Nikita s03e13 Episode Script

Previously on Nikita You said you wanted to be safe.
From who? Amanda.
We're no longer together, and she doesn't know I'm here.
The only thing worth fighting for was my son.
And if this protector of yours is as good as you say he is, then your son will be fine.
You had the chance to kill me once before, Nikita, but for some reason, you didn't.
That was a mistake.
I guess I have a target on my back now.
Just like Ari's son.
You leave that boy out of this.
The boy is fair game.
Original air date on March 8, 2013 We are running out of time.
I have given you everything I know about Amanda-- bank accounts, safe houses, contacts.
Now get out there, and use them to hunt her down before she finds my son.
Michael will run all this intel through Ops, but you haven't given me everything.
Tell me small details about Amanda, anything.
You were together for what, She was different then, less unhinged.
What changed her? Moscow.
You had a gun pointed at her, and you don't shoot.
Let her live, and she found that self-righteous display of mercy to be humiliating An insult she will never forgive you for.
What I want to know is, do you forgive yourself? If you had killed her, a lot of people would still be alive today.
I don't get why we're helping this snake.
After Ari and Amanda decrypted the remaining Black Box, they re-encrypted it with two keys, his and hers.
How romantic.
The point is, without Ari's password, the box stays locked.
So she grabs the kid, forces Ari to give up the goods.
One problem: We have this son of a bitch on lockdown.
She wants to deal, she has to deal with us.
Stefan Tasarov is 15 years old.
We can't let an innocent be used as a bargaining chip.
Which one is Ari's son? I'll know him when I see him.
So I'll, uh, definitely call you sometime.
I gotta go.
See ya.
What do you think, Krieg? She's cute, right? Who is she? Her name's Ilyia.
She's Russian and speaks an adorably small amount of English.
Don't worry.
So you can stop giving me that look.
You talk to her a lot? Yeah, I told her I was Stefan Tasarov, that my dad ran a corrupt security firm in Moscow, and, oh, yeah, I gave her our address.
Not funny.
You're German.
What do you know about funny? We've got a kid coming out the back with a bodyguard.
Move in.
Keep it quiet.
Come on, can't a cute girl just be a cute girl? - Get in the car.
- Okay, chill.
Once you get the boy, bring him out front.
Get down.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, what happened? Stay down! This is three hours ago, shooting at the Markridge American school just outside Geneva.
No students hurt.
These dudes weren't so lucky.
One of 'em's ex-Gogol.
They're both on the Amanda henchmen roster.
Private school.
You know, my father enrolled me under an alias in school to protect me from his competitors.
Witnesses say the shooter drove off with a student, You mean Stefan Tasarov.
Hey, what the hell is going on? Who were those guys? Mercenaries.
Mercenaries? W-why would mercenaries want to kill me? This isn't about you.
It's about your father.
His name is Amon Krieg, ex-German counterintelligence, retired.
I hired him to protect my son because he's the best I've ever seen.
Not exactly how I plan on spending my retirement, chaperoning someone else's kid.
Krieg gave his life to his work.
He therefore had no life to retire to.
Happens to the best of us.
So let me get this straight.
You pay this guy to essentially raise your son, and you have no way of getting in touch with him? Yes, in case I was, say, tortured by my enemies in a secret underground bunker.
Ever since I got into this business, I was a risk to my son.
It was safer that I didn't know where he was and that Krieg checked in with me.
So how did Amanda find him then? - Your gaming device.
- What? Give it to me.
- Why? - Give it to me! You went online with it, didn't you? No, I-I mean-- I had rankings to maintain.
I said never go online without a firewall! - No, I-- - I warned you! Yeah, yeah, I thought it was one of your stupid rules.
You didn't tell me that going online would bring a group of paid killers to my school.
You've been lying to me for two years! Get in the car.
Go on, get in the car.
We're leaving.
There is one more complication.
When I hired Krieg, I was running Gogol.
Division was at the top of the list for potential threats.
So what are you saying? He won't know you're working with me.
He is going to kill anyone that comes his way.
All right, Shadowbot is shadow-botting.
Until we get a vector on Krieg, finding Amanda is our best bet.
I like this.
Just the two of us in an old, abandoned staging area.
Feels like old times.
Right? No boys needing rescuing.
Well, maybe one.
There's always one.
Hey.
Are you okay? Yeah.
Just something Ari said.
About his son? No, about Amanda.
He said that when I let her live, it changed her.
Thing is, I wanted that.
I was praying for it.
You did what you thought was right.
You know that thing Amanda says about the real us being hidden from everyone? - There are two Alexes.
- Right.
I was kind of hoping she was including herself in that group, that maybe there was a real Amanda deep down that would come out if I showed her mercy.
Maybe it did.
Maybe the real Amanda's worse.
Something's wrong.
Your father's account is empty.
You know what? We don't need him or his money.
I-I-I have some cash.
You don't understand, Stefan.
Your schools, your housing, your protection, it all costs money, a lot of money.
My protection? As in, you don't work for free.
Look, man, you don't need to stick around.
Just drop me off at a train station or something.
I'm not a kid.
I can handle myself.
Right.
"Not a kid.
" Look, Stefan-- It's cool.
We need to get off the road now.
You got a mind of your own.
Yo, Michael.
What the hell, man? What is it now, Owen? You send Nikita and Alex to chase Amanda with no backup? Why didn't you send me? Because there's a chance they run into Amanda.
The last time you ran into Amanda, she was able to neutralize you just by saying a name.
No, not just a name.
Mine.
My real name--Sam.
I need to know who I was before Amanda wiped my memory.
Exactly.
This is too personal for you.
You'd be distracted.
Let me talk to Ari.
They were partners in crime.
He knows what she knows.
Again, too personal.
The last time you saw Ari, he stabbed you in the back.
You might want revenge.
I don't care about all that.
I want to know who I was before she took that from me.
You know what, I don't even know why I'm asking you.
You're not even in charge.
I'll ask Ryan.
Ryan's not here.
He's overseas trying to shore up our funding.
Sean's with him for protection, or I'd send him to Switzerland with Nikita and Alex.
Look, when this Op is completed, I will try and schedule some time for you to talk with Ari.
He's not going anywhere.
Where do you think Krieg's going? Well, he'll want some heat to pass, and without money, he'll need to hole up somewhere cheap.
It's too cold to rough it outside.
Especially with the boy.
Motel? Close to the airport.
Let's start making some calls.
How's your French these days? Tres bien.
How's your German? Sehr gut.
Danke schoen.
Got him.
Chalet tranquille.
Two paid cash.
One was a father and son.
Mr.
Elliot, I knew it was only a matter of time.
Who am I? Oh, are we going to play a game? Yeah.
It's called "Tell the truth.
" It's your turn, and the clock's ticking.
Indeed.
How long do you think you have before they check on me? Long enough for you to tell me who I was before Amanda wiped my memory.
I have no idea.
If I don't get answers, I'm going to make what Nikita did to you look like a love tap.
Mr.
Elliot, I understand your curiosity about who you were Because who you are is such a disappointment.
Oh, very well.
I believe Amanda said something about you being A soldier.
Krieg, my name's Nikita.
I'm here on behalf of Ari Tasarov.
I'm unarmed.
Just here to talk.
Decoy room.
He's watching us.
Psst.
Don't move.
- We're not here to hurt Stefan.
- Who do you work for? The man who pays you.
I can get him on the phone.
Back inside.
Gotta get you out of here.
Oh, my God, are you okay? Now.
Come on.
Witnesses say there was a fight on the second floor, a man against two women.
He landed on that car.
Nikita and Alex, which means they now have Stefan.
They have an hour head start getting out of the country.
No, they can't leave Geneva yet.
They have to get the boy papers and a passport, and we have to find their staging area.
All right, we're good.
We should go back for Krieg.
He could be hurt.
Krieg is ex-German special forces.
He's fine.
He can take care of himself.
Guess you know more about him than I do.
So what now? You take me to my father? Don't sound so thrilled.
I'm not.
My whole life, I've been running from the name Tasarov.
Believe it or not, I know how you feel.
Because you're a Udinov? So tell me, if my father wanted to rescue me, why isn't he here? It's complicated.
Funny, that was the answer he always gave me.
Okay, Tasar-offspring is in the system, passport ready.
Okay, I'll let Ari know his son is all right.
Patch me through to interrogation.
No answer.
Really? Let's start their exfil.
Division will have set up their operation in a low-traffic area.
It's standard procedure.
A warehouse, an empty office space not far from the airport.
Oui.
Birkhoff.
- What's up? - Geneva police.
They're doing a sweep of the warehouse district.
Ugh, and you were doing so well.
Do your job, noob, and clear Nikita's site in advance.
Hmm? With Division, always follow the trail of extreme competence.
That's where they are.
And That's all I know.
That's it? That's nothing.
I was stationed overseas where I committed a crime that I was court-martialed for? Where overseas? What crime? Amanda said I killed all my friends.
Maybe she was lying to you.
Maybe you are.
Tell me the truth, damn it! Tell me the truth! All right! All right.
Your real name was Samuel Erlichsson.
Owen! You were part of a special operations team sent on a secret mission to recover technology from the wreckage of a German U-boat found frozen in the north polar ice cap.
Owen! It was a five-man operation of which you were the only survivor Because what you discovered on that submarine was not of this earth.
Owen, let him go.
- Wait, he's telling the truth.
- No, I'm not.
Could you come and take him now, please? - What? - Mr.
Elliot, I told you the truth the first time.
I don't know who you were.
But you wouldn't listen, so I had to make that story up to buy time, like scheherazade.
By the way, I learned how to make that fist.
Wheels up in an hour.
I thought I saw something.
Nikita? Stay here, and don't move! Careful, I need the boy alive.
Stefan! Go get him.
I'll cover you.
Take them out, and get the boy! Stefan! Hello, there, little Tasarov.
Target acquired.
Good.
Exfil to the rendezvous point.
I'm on my way.
They've got Stefan.
They're driving him out of here.
Get after them.
I'll catch up with you.
Damn it, I lost Stefan! Nikita, do you read? Nikita! Ops, I'm tracking Nikita, but she's not responding to her comm.
Looks like she's parked in an industrial zone about 10 miles from your staging area.
Hi.
This is an interesting reunion.
Sorry about your face.
When I get these restraints off, I'll even out the other side.
Oh, thank God you came when you did.
She would have killed me.
Krieg, I understand what you're doing.
I do, but you don't have to.
We're on the same side.
Is that why you threw me off the balcony? - Ouch.
- You attacked me.
No, I defended my charge.
You took him from me.
And now I'm going to get him back.
She has Stefan.
She has him now.
Where did she take him? - I don't know.
- Because it's not true.
At first, you know, I thought there was one team after Stefan.
Now it's clear there are two.
I'm not interested in your conflict.
All I care about is the boy, and one of you has him.
You can tell me, or I can make you tell me.
I can prove I'm working with Stefan's father.
Let me call him.
Oh, yeah.
So your people can trace our location, and I can talk to a man under duress? No.
How many more are with you in Geneva? Just my partner.
That's it.
She's lying.
She has an entire organization at her back.
But I saw you at the school, and you had, what, five men? Mercenaries, by the look of it.
Not exactly top of the line.
I suppose you are also trying to protect the boy.
Of course.
You don't protect someone by shooting at them.
Exactly.
Krieg, let me go, and we'll make her take us to him.
Do it now, before her people move him.
You'll just be walking into a trap.
Your money has run out because she's taken Ari prisoner.
And the lies continue.
I know things only Ari knows.
I know when he hired you.
He told me about Berlin.
Even what happened to your wife.
And I'm so sorry.
I would never disrespect her memory, but, please, you have to believe I am telling the truth.
If Ari didn't trust me, how could I know these things? Let me help you.
For your sake, for Ari's, and for Stefan's.
Why don't we just ask Ari? I'll get him on the phone, and then he can tell you about his friend here, Amanda the sociopath.
Yeah.
You have 90 seconds before any kind of trace can find us.
That's Nikki's code.
Nikita, where are you? Krieg has me and Amanda.
He needs to talk to Ari, and he'll end this call in 80 seconds.
Route that call to my cell.
Wake him up.
I said wake him up.
Come on, Tasarov.
Wake up.
- Mm.
- Michael! He's coming around.
He was knocked out.
There was a thing with Owen.
I'm out of time.
Krieg, I know you are listening to me.
Just give me one-- Oh, you-- If anything happens to Nikita, I am going to kill you.
There, you have your proof.
Let me go.
The sooner you trust me, the sooner we can use her to get the boy back.
Oh There are other options.
Both of you are trying to convince me that you are telling the truth.
I just want to find Stefan.
You will only need so much.
The rest I will take from you Piece by piece.
Birkhoff, I'm here.
I don't see her.
Nikita's comm, but no Nikita.
Krieg, you don't want to do this.
No, I truly don't.
But I will.
There are other ways.
You are right.
This is one.
Ah, looks like someone found the bread crumb I left.
Go ahead.
Krieg, where is Nikita? That depends.
Where is Stefan? I have him.
He's safe with me.
Then if you have him, put him on.
Let me talk to Nikita first.
Stay where you are.
I'll meet you.
Then we'll discuss a trade.
I wouldn't trust that one either.
Oh, I don't.
She could have Stefan in a secure location.
Krieg, listen to me.
Don't make this about her.
If she's lying, she's lying to help me.
If she's lying, she dies.
It's too late, Nikita.
You'll never make it in time.
Then I'll die trying.
That's what you do to save someone you care about.
You definitely wouldn't know.
What are you doing? Just watch.
You can learn a thing or two when you leave your lair.
NowI need you to cut me.
- What? - Blood.
It's basically salt water, a conductor.
It'll short the wire and ignite the oil cans.
- You must be joking.
- I am not.
I can't do it alone.
I need your help.
So dig deep, unless you want to volunteer your own blood.
Oh.
Oh, okay.
I get it.
The fire ignites the oil, the oil combusts, the explosion blows the door, and then we get out of here, right? No, I just started a fire.
Hopefully, someone will see it and call the fire department.
Hopefully? What if they don't get here in time? Then we both die a horrible death, and in my book, that's a glass-is-half-full scenario.
- We really need your help.
- Stefan? He was captured by one of Amanda's crew.
Where the hell is Nikita? Just please focus on this.
Alex flagged these men as Amanda's operatives in Geneva.
She's reduced her contingent.
Never could stretch a buck.
Do you recognize any of them? This man, I know him.
Anatoli Oslov, ex-Gogol.
Do you remember his phone number? Birkhoff, this guy's a no-show.
We've got a new lead.
Ari got us a phone number on one of Amanda's flunkies.
We traced his cell.
I'm uploading the location to you now.
That'll be where they have Stefan.
Get the kid.
And make the trade.
I'm on my way.
So this is how it ends.
Just like it began.
We didn't meet in a fire.
I'm not talking about you, you solipsistic junkie.
Although I guess one version of Nikita was born in the fire, the rogue Nikita.
When I saved Alex.
And defied the people who made you.
Made me? Amanda, you taught me skills.
I passed some of them on to Alex, but you didn't make me any more than I made her.
You made her.
And like everything else you love, she will turn against you.
Who made you, Amanda? How did it begin? I am so much worse than all you bitches put together.
Tell me.
Tell me! You think you're the only one with daddy issues? Yeah? Pack up.
We're leaving.
Amanda's alive.
She says we're expecting company.
Where is she? Alex, we have Nikita on the line.
Alex, Krieg is on his way.
He's here with me.
Look, Amanda got free too.
I don't know where she is.
You have to find Stefan before she moves him.
Okay, what about Krieg? We have Ari here.
They should talk.
Call the number I gave you.
Amon, it's Ari.
They're telling the truth.
You can trust them as far as Stefan is concerned.
The question is, can I trust you, my old friend? No one is holding a gun to my head.
I'm just worried about Stefan.
The woman who's with you should be able to help.
Get him back, Amon.
Keep him safe.
I will.
Enough nonsense.
Let's get the boy back, yes? Yes.
Cutting it close, yeah? Had to make a call.
- What's she doing here? - It's a long story.
No, it's okay.
It--I'm-- I'm all right.
We have to go.
More will be coming.
Come on.
It's a dead end.
Take the maintenance tunnel.
It'll lead to the outside.
I'll tell Nikita to meet you there.
What about you? I called the police.
Go! Hey.
Thank you.
Thank him.
Nikita, they're coming your way.
They're coming out of the northwest maintenance tunnel.
Got it.
Can you hold out? Police are on their way.
- Good call.
- Learned from the best.
Alex is okay, Nikki.
She's been taken into custody.
Good.
You took a bullet for me.
Yeah, that's my job, remember? Yeah, it's a terrible job.
Hmm.
Beats retirement.
I am very sorry about the confusion.
I did throw you off a balcony.
Yeah, that didn't help.
Your plan for the boy, it wasn't to take him to his father, was it? We hadn't figured that out yet.
Your father is going to prison for a very long time.
Now that Stefan has new papers, I, uh, I have some ideas on where to go.
But all of this is not up to me.
I think it's time for Stefan to decide what happens.
It is, after all, his life.
Well, it's yours too.
You sure you don't want to retire on a beach somewhere, surrounded by naked women? Yeah, yeah, maybe when you're in college.
Look who found his sense of humor.
There would be some ground rules.
I don't doubt it.
In matters of security, I have the final word.
That's nonnegotiable, no arguing.
After the past couple days, that's cool by me.
We can patch you through to say good-bye.
Thank you for saving my son.
- Nikita? - She's all right.
We're getting her out of Geneva now.
I'm sorry.
This whole Amanda thing, it just-- it got the best of me, you know? Save it.
From here on out, you're off of active duty.
- Until when? - Until I say so.
I've been there too.
You protect someone out of a sense of duty, and then, when it becomes more, it really surprises you.
All right, Birkhoff, let's go and get Alex.
Mocking up extradition orders now.
We may be able to intercept her before we gotta pay bail.
Looks like I'm not leaving Geneva empty-handed after all.
Let's see how well she taught you.