Nikita s01e15 Episode Script

I've been searching for you for two years.
- You were sold to sex traffickers.
- I escaped.
Your captors, not the junk they hooked you on.
ALEX Everyone I love is dead.
I know who killed your parents.
Division.
A black-ops program that has now gone rogue.
If I was on the inside, I could tell you what they were planning.
I want you to know I can get to you.
I'm gonna take you apart, piece by piece.
I want you to hunt her down and I want you to confirm the kill.
Nikita! - I can't protect you anymore.
- Then let me go or stop me now.
- I'm a - Let me guess, model? - No.
- Actress? - Sorry - I can tell you're somebody - so who are you? - She's with me.
Hey.
- Hey.
- Your assignment is Dustin Zimmer.
Tech billionaire.
Why's he need the Internet to get a date? Likes the anonymity, avoids the gold-diggers at least for one blind date.
By some amazing coincidence this website is going to spit you out as a match.
How do we know he'll get in touch with me? Please.
Sorry we got separated back there.
You believe some guy wanted me to autograph his smartphone screen? How primitive.
Zimmer's company has secretly developed and is currently testing a device codenamed "Oculus.
" It's the next must-have gadget in a multi-billion-dollar industry.
I bet Percy has companies lining up to look at it.
Your job is to make contact with Zimmer and gain his confidence.
So, what's someone like you doing on a dating website? My friends made me.
I should really be asking you that.
Uh, I find computers are more impartial.
Otherwise, it's easy to be, uh, distracted, you know um, by Should I order some champagne? I'm not saying I can't handle it.
I'm just saying that a nightclub has a lot of temptations for a junkie.
I'm playing someone else, but drugs and alcohol don't distinguish - between you and your cover.
- Then use your cover to stay clean.
Why don't we go dancing first? Uh, I didn't know you liked dancing.
You didn't list that on your profile.
I did say that I'm full of surprises though.
Come on.
Uh I really wanna kiss you.
Nerds like rejection.
See, their thinking is, if she's interested in you there must be something wrong with her.
I'm sorry.
I have to use the restroom.
Are you all right? - High.
- Hi.
No.
I'm high.
Yeah, I figured.
Oh, you are too kind to be a stranger.
Hmm.
I'm Irina.
Have we met before? I don't think so.
I know I know you.
Sasha? I'm sorry.
You have me confused with someone else.
Hey.
Watch where you're We're gonna get that back to Zimmer, right? Yeah.
Right after I record a message warning him how easy it was to steal.
- What went wrong with the pass? - What? So tell me where your head was.
There was a girl in the bathroom.
She was wasted out of her mind.
And you got tempted? No.
I recognized her.
She was one of Vlad's girls.
Irina.
We came over on the same ship together.
- Did she recognize you? - No.
Are you sure? If Zetrov gets word that you're alive in New York City they will send someone to kill you.
She was high, okay? She couldn't even recognize a paper towel.
- Good.
- Yeah, great.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, I know.
Thanks.
If it wasn't for you, I'd still be like her.
NIKITA Hey, Dustin Zimmer.
Keep an eye on your phone.
Your rivals tried to steal it and put out a clone.
If it wasn't for you, I'd still be like her.
Hey, Alex.
What are you doing back at the club? Get out of there and call me back.
Hey, Irina.
I would never have made it across the ocean if it wasn't for you.
Sasha, it is you.
What happened? I thought I had given you a way out.
I blew it, okay? There is no way out.
Not for me.
Yes, there is.
I'm here to help you, get you away from all of this.
I can get you clean, Irina.
Meet me behind the building in 15 minutes, okay? VLAD Back from the dead? Yeah, look at you.
It's been what, five, six years since you ran away? Look at you now, all grown up.
Hold on.
There must be some mistake.
Please don't point that at us.
I'm not pointing this at her.
I'm pointing at you.
If this is some sort of robbery, you can have my wallet.
- I'm just gonna reach for my wallet.
- Your wallet? Your money is mine.
Just like Irina's.
I don't even know her, okay? I just met her in the bathroom.
- That true? - It's her.
You were right to call me.
Irina was high as a kite.
Even she recognized you.
Come here.
You belong to me.
Hey, boy, I really wanna see If you can go downtown With a girl like me Hey, boy I really wanna be with you Let me guess.
Model? - Actress? - Assassin.
Looking for a guy To put in work Oh oh oh oh oh Oh na na What's Alex hasn't reported in by now and she hasn't returned my call.
Maybe something went wrong with the Op.
Maybe something went right with the date.
Dude, you need to get a sense of humor.
I don't laugh at your jokes because I have a sense of humor.
Now you're joking, right? Activate her tracker.
You're a special girl, you know? The first one to ever escape me.
I'll be the first girl to do it twice, Vlad.
Oh, so you do remember me? I fed her, gave her clothes, a place to stay.
- Scar is how she thanks me.
- I'd be happy to give you another one.
But it looks like someone got to you first.
This? That's your fault too.
Yeah, a couple of years ago some Wonder Woman barges into my office looking for you.
Next thing I know, she cuts me releases all of my girls, and burns down my business.
- I had to move here.
- Shh.
Her tracker's not coming up.
Maybe she's underground.
She was last at the club.
Hack its surveillance footage.
See if you can spot when she left.
Vlad.
PERCY Alpha team, report.
This is Alpha team.
Over.
Why haven't I gotten an update? Executing a perimeter sweep for survivors.
Targets are down.
Confirm with Roan.
You'll be safe with him.
I promise.
I'm sorry, Alex.
Damn it.
Check this out.
Bingo! I don't get it.
Where's Alex? There she is, leaving out the back.
Poof.
Either she's a magician or there's footage missing.
See, somebody erased her entering the alley but they forgot to check the mirror.
Fortunately, I didn't.
If God is in the details, then I am a god.
The tech billionaire could probably pull that off.
I got footage of Zimmer walking out the front door two hours earlier.
Look, splicing security footage together is one of our tricks.
I'm the one that teaches it to the recruits.
I hate to say it, but maybe Alex took the first chance she got and split.
Go over everything on those cameras again.
And in the meantime, keep this under your hat.
Percy finds out an agent went AWOL it'll give him an excuse to test out his kill chip.
Yashin used to live here.
Remember Yashin, my pit bull? I have to keep this.
Not safe for a girl.
I'll be back.
Irina, you have to unlock this.
Or what? The people coming for me, if they see you out there and me in here Look, I know you're afraid of Vlad but these people are a hell of a lot more dangerous.
I need your help.
Can it wait? I'm deep inside Jaden's head right now and that is not a pretty place.
I'd like to get to the bottom of this before Percy finds out.
How can I help? Alex may have gone off the reservation.
I need to know more than what's in her folder.
I tell the recruits those discussions are confidential.
This is me you're talking to.
She came a few days ago.
She was worried about the Op putting her around drugs.
- Do you think she got high? - No.
She's scared of becoming a junkie again.
Being open about it says to me she can handle it.
Would you say Alex is open about a lot of things? Not especially.
The girl's like one of those Russian dolls.
You open one version of her only to find there's another hidden inside.
- What was she trying to hide? - Her past.
Where were we, girls? Yeah.
Bought this for porno movies.
Hopefully this will be more lucrative.
You know, ever since Wonder Woman cut me up I've been sitting here wondering why.
What the hell was so special about you? If only I knew, huh? Well, sometimes you don't appreciate what you have until you lost it.
I'll try to remember that when I take your life.
You have no idea who you're dealing with.
Ooh! Hey, come.
Sit on my lap.
I will tell you a story.
Ever heard of Anastasia Romanov? Yeah, of course not.
Anastasia, she was a princess.
A daughter of the last tsar of Russia.
A girl born into fabulous wealth.
Protected by soldiers loyal to her father.
But then one day, when she was a teenager the tsar's enemies stormed the palace.
Her father's soldiers were powerless.
Some may have even betrayed him.
He was captured, executed.
His entire family perished with him in a fire.
The princess too.
- What a sad story! - Shut up.
I'm not done yet.
But Anastasia's body was never found.
There were rumors she survived.
Was hiding from her father's enemies who put a price on her head.
You see, if word got out Anastasia was alive people loyal to her father would try to restore her to the throne.
The rumors were false.
She died in that fire.
No, she's here.
Right here.
We are in the presence of royalty lrina.
The daughter of one of the new tsars.
The oligarchs.
The heir to Zetrov the billion-dollar empire built by her father Nikolai Udinov, until he was murdered.
Her name is Alexandra Udinov.
And she is very much alive.
I know exactly who I'm dealing with.
I cannot hide you anymore.
Dangerous men are searching for you and whoever is sheltering you.
Who are they? These men don't know who you are.
You'll go with them to Donetsk.
Are they taking me to safety? Your life will be safe.
You sold me to them, didn't you? - I saw it.
- I have children of my own to feed.
If I wanted to sell you to the highest bidder I'd go to the head of Zetrov.
And you would be dead by now.
Put that thing away.
People will wonder who it belongs to.
Whatever you do, don't tell anyone you're a Udinov.
It will be a death sentence for you and anyone who ever knew you.
You must be Sasha.
Very nice to meet you.
Vlad.
Okay.
This is very simple.
Say for the camera, "I am Alexandra Udinov daughter of Nikolai Udinov.
" - Action.
- Get somebody else to say it, like Irina.
Look.
These Zetrov guys looking for you if they believe me, big money.
Enough for me to quit this job and do something more worthwhile.
Narcotics, for example.
But if they think I'm wasting their time You've got the wrong girl.
Okay.
So if you are not Alexandra Udinov who the hell are you? Division wants to tear you down before they build you up.
- Amanda will get inside your head.
- I was a junkie.
I'm good at telling lies.
I'll just I'll say that I was a troubled kid and I'm from Michigan, and I ran away from home when my Mom tried to send me to band camp.
You think this is a game? These people killed your family.
Division finds out, they put a bullet in you.
Or they'll sell you back to the Russians.
What do you think those people will do? The same thing my father would do to them if he had the chance.
Once you're inside Division I cannot rescue you if something goes wrong.
Whether you live or die is entirely up to you.
What do you want me to tell them? Best lies have the most truth.
We stick as close to your life story as possible and we go over and over and over it.
Until you forget you're lying.
My parents both died.
In a car accident.
It was raining really hard and we skidded into a river.
We were sinking fast and there was a lot of water.
I thought I was gonna drown.
But my father rolled down the window and shoved me through it.
And that was the last time I ever saw him.
That's a good story.
Very entertaining.
Golden Globe.
I would believe it if I didn't know better.
You see, hmm you gave Irina your father's watch before you ran away.
Told her, "Sell it and escape.
" Now if your father drowned and you never saw his body again how come you have his watch? I kept going through the security camera footage.
Man, the stuff that goes on in a nightclub.
Anyway, I found Alex.
I put this girl through facial recognition.
Every database, didn't get a single hit.
No background? No identity? No nothing? We might as well recruit her into Division as Alex's replacement.
You see the way she's tapping her head? That's a common Russian gesture.
What's it mean? Essentially, "My mistake.
" Alex was smuggled into this country on a cargo ship.
And forced to work as a Russian sex slave.
This girl probably was too.
Judging from the makeup and jewelry I'd say she's still plying her trade.
Alex must be trying to get her out.
- Okay, but where'd she disappear to? - I have a contact in the Russian mafia.
He has his hand in everyone's pockets and he owes me.
You're not such a boy scout after all.
Gentlemen, don't get up.
Please.
This is a claymore mine.
Seven hundred steel balls explode in one direction.
Yours.
Nobody calls for help, nobody dies.
Now, I've heard Vladimir lvanov lives around here.
You're going to tell me where his new place of business is or I let go.
I'm here to see Mr.
Koutouza.
Tell him it's Misha from Murmansk.
My fingers get sweaty, they can slide off this trigger.
So how is the arms business doing these days? Well, you know, hit and miss.
Hell with it.
I'm not sweating my ass off for that durak.
Vladimir runs brothel in the basement of old fur storage building.
Koutouza shouldn't be long.
He's just in there with a towel girl.
Dark hair, long legs.
Very hot.
I'm gonna tie this to the door now.
I wouldn't call for help.
- Michael? - You two know each other? Kill them! Don't shoot us! Don't shoot us, you idiot.
Don't pull the string! The bomb is a fake! Let's go.
Last chance to tell the truth, Alexandra.
I guess you'll have to shoot me.
There was one thing that used to make you obey me.
You would practically do anything for it.
I mean, anything for a speedball.
I doubt you lost the hunger.
We made it.
- Or not.
- I think you should drop that.
I have an Alpha team close by.
Well, that's great.
We could have used them back there.
Why don't we both drop our weapons? I can hear you just fine.
- What are you doing here? - Same as you.
Tracking one of your agents.
You always got to get payback, don't you? Let it go.
Alex isn't more than a recruit.
She's not worth my time.
We both know you sent her to steal the Oculus.
What's Oculus? All this time working with Percy and you're still a bad liar.
Look.
You can have your little recruit, all right? I just want the prototype.
You try to stop Division from getting a cell phone? - That hardly seems worth the trouble.
- Come on.
You like doing industrial espionage? Percy gets this, sells it to the highest bidder you're gonna be doing a lot more of it.
Look.
Like I said, I am just here to retrieve my agent.
I've been following her.
They took her.
Now that we've spooked the Russians, her captors are gonna - have plenty of warning.
- Who took her? - I want the Oculus.
- You can have the damn cell phone.
It's not a matter of national security.
Who took my agent? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're telling me how dangerous Wonder Woman is? No kidding here.
Okay, okay, okay.
How many guys are you sending? What? That's all? No, no, no.
Hey.
No.
Still expect me to believe you're some Russian peasant girl? - Why me? - Because you're my daughter and because one day, all this will be yours.
But I like your old company name.
We've gotten too big.
Oil, minerals, now newspapers and TV stations.
So the company needs a new name.
And I have to choose? Your first business decision.
So, what will it be? Osminog or Zetrov? Osminog? Why would anybody name a company after an octopus? Then Zetrov it is.
See? That wasn't so hard.
You'll make a fine boss.
Papa - why can't somebody else do it? - Because they're not my daughter.
Alexandra? What is it? I, uh I searched your name on the Internet.
And you read something? Something about me? What did it say, hmm? What did it say? You scare people.
Hurt them.
- Even - Even what? Kill them.
Everything I have done was done for you and your mother.
And one day, you will do the same thing for the same reason.
I love you, Papa, but I don't want to be you.
- Not if it means - You do not have a choice.
It is who you are, Alexandra.
It is in your blood.
Drink, drink, drink.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I never thought this would happen.
When I saw you, I just I wanted you back.
I wanted you to protect me from that animal.
I feel horrible for what he's done to you.
For what I've done to you.
They got reinforcements.
Frontal assault's not gonna work.
We need a diversion to flush them out.
That's the strategy we used with Kasim in Uzbekistan.
Didn't work.
Well, it would have, except you abandoned your position.
- To save your life.
- I didn't need saving.
Yes, you did.
Tactically, you were in a bad way.
When are you gonna realize I can take care of myself? What? You don't need me to save you, but you stopped me from getting Kasim in the airport to save me.
That was different.
You were committing suicide.
I was trying to save you from yourself.
You just don't get it, do you? Nikita, I had him.
I was past security.
I was on the tarmac.
Five seconds, that shiv would've been between his ribs.
I would have been pushing it in, looking at him as he realized it was me.
I would have been gone and nobody would have seen anything.
That is what you took from me.
I couldn't have known you were that close.
All I knew is you could have easily been killed.
I didn't think That is it with you.
You don't think.
You just do.
- Nikita, the righteous.
- Fine.
Yes, that's me.
You think you know me so well, Michael? What I did, I did out of not wanting to see you get hurt.
I will do anything to help you get Kasim.
How the hell are we gonna do this? These people coming after you, tell me who they are.
Whoa, whoa.
I'm sorry.
How rude of me.
You're looking for this, right? Oh, it's here.
It's here.
It's right here.
Give me the truth.
Give me the truth, suka.
- Okay, Alexandra.
- I am not Alexandra.
Whatever.
- Who are these people looking for you? - You're not gonna believe it.
You better hope I do, suka.
I am an agent of Division.
What? It's a secret branch of the U.
S.
Government.
So secret that it does not exist.
We spy on enemies.
We eliminate threats to national security.
- And by eliminating, we assassinate.
- Hmm.
You're a spy? If you let me out of this cage, I'll prove it.
Yeah? What would you do to me? I'm trained in surveillance weapons hand-to-hand combat infiltration And extraction.
You really expect me to believe the government trained an illegal Russian junkie to spy for them? Well, I doubt an American spy agency wants you to have this.
But I do.
This spy crap is the biggest lie you've told me yet, Alexandra.
I told you you wouldn't believe me.
I hope you feel as bad as you look.
I'll let you go through withdrawal and then I will shoot you.
Hello? Come on.
Everybody get up.
There's a women's shelter on 39th Street.
Come on, go, go.
We want you all to head there.
Anyone stays, I shoot her.
Go.
Remember who I was, Alexandra.
- Remember who you are.
- Unh.
Irina, open the door now.
I want to help you.
I want to, but Vlad Irina, the next person that comes through that door will kill you.
I am the only one who wants to help you.
The only one who can.
Michael, status.
MICHAEL I've secured the perimeter.
Exfil is a go.
I repeat.
Exfil is a go.
Where is she? Huh? What did you do, padla? It is who you are, Alexandra.
It is in your blood.
There is one thing I want you to know.
I am Alexandra Udinov.
Daughter of Nikolai Udinov.
And this is your reward.
I need you to run now.
I need you to get as far away from here as possible.
And if you tell anyone what you heard I will have to hunt you down and kill you.
Alex? Alex.
Alex.
What did they do to you? Are you okay? - It's my fault.
- No, no.
No, it's not.
You're gonna be all right.
I can't get you out of here like this, all right? Once we get above ground, Division will be able to track us.
- Look.
- Unh.
Percy won't ask so many questions when he has this, all right? It's under the body, Alex.
Get away from her.
- Nikita? - Don't worry.
She won't hurt you.
Where's the prototype? It's not on her.
I came down here, risked my life for what? - Hand it over.
- I don't have it, Michael.
You can search me.
I wouldn't double-cross you.
Otherwise, this is all for nothing.
Division extraction team is coming.
- You tipped them off? - No.
They're on their way and I was just tipping you off.
Care to tell me what you were doing out there? Completing a mission.
By yourself? Well.
Going in all guns blazing would have gotten her killed.
What happened to her? She took one for the team.
Whatever she needs, you let me know.
There is one thing I want you to know.
I am Alexandra Udinov.
Daughter of Nikolai Udinov.
And this is your reward.
She should probably be off her feet with the dizziness.
Michael I've done this before.
All the drug addicts who wind up here as recruits? I'm practically running a rehab clinic.
I appreciate keeping Percy out of the loop on this one.
Percy doesn't need to know everything that goes on around here.
I'm going to give you some methadone to help ease your withdrawal symptoms.
We'll get through this together, Alex.
But first, I just have a few questions to ask you.