Nikita (2010–2013): Season 1, Episode 10 - Dark Matter - full transcript

NIKITA: Six years ago,
I was taken from prison...

...and forced to become an assassin
for a black-ops program called Division...

...that has now gone rogue.

With the help of Alex,
my partner on the inside...

...we discovered the location
of a black box.

A hard drive that holds
our government's secrets...

...and makes Percy and his Division
untouchable.

It was guarded
by one of Division's deadliest.

An assassin who killed my fiancé.

I captured him, but he escaped.

Now, on the run from Division,
he has the black box.



I'm going to get it back, and then
I will take Percy and Division down.

And the last word they'll breathe
before the end will be my name.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[MAN GRUNTS]

Wait, wait, wait!

- Wait, wait.
- Owen?

- What the hell are you doing here?
- Had to make sure you weren't armed.

- Who was I kidding?
- What do you want?

I started something.

I need your help to finish it.

Owen...

...what did you do?

This is the situation in Chile
right now.

Widespread anti-American protests
over the release of shocking video.



You're about to see footage
from a traffic camera.

This car accident was thought
to have killed Andrés Quintana...

...a candidate in Chile's
recent presidential election.

But this was no accident.

BIRKHOFF: Brakes disengaged
by hacking onboard system.

We have visual.

Please confirm target is down.

Watch and listen
as covert American operatives...

...reach into the car
and asphyxiate Quintana...

...who had not died from his injuries.

AGENT:
We need to restrict his airway.

[QUINTANA GRUNTING]

Stand by. He's fighting it.

[QUINTANA CHOKES]

We're good.

Tango down.

WOMAN [ON TV]:
"We're good," he says...

...and the world bears witness
to the sanctioned murder...

...of a foreign political figure
by the United States.

FIEDLER: We just don't do this
kind of blunt work anymore.

Put it this way, I am not Ollie North
and this is not 1986.

We have no official word
on who pulled this off...

...but cover your desks and stay vigilant.
There will be retaliation against us.

Who could have done this?
A private contractor?

- DOD?
FIEDLER: There's no way to tell.

Maybe it's Fletcher's ghost unit.

FIEDLER:
Excuse me?

Fletcher?

You got something?

I have been tracking...

...off-book counterintel activity
for three months.

It started with the Mirko Dadich
incident in New York.

Subversion, infiltration.

It all points
to a single black-budget organization...

...funded and sanctioned
from within our government.

[MEN CHUCKLING]

Right.

I've been on desk rotation
for almost a year.

If I could get to Chile,
I could find some trace of them.

Someone they turned
in Quintana's camp...

...local hires they made...
- Who made?

RYAN:
I'm not sure.

But these guys are everywhere
and nowhere.

Like...

Like the dark matter of the universe.
They fill all the empty spaces.

Dark matter, heh.

You know, we deal in facts,
not science fiction.

Better get back to work.

NIKITA:
Where the hell is it?

The black box is in a safe place.

Don't look at me like I'm some recruit.
I'm in this fight as much as you are.

- I shot across Percy's...
- That's not all.

There's a reason why I don't release
operations to the press.

First, there's chaos, then a cover-up.
Someone will get framed for this.

- Or did you not consider that?
- I have a plan.

Oh, I've heard that before.

The video didn't come from
the black box. The video came from this.

Percy sends these to the Guardians
and we use them to update the boxes.

- Still not hearing a plan.
- There is a Division scientist.

Designation: Engineer.

He built the boxes, he encrypted them,
he set up the entire system.

I released the video
because if the system is compromised...

- The engineer will come in and fix it.
- Exactly.

And when he does, it's our chance
to locate the other six boxes.

We do that, we take them out,
and then we take out Percy.

How did you think you were
gonna get close to this engineer?

That's why I came to you.
He's gonna report to Division.

You've got someone on the inside.

[CELL PHONE RINGS]

Hello, John, how is your day going?

Don't you start with me.

Oversight is not happy about this.

Are you calling on behalf of them
or that agency that writes your checks?

Look, you exist
because the group allows it.

You and your Division are a tool
of Oversight, you got that?

It was a data breach.
It's being dealt with.

Division will remain invisible.

Well, don't be so sure.
I have a junior analyst...

...who's started a file.

He's found your fingerprints
all over the world.

Lucky for you,
I denied his request to go to Santiago.

- Hey, are you listening to me?
- Send him. Send him down there now.

- Why would I do that?
- He's not your problem.

He's your patsy.

Excuse me?

Your patsy. Your Lee Harvey Oswald.
Your Scooter Libby.

Who's the guy that said
he fathered John Edwards' kid?

What are you suggesting?

I'm not suggesting anything.
I'm telling you.

We're gonna control the narrative
on this.

Division will create
an electronic paper trail...

...that will paint your junior analyst
as a political zealot...

...an anti-Quintana firebrand...

...determined to prevent a radical shift
to the left in Latin America.

What's his name again?

Ryan Fletcher. You're gonna frame him
for the assassination?

No, John. You are.
Remember? I'm just a tool.

[BLEEPING]

BIRKHOFF: Your assignment for today
is to create an electronic paper trail.

I want you all to pose
as a political zealot online.

Someone opposed
to the policies of this man.

Anybody know who this guy is?

I didn't think so.

Letting you kids watch cable news
would only make you dumber.

Browsers open!

You made first strike alone...

...knowing you'd need my asset
for follow-through. Why?

You think I was gonna go along
with your plan?

I didn't think you'd help, all right?

Not after what I did.

Back at the pool
when you saw it was me...

...part of you wanted to kill me.

I don't blame you, Nikita.

Stop.

Division made me what I am
and Percy put me in a cage...

...to guard his secrets.

I had no idea
what I was helping him do.

- Until you came along.
- Stop it. Stop.

Help me.

We can do this.

If I do this...

...there's no "we."

My operation, my rules.

Say it.

Your rules.

[COMPUTER BEEPING]

[COMPUTER KEYS CLACKING]

Division is creating a paper trail...

...trying to paint someone
as anti-Quintana.

You were right.

I never considered
this kind of collateral damage.

Actions have consequences
that Division teaches you to ignore.

First thing you have to learn
is forget everything they taught you.

- Do we know who they're framing?
- I'll find out.

All right. This engineer...

...what's he look like?

He's like 40, 45, weird...

...glasses, kind of eccentric.

- Weird...
- I got it.

Engineer?

You're supposed to work
on the assignment.

I got a new one.

Burying you.

Isn't that the old one?

I have a picture of you
trying to escape Division.

Remember?

Nothing lasts forever.

Not even a picture.

I got something.

Division is linking this trail
to the same I.P. Address every time.

Pinged at a home Wi-Fi,
belongs to Ryan Fletcher of Alexandria.

Oh, here we go.

He consults
for an import-export company.

Madrazo lmports.
Offices in Virginia and Santiago, Chile.

OWEN:
Lmport-export?

That seems a little
like a little CIA front.

Framing a company man.

A bold stroke.

[MAN SPEAKING IN SPANISH
ON MONITOR]

[DOOR BUZZING]

[COMPUTER TURNS OFF]

Fletcher.
They told me you were coming.

This place is blowing up.
What did you do to get this gig?

- Must have been something I said.
- Times like this...

...I'm glad to be down here
keeping watch.

- Why is that?
- After it hits the fan...

...it keeps going.
Right past me to you.

That's beautiful, Gil.

It's deep.

Your desk is just the way you left it.

[PHONE RINGING]

GIL:
Cleary.

Fletcher, there's already a call for you.
On two.

- Ryan Fletcher.
- Listen to me very carefully.

Who is this?

You're being framed for murder.

- What?
- I have credible intelligence...

...from an active mission
to compromise you.

Who is this?

I'm a friend. Ryan, listen to me...

...sever ties
and go to ground immediately.

Wait, I'm not doing anything
until you tell me who you are...

...and how you know who I am.

[GUNSHOTS]

Ryan?

[CROWD SCREAMING]

Ryan, can you hear me?

Ryan?

[IN SPANISH]

Navaja! Navaja!

All right.

The hell are you doing?

What does it look like?
I'm going with you.

WOMAN [OVER TV]: As the world
reacts to the assassination...

...of a political figure
by the United States...

...the protests in Chile
have escalated...

...to full-scale geopolitical chaos.

I thought we taught Nikita
better than this.

MICHAEL: I'm not sure putting us
on the news was her play.

I paid a visit to the owner
of the leaked site who posted the video.

- He talked?
- After some persuasion...

...he gave up his sources. I was right.

- Owen?
- Mm-hm.

So he is alive.

And now Nikita has a partner.

Any mention of the black box?

No. Apparently he uploaded the video
from a thumb drive.

Can't believe Nikita is getting involved
in all this chaos it's causing.

I suppose if it serves her mission
to bring down Division.

She's all about herself, Michael.

You should know better than anybody
after what happened in Tashkent.

WOMAN [OVER TV]:
And we are just getting this.

Ryan Fletcher,
CIA operations officer...

...has been linked
to the Quintana assassination in Chile.

Fletcher is not under covert status
with the agency...

...and therefore
can be named publicly.

- You framed a CIA agent?
- Well, he wasn't under covert status.

He was a punk analyst...

...who stepped out of line
and needed to be put in place.

The rebels will squeeze
a confession out...

...post it, and by the time
it's been re-tweeted around the world...

...he will have assumed
room temperature...

...and the scandal will have blown over.
- If she's involved, she's seen this.

She'll try to save the agent.

Bring your best team.

If those two are working together,
they're gonna be hard to stop.

Whoa, whoa! Close the door. Wait here.

I've got credentials.

I'll tell them Langley sent me
to follow up.

All I have to do is cross-reference
his alias...

...find the location and an ID number.

- Is there a problem?
- You lost me at "Wait here."

I have credentials, you don't.
That makes you backup.

Got it?

You're used
to working on your own, huh?

Kind of just get right in there...

...direct offense. Solo, right?
- Do you know what I'm not used to?

Sitting outside a building and talking
about how I'm gonna infiltrate it.

When I do something,
I just get in there...

Yeah.

- Wait here.
- Yeah.

Welcome to Santiago, Miss Jordan.

Thank you.

Ryan was using that desk there.

We're all cleared out.

- You looking for anything in particular?
- Rebels.

You must have intel
on their local camps.

Hola, Navaja.

Thanks.

That's funny. Langley didn't say
anything about you coming down.

That's because they didn't know.

The director asked me personally.

Really?
Because you know what I think?

I think that you...

Somebody call for backup?

[POUNDING]

Hey, listen to me. Listen to me.

NAVAJA: Quiet!
- I...

Tell the world what you did
for your country.

I swear to you,
the CIA did not sanction this.

Look, why me?

You could've taken anyone. All of us.
But you came for me? Why?

Please, wait.
I want the same thing as you do.

I wanna find out who did this.

[IN SPANISH]

JADEN:
Where are you going?

- We're supposed to be sparring.
- I didn't sign up with you.

I signed up with you.

We're besties now, remember?

BIRKHOFF:
Just "Engineer"?

ENGINEER:
It's too cold in here.

You're hoarding gear,
not sides of beef.

BIRKHOFF:
Yeah, that's how I roll.

Hey, don't touch that.

Look, what's this about?

Percy told me
I was gonna fix a data breach.

Okay, If you won't tell me your name,
tell me what you're engineer of.

Apparently, your future.

[DOOR OPENS]

Gentlemen.

I brought you here...

...because I was promised a secure...

...self-contained storage system.

And now I find there's a hole
in Pandora's box.

ENGINEER: First off, it ain't
Pandora's box, it's mine.

Second, my system is flawless...

...and my encryption
is exquisitely impervious.

The only failure is the human element.

Those Guardians,
which you brought into the mix...

The Guardians are fine.

The breach was caused
by the update drives...

...which last time I checked
were part of your system.

Why do you even need that?
This thing's got onboard wireless.

PERCY:
Exactly.

See, Birkhoff here is a signals expert.

Now, I want the two of you to take this
out of the equation.

Update the black boxes wirelessly...

...without hurting the encryption.

- I love a challenge.
- I've never seen one of these before.

- What clearance level is this?
- My level.

Today's the day you reach
your full potential, Birkhoff.

Don't let me down.

Amazing.

You already look lost.

Put that away.
This isn't a cleaner job.

Sorry.

It's okay.

I'm new at this hero stuff.

- You've been doing it a lot longer.
- I'm not a hero, Owen.

If we go in hot,
we put Fletcher in the crossfire.

- Nonlethal whenever possible. Got it?
- Yeah.

[IN SPANISH]

Good evening.
I have a statement from the president.

There will be no questions afterward.

[MAN 1 GRUNTS]

MAN 2:
Miguel?

[GRUNTS]

- Is that quiet enough?
- Yeah.

This administration vowed to uncover
the truth about the events in Chile.

So it is with a heavy heart
that we confirm tonight...

...that one of our own...

...a CIA officer named Ryan Fletcher...

...has squandered his promise
as our best and brightest.

His zealotry...

...has led to the senseless death
of Andrés Quintana.

And this office will use everything
in its power...

...to see him brought to justice.

- Your President stole my thunder.
- I...

Oh, well.

[GASPING]

[GRUNTS]

[MEN SHOUTING IN SPANISH]

[IN SPANISH]

[GASPS]

OWEN:
I'm out!

- Who are you?
- Nikita. You hung up on me.

- Let's go.
- Where?

- Ryan...
- I just watched myself get framed...

...and now you two show up?
- I warned you.

Who did this?
You know about the black-ops group?

Let's just get you out of here.
We'll talk later.

[GUNFIRE]

There's more of them.

Those aren't rebel guns.

- Who's out there?
- Wanted black-ops? You got it.

Nikita, you're surrounded!

It's over.

Nikita! There's no way out.

He's right.
The only way out is through the forest.

We'd be totally exposed
and running for days.

We could blow up that truck,
create a diversion, and flank them.

Or we can be smarter. Hide in the forest,
pop them off one by one.

We tried quiet.

- It didn't work.
- Who are you again?

Forest.

They're on the move.
Let's go! Go! Go!

[SIGHS]

[COMPUTER SWITCHES OFF]

What a mess.

It's a sign of genius.

Not this. This.

I got a lot on my mind.

It's not every day Lord Sauron
steps down from Mt. Doom...

...and asks you to forge the One Ring.

Damn it.

No way this codec
is ever gonna fit the satellite bandwidth.

Quantum key distribution
is too sophisticated.

You sure you wrote this?

Are you sure
you're not someone else?

Percy says he plucked you
from obscurity...

...that you're a diamond in the rough.

BIRKHOFF:
Well, that's very cute...

...but I am not a Spice Girl.

And I was never, ever, obscure.

I was elusive.

And a little dangerous.

- I was a legend.
ENGINEER: Ah, yeah.

ShadowWalker.

Caused a little craziness at the Pentagon
back in the day.

- I was making a statement.
- But Sauron captured you.

And...

...now what?

Well, are you still a legend?

[GUNFIRE]

GIL:
Freeze!

United States Army.

Drop your weapons.

Hands up!

You too, Ryan.

- Gil.
- Now!

I don't think escape is an option.

Not at 30,000 feet.

If this was a Division job...

...they'd be sending me in right now
with a couple of briefcases full of acid.

I'm pretty sure that's what's waiting
for us on the ground.

OWEN: Even if I could slip these cuffs,
I don't see a way out of here.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

I do.

My rules, remember?

Say it.

Your rules.

RYAN:
The rebels could've taken anyone.

- They took me.
- You don't know that.

Oh, come on, Gil.

The White House spokesman
called me out on TV...

...a few hours after I was grabbed.
This was a coordinated campaign...

...that was to end
with me in the grave.

What do you want?

I wanna talk to them.

- Absolutely not. You're a prisoner.
- How long have you known me, Gil?

You really think
that I would betray my country?

I am trying to find the group
behind the assassination.

Those two represent
the only concrete evidence...

...I have ever come close to finding.

They're also the only shot I got
at clearing my name.

- Situation is being contained, John.
FIELDER: How?

There are two operatives
and Ryan Fletcher on that plane.

That kid is squeaky-clean and practiced
in the art of pain-in-the-ass.

He will go public.

I'll handle it.

Well, Oversight does not share
your confidence, Percy.

The group is weighing options
as we speak.

If that plane lands,
that is game over for Division...

...and for you.

You remind Oversight that I'm still
in possession of all their dirty laundry.

I'll decide when it's game over.

ANNOUNCER: Finish him!
SCORPION: Get over here!

Aahh!

ANNOUNCER:
Scorpion wins.

How is that even possible?

ENGINEER:
Killer instinct.

You can't survive without it
in this place.

Present the problem again. Quickly.

Uh...
I... I got rid of the flash drive...

...but your encryption is too robust...

...for the bandwidth.
- Why?

I don't know. This thing's got a white-fi
emitter not even in the real world yet.

But it is an emitter...

...so that means it's designed
to broadcast.

So if I shut off that functionality...

...during download...

Whoo! Yes! Ha, ha, ha!

It frees the mind.

It's switching back
to broadcast mode.

These thing is programmed
to upload...

...to news servers all over the world.
- Yes.

But only after the Guardians
receive the order to broadcast.

- Percy has the only trigger, right?
- No.

[WHISPERS]
Percy is the trigger.

ENGINEER:
Ah-ha!

Ladies and gentlemen...

...ShadowWalker.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

BIRKHOFF:
Thanks, by the way.

For your help with everything.

Problem solved? I hope so.

I need one thing to work out today.

ENGINEER: Excellent.
BIRKHOFF: Yeah. Uh, gangbusters.

You satisfied?

ENGINEER: Yeah. The kid was
his own worst enemy, but he gets it.

PERCY:
You've given him all the encryptions?

- He knows them better than me.
PERCY: Good.

First box I wanna test is in London.

- Let's uplink from operations.
ENGINEER: That should really be easy...

...because this kid is...

[BONES SNAP AND ENGINEER YELLS]

Oh, my God.

My God, what did you do?

I promoted you.

Now go. Be brilliant.

Go on, I'll take care of this.

[GASPING]

Jaden.

Who do you work for?

I'm an independent contractor.

The strike team that chased us.

- Who were they?
- Trained operatives. Most, assassins.

RYAN: You're not answering my question.
What organization?

You've gone rogue from them,
haven't you?

Where are you from?

- What?
- Where were you born?

St. Louis. Why?

- Why'd you join the CIA?
- I'm asking the questions.

Did they recruit you?

Signed up in college.

Watched a bunch of James Bond
movies? Wanted free dental?

I had an older brother.

Died in Afghanistan in '03.

All right. This little exercise is over.
Come on, kid.

NIKITA:
No. I'll talk.

But only to you.

Nikita, don't do this.

We can't trust him.

We're 30,000 feet in the air, nothing
to look forward to on the ground.

I have to trust someone.

Let's talk.

You really wanna go
above your pay grade on this one, Gil?

Because it's about to hit the fan.

Five minutes.

Bitch, I know it's in here somewhere.

At least I got something.

JADEN:
Alex... Alex isn't in her room.

I just think
that she's up to something.

Hey.

I just had to get out of my room,
you know?

Couldn't sleep.

RYAN:
Division?

Just Division.

Pretentious, I know.

How can they be allowed to exist?

Well, they have secrets.

Operation details on covert missions
going back five administrations.

Most of it
the Oval Office never knew about.

If this program is threatened
in any way...

...the man who runs it
will release those secrets.

How much could he really have?

Enough...

...to turn the world against us.

Our own people against us.

This program...

...it's a cancer, Ryan.

We need to get rid of it
without killing the patient.

You can help.

- How?
- Help me find their co-conspirators.

There is a group. I just...

I don't know who they are,
but they sanction Division.

- What's in this for you?
- What do you mean?

What's your angle?

There is no angle.

Why did you and your partner
go rogue?

- We're not partners.
- We are.

We're trying to bring them down.

Why?

When I was there...

...I did a lot of things under orders.

I engaged.

On the black. Do you understand?

Sins I can never repay.

I don't know how to come back
from that.

Maybe bringing Division down...

...gets me one step closer.

RYAN:
Okay.

If I do this...

...I'm gonna need proof.

This is all the proof you'll need.

We need one thing in return.

Name it.

Get us off this plane.

I'll make sure that Cleary
gets you protection on the ground.

He means now.

Before we land.

Gil, something's wrong.
He's not breathing.

[OWEN GASPING]

Wait! Don't move!

- Drop it! Don't move!
- Hey, hey, easy!

[GRUNTING]

Don't move!

[ALARM BUZZING]

Arm! Arm!

We're good!

You should've listened to me!

I have no comment at this time.

But trust me, I will.

I should've blown that plane
out of the sky when I had the chance.

If you did that, we'd have no hope
of finding the box.

That was not an option.

Now our problem is Fletcher.

He's out in the open.
Nothing we can do about that.

We can ignore him...

...then control the narrative.

[COMPUTER BEEPING]

[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

COMPUTER: All I got
was the name of one city: London.

Got it. See anything else?

Yes. I saw what Percy is capable of.

WOMAN [OVER TV]:
John Fiedler, deputy CIA director...

...and a career officer of the agency...

...has been implicated
as the mastermind of the assassination.

Internal documents have surfaced...

...that show Fiedler tried to create
a web history for Fletcher...

...to paint him
as an anti-Quintana Zealot.

Now,
our producers have placed a call...

[NIKITA SIGHS]

This is me standing in the light.

Ha, ha, good plan.

OWEN:
What did we get from the Engineer?

There's a new one.

Percy replaced the old one.
Permanently.

OWEN:
Did we get anything?

NIKITA:
London.

- When do we leave?
- I have a few things to take care of.

It's getting worse inside
for my contact.

If there's a Guardian in London,
I'll know what to look for.

I can advance it.

Then call me.

No more surprises.

Oh.

Told you it was safe.

Shouldn't we talk to Ryan?

There might be some secret
we can use on that.

Or not.

One down, six to go.

Seventh one is for Percy.

Oh, uh...
You were wrong, by the way.

- Back at the camp, what you said.
- About going in quiet?

About you not being a hero.

[English - US - SDH]