A "previously on LFN" segment is shown with clips from
Adrian's Garden and End Game
Scene 1: Egress area - a mission is coming back in, men on stretchers.
Male voice: What the hell took you people so long? You should have been
there! C'mon, move it, move it, move it! We've got massive neck and chest
wounds. People are dying here! Do something! Come on, let's go, let's go!
Come on, let's go! Damn it, move it! (A heart monitor hooked up to one of
the operatives beeps and then goes flat)
Team leader: What's wrong?
Doctor: He's gone.
Team leader: Bring him back! Damn it, do something!
Doctor: There's nothing we can do. (He turns to another patient)
What have we got here? Put some pressure on that.
Nikita comes up to the team leader
Nikita: What happened?
T.L.: The whole damn thing was bad right from the start. Whoever planned
this thing is going to pay. We lost Dechy and Pierce.
Nikita: Dechy and Pierce? (shocked)
T.L.: They shouldn't have been called.
Nikita: Well what were they doing out?
T.L.: You tell me. (He rises and walks away, Nikita puts a comforting hand
on his arm as he goes)
Scene 2 : Nikita walks into the comm center
Nikita: Where's Michael?
Birkoff: He's down.
Nikita: He called me in.
Birkoff: Yeah, something came up. They switched him with Ferreira.
Nikita: Is Michael still here?
Birkoff: No. (to the other computer geeks) We don't need filters on this data.
Just dump it.
Scene 3 : Operations loft
Operations: It won't take long before she puts it together. If she hasn't
already.
Madeline: She hasn't.
Operations: Dechy, Pierce and Pollock were the only witnesses to her
aborted insurrection; now they're dead.
Madeline: No matter. She's going out this afternoon and that will be the end
of it.
Operations: And Michael's not a variable?
Madeline: I've made certain that he's occupied.
Operations: Has he seen the profile.
Madeline: Yes, before we changed it.
Operations: Good. Just make sure she doesn't return.
Madeline: She won't. (Operations watches Nikita walk across the comm
center)
Scene 4: Briefing room
Operations: Oversight has adopted a new strategy to contain the resurgence
of terrorist activity. We've been told to step up reconnaissance. Each cell
will be collecting source material on site from one of nine anti-western
factions that emerged over the past year. Birkoff.
Birkoff: I pulled up data on a group that calls itself New Path. They're based
in China, capitalized from North Korea. They haven't mobilized tactical yet
which makes them a perfect target for a pre-emptive.
Operations: Take what's there. We're looking for any kind of a link.
Afterwards, roll it up. I want 100% containment. Ferreira will be leading the
team; you'll be going out this afternoon.
(everyone leaves except Nikita and Ferreira)
Nikita: Well I'll sanitize the profile and bring it down.
Ferreira: No, I want you to prep. You'll be running point.
Nikita: I'm usually third position.
Ferreira: Not today.
Scene 5 : Nikita and Walter in Munitions
Walter: Not the usual package today.
Nikita: I know. I'm on point.
Walter: Since when?
Nikita: Where's Michael?
Walter: I don't know, he left this morning. Why?
Nikita: I need to talk to him.
Walter: Talk to me.
Nikita: Walter, not this one.
Walter: It's about Adrian, isn't it?
Nikita: There were witnesses.
Walter: Were?
Nikita: Pollock…Pierce…Dechy.
Walter: Now look Sugar, just drop it. You're talking yourself into something
that isn't there. People die every day in this place. If they wanted you gone,
you'd be gone.
Nikita: Maybe not.
Ferreira: (shows up) Is everybody checked in?
Walter: Yeah
Ferreira: Let's go.
(they meet with the rest of the team) After Nikita finishes
the download, create an exit corridor to the north. Make sure you get an "A"
and "R" from Birkoff every thirty seconds.
Nikita: Sure we don't need field support?
Ferreira: No, we're going to run it cold.
Scene 6 : Shanghai, the mission. Nikita is dressed like the world's first 6
foot tall blonde chinese woman…LOL. She is moving through a crowd;
other ops including Ferreira are loading a truck. She takes a package inside a
building and hears a gun click; whirls and shoots a Chinese woman.
Nikita: (talking on comm set) Ferreira, this isn't clean.
Ferreira: No matter. Proceed.
(flash back to Section One; Operations checks his watch; then back to
Nikita, who pries up a floorboard and connects an electronic device.)
Nikita: I'm sending.
Ferreira: Birkoff, we're getting it.
Birkoff: (at Section) Yeah, this looks like it. Get your people out.
Operations: Birkoff, I need you up here.
Birkoff: Yes sir.
(back in Shanghai)
Ferreira: Nikita, hold position.
Nikita: Hold position? Why?
Ferreira: We have to identify some data.
Nikita: Birkoff, B channel (Birkoff is not at his post and does not hear her)
Ferreira, why isn't Birkoff looped in?
Ferreira: I don't know, he should be.
Nikita: Well he's not.
Ferreira: Let me check.
(Men come running at Nikita)
Man: There she is - get her!
Nikita runs, they shoot. She shoots back. She runs behind a corner; they
duck behind barrels and boxes. She throws her chinese hat out; they rise to
look and she blasts them. She has stripped down to her mission gear and
shoots back. She runs to an elevator and takes out two more men by
slamming a double door into them. She slides down a conveyor belt as a
man shoots at her; she's shooting at them as she does so. She sees another
man and blasts at him. The assassins are everywhere. She leaps out a
window, lands on a roof. She sees one of the men get into a car below; she
jumps on the car and blows the man away through the back window.
Ferreira shoots at her himself but she doesn't see it and he hits a bystander.
Nikita gets to the waiting truck.
Nikita: You said it was clean!
Ferreira: Hey, it's what they gave me. Come on, let's get out of here.
Scene 7 : Madeline's office. She is tending an orchid on a plant stand in the
middle of the room.
Operations: (enters, angry) Why is she still alive?
Madeline: Apparently, we trained her too well. (completely calm, unfazed)
Operations: George is starting to poke around.
Madeline: Has he mentioned Adrian?
Operations: Her name's come up. He would not be happy if he knew the
details.
Madeline: (smiles, actually a big smile for her) No, he wouldn't.
Operations: Maybe we're going about this in the wrong way. We should just
deal with this internally.
Madeline: Don't get impatient. It's unfortunate but it was a one time event.
The percentages are on our side; it'll be taken care of soon.
Operations: (goes to leave then pauses) I don't want Michael anywhere near
here until it's done.
Madeline: He won't be.
Operations: What's going on with Michael's situation?
Madeline: He's getting some positive indications. We should be able to
move soon. (she smiles; he leaves)
Scene 8 : The team returns from Shanghai
Ferreira: You should go down to Medical, get that checked out.
(He lifts Nikita's hand, it's bandaged)
Nikita: Thanks, Chris - I will.
Ferreira: Nikita. I was wrong about the intel. We should have done a walk-
through first.
Nikita: You were just following profile. It wasn't your fault. I'll see you
later.
Ferreira: Probably not. We're not going back out.
Nikita: (turns, smiles) I meant, you know, just you and me.
(He gives her a "look" then walks away but he turns to look at her again as
he does so. Nikita comes face to face with Madeline)
Madeline: I apologize. We had incorrect information. You should never
have gone in there alone. (Madeline walks away but Nikita speaks)
Nikita: I haven't seen Michael in a while. Has he been reassigned
somewhere else?
Madeline: No.
Nikita: Where is he?
Madeline: (still not facing Nikita) Home, I think.
Nikita: Home?
Scene 9: Comm center. Nikita approaches Birkoff. Birkoff watches and
looks at Operations up in the loft.
Scene 10: Nikita's apartment. Birkoff is there.
Birkoff: Dechy and Pierce didn't die by accident. Neither did Pollock.
Neither will you.
Nikita: So Shanghai wasn't an accident.
Birkoff: No. Operations pulled me away right before everything went down.
That's why you couldn't reach me.
Nikita: Is Michael part of this?
Birkoff: I don't think so.
Nikita: But you don't know?
Birkoff: I'm not sure. I raked the system, all of it. This is the first time, since
I've been here, that Operations and Madeline are vulnerable.
Nikita: To what?
Birkoff: Oversight.
Nikita: What exactly is Oversight?
Birkoff: It's the board. The only entity Operations has to answer to.
Nikita: Can they shut down the Section? Can they shut down Section?
Birkoff: More like incinerate. (Nikita stands up)
Nikita: What can we do?
Birkoff: The first thing we need to do is figure out how to keep you alive for
the next couple of days. (He rises and puts his hand on her arm.) If we could
find Michael, that would help.
Nikita: Find Michael? I thought you said he was down?
Birkoff: No. They have him parked somewhere. I can't get an address.
Maybe you can.
Scene 11: Comm center. Nikita comes up to Ferreira.
Nikita: Hey, Chris.
Ferreira: What's doing?
Nikita: (leans over a computer) Just leafing through some DOD frames.
Hey, Chris, do you know the difference between armored transport and a
civilian at Mag 25?\
Ferreira: Yeah, why?
Nikita: Could you check this out? (she holds out the chair, he slides into it
and she pushes him up to the screen, leaning over her)
Ferreira: Which one?
Nikita: Right there.
Ferreira: (types) Civilian.
Nikita: You sure? What about that shadow?
(flash to Birkoff, doing something)
Ferreira: Nah, it's just water. (A beam gleams in his eyeball, he doesn't
notice.)
Birkoff: (to Nikita, she can hear him) OK, I've got it.
Nikita: (to Ferreira) Thanks.
Ferreira: Uh, still want to get together?
Nikita: Sure.
Ferreira: How about tonight?
Nikita: Oh, I can't tonight. Tomorrow night?
Ferreira: Tomorrow then.
(Nikita leaves, walks down the hallway and Birkoff passes something to her
as they pass. She rounds the corner and slams headlong into Operations)
Nikita: Oh, excuse me, sorry.
(He gives her a look but says nothing. She
continues on to the classified levels she was in during last season's finale.
She types in a question that says "Where does Michael Samuelle live? It
answers Access Denied until she goes to the retinal scan and holds up the
slide of Ferreira's eyeball.)
Scene 12 : Next thing you see, she is driving along in that ever so nice black
convertible of hers. She pulls up to a nice, though not extremely opulent,
three story home. Two cars are parked outside. She goes to the door and
knocks. A woman answers, extremely beautiful, east Indian in ethnicity.)
Elena: Yes?
Nikita: Hey. I'm looking for a friend of mine, I'm not sure this is the right
address…
Elena: Who is it you're looking for? (a small boy runs up behind her)
Adam: Mommy, come on, it's your turn!
Elena: I'll be right there, sweetheart. (to Nikita) I'm sorry, who did you
want?
Nikita: No, I'm sorry, I have the wrong house. I'm sorry for bothering you.
(she turns)
Adam: Daddy, can we go to the park now?
Michael: (from inside the house) Later, let's finish the game first.
(Nikita stops in her tracks, turns. Michael stands there with the boy in his arms.)
Nikita: Michael. (Their eyes lock; he is shocked. She plasters a fake smile
on her face.)
Elena: Do you know her, Michael?
Nikita: Hello. (big phony smile)
Michael: (equally big phony smile) (to his son) Go inside.
(He puts the boy down and he runs back inside) (to Nikita )
What are you doing here?
Nikita: I found out where you were and… (stumbling)
Michael: You must have heard from Aunt Reva?
Nikita: Yeah, I did. She's great, she sends her love.
Michael: It's been years.
Nikita: (laughs) Yeah.
Michael: This is my wife, Elena.
Nikita: Nikita (extends her hand and they shake)
Elena: Hello.
Michael: Nikita's a cousin of sorts. We're related through my stepfather.
Elena: Why didn't you say so? Come in.
Nikita: Thank you.
Michael: (looks relieved that she's alive even if he's not thrilled she's there)
It's good to see you again. (he hugs her)
Nikita: And you too.
Elena: Please, have a seat. (Adam is playing a video game, it's noisy)
Michael: Adam, please turn that off and go upstairs.
Adam: I want to finish.
Michael: Now. Do it right now.
Adam: But I want to stay with you.
Michael: You can't, we have company.
Elena: What's wrong, Michael? Why can't he stay down here?
Michael: 'Cause I want him upstairs.
Elena: Go upstairs, sweetheart, we'll come up in a few minutes.
Nikita: I didn't know you had a child, Michael.
Michael: A lot of time has passed.
Elena: I'm sorry, I haven't even offered you anything. Are you hungry?
Nikita: A drink would be fine.
Elena: Juice, coffee, tea?
Nikita: Tea would be fine.
Elena: How about you, Michael?
Michael: Nothing. (Elena leaves) What are you doing here?
Nikita: Is this for real?(he says nothing)There's something going on in
Section. I need your help.
Michael: What's the problem?
Nikita: Pierce and Dechy are dead. Operations is trying to kill me. He wants
to wipe out everyone who witnessed Adrian.
Michael: Who do you report to?
Nikita: Ferreira.
Michael: Are you working him?
Nikita: Yes.
Michael: When you finish your tea, make an excuse to leave. I'll send you a
contact point.
Elena: (from the kitchen) Michael, would you give me a hand please?
Michael: Of course.
(he leaves. Nikita just gives a look like now I've seen it all.)
Scene 13 : Evening. Michael, on a motorcycle, pulls up.
Nikita is leaning on her car.
Nikita: What's going on with the wife and child?
Michael: We'll talk about it later. What's your status?
Nikita: I'm inside for another day or two.
Michael: You said Pierce and Dechy. What about Pollock?
Nikita: Dead. Birkoff raked the system. He thinks Operations and Madeline
are worried about Oversight.
Michael: What else does Birkoff know?
Nikita: Nothing more than I know.
Michael: Tell me about Ferreira.
Nikita: I'm working with him. But I don't trust him.
Michael: Can you get him out of Section?
Nikita: Yeah, I can.
Michael: Get him to your apartment. Tell Birkoff to re-route a deep channel.
(Michael gets back on his cycle and leaves)
Scene 14 : Madeline's office.
Operations: (voice comes on) Madeline, are you there?
Madeline: Yes, what is it?
Operations: Can you come up to Committee?
Madeline: Committee?
Operations: Yes. George is here.
Madeline: (looking concerned) I'll be right up.
Scene 15 : Committee, George and Operations talking.
Operations: That order is being executed. I'm focusing on the new mission.
George: India and Pakistan should be next on the list.
Operations: I'm sure we can do something.
(George turns as Madeline approaches)
George: Madeline.
Madeline: Hello, George. (He kisses her on both cheeks, exactly as
Operations did to Adrian in End Game…very eerie!)
George: You look well.
Madeline: We weren't expecting you.
George: I had some business in the country.
Operations: (to Madeline) We were just discussing India and Pakistan.
George: We're moving things around. You may be asked to pitch in.
Madeline: Of course.
George: (nods) I heard an interesting rumor the other day.
Operations: What was that?
George: That Adrian was here.
Operations: Our Adrian?
George: My Adrian.
(Leaving no doubt as to his meaning, aha, this explains a lot)
Operations: That is an interesting rumor. No, I haven't seen Adrian in over
ten years. (He looks at Madeline, who turns to look at him) How is she
doing?
George: I believe she's dead.
Operations: What makes you think that?
George: We keep tabs on these things.
Madeline: Would you like us to look into it for you? I have resources that I-
George: (interrupts her) -I came here to tell you this because as you know,
Adrian is very dear to me. If I discover that any harm has come to her and
that Section One played even a minor role, I will crush you both,
figuratively and literally. (very menacingly, staring directly at Madeline
who of course maintains her poker face and doesn't even blink) Well, I have
to be in Stockholm in an hour. I'm sorry I can't stay around and chat.
Operations: George. (He ignores him and leaves. Operations and Madeline
look at each other)
Scene 16 : Nikita's apartment. She and Ferreira enter.
Nikita: (smiling) It's true, why don't you believe me?
Ferreira: Because you're not the type.
Nikita: Oh really?
Ferreira: No.
Nikita: So what type am I? (He grabs her and kisses her; she pushes him
away) I didn't give you permission to do that.
Ferreira: I don't need permission. I'm the team leader, you do what I say.
Nikita: Really? (teasing him)
Ferreira: Yeah. (laughing)
Nikita: So give me a command.
Ferreira: Shut up. (He kisses her again. She draws back and slaps him
lightly) Hey!
Nikita: Oooh! (still teasingly, not serious about her resistance… She starts to
run her hands down her body.)
Ferreira: Oh, yeah. (She unzips her skirt and pushes it down to reveal a strip
of bare midriff, flirting with him) You're bad. (He is engrossed, doesn't see
the door open behind him)
Michael: Hello, Chris. (Michael takes his gun away and knocks him to the
ground).
Ferreira: What is this? (Birkoff appears and down a laptop)
Birkoff: I've unlocked a half dozen security two files. Each contains a
treasonous breach which would result in immediate cancellation. They're all
linked to you by an iris match.
Ferreira: I didn't access those files and you know it.
Birkoff: That's true. It would take two weeks to prove that. By then, you'd
be dead. (Cool as a cucumber…go Birky!)
Ferreira: So what do you want from me?
Scene 17 : Section One, Birkoff looking at a screen.
Birkoff: (into his comm set) Sir? We have another window surfacing.
Operations: (from his loft) Where?
Birkoff: Near Barcelona.
Operations: Prep it.
Scene 18 : Madeline's office, Madeline and Ferreira.
Madeline: So tell me about last night.
Ferreira: We went out to dinner, then back to her place.
Madeline: Did you have sex with her?
Ferreira: No.
Madeline: Why not?
Ferreira: She wouldn't let me. I didn't want to push it.
Madeline: What did she say about Michael?
Ferreira: Well, she's suspicious.
Madeline: Of what?
Ferreira: She thinks you might have cancelled Michael.
Madeline: Were those her exact words?
Ferreira: No, she was playing it pretty close.
Madeline: What did she say exactly?
Ferreira: That it's strange that Michael hasn't been around. She asked if I'd
seen his name on any upcoming profiles. (Madeline turns to her screen and
Ferreira puts a bug on the underside of her chair)
Madeline: How much resistance do you think she'll give to the Barcelona
profile?
Ferreira: Some, but I'll go in with her. It'll be fine.
Madeline: Good.(gives him a look) No mistakes this time.
Ferreira: No, it'll be taken care of. (He leaves, she turns back to her screen)
Scene 19 : Birkoff in Section, entering an area.
Scene 20 : The team going out. Ferreira, Nikita and other operatives.
Ferreira: We're taking out the tracking station with air tactical. You'll
activate the transmitter so comm can get a signature.
Nikita: What about hostiles?
Ferreira: Take them alive. We'll want a full debrief. Defense should be light.
Scene 21 : Birkoff, uploading some data to a computer located in the
Operations loft.
Birkoff: (whispering) Come on, come on, come on. (door opens, Operations
is there with his back to it. He turns as Birkoff goes to leave)
Operations: Birkoff! (Birkoff turns, looks scared.) Don't you have a
mission?
Birkoff: They're en route. It goes live in twenty minutes. (Birkoff walks
away)
Scene 22 : Michael on a motorcycle, talking to Birkoff on his comm set.
Michael: Birkoff?
Birkoff: I'm here.
Michael: Did you send it?
Birkoff: Barely. Operations almost caught me.
Michael: Will Oversight be able to trace it to us?
Birkoff: No, I scrambled it.
Michael: What about the mission?
Birkoff: It's airtight. She's not getting out alive.
Michael: How much time?
Birkoff: They just crossed the inflection point.
Michael: Can you slow it down?
Birkoff: No.
Scene 23 : Barcelona. A truck is driving along. It drives up to a warehouse
where it is seen by a security camera. Nikita and Ferreira are inside.
Nikita: Delivery.
Guard: Clear. (The door opens)
Nikita: (to Ferreira) OK.(He drives the truck inside the warehouse)
(Flash to a plane. Pilot says: Air tactical on approach.)
Ferreira:(on comm set to Birkoff) What do you have Birkoff?
Birkoff: (to Ferreira)I'm counting four inside. Bring them out.
Operations:(from his loft) Birkoff, where's air tactical?
Birkoff: They're in pattern.
(Inside the warehouse, they exit the truck)
Ferreira: Go!
(They run into the warehouse. Ferreira is watching the guard, Nikita behind
him.)
Ferreira: Team two, go.(The guard is taken out; Ferreira nods to Nikita)
Get them out of here. Activate.
(Nikita goes to the computer and punches buttons)
Nikita: Birkoff, am I safe?
Birkoff: I don't know.
Scene 24 : Madeline's office. Michael enters.
Madeline: What are you doing here?
Michael: I'm going to offer you an alternative.
Madeline: To what?
Michael: I don't think you want to see the Section destroyed. But that is
what will happen if you don't abort this mission.
Madeline:(rises, walks past Michael) Why? Because you think this (holds
up the bug) made a difference?(she walks behind him)Next time, Michael,
pick your conspirators more carefully. We fed Birkoff false information.
You'll never be able to link us to Adrian's death. Not as long as I'm here.
(She walks past him and out the door)
Scene 25 : Barcelona. (Nikita realizes she is trapped in the room. She shoots
at the window but the glass is bulletproof. She can't escape)
Scene 26 : Operations loft, he's on a cell phone.
Operations: Yes George? That doesn't sound right, what's your source? No,
I'm not doubting it.(pause)Yes. Of course. (to his console)Birkoff, get me
air tactical.
Birkoff: Yes, sir.
Operations: (to air tactical)I'm updating your coordinates. Check your
screens.
Pilot: We have a new target?
Operations: Yes.
Scene 27 : Barcelona. Nikita is trapped. Ferreira heads for the truck.
Ferreira: Okay, we're out.
Scene 28 : Section One.
Birkoff: Anytime. (to Operations)
Operations: Fire missile.
(Flash to all the faces: Birkoff. Madeline, Michael, Operations, Nikita, with
a target superimposed over all of them. Birkoff sees the strike on his screen.
Michael swallows hard. Flames. The truck is burning. Nikita is alive.)
Scene 29 : Nikita sits in the Committee area with her eyes closed.
Operations and Madeline approach.
Nikita: You going to kill me?
Operations: Adrian and the Gemstone file are behind us. A full inquiry was
made and there was no connection between her death and Section One.
Oversight is no longer interested in this matter.
Nikita: You killed the rest of my team?
Madeline: They were all abeyance operatives.
Nikita: And Ferreira?
Madeline: He as well. It's true our original intention was to eliminate you.
That's been changed.
Nikita:(Stands and looks Madeline in the eye)Why?
Operations: You're no longer a threat to us.
Madeline: And your value as an operative remains strong. That will be all.
(Nikita stares hard at Madeline, whose face is blank. Then she deliberately
steps between them, facing Operations, to leave. Operations walks a few
steps from Madeline but stops when she speaks.) She and Michael must
have had help from Birkoff. He's the only one who could have gotten
through to George like he did.
Operations: What does Michael think?
Madeline: I told him we found the bug Ferreira planted in my office before
any damage was done.
Operations: Did he believe it?
Madeline: Yes, at the time. But he'll be wondering why we spared Nikita.
Operations: (turns back toward Madeline) We can't do anything about
Nikita…yet. George is still watching. Her status can't be tampered with. The
best we can do is keep them from knowing we're still vulnerable.
Madeline: What about Birkoff?
Operations: No, no, he'd be too hard to replace. I can control him.
Madeline:(smiles at him) We've been through worse.
Operations smiles and nods.
Scene 30 : Comm center. Nikita walks up to Michael and they walk
together.
Michael: How did it go?
Nikita: I'm still alive. Did they speak to you?
Michael: Yes.
Nikita: What do you think they'll do?
Michael: Nothing for now.
Nikita: Michael … the marriage to Elena. What is it?
Michael: It's a mission.
Nikita: She an operative?
Michael: No.
Nikita: She doesn't know.
Michael: No. We're after her father.
Nikita: So you're deceiving this woman to secure your cover?
(Michael gives her the blank stare) Is the child yours?
Michael: Yes. (They hold a look)
The End
