Nikita s02e09 Episode Script

It's called a red-eye.
Cup of drip, shot of espresso, no room for cream or anything else.
Ugh.
Some of us need the jolt.
Hit that target heart rate.
Some of us? Oh, I'm here for my boss.
And me.
My boss doesn't need caffeine.
She's high on life.
Super-dedicated, super-focused.
It's annoying as hell.
What do you do? Uh, I'm a partner in a start-up company.
Looking to take down a big Division sector of the military industrial space.
Still got a few Goliaths we got to slingshot first.
So you must be David.
Seymour, actually.
Allyson.
Yeah.
Uh, allow me.
You're all set.
Allyson.
You should become a regular here.
This place could use some more regulars.
Thanks.
Enjoy.
Yes, all of it, 80 million gone.
How does Nikita do anything these days? She found the account on a Black Box.
I transferred African relief money into our slush fund.
We then converted it into bearer bonds, and she stole it.
Gotcha.
Nikita knows I'm a member of oversight.
I'm calling an emergency meeting.
We have to move the rest of our money.
Just a second.
Thanks, Allyson.
Division's top priority is to neutralize Nikita and retrieve that Box.
They have someone very good on it.
Someone I trust.
You're still here.
Not for long.
Percy was right.
This is the house that I grew up in.
After Division burned it down, Sergei Semak rebuilt it.
He lives in it now.
With no security.
I'm sure you could just walk right in, put a bullet in him.
I'm going to Russia, and I'm going to kill him.
So don't try to talk me out of it.
How do you plan on getting into Russia? If you had Division support, you could hop a C-130 out of Ramstein, parachute in Oh, is that how Captain America would do it? Lieutenant Commander, and, yes, I would.
Semak still has his own Division hunting you, remember? - He won't see me coming.
- Yeah? Zetrov owns two airlines and two shipping firms, which means Semak has every border official in his back pocket Land, sea, and air.
There's no way Alexandra Udinov gets back into Russia.
She doesn't.
I'm going as someone else.
Someone that I used to be.
You're going back the same way you came in.
Illegally and completely under the radar.
You really did your homework.
Yeah, that's something Nikita taught me.
If you don't want to go to plan "B", have a good plan "A".
What is that? This is for you.
It's for luck.
I knew I wouldn't be able to talk you out of anything.
I got it out of the evidence locker.
From what I've read, it belonged to your father.
Does Amanda know you took this? No.
And she's not gonna know.
Not about any of this.
Thank you.
One condition.
You call me as soon as you hit the ground over there.
If you're gonna pull this off, you're gonna need at least one other person watching your back.
Whoa.
Could you not do that in the living room, please? I haven't figure out where to put my stuff yet.
Yeah, I know.
It's amazing how much you've already bought - with my money.
- Not really.
I am a girl.
Just tell me where the Senator is.
I don't really trust this ingestible tracker of yours.
The microdot is activated by stomach acid.
Give it time.
And give me props.
It wasn't easy getting that thing into the Senator's double half-caf.
I had to work my mojo.
Let's go.
Go? Go where? I want to be in motion when the Senator calls the meeting.
Wait, so the last four members of the secret cabal get together and we're in motion? I have a plan.
Has it occurred to you that Division knows you're coming? I mean, you killed oversight's banker in his own penthouse.
I wasn't the one who did the actual We haven't done our homework.
Okay, we should have spent a week at least doing recon on the Senator.
Now you want to take out the entire imperial senate? I'm not taking anyone out.
We're doing surveillance.
It's okay to be scared, nerd.
You know, maybe fear is not such a bad thing.
It causes you to stop, look around, become situationally aware.
Oh, now you're gonna lecture me on situational awareness? Somebody has to.
You know, ever since you left Mikey in London, you've been on some kind of a bender.
Coming in here, pulling slugs out of your Kevlar, acting like it doesn't hurt.
I've had worse.
I'm not talking about physical pain.
Look, Nikki, you're allowed to miss him.
But he's coming back.
You guys are You're meant to be.
You're like Bonnie and Clyde.
Except without the last scene.
She's on the move.
Shall we? Of course she's gonna make a move.
Nikita stole the money to force the meeting.
Which is why I sent an advance team to the stadium.
I've arranged for oversight to gather in the basement.
Yeah, that's no good.
Too many exits and entrances.
I already found a better venue, and I redirected the team.
Funny, I don't recall asking you to run point on this.
I'm not running point.
I'm running everything.
- It's already been approved.
- By mother? I'm not going to let Nikita anywhere near her.
- And I will? - You couldn't keep her away from Jonathan Gaines, and look what happened to him.
As I recall, you shot him.
And I supposed I have to follow oversight's orders, but don't put this on me, Sean.
You want to protect your mama, it's a perfectly natural instinct.
Especially for the baby boy.
They changed the venue.
And upped security.
Why? Boy scout.
Always prepared.
Who? Met him at Gaines' penthouse.
He changed my plans then too.
I had Gaines talking, naming members of oversight.
And? Boy scout started blasting.
Never as easy as it should be.
Go.
Baby, I want another bottle for the table.
Can you make that happen? For you, anything.
The way you look at the clients, they don't pay you to know how you really feel.
The men at my old jobs were different.
Really? Where was that? By the docks.
They appreciated us.
Men never appreciate a woman they pay for.
I'll try to remember that.
Sasha.
Oksana.
Your English is very good, Sasha.
Who would ever know that you are from Petersburg? I watched a lot of American movies as child.
Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Well, I've called three times already.
I know that this is the hotline.
How many times do I have to call you people? Where is she? I already gave you the address.
Look, I overheard my husband What are you doing? I'm sorry, I bring bottle back.
No, he changed his mind.
He buy two bottles if you dance.
I don't dance.
You do now.
Got to hand it to the boy scout.
They're having a foreign correspondents' luncheon up top.
Place is full of bigwigs.
Any one of them could be oversight.
Rear entrance is just as secure.
There's no way for me to get a gun in there.
This just keeps getting better and better.
Lobby's clear.
Advance team, have you secured the meeting site? Affirmative.
We're on our way down.
You said up top.
What's down below? Oh, just an old cold war bunker with three feet of concrete all around it.
At least that's according to the historical society.
Nice little place for the evil council of evil to hang out.
Excuse me, excuse me.
The extra flowers are here, but they're late of course.
I know, we're on it.
Have the other attendees started arriving? Number two has arrived.
Three and four are a mile and two miles out respectively.
What about flash traffic? Anything that could be Nikita's comm signal? There's a significant amount of chatter.
I've got three teams monitoring.
So far, nothing.
Hey come on, guys.
Let's go.
We got to move.
Right through there.
Can I help you? Is there anywhere else Birkhoff could hide a signal? Think.
What would you do? All right, the best way into that bunker unnoticed is through an old ventilation shaft.
Cross the dining room to a staircase that's in the rear of the kitchen.
Proceed to your next checkpoint.
You'll find a ventilation shaft in the main boiler room.
Connects up to the hotel's air conditioning system.
Damn it.
It's a long way down, though.
The hotel uses the room as kind of a junk drawer, but it's perfect.
If you say so.
Operations, number one is arriving.
Copy that.
Number two is right behind you.
I'm sorry about all this.
Listen, I understand your concern.
Having this Black Box out there is a significant deterrent to our efforts.
If any of our operations are exposed, it could be devastating.
Not only to us, but to the whole country.
Nikita won't stop.
Nikita is nothing more than a disgruntled employee.
And we are gonna get her.
One down, two to go.
Party's over.
All right, all right.
Party's over.
Immigration and customs enforcement.
Everyone stay calm, and I will go easy on you.
I want all the ladies on this side of the Hey! Hey! Hey! Enough! Enough, enough.
Okay, calm down.
Calm down.
What the hell do you think you're doing? You really stepped in it this time.
We got an anonymous tip from an angry wife.
Boris, your girls are illegal.
I was gonna put you ladies in holding for a few days, but now I think you're on a fresh flight back to Russia, thanks to you.
Stop.
Hey, Nikki, how's it going down there? I've got eyes on number three.
Almost there, Birkhoff.
One more to go, and we'll have them all.
Uh, yeah, copy that.
Barely.
Got to re-route the comms through another wireless node.
Commander, you were right.
I'm picking up an embedded comm signal in the hotel's wireless system.
Pinpoint the source, dispatch a team, and get me Sean.
Sean, this is Amanda.
I realize I'm not in charge, but we've found an embedded comm signal.
I think Nikita's nearby.
Meeting's over.
Abort.
Abort! Birkhoff, they're onto us.
Meet me at the exfil point.
I'm on my way.
Come on! Sean.
Sean.
Get her in the car.
Gun! Drop it! Put the gun on the ground! Drop it! Down on the ground, now! Drop your weapon.
Birkhoff, I'm at the exfil point.
Birkhoff! Birkhoff.
Birkhoff! So I talked to my supervisor.
There's a deportation flight going wheels-up tonight.
You're on the express.
Okay, let's go.
What you got over here? Go give him something special.
Maybe he'll let us stay here.
You want to stay here? At least I have nice clothes, nice food here.
Even a few nice men.
What I have in Petersburg? Everything will be all right.
I'll take care of this, trust me.
Trust you? You are a lie.
All of you is a lie.
Your Russian's too refined.
You're from Moscow.
You're a girl of privilege.
What is it? You run away from home? You're happy to go back to see mama and papa again.
You will be okay, but the rest of us are screwed.
Let's go, come on.
Okay, let's go.
I like the naughty schoolgirl look.
So we're gonna play truth or dare, huh? That's cool.
You want some truth? You nailed me out there.
Fair and square.
You got skills.
But when they're finished with you, they will snap your neck and dissolve you in acid.
I've seen 'em do it.
Seymour.
Thank you, Sonya, but forget standard protocol in this interrogation.
There are more efficient ways to find the truth.
Well, I see the boys gave you a nice welcome home.
Amanda, thank God you got me out of there.
Michael and Nikita were forcing me to do their hack work.
They threatened to kill me.
Really? Was that before or after you saved them by using attack drones? Is it my imagination, Seymour, or have you developed a hero complex? Look, I don't know what you want.
Nikita and the Black Box.
You're going to tell me where they are.
Or what, you gonna kill me? Kill you? Oh, Birkhoff, you're smarter than that.
You're the shadow Walker, able to break down any system and type 120 words a minute.
Now 60.
Birkhoff? Birkhoff? Hey, what's wrong? Michael, man down.
What? I lost Birkhoff.
Uh, how? We were running recon on oversight.
I had them.
I had them all.
Division found out.
They took him.
- When? - It doesn't It doesn't matter! Are you listening to me? They took Birkhoff.
Okay, I'll get on the first flight.
There's no time for that.
We have to do something now! What are you gonna do, launch a frontal assault on Division? Why aren't you here? Nikita, stop.
Focus.
Prioritize now.
Now when was he taken? One hour, 14 minutes ago.
The good news is he's still alive.
But the bad news is that Amanda is probably interrogating him right now.
Michael, we have to do something to save him.
- Michael.
- There is.
But you won't like it.
What is it? A trade.
Or more like a sacrifice.
I can have the finest surgeons in Division medical - fix that for you.
- Oh, go to hell.
I know how important it is to your work.
Just give me a location.
You might as well ask me where Carmen Sandiego is, bitch, 'cause I'm not giving up Nikki.
What? What? This cranial needle is designed to remove brain tumors.
I'm told patients love it.
Instead of taking a saw to your skull, the probe is simply inserted through the nose.
Of course those patients were unconscious during the procedure.
I'll be puncturing the cerebrospinal membrane to access your frontal lobe, where I'll administer this paralytic.
Soon after, your most prized possession, your mind, will whither and die.
Think of it as a reboot.
You're a psychopath.
You used to be such a selfish creature.
You're mutated into something entirely different.
You're a puzzle, Seymour, and I'm going to solve you.
- Hello.
- Put Amanda on.
- I'm sorry, who is this? - Do it now.
I have something she wants.
No, please, please, please, don't do this.
Please.
I can help you.
There are other Black Boxes that you need me to decrypt.
I'm the engineer.
Tell me where she is.
What is it about Nikki, huh? - Why are you so taken with her? - Please don't do this.
I mean, you must know Michael's first in line.
Please don't do this.
She could never see you that way.
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Amanda.
What? I'm sorry.
Nikita's on the line.
Sonya! Simple, you give me Birkhoff, - I give you the Box.
- You won't do it.
It means too much to you, to your crusade.
This may surprise you, Amanda, but Birkhoff means more.
He is a friend.
A friend is someone who knows you and still likes you, in case that's something you can't fathom.
I'm trying to fathom a lot of things today.
How do I know you haven't copied the Box? If you attempt duplication, the data eats itself.
It's one of Percy's little gems.
You know oversight wants this Box, and you know I'm willing to give it to you.
Now, do you need to put me on hold while you talk to your boss? She agreed.
That's good.
Probably won't stop her from trying to kill you both.
You need a real threat for leverage, preferably an explosive.
I have an idea for that.
What about the trade site? You need to control it.
Ingress, egress, everything.
And the best way to do that is pre-selected mode of transportation.
I got some ideas for that too.
The only wild card is who do they send? There was a guy at the oversight meeting.
I tangled with him in Gaines' apartment.
He shot Gaines when he started naming members of oversight.
- The soldier.
- The what? He didn't move like a Division agent.
Probably special forces.
Max.
Max is awake? Yeah, he couldn't sleep.
Definitely my son.
Son.
Sean.
Sean.
It says she has three kids, two girls and a boy.
Youngest son not pictured.
He serves in the armed forces.
Well, if he's special forces, they're not gonna advertise it.
Hang on.
Firing up Shadownet.
Lieutenant commander Sean Mason Pierce, United States Navy.
Designation Devgru.
Special warfare development group.
He's seal team six.
And the Senator's his mother.
Sean didn't shoot Gaines because he was naming members of oversight.
He shot him because he was naming her.
And there's no telling what someone will do when they're pushed to the edge.
Welcome home, ladies.
There is something wrong.
We have to go this way.
They, um, don't want undesirables walking through the airport, so Something is wrong.
What is going on? Hey, relax.
You're back home in Russia.
You get to keep your old job.
You work for Bratva? No, I work for immigration and customs enforcement.
Bratva's like my 401k.
So you put us with same family on the other side.
Who the hell are you? Someone who can't afford to have that question asked.
It's gonna be me and the boy scout.
- Excuse me? - The boy scout.
We had a brisk little run in the part today.
You know who you are, boy scout.
I'm listening.
Bring Birkhoff to the pedestrian walkway at 28th and 3rd in Manhattan.
Alone.
If I smell even a whiff of Division, I upload the contents of the Box live, starting with operations sanctioned by Senator Madeline Pierce.
He'll be there in one hour.
Senator, you heard? I did.
Needless to say, our priority is that Box.
I still don't believe she'll give it up.
I want two teams shadowing me.
This is no longer your operation.
I'm keeping the teams at a distance.
Do you really believe Nikita would release its contents? She knows how dangerous it could be.
It doesn't matter what she knows or what she thinks.
She's not thinking right now, not rationally.
Nikita is on the verge of losing someone she loves.
We must tread carefully.
No one can deny you're in a very delicate situation.
I simply want to confirm the data in the Box cannot be copied, not even by the engineer.
It's not just software, it's hardware.
It's Excalibur.
You're so proud of it, aren't you? Better believe it.
Have you been following the news? They're so angry, raging against the machine.
What do you think would happen if they got even the slightest glimpse inside that Box? If they found out that the machine is actually a steel trap that was set for them, the 99%? Think they'd have a candlelit vigil and sing Kumbaya? I doubt it.
They'd riot and burn the place down.
People want to believe God has a plan for them.
They don't want to know that anyone else does.
Lieutenant commander Sean Pierce? Who the hell are you? I am your ride.
He's on the move.
Jesal, are you there? Yes, ma'am.
Are you being followed? - No, ma'am.
- Good.
What's the point? She has to know they're tracking my comm.
Well, if she's smart, which she is, she hacked the taxi's transponder.
It's not precisely a transponder, but it's similar.
It allows the taxi company to track their cars.
How do you know she hacked it? Because it's interfering with Sean's signal.
- We've lost him.
- Can you track it? See, she can't track us, because she probably never got the cab's transponder number, and there's at least Dozens of cabs on the road right now.
Jesal, turn into the parking garage on your left, go up to the sixth floor.
I've got him.
He's in a parking garage on 51st near park Avenue.
I'm not gonna wave.
Whoa, whoa, sailor.
I jacked 17 wireless connections.
I let this go, the world's in for a nightmare.
- Let's have it.
- Him first.
Birkhoff, wand yourself.
Make sure there's no trackers on you or in you.
I'm sure they've picked up my signal by now.
Let 'em come.
The more, the merrier.
I'm clean.
Upstairs.
- What? - Go now.
Give me the Box.
Careful with this.
It's a loaded weapon.
Good, Sean.
Now take the Box and get out of there.
No need.
Plan "b".
You're a decorated soldier.
Why are you doing this? You're trying to kill my mother.
Your mother is a bitch.
I am not the threat, Sean.
Open your eyes.
It's over.
You're a good boy scout.
You wore your Kevlar, right? What are you doing? I'm leaving, but before I go, here.
Take this.
These are pass codes to numbered accounts at the bank of St.
Petersburg.
One for each girl.
I had old boss who gave me lots of money, and I'm spreading it around.
There should be enough in there for all the girls to start new lives.
Wait.
You can't leave.
You tell us to restart our lives, but How? We can't do this.
Where are you going? Hey, don't forget to take your anti-inflammatories, okay? And please don't miss a doctor's appointment.
Copy that.
Please repeat your command.
Go to hell.
Why does this voice-activated software sound just like Alex? It's the shell program we used to communicate with.
You know, the one that took you three years and six months to find.
You give new meaning to the phrase "insult to injury.
" Hey, Birkhoff You were right.
I flew too close to the sun on this one.
I never thought it would be you who got burned.
I'm a big boy.
I knew what I was getting into.
Still do.
You okay? I almost gave you up in there.
But you didn't.
Thanks for coming back for me.
You are so worth it.
You rule, nerd.
Packing up? Where you going, anyway? Find Owen.
He's on the trail of another Black Box.
Anti-inflammatories.
We needed the data on that Box.
You shouldn't have destroyed it.
It was Nikita's leverage.
I had to take it out of the equation.
- Why? - To save your life.
You said you had a way to get to her.
Through Alex.
Yes.
Then activate the plan immediately.
If Alex is gonna be useful, let's use her.
This is Pierce.
I made it.
How'd it go? - It went.
- You all right? Yeah, I just didn't expect it to be like this.
How's that? Empty.
Just be careful out there.
If you get into trouble, you know, you don't have to do this alone.
What, are you gonna fly out here? I wish I could.
But listen, if you do get into a bind, you call someone.
Doesn't matter who it is.
You call someone to get you out of there.
Amanda, Nikita, just call somebody.
Will do, Sean.
I'll be seeing you.