Nikita (2010–2013): Season 2, Episode 5 - Looking Glass - full transcript

I'm just sayin',

in the Caribbean
they have a rainy season.

In Hawaii, the biggest issue
we'll have there is...

Mai Tai or Piña Colada.

And it's not just
about the weather there.

The colors there are just so vivid,

they'll make your eyes water.

Seriously, the views are just...

Spectacular.

Listen to you,
talking about views and colors.

There are no lines in nature,



only areas of color,
one against another.

Hmm...

Is that, uh...
Tolstoy?

Manet.

I should have known
you'd quote a painter.

I have a weakness for
the post-impressionists.

And for you.

Mmm.
We need to get dressed.

Mm-mmm.

The American cultural attache
can't be late

for his own state dinner.

Yeah but, the First Lady
of the country gets some leeway, right?

Yes, well, my husband is
not one to tolerate tardiness.

Yeah, or religious freedom
or political dissent.



Please don't.

The only thing he treats worse

than the people of his country
is you.

You know if I could change
any of that, I would.

What if you could?

Change that?

Jonathan, we really
are going to be late.

My name's not Jonathan.

It's Michael.

I'm not a cultural attache.

I'm an American Agent.

Assigned to neutralize the threat

of Belarusian President
Valeri Ovechkin.

I don't understand.

With your help, I can get that done.

You know it has to happen.

You've known that
for a very long time.

With my help?

So all this...

Us...

It was a setup?

You're blackmailing me?

Cassandra, you're not the target.

Your husband is.

After six years of stability,

new troubles out of Belarus today

as President Valeri Ovechkin

declared martial law in his country.

This follows news that his
longtime personal assistant

has been put to death.

Even now, I have reason
to believe there's a traitor

hiding in the highest level
of our government.

Yes?

The man's gone out of control.
We've got to get her out.

- Who?
- Cassandra.

My asset.
She helped me Topple Ovechkin.

Topple? I thought you just
said he was out of control.

No, no, no.
Ovechkin's been dead for six years.

That's his double.

Operation Looking Glass.

Classic Division Op.

Whack the real Ovechkin,

replace him with a physical
stand-in that you can puppet.

World's quietest Coup d'État.

- And Cassandra?
- Was the key.

She stayed to sell the Con.

I couldn't have
pulled it off without her.

I told her she'd be safe.

Prep the jet.

I want to be wheels-up in an hour.

Birkhoff, get me everything
you know on Cassandra.

Uh-oh.

Ovechkin also killed his
personal bodyguard last month.

The assistant and the
bodyguard were in on the switch.

So he's getting rid of anyone
who knows the truth.

But why now?

Hmm.

For the same reason
we can't control him anymore.

You made sure he only got
his orders through you.

But you're no longer
on the other end of the leash,

and he won't listen to anyone else.

Refuses to talk to me.

In all fairness, the guy was
getting a bit boisterous,

even before I left.

Started to believe he was
an actual world leader.

You could talk to him,

convince him to get back in line.

And why in the world would I do that?

To do the right thing
for your country.

This is my country now.

In that case, I'm going to
have to put your lapdog down.

First step is to make contact.

Do you have any open lines
of communication to her?

No, not since the op ended.

How did you acquire her as an asset?

Standard Raven Protocol.

I didn't know you had to
do those kinds of missions.

It's part of the job.

Yeah, I know.

You know I know.

I was never as good as you.

I mean I found that I couldn't...

Leave your feelings out of it?

She was just a mission, nothing else.

How many other missions were there?

Nikita...

Michael, you were
my handler at Division.

You knew every single time
that I had to be...

Josephine.

One.

Cassandra was the only one.

Jet's ready.

Bring your own peanuts.

Zetrov knows that
I killed their spokesperson.

There'll be increased activity
as they hunt for me.

I need someone to analyze
the signal traffic,

and I'd like Sonya.

German assets checked in.

They've confirmed
operational support.

Cover kit and paper in place?

At the prearranged dead drop.

Alex, I'll assign Sonya to you.

Thank you.

But I need something in return.

Of course.

The mission profile
for Operation Cold Shadow

calls for a young,
attractive native Russian speaker.

No.

The objective is to take down

an out-of-control pocket dictator.

Valeri Ovechkin.

I said no.

I'll make do without Sonya.

I speak Russian.

You've recovered from your last op?

Sore knee, but medical's cleared me.

Get prepped on Cold Shadow.

I read the Conops on that mission.

They're doing a good thing.
That guy's a threat.

Good for them.

So it doesn't matter to you
if what they're doing is right?

- I don't believe in Division.
- What do you believe in?

What are you looking for,
my moral compass?

Maybe.

It points to Sergei Semak.

You can't build your
whole life around revenge.

There needs to be something else.

Unless you want
to end up like Nikita.

Sold.

And now, we present item 1649:
Portrait of Eva Gonzales,

oil on canvas by Edouard Manet.

Bidding will open at £75,000.

£75,000.
Thank you very much.

75,000.

100,000.

100,000.

150,000.

£200,000.

250,000.

£250,000.

Are there any other bids?

At £250,000...

excuse me, what was that?

£1/2 million.

£500,000 here in the front.

At £500,000.

At £500,000...

Sold.

Excuse me.
That piece...

I'm curating an exhibit next month

and hope perhaps
we might arrange a loan?

I'm sorry, I'm just a proxy.

The buyer wishes to remain anonymous.

Could I speak to them?

I don't think so.
He is a very private man.

Oh, that won't be an issue.

- Suite seven.
- Thank you.

I'll be there once
I pick up my personals.

I knew you couldn't resist the Manet.

Time for questions later.

I know your situation's dicey.
That's why I'm here.

I have a plan for Exfiltra...

Michael, this is my son, Max.

Max, this is...

An old friend.

Go ahead, Michael.

Tell me your plan.

Or did you not plan for this?

Michael, do you copy?

I need a minute.

Is there a complication?

Yes.

A little one.

Cassandra,

I'd like you to meet your husband.

The likeness is uncanny.

The surgery is still settling.

He'll look even better
in a few weeks.

What you're doing
is incredibly brave.

This is a great honor.

I swear I will do you proud
as your husband.

Are you sure you're ready for this?

I know what I have to do.

Sometimes in order
to get what we want,

we have to sleep with the enemy.

Trust me.

This is going to work.

This is never going to work.

No, no, no, the plan's still good.

It's just, uh, we need to
accommodate for the...

We are not going anywhere

unless I am convinced of our safety.

Both of ours.

- Is he...
- Yours?

No, he's four.

Born two years after you left.

Don't worry, you're not the father.

Why did Ovechkin keep this a secret?

He's convinced that if word got out,

his enemies would
target him through Max.

In Belarus, keeping secrets
is a way of life.

As you know.

Look, anyone who knows
about Ovechkin's secret

is someone he would
consider a threat,

which is why we need to get you...

I am aware of the situation.

I have my own plan
for us to get free.

You will only
complicate things, so please,

just leave us alone.

This is Bluejay, confirming
completion of stage one.

Lisa's cleared the Border Patrol.

She's entered Belarus.

Good, give her a green light.

Bluejay, this is Ops.

Commence Operation Cold Shadow.

Neutralize president Valeri Ovechkin.

Copy.

I'm off the truck.

Wait...

We have a situation.

Truck driver says he's
been stopped by soldiers.

Bluejay.

Bluejay.

Her tracker's active.
She's alive.

She's been captured.

We can scramble
an IHR team out of Ramstein

unless you have a good
reaction force on standby.

That was a random patrol.

It will take them awhile to get
to anybody with authority,

which should give us some time to...

Come on, let's go!

There will be no rescue mission.

That is not what we do.

You have an agent that's been taken.

- That agent...
- Is still alive.

Sean.

Can I talk to you privately?

No, you can talk to me right here.

Very well.

Every Division Operative
knows the risks.

Deniable assets.

That is who we are.

Well, that's not who I am.
I'm going after her.

I expect full operational support.

If you've got a problem
with that, you call oversight.

You never leave a man behind!

I can't remember the last time

someone spoke to Amanda like that.

Well, yes I can.
It was me.

Glad you approve.

I'm going with you.

She's only there because
I turned the mission down.

Uh-huh.

Not because
it's the right thing to do.

How could you not have
found out she has a son?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Now I'm supposed to be looking

for kids who may or may not exist?

I'll go recalibrate Cerebro.

Fine, I'll see what I can dig up.

Michael, I wanted
to ask you something,

but I didn't want it
to come out the wrong way.

That night in Russia, the safe house,

you said you couldn't be with me

because you had to
avenge your family first.

But now you're saying
that you've been with Cassandra.

The man that was with Cassandra,

that was...

Someone else.

Someone who thought...

By serving his country
as best as he could,

he might be able
to find himself again.

Someone who was trying
to forget his wife and daughter.

Someone that...

Didn't have to be me.

Okay, found some stuff.

Not much.

Ovechkin's been able to
keep a lid on this kid.

Belarusian media's
tightly state-controlled.

I mean the guy could sprout
a second head

and all you'd hear about on the news

is the brightly-colored new
turtlenecks he started wearing.

When the kid does
have to go out in public,

they try to pass him off
as the son of this woman.

I think she's his nanny or something.

That's it.
There's no other data trail.

I couldn't even
tell you how old he is.

He's four.

Same age as Hayley.

I can't say good night to my son?

And English in front of the boy.

He must learn.

Go wash up now.

Go.

How was the auction?

Disappointing.
I didn't get what I wanted.

Perhaps you'll have
better luck at the next one.

There's another right after
you return from Paris.

You are going to Paris, yes?

Volk found the itinerary
in your planner.

For the fine arts symposium.
I told you about it.

It slipped my mind.

Anyway, it's fine, go.

Max and I will be
waiting for you here.

Max, I was planning on
taking him with me.

No, no, no.

He'll stay here.
I insist.

Why are you doing this?

Killing people,
defying the Americans.

You're putting us all at risk.

I am in charge now.
Not the Americans.

And certainly not that Suka
sitting in Percy's seat.

I'm building a legacy for my son.

Besides, I don't want him
missing his piano lessons.

It's the Auction House.

Guess she wants to renegotiate.

I can't talk long.

I told Volkov I left something
behind, he's waiting outside.

I know. We're monitoring
the security cameras.

He found our travel plans.
He won't let Max go.

It's okay, we're going
to get you out of here.

I just need to know
where you're going to be

for the next 24 hours.

Our schedules, down to the minute.

Michael, we need
to get out of here now.

I'll be in touch.

Michael.

Thank you.

Okay, the jet is still
in an airfield outside town.

You have a window
of exactly 79 minutes

to get both Kanga
and Roo on the plane

and clear Belarusian airspace.

Now according to her planner,

Cassandra has a weekly
salon treatment at the palace.

Massage, facial, mani, pedi.

Lasts about 1 1/2 hour.
Should fit the bill nicely.

You're going to have
to lose Ivan Drago, of course.

Meanwhile, little Maxie has
piano lessons at the same time.

You're going to have to shake
both the teacher and the nanny.

Time to go.

How did you get into the palace?

Your regular masseur has
a mild case of food poisoning.

He's sleeping it off, which is
probably why he hasn't noticed

he's missing his
security credentials.

Put these on.

I had to guess your size.

What about my manicurist?

Car trouble.

But a replacement got here
a while ago.

Heads up, Nikki,
teacher's headed your way.

Copy that.
We'll be clear.

We have a problem.

Is it under control?

Hello? Hello?

Nikita, this only works if we
get them out at the same time.

Yeah, I know.

We need to abort.

Repeat, abort.

Get back on the table.

Nikita, are you clear?

That is why you never work
with kids or animals.

Status?

We traced Lisa's tracker signal

to an abandoned factory
in the outskirts of Minsk.

I've given Alex
and Sean the location.

Are you with the Americans?

MI-6?

Alex and Sean are there.

They just entered the facility.

Da?

This is Amanda.

I told you before,
I do not talk with you.

Only Percy.

Good-bye.

You're holding one of my agents.

I want you to release her.

Your agent?

You sent her here.

To kill you.

You want me to kill her?

What I want is for you to behave.

We both know you don't have
the spine to defy us.

So let her go
and stop wasting my time.

Leave the killing
to the grown ups, Valeri.

Should we prepare Exfil
for Alex and Sean?

No need.

I'll call Division
for an Exfiltration route.

We're not going anywhere.

- Now what?
- Why not eliminate the threat?

Kill Ovechkin?

Birkhoff, we're not
equipped for a kill mission.

Tactically, it's a non-starter.

Kill Ovechkin, and security forces

will shut down the whole country.

We'd never get out of here.

Much less with Cassandra or Max.

The last thing we need
is for Ovechkin to die.

What do you mean,
we're not going anywhere?

We're going to kill Ovechkin.

All right, team.

Everyone ready for round two?

Ovechkin's hosting
a state dinner at the Palace.

About 40 or 50 foreign
Dignitaries should be there.

But more importantly for us,
so will a ton of support staff.

Trick is getting out of the party.

That's where the Evac car comes in.

Cassandra says
Ovechkin always has one

ready to go at these events.

Thing's a tank.

Double steel chassis.

50 mil bulletproof glass.

Run-flat tires.

Best of all,
security clearance plates

that let it pass freely
through any checkpoint.

You get in this car,

no one's going to stop you
for hundreds of miles.

You'll be across the border
before anyone notices.

Lisa's cover as a translator
is still intact.

Okay, so we have security clearance,

a party invite,

and then of course...

I got the rest of our supplies.

Almost all of it
was commercially available.

Division still has to
get us the Semtex.

You know how to rig the explosive?

It's a simple RF circuit

connected to a bridge-wire detonator.

Special Forces 101.

Now, the tricky part is
going to be planting the payload

in Ovechkin's car.

- But it's armored.
- Not from the inside.

Most of the security should be
focused around the residence,

so the car should
have minimal coverage.

So you plant the package
and I figure out

how to get Ovechkin out of the party.

And we can say good-bye
to another murdering dirtbag.

Sean, you're not that
different from me, you know.

You say that you are,
but this is all about payback.

Taking out Ovechkin
is the right thing to do.

He's a threat.

You want revenge, just like I do.

This is about more than what I want.

It's about letting them know:

You screw with one of us,
you screw with all of us.

Now, we still need
to figure out a way

to get Ovechkin to trust you.

Amanda says she's working on it.

Aw, and I didn't get you anything.

Not yet.

So how's the situation
in Belarus shaping up?

As a matter of fact,
Alex is on it as we speak.

Alex?

How'd you get her to do
something so messy?

So Division.

Sometimes you have to
sacrifice a pawn

to motivate your knights.

Amazing how easily the chess
metaphors come to mind

when you're running Division,
isn't it?

So are you still looking
for some outreach to Ovechkin?

Just a little icebreaker.

He's a hard man to get through to.

Perhaps I can help.

Why don't you send him
a message for me?

Okay, Max will be in bed by 9:00.

Cassandra will excuse herself
from the party to tuck him in.

You know I had an
instructor at Division who said

that an emotionally compromised agent

was more dangerous than a jammed gun.

Check your feelings,
or check out, he said.

Sounds like a real jerk to me.

Yeah, he was.

Too bad I fell in love with him.

Hey. Hey, hey, look.

There is nothing going on
between me and Cassandra, okay?

I put her in a bad way six years ago,

and now I have a chance
to help her, that's all.

I know.

I really do.

But I also know that this is more

than just righting an old wrong.

This is about a woman and a child

who were killed by a car bomb
ten years ago.

So what if it is?

You have to know that Hayley
and Elizabeth's deaths,

they weren't your fault.

You did not fail them.

Cassandra and Max...
Aren't your family.

I'd started to forget
what it's like...

Having a family.

You have a family.

Right here.

You guys really have to learn
to turn off your comms...

and if this week's episode
of General Hospital is over,

you might be interested to know
the party has started.

♪ ♪

I've got Cassandra.

I'm going to the car.

Do you have Max?

Almost there.

I'll need a few minutes.

Get Ovechkin primed.

Max.

Max?

Nikita, are you okay?

The nanny has a gun.

A gun?

- In Max's room?
- No, Max!

I need you to get to the car.

No.

Listen, I will go back.
Trust me.

Go around the back.
It's quicker.

Okay, go.

Oh!
Oof.

Oh!

Oh!

Ow!

Oh!

Max.

♪ ♪

Max? Max?

Package is in position.

Good to go.

I have a message.
From Iceman.

He says the Kodiaks
are running wild this season.

Percy sent you?

Yes, to tell you something.

He is coming back soon.

I had heard he was...

Forget what you heard.

Percy is no longer with Division,

but he is as powerful as ever,

and he has a plan.

He will be counting on his allies,

including you.

Anything for Percy.
What can I do?

You have enemies everywhere.

An attack will be coming.

You need to get out of here tonight.

Do you have secure passage out?

Of course.

You have to go now.

He's headed for the car.

Come on, Max.

And did you see Michael?
He went to help you.

I'll find him. You guys
head to the car and leave.

We'll find our own way out.

Michael, are you all right?

Yes, stand by.

Yeah, guys, just
picking up something weird here.

A low band RF signal,
coming from, uh...

The car?

Car's been started.
Ovechkin's there.

Crap on a stick.

Uh, yeah, guys, that RF signal?

That is a frequency normally reserved

by the Military
for remote detonation.

I think there's a bomb in the car.

- Where's Cassandra and Max?
- Oh, my God.

- Get them out of there.
- Oh, my God!

Ready to fire.

Copy that.

- Is it done?
- Headed to confirm.

Come with me.

Who the hell are you?

You're not with Percy.

Yes, I am.
Please let me explain.

You're trying to kill me.

No, I'm trying to help you.

So you know nothing about this?

Who is that?

Who are you working for?

I used to be with Division,

but like Percy, we've parted ways.

I'm a free agent now.

Then you don't know
who's behind this?

Like I said, you have many enemies,

but believe me when I tell you,
I do not want you dead.

But he does.

Ah!

That should keep them occupied.

Go. You should hide.

- What about you?
- I'll handle them.

- Cassandra.
- Michael, I can do this.

Stop!

You're right.

Taking out Ovechkin
was the right thing to do.

You did something today

that had nothing to do with
Semak, the Black Box, or Nikita.

Hmm.

When was the last time
you could say that?

I honestly can't remember.

How does it feel?

Pretty good.

Yeah, well,
it doesn't change anything.

Just a little detour.

Well, you know, sometimes
it's the little things in life

that can make all the difference.

It's a start.

You sure you wanna stay?

Ovechkin is dead.
Max and I will be safe now.

That doesn't mean you can't
leave, get away from all this.

You can go to Paris,
uh, the States...

Hawaii?

Cassandra, um, I'm sorry...

For what I did six years ago.

Now that Ovechkin's gone,
I hope that you can move on,

'cause it's time you had
something we all deserve...

A future.

Michael, six years ago
your job was to put on an act.

That's okay, because,

well, that was a time in my life
when I needed certain things,

comfort, and respect,
and sense of worth,

and you gave them to me.

Thank you.

Oh, hey, mom.

Mama.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Thank you for everything.

He's a great boy.

He's my world.

And he likes you.

We did have
some quality time together.

He's a talker.

He told me his favorite food,
what kind of dog he wants,

why he hates practicing piano.

His birthday.

It's weird, kids are
so precise about their age.

Max insisted that he wasn't four.

In fact, he's
a little over five, isn't he?

My best guess, born nine months
after Michael's mission.

Michael is Max's father.

Are you going to tell him?

It would mean an end
to all of our futures.

You know what kind of man he is.

He would never be able to stay away,

and if our enemies found out,

how long would it take
before one of them

came to hurt Max to get at Michael?

In our world,
families are a liability.

Our loved ones are our weaknesses.

The decision is yours.

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