Teaser: Section One, Comm Center.
Chaos - something is going on. Operations comes hurriedly up to Birkoff.
Operations: What is it, Birkoff?
Birkoff: We have an airlock penetration in the east portal.
Operations: Someone's inside?
Birkoff: Something's inside.
Voice:Unidentified gas in the east portal.File breach.Convert to forced 02
Operatives grab for gas masks. Unidentified operative's voice: Put them on,
quickly! People running everywhere, pulling on masks. Birkoff hands one
to Operations who pulls it on.
Operations: Invert the air vents!
Birkoff does so - we see the gas being sucked back into the ventilations
ducts.
Voice: Inversion complete. Biohazard contained. Comm clear. Systems clear.
Tactical clear. Ordinance clear.
Everybody pulls their masks off, looking concerned.
Scene Two: Section One, Operations Perch.
Ops is on the phone with Mr. Old and Cranky. Madeline enters as he's
talking.
Operations: I understand George, but there were no casualties. Everything
was contained. We're running down possibilities now. I understand but -
I see no reason for you - yes.
Madeline: George thinks we were compromised by the breach in security.
Operations: He's sending a biomed team in to examine us all. Starting with
department heads and key operatives.
Madeline: We have our own med techs who can do that.
Operations: He's afraid that what hit us was a virus. Similar to what
happened to Section Six. They were helpless to do anything, so he's going
to oversee this personally. Which means his people, under his complete
control. Should we be suspicious?
Madeline: I sent him productivity numbers after the incident. We're at
full capacity. What's his rationale?
Operations: He seems to think some of us were infected with a new strain.
Madeline: Do you?
Operations: No.
Madeline leaves before she can see that Operations has sweat running down
the opposite side of his face.
Scene Three - Section One, Systems.
Nikita is reviewing data, Michael comes up to look over her shoulder.
Michael: Anything?
Nikita: The P.J.K. are clean. So is Crimson Storm.
Michael: Black Sun?
Nikita: They wouldn't attempt anything as big as this.
Michael: Sweep them anyway.
Nikita: Okay. Oh, jeez. I'm sorry, I'm tired.
Michael: Move over.
He sits down to help her work, and looks at her, concerned.
Scene Four - Section One, Operations Perch.
Operations leans out over the perch. He's sweating quite heavily.
He darkens the perch and sits down. His intercom buzzes.
Voice: Sir?
Operations: Yes?
Voice: The bio-tech team has arrived.
Operations: Show them to the infirmary.
Scene Five - Section One, Van Access.
The biotechs enter. Scary looking SOB's to be sure.
Scene Six - Section One, Munitions
Birkoff: Walter, you done with that triangulator?(Birkoff notices
Walter is sweating and pale)You okay?
Walter: Yeah - I - I don't know, whatever it is that blew into that
airlock, it sort of reshuffled my deck just a little bit.
Birkoff: Don't worry about it. Oversight's sending a bio team to
examine us.
Walter: Oh yeah, don't worry about it. Yeah, what do you think they're
going to do when they find out I've been infected? Huh? This is not
a convalescent home!(His cell phone rings and he answers)Yeah? Oh...I'll
be right there. They want to see me in the infirmary.
Scene Seven - Section One, Med Lab.
Walter enters warily.
Tech1: Walter.
Walter: Yeah, it's me. Fit as a fiddle.
Tech1: Come in.
Walter: Why don't you just give me a couple aspirins and I'll call
myself in the morning?
Tech1: Lie down.(They hook up an I.V.)
Walter: What's that stuff?
Tech1: It's a sedative.
Walter: Any particular reason why I need that?
Tech: Our bio probe requires the subject to be asleep.
Walter: Bio probe?
Tech: You may feel light headed; may even hallucinate.
Walter: Haven't done that in years.
Walter flashes back: Lita asking him about his life
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.
Walter flashes back to his confrontation with Operations in
Threshold of Pain:
Walter: All of a sudden out of the clear blue sky, you come down hear
to say thanks for the good work. What do you want me to do, wag my tail,
if you want something from me, just come out and say it(screwing up his
face as he says it. Operations didn't look)
Operations(angry) Look I just stopped by to give you - give you a pat
on the back.
Walter(offended) I don't need a pat on the back. I've been doing this job
since before you came to Section, and I can probably do your job too
(smirking, Operations impressed, and he also looked pissed)
Operations: Really.
Walter: Really.
Operations: One of these days you're going to carry this cranky old man
act a little too far.
Walter: What then - you won't commend me to Oversight?
Walter flashes back to telling Nikita about seeing Lita.
Walter: 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.
Walter flashes back to his confrontation with Madeline in Playing
With Fire.
Madeline: Did you really think you could get away with this?
Walter: It doesn't matter. It's what they wanted. It's called living.
Madeline: Living.
Walter: Look it up, it's in the dictionary.
Madeline: Walter, you're a 60 year old teenager.(Walter smiles and takes
a bow) Walter back on the bed. The techs are typing. They remove a
small disk.
Computer says "Neural scrape complete".
Scene Eight - Section One, Med Lab.
Operations enters as they are wheeling Walter past.
Operations: How is Walter?
Tech1: I'm afraid he's been infected.
Operations:(Leans down - concerned? Whoa!)Walter? Why doesn't he respond?
Tech1: The infection caused a neural meltdown.
Operations: He was fine when he came in here.
Tech1: It's incredible, we know. In fact, we've never seen anything quite
like it beforfe.
Tech2: We're labbing it now. But my guess is, whatever entered his system
worked on the same principle as a computer virus. Deleting the neural
zones like an accelerated Alzheimer's Disease.
Operations: So he doesn't know who I am?
Tech2: Or anyone else for that matter. His mind has been wiped clean.
Operations: I want all biodata on my desk as soon as it comes in.
Tech1: You'll have to get George's permission.
Operations:(grabs him violently)As long as you're working on my Section
on my people, you'll do as I say!
Tech1: Very well. Would you send Nikita in, please?
Operations releases him. He is looking very worried indeed.
Scene Nine - Section One, Operations Perch.
Madeline enters. This time, Operations' condition is obvious - he's
sweating heavily, looks terrible. And she has seen that the
perch is darkened.
Madeline:(anxiously) Paul?
Operations: I'm fine.
Madeline: Then why are you-
Operations: I just got back from seeing how Walter's check-up was going.
Madeline: How is he?
Operations: He's a vegetable. Seems that the attack was considerably more
successful than we first expected.
Madeline: Then George was right.
Operations: Yes. But how could he have been so certain? You think George
could have been behind this attack?
Madeline: We went to war with the man. It's possible this is his
retribution.
Operations: Debilitation is grounds for cancellation.
Madeline: I know.
Operations: Despite all our preventative measures, it seems that George has
finally found a way to get rid of us - once and for all.
Scene Ten - Section One, Med Lab.
They have Nikita on the table.
Tech: You may feel light headed, even hallucinate. It's very normal. Just
relax, Nikita. This will all be over very soon.
The tech types on his keyboard.
Nikita lies there, starts to flash back.
Michael: You're not in prison anymore. The world thinks you're dead.
Suicide. This is your funeral.(He hands her a photograph)Row 8, plot 30.
Michael: This is where you'll train. This is where you'll learn. After two
years, if everything goes well, you'll work for us.
Nikita: Why me?
Cut to Nikita attacking Michael, same scene. He flips her on the ground:
Michael: When you attack someone from behind, go for the kidneys.
It disables and they can't fight back. Consider that your first lesson.
Nikita: I don't want - I don't want lessons!
(Michael gets up)
Michael: We start tomorrow at 5 a.m.
Nikita: (still lying on her back) And if I don't want to?
Michael: (points at her)Row 8, plot 30. (He leaves)
Nikita flashes back to "Choice", the hotel scene
Michael: There's a removable panel behind the blue towels. Tell me when
you've opened it. (She throws the towels out)
Nikita: Okay, it's open.(There's a gun behind it)
Michael: Pull out the unit and assemble.(She does)
Michael: Go to the window and open it.
Nikita breaks the window and shoots the target.
Nikita: Done.
Nikita flashes back to asking Walter why she's here from Outside The Box.
Nikita: The crime that got Section's attention - the reason I'm
here? I didn't do it.
Walter: Well that may be true but what the hell difference does it make now?
Nikita: Suppose I was framed in the first place, because they wanted
me here?
Walter: Why?
Nikita: Yeah, why?
Nikita flashes back to "Friend" - Michael leaping through the window to save
her life as she hangs suspended and tortured. Michael tenderly taking her
down from the hook. Nikita flashes back to Escape: Michael in her
apartment.
Michael: No one from the outside can understand who we are.
Hand dance scene begins.
Michael: We fight all the time just to stay alive. Let's not fight what's
between us. Let's take what we can get.
Back to the present - Computer says: Neural Scrape complete.
Scene Eleven - Section One, Operations Perch.
Michael enters; Madeline and Operations are already there.
Operations: You've heard?
Michael: They think Nikita's infected.
Madeline: Michael, we believe that the virus might have come from in-house.
Operations: We think George might be behind it.
Michael: Why?
Operations: We don't know yet. But we can't make a move until we
have a confirm.
Madeline: What we do know is that the team George sent is doing
nothing to cure us.
Operations: They're here with another objective and it has something to do
with erasing our minds.
Operations' intercom beeps.
Voice: Sir?
Operations: Yes.
Voice: They want you in the infirmary now.
Operations: Tell them I'm on my way.(Intercom cuts off)We can't tip our
hand just yet. Michael, find out if this is George's doing and then proceed
accordingly.
Michael: Of course.
Michael leaves; Operations and Madeline trade a look.
Scene Twelve - Section One, Med Lab.
Operations is flashing back Scene where he is reassigned from Sympathy
For the Devil
Operations: What's going on?
Soldier: You're being reassigned
Operations at the wall, looking at his name.
Operations watching Corinne on video from "Love and Country".
Corinne: He was killed during the war. Actually, he was missing in action.
We never recovered the body. He was an intelligence officer in the
military. But I worked through that years ago. What I'm feeling now has
nothing to do with Paul.
Operations telling Nikita about Stephen.
Operations: No one knows about this but you and me, and make sure it stays
that way. Above all, Steven is never to know anything about this
conversation or about me.
Nikita: So what-s so special about Steven Wolfe?
Operations: He-s my son.
Operations at the beginning of "Half Life"; he's given Madeline a necklace.
Operations: Did you like it?
Madeline: Oh, the necklace is lovely. Here.(she gives it back)
Operations: You don't want it?
Madeline: Let's not open things up again. We're both much too busy.
Operations and Madeline in the tower in "Last Night"; clicking
champagne glasses.
Operations: Remember this song?
Madeline: Of course.
He takes her glass and places it back on the table, takes her hands and
they begin to dance. Operations flashes back to learning that Stephen
is dead.
Scene Thirteen - Section One, Med Lab.
Michael enters.
Tech2: Uh, you can't come in here. We're in the middle of an examination.
Michael says nothing, goes to find Nikita.
Michael: Nikita? She doesn't respond.
Michael walks back into Comm - a man on a mission.
Scene Fourteen - Section One, Comm Center.
Birkoff: How's Nikita?
Michael: Not good.
Birkoff: And Walter?
Michael shakes his head.
Birkoff: The biotechs are doing something to them, aren't they?
Michael: Maybe.
Birkoff: If they are, we have to do something, Michael. Operations is in
there. Two bullets, that's all you need.
Michael: What we need are answers.
Birkoff: It's impossible to jack into their mainframe. They're running
juice off their own power cells. That means they're not even wired into our
system.
Michael: Can you reroute their power?
Birkoff: Yeah, but I'd have to do it myself.
Michael gives him a stare like, DUH!
Birkoff gets up and leaves.
Scene Fifteen - Section One, Med Lab
Birkoff: You wanted to see me?
Tech1: Um, who are you?
Birkoff: Birkoff.
Tech2: Seymour? Yes. We'll see you shortly. Return to your post - we'll
call you.
Birkoff goes to their computer after they walk away and starts typing.
It says "connect to Mainframe"
Tech2: You still here?
Birkoff: Yeah. I'm not feeling very well.
Tech2: That's why we're here.
Scene Sixteen - Section One, Comm Center. Birkoff returns.
Birkoff: Piece of cake. Okay, I'm in their system.
Madeline: Can you identify the virus?
Birkoff: It's nothing.
Michael: What do you mean?
Birkoff: There's no real virus. No treatment.
Madeline: That's impossible. We're all feeling something.
Birkoff: It's a surface bug. It's a stimulant to make us feel as if
we're sick.
Madeline: How long does it last?
Birkoff: Depends on the contamination level. No more than 24 to 36
hours. Then it's gone.
Madeline: George needs us to think we're sick so we'll submit to
treatment.
Birkoff: This can't be right.
Madeline: What is it?
Birkoff: It's a black directive.
Madeline: Read it.
Birkoff: It's a cancellation order with a list of names. We're all on it.
Michael: If George wants us dead, why the ruse?
Birkoff: He's ordered a neural download first.
Michael: They're stealing our minds.
Madeline: To extract our expertise.(She looks up at Michael)George needs
us, but can't risk having us around for fear of insurrection. By harvesting
our consciousness, George will be able to build a tactical library. Once
he's done, he'll exercise the ultimate power. Nonresistant Section
operatives with years of training at the touch of a button.
Scene Seventeen - Section One - Med Lab
Tech picks up a minidisc and types some more. "Prepare next subject"
Scene Eighteen - Section One - Comm Center.
Madeline: Can the process be reversed?
Birkoff: If it's like a computer virus, the data they mine can be
uploaded as well as downloaded.
Birkoff's phone rings. Nobody wants to answer - it's like the
bill collector calling.
Finally Birkoff does.
Birkoff: Yeah. (He passes the phone to Madeline)
Madeline: I'll be right there.
Birkoff: You can't go.
Michael: She has to or George will know something's up.
Madeline: We have an advantage now. If we can block the process, one of you
can move tactically and reverse what they've done to us.
Birkoff: How? How do we stop them from stealing our minds?
Madeline: A neural blocker was developed shortly after the Gelman process
was greenlighted. A fail safe measure in case Operations was ever subjected
to the mind control process. You'll find the chemical components in his
private data bank. I'll give you the codes. I think with some
modifications, it will work.(She looks up - she and Michael look at each
other. It's interesting seeing these two scared but refusing to show it.)
Birkoff: And if it doesn't?
Madeline: It has to.
Scene Nineteen - Section One - Med Lab.
Madeline walks in, head held high, going to face ... whatever.
Tech1: Madeline, how are you feeling today?
Scene Twenty - Section One - Operations Perch.
Birkoff enters the perch. Goes to Ops' wall computer and types.
Scene Twenty-One - Section One.Can't tell exactly where.
Michael walks through Section. He's got some kind of a briefcase like
device. He puts it on the counter, flips it open. Birkoff returns.
Birkoff: I got it. The neural blocker from the Gelman process. You think
Operations will believe this is all I extracted from his computer? We
could have had a field day with some of the file names I saw.
Michael: The chemical breakdown?
Birkoff: It's all here.
Scene Twenty-Two - Section One - Med Lab.
Sensors are attached to Madeline's head. Madeline's flashbacks.
From "Gambit", Madeline apprehensive about dealing with Kessler:
Nikita: Are you sure there's nothing wrong?
Madeline: Sometimes I don't know if I'm still strong enough to do this.
Nikita: Well, you're the strongest person I've ever met.
Madeline laughs.
From "New Regime": Madeline watches as Operations lies on the operating
table after Kronen shot him.
Doctor: I'm sorry, he's not going to make it. It's just a question of how
long he stays on life support. Will you be making that decision?
Madeline: I already have. I've decided that he's going to recover. I'll
help you.(Maddy pulls out a gun and points it at the doctor.)Go back
inside, tell your colleagues to do the possible, then the impossible, then
the unthinkable, until he is out of danger. Because when you are finished,
doctor, that room will contain either four living men, or four corpses.
Do you understand?
Doctor: Ok.
From "Rescue": Madeline hotwires a Mercedes.
Nikita: You'll have to tell me about yourself someday, Madeline.
Madeline: Someday. Get in.
From "Psychic Pilgrim": Madeline meets up with her mother again.
Madeline: Hello, mother. I've been thinking a lot about you lately ...
about us. You don't know who I am, do you?
No response.
Madeline: I didn't think so. After Sarah died, I made a choice. Of course,
I didn't realize it was a choice at the time, but it was a choice. I chose
to be the person you saw, the girl who killed her sister. Then I created
my own hell, and have lived in it ever since.
Scene Twenty-Three - Section One.
Birkoff: We're still off the mark.
Michael: Maybe the blocker only works if it's stimulated.
Birkoff: Maybe we have to subject ourselves to the process in order for
it to work.
Phone rings.
Birkoff: Don't answer it.
Michael: We have to.
Birkoff: We're not finished.(Michael answers the phone, listens, hangs
up) They want me?
Michael: Right now.
Birkoff: I'm not going.
Michael: You don't have a choice.
Birkoff: Michael -
Michael: Go. I'll finish it.
Birkoff: Remember, the catalytic response we're looking for will turn this
green. What we have now won't work.
Michael: Go.
Birkoff: You're our only chance.
Scene Twenty-Four - Section One, Med Lab.
Birkoff is in Med Lab. Flashback time.
Nikita: How'd you get into Section?
Birkoff: I killed my entire family.(He sees her look)I'm kidding. Just
my sister. Now he's thinking about the time Nikita took him outside
of Section in "Noise". BIRKOFF: You, me. The two of us. Why not? You're the
best looking girl in Section . . . and you care about me, right?
Nikita: Sure I care.
Birkoff: Then what's the problem? I'm a little brother, right.
Now he's flashing back to his love scene with Abby in "Cat and Mouse".
Then to his mission with Walter in "Into The Looking Glass"
Birkoff: It's called CR-14. If even a small drop enters through a pore
in the skin, death is almost instantaneous.(Terrogamo suddenly gets
a strange look on his face) Oops, I may have spilled some when I was
pouring it into the vial.
Scene Twenty-Five - Section One.
Michael's phone rings
Michael: I'm on my way.
He pulls the vial of chemicals out that he's been working on. Next scene
he is lying back in MedLab. The IV starts.
Michael's flashbacks - he sees Simone again, alive, in "Simone":
"It's me,Simone." He walks slowly toward her. "Do you remember me?
You're okay now. You're safe now." Simone cries softly, slowly lowering herself to the
floor. Michael takes her arm. "You're safe now." He holds her, whispering,
"You're safe. It's okay."
Then "War" - in the cages with Nikita.
Michael: We're okay so far. When I was in there and it started to get bad-
Nikita: Michael, don't, save your strength.
Michael continuing: I thought I was gonna break, but I didn-t. I though
of you. You-re the only one of us who still has a soul.
Michael then flashes back to the video from SES where he and Adam are
planting the tree in the yard. Then, suddenly - everything rewinds and
alarms go off.
Tech1: Something's wrong.
Tech2: He's red lining!
Tech1: Cut the power
Tech2: It's not working!
Tech1: Pull the plug!
Tech2: What the Hell? Did you hotwire into Section?
Tech1: No.
Michael jumps to his feet, grabs Tech1 by the throat, shoots and kills
Tech2. WOO HOO GO MICHAEL!
Tech1: Look, I was given orders!
Michael: So was I.
Scene Twenty-Six: Oversight.
George answers his phone.
George: Yes.
Tech1: We're done.
George: I'm on my way.
Scene Twenty-Seven: Section One, Med Lab.
George and Tech1 walk into Med Lab. George looks at the bodies lying there.
George: Where's Michael?
Michael appears and tasers George in the neck. Hey Old Cranky Guy, I
guess you found him!
Michael: (to Tech1) Take him to the lab.
Michael uploads everybody's mind again. Nikita stirs.
Nikita: Michael?
He gently takes the apparatus off her head.
Michael: It's over.
Everybody else is waking up.
Operations: Were our suspicions correct?
Michael: Yes.
Operations: Will George know he failed?
Michael: I've taken care of that.
Scene Twenty Eight - Section One - Comm Center
Life is back to normal. Michael struts in gracefully.
Tag: Section One, Committee Room.
George, Madeline and Operations are present.
Operations: Did you get my proposal on the Madang tactical situation?
George: Yes, I did.
Operations: I'm going to need a manpower upgrade for all of Santa Cruz.
George: Request granted.
Operations: And the ADI project? As you know I sent you the intel
report last month.
George: I'll see that you get it.
Operations: Thank you.
George: Anything else?
Operations: No. (He is REALLY HAPPY)
George: Madeline?
Madeline: I have a few requests. I'll forward them to you.
George: Great. Do you - do you two have time for a drink?
Madeline: I'm afraid we're very busy.
Operations: That will be all George. You can go now.
George: Right.
George gets up and leaves. Madeline smiles. The message is clear - George's
brain is fried and Ops and Maddy are home free!
The End
