Nikita s04e06 Episode Script

Impressive.
Not many recruits could take down a guard nearly twice their size.
He had the superior training and conditioning.
All you had were your instincts.
And your teeth.
Normally, such actions would be cause for immediate cancellation.
But you've only been here a few days, and Division is all about second chances.
- I want out.
- But of course.
When you're ready.
When you learn that brute force will never be as effective as deception.
You can either be powerful and beautiful, or you can be a wild animal.
But you have to choose.
I can't decide for you.
So the question is, who will you be? Get down! Get down now! Get down! - Hello, Philip.
- Hey, wait, wait, wait! We can discuss this.
No more deals, no more illusions! Ryan sacrificed himself for the truth.
Now it's your turn.
There were others.
It wasn't just me, there were others.
I know that.
Why do you think I'm here? Their names.
This is the-- this is the contact file.
It's all of them, the entire group.
You can't let it get back to me.
They'll retaliate, no matter where you hide me.
Trust me.
No one will ever find you.
- One down.
- Seven to go.
Federal authorities have yet to comment on what caused the explosion, but marshals have confirmed that this was the convoy transporting Philip Jones, the former cfo of MDK - What the hell is she doing? - Don't you people knock? Exactly what she told you needs to be done.
She's taking out the group.
And I told her there's a process-- investigate, collect evidence, ferret them out.
We can't just go around killing these people, even if they're dirty.
Why not? Sounds like a plan to me.
Hard to believe, but there are ways of getting things done that don't involve illegal activities.
Yeah, well, she tried it that way, and now Ryan's dead.
You're saying you agree with this? What I'm saying is She's just getting started.
So we've given her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she's a national hero.
Now she's out there assassinating charter members of the Fortune 500.
Be sure and get my neck, would you? Of course.
Our government forbids the assassination-- Don't make me laugh.
Our government trained her to be an assassin.
And she never misses her target.
So what? Nikki's wiping out the elites that killed Ryan and tried to start World War III? Oh, no.
We don't want that.
Let's say Ryan Fletcher's intel is correct, and this group has planted in key positions of power around the world.
What happens after, when Nikita kills the puppet masters? There would be sleeper agents operating off book.
Military officers, executives, politicians-- this is why you need to get us off the base.
We're the only ones who can reign her in.
- I don't think that's-- - You are not gonna find her.
Sonya's already looking for her through Shadownet, but there's only so much we can do from a desk.
We need to be on the ground.
That's how we'll find her.
Yeah, but why should we? Look, Nikita wants to reduce the 1% of the 1% to 0 I say pull up a chair and pass the popcorn.
You really want innocent people to die? Because that is what is going to happen.
Come on, Mikey, she wouldn't let that happen.
You really think you know her now, huh? But you weren't there in the very beginning.
You didn't see her when she first came in.
This is her fourth incident in her first week, and now Damon's missing half his ear.
Everyone knows Damon likes to knock the girls around.
It was inevitable one of them decided to knock back.
Well, it's one thing to go after a guard.
It's another to attack someone who's trying to help her.
She needs training, like any recruit.
No, this is different.
She doesn't fight for a purpose.
She fights as if something's trying to get out of her.
She's Special.
Dangerous.
I'm going to recommend to Percy that we cut our losses and cancel her.
You know, the entire time we were talking, she was trying to figure out a way to kill me.
Her tactical sense is intuitive.
If we could just harness that talent, she could be the greatest agent Division's ever known.
But if we can't control it, she could be the weapon that destroys us all.
What does that prove? She did destroy Division.
What's wrong with that? It's not about Division or training or even Amanda.
It's about Nikita and what is deep inside of her.
It'sa darkness.
Look, Amanda showed her happiness, the finish line-- and she stole it all away.
I mean, it's enough to turn anybody upside down.
Ten years ago, when I said she could end up destroying us all, I was talking about Division.
But now, I'm talking about the world.
As much as I love her, I-I can't let that happen.
Stop her.
Do whatever you have to do.
Yeah, well, you said she wouldn't come after us.
I underestimated her desperation.
Great.
Can you just make sure to let Howorth, Wells, and Kwon know that? Oh, wait, you can't.
They're dead.
The priority at the moment is to make sure you and the rest of the group remain safe.
Look, Nikita works best when she can divide and conquer.
I suggest you deny her that approach and fortify to a single location.
Well, this place is totally off the grid.
I ran it through a dozen shell companies, so it wouldn't show up under my name.
Perfect.
I'll come prepared with some recommendations on how to deal with Nikita.
No.
I'll call the others, and we'll figure out Nikita.
And then we'll discuss you.
Me? This group has enjoyed success from a position of absolute secrecy for generations.
All that started to change once we brought you on board.
I hardly think I can be blamed.
Look, I'll bottom-line it for you-- this meeting is for decision makers only, all right? Your history shows you're not someone who can be in charge.
It's just something you're not capable of.
Hey, but I'll put in a good word for you.
You have no idea what I'm capable of.
From our last victim.
Same as the one that Sam and I found from a shoperative in Zurich.
Great.
Let's hope they're on the same friends and family plan.
I got something.
A message.
Looks like Trevor Adrian called a meeting.
These are GPS coordinates.
Somewhere near Binghamton.
It's a few hours away.
We can be there soon.
Nikita, you sure about this? It's perfect.
They'll all be in the same place.
Right, which means a frontal assault.
Not picking them off one by one from the shadows anymore.
So far we've managed to keep your name out of the news.
But this? This will get loud.
Let it get loud.
You know that I'm with you, no matter what.
You want to invade the moon, and I will find the next rocket ship.
But please, think about the line that you're about to cross.
You fought so hard to clear your name, and you're finally being recognized for who you really are-- a hero.
Alex, you've always said that you've learned so much from me.
And you know what, I've learned a lot from you too.
I've learned to Stop running from who I am, embrace my identity the way you have.
That is how I know I'm not a hero.
Birkhoff, get Shadownet up and running.
All right, might take a minute.
Sonya's getting us an uplink to the NSA's sat servers, give us an eye in the sky.
- NSA? - Yeah.
Dad gave me access.
We're official now, remember? - Give me a gun.
- What? Give me a gun.
We got company.
Give me a gun.
Whoa.
Easy.
Stand down.
Colonel Slocum? - Who? - From the JAG office.
He interrogated us back at the base.
That was a debrief.
An interrogation would feel a bit different.
- You here to interrogate? - Supervise.
Per Senator Chappell's request.
We're fine on our own.
It's not an option.
This isn't a field trip to find a lost camper.
It's a matter of national security.
You know what, JAG officer, we've had enough of you soldier types.
Why don't you take your army of two and go clean each other's gun somewhere? You don't get it.
You haven't been released.
You're out on a temporary pass, which means you are still our responsibility.
You may be used to breaking laws all over the planet, but not anymore.
This is a military operation now.
That's the last of them.
They're all here.
What the hell's that? Come on.
You two stay here.
Away from the windows now! Hi.
We haven't officially met.
I need access to the security cameras at Mr.
Adrian's house.
Yes, the one upstate.
Of course he knows I'm doing this.
Hello? Lionel.
Amanda.
Why can't you stay dead? It wasn't a good color on me.
- What do you want? - To pass along a tip.
Nikita and Alex have just infiltrated Trevor Adrian's compound in upstate New York.
Gathered there with him are the three remaining members of their group.
And you're telling us this because Well, we both have a common goal.
We both want them out of commission.
- You mean your bosses? - Not anymore.
For a while, I thought they could be useful partners.
But it turns out they're just another group of self-involved, overprivileged men who think they know how best to control other people's destinies.
Well, if that's the way you feel, why don't you let Nikita finish the job? Because she won't stop with them.
Once she's through, I will be her next target.
Obviously, I don't want that.
I don't think you want her going down that path either.
She's murdered three people in cold blood.
What happens if she turns Adrian's place into a slaughterhouse? Do you really think there'll be anything left of her soul then? Got him.
Trevor Adrian, heir to the Adrian industrial fortune.
Six residences listed, none of them in upstate New York.
Hang on, maybe there's something off the books.
All right, there's a few properties that fit the bill.
Yeah, I think I got it.
- You got thermal? - Thanks to Sonya, I do.
Six heat signatures inside.
Cluster pattern suggests four are hostages.
Get us there, now.
You have to understand, all right? We-- we don't know what goes on in our operations at a day-to-day level.
Right? It's really Amanda that you're after.
I'll get to her soon enough.
Yeah, but she won't be easy to find.
What if we give her to you? You know, maybe we could work out a deal.
Yeah? You want to make me an offer? Give me Ryan Fletcher back.
Can you do that? Hello? Nikita, you don't have to do this.
There is another way.
We tried the other way, and now Ryan's dead.
- Ryan wouldn't have wanted-- - Ryan wanted to get the group.
He's why I'm doing this.
Amanda wants you to do it too.
How do you think we found you? She wants you to do her dirty work for her.
You do this, and she wins.
Nikita, we've got company.
You sent troops? What? No, we didn't send anyone.
I did.
I made it very clear.
This is a military operation.
Keep going! Move! Snipers in position.
You need to come out before anyone gets hurt.
Who else is still out there? Force Recon.
And they're on a hair trigger.
Just hold them off for me for a little bit longer.
Nikita, I am not here to run interference for you.
I know.
And I know that they asked you to this.
They put you up to being my personal connection.
No one asked me anything.
I'm here on my own.
And I'm telling you, stop this before it goes too far.
Michael, you don't understand.
I'm about to get the list of doubles.
And then what? What are you gonna do with it? I don't really have many options, but I'm gonna get this out to the world today.
Then it won't matter what they do to me, because the whole world will know the truth.
Nikita, more than anyone, you know how dangerous the truth can be-- This is how we destroy them.
But what about the collateral damage? - I don't care! - Yes, you do.
Remember that you do-- I need you to do something.
This is an experimental neurotoxin.
Odorless, tasteless.
It's designed to be in a person's system and be undetectable, until it turns their organs into blood pudding.
Probably recognize it, since MDK designed it.
Give me the list of doubles, or you'll get to see how good your scientists really are.
Who wants a shot? If you're gonna kill us, get on with it.
- For God's sake, Carl.
- Don't you see? She's playing with us.
This is just cheap theatrics.
Bar, top drawer.
There's a false bottom.
Call it up.
That's it--every political official, diplomat, and military officer in the world we've replaced.
Under no circumstances can she be allowed to get that list out of the house.
I don't care what you have to do.
Break cover if you must.
Are we clear? What are you doing? Sending it to the news outlets.
- Which ones? - All of them.
It's gonna go so far and wide, no one's gonna be able to cover it up.
She's searching for a wireless signal.
She's getting ready to transmit.
Major, do your snipers have a shot? No, no, no.
Not yet.
Birkhoff, are you ready? Almost there.
Jamming field active.
Birkhoff.
Keep her on that line.
Why, what are you gonna do? Plan B.
Michael stop the jamming shield.
This isn't Michael.
- Sam.
- Look, I get it, okay? I know these bastards deserve to pay.
But as much as I hate to admit it, Michael's right.
This ain't the way.
What do you care? There's no profit in it for you.
Okay.
All right.
I deserve that.
But now you gotta listen to me.
You remember London? I had a Black Box in my hand, and I was gonna release the secrets to the world.
You stopped me before I made the same mistake you're about to make right now.
You were suffering from regimen psychosis.
I'm not.
My head is clearer than it's ever been.
It's not about matter where your head's at.
If Owen was here, he'd say you're hurting and that now's the time to trust the people that care about you.
He'd tell you it's not about your head.
It's about your heart and your soul.
That's what Owen would say.
Patch me in to Alex's comm and only Alex's comm.
Alex, it's Michael.
Don't let Nikita know you can hear me.
What are you doing? You need to stop her from making this mistake.
These are the people that killed Ryan.
Why are you protecting them? It's not about them.
It's about that list she's trying to send out to the world.
Do you know what'll happen if she succeeds? No, Sam.
I know what I'm doing.
Tell Michael to stop the jamming field, or I kill them All! Hey, she says she's gonna shoot 'em.
Nikita, if you start shooting, the Marines will attack.
Then it's your job to make sure I don't die in vain, isn't it? Snipers have a shot.
Do we have a green light? Nikita, please.
I have nothing left.
If you die, I die.
All right.
All right, we'll do it your way.
Thank you.
Stand the snipers down.
Repeat, stand down.
Need to access a secure server.
Ok.
Birkhoff will open a data channel.
Transfer the file through it.
Once we receive the file, the Marines will back off, and then you can come out peacefully.
Birkhoff, did you get it? Did you get the file? I did, and I sent it someplace safe.
What are you talking about, someplace safe? Nikki, remember operation Red Harvest? If you do, then you'll know where I sent the file.
Same server, same pass code.
- What the hell are you doing? - Nikki's right.
Too many secrets, too many lies.
- Turn that file over now! - Whoa.
Relax.
Put it down! Not until he turns over that file.
I will put all of you down! Easy.
Nikita, what are you doing? Birkhoff's given me a second chance.
I'm not gonna waste it.
Don't do this.
Alex! Get out of my way.
The person who trained me would want me to stop you.
You saved me once.
Now I'm trying to save you.
We can't release that file.
This is Slocum.
Raid! Raid! Raid! Get down, get down, right now! She's down! I surrender! Down on the floor! She's being processed right now.
And we brought in the Udinov woman as well.
She's in D-block.
I also arrested and booked that hacker.
That list is still out there.
If we're to have any hope of recovering it-- - What about Amanda? - No sign of her at the house.
Senator, I requested your approval to isolate F-block.
Relax.
It's done.
Doesn't mean I like it.
Sir, I need the entire wing to be isolated.
We all know how dangerous she is.
Oh, cut the crap.
I know why you want it, and it's not supposed to happen on American soil.
Now what about the rest of the team? I didn't see the need to bring them into custody.
Rest assured, they're no longer part of the process.
Think there's gonna be a lot of security? Take a wild guess.
Got enough firepower? I just hope it's all worth it.
Nikita's in a real bad spot right now, and we kinda put her there.
She knew what she was getting into.
I'm not giving you that list.
This is the most secure wing in one of the most secure prisons on the planet.
Solitary cells with steel-reinforced doors, and of course, constant surveillance.
Although that's been shut off.
And the entire wing's been emptied.
For what? Torture? Good luck.
No, not torture.
I just needed to make sure no one would ever hear or see what's gonna happen here.
All clear! You just had to twist the knife, didn't you? No, Nikita.
I'm here to thank you.
I control this wing of the prison, and thanks to you, I also control 54 agents all over the world.
Highly placed, powerful, and completely loyal to me.
If I use the Sarin gas, the casualties will be greater.
Impressive work.
And they all seem to respond well.
Well, they all went through the same adjustment you went through.
And now they all know who's in charge.
I still have that master list on an encrypted cloud server.
No, you don't.
Birkhoff isn't the only one who remembers operation Red Harvest.
The list wasn't that hard to find.
You erased it? I bought the company who owns the server, and then I shut down the entire server farm.
This is it, Nikita.
This is the end.
I'm a new woman because of you.
I'm transformed.
Your face is transformed.
Is that a gift from Ryan? Oh, no, this is nothing compared to what you've endured.
All that killing.
I know how it must have torn you apart, resurrecting the monster inside.
I know because I understand where that darkness was formed.
The abuse you endured growing up.
I know because I was formed in the same place.
But today, I rose above it all.
It wasn't easy.
You were always a natural leader.
I didn't encourage it, of course.
Not inside Division.
But after you left me, this team you put together-- they followed you, they looked to you.
Ryan gave his life for you.
I had to claw my way to the top, past Percy, past Oversight, the Group.
A long time ago, I gave you a choice-- brutality or deception.
You should have listened to me and to Michael, to Alex.
I'm going to leave you here Where no one will ever see or hear from you again.
But you can take comfort in knowing that you will never be forgotten.
I have doctors who can take this scar away.
But I'm going to leave it as a reminder.
Not only for what you did today, but for every wound you ever inflicted on me.
But, Amanda I'm not done.
Slocum! I am not a monster.
I just wanted you to think I was.
Show her, Nerd.
I didn't kill anyone.
And I did listen to Michael and Alex and, yes, even you.
Didn't I, Alex? "Brute force will never be as powerful as deception.
" We got to scare the crap out of some top-shelf dirtbags.
They actually thought they were going to die.
That was our last victim.
The plan was to work our way through the group, all the way to you.
But you called a meeting, which made it that much easier.
Adrian's house was the big show, and we made him the star.
It was all about getting that list.
That neurotoxin was a modified form of tetrodotoxin.
Death-like symptoms, but without the lasting side effects.
But that gun? Well, that was Nikita's idea.
Nonlethal tranq rounds.
Look and sound like the real thing, but all they do is put you to bed.
After we got the list, Nerd went to work.
Nikki gave me full access to Adrian's laptop.
I tracked down all the Shop facilities he'd been talking to.
Turns out, it was just one.
Western Pennsylvania, right? Converted coal mine? Your roster listed it as "Replication Center.
" Fancy name for toy factory, where you make your little wind-up dolls.
But you like to keep the originals, don't you? Nobody knows that better than me.
But none of this could have happened without Slocum.
He was our audience, and through him, you.
How did you know he was a double? Ryan told me on his deathbed.
And trust me, I wanted to kill Slocum and every single member of the group just to get to you.
I was gonna rip your guts out and wipe the walls with them.
But my friends, my family-- they reminded me that I'm better than that and that the right thing to do would be to lure you in, not kill you.
Under no circumstances can she be allowed to get that list out of that house.
I don't care what you have to do.
And in order to do that, I needed you to feel that I'd lost my way.
I needed to become the destroyer that you met all those years ago.
Remember her? I do.
She is a part of me.
And she always will be, but she's not everything.
You asked me to choose, who will I be? This is my choice.
There are people out there loyal to me.
They will find me.
No one will ever find you.
Welcome back to the basement Helen.
Nikita! That was a risky move, letting the Marines take you down.
Right up till then, I thought you had really gone off the rails.
I'm sorry we couldn't bring you into the loop sooner.
The only way this was going to work was if everyone bought into it.
Don't apologize.
Unlike the people I usually work with, you guys actually get things done.
The coordinated sting started 38 minutes ago.
CIA, FBI, Interpol all working in concert to bring in the doubles around the world, quietly.
Thank you, Senator.
No.
Thank you.
Your pardons have all been signed.
This chapter of history is over, and a new one's begun, for all of you.
All but one of us.
Ryan Fletcher's service has been recognized.
He'll be remembered.
You saw the lies.
You knew there'd always be someone who would abuse their power.
That's why you looked to us.
He made us better heroes.
Now Ryan has given us a gift-- freedom.
There will be a car outside the west entrance after the speech.
Stationed two men there.
Is that really necessary? It's a human rights conference.
They don't get that rowdy.
Hey, I'm trying to be responsible.
Isn't that what people with jobs do? Hey, you need the money.
The company's not so bad either.
Dinner later? Why, you need someone to open the wine? No, I don't drink, which you should know about me.
Hmm.
Any other surprises? Alexandra Udinov.
Now we can find our place in the world, wherever that might be.
So Shadowwalker is coming out of the shadows.
That's one way of putting it, yeah.
Does this mean you're going legit? Legit? Yeah, I don't know.
I've never really done lockstep.
I've got a girl waiting for me in London.
She convinced me sharing the code was the right thing to do.
Yes.
Shadownet.
You claim this will protect regular folks against government agencies that spy on them? So this is what-- digital freedom for the masses? I'd say more like open-source anarchy.
Yeah, I like that.
Write that down.
"Open-source anarchy.
" Okay.
Hyphen in between "open" and "source.
" You know, this is gonna freak some people out.
Good.
That's good.
Freedom's a scary thing, though.
We've got no one to answer to but ourselves.
We used to answer to them.
The stepchild nobody wanted but the world needed.
You think they'll be mad we eloped? Well, it's not like we planned it.
I have an idea for the honeymoon.
Now that we're finally free, I get why we fought so hard.
The real gift isn't freedom.
It's what we get to do with it.
I don't know about you, but I could never just sit on a beach anyway.