Nikita s03e18 Episode Script

You think you can just break everyone out of here and run for it? All of you? Get in.
Look, whatever you think is going on up there, I am willing to bet Amanda is behind it.
She's got Nikita-- Amanda's nowhere near this.
Alex started this, and we're gonna finish it.
Alex? Your new identity.
For the rest of your life.
Thank you.
This is your numbered account and your severance share.
Ho, ho, ho.
Merry Christmas.
Once everyone gets their cut, we will release the lockdown, throw open the doors, and kiss this place good-bye-- for good.
You gotta do something.
You need to retake control from Rachel, make the rest of them listen.
Listen to what? The truth.
The government's never gonna let turned assassins just disappear without the President's approval.
Now look, if you take charge, we can free Michael and restore order.
But you need to make them stop following Rachel.
I thought you were on board with this.
No, that was just so the angry villagers wouldn't tear me to pieces.
Alex, if we run, we will be hunted for the rest of our lives.
These people are not gonna end up free.
They're gonna end up dead.
No.
Not this time.
I will not let that happen again.
Again? What do you mean "again"? Alex? We have to shut down the trackers.
That way, they'll never find us.
Tell that to the rogue agents we've already caught.
They cut out their trackers, and we still found them.
You may be right.
I know I am.
Rachel, I need to talk to you.
- Not now.
- Yes now.
If there is any hope of us surviving past today, we have to disable Shadownet.
Say what? It's too powerful.
It has backdoor access to almost every major law enforcement grid in the world.
It can access security cams around the world.
If we leave it in Division, someone can use it to find us.
And you're the only one who can shut it down.
Escort Birkhoff to the server room and get it done.
- Let's go.
- Okay, all right.
- Hey.
- All right.
Sonya will continue the account transfers.
Alex, what the hell? I'm sorry, Sean, but I can't let you stop us.
No! Stop! Look, just because he's not on board doesn't mean he's a threat.
He's just having second thoughts.
There is no going back.
You said so yourself.
That doesn't mean we have to turn on each other.
Nobody needs to get hurt.
Take him to holding.
Hey, this will all work out, trust me.
I did.
The objective was to use Alex's survivor's guilt.
That's why she's so obsessed with making sure everyone in Division gets out of there alive, even if they end up killing themselves in the process.
That place is going to tear itself apart.
- Don't bet on it.
- I wouldn't.
If not for Ryan in a coma and Michael locked in a cell.
I wouldn't bet on it if you were there.
But you're here.
Oh, if you're gonna keep talking, Amanda, just kill me now.
Not yet.
Or ever.
You can't kill me.
You don't want to.
You've had so many chances.
As have you, and you couldn't pull the trigger.
I didn't want to kill anyone.
I never did.
That's what you didn't understand.
Always so superior.
Time for your final lesson.
All right, there.
You happy? Shadownet's down.
Little birds can fly free.
If you ask me, you're all a bunch of honey badgers.
It's really gone? Oh, it's never gonna be gone.
Shadownet not here.
Shadownet here.
And here.
That's true.
As long as you're around, Division will always be able to track us.
You ever kill anyone, Chris? No.
But how hard can it be? It's harder than you think.
Believe me.
All right, kiddies.
Christmas is over.
Santa's done giving presents.
The place is on lockdown, and I can't get out.
And what do you propose I do about it? Send goons or mercs or whatever.
Have 'em attack the outer perimeter and create a diversion.
That way, I can get out of here with the Black Box you told me to get.
Your plan's a bit crude.
You got a better idea? The elevators have an emergency override.
They can be triggered from the server room.
Go trigger it.
- That's it? - That's it.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm being rude to my guest.
What did you do to me? Nothing permanent.
I just needed to stimulate certain visualization centers the South Ossetia special.
You gonna make me see an imaginary room with a fake girl? No.
The people you meet won't be fictitious.
Major Matthew Collins, neuropsychiatrist, and his daughter, circa 1987.
The room is 8x10, green dresser against peach walls.
Pink flowered pillows on an unmade bed.
A mirror on the door.
Oh.
Sorry I'm late.
I got stuck at work talking to pencil pushers.
But I picked up some dinner.
Why don't you set the table while I wash up? Amanda, I've had a very hard day.
Now is not the time to push me.
So please, do as you're asked and set the table.
I'm Amanda.
I'm Amanda.
In Geneva, you demanded I tell you what made me.
Be careful what you wish for.
Original air date on April 19, 2013 We didn't have much, but we didn't need a lot.
The army provided for most things.
And daddy, well, he wasn't one for decorating.
Except for those ducks.
He was always obsessed with those damn ducks.
They forgot your salad.
I'm running back to get it.
It was about as ordinary as you could get.
What is all this? Isn't it obvious? You wanted to know how it all started.
Well, this is where I grew up.
So you're gonna show me that a hard life is an excuse for what you've become? It isn't.
So just skip to the end.
I can't skip to the end.
How this ends is up to you.
I'm trying to tell you what I remember of my life at that time.
And thanks to the psychotropic procedures I've perfected, you're able to simulate your own vision of it.
I'm just providing the framework for the story, but your own mind is filling in the details.
And your own choices.
I'll set the stage, but what happens here is determined by you.
It's similar to what I did to Alex in South Ossetia, except she didn't know it was all in her head.
I'm granting you the gift of self-awareness.
If you want to reveal to me your deepest, darkest secrets, Amanda, cut the theatrics.
No.
This is something you need to feel, not just hear.
It's the only way you'll learn you know nothing about who can and can't be saved.
Who is that? Get out.
Are you okay? I said, "get out!" He's not here.
He went out.
Oh, what did he do to you? Amanda, please.
You know if father finds you in here, he's going to blame me.
And then he's gonna up the dosage, and then-- and then-- No, no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna let that happen, because I'm gonna help you.
Oh, you're gonna help me? Daddy's little princess? You can't help me! Or can you, Nikita? When can we get out of here? When are we getting our money? Please, just be patient.
Sonya, what's the holdup? Division's accounts are more secure than we thought.
A firewall I've never seen before just sprang up.
Everything's frozen.
Birkhoff.
Chris, come in.
Chris? Server room.
Let's go.
Charlie, get that firewall down and free up the money.
Yes, ma'am.
Ops.
I want two-man teams sweeping the entire facility.
Find Birkhoff and bring him down.
Wait a minute! Don't tell me "No one needs to get hurt.
" This? This is not like Birkhoff.
I know him.
He's not a killer.
I think Vince would beg to differ.
There's got to be more to the story.
Look, he didn't shoot Chris.
No, just smashed his face.
I guess he was having second thoughts.
Hands! Don't move! Bring him in! Owen? What are you doing here? Story of my life.
I was getting a little stir-crazy waiting for my severance package.
Didn't know you guys had a curfew or-- Whoa.
Look, I don't want any trouble, okay? I just want to follow the conga line out like everybody else.
We didn't do this.
Birkhoff did.
Post guards near every terminal.
That's how he'll come at us.
You okay? Birkhoff, huh? Damn.
Owen, please.
I need you to find him before this gets worse.
Can he really hack into any terminal in Division? What matters is that they're gonna kill him, and I can't let that happen.
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Look, I gotta get back to Ops, but I don't-- Okay.
Okay.
Dial it down.
I'll find him.
Something's not right.
She's not right, I'm telling you.
I saw it.
Amanda did something to her.
Are you listening to me? Amanda.
Yeah, she attacked Nikita and Owen, but she left Owen behind.
That's not very Amanda of her.
And since then, even before then, Owen's been off the rails.
Okay, so are you saying that she did a number on him too? It's the only way to explain it.
Explain what? Owen stole the Black Box, and then he attacked me after I caught him trying to sneak away.
To where? Back to Amanda? She didn't grab Nikita.
He did.
Owen gave her up.
They're in this together.
Hey, look, I know you want to find your girl, but the only way you get to her is if I get through to mine.
We have to convince Alex to let us out of here.
Derek, call up to Ops.
We've got something Alex is gonna want to hear.
You're gonna have to try harder than that.
Tell her it's about the Black Box and the agent roster on it.
She'll listen.
Ops, come in.
Daddy's work was brilliant.
Far ahead of its time.
The army knew that post-traumatic stress was going to continue being a problem, so they commissioned him to find a treatment.
But he didn't want to just treat PTSD, he wanted to prevent it.
He searched for a way to split the moral judgment centers in the brain so that a soldier could engage in the horrors of war, and with the flip of a switch, return home and be a normal citizen.
The emotional scars would be locked safely away.
The military refused to allow him to conduct clinical trials, so he decided to do them on his own.
On his own daughter? Well, that's how much he believed in what he was doing.
It was a sacrifice, but that's the benefit of having twins.
You can use one as a control.
- Amanda! - You're hurting her! Amanda, stop it! You know you cannot interfere.
What are you thinking? You risk contaminating the study.
This isn't a study.
She's your daughter! And Helen knows how important this is.
I thought you did too.
Now, we've talked about this.
This is "Important work we're doing.
" Look, it's too dangerous to play games right now.
This is no game.
They told me you said something about the Black Box.
That's right.
All this trouble you're going through to give everyone a new life? Their identities are on it.
The entire Division roster.
Yes, yes.
I stopped by Ryan's office on my way down here.
The safe is open.
The box is gone.
Maybe we should talk about this in private? Oh! Don't do that.
Do what? Why are you so jumpy? This place has gone all Crimson Tide, or are you late to the party, as usual? Why don't you give me the gun before you hurt yourself? All right, we gotta get to a terminal, hack the holding cell, and bounce Mikey out of there.
System override on the elevators, can you do that from anywhere? Owen, what's wrong with you? Sam.
The name is Sam.
Now answer the question.
Yeah, yes.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Okay, let's go.
It's right around here.
There it is.
She said Birkhoff can override doors and elevators from here.
At ease, ladies.
I found him.
Agent double-oh-zero.
Do your thing.
Don't get cute.
What the hell did you do? Nothing.
You may now approach the elevators in an orderly fashion.
They're out! All right, enough! Let's get out of here.
I know this is confusing for you.
You hear those awful sounds coming from downstairs.
But you need to know that's not Helen you hear.
That's someone else.
A part of Helen's mind I've created.
And if I succeed with my work, your sister will never remember any of what's happened.
If you succeed.
When I succeed.
Maybe you're scared because you don't understand my work.
If you were more involved, if you could see for yourself How truly amazing these results really are, I could accomplish so much more with an assistant as brilliant as you.
You want me to follow in your footsteps? I knew you'd understand.
You were always the smart one, Amanda.
Now, I need to get back to work.
But I think you should get out of the house.
Call one of your friends.
Go to the mall.
Buy yourself some clothes.
So this is where it began Huh, Amanda? All the manipulation and the experimentation Destroying people's lives.
You gave up on your sister.
You chose your daddy over her.
I won't make that choice.
I won't make that choice.
Watch me.
When are you ever going to learn? Let me go! Alex, Alex.
I love you.
What do you feel? Stop it.
- Do you love me? - This isn't about us.
I'm making this about us.
There are two sides in this, and you need to choose.
Me or the mutiny? No.
If we stay inside Division, we die.
That's not true.
They died, Sean, and I lived.
Alex, look at me.
Alex, look.
She did something to you.
Amanda did something to you in South Ossetia.
Sean, we need to move! I thought you said it was close.
They should be.
They? Damn it.
Alex? Go ahead, pull the trigger.
Come on, you heard the man.
I can't.
'Cause I'm the only one that knows where Nikita is.
Helen.
Helen.
Helen.
Go away.
We're getting out of here.
- You're crazy.
- We can leave tonight.
He'll find us, and then he'll punish me.
No.
I need you to trust me.
Trust you to do what? Where are we gonna go Two runaways without a dime? We can go to the police.
We'll tell them what he's done.
Oh, and you think that they'll believe us? I don't go to school.
I don't have a license.
The state doesn't even have birth records of me.
Father made sure that I don't officially exist! The best thing that could happen to me is I end up in a place like this.
Is that what you want, Amanda? So you never have to think of me again? Helen Let me help you.
Please.
I'm just so tired of it.
The tests.
The experiments, the pain.
Please.
Amanda, make it stop.
I will.
You will? Oh, I promise.
Then please You have to kill me.
It's not an easy choice, is it? Because she really wants to die.
So you killed her? Your own sister? I did what I thought I had to do.
But it's your turn now.
I'm not going to do it.
Then you will live with the results, because I'll tell you this: My father's experiments never succeeded, and Helen will carry around the damage he did to her psyche for the rest of her life.
And you will be responsible for the consequences that follow.
Are you starting to believe me now? Not everyone can be saved.
Now there's three of them on the loose: Michael, Birkhoff, and Sean.
If you find them unarmed, shoot on sight.
No! We start killing each other, and we're lost.
We didn't start this.
Chris? Birkhoff got the jump on me in the server room.
He took my gun and shot down Vincent in cold blood.
He would have killed me too but said I needed to live to pass on the message that no one will survive tonight.
No! No! There's no way he said that.
Does anyone here believe this? Just finish the damn transfers.
Rachel, listen to me.
No, you listen to me.
Most of us will get out of here tonight.
Your pals made a different choice.
They stashed the Black Box somewhere.
With our real identities on it.
We need to find where it is.
No, we don't.
It can burn down with the rest of this place.
What'd you think? We'd leave it standing? You can't save everyone, Alex.
Go on, guys.
Get to it.
Too bad Amanda won't be getting her prize.
Wasn't for her.
I was using her to sell it to the highest bidder.
She's the one who told you you could override the elevators, isn't she? I knew you didn't come up with it.
You got a big mouth when my gun isn't in it.
Let's see yours.
Birkhoff, we need to get topside.
Will the hack still work? - It should.
- Good, let's go.
- We can't, not all of us.
- Why not? Once the hack's open, I gotta stay with it, make sure the kids in Ops don't shut it down.
Otherwise, you guys could get stuck between floors.
Well, I'm not leaving you behind.
Well, I'm not leaving without Sonya.
So there.
I got goose bumps.
- Shut up.
- There's a panel nearby.
I can hack it in 30 seconds.
Michael, you go.
I'm not leaving Alex behind, and I can't let Birkhoff be braver than me.
Come on, come on.
Let's go, Birkhoff.
I'm moving as fast as I can.
- Hurry it up, man.
- I'm hurrying.
All right.
Work faster.
At least give me a gun.
No way.
But you can take this back.
It's gonna get hot in a second.
If I'm gonna get Nikita back, I'm gonna need you and that in one piece.
So stay low and stay quiet.
Soon as the elevator doors open, I'll push them off.
My hero.
Birkhoff.
Get that elevator back down here! He's out! Mikey's out! So am I! What about Michael? Birkhoff hacked the elevator, so he could escape.
Took Owen with him.
Owen? They had the Black Box.
That's got the whole roster on it.
Our new identities will be useless.
Should've thought about that before you tried to whack me in the server room.
I knew it.
No, please.
No, no, no, no, no.
You think I wanna hunt you? You think I want the government to hunt you? I am you! No, please.
No, you were Percy's little stooge.
And then Nikita.
And then Ryan.
You're management, and this has been a long time coming.
No! Alex! Stop! Stop! Enough! It's over! Can't you see that? Just 'cause they're dead doesn't mean we stay.
You can't kill all of us.
You wanna go? Go! What are you looking at me for? I don't give the orders around here! You wanna stay? Stay! You wanna go? Go.
Helen? Helen, come on, we're going.
- I told you - I don't care.
We're getting out of here.
Let's go.
Why is she out of her room? You're not gonna hurt her anymore.
I'm disappointed in you, Amanda.
I thought we had an understanding.
You, back downstairs.
Now! I told you, get back to your room.
Oh! No! No! I could have gotten us out.
Why? Daddy's princess has to ask why? Why I wanted to hurt someone who kept saying that they were gonna help me, but waited and did nothing for years.
You knew what was happening downstairs, but you let me suffer.
And why? Because I was born eight minutes later than you? I could have been you.
I should have been you! Father did me a favor, because Helen doesn't exist But Amanda does.
You're Amanda.
I told you I was so much worse than all you bitches put together.
You were Helen The whole time.
Your sister tried to help you, and you killed her? She tried to save herself.
She couldn't bear the guilt of how she stood by, did nothing, told no one.
She thought that if she saved me, it would absolve her of everything.
Sound familiar? You see Alex as living proof that you can be redeemed, but the truth is you can't.
You can't really save people, can you? You slaughtered your family.
You had the freedom to make your own choices, and the story ended up the same.
No, your lesson means nothing.
For now.
But soon, you will know the truth of it.
You did something to me while I was out.
What did you do? I used our time together wisely.
What did you do to me? I thought I'd never make it out of that freaking hellhole.
Whoa.
Kind of in the middle of something here.
We had a deal.
Time to hold up your end.
Fine, just let me finish, and then you'll get what you want.
You know what? I've waited long enough.
Now you've messed with enough people's heads.
We leave now, or I'm putting a bullet in yours.
If you shoot me, neither one of us get what we want.
Just let me finish with Nikita, and then we'll go.
I can't let you do that.
Don't tell me you've gone soft.
Don't blame him.
I put a tracker on that box right after we got it from Ari.
Now, put the box down and back away from Nikita.
And here I thought you trusted me.
- Nikita.
- You have to get Amanda.
She's gone.
What about the Black Box? Can we track it? Amanda is gonna have to wait.
Division? We need to get back.
You might live to regret that, Sam.
You might not live, period.
I went through hell to get this back.
Now it's your time to deliver.
I want the names of the contacts we can sell these secrets to.
I want my money.
And then I never want to see any of your faces again.
Well, you're a man who seems to really know Hey.
Shut up and drive.
Are you guys okay? I think so.
Okay.
Sean, are you okay? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm good.
Let me catch my breath.
I think I cracked a rib.
You need to go to medical.
Are there even any medics left? One.
She's looking after Ryan.
Sean, there's something that I have to tell you about Ryan.
You're the one who shot him.
- How did you know? - Hey.
When I mentioned his name in the storage room, your reaction I mean, that's when I became certain that you were not the Alex I know.
I didn't mean to shoot him.
I didn't mean-- I didn't mean for any of this to happen.
I-I swear I didn't.
Sean, you have to believe me.
This whole time, the thing that matters to me the most-- Saving everyone.
I know.
No, you don't know.
I couldn't save my father.
I couldn't save Larissa.
And I-I couldn't save those girls that I left behind in the brothel.
What's done is done.
I just want my girl back.
Now, help me get to medical.
You know, one thing good, I can finally use that big screen to start watching some Monday Night Football.
Sean! Sean! You got shot! Somebody, help! I can't find an exit wound.
Where's the blood? Must be internal bleeding.
What? I've seen this before.
Bullet gets lodged in there and nicks a major artery.
There's nothing you can do.
- No! - Alex.
Promise me you'll find a way to get better.
No, don't think about that now.
Please! Please, somebody, help! Hey.
Alex, just promise me.
I promise.
Hey, Sean.
Look, you were wrong before, when you said the thing that matters to me the most was saving everyone.
You were wrong.
What I was trying to say is the thing that matters to me the most is you.
Hey.
This is where we first met.
Hey.
No! What happened? Is there anyone left? A dozen or so.
You guys need to get to Ops.
This was Rachel's doing? Yeah, he bled out internally.
Where's Alex? She said she was gonna stay.
She was waiting for you.
When we found Sean here, she was gone.
Kept saying she was trying to save everyone.
I guess, in the end, she couldn't save him.
Not everyone can be saved.