Nikita (2010–2013): Season 1, Episode 15 - Alexandra - full transcript

NARRATOR:
Previously on Nikita:

I've been searching for you for two years.

- You were sold to sex traffickers.
- I escaped.

Your captors,
not the junk they hooked you on.

ALEX [VOICE BREAKING]:
Everyone I love is dead.

I know who killed your parents.

Division. A black-ops program
that has now gone rogue.

If I was on the inside,
I could tell you what they were planning.

I want you to know I can get to you.
I'm gonna take you apart, piece by piece.

I want you to hunt her down
and I want you to confirm the kill.

MICHAEL:
Nikita!



- I can't protect you anymore.
- Then let me go...

...or stop me now.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]

- I'm a...
- Let me guess, model?

- No.
- Actress?

- Sorry...
- I can tell you're somebody...

...so who are you?
- She's with me. Hey.

- Hey.
- Your assignment is Dustin Zimmer.

Tech billionaire.

Why's he need the Internet
to get a date?

Likes the anonymity,
avoids the gold-diggers...

...at least for one blind date.
By some amazing coincidence...

...this website
is going to spit you out as a match.

How do we know
he'll get in touch with me?



Please.

Sorry we got separated back there.

You believe some guy wanted me
to autograph his smartphone screen?

How primitive.

Zimmer's company
has secretly developed...

...and is currently testing a device
codenamed "Oculus."

It's the next must-have gadget
in a multi-billion-dollar industry.

I bet Percy has companies
lining up to look at it.

Your job is to make contact
with Zimmer and gain his confidence.

So, what's someone like you
doing on a dating website?

My friends made me.

I should really be asking you that.

Uh, I find computers are more impartial.

Otherwise, it's easy to be, uh, distracted,
you know...

...um, by...

Should I order some champagne?

ALEX:
I'm not saying I can't handle it.

I'm just saying that a nightclub has
a lot of temptations for a junkie.

I'm playing someone else, but
drugs and alcohol don't distinguish...

...between you and your cover.
- Then use your cover to stay clean.

Why don't we go dancing first?

Uh, I didn't know you liked dancing.
You didn't list that on your profile.

I did say that I'm
full of surprises though. Come on.

Uh...

I really wanna kiss you.

BIRKHOFF:
Nerds like rejection.

See, their thinking is,
if she's interested in you...

...there must be something
wrong with her.

I'm sorry. I have to use the restroom.

[WOMAN GRUNTS]

[COUGHS]

Are you all right?

- High.
- Hi.

No. I'm high.

Yeah, I figured.

[SIGHS THEN CHUCKLES]

[IN RUSSIAN ACCENT] Oh, you are too kind
to be a stranger. Hmm.

I'm Irina. Have we met before?

I don't think so.

I know...

I know you.

Sasha?

I'm sorry.

You have me confused
with someone else.

Hey. Watch where you're...

ALEX: We're gonna get that back
to Zimmer, right?

Yeah.

Right after I record a message
warning him how easy it was to steal.

[SIGHS]

- What went wrong with the pass?
- What?

So tell me where your head was.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

There was a girl in the bathroom.

She was wasted out of her mind.

And you got tempted?

No.

I recognized her.

She was one of Vlad's girls. Irina. We
came over on the same ship together.

- Did she recognize you?
- No.

Are you sure? If Zetrov gets word
that you're alive...

...in New York City
they will send someone to kill you.

She was high, okay?

She couldn't even recognize
a paper towel.

[SIGHS]

- Good.
- Yeah, great.

You know what I mean.

Yeah, I know.

Thanks.

If it wasn't for you, I'd still be like her.

NIKITA [IN ROBOTIC VOICE]:
Hey, Dustin Zimmer.

Keep an eye on your phone.

Your rivals tried to steal it
and put out a clone.

ALEX:
If it wasn't for you, I'd still be like her.

[CELL PHONE RINGS]

Hey, Alex.

What are you doing back at the club?
Get out of there and call me back.

Hey, Irina.

I would never have made it
across the ocean if it wasn't for you.

Sasha, it is you.

[SIGHS]

What happened?
I thought I had given you a way out.

I blew it, okay?

There is no way out. Not for me.

Yes, there is.

I'm here to help you,
get you away from all of this.

I can get you clean, Irina.

Meet me behind the building
in 15 minutes, okay?

[CLEARS THROAT]

VLAD [IN RUSSIAN ACCENT]:
Back from the dead?

Yeah, look at you.

It's been what, five, six years
since you ran away?

Look at you now, all grown up.

Hold on. There must be some mistake.
Please don't point that at us.

I'm not pointing this at her.
I'm pointing at you.

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

If this is some sort of robbery,
you can have my wallet.

- I'm just gonna reach for my wallet.
- Your wallet?

Your money is mine.

Just like Irina's.

I don't even know her, okay?
I just met her in the bathroom.

- That true?
- It's her.

You were right to call me.

Irina was high as a kite.
Even she recognized you.

MAN:
Come here.

[VLAD SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

You belong to me.

[OVER SPEAKERS]
Hey, boy, I really wanna see

If you can go downtown
With a girl like me

Hey, boy
I really wanna be with you

Let me guess. Model?

- Actress?
- Assassin.

Looking for a guy
To put in work

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh na na
What's...

[BUZZER SOUNDS]

Alex hasn't reported in by now
and she hasn't returned my call.

Maybe something went wrong
with the Op.

Maybe something went right
with the date.

[SINGS]

Dude, you need to get
a sense of humor.

I don't laugh at your jokes
because I have a sense of humor.

Now you're joking, right?

Activate her tracker.

VLAD: You're a special girl, you know?
The first one to ever escape me.

I'll be the first girl
to do it twice, Vlad.

Oh, so you do remember me?

I fed her, gave her clothes,
a place to stay.

- Scar is how she thanks me.
- I'd be happy to give you another one.

But it looks like someone
got to you first.

This? That's your fault too.

Yeah, a couple of years ago...

...some Wonder Woman
barges into my office...

...looking for you.

Next thing I know, she cuts me...

...releases all of my girls,
and burns down my business.

- I had to move here.
WOMAN: Shh.

BIRKHOFF:
Her tracker's not coming up.

Maybe she's underground.

She was last at the club.
Hack its surveillance footage.

See if you can spot when she left.

NIKITA:
Vlad.

[SIGHS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[GASPING]

[IN RUSSIAN]

PERCY [OVER RADIO]:
Alpha team, report.

[IN ENGLISH]
This is Alpha team. Over.

Why haven't I gotten an update?

[SIGHS]

NIKITA: Executing a perimeter sweep
for survivors.

Targets are down. Confirm with Roan.

[IN RUSSIAN]

[IN ENGLISH]
You'll be safe with him. I promise.

[MOANS]

NIKITA:
I'm sorry, Alex.

Damn it.

Check this out. Bingo!

I don't get it. Where's Alex?

BIRKHOFF:
There she is, leaving out the back.

Poof.

Either she's a magician
or there's footage missing.

See, somebody erased her
entering the alley...

...but they forgot to check the mirror.
Fortunately, I didn't.

If God is in the details,
then I am a god.

The tech billionaire could
probably pull that off.

I got footage of Zimmer walking out
the front door two hours earlier.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Look, splicing security footage together
is one of our tricks.

I'm the one that teaches it
to the recruits.

I hate to say it, but maybe Alex
took the first chance she got and split.

Go over everything
on those cameras again.

And in the meantime,
keep this under your hat.

Percy finds out
an agent went AWOL...

...it'll give him an excuse
to test out his kill chip.

[SIGHS]

VLAD:
Yashin used to live here.

Remember Yashin, my pit bull?

I have to keep this.

Not safe for a girl.

I'll be back.

Irina, you have to unlock this.

Or what?

The people coming for me, if they
see you out there and me in here...

Look, I know you're afraid of Vlad...

...but these people are a hell
of a lot more dangerous.

[DOOR CLOSES]

MICHAEL:
I need your help.

Can it wait?

I'm deep inside
Jaden's head right now...

...and that is not a pretty place.

I'd like to get to the bottom of this
before Percy finds out.

How can I help?

Alex may have gone
off the reservation.

I need to know more
than what's in her folder.

I tell the recruits those
discussions are confidential.

This is me you're talking to.

[CHUCKLES]

She came a few days ago.

She was worried about the Op
putting her around drugs.

- Do you think she got high?
- No.

She's scared of becoming
a junkie again.

Being open about it
says to me she can handle it.

Would you say Alex is open
about a lot of things?

Not especially.

The girl's like
one of those Russian dolls.

You open one version of her only
to find there's another hidden inside.

- What was she trying to hide?
- Her past.

Where were we, girls?

Yeah. Bought this for porno movies.

Hopefully this will be more lucrative.

You know, ever since
Wonder Woman cut me up...

...I've been sitting here
wondering why.

What the hell was so special
about you?

If only I knew, huh?

Well, sometimes you don't appreciate
what you have until you lost it.

I'll try to remember that
when I take your life.

You have no idea
who you're dealing with.

Ooh!

Hey, come.

Sit on my lap.

I will tell you a story.

Ever heard of Anastasia Romanov?

Yeah, of course not.

Anastasia, she was a princess.

A daughter of the last tsar of Russia.

A girl born into fabulous wealth.

Protected by soldiers
loyal to her father.

But then one day,
when she was a teenager...

...the tsar's enemies
stormed the palace.

Her father's soldiers were powerless.
Some may have even betrayed him.

He was captured, executed.

His entire family perished
with him in a fire.

The princess too.

- What a sad story!
- Shut up.

I'm not done yet.

But Anastasia's body
was never found.

There were rumors she survived.

Was hiding from her father's enemies
who put a price on her head.

You see, if word got out
Anastasia was alive...

...people loyal to her father would try
to restore her to the throne.

The rumors were false.
She died in that fire.

No, she's here.

Right here.

We are in the presence of royalty...

...lrina.

The daughter
of one of the new tsars.

The oligarchs.

The heir to Zetrov...

...the billion-dollar empire
built by her father...

...Nikolai Udinov,
until he was murdered.

Her name is Alexandra Udinov.

And she is very much alive.

I know exactly who I'm dealing with.

[MEN SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN]

I cannot hide you anymore.

Dangerous men are searching for you
and whoever is sheltering you.

Who are they?

These men don't know who you are.

You'll go with them to Donetsk.

Are they taking me to safety?

Your life will be safe.

You sold me to them, didn't you?

- I saw it.
- I have children of my own to feed.

If I wanted to sell you to the highest
bidder I'd go to the head of Zetrov.

And you would be dead by now.

Put that thing away.

People will wonder who it belongs to.

Whatever you do,
don't tell anyone you're a Udinov.

It will be a death sentence for you...

...and anyone who ever knew you.

You must be Sasha.

Very nice to meet you.

Vlad.

Okay. This is very simple.

Say for the camera,
"I am Alexandra Udinov...

...daughter of Nikolai Udinov."

- Action.
- Get somebody else to say it, like Irina.

Look.

These Zetrov guys looking for you...

...if they believe me, big money.

Enough for me to quit this job
and do something more worthwhile.

Narcotics, for example.

But if they think
I'm wasting their time...

[SQUEAKS]

You've got the wrong girl.

VLAD:
Okay.

So if you are not Alexandra Udinov...

...who the hell are you?

NIKITA: Division wants to tear you down
before they build you up.

- Amanda will get inside your head.
- I was a junkie.

I'm good at telling lies.

I'll just... I'll say
that I was a troubled kid...

...and I'm from Michigan,
and I ran away from home...

...when my Mom tried
to send me to band camp.

You think this is a game?
These people killed your family.

Division finds out,
they put a bullet in you.

Or they'll sell you back to the Russians.
What do you think those people will do?

The same thing my father
would do to them if he had the chance.

Once you're inside Division...

...I cannot rescue you
if something goes wrong.

Whether you live or die
is entirely up to you.

What do you want me to tell them?

Best lies have the most truth.

We stick as close to your life
story as possible...

[SIGHS]

...and we go over and over...

...and over it.

Until you forget you're lying.

My parents both died.

In a car accident.

It was raining really hard
and we skidded into a river.

We were sinking fast
and there was a lot of water.

I thought I was gonna drown.

But my father rolled down the window
and shoved me through it.

And that was the last time...

...I ever saw him.

That's a good story.

Very entertaining.

Golden Globe.

I would believe it
if I didn't know better.

You see, hmm...

...you gave Irina your father's watch...

...before you ran away.

Told her, "Sell it and escape."

Now if your father drowned
and you never saw his body again...

...how come you have his watch?

I kept going through
the security camera footage.

Man, the stuff that goes on
in a nightclub.

Anyway, I found Alex.

I put this girl
through facial recognition.

Every database,
didn't get a single hit.

No background?
No identity? No nothing?

We might as well recruit her
into Division as Alex's replacement.

You see the way she's tapping her head?
That's a common Russian gesture.

What's it mean?

Essentially, "My mistake."

Alex was smuggled
into this country on a cargo ship.

And forced to work
as a Russian sex slave.

This girl probably was too.

Judging from the makeup
and jewelry...

...I'd say she's still plying her trade.

Alex must be trying to get her out.

- Okay, but where'd she disappear to?
- I have a contact in the Russian mafia.

He has his hand in everyone's pockets
and he owes me.

You're not such a boy scout after all.

[MEN SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN]

Gentlemen, don't get up.

Please.

This is a claymore mine.

Seven hundred steel balls
explode in one direction.

Yours.

Nobody calls for help, nobody dies.

Now, I've heard Vladimir lvanov
lives around here.

You're going to tell me
where his new place of business is...

...or I let go.

I'm here to see Mr. Koutouza.

Tell him it's Misha from Murmansk.

NIKITA: My fingers get sweaty,
they can slide off this trigger.

So how is the arms business
doing these days?

Well, you know, hit and miss.

[SIGHS]

Hell with it.

I'm not sweating my ass off
for that durak.

Vladimir runs brothel in the basement
of old fur storage building.

Koutouza shouldn't be long.
He's just in there with a towel girl.

Dark hair, long legs. Very hot.

I'm gonna tie this to the door now.
I wouldn't call for help.

[BOTH GRUNTING]

- Michael?
- You two know each other?

Kill them!

[GUNS COCKING]

Don't shoot us!

Don't shoot us, you idiot.

Don't pull the string!

[CONTINUES GRUNTING]

KOUTOUZA:
The bomb is a fake!

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

Let's go.

[GROANS]

[GRUNTS]

[POLICE SIREN WAILING]

Last chance to tell the truth,
Alexandra.

[COCKS]

I guess you'll have to shoot me.

There was one thing
that used to make you obey me.

You would practically do
anything for it.

I mean, anything for a speedball.

[GASPS]

I doubt you lost the hunger.

[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]

[BOTH PANTING]

We made it.

- Or not.
- I think you should drop that.

I have an Alpha team close by.

Well, that's great.
We could have used them back there.

Why don't we both drop
our weapons?

I can hear you just fine.

- What are you doing here?
- Same as you.

Tracking one of your agents.

You always got to get payback,
don't you?

Let it go.
Alex isn't more than a recruit.

She's not worth my time. We both know
you sent her to steal the Oculus.

What's Oculus?

All this time working with Percy
and you're still a bad liar.

Look.

You can have your little recruit,
all right? I just want the prototype.

You try to stop Division
from getting a cell phone?

- That hardly seems worth the trouble.
- Come on.

You like doing industrial espionage?

Percy gets this,
sells it to the highest bidder...

...you're gonna be doing
a lot more of it.

Look. Like I said,
I am just here to retrieve my agent.

I've been following her. They took her.

Now that we've spooked the Russians,
her captors are gonna...

...have plenty of warning.
- Who took her?

- I want the Oculus.
- You can have the damn cell phone.

It's not a matter of national security.
Who took my agent?

VLAD:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

You're telling me
how dangerous Wonder Woman is?

No kidding here.

Okay, okay, okay.
How many guys are you sending?

What? That's all?

No, no, no.

Hey. No.

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

[GASPING]

Still expect me to believe
you're some Russian peasant girl?

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

- Why me?
NIKOLAI: Because you're my daughter...

...and because one day,
all this will be yours.

But I like your old company name.

We've gotten too big.

Oil, minerals,
now newspapers and TV stations.

So the company needs a new name.

And I have to choose?

Your first business decision.

So, what will it be?

Osminog or Zetrov?

Osminog?

Why would anybody name
a company after an octopus?

Then Zetrov it is.

See? That wasn't so hard.

You'll make a fine boss.

Papa...

...why can't somebody else do it?
- Because they're not my daughter.

Alexandra? What is it?

I, uh...

I searched your name on the Internet.

And you read something?

Something about me?

What did it say, hmm?

What did it say?

You scare people.

Hurt them.

- Even...
- Even what?

Kill them.

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

Everything I have done was
done for you and your mother.

And one day, you will do
the same thing for the same reason.

I love you, Papa, but...

...I don't want to be you.

- Not if it means...
- You do not have a choice.

It is who you are, Alexandra.

It is in your blood.

[GASPING]

Drink, drink, drink.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.
I never thought this would happen.

When I saw you, I just...
I wanted you back.

I wanted you to protect me
from that animal.

I feel horrible
for what he's done to you.

For what I've done to you.

MICHAEL:
They got reinforcements.

Frontal assault's not gonna work.

We need a diversion
to flush them out.

MICHAEL: That's the strategy we used
with Kasim in Uzbekistan. Didn't work.

Well, it would have,
except you abandoned your position.

- To save your life.
- I didn't need saving.

Yes, you did.
Tactically, you were in a bad way.

When are you gonna realize
I can take care of myself?

[CHUCKLES]

What?

You don't need me to save you,
but you stopped me...

...from getting Kasim in the airport
to save me.

That was different.

You were committing suicide.
I was trying to save you from yourself.

You just don't get it, do you?

Nikita, I had him.

I was past security.
I was on the tarmac.

Five seconds, that shiv
would've been between his ribs.

I would have been pushing it in,
looking at him as he realized it was me.

I would have been gone
and nobody would have seen anything.

That is what you took from me.

I couldn't have known
you were that close.

All I knew is
you could have easily been killed.

I didn't think...

That is it with you.
You don't think. You just do.

- Nikita, the righteous.
- Fine. Yes, that's me.

You think you know me
so well, Michael?

What I did, I did out of...

...not wanting to see you get hurt.

I will do anything...

...to help you get Kasim.

How the hell are we gonna do this?

These people coming after you,
tell me who they are.

Whoa, whoa. I'm sorry. How rude of me.

You're looking for this, right?

[ALEX GRUNTING]

Oh, it's here. It's here. It's right here.

Give me the truth.

Give me the truth, suka.

- Okay, Alexandra.
- I am not Alexandra.

VLAD:
Whatever.

- Who are these people looking for you?
- You're not gonna believe it.

You better hope I do, suka.

[SIGHS]

I am an agent of Division.

What?

It's a secret branch
of the U.S. Government.

So secret...

...that it does not exist.

We spy on enemies.

We eliminate threats
to national security.

- And by eliminating, we assassinate.
VLAD: Hmm.

You're a spy?

If you let me out of this cage,
I'll prove it.

Yeah? What would you do to me?

I'm trained in surveillance...

...weapons...

[GROANS]

...hand-to-hand combat...

...infiltration...

[IN RUSSIAN]

And extraction.

[MAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

You really expect me
to believe the government...

...trained an illegal Russian junkie
to spy for them?

Well, I doubt an American spy agency
wants you to have this.

But I do.

[GRUNTS THEN SCREAMS]

This spy crap is the biggest lie
you've told me yet, Alexandra.

I told you you wouldn't believe me.

I hope you feel as bad as you look.

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

I'll let you go through withdrawal...

...and then I will shoot you.

[PHONE RINGS]

Hello?

[IN RUSSIAN]

[GUNS COCKING]

Come on. Everybody get up.

There's a women's shelter
on 39th Street. Come on, go, go.

We want you all to head there.
Anyone stays, I shoot her. Go.

Remember who I was, Alexandra.

- Remember who you are.
- Unh.

[GUNFIRE OUTSIDE]

Irina, open the door now.

I want to help you.
I want to, but Vlad...

Irina, the next person that comes
through that door will kill you.

I am the only one
who wants to help you.

The only one who can.

[ALEX GRUNTS]

NIKITA:
Michael, status.

MICHAEL [OVER RADIO]:
I've secured the perimeter. Exfil is a go.

I repeat. Exfil is a go.

Where is she? Huh?

What did you do, padla?

[SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN]

[GROANS]

NIKOLAI:
It is who you are, Alexandra.

It is in your blood.

[SIGHS]

There is one thing I want you to know.

[MUTTERS]

I am Alexandra Udinov.

Daughter of Nikolai Udinov.

[MUTTERS]

And this is your reward.

[WHIMPERS]

[GUNSHOT]

ALEX:
I need you to run now.

I need you to get as far away
from here as possible.

And if you tell anyone
what you heard...

...I will have to hunt you down
and kill you.

[GROANING]

Alex?

Alex. Alex.

What did they do to you?
Are you okay?

- It's my fault.
- No, no.

No, it's not.
You're gonna be all right.

I can't get you out of here
like this, all right?

Once we get above ground,
Division will be able to track us.

- Look.
- Unh.

Percy won't ask so many questions
when he has this, all right?

It's under the body, Alex.

MICHAEL:
Get away from her.

ALEX: Nikita?
- Don't worry. She won't hurt you.

Where's the prototype?

It's not on her.

I came down here,
risked my life for what?

- Hand it over.
- I don't have it, Michael.

You can search me.
I wouldn't double-cross you.

Otherwise, this is all for nothing.

Division extraction team is coming.

- You tipped them off?
- No.

They're on their way...

...and I was just tipping you off.

[GRUNTS]

[GASPS]

Care to tell me
what you were doing out there?

MICHAEL:
Completing a mission.

By yourself?

Well.

Going in all guns blazing
would have gotten her killed.

What happened to her?

She took one for the team.

Whatever she needs, you let me know.

There is one thing I want you to know.

I am Alexandra Udinov.

Daughter of Nikolai Udinov.

And this is your reward.

[GUNSHOT]

[ALEX WHIMPERS]

She should probably be off her feet
with the dizziness.

Michael...

...I've done this before.

All the drug addicts
who wind up here as recruits?

I'm practically running
a rehab clinic.

I appreciate keeping Percy
out of the loop on this one.

Percy doesn't need to know everything
that goes on around here.

[WHIMPERS]

I'm going to give you some methadone
to help ease your withdrawal symptoms.

We'll get through this together, Alex.

But first, I just have a few
questions to ask you.

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