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Tease: We're in Nikita's apartment and you see Mick's face in the video cam.
Mick: Luv you in there? (he knocks on the door) I really need to speak with you.
(He knocks some more. Finally the door opens and there's Nikita. Mick walks in
and makes himself at home.)
Mick: Good. You're here. We have something critical to discuss.... (he spots
Michael lying on Nikita's bed). Ooh, didn't know you had company. Hello,
Michael. Everything well with you? Business good?
Michael: Hello Mick
Mick: Don't get up on account of me .... I'll be gone in two shakes. Don't want to
be the cold shower that comes between you two.
Nikita: What did you want, Mick?
Mick: Right, what do you know about dancing?
Nikita: You move your body to the music. What else is there to know?
Mick: Clearly you've never seen me move. Sure I know a few twists and turns. I
mean, I know the hustle. I know the locomotion and the white man's underbite.
But I seem to have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle.
Nikita: Will you just get to the point, please.
Mick: I need to take ballroom dancing lessons and I want you to be my partner.
Nikita: Mick, I can't....
Mick: It's one night a week. Six weeks. The place is just around the corner ....
Nikita: I can't commit to something like that.
Mick: You know that chippie I've been seeing, Alexis. Well, she's invited me to
this charity ball, a big fancy charity ball and I told her I was an expert dancer.
Nikita: Well, just tell her you broke your leg.
Mick: Ah, come on, I'll lose her if she thinks I'm a cad.
Nikita: You are.
Mick: Do you want to be the one responsible for breaking us up?
Nikita: (Nikita breaks down...) Alright, one night - that's it. One class! One.
Mick: Very sporting of you. I'll pick you up Thursday night... I'll have a tap in my
toe. It'll be a lot of fun! Eh, Right? See you Michael - it's always nice to see you!
You look great! (He dances his way to the door. Before he leaves, he pauses
in the door.) Ring me later.
ACT 1
Inside Section, in the Gambit room, you see an eye
Walter: Hold still.(Looking at Jason's eye, Walter brings something up in front of
his face.) Hold still. (Walter hits a switch and a high-tech photo is taken. Data
from the eye is recorded.) Got it. Congratulations, you now have an L-1 corneal
scan access.
Jason: Yeah, I'm moving up in the world. Lucky me.
Walter: Don't knock it. Ninety percent of the people who go through here don't
even make it to level one. And you did it in no time.
Jason: Maybe Madeline's slipping in her training techniques.
Walter: Or maybe you're really good. But don't ever think that. Fear of failure is
what keeps people alive in this place. (Jason's no longer paying attention.
They run to the window and watch a woman who is being escorted by two
armed operatives.)
Jason: Naomi
Walter: You know her?
Jason: She used to be my girlfriend.
In the Section briefing area A team awaits - Nikita, Michael, Walter, Quinn
and a few other operatives as Operations approaches.
Ops: As of now, the Ghana mission is aborted. Michael, your team will shift
primary focus to the Red Cell regime. (He hits a switch and a hologram of
Maurice Grenet appears.) This is Maurice Grenet. Our Intel has confirmed he
has replaced the Cardinal. Tomorrow, his daughter Iriana, is getting married in
the coastal city of Bizerte in Tunisia. We believe Maurice will be in attendance.
Nikita: And risk exposure?
Ops: We're looking at a small window. A minute. Maybe two. A blessing of sorts.
Away from the others - most likely between the ceremony and the reception.
Michael: Is the daughter a concern?
Ops: No, she's clean. (a picture of Iriana appears.) Thinks her father works for
the government. If she marks us, she's collateral. If not... she'll live happily ever
after. Michael, your team is mobile as of now. That's all.
Jason follows Naomi and her escorts down a corridor into the White Room.
From a distance, he hears:
Operative: (into comm) Target is in containment.
Maddy: I'll be down in a few minutes.. You may return to your post.
The operatives leave and Jason ducks out of sight. Once gone, he sneaks into the
White Room.
Naomi: Jason?
Jason: What are you doing here? (He kisses her)
Naomi: Where am I?
Jason: Section One.
Naomi: Section One? What is that?
Jason: God, it's good to see you. (He holds her face and kisses her.)
Naomi: I thought you were dead.
Jason: I might as well be.
Naomi: I don't understand. What happened in Aruba? I went out to get us some
breakfast. When I came back, you were gone. You just disappeared.
Jason: I want you to know it wasn't my choice. I love you ....
In Maddy's offic She's looking at something on her monitor when Operations
comes in.
Ops: I just got off the phone with Mr. Jones.
Maddy: How is he?
Ops: Anxious to put Seymour Birkoff to work.
Maddy: We still have a week.
Ops. 72 hours. That's the new turnover date. (They look at each other)
Maddy: That will work.
Ops. Are you certain Jason will be able to pose as his brother?
Maddy: Physically, he's perfect. He's had sufficient training.
Ops: Psychologically?
Maddy: He has no choice but to cooperate. (They look at her monitor where we
see Naomi and Jason.)
Nikita walks in and Walter barely looks up from the rifle he's loading into a
suitcase.
Nikita: Hey, Walter....
Walter: I put in a thermo-scope just in case....
Nikita: What? No hey, Sugar? No snappy come on?
Walter: Hi, Sugar ...
Nikita: What's wrong?
Walter: Nothing's wrong. (Nikita stares at him) It's Jason.
Nikita: What about Jason?
Walter: They brought his girlfriend in here this morning.
Nikita: Why?
Walter: I don't know. But if I had to guess, I'd say Operations and Madeline need
her for leverage.
Nikita: Jason is working out. What kind of leverage would they need?
Walter: That's what's so scary. But I'd have to think they're setting him up for a
major fall.
(Michael comes in.)
Michael: We have to go. (He takes the suitcase off the table, Nikita looks at
Walter then leaves.)
Bizerte, Tunisia - we see Iriana and her groom standing before the priest.
Michael slips into the church and takes a seat with the crowd.
Back in Comm- Quinn handles tactical, shifting between monitors.
Quinn: Michael is in play. All teams stand by.
Nikita is in the bell tower and puts the final touches on her gun.) Nikita, move
to 2 and hold co-position. (Michael looks for Iriana's father.) Target plane is on
radar and descending. (From her position, Nikita spots a sea plane making its
way to the beach outside the church.)
Nikita: We have an approach.
Quinn: Can we identify?
Nikita: (The plane taxis to the beach and stops outside the church.) Target in sight.
Quinn: Al teams, we have a potential target on site. Nikita, you're off primary.
Adjust primaries northeast. Kill window in 60 seconds. 50 seconds. 35 seconds.
All teams, target is on site.
(The happy couple are walking back down the aisle to applause and music
when they come to the doors and there's Iriana's father. Michael sees this
from a distance.)
Quinn: All teams. Target is on-site. Target open in five, four ...
(The SOTW kisses his daughter and new son-in-law and blesses the marriage.)
three, two .. (Nikita focuses on him.) One.. We are green to clean.
(We wait for the shot to go off, but nothing happens.)
Quinn: Nikita, Nikita? Target is moving off-site. Nikita, take the shot... Nikita?
(There is no response)
Ops: What's going on?
Quinn: We've lost contact with Nikita. Michael, move in.
Michael moves through the people, but the plane has already left. He looks up
at the tower, but no sign of Nikita.
Michael: Nikita? (He runs for the tower and races up the stairs to find Nikita on
the floor, bleeding from a bullet wound to the stomach.) We have an operative
down.
ACT 2
We're back in Section; Michael is with Operations in his perch.
Ops: What the hell happened out there?
Michael: Nikita was ambushed.
Ops: How is that possible? Nikita's numbers are the highest they've ever been.
And we had teams blanketing the perimeter.
Michael: I'll retrace the mission.
Ops: Retracing won't take Maurice Grenet out of play. We may never get another
chance.. you were team leader on this one, Michael. I'm afraid you're going to
have to take responsibility.
Michael: I understand. (he leaves Ops perch and we're now in Michael's office
where we see him reviewing the mission at his desk.)
Michael walks into the infirmary and finds a med tech.
Michael: Where's Nikita?
Med Tech: I sent her home. To rest. (The Tech never even looks up. Michael
walks over and gets right in his face.) The bullet penetrated first layer epidermis
only. There was no internal damage. I didn't see any reason to keep her here.
Michael: Then how do explain so much blood loss?
Med Tech: I don't know. These types of wounds generally don't produce much
blood. It will all be in my report to Operations.
Michael: No, it won't.
We move to Maddy's office. Operations walks in and finds Maddy.
Ops: Where are we with Jason?
Maddy: I told him what we needed.
Ops: And?
Maddy: I think he'll cooperate.
Ops: This can't go wrong.
Maddy: I've made that very clear.
Ops: Good. Then proceed with the final preparations. (She nods and he leaves.)
Now in one of the Section corridors, Walter waits as Jason approaches.
Jason: What is it? I can't stay long.
Walter: We never finished our conversation, did we?
Jason: About Naomi?
Walter: That's right. Now, what's going on, bro?
Jason: What do you mean?
Walter: You know exactly what I mean. Ever since Naomi showed up here, your
head's been somewhere else. I want you to tell me something! What did Madeline
talk to you about, hmmn? It's okay, you can trust me. I'm on your side.
Jason: Why do you even care?
Walter: Because I'm not like the others. I've got my reasons.
Jason: They brought Naomi in to convince me to fool Center.
Walter: Fool them? How?
Jason: Into thinking I was Seymour. (Walter now looks sick)
Walter: You mean Operations wants you to be his eyes and ears on the inside.
Jason: Something like that.
Walter: What's in it for you?
Jason: Naomi gets to live.
Walter: (Doesn't believe it.) Don't trust anything they say. They're using Naomi
to get inside your head. Where have they got her?
Jason: I don't know. I've been trying to find out.
Walter: You can't find anything? That's impossible You're the best damn hack in
here seen since your brother.
Jason: I'm still coming up snake eyes.
Walter: So they know you're looking and don't want you to find anything.
Jason: Maybe.
Walter: Well it's either one or two things: Naomi's recruitment here is for real and
when they're done... she's dead. Or two, Naomi is Section and she's playing you.
(Jason doesn't like that and goes to hit Walter, who grabs his hand then
releases it.) I just look old.
We move to Nikita's apartment. Michael is at her door.
Nikita: Hi (Michael comes in and she closes the door behind him.)
Michael: How are you?
Nikita: Um, tired
Michael: (He sees her coat draped over a chair with the keys on top - she's
ready to go out.) You should be resting.
Nikita: I've been doing that all day. I'm restless. (He caresses her face.)
We're now in Michael's car. He pulls out a PDA and turns it on - we see a blip
moving. Nikita gets in her car and takes off as Michael follows. We're now at
an industrial waehouse. Nikita's car stops and she gets out of the car.
Michael stops and looks through his binoculars to see Nikita greeting Grenet.
ACT 3
Nikita returns to her apartment to find Michael, lighting candles and take-out
chinese food laid out on the table.
Nikita: Michael.... What are you doing here? What is this?
Michael: Dinner. (He walks over to her and helps her take her coat off. They kiss)
I thought you'd be hungry. Wouldn't want to go out.
Nikita: Well, I was feeling a lot better, so I thought a walk would do me good.
(They kiss)
Michael: Some fresh air.
Nikita: Yah. (He removes the bug from her jacket.) Candlelight, dinner, lemon
chicken, shrimp in lobster sauce.... Pouilly Fuisse? (She pours the wine.) This is
so nice!
Michael: I've been retracing the mission. The shot that hit you - do you know
where it was fired from?
Nikita: Well, it all happened so fast. From everything I could tell, it would've had
to have been someone on the roof.
Michael: I agree. It was the only clear line of sight.
Nikita: Why do you ask?
Michael: You're very lucky to be alive, Nikita. Given the angle of attack, no
obstructions, the caliber of the round you were shot with, a surface wound is
almost impossible to extrapolate.
Nikita: You know how we are - we defy the odds.
Michael: Yes. If you're in trouble, Nikita...
Nikita: The only trouble I seem to be having at the moment is that you're too far
away from me. (Nikita offers a toast: ) To defying the odds (they drink)
So you read my med report?
Michael: Yes.
Nikita: And there's something you didn't like?
Michael: You shot yourself, Nikita.
Nikita: (She looks at him and nods) Yes, I did.
Michael: Why?
Nikita: It seemed like a very bad idea to assassinate the one man who could get
me out of Section forever. (Michael has been drugged!) I'm sorry, Michael, but I
had my chance and I had to take it. (Michael falls to the floor unconscious.
She picks up a phone and makes a call.) We have a problem.
At a loading bay at night, Nikita pulls up to Grenet's limo, who alights with
two guards to join Nikita. The two Red Cell operatives remove Michael from
the passenger seat of Nikita's car.
Grenet: Michael Samuelle. I remember when he fought for something he had
passion for. Scanner.
Nikita: (She stops him) Just a minute.
Grenet: Right eye. (She opens his right eye and Grenet scans it.) In Section, I
suppose, passion is out of the question. Good - take him. (He hands Nikita the
scanner and she opens it. The operatives remove Michael from Nikita's car.
She pulls out a contact lens.) Michael's iris scan. That's your ticket into level 5
clearance, Nikita. It's also your ticket out of Section One. (She puts the lens into
a contact lens case.) How much does he know?
Nikita: Enough.
Grenet: Can you turn him?
Nikita: Not from the inside. Maybe once I'm out.
Grenet: You almost are, Nikita. Your tracking ID has been removed. Your profile
is already being dismantled. And here, the piece de resistance, the last piece of the
puzzle - the proper codes to sink your files. (He hands her a cd)
Nikita: It all seems so simple.
Grenet: It's taken us years to access Section personnel codes. If all goes well,
you'll be our first success. When do you go in?
Nikita: As soon as I leave. They'll notice Michael's absence. I won't have very
much time.
Grenet: You do realize that we still hold the final key to your erasure. When you
bring us the information we negotiated for...
Nikita: I understand how it works.
Grenet: Good luck, Nikita. (She drives away.)
SECTION - Holding Cell
Jason comes in and finds Naomi
Naomi: Jason .... (He looks her over, making sure she hasn't been hurt.)
Jason: You look ok. How are you?
Naomi: Scared. (He hugs her.) Did you find out anything?
Jason: Don't worry, it's all taken care of.
Naomi: What do you mean?
Jason: I made a deal. No one's going to harm you.
Naomi: Then I get to go home?
Jason: (nods) As soon as I'm done.
(Two operatives open the door)
Operative: Jason Crawford?
Jason: Do you mind? I'm in the middle of something here...
Operative: Come with us.
Jason: In a minute. (They grab him by the arms.) Hey, lighten up will ya?
(They start dragging him away) I want to talk to Madeline.
Naomi: Jason, what should I do?
Jason: Nothing. Just sit tight. I'll be back.
Gambit Room
Jason's brought in and strapped into a chair. Madeline and a Med Tech are
waiting.
Jason: Madeline, thank god! What's going on? Hey! What are you doing?
(They strap something around his head.)
Maddy: We're making some adjustments.
Jason: Adjustments? What kind of adjustments?
Med Tech: The procedure is quite delicate, Mr. Crawford. Any unwarranted
motion would be unfortunate. (Something is placed in front of his face)
Jason: Look, if you'd just explain to me...(Maddy leaves and a blue light comes
on) Madeline, Madeline....
Walter's Area
Nikita comes in and Walter intercepts her.
Walter: Hey, Sugar. You feeling better? (Nikita keeps moving, but Walter
follows.)
Nikita: Yah, I am - just busy.
Walter: You got a minute? That thing with Jason - I think it's about to go down
and I'm really worried.
Nikita: Walter, he's a big boy. Just like the rest of us, he'll take care of himself.
Now I've got some things to take care of. I'm sorry, we'll talk later. (She leaves)
Walter: Sure thing.
SECTION - Gemstone Room
Nikita opens up the contact lens case and inserts the lens into her eye. She
approaches a door which has an eye scanner next to it. You see Michael's green
eye as it is scanned. The door opens and Nikita goes inside. The tech turns.
Tech: Hey, you're not supposed to be .... (Nikita takes him out, and inserts the cd
into a drive and starts deleting her files. Madeline comes in.)
Maddy: How did you get in here?
Nikita: The same way you did. Through that door.
Maddy: Where's Michael? (Nikita doesn't answer and Maddy sees the green
contact lens) Using Michael's corneal access is grounds for cancellation.
Nikita: Madeline, your threats are of no interest to me anymore. (She finishes
deleting the records.) Not that they ever have been.
Maddy: (sees Nikita's files deleted) You don't think you'll get away with this.
I'm sorry for you, Nikita.
Nikita: Is that an emotion? My god!
Maddy: It's taken a long time for us to come to this point, hasn't it?
Nikita: Far too long if you ask me.
(Madeline moves towards a com unit,Nikita knocks her out and takes off down the
hall into a lift.)
Maddy: (struggles to her feet and hits a button.) Nikita's condition 8. Shoot to kill.
(You see Nikita walking through a tunnel)
In A Train Station
Nikita steps into the middle of a train station and disappears into the crowd.
ACT 4
In a medical office, Grenet sits on the edge of a surgical table studying
a panel as Nikita comes into the room. She hands him a cd which he inserts
into a machine
Grenet: Is everything here?
Nikita: Everything we agreed to.
Grenet: Very impressive, Nikita. You've done more damage to Section One in an
hour than we've managed in half a decade.
Nikita: What have you done with Michael? (Grenet stands up and faces her.)
In a Red Cell interrogation room Michael is hanging from the ceiling - he's a
mess. They spray him with water and torture him with electric shock. Michael
glares at him and gets some more.
Red Cell Devo: You may wish you were dead, Mr. Samuelle, but I can assure you
I'm too good at what I do to let that happen. We'll have another session after
you've had time to consider the price you pay for silence. Cut him down.
(The two operatives take him down and leave him on the floor.)
Section One - Gambit Room Jason wakes up and everything's hazy.
Maddy: Maybe these might help.(She reaches towards him and hands him a pair
of glasses which he dons. He now looks exactly like Birkoff!) Better?
Jason: What have you done to me?
Back in Red Cell Michael has been tortured again.
Red Cell Devo: (Michael falls to the floor after another torture session.) Perhaps
you feel like talking now. (Michael's eyes look up, his mouth moves and
something comes out, but it's barely audible. An operative kneels down next
to him.)
Operative: C'mon, spit it out.
(He leans in closer and Michael takes him out, then shoots the Devo with
the dead operative's gun. Classic Michael! He takes out the Red Cell operatives
one by and and escapes.)
Back in the medical office Nikita is being prepped for plastic surgery.
Doctor: With some judicious cutting, a few prosthetics, I think we can accomplish
what you want. Are you sure about this?
Nikita: Extremely.
Doctor: Alright, then let's get started.
(She lays down on the operating table.)
Section One - Operations Perch
Michael: Have you located Nikita?
Ops: I'm afraid she's off the board, Michael. She's destroyed her file database and,
to the best of our knowledge, removed and disable her tracking chip.
Michael: Then she can't be found.
Maddy: (Walks in) Not without your help. Nikita may have cut her ties with
Section. It's unlikely that she's cut her ties with you.
Michael: She drugged me. Turned me over to Red Cell.
Maddy: She's well aware of your ability to take care of yourself. If you were to
make yourself approachable, I believe that she'll make that approach.
Ops: If you're wrong or if she's hostile, we're putting Michael at risk to reclaim
Nikita. I can't justify that.
Maddy: I believe that Nikita still has Michael's best interests at heart. Our options
are limited.
Ops: Alright. But, Michael will need to know what to expect if she does decide to
make contact.
Maddy: That's not a problem. We can run the sim.
Section One - the Floor Jason goes towards com. He is now the spitting image
of Birkoff. Walter comes out of his area and watches as he takes over from
Quinn. You could have scraped him off the floor!
Section One - Systems
Maddy and Michael are about to watch the sim.
Maddy: Despite her files being erased, I have compiled a psychological and
behavioral profile of Nikita from memory. The program also includes the most
recent data regarding her disappearance, turning you over to Red Cell. The sim
should predict with 93% accuracy. (She turns the sim on and you see a table
with two chairs.) I believe that Mario's is the most likely point of contact. That's
accurate isn't it, Michael?
Michael: Yes. Mario's.
Maddy: You both preferred the seat by the window.
The sim - Michael's seated at the table as a waiter brings a bottle of wine.
Nikita arrives and she seats herself across from him.
Nikita: Sorry, I'm late.
Michael: How are you?
Nikita: Alive, For the first time in many years. How are you, Michael?
Michael: Alone.
Nikita: But you're used to that, living inside yourself, not letting anything or
anyone get close enough to hurt you. This must feel like the same.
Michael: Not anymore.
Nikita: Not anymore? Why, what's changed?
Michael: I let you in close enough to hurt.
Nikita: Well, what do we do now, then? I'm on the outside.
Michael: I love you.
Nikita: Michael, I know you. You'll never leave Section. I doubt you'd even have
come here today if it wasn't part of a plan to get me back inside.
Nikita: A life without you is worth trading for no life with you. (She takes out a
gun and shoots him point blank through the head, gets up and caresses his
face before running out.)
Sim complete, Michael is stunned by what he's just seen.
Michael: My best interests.... it looks like you miscalculated.
Maddy: It's still our only option, Michael.
Michael: (He looks at the sim.) I'll make arrangements.
As he leaves, Ops comes in.
Ops: How did it go?
Maddy: He's ready. I showed him the variation we discussed.
Ops: The alternate. Do you think he accepted it?
Maddy: Yes. It was all quite realistic.
Sim Two - She hits a switch and the restaurant scene comes back
Michael: Not anymore.
Nikita: Not anymore? Why, what's changed?
Michael: I let you in close enough to hurt.
Nikita: (She ges up, sits in his lap, caresses his face and kisses him.) Come with
me. I have the access codes. You can sink your files, leave Section and come with
me. I love you. We can do this, Michael. And put everything that's happened to us
behind us. (She pulls out a cd.)
Sim over, Maddy and Ops look at each other.
TAG
Back in the medical office, Nikita sits on the surgical table as the doctor cuts
away the bandages.
Doctor: It'll still take some time to heal. The bruises and the minor incisions I
made won't be visible a few days from now. (He hands her a mirror, but we
don't see her face.)
Nikita: It'll take some getting used to.
Mario's restaurant , Michael sits at a table when a waiter brings wine.
Waiter: Would you like me to pour this for you?
Michael: No, thank you.
Waiter: I'll come back when your friend arrives.
Section One - Com, Operations stands near Quinn.
Quinn: Michael's in position.
Ops: (leans past her and hits a switch) This isn't an eval mission, Michael.
When Nikita shows up, you know what you have to do.
(You see Michael waiting.....)
The End
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