Scene 1: Section One, Comm Center. Birkoff is at his terminal; Nikita is
standing behind him.
Nikita: No, it's a few frames later.
Birkoff: I don't see how that could be. You were on the second mark by
then.
Nikita: (points) Look, there.
(A mission is coming in; Nikita spies a familiar face among the ops)
Nikita: Jamey.
Birkoff: What?
Nikita: Uh, nothing.
Birkoff: Well where are you going?
Nikita: Just give me a minute. (Nikita walks to meet the ops coming in)
Birkoff: I need you for this.
Nikita: Jamey.
Jamey: Whoa. Nikita.
Nikita: Yeah. How long you been here?
Jamey: Just over a year. What are you doing here? I thought you were
dead. I thought you died in prison. (Nikita nods)
Other operative: Jamey, let's go!
Nikita: Don't tell anyone.
Jamey: What do you mean?
Nikita: You don't know me, and I don't know you. (She walks away)
Scene 2: Section One, War Room. Operations walks to the briefing table
and pulls up a young woman's face on the holoscreen.
Operations: Stephanie Groves. First year special service op, Poland. She's
been coordinating the Krakow operation, due to culminate in five days.
She was grabbed this morning.
Michael: By the target group?
Operations: Likely. Birkoff?
Birkoff: If it is the target group, they'll assume she's attached to government.
It'll slow them down, but not for long.
Operations: Groves has never been in hostile hands before; we don't have
a predictor for her response. We have to extract or eliminate her before we
can proceed with Krakow.
Michael: Do we have a location?'
Operations: Our advance intel indicates very low resistance. I'm going to
open it up as a wet run. We'll use recruits in redundancy positions. Let's
get to work.
Scene 3: Section One, Egress area.
Nikita: That's everything.
Michael: Okay, wait for the recruits then lock it up. (He goes out to the van)
Nikita: Checklist at the van. We'll go over it en route. Jamey comes past.
Jamey: You got my pack?
Nikita: Yeah. Go in, don't screw up.
Scene 4: Mission Van.
Michael: We're on an eight minute clock. The hostage is being held in the
pool. Three in, two out. Up to five on the circle. Jamey, you stay 90.
You're at 270. Take out any of their retreat.
Jamey: Will there be any?
Michael: (doesn't answer) How are we doing Birkoff?
Birkoff: There's no change in their configuration. We'll work off your clock.
Michael: We're going into position, use a high frequency if there's a delta.
Birkoff: You got it.
(they exit the mission van)
Nikita: Don't ask non-tactical questions.
Jamey: Why not?
Nikita: If you've got a problem on point, you can contact me on channel D.
(Nikita shoots an arrow up to a ledge and rappels up the side of the
building)
Nikita: Approaching circle.
Birkoff: Go.
(Nikita reaches the roof, shoots the two guards)
Nikita: Two down on circle.
Man: One down, on circle.
Birkoff: Hold, Peter.
Man 2 : One down on circle.
Birkoff: OK Michael, circle's clean. Go.
(Michael sprays something on the wall in a square.)
Birkoff: 90 seconds 'til it burns through. Everybody stay where they are.
You'll get a pulse.
(Jamey sees a shadow in a lit room in the neighboring building and calls
Nikita)
Jamey: Nikita are you there?
Nikita: What is it Jamey?
Jamey: I got movement on the north neighbor.
Nikita: Hostile?
Jamey: I'm not sure, how do I know?
Nikita: Run your program.
Jamey: Nothing's coming up. The program's not running.
Nikita: It is running, you just didn't recycle it.
Jamey: I forgot how, I'm just going to drop him.
Nikita: Do you see the A register?
Jamey: No, I'm just going to shoot.
Nikita: Don't shoot, they could be innocent. Wait there. (she starts running,
goes back down the building to help Jamey)
Birkoff: 30 seconds.
Nikita: Where?
Jamey: Second floor, lit window.
Nikita: They're innocents.
(Michael pushes in the square, shoots several men, enters. He shoots
through a window and dives and rolls as another man shoots at him. He
jumps through a window and drops a man as he's flying through the air.)
Birkoff: OK, all units in.
Michael: Nikita, where are you?
Nikita: Right here. I thought I heard a hostile on the stairs.
Michael: Let's go.
(The captured operative is hanging by her feet inside the room)
Scene 5: Section One, Ready Room, Jamey enters; Nikita is already there.
Jamey: Hey. I didn't even know this area existed. I always wondered if
there was someplace we could talk.
Nikita: When I tell you to meet me at two minutes past the hour, that's
when you show up. Well, this place tolerates no mistakes, you should get
used to it. (she punches him in the stomach and smacks him upside the
head)
Jamey: What are you doing??
Nikita: I'm giving you a fraction of what you deserve for what you did to
Sheridan.
Jamey: Sheridan? What'd I do to him?
Nikita: Sold him dope that killed him. Recall?
Jamey: I was messed up back then. Nikita, I think we all were, come on.
You going to help me out here or not?
Nikita: I don't know yet.
Jamey: I could use some help, from a friend.
Nikita: I'm not your friend. I was never your friend, Jamey.
Jamey: Well, you're the closest thing I've got in this place. Did you tell
them I screwed up in the alley?
Nikita: No, not yet.
Jamey: Good, don't.
Nikita: (Grabs him by the jacket) You don't talk to me like that, Jamey!
Jamey: You want to do this? You know one thing you were always good
at? Making deals. Pack of cigarettes, place to crash, remember?
Nikita: What's your deal?
Jamey: It's real simple. You help me, I'll help you.
Nikita: You don't have anything that I want.
Jamey: What about your mother?
Scene 6: Section One, Munitions Walter is working, an operative named
Joe comes up.
Joe: Hey Walter.
Walter: Oh, hey Joe, let's take a look. (he takes the PDA) They got you
running recon in Belize?
Joe: Two days on the beach, you know, I can't say I mind.
Walter: I used to know a girl who lived outside the city, you know, we're
talking old life.
Joe: Yeah?
Walter: Yeah.
Joe: So?
Walter: Come back here, get an address, pick it up…and then maybe you
could take a couple of flicks? (He gestures like a camera snapping) Huh?
Huh? (Joe smiles) I owe you, Joe.
Joe: Yeah, you do.
Scene 7: Section One, hallway Nikita and Jamey talking, Nikita nervous,
pacing.
Nikita: So tell me about my mother.
Jamey: I know where she is.
Nikita: Where?
Jamey: This was a deal point, remember?
Nikita: I didn't report you, Jamey. If you don't screw up again, I won't
report you. That's the deal. Where is she?
Jamey: Last I heard, she was looking for you.
Nikita: Why?
Jamey: Well, she didn't believe that you'd kill yourself. She kept trying to
get them to produce a body, and when they didn't, she was convinced you
were still alive. She even hired a detective to find you. And now I know
why he didn't.
Nikita: I don't believe you, she wouldn't do that.
Jamey: She did, when she stopped drinking, she changed.
Nikita: Stopped drinking?
Jamey: Yeah.
Nikita: Where's she live?
Jamey: Why? You can't go back there anyway, isn't that like rule number
one?
Nikita: Just tell me where she lives.
Jamey: Oak Bluffs.
Scene 8: Section One, Nikita running information on a computer terminal,
searching for Roberta Wirth. Michael walks up beside her.
Michael: What are you doing?
Nikita: Just filling in some gaps from yesterday's mobile. So how's the
operative we recovered? Groves?
Michael: She never gave up Krakow.
Nikita: So we're on schedule?
Michael: We leave Friday.
Nikita: Anything happening between now and then?
Michael: It's yours. I'm down tomorrow.
Nikita: Yeah.
Michael: You want to spend the day together?
Nikita: Well, I'd like that Michael, but I've already made plans. Perhaps
another time? (Michael walks away)
Scene 9: An office building. Nikita, disguised with a short wig, enters
and stops to ask a question.
Nikita: Where's Raymond?
She then goes to a cubicle where she draws a gun and puts it to a man's
head. The man is Roberta's private detective, Raymond.
Raymond: Yes? (She types a few things on his computer) What is this?
Nikita: That's a closed-circuit live feed. That's your wife? My partner's
waiting to hear from me. If you don't cooperate…do you need details?
Raymond: No. What do you want?
Nikita: Pull up the file on Roberta Wirth.
Raymond: Roberta?
Nikita: Yeah.
Raymond: There it is.
Nikita: Who's James Lowe?
Raymond: MI-6
Nikita: What have you told him?
Raymond: I asked him to check into the missing daughter. He, uh, knows
about some agencies I don't have access to.
Nikita: What did he say?
Raymond: Nothing. He hasn't gotten back to me yet.
Nikita: Okay. So here's what you're going to do. You're going to call Mr.
Lowe, you're going to cancel your request. Make up something believable.
Raymond: And what about Roberta?
Nikita: You're also going to call her and tell her you're off the case. You're
passing the file along to a colleague. (She pauses as they both watch the
monitor) Very pretty, your wife. Very pretty.
Scene 10: Roberta's apartment. She's on the phone being informed her
case has been transferred.
Roberta: What do you mean, you're handing over the case? Miles, what's
going on?
Raymond: Another case, it's taken priority. I'm sorry Roberta, I just can't
put in the time this deserves.
Roberta: Well, who's going to take over the case then?
Raymond: I'll have someone contact you. I've got to go now Roberta.
Scene 11: Nikita's apartment. She's restless, playign wtth her hair.
Flashbacks - Nikita as a child, lying on a little chaise. Her mother comes
in and gets in bed with her, eating, passes the food to the little girl to
share. Then she flashes back to the same scene, music is playing.
Roberta: Hey, that's a waltz. Want me to teach you how to do it? Come.
(Nikita is dreaming of her mother and herself waltzing. An old car is in
the background)
Scene 12: Section One, Madeline's office. Joe enters.
Joe: Did you want to see the report on Belize?
Madeline: Sit down. Granting personal favors for other operatives violates
Section code. May I have the pictures, please? Thank you.
Joe: (hands her a camera; she types and the pictures come up on screen)
I told Walter. I knew it was a bad idea. But he said it wouldn't hurt since I
was going to be in the country anyway.
I mean, what the hell, right?
(She is scanning the pictures of Walter's friend past a line of female
operatives, looking for a close match)
Joe: You know I've never done anything like this before. This isn't going to
be a problem is it?
Madeline: Please give this to Walter. (She hands the camera back to him)
Joe: What do I tell him?
Madeline: Tell him these are the photographs you took and that there's a
contact number in the camera's text field. You put it in for him.
Joe: Are we cool?
Madeline: I'll have to review your record before I decide whether I'm going
to put you in abeyance.
Joe: Please. Look, I will never do this again-
Madeline: (she cuts him off) Walter's waiting.
Scene 13: Section One, Munitions. Joe comes to Walter and gives him the
camera.
Walter: Hey man, good to see you. So how'd it go?
Joe: It was okay.
Walter: So, did you find Lita?
Joe: Yeah, here.
Walter: This is great, this is excellent. Well how about you? Did you have
a good time?
Joe: I attached a phone number for you. It's in the camera.
Walter: Hey amigo, you are mas macho….gracias!
Scene 14: Section One, Michael's office - Nikita enters
Nikita: Can I talk to you?
Michael: I'm busy.
Nikita: It's important. (She enters, sits) I uh…I need a favor. Something
from my old life's come up.
Michael: What?
Nikita: My mother.
Michael: What about her?
Nikita: She's been looking for me. She doesn't believe I'm dead.
Michael: How close is she?
Nikita: She had an indirect connection to someone at MI-6. I severed it.
But she'll keep trying.
Michael: Have you talked to anyone in Procedures?
Nikita: No. They'll take extreme action. I want to protect her, Michael.
Michael: What do you want me to do?
Scene 15: Roberta's apartment. Michael is there.
Roberta: I…I don't understand the connection. I mean, do you work at
Breamare with Miles?
Michael: No, I'm an independent investigator. Sometimes Miles and I help
each other out.
Roberta: This just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, Miles was so
committed to finding Nikita.
Michael: One of the reasons Miles called me is I have deeper connections
in the intelligence community. And if you're daughter's alive, that's how
we'll find her.
Roberta: Oh, um. Okay. Well, um, excuse all the clutter here. I, um, I didn't
know what was important and what wasn't, so I just kept everything. (She
has pictures and newspaper clippings about Nikita pasted all over the
walls)
Michael: Is that her?
Roberta: Uh-huh.
Michael: I'll get on the case right away.
Scene 16: Belize, a garden. Walter and Lita, a woman about his own age,
looks Polynesian.
Lita: I can't believe you're here. It's you. Ay, hombre tanto tiempo.
Walter; I'm here, and it's me.
Lita: The years have been hard. I'm afraid I'm not the woman I used to be.
Walter: Don't say that Lita, you're beautiful You know what this reminds
me of? The time we were at the party in Belize and we had to run into the
garden because it was the only place we could find to be alone.
Lita: My little cousin would never leave.
Walter: Oh, her. What was her name?
Lita: Era….Maria.
Walter: Maria, that's it.
Lita: I used to worry that you thought she was prettier than I was.
Walter: Get out of here, there's nobody prettier than you, Lita. Not then,
and not now.
Lita: Stop it, Walter. You're embarrassing me. Si me da pena.
Walter: That's something else I miss.
Lita: Que?
Walter: What you did just then, with the flower? Put it in your hair like that.
Nobody but you.
Lita: So what have you been doing all these years?
Walter: Uh - consulting, working for different companies.
Lita: What kind of consulting?
Walter: Nothing really important.
Lita: Don't you want to tell me about your life?
Walter: Yes I do.
Lita: Pues?
Walter: I can't.
Lita: Were you involved in something bad?
Walter: Oh, no. I'm not a criminal or anything like that.
Lita: Entonces, no entiendo.
Walter: I work at a place that doesn't exist. No, I mean it - it exists. Sounds
crazy, doesn't it? I - I work for an organization called Section One. It's not
important. Not now. It's not important. (He kisses her on the cheek)
Scene 17: Section One, Michael's office.
Nikita: How did it go?
Michael: She's closer than I expected. She wasn't just relying on the
investigator. She has other sources.
Nikita: So what do we do?
Michael: She's not going to stop until she finds you.
Nikita: (voice breaking) I know how this has to end. I'd just like to see her
first and, uh…talk to her.
Michael: You know this can't happen.
Nikita: Why not? Because they tell us it can't? You know that my whole
life I - I lived with a mother that was a drunk. She couldn't hear me,
couldn't talk to me…But the other day, when I saw her, it was like I saw
her for the first time and all those horrible things … just gone. I've never
seen her like that. Please…Let me do this. Please. She needs me to forgive
her. That's why she's looking for me.
Scene 18: Section One. Madeline walks onto an upper level and observes
Birkoff working with a group of new operatives, Jamey among them.
Birkoff: We're ten kilometers from a population center. The building has
third-level target security. There's no indications of air base defense. Lewis,
where's our greatest exposure?
Lewis: Our target isn't problematic. It's the local authorities we have to
worry about.
Birkoff: Good. Jamey, why?
Jamey: It has something to do with egress.
Birkoff: No. Anyone?
Nikita: Actually, Jamey's partially right. (Madeline, watching, looks
interested at Nikita's defense of Jamey) According to the panel, local
authorities have mixed allegiences. If we get caught mid-op, we couldn't
invoke immunity.
Birkoff: That's right. The team would be treated as criminals.
Jamey: So we'd be detained by the locals?
Birkoff: No. It wouldn't go that far. Air support would incinerate the entire
area. There'd be no one left to be detained.
(Madeline, thoughtful, walks away. Nikita notices.)
Scene 19: Section One. Adjacent to Egress. Jamey and Nikita.
Jamey: I just don't understand the sequences! Why don't they just tell me
what to do in plain English?
Nikita: Jamey, it's going to be okay. Look at me. Look at my face. I'm
going to be listening on the E channel. There'll be no problems, I'll make
sure of it.
Jamey: I'm not going to make it.
Nikita: Yes you will. Don't forget, these people went to a lot of trouble to
put you here. All right? And I remember once watching you walk into a
drugstore and rip it off. You had no fear. You were in complete control.
That's all they want.
Jamey: All right. You're going to be there, right?
Nikita: Yes. You should go. It's time to load.
Scene 20: Section One, Egress.
Michael: Nikita.
Michael: You're not going out on this one.
Nikita: Why not?
Michael: Personnel change.
Nikita: (to Jamey) Good luck. (to Michael) What's going on?
Michael: If we're going to solve your problem, we have to do it now.
Scene 21: Section One, Madeline's office. Madeline is at her desk and
Operations is standing there. The woman Walter thought was Lita walks
in. She's really an operative named Beverly.
Operations: Sit here, please.
Madeline: Hello Beverly. That's a very pretty dress, did you get it here in
the city?
Beverly: Yes.
Operations: So, tell us about your meeting with Walter.
Beverly: We were together for six hours and 20 minutes. He picked me up
at the airport; we had dinner and went to the public gardens.
Madeline: What was his emotional state?
Beverly: He was nervous at first, but he loosened up.
Madeline: When?
Beverly: I guess it was when we went to the gardens. Or maybe it was me
who was nervous. (she smiles) I was worried that he might suspect that I
wasn't Lita.
Operations: Did he mention Section?
Beverly: No.
Operations: What did he say he'd been doing all these years?
Beverly: Working for a defense contractor. Doing R and D.
Operations: So you're saying he maintained integrity?
Beverly: Definitely.
Madeline: Thank you Beverly. You've been very helpful.
(Beverly leaves, Operations and Madeline exchange knowing looks)
Operations: Was it a clear signal?
Antonia: (on Madeline's monitor) Yes. Baseline on the dress. Time on the
meeting was 1.3. Emotional state 1.8. Location 1.6. Integrity, 7.4.
Madeline: Thank you, Antonia.
Operations: Walter betrayed the Section.
Madeline: What would you like to do?
Operations: Perhaps he was just purging and it's a one time event.
Madeline: Possible. Or it could be the start of a behavioral change.
Operations: No. I'm not going to cancel Walter. I owe him for Belinda.
Madeline: What would you like to do about Beverly?
Operations: Beverly?
Madeline: She lied to protect Walter. She must have formed an emotional
bond.
Operations: You're right. Take care of it.
Scene 22: Roberta's apartment. Michael knocks on her door, she opens it.
Michael: Hi.
Roberta: Come in.
Michael: I found your daughter.
Scene 23: Sign says "Hospital Central". Michael and Roberta enter and
he takes her to a room.
Michael: This way.
(Nikita lies in bed, pretending to be unconscious)
Roberta: (gasps) My baby. My baby, what have they done to you? What
have they done?
Michael: When she was in prison, they offered her an alternative to
incarceration. To be a part of a high risk, top secret medical experiment.
She knew what she was getting into.
Roberta: How could they do this?
Michael: Well, these things happen all the time.
Roberta: Is there any hope for her?
Michael: The damage is total.
Roberta: Then why are they keeping her like this?
Michael: They were planning to use her body parts to do some other
experiments. But I was able to gain her release
Roberta: You - you mean I can take her home?
Michael: No. But you can set her free. I'll let you say goodbye to her.
(Michael leaves)
Roberta: Nikita? Nikita? I was never a mother to you. You know, when I -
I think back on our time together, I feel like my heart is ripping out,
and I'm so ashamed. I … What I need to say to you, sweetie, the reason
I tried so hard to find you, is - is - that - that wasn't me. This is me. And
you're in my heart. And you always have been. And you al - you always
will be. You know…you know I'm sure that there's - there's one memory
in there - a fond memory - and that if you really try hard enough you can
find it. Please. I want…I want you to find it, please, and take it with you.
(kisses her forehead)
(Nikita thinks of the dance)
(Roberta slowly emerges from Nikita's room, falls against a wall sighing,
then speaks to Michael)
Roberta: I want her taken off life support and her organs donated to
someone who can use them.
(Roberta leaves, Michael goes back inside…Nikita opens wet eyes and
starts crying.)
Scene 24: Section One, Madeline's office. Madeline is at her desk;
Nikita enters.
Madeline: Yes, Nikita?
Nikita: Have they come back from Surinam?
Madeline: Yes, they have. Why?
Nikita: How did Jamey do?
Madeline: Well.
Nikita: So, he'll move on to his next rotation.
Madeline: Yes, he will. You've taken an interest in him.
Nikita: It's more than that. I know him. We grew up in the same
neighborhood together. We weren't friends. In fact I didn't want anything
to do with him, but I did know him and I wanted to tell you that.
Madeline: I'm glad you did.
Scene 25: Section One, View of common area from Operations loft.
Walter and Nikita meet up.
Walter: Hi sugar!
Nikita: Hi Walter. Is Michael in his office?
Walter: Yeah, he just went in. So how are you doing?
Nikita: I'm okay.
Walter: Mmmmm….You look just as beautiful as ever.
Nikita: So, I gather you had a very good time on your days off?
Walter: No, good doesn't cover it. It transcends good, great, excellent, on
its way to splendido.
Nikita: So, are you going to see her again?
Walter: No, I just wanted to see her this once. She's got a life of her own.
But it was, um…
Nikita: It was…
Walter growls suggestively and walks away.
Operations watches, walks away from the windows.
Scene 26: Section One, Michael's office. Nikita enters.
Nikita: I just wanted to … say thank you. That's the kindest thing you've
ever done for me. Thank you. (She goes to leave, hesitates, returns, kisses
him, leaves the office…they look at each other through the blinds)
The End
