Nikita s02e11 Episode Script

Previously on Nikita Operation Pale Fire.
Division collaborated with Sergei Semak to kill Nikolai Udinov and his family.
I saved the daughter, Alexandra.
Your partner? That's why she's working with you to take down the Division.
- Her focus has shifted.
- Revenge.
That's where I'm going To get the man who ordered my parents to die.
And I'm going to kill him.
Mom? The guardians they're gathering, and Percy is behind it.
We don't know if anything is happening with Percy, but what we do know is that Ari has the Box.
I'll go after the guardian.
You go after Ari.
And you'll be fine with him.
No.
Michael goes with you.
You're chasing Ari Tasarov into the heart of Gogol territory.
You don't even know where he's headed.
Yeah, she does.
I put a tracker on his car.
I don't know what I'm going to find there, but it's the right thing to do.
Hello, Ari.
Operation Pale Fire Background is need-to-know.
This is the target zone.
These are the Tangos Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear.
Our man on the inside has provided extensive Intel to the layout of the home and all the security measures that are in place.
Papa Bear likes to maintain a semblance of normalcy for his family, so the estate grounds will be far more heavily guarded than inside the house itself.
Patrols will be shifted to the North, so you will come up through the woods from the South, up the drive, and into the front door.
Current alarm codes will be in your briefing packet.
Review the material, be ready in two hours.
Dismissed.
Roan, stay back a minute.
Is there a problem? How? How? Mama I thought you were dead.
They said, "mother down.
" Nikolai he heard men downstairs Shooting.
He left me.
I can't remember.
I saw a gun.
I woke up in hospital.
You were dead.
Everyone was dead.
Someone took me.
She saved my life.
Bingo.
Looks like the tracker you put on Ari Tasarov's car worked.
She's found the Black Box.
I know you guys want to replace the Box you lost, but maybe she should just let it go.
We can't let Ari keep that Box.
If he finds a way to decrypt it, I don't want to think about what he'd do with those dirty secrets.
You should be with her.
I could've tracked this guardian on my own.
He's going to meet up with the other guardians.
You want to take on all three by yourself? No.
Nikita was right.
We got to grab that Box and then figure out what the guardians are up to What Percy's up to.
What'd you find? I narrowed it down to these six hotels.
Those are some nice places.
I thought the guardians were more "bed of nails" and all.
Easier to get lost in a crowd at a big hotel.
These are the right size, near public transportation, with multiple points of egress.
Okay, so we zero him down, track him to the gathering, and figure out how Percy's pulling the strings.
- Why are you still in London? - Excuse me? Nikita says you're staying in London to be with the kid.
Is that gonna be a permanent thing or? Whoa.
Why is she even talking to you about this? She needs to talk to somebody.
It's getting harder for her.
Maybe she can't talk to you 'cause she thinks she already lost you.
- She hasn't.
- I know.
That's why I'm warning you.
You need to make a choice before someone makes it for you.
And who's gonna make that for me You? I don't have a kid.
You killed her fiance.
Yeah.
Nikita said he was a nice, normal guy Didn't deserve to die Neither did Emily.
She was innocent, just like your son.
She died because of me, because that's what happens when normal people get sucked into our world.
They get hurt.
Mama, have you been here all these years In this house? Wait here, and make sure I'm not disturbed.
I have to hide.
Are you all right? I heard voices downstairs.
What's happening? I'm attending to some business.
Why are you so nervous? Whenever I hear too many voices downstairs, it makes me think of the men who Who cannot hurt you now.
The house is protected.
No one knows you're here.
Oh, I don't need that.
Let's not go through this again, Katya.
You need some rest.
Take the pill.
I should've killed Semak when I had the chance.
- Alexandra - It's okay, mama.
I understand now.
Semak was always jealous of papa.
He always wanted everything papa had, so he took it.
He can have Zetrov, but he can't have you Not anymore.
I just don't understand.
I have to leave for a few minutes, but I'll be right back.
Just stay here.
Crap.
Hello, Ryan.
How are you feeling today? More cooperative? If this is about oversight I need to neutralize them now, in a way that doesn't raise questions or leave evidence to trace back to me.
I've given you their identities.
You've had a while to think.
I kept you alive because I thought you might be useful, but if I was wrong Then I should correct my mistake.
I told you The only way I can help is if I know everything on Division, oversight Even the details you don't think are relevant.
You know Today is your lucky day.
I'm gonna have to take you to the files.
They don't transport well.
So, now you want to take down oversight.
And your big hope is the little librarian.
That's just sad.
I need some leverage to keep the lights on around here.
Bringing down oversight is something we all want You, me Even the librarian here.
Remind me what's in it for me? Fine.
I'll give you your things back, if you give him something useful.
How about I give him the mercy of a quick death? Well, that wouldn't be very polite, would it? Yeah? What are you gonna do about it Kill me? Three words, Percy Medically induced coma.
Consider the consequences.
Play nice.
What a bitch, right? Why are you here? Ari Tasarov has a Black Box.
I'm here to steal it back.
So your plan is to cut the power, let everyone freak and grab the Box in the chaos? That was the Yeah.
- Oh, careful.
- Can't let you do that Not without screwing up my plan to rescue my mother.
She's alive, Nikita.
She's upstairs.
- Your mother? How? - I don't know.
But if I'm gonna get her out, no one can know we're here.
Where are we with the Box? Well, we think we found a way around the biometrics lock, but the data encryption may take weeks to break.
I've never seen anything like it.
Percy is nothing if not paranoid.
It's one of his few admirable qualities.
Keep on it.
Mr.
Abramov, did you receive the photograph I sent you? It's her The girl who bought my weapons.
She's here in Russia.
Tell no one else.
I'll take care of it.
Yes, Mr.
Tasarov? Increase patrols on the estate immediately, then come up to the house.
I'd like to discuss the perimeter breach we spoke of earlier.
I have to disable the alarm.
Let me sneak her out, then I'll go.
Alex Look, you can blow up this damn house, for all I care, after I know she's safe.
When he misses the next check-in, they're gonna know something's wrong.
I got a plan.
The Black Box can wait.
We're gonna get your mother out Tonight.
Nothing on the hotel guest list matches our guardian.
Well, that's our fourth strike.
That's a guardian.
Not that I should say this, but I kind of wish you were still on the regimen.
So do I.
Is that a bad thing? He's picking up his shirts? He's at a four-star hotel.
Why would he send his shirts out for cleaning? Percy loved all that cold war spy crap Dead drops and code words and In two hours, he's gonna be at the dry cleaner's.
Maybe then we'll find out where the meeting is.
Once we do, I'm pretty sure we got a way inside.
So I'll go in the way I did before Through the cellar and up the laundry chute, which puts me here Right outside the bedroom door.
I'll take my mother down the back stairs, and if you wait at this door, we can take the guards out then.
It should buy us enough time before they realize there's a breach.
You're missing something.
How do we get off the estate? We both got here on foot through the woods.
I don't think that's an option for your mother.
We have to steal a car.
But that could draw too much attention.
Depends on the car.
- Ari's here, right? - Yeah.
He's got his own car and driver.
Only an insane Gogol agent would try and stop Ari Tasarov's car.
How do we know which car is his? Ari's driver never leaves the car, for security reasons.
I'll deal with him, get behind the wheel - If they follow us - They won't.
I'm going to disable all the other cars.
It's a little trick Michael taught me.
If you can delay your enemy for even a few minutes It might be enough to win the day.
You taught me that.
Thank you For helping us.
Don't thank me yet.
Has anyone missed their scheduled check-ins? No, sir.
They've all reported in.
Let's be vigilant.
I want you to go out personally and check with your own eyes that everyone is at their posts.
Yes, sir.
I have new information with regards to Ms.
Udinov.
I believe she's here Somewhere on the property.
Amanda thinks that you're going to be able to come up with the scheme to dismantle oversight, huh? - That offends you? - It does, yeah.
I mean, I had them under control.
And then they got to Amanda And she got intimidated.
Now she's running into the ground everything you took years to build Well You and oversight.
There's always a group behind the group.
Division was mine.
It was my concept.
Snap out of it.
Mama, mama I found us a way out.
It's time to go.
- Mama, it's okay.
It's okay.
- No! Welcome home, Alexandra.
It is a pleasure to finally make your acquaintance.
Well, you'll understand that I can't say the same.
Of course, of course.
I've heard that Percy is being held prisoner inside Division.
Have you seen him? What's his cell like? Yes, uh, let's talk about Percy.
I'm curious why he saved you.
And what was he planning to do with you? I don't know what you're talking about.
You were supposed to die, yet here you are.
Why would Division spare your life? Percy never struck me as a soft touch.
Oh, my God.
That story Yuri told about me being brainwashed That wasn't just some cover story.
You actually thought it was true.
I thought it was quite a brilliant plan.
I'm sorry to disappoint.
Division didn't rescue me that night Nikita did.
Nikita Hmm, that that is the, uh Rogue agent, yes.
She is a soft touch.
I infiltrated Division.
I wanted to make Percy pay.
Mission accomplished.
He's in a hole.
My new mission is to kill you.
Your mission has failed, Alexandra.
Night's not over yet.
That's enough.
You know where to take her.
I think this is our guy.
I seem to have misplaced my ticket.
What are you picking up? Three shirts blue Lightly starched and pressed, boxed.
This isn't a clue to the meeting.
This is the meeting.
I say we bomb the place No more guardians, no more Black Boxes.
This meeting is our only chance at figuring out what Percy's up to.
Last time he had a big secret plan, he tried to level the seventh floor of the CIA.
So you're gonna walk in there, alone, and meet with two guardians? We barely managed to take down one of them together.
I'm not going in alone.
We'll be on comms, and that Box is my backup.
Be ready when I give the word.
I got ya.
I seem to have misplaced my ticket.
What are you picking up? Three shirts blue Lightly starched and pressed, boxed.
You're the other guardian? When did that happen? I thought you were Percy's right-hand man.
That's why he chose me.
Thanks to Nikita, you guys were dropping like flies, and Percy wanted extra insurance.
Right before Amanda took over, he gave me a Box and told me to run.
I don't believe you.
Then I'll prove it to you.
Can't believe he didn't tell us.
Well, things happened pretty fast that day.
Are we missing a Box? I see only two, but there are three of us.
Did you lose something? How'd you go from oversight's golden boy to its chief extortioner? Downside of being invisible? Lack of visibility.
Running this place, you've become a deniable asset Someone who could be wiped away if he stepped out of line.
You needed leverage.
That's what the Black Boxes are for.
But there had to be a catalyst, right? Some incident that soured your relationship with oversight.
Well, that reached critical mass with Operation Pale Fire.
In 2005, a Russian conglomerate Zetrov Refusing to do business with the United States.
It was a threat to national security? Oversight saw it as a threat to financial security Theirs, in particular So they came to me.
And I discovered that the ceo's number two A man named Sergei Semak Might be pliable.
You turned him Plotted with him to kill Zetrov's founder Nikolai Udinov, Alex's father.
I know the backstory.
It was Semak's idea to kill the family.
He said that if he could have control, he would be our man on the inside Expand U.
S.
interests throughout his hemisphere.
That's a pretty big promise.
Exactly what I said.
I said he couldn't be trusted, and I was right.
He took over And reneged on the deal.
Yeah.
They want to blame me for it.
Now, Amanda and oversight think that Alex is going to take over Zetrov.
Well, that ain't gonna happen.
She's going to kill Semak and plunge the company into complete chaos.
Amanda has lost control of her girl.
History does tend to repeat itself.
You say that that mission was when everything went sideways with oversight.
No.
No, the real threat wasn't forming over your head.
It was happening right under your nose.
Pale Fire was the first time Nikita ever disobeyed orders.
She rescued Alex that night Her first strike against Division And the first step of your journey right into this cage.
You sent Nikita on that mission and sealed your own fate.
How bad is it? Looks worse than it is.
Take this, okay? What are you doing? Wait for my call.
I want you to tell Katya who I am.
You're going back? I told you, we're getting your mom out tonight.
[Phone rings.]
Guardians Did everyone make it? Three guardians Present.
Open your packets.
Visually confirm each other's identity.
Maintain security profile Alpha.
We rendezvous in New York in two days.
You're right.
I'm not a guardian.
I'm just a guy who rigged a Black Box with explosives.
Don't stop until we get to Brussels, just to be safe.
I'm not slowing down till this thing runs out of gas.
Nikita hasn't called me back.
It's been a while.
Who are you? I'm a friend of your daughter's.
I'm here to get you out.
Okay? Here Talk to her.
You will get her killed.
No, she's safe.
I saved her from Ari's men.
I made her safe.
I told Sergei she was here Not Ari.
Alexandra is sick, very sick.
- Yes.
- Mr.
Tasarov We have two guards down at the back of the house.
Secure Mr.
Semak.
Do not leave his side until I tell you otherwise.
Have your men sweep the entire house.
Someone else is here.
Find them.
The Americans took her, and they filled her head with lies Lies about Sergei.
Now she wants to kill him? Sergei wants your daughter dead.
No.
No, he wants to help her.
We want to put her someplace safe where the doctors can come and heal the damage done to her mind, make her see the truth.
You want to know the truth? He hired the Americans to wipe out your family so he could take control of Zetrov.
This is a lie.
I was there, Katya.
I was on the strike team.
We had everything.
We had alarm codes.
We had floor plans.
We had security patrol schedules All given to us by Semak.
Katya I killed your husband.
No.
No, Sergei loves me.
He wanted Zetrov, and he wanted you.
He had me.
We had each other.
You were having an affair.
That's why you survived that night.
It was part of his deal with Percy, wasn't it? Right now you come with me.
I'm not asking.
- Let's go.
- Okay.
You feeling better? I don't feel anything now If that's what you want to know.
You were screaming and tearing the room apart.
You could have hurt yourself.
I had to do something.
I've lost her again.
Now she'll never come back to me.
Let's hope not.
Sergei You won't hurt her.
We had a deal.
She and her associate killed half of my men.
I cannot let that stand.
You promised not to hurt Alexandra.
But she's not your Alexandra anymore, Katya.
You must see that now.
I see many things now.
Living down here, I've had time to reflect.
You know what I've come to realize? You like your reflection.
I've seen that I've made mistakes.
But that I can also learn from them.
Sometimes all you need is a slight shift in perspective to bring things into focus.
You have had time to reflect.
I've also had time to plan.
Against oversight? I told you, they're irrelevant.
As you said, there's always a group behind the group.
If you look close, you'll see there's a door up there.
Where could you possibly go? To a higher place Not the place you're thinking of.
I think the phone's a dead end.
Well, we know they're headed home.
And Roan's running things.
He's how Percy's communicating with them.
We were his insurance policy.
- What? - The guardians.
We were the thing that kept Percy alive.
But Percy planned for every contingency.
In the event of his death, we were to upload the Boxes.
Maybe in the event of his capture You break him out.
I'll stay home until you get here, and we'll figure out the Percy stuff then.
Owen thinks we should let him escape and then shoot him.
That's not a bad idea Although we'd probably fight over who got to shoot him first.
And we should talk About us and Where we stand.
I'll be here.
You don't have to go on this one.
I can talk to Percy and find another agent for Pale Fire Maybe Kelly.
Oh, she'd love that.
I'd never hear the end of it.
Nikita I know you hate these kinds of missions With civilians.
It's important to Percy, right? It'll be good for me to go.
You're a capable agent.
You don't have to prove that to him anymore.
You once told me that Division was a second chance An opportunity to be a new person, make a difference.
This mission This is how I prove to myself what kind of person I've become.
You know, for years, I've had These memories to hold on to An image in my head of what I'd lost.
No matter how bad things got, I could close my eyes, and They were there.
That's what got you through.
But it was a lie.
And now I can't even trust my own memories.
Her and Semak I never had a clue.
You were a kid who loved her parents.
I've wasted so much time and energy Avenging what? A father that loved me, but wasn't innocent and A mother that - Maybe never loved me at all.
- Alex I don't understand Katya's choices, but I do think that she loves you.
You can't know that.
She could've been in on Semak's plan all along.
No, I think that she's misguided and not facing reality.
But when she said that she wanted to keep you safe, I believed her.
She was afraid of losing you.
She was more afraid of losing him.
I don't know how to get past that.
You don't have to figure it all out right now.
Don't give up on her Not yet.
I heard you On the phone.
You Even after you knew what she did, you still tried to reach her.
People make mistakes.
You know, they make bad choices.
And then to make up for them, they make even worse ones.
But if you give them a second chance, sometimes they surprise you.
Yeah.
Sometimes they do.