Nikita s02e02 Episode Script

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I'm the only truck in town that's got soft-serve.
I know what you're thinking, but I got a great deal on this truck.
I'm thinking I haven't seen you this excited since I took you to the Bronx zoo for your eighth birthday.
I know you were worried about me, okay? But you don't need to be, not anymore.
I knew you'd turn it around.
There you go, sweet pea.
Oh.
- Here.
- Thank you.
Enjoy.
Ice cream sandwich.
Hey.
Sir! - Hey, I need two vanilla cones.
- Okay.
Sorry.
Just give me a sec.
Hello? Hello? Without further ado, I give you one of this organization's biggest champions, senator Charles Irving.
He's got a gun! Darren! "Hey, Birkhoff, I need to use your computer.
Is that cool?" "Sure, Nikki.
Thanks for asking.
" Birkhoff, I need to borrow Is that cool? See how easy that-- wait a minute.
What? We have a lead that could help us identify another member of oversight.
We have a lead? Spain's defense minister is doing business with an oversight member.
One of his staffers is willing to sell us the identity, but he needs a lot of money and in 24 hours.
So we're also gonna have to take your jet to Lisbon.
Hmm.
No.
No? Get used to that sound, baby.
'Cause I'm not joining you on some crusade to take down oversight.
And you are not taking my jet anywhere.
Right, because this is about you, right, Shadow Walker? Well, it is my life And my house.
In fact, I think you and Mikey should start looking for new digs.
Guys There's something that you need to see.
The suspect was shot twice by the senator's security detail.
Eyewitnesses describe Lancaster as being in a trance-like state.
This is P9.
No way.
Nobody got out alive.
Apparently, the kid just suddenly changed.
People said he looked like he was in a trance.
P9? Do you remember Eustice, the militia group that got into the siege with the FBI in 2003? Yeah, FBI raided the compound, and they burnt the whole cult down.
Ah, it was no cult.
That was a cover.
The compound housed a program to breed assassins P9.
An assassination program that's different from division? Way more x-files They used a super-teched-out version of hypnosis, neurohypnotic reprogramming.
When they were done, they put those people back in the world with no idea what had happened to them Sleepers.
How do you know all this? Because those weren't FBI agents who burned down the compound.
It was division.
Division was sent to clean up P9 after a sleeper went awol and shot two policemen in Eustice.
The question should be, why has it resurfaced? I take it oversight didn't brief you on P9 One of their less successful programs.
So the idea was abducting foreign nationals and brainwashing them.
The idea was a clean strike.
Say you wanted to assassinate the president of Pakistan.
Why send in seal team 6 When you can get the local ice cream man to do it for you? And then commit suicide.
The hits look like random acts of violence from mentally disturbed individuals.
Personally, I found it disgusting.
Why? Because you prefer more old-school brainwashing techniques? Because the concept is flawed, just like its creator was.
Oversight had hired Dr.
Joseph Mars, a brilliant neuropsychiatrist who specialized in brain waves.
He was killed along with everyone else.
Man.
I can still hear the sounds from that dayScreams.
Clear the perimeter, then exfil.
Copy that.
Yeah, I Supervised the raid from ops.
What happened to those people is terrible, but the chances of this being P9, I mean They said Lancaster was happy.
He was doing well.
He just put 10k down for an ice cream truck.
Does that sound like somebody who's planning to commit an assassination? Birkhoff, transfer the schematics for the Eustice compound to my phone.
That should give us an hour or two to get there.
Michael, we leave for Lisbon tonight, remember? - Change of plans.
- Whoa.
We can't just drop everything because you have a hunch, okay? Our contact is waiting for us.
If we don't show, he will get spooked.
I understand.
If P9 is back If Lisbon is real.
We've been waiting months for a shot like this.
If you think Lisbon is more important, then you go.
If I think Lisbon's more important? Wait a minute.
So taking down oversight, putting a dent in them All of the sudden, not a priority for you.
If I'm right, God only knows how many sleepers are out there and how many assassinations are planned.
Oversight can wait.
This can't.
As much as I love hosting couples therapy, you guys need to hit Craiglist.
You got to the end of the week.
I'm sure this is very difficult for you.
I'm getting better.
Some wounds heal quicker than others.
Something tells me you didn't come here just to talk about my health.
I'd like you to talk to Percy about an old mission Operation falling ash.
- Is Nikita involved? - No.
I'm sure you've heard about the attempt on the senator.
Oversight is concerned an old pet project may be to blame, and Percy might be able to allay their fears.
Think of it as a favor.
Friends do favors for each other.
I don't think we're there yet.
I think your current condition is evidence of how fleeting friendships can be.
Our relationship is different.
I'm your business partner.
As such, I'll provide necessary incentive.
I don't think a pair of $500 heels is gonna do me much good right now.
What if I were to provide you with a list of the men close to Sergei Semak All his top brass? Exactly what do you need me to find out from Percy? If there were any loose ends on P9 or Eustice Anything else we should know.
I thought this was a restricted area.
What changed your mind? I thought about you here alone, and I didn't like it.
But you still don't believe me.
I believe in you And in us.
What are we looking for? Part of the original objective here was to retrieve the research Dr.
Mars kept on file, something we failed to do in '03.
Probably because it burnt up in the fire.
Maybe, maybe not.
But according to Percy's private notes on the box, Mars had a private safe hidden in his office.
Have you ever read any Dostoyevsky? No.
Tolstoy? You Russians really know your pain, don't you? I need to ask you about an old mission.
At the moment, I'm more interested in your new wounds.
They look like they go deep.
Falling ash Tell me what happened.
You first.
I encountered Nikita in the field.
She tried to kill you and failed? She tried to dissuade me from my mission and failed.
Her tactics seem pretty brutal.
Have they made you reevaluate your own? There is a value in an eye for an eye, you know Or a leg for a leg.
But I guess that's your problem.
Let's talk about mine.
If oversight wants me to fill in their missing piece of the puzzle, I will require the following A pot of hot water, a bag of Earl Grey on the side, every morning, 7:00 a.
M.
-- proper English tea.
You can smoke the tea leaves, for all I care.
Just start talking.
We radioed the doctor, told him to line up everyone for extraction.
They thought the killers coming through the door were a rescue team.
No wonder this place feels haunted.
Nikita.
Owen? Owen, what are you doing here? What the hell are you doing here? Answer the question.
I know about this place 'cause I was on the strike team that burned it down.
Now answer my question.
I quarterbacked the op.
So you saw that kid on the news.
You came to track down the survivor.
There were no survivors.
Owen, what survivor? The guy that invented the program Joseph Mars.
I saved his life.
It's ironic, isn't it, but an organization known as oversight should have such little foresight? Meaning what? They wanted to eliminate Joseph Mars along with the rest of P9, which would have been a terrible waste.
Nobody knew their way around the human brain better than he did.
Percy ordered me to extract Mars.
But he didn't want anybody to know.
That's why everyone else had to die.
Mars knew that stimulating certain parts of the brain would improve focus, the senses.
So Percy had him create something to give division agents an edge.
The regimen.
- How low is your supply? - It's getting low.
Want to warn us before you turn into the Tasmanian devil again? I find Mars, I find my way off of it.
Before the attack on the senator yesterday, I didn't even know if the guy was still alive.
Last time I saw him, he was trying to take his research with him.
But there was no time.
Looks like he made the time to come back for it.
For two years, Mars worked for me under lock and key.
And then he just disappeared into thin air.
You're telling me you have no idea where he went, - how he got out? - No idea.
But I can tell you this.
When the next shooter makes an attempt on the senator, it'll look like a copycat Another lonely lunatic gone off the rails.
By the way, I saved the data for falling ash on the black box.
Assuming she's read the file, I imagine Nikita will come to the same conclusions.
What makes you think there'll be another attack? If at first you don't succeed Made a statement condemning the act of violence.
I am uninjured.
And I will not let the act of a lone, troubled individual derail my duties.
Dr.
Mars, have you dispatched another? They're in place, awaiting activation.
Read & unite is possible because of you, so thank you.
And grab a cocktail while you can.
You clean up nice.
First time I've seen you look like a girl.
Owen, we need to work on your compliment skills.
Keep an eye out for people on cell phones.
I'm guessing that's how Mars activates his sleeper.
I think I got him Thick black glasses, on his cell.
Heading towards the senator.
Feed the Siamese fighting fish first.
Then Do you mind? Ugh.
False alarm.
I put you guys next to the senator's table so you can rub elbows with the bigwigs.
This is Alicia.
Purple dress She's headed toward the senator.
Hurry.
I got her.
Got her.
Down on the ground.
Down.
Let's go.
So where'd you get a black box? Come on, Nikita.
I'm not stupid.
The things you know about P9 and the op, all those details I was on the ground.
I don't know half that stuff.
Michael took Percy's master drive when he left division.
So you peeked inside it? I thought you were "miss destroy all boxes.
" He convinced me that this one we would use for good.
Oh.
So you and Michael can handle all the dangerous secrets, but I can't.
Am I wrong? The last time I saw you-- - I was suffering from regimen withdrawal when I tried to upload the box in London.
I wasn't in a sound state of mind.
I'm better now, Nikita.
You still need a cure.
Yeah, and once I get it, I'm gonna hunt down the rest of Percy's guardians, and I'm gonna destroy their black boxes.
And then I'm gonna finish Percy.
You think I can handle that, right? - I won't stop you.
- You mean you won't try.
What Who are you? What am I doing here? We had to get you away from the cops, but you're safe here.
Oh, my God.
Is that me? Oh.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Look, I know this is scary.
Nothing makes sense.
But you have to trust me.
The search continues.
Everyone in the tri-state area with a badge and a gun is looking for this girl.
They track her back here, and I'm toast.
We are the only ones who know she's innocent.
We have to help her.
There is no we, okay? There is me, and there is you.
Now, get rid of her, or you and your super-friends crew gots to go.
Don't give me the goatee of intimidation, okay? I know you won't hurt me.
No, but I might.
Those are mine, man.
You're kind of small.
You'd dissolve quick.
Whatever.
Just remember, you're on your own with this one.
Okay.
I was gonna kill him.
I mean, I-I don't even kill spiders when I find them at home.
I believe you, Alicia.
Someone did this to you.
They trained you to kill without giving you a choice.
But that's How? I don't remember anything.
What about him? That's Dr.
Francis from the Vory clinic.
I, uh Went to rehab there Pain pills.
Well, you got clean.
That's all that matters.
I tell myself the same thing every day.
I tried n.
A.
, therapy.
Nothing worked.
Then one day I got this letter from Vory.
They said they could change the feedback loops in your brain so you wouldn't crave a fix.
I figured I had nothing to lose.
What do you mean, change the feedback loops? I'dI'd wear these headphones and sensors to monitor my brain waves.
Then I'd get kind of sleepy, and Next thing I knew, I was awake, and that need You know that feeling? - Yeah.
- It was gone.
Oh, my God.
You mean this whole time it was Dr.
Francis? We got to raid the clinic and grab him.
There are rehab patients in there.
We need to find out how many and what kind of security Mars is using.
Mars would recognize Owen.
He wouldn't recognize me.
Michael, my love.
Jag officer, yes.
Junkie, no.
Hey, I've passed as worse.
Infiltration is our best chance at getting recon.
I know.
That's why I'm going.
Excuse me.
I think I need help.
I'm in.
I have ten minutes to fill out a questionnaire.
Do you see Mars? No.
No, they must do the treatments in another wing or something.
I'll let you know what I find.
Okay.
Nikita, be careful.
You get how lucky you are? You got out of division with the woman you love.
That's what I used to want for me and Emily.
Yeah, I know what happened to Emily.
I'm sorry.
You know, when things like that happen, you Feel like the sun should turn dark.
The earth should stop spinning.
But the world keeps going on around you.
Yeah, and you wonder if it's a place worth living in.
You and Nikita Why are you still living this life? If I had a chance to do it over again, I'd just take off with Emily, you know.
I wouldn't wait for the right moment 'Cause that's when it happens The threat you don't see coming.
Oh.
Sorry.
Still a little woozy.
Have your partners left already? They're not my partners.
Pizza? Actually, yeah.
I'm starving.
Thanks.
I'm Alicia, by the way.
I guess you could say I was out of it when I came in.
It's cool.
They filled me in on your sitch.
You care if I hang down here? That bedroom's kind of depressing.
Not that - I'm sorry.
- No.
- That came out wrong.
- You're right.
It is, um It is depressing.
Sit, please, uh, wherever.
Mi casa es su casa.
You've got nice hardware.
Uh, thanks.
I, uh yeah, made some upgrades, tweaked the video card a little bit.
Did you get the m.
C.
R.
Above 6,000? What, were you, like, a gamer in a past life or something? I used to work I.
T.
For a big company, though I do know my way around Azeroth.
You like the gig? Yeah, the offices were super high-tech.
Gear was top of the line.
Then one day I showed up to a meeting so high, I passed out.
A couple weeks later, I started treatment at Vory.
I thought I was finally taking control of my life.
But now my life is basically over.
Listen Nikita and them They're gonna set things straight.
Okay? That's, like, what they do.
Things are gonna work out.
I promise.
They sent you with the "get out of jail free" card? Lose a bet to Amanda or something? I want to know what the hell you were thinking going to that event without telling anyone.
I knew Nikita would be there.
I didn't want to lose another shot at her.
You mean that in a literal sense? Because I saw the security-cam footage.
You had Nikita in your sites, and you lost her Her and the shooter Oversight's only link to Mars.
Your approach was stubborn, stupid, and tactically inept.
And you came all the way over here to tell me that.
You must have a lot of free time on your hands.
Like I said, I saw the security-cam footage.
You saved the senator's life.
I came to bring you home.
Michael, I think I got him.
Excuse me.
Um What are you doing? I'm sorry.
I'm totally turned around.
Um, the receptionist told me that the The interview rooms were back here? You came in for treatment? Yeah, my, um, friend She told me that you got her clean in, like, a month, so I thought that was awesome.
Yes, that's one word for it.
Yeah, okay, well, I guess I'll just see you outside, then.
Actually, you can answer some questions right here.
You see, the interview rooms are all up in the front, and Lucy wouldn't have sent you in back.
So the first thing that I want to know is, why are you really here? Who are you working with? I told you.
I'm here alone.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
We have no idea where she is or how many guys we'd be dealing with.
We'd be going in blind.
Okay, maybe we don't have to.
- Oh, wait for it.
- Yeah.
Yeah! - Oh, it's funny every time.
- It's so funny.
It's them.
Maybe they got something for you.
Yo.
Birkhoff I need you to hack into Vory Phones, security cameras, the works.
I'm sorry.
Did you just say you need me to Mars grabbed Nikita.
Give me two minutes.
What's going on? Everything's cool.
I just got to save their asses Again.
Oh, wow.
I bet you could give Shadow Walker a run for his money.
Did you just say "Shadow Walker"? Yeah, he's done, like, the most ingenious hacks of the last decade.
What, you've never heard of him? No, I I know him.
Dude's a legend.
You know, most of his targets are, uh, shady wall street guys.
- I didn't know that.
- Yep.
He's kind of Robin hood.
Where the hell did you lift that from? You always assume the worst in me.
Look, all I know is that gear cost 10k.
The last time I checked, you were unemployed.
Yeah, well, a lot of people are willing to pay - for my skill set.
- Yeah? Like who? Okay, looks like your best point of entry is gonna be the southeast corner.
Think we can kick it in? - On my count.
- Yeah.
One, two, three.
Go check it out.
So, if you're here because of P9, that means there's only one person who could've sent you Percy.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Please.
I worked for the man for six years.
I know division personnel.
You all have that same look.
There are people that will wonder where I am, and they will come looking for me.
Oh, I'm sure they will.
That's why these Venezuelan gentlemen are here.
There were quite a few Venezuelans in the original P9 program Before the government incinerated it.
They're ready for retribution.
And so am I.
That's the hallway to Dr.
Francis office.
Okay, you guys are gonna want to stay to the right.
On second thought, maybe not.
Talk to me, Birkhoff.
Three of them Armed, dead ahead.
Go see what's happening.
I think they're out.
Judging by the sound of it.
Hands up! You think you're so righteous, don't you, huh? I know what it's like to want revenge, but I would never hurt innocent people to do it.
You.
I want everything on the regimen Every formula, every piece of research, all of it.
Here you go.
Turn it off.
Hey! Turn it off! Man, are you seeing this? Alicia? - What's happening to them? - They've been triggered.
But I don't think they've got orders.
Get down, get down, get down! - You okay? - Yeah.
Yeah? - Birkhoff.
- It's Alicia.
She heard the tones at the clinic and got all zombified.
She grabbed a gun and took off.
I'm tailing her now, but I'm not sure where's she's headed.
She's back on her original mission.
God, I'm so stupid! I should've remembered the tones.
She doesn't deserve to go out like this, Mike.
You didn't get what you needed.
I still got hope.
Those files got to be somewhere.
Alicia's been re-triggered.
Two guesses where she's headed.
St.
Joseph's hospital, where the senator is recuperating.
Michael, he'll be crawling with security.
She'll get herself killed.
Or Birkhoff He's right behind her.
You guys go.
I'll stay here.
I know a little something about cleaning up crime scenes.
I'll tee everything up for the cops That Mars is the bad guy.
I'll get everybody the help they need.
Might want to erase the Venezuelans as well.
No need to create an international incident.
Well, that goes without saying.
I can't figure out why the Venezuelans would target a junior senator from Connecticut.
Even if their motive was straight revenge Hang on.
Where are you? I was about to ask you the same question.
Somewhere in back-ass country Greenwich.
Probably gonna lose my signal.
Michael, isn't St.
Joe's in Stamford? - Yeah.
- Birkhoff, tell me exactly where you are.
Birkhoff.
Alicia's not headed for the hospital.
What if the Venezuelans were targeting someone else? - At the dinner? - And the picnic.
It was the same charity.
They have to have the same guests.
Judge Kathy Bridges sits on the board of read & unite.
Rumor is she's about to rule against an oil company for price fixing.
A Venezuelan oil company? Venezuelan, baby Petroleos orinoco.
And I bet the judge has a nice place in Greenwich.
Alicia! Alicia! Wait, stop! You don't know what you're doing.
Listen, I know.
I know what it's like to get orders that feel so strong, you think you're gonna die if you don't follow them.
But deep down There is a part of you that knows This isn't you.
And that part of you can choose to stop.
Oh, no.
You guys took your sweet time.
Birkhoff, if you want to be conscious for the car ride home, shut up.
Hey, computer guy.
It's Birkhoff Seymour Birkhoff.
Right, Seymour Birkhoff.
Nikita says you know where the other black boxes are.
That true? I know where they were before Percy scattered the last three guardians to the wind Johannesburg, Tokyo, and Rio.
Is that where you're going next? Land of the lambada, crystal waters, white sands Sounds nice.
First things first.
This is everything on the regimen.
I pulled it off Mars' computer.
It includes a way to chemically detox.
It's, uhIt's the answers I've been looking for.
You know it could take a while for all that to get out of your system.
Maybe you could stay here.
Absolutely not.
Yeah, it's, uh, probably better I get clean on the road.
The longer I wait, the colder those guardian trails get, you know.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Owen If you ever need anything I'll be around.
Okay? Okay.
I know why you lost Nikita at the dinner.
You didn't blow your shot.
You were never gonna take it.
Tell me I'm wrong.
What difference does it make to you? As long as I am committed to the mission I just want to give you some advice.
Look, I don't need a lecture on when to Will you shut up for a second? When I was a Navy seal, if you knew that your comrade faced certain death, you were supposed to take his life first.
So one day I'm in combat, and my partner gets grabbed.
And I had a gun, but I couldn't pull the trigger.
I froze.
And I later found out that he was tortured for months and then slaughtered.
And I could've prevented it.
He was your partner.
No matter what the situation was, you didn't want to play a part in his death.
He suffered because I was weak.
Do yourself a favor.
Next time you have Nikita in your sites, take the shot, because once she falls into oversight's custody, she will not be afforded any mercy By anyone.
The doctors are deprogramming me.
The only side effect is my memory's gone a little weird.
I can barely remember the last couple months Every place I've been, everyone I met.
I can't remember anything.
What is this? That is Shadowbot.
Runs a 24-hour news feed against every piece of data in the black box.
Any story correlates with an old division mission, that bad boy pieces it together for us.
Us? That means you're not kicking us out now? You were right about P9 being back.
You saved all those people.
We didAll of us.
And I know what it took.
I trust the equipment we provided you with proved satisfactory? Guns worked fine.
You were able to get the information you required? I have what I need to come off the regimen No side effects.
I'm glad to hear that.
Health is everything.
Tell me, is Nikita in good health? I don't know what you're talking about.
Please, Mr.
Elliott.
We're all friends now.
This is a business arrangement.
Well, our arrangement concerns the black boxes.
We heard a rumor that Nikita has one.
Can you verify that? She doesn't.
And if you do anything against her, I'll kill you myself.
I like you, Mr.
Elliott.
You're very direct.
Allow me to be direct in return.
Gogol will fund your search for the remaining guardians.
You will destroy their boxes, and then Percy will die.
And you're gonna help make it happen.
But anything outside those parameters is out of my control.
As you said, this is a business arrangement.