessed
"Love is just part of the job. To obtain a book containing high-level secrets about nations allied with Section, Michael woos the vulnerable wife of a hitman who knows where the book is hidden."This episode opens with Michael and Nikita at a wedding on a mission. Nikita has the target, a paid assassin named David Fanning, in her sights. She is ordered to stand down when the second team fails to locate a book of secrets in this assassin's possession.Nikita's mission is to infiltrate the Fanning manor as Lisa Fanning's personal trainer. It is immediately apparent that David is abusive towards Lisa and that she is intimidated by him. The mission stages an introduction between Lisa and Michael, who is posing as a former client of Nikita's. There is an immediate connection between Lisa and Michael.Nikita doesn't want to hurt Lisa and offers to get the book's schedule from the computer herself. Madeline points out that intense passion is the only emotion that will motivate a woman to betray her husband.Michael is late meeting Lisa at the park and she is confronted by two men who turn out to be Section operatives. Michael saves her from them and the relationship becomes that much more intimate.David sees how happy his wife is and is suspicious. He orders one of his men to follow her. Michael and Lisa continue getting to know one another, eventually culminating in her coming to his house and them having sex. David's man sees this and is killed by Section.Michael tells Lisa their relationship has to end. This scares her into action; she begs him not to leave her. Michael convinces her to sneak into David's office under the ruse that she will be stealing money from his accounts so they can run away together. When Lisa does this, her husband finds the sash from her robe and beats her for disobeying his order not to go upstairs.Once Section finds the book, they attack David's house. Nikita stops him from running and beats him up, as a sort of revenge for beating up Lisa. Lisa grabs her husband's gun and it looks as though she is about to shoot him, but Nikita talks her out of it. Michael walks up and Lisa is happy to see him, until she realizes he shouldn't be there and that he's been using her. She attempts to shoot herself, but Michael stops her, telling her she is free. "But I don't want to be free; I want to be with you," is her response.In the final scene, Birchoff and Madeline are going over David's accounts and cannot locate one million dollars. Michael has stolen this money and sends it to Lisa as a reward for helping bring her husband down. He records a message for her telling her to learn to fly, to take up painting again...to fulfill the dreams she had put on hold.
16Noise
"In the high-tech, high-risk world of covert ops, emotions do not compute. A brush with death during a mission rattles the emotions of Section's top electronics wiz and puts him at risk of being cancelled."This episode opens with Nikita on a mission at a club. She isbeing hit on by a man at the bar. In order to get him to leave her alone, she tells him she is a secret government agent working undercover; he thinks she's crazy. Nikita follows her target outside and gets him into the van before returning to the club to pay for her drink.Section finds the location for their next mission will be an art gallery. Nikita must keep a terrorist busy while Michael puts trackers in the art crates, which contain weapons, not art. The Section operative outside is killed by a terrorist who steals his earpiece and begins walking toward the van where Birchoff is. Birchoff sees him coming on his computer and asks Nikita for help. Nikita can't get to him in time and he must save himself. He gets the gun from the floor and the clip from under the seat and shoots the man as he enters the van.Birchoff is in a state of shock from having to defend himself. Back at Section, Nikita reprimands Walter for not having the clip stored in the floor next to the gun. Walter explains the Birchoff has no interest in learning how to shoot; that tearing him away from the computers is impossible. Meanwhile, Birchoff is making a menace of himself in the comm. area. Nikita attempts to comfort him and realizes he has never killed anyone before.While on the next mission, Birchoff freaks out when he hears scratching outside the van. He grabs the gun, loads it, and makes a run for it...only to find out the scratching came from a raccoon on the roof of the van. He runs back into the van, but it is too late; without him there, the team has been exposed and is under fire. Needless to say, the mission is a failure.Birchoff is put in abeyance, one step away from cancellation. Birchoff's temporary replacement tracks the source of the shooting the team had come under and is able to find a new location for the next mission. Meanwhile, Nikita goes t bat for Birchoff with Madeline, hoping she can save him by being a friend to him.Nikita finds out that Birchoff actually lives inside Section and goes to visit him. Birchoff tries to reject Nikita's help, but she won't let him push her away. He tells Nikita, "I can't live knowing I could die," so Nikita puts her gun to his forehead and pulls the trigger. The gun is, of course, empty and Birchoff begins to cry because he's scared.Nikita takes Birchoff out to a club and encourages him to talk to people. On the way out, they run into Michael's team heading out on a mission with Birchoff's replacement. Something he says bothers Birchoff but Nikita tells him to ignore it.At the club, Birchoff suggests he and Nikita get together, but she sees him as a little brother, more than a potential boyfriend. Instead, she introduces Birchoff to a pretty girl and they have a good time chatting until something she says triggers Birchoff's memory. He realizes Michael's team will be exposed and their plane shot down.Comm is going crazy trying to figure out what went wrong when Birchoff walks in and takes charge. Operations and Madeline go over the othe team leaders, none of whom are available. Nikita promises she can get Michael's team out; she must lead her first mission.Nikita's team finds and secures Michael's team, but Nikita comes under fire. No one from either team is close enough to save her, so Birchoff grabs the gun from the van and goes out to help her. Nikita and Birchoff work together to get themselves out of danger. Just as things seems truly desperate, the van pulls up behind them and Michael shoots a fuel tank, causing an explosion that allows everyone to get in the van safely.Back at Section, Birchoff is back in the leader's seat with no problem. He even has a date with a fellow Section operative. We find out his first name is Seymour when he thanks Nikita for helping him.
17War
"Torture Nikita and she won't crack. Torture Michael and she's likely to let her feelings for him get in the way. Red Cell holds the two agents, subjecting them to a painful inquisition to discover the location of Section's command center."This episode begins in Nikita's apartment where she is working out. After her workout, she goes to take a shower and comes under attack from two unknown terrorists. After she kills them, Michael calls her into Section.When she gets there, Section is going crazy. Agents are being killed all around the world and Section is being evacuated. It is revealed that Red Cell, Section's number one enemy, is behind the attacks. Michael and Nikita are sent on a mission to Morocco. Before they leave, Michael breaks protocol and tells Nikita the secret location of the sub-station where everyone is evacuating to in case he's killed.They capture a man on their mission and he takes them to the warehouse where he gets paid. He tells them all of Red Cell's records are kept there. Nikita goes in to get the records and is captured by Red Cell. The terrorist attempts to escape and is killed by Michael. he reports back to Section and is told to rescue her by himself.Nikita is brought to Dominic, the leader of Red Cell. He has her file and wants to know the location of Section's sub-station. Nikita's face is strapped to a cage filled with rats, her greatest fear. He lights a fire at the other end of the rats' cage and lets them scratch and bite her face while watching a heart rate monitor hooked up to her.Meanwhile, at the sub-station, tensions are high. Walter and Operations get in an argument and Madeline must separate them. Walter apologizes and admits that he's "worked up" about this situation.Michael's rescue mission goes wrong and he is captured by Red Cell as well. Dominic is about to have Nikita killed when Michael is brought in. He notes Nikita's increased heart rate and decides she will live until they figure out who Michael is and why he's trying to save her.When Dominic returns, he offers Michael and Nikita money and safety in return for the location but neither give it up. It is revealed that Michael had a son who mysteriously died and that Michael blames Section. When neither Nikita nor Michael have anything to say, Michael is taken from his cage and tortured.Back at the sub-station, Operations is told by his uperiors that Section is on its own. Birchoff wants to know what is going to happen to them. Walter explains that they will all be killed, if not by Red Cell then by their own agency.Michael is brought back to his cage after being tortured. He rocks his cage until it collides with Nikita's and grabs the cages so they're close to each other. In a rare show of emotion, Michael tells Nikita that the only reason he didn't break was her. "You're the only one of us who still has a soul. . .The only part of me that isn't dead is you," he tells her before he is interrupted by Dominic's return.Dominic has a new idea. He will inject Michael with a chemical to make him crazy. Either Nikita will tell the location to save Michael or Michael will babble it out in his lunacy. Nikita cracks and tells Dominic the location.After being put back in his cage, Michael suddenly becomes awake and aware. He easily escapes from his cage and gets Nikita out of hers, something he could have done earlier. Nikita asks what is going on and is told to wait until they've escaped. Nikita goes into Dominic's office and he tells her she won't shoot him unless provoked. "They're going to have to update my file," she says before shooting him.Red Cell's operatives begins their attack on the sub-station. Section's perimeter teams fall easily and Red Cell gets into the sub-station. The doors close behind them and a bomb goes off, killing all of Red Cell's team members.Michael tells Nikita she was fed the information on purpose because Section knew she would crack. She is upset that he used her and tells him they're finished. No more games, no more back and forth. On their way out, Nikita is shot.The episode ends in Section's medical wing, where Nikita is unconscious and Michael has not left her side. Madeline and Operations come in to see her and ask how she's doing. Michael's response is that she's better than any of us, implying that despite her physical injuries, her spirit is in a better state than anyone else in Section. After Madeline and Operations leave, Michael bends down close to Nikita's ear and whispers, "It wasn't all a lie," before kissing her gently on the lips.
18Missing
"This assignment could be the way out Nikita's been seeking. In exchange for her freedom, she agrees to protect one of the targets of a Section sting -- a target who happens to be the son of Section's top exec."This episode opens with Operations visiting Nikita's apartment late at night. He tells her there is a mission coming up and he wants one of the men (Steven Wolf) Nikita will be working with to be protected by her. Operations also doesn't want Steven to know about him. When Nikita asks what makes Steven so special, Operations tells her that Steven is is son.The mission is to steal a chip before Steven's team can and offer it to them for a share of the profits from its sale to a terrorist name Broson. Nikita poses as a security guard at the company where the chip is stored. She approaches Steven's team at a diner and proposes the deal. Michael poses as a scientist willing to steal the chip for them. They hold Nikita until Michael comes back with the chip. He has until midnight to return.Michael breaks into the vault where the chip is stored only to find out that the chip is missing. He has to stop the chip's transport to the airport. He requests a backup team to take out Steven's crew in case he fails, but Operations denies his request. Michael rides the roof of the van transporting the chip. He takes out the escort car by shooting its tires and gets the chip from the back of the van.Dean, a member of the crew, hits on Nikita throughout the night, implying that he will rape her before he kills her. Steven stands up for her and is about to fight with Dean, but Nikita steps in and takes care of him by kneeing him in the balls and disarming him. Michael comes in the apartment right at midnight just as she's about to be shot. They verify that it is the chip and let Michael and Nikita go.When Nikita gets home, Operations is there waiting for her. They argue about the lack of a backup team. Nikita demands her freedom from Section in return for her protecting his son. Operations gives her his word before leaving. He then calls Michael in to Section with orders to keep an eye on her.Nikita has videotaped her conversation with Operations and she takes it to a safe place. Nikita and Steven go to meet the buyer's representative. Steven tells her that she reminds him of his father. Steven doesn't believe that his father is dead. He tells Nikita that his father was a PoW (Prisoner of War) in Vietnam and that he inspired all the other prisoners not to break. He was the only one not released at the end of the war. Steven's motivation for acquiring all this money is to find his father. Operations is listening to this conversation and it is obvious that he is affected by his son's devotion.At the final meet, Michael hands over the codes for the chip and Broson's car pulls up. Steven's team hands over the chip and Broson's men verify that it is real. As Steven is verifying the money, the shooting begins. The other two members of Steven's team die. Steve is convinced that Michael double-crossed them and he goes to shoot Michael. Nikita shoots Steven to save Michael.After Section is done cleaning up the mission site, Nikita helps Steven up; she had shot him with a tranquilizer. He inquires about the money and says he will find it another way when Nikita tells him its gone. She tries to dissuade Steven from wasting his life looking for his father.The episode ends with Nikita calling in Operations's promise. He tells her he tried, but was unable to get her out. Expecting this, Nikita tells him about the videotape and how it is intended to go to Steven. Operations pulls the tape out of his pocket and leaves Nikita wondering whether or not it was Michael who stole the tape.
19Voices
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, especially if the knowledge is about Section. A police investigation of a serial rapist inadvertantly puts him too much in the way and too much in the know."Nikita and Michael are on a mission when this episode opens. They are staking out an embassy, waiting for a certain high ranking official from that country to exit. They call the mission quits for the day and split up to return to Section. On her way back to Section, Nikita is accosted by a man who tries to rape her. She beats him up. As she is leaving, she looks up and sees a woman standing in a window watching them.When Nikita returns to Section, she tells Michael and Operations there was no exposure. She then goes back to the scene of the crime to make sure she has not been found out. The would-be rapist is getting medical attention. One of the detectives finds the screwdriver he had used as a weapon. The police figure out that he is the serial rapist/killer they have been looking for, and they get a description of Nikita from the witness, hoping she will testify against this man.Walter warns Nikita to make this situation go away or else the innocent detective will be taken care of by Section.The detective comes to Nikita's home and confronts her, asking for her help in putting this man away. She refuses to admit she was the woman the rapist attacked. The detective shows her pictures of the other women, all of whom are dead. She makes the detective leave and after he is gone, she notices he stole her waterglass.Nikita's friend Karla is dating a man named Kevin. Karla is heads over heels for this guy, but he comes to Nikita's apartment one day and says he's not serious about her. He hits on Nikita and she smashes his face on the countertop before kicking him out of her apartment.The detective follows Nikita to her next mission at a restaurant/art gallery. The government official is to meet a man whom Section wishes to take down. The detective walks up to Nikita and tells her she looks good for someone who killed herself in prison three years ago. Michael tells Nikita to "deal with him" a.k.a. kill him. Nikita keeps trying to make the detective go away and Michael must come help her. The terrorist notices the fight and shoots the government official before getting away.Back at Section, Nikita is in trouble. Birchoff won't look at her. Michael won't answer her questions regarding the detective. Even Walter is short with her. So she goes to Madeline. Madeline explains that if Nikita had come to them before, they could have given the detective what he wanted without ruining Nikita's cover. Nikita asks for one last chance to make things right.Nikita meets the detective to discuss their options. She offers to make the rapist "disappear" in exchange for the detective forgetting she exists. He declines the offer.The next mission is to recover the terrorist who got away. Nikita is in the van with Birchoff while Michael's team goes in. Birchoff mentions the cop but won't share what he knows with Nikita. Michael's team captures the terrorist and the mission is a success.The next scene opens with the rapist coming out of a store; he's been set free because there is no witness to testify against him. The police have been following him, but they've lost track of him. The detective's phone rings and he's told to trace the call for the rapist's location. He goes to the location looking for the rapist and finds him dead. Nikita is waiting for him. She takes the detective's gun and shoots the rapist, framing him for murder. She offers him a deal; come work for Section or be convicted of murder.In the next scene, the detective is in a room just like Nikita's frm the first episode. Michael walks in and tell the detective everything he told Nikita: "This is Section One. This is where you'll train." He attacks Michael just like Nikita did and is subdued just like Nikita was.The episode ends with Karla coming to Nikita, upset because her boyfriend broke up with her. Nikita goes back to Section and is told the detective accepted their offer. Madeline tells Nikita, "You're one of us." Nikita replies that she will never be one of them, but it obvious by the expression on her face that she's starting to waiver.
20Brainwash
"Section needs a volunteer, and Nikita is the one volunteered. She's subjected to a mind-control machine that's come into the organization's possession...and secretly falls under the machine's deadly sway."This episode opens with Operations briefing the team on a terrorist who was found dead. They searched his contacts and found only one name they did not know. Nikita's mission is to make contact with this man and try to find out who he is. She goes to the restaurant where he tends bar and scans his fingerprint when he brings her drink to her. Birchoff's voice and fingerprint scans confirm that it is him. Nikita asks him if he knows Jason Daro (the dead terrorist) and Birchoff's scan of his response indicates that he is telling the truth; he doesn't know the terrorist. The man then grabs a barstool, throws it through the window, and jumps to his death...smiling the whole time.Section searches the man's apartment and finds a machine called a phasing shell. Birchoff and Walter have differing opinions on how to test it. Birchoff explains the difference between the phasing shell and virtual reality: in VR, you are passive, just watching...in the phasing shell, you are active and change the outcome. Birchoff says to fully understand the machine, they need a person to use it; Nikita is volunteered.Nikita steps into the machine and watches as pictures flash by. Birchoff explains that the program is searching for a response to a familiar scene. Nikita sees an old memory from her childhood, a bunch of children picking on her and beating her up. She grabs a stick from one of the boys and scares them all away. During her debrief with Madeline, she says it feels as though a weight has been lifted from her shoulders; one she wasn't even aware of having.Birchoff and Walter are still testing the shell. Birchoff finds out that the software for the machine was loaded five times, meaning there are four other machines out there still. Madeline says the only act an untrained person can successfully complete is a suicide assassination.That night at home, Nikita has trouble resting. The images keep coming back to her and her vision blurs. She goes to bed, but begins hallucinating that one of her mother's old (abusive) boyfriends is in the apartment. She defends herself but every time she shoots or throws something, he disappears. Michael comes to the door and asks if she's ok. Nikita tells him she's fine and doesn't let him in.The next day, Michael finds Madeline studying the machine. He is worried about Nikita and wants to know what Section knows. Madeline explains the designer's personality based on the model. Birchoff has spent time searching the images looking for clues. He finds one with a company logo; Madeline has Michael assemble their team. Nikita goes to Walter and volunteers to help them test the shell again. He warns her that it is dangerous and to stay away from it.Michael poses as an employee and sneaks into the company. Michael kidnaps the woman in charge, but she yells for the guards and is shot in the crossfire.Nikita sneaks into the room where the shell is kept and uses the machine. She wants to battle her mother's old boyfriend. When he is beating on her, his face changes. She defeats him and once again experiences the high of winning. Just as she's leaving, Walter comes in and catches her. She tells him she doesn't care that it is dangerous, that the machine is helping her get rid of the things that have been holding her back.Walter tells Michael about Nikita's using the shell, while Birchoff is searching for the injured woman's background. Madeline goes to see her and tells her she is dying. She refuses to give up the target, but is willing to talk about the shell. She explains what Nikita's been experiencing; that it helps the person fight their demons and let go of the past. The shell puts a new face on the person's terror, the face of the target...making him the new enemy. Madeline talks to the woman about the Chinese Premier and figures out he is the target by listening to the heartrate monitor.The mission is now to prevent the other conditioned people from killing the Premier. Michael comes to see Nikita again. She closes the door without letting him and he breaks the door down. She has the look of an addict going through withdrawals and he promises to help get through this after the mission.Once on the mission, Nikita has trouble focusing; she sees flashes of the memories from the shell. The Premier arrives as Birchoff is realizing just how potent the shell is...and that Nikita may be affected. Nikita is rubbing her ear as she's having the flashes and she sees another man doing the same thing. When they remove him from the scene, he has a gun. Michael tells Nikita to help escort the Premier out of the building. Michael shoots another person and Nikita gets the last, saving the Premier. Now Nikita becomes the problem, attempting to shoot the Premier. Michael deflects the gun just in time and she collapses in his arms.In the final scene, Nikita returns to the room where the shell is kept. She's disheveled and it looks as though she hasn't conquered her addiction. Michael enters the room as Nikita is smashing it. He tells her it is ok and that they will get her through this.
21Verdict
"Judge, jury, executioner. A band of insurgents is bent on becoming all three when it overruns the Inaugural Ball of a strife-torn nation's new leader. Among the hostages held by the rebels: Nikita."This episode opens with Nikita window shopping at a vendor's cart in a park. She sees Michael and is about to approach him to say hi when he begins talking to another woman, someone Nikita doesn't know. The woman is visibly upset and Michael calms her down before walking her to her car. Nikita follows them and watches as Michael kisses the woman on her cheek and puts her in the car. As Michael turns to walk away, the car explodes.During Operations' opening scene brief, it is revealed that the woman who died was a source of Michael's. She had told Michael that Mijovich (a character from a previous episode) has been elected to lead his country and there will be an attempt on his life at his Inaugural Ball. Nikita will pose as his date for the evening.Michael and the other operatives have trouble finding someone who will meet Griffon's (the hitman) profile. None of the men present are young enough. Operations suggests that Griffon may be a woman; Michael sees her just as she's about to shoot Mijovich. Michael and the other agents exit the building with Griffon.As Nikita is reassuring Mijovich that the assassin is dead, men disguised as waiters begin shooting. Nikita is the only operative still inside. The men release everyone except for Mijovich and five reporters. Nikita demands that she stay by Mijovich's side. The men take everyone to another room and the leader Brunen explains why they are there. He calls Mijovich a butcher and accuses him of leading the attack on his village's women and children (the men were away fighting). Michael relays information from Operations to Nikita that Mijovich was in a peace conference in Brussels when this man's village was destroyed. Nikita persuades Brunen to bring his only surviving daughter to them as a witness.Meanwhile, Birchoff and Michael are looking for a way for Michael to sneak back into the building. Mijovich assures Nikita that while he may have done things he wasn't proud of during the war, he never hurt women or children.The daughter, named Maria, comes in and it is revealed that she is blind. She tells her story. The soldiers came to their village, killed the young children and the old women. They tortured, mutilated, and raped the young women. She says the leader raped her, blinded her, and left her for dead. Maria confirms that Mijovich was the man by the sound of his voice. Nikita interrupts and wants Maria to be 100% positive that Mijovich is the man. Nikita and Maria argue back and forth on whether or not Maria is sure and whether or not Nikita knows what true pain is. By the end of the arguement, Maria is no longer sure if Mojivich is the man who hurt her.Michael's plan to divert Brunen is for himself and another operative to attack. The other operative must die or be captured so Brunen will think a rescue attempt has failed. During the firefight, the other operative is killed and Michael sneaks into the building's ventilation system. Nikita tries to tell Michael that there's been a mistake and there are no bad guys. Michael assures her there are always bad guys.Brunen is about to send his daughter away when Nikita stops him. Maria and Nikita agree that if Mijovich cannot be identified as the man, then it is not worth the country's continued war just to kill Mijovich for revenge. Nikita asks Maria to think back on the day and remember something discernable about the man who hurt her.Maria begins describing the event as Michael approaches the room in the ventilation shaft. One of Brutus' men hears Michael in the shaft and goes to investigate what the noise was. As he climbs into the vent, Michael kills him and drags him inside.Maria remembers that the man wore a ring and she reaches out for Mijovich's hands. He is not wearing a ring and says he has never worn a ring before. Maria says it does not matter; if they kill Mijovich, there will be a war and thousands more will suffer like she did.Michael is about to attack when Nikita says it can end peacefully. Operations gives her one minute to fix the situation. Nikita and Mijovich argue back and forth regarding Brunen's prison sentence, before Mijovich concedes and promises he will never see the inside of a prison. Brunen agrees to end the "trial" and releases the reporters.As the group makes their way through the kitchen, Brunen notices a small stream of blood dripping down the wall. He finds his man and begins shooting. Michael comes in and a firefight ensues. Brunen is about to shoot Mijovich and Nikita shoots him to save Mijovich. Maria begins crying and screaming for her father. Nikita helps her to his body and watches her mourn. Mijovich attempts to comfort Nikita. She looks down and sees a ring line on Mijovich's finger. She's so angry, she almost pulls a gun on Mijovich, but Michael stops her.The episode ends with Nikita telling Michael she thinks Maria knew Mijovich was guilty...that she pretended in order to save her country. She then confronts Michael with Operations' lie about Mijovich being in Brussels. She says she doesn't know how much longer she can keep this up and leaves.
22Mercy
"Total obedience. That's what's expected of Nikita. But she doesn't have the heart to obey an order to destroy a naïve young inventor...and Section responds by sending her on a suicide mission."This episode opens with Michael and Nikita dancing at a romantic restaurant. It is quickly revealed that they are on a mission. The man they're watching meets someone at the bar and exchanges a film canister. The team splits up to follow to two men as they part. Nikita asks if they're done and Michael replies, "After this dance."Section finds that the mystery man (Spidel) from the bar is a legitimate businessman with no ties to anything bad. Spidel has made a business arrangement with a chemist named Shays who claims to have invented an explosive that cannot be detected. Tyler, the original man from the bar, slips his sample into a woman's purse and watches as she goes through airport security with no difficulties.Walter refuses to believe that the chemist has successfully created this explosive. Michael, Walter, and Nikita go with Spidel to meet Shays, where they will verify Shays' story. Walter puts a sample of the explosive in a canister and wheels it out into the field. When he punches the button for the explosion, nothing happens. As he's walking back talking about how he knew it wouldn't work, the explosion goes off and is much larger than anyone expected.Madeline reports back to Operations that the test was successful and its blast was three times the standard C4. They decide to confiscate the explosive and turn Spidel and Shays over to the NSA. Nikita and Shays talk while he is packing up his things. Their conversation reveals his innocent and naive nature.Birchoff briefs Operations about a plane explosion that Tyler is responsible for. Operations orders Tyler to be brought in and wants to know where Shays is. At that same moment, Shays is being kidnapped by Tyler's men. Spidel and the NSA agents are dead.Shays is taken to an unknown location where he meets Tyler and his team of scientists. They want to know how he made the explosive; they want his formulas. He doesn't want to share the information with them because they will use it for terrorism. They threaten his life and he writes down the formula for them.Nikita had placed a tracker on Shays when she hugged him goodbye and Birchoff tracks it to Shays location. Operations sends Michael's team in to recover Shays before he gives the formula to Tyler. Nikita finds Shays tied to a chair with a bomb strapped to his chest. He tells her that he gave Tyler a bogus formula and she promises to get him out of there.Nikita reports to Michael saying she found Shays and needs help getting him out. Michael sees incoming hostiles and tells Nikita to cancel Shays so he can't give Tyler the correct formula. Shays, unaware of this order, is so relieved to be rescued he starts babbling about growing a diamond for Nikita. Just as she's about to pull the trigger, she chickens out and leaves Shays behind. Michael asks Nikita if she cancelled Shays and she says she couldn't do it in cold blood.When they get back to Section, Michael tries to cover for Nikita but gets in trouble by Operations. Meanwhile, Shays has been found out as a liar; his formula didn't work. Tyler's men strap him to a table and run industrial size screws through his feet to make him talk.Nikita goes to see Madeline, asking for reassurances. She wants to know that when the Section is done with her, that she will be set free. She's looking for something to cling to, a hope, that one day her life can be hers again. Madeline tells her she will never be free from the Section. Nikita thanks her for giving her a straight answer and leaves. She goes home to her apartment and writes the following suicide note:
"The only sins I ever committed were on behalf of the Section. I'm only guilty of not taking charge of my own destiny. My fake obituary claimed I died in prison. In the end, that statement is true."She then pulls out her gun and is about to shoot herself when Michael knocks on her door. She decides to answer it and lets him in. He tells her that he can't protect her anymore. He doesn't understand why she can't just do the job without questions and problems. She once again explains that she's not who Section thinks she is, that she never killed the cop from the first episode. He tells her it is not important what she did, it's what she chooses to do now. In a very rare display of affection, Michael touches Nikita's cheek and hugs her before saying, "I wish things could be different."When Michael returns to Section, Operations calls him into his office and explains the next mission: to destroy the building and, with it, Shays. The mission will be a suicide mission, using abeyance operatives. The only people to return will be Michael, Walter, and Birchoff. As the operatives come toward Michael to get in the van, he counts them. The first five come together in a group. Moments later, the sixth comes around the corner and Michael is shocked. It's Nikita. She gets in the van and Michael turns to look behind him. Madeline is standing there.Shays is still strapped to the table. He begs Tyler to let him go, but Tyler explains that for every weapon they create, the other side finds a defense. He needs Shays to help him stay ahead. He turns up the morphine drip in Shays' IV and tells him he will be addicted for the rest of his life.In the van, Nikita has to help one of the other operatives. He thanks her and tells her he hasn't been out in three months because he screwed up in Zaire. Michael explains the mission to everyone, minus the detail about them all dying. As they're exiting the van, Michael hands Nikita a secondary comm unit and tells her they will be able to communicate if her first comm unit goes down.The team goes in and plants their charges. As they're about to exit, Michael tells Birchoff to have them hold their positions. Birchoff is shocked, but does as he's told. Walter yells at Michael because Nikita's in there. He goes to grab a comm unit and warn everyone, but Michael stops him. Nikita is still moving; her comm unit has gone down as Michael predicted. However, she's trying to rescue Shays instead of exiting the building. He is shot by one of Tyler's men. Her secondary comm unit begins buzzing. It tells her about the suicide mission and that she's free to run. She gets out of the building just as it explodes.Section is fooled; they think Nikita died in the blast. Operations tells Michael that he hopes Michael understands Section's position regarding Nikita. After he leaves, Madeline predicts problems with Michael in the future because of his and Nikita's bond. Michael goes back to his office and sends a message to Nikita asking if she's there. Nikita sees the message but instead of responding, she turns the unit off.
