Nikita (2010–2013): Season 2, Episode 7 - Clawback - full transcript

Walt, breakfast!

Three more minutes.

It's getting cold.

I like it cold.

Don't stop

or she dies.

Shh.

Faster.

Honey, come on!

Take one.

On your chest there.



The other.

Honey, come on!

Please, just...

I'll give you whatever you want.

Just please don't hurt her.

I won't.

Someone needs to stop Clearway Law.
Public shouldn't leave reviews for lawyers.

Walt, I'm not gonna ask you again!

Good morning, sir.

This call is to let you know

your order has been filled.

Mm.

Sell bright-ling.
All of it.

Can too much exercise kill you?



A 38-year-old Kansas man
is dead this morning

after suffering a heart attack
on his treadmill.

Hey, this ain't no CIA, spyman.

You don't have to analyze every move.

Hurry your ass up.

Walter Bendavid, the chief chemist

from bright-ling pharmaceutical,
leaves behind a wife, Tracy,

and two young children.

Come on, killer, make your move.

Look, I told you, Jordan.

I didn't kill anyone.

I was set up.

Yeah, I didn't kill
that snitch neither.

Hey, where you going?

"Walter Bendavid, who sold
and merged his research firm

with bright-ling pharmaceutical..."

Kevin.
Kevin!

I need to make a phone call, man.

Who do you wanna call, Fletcher?

Your mommy?

Actually, yeah.

I got a text from Birkhoff.

Said that he sent some photos
of our new place.

It's by the water.

Did you get 'em?

Cassandra left Belarus.

She says here she bought
a place in London.

Guess she wanted to get away

during the government changeover.

Yeah, I don't blame her.

I have to go, Nikita.

I have to do this.

I know.

But you don't agree with me.

It's none of my business.

It's my son.

I have a son...

That no one told me about.

Not his mother, not you.

Michael,

Division is after us.

If they know Max is your son...

That wasn't your choice to make.

Or Cassandra's.

You're right.

Don't make this decision
out of anger.

You say you want
to go to London, that's fine.

What are you gonna do
when you get there?

Max thinks his father died
two weeks ago in Belarus.

What, are you gonna set him straight?

What is that noise?

Oh, my God.

It's Ryan.

Bailor hasn't gotten back to me yet

about your appeal.

I just sent him an email yesterday.

Let me read it to you.

No, that's okay, mom.

I just want to hear your voice.

How are you?

You holding up?

I'm okay.

Just had a lot of time
to reflect in here.

Been thinking about
the last time I spoke with Sam,

the fight we had.

What the hell is he doing?

Sounds like he's talking to his mom.

No, he's talking to me.

Ryan, your brother loved you.

Can't beat yourself up over that.

I know.

I just wish I could see him
one more time.

You know?

Tell him I'm sorry.

So much I want to tell him.

- He wants to meet.
- How do you figure?

When Ryan was at the CIA,
we brainstormed

a few ideas on how to communicate.

One of the ideas was to tap
his house phone,

use code words.

And that code is?

His brother Sam.

He died in Afghanistan.

I just wish I could see him
one more time, you know,

tell him I'm sorry.

There's so much I want to tell him.

Send a grab team to the prison.

He wants to meet with Nikita.

Who is Ryan Fletcher?

Former CIA analyst
who Nikita corrupted.

His actions led to the murder
of three agents inside Langley.

How'd she corrupt him?

Money?

Sex.

Alex.

Can I talk to you for a second?

- Kind of busy right now.
- With what?

Oh.
Who's the target?

I am. Gogol put out a hit
on me, remember?

They know I killed the spokesman
for Zetrov.

Yeah, but they don't know
where you are

or who you are.

Ever since we left Belarus,

I've felt like someone's tailing me.

I try to shake them off,

I double back.

No one's there.

This is where the guns are.
I'm taking them home.

I don't want to be in Division
any longer than I have to.

See, that's why I wanted
to talk to you.

I have some questions
I need to ask about Division,

and I think you're the only one

who will give me an honest answer.

You work for oversight.

Can't you just order Amanda
to give you the answers?

Not if I want the truth.

Besides, I'm not asking
for oversight.

I'm asking for me.

Is there a difference?

Yeah.

Be vigilant.

Nikita may anticipate our presence

and attempt a disguise.

Who are you?

Fletchie, don't tell me
you already forgot

about your old racquetball buddy.

It's me, Bob.

- Nikita.
- What are you doing, Ryan?

I had a plan to get you out.

Making contact before then
is dangerous.

Division will be watching you.

I know.
But this can't wait.

I think I found out
how oversight makes their money.

Someone very smart, high enough
up to give Division orders,

is using them to engineer
specific events,

events that seem unrelated
on the surface

but, when you add them up,

they can affect the stock market

in ways that can't be easily proven.

Listen to me, check out a riot
in China six months ago,

a factory fire in Ireland
four months back,

and a bright-ling chemist
heart attack this morning.

Follow the shell companies
who benefited

from the bright-ling stock drop,
and they'll lead you

straight to oversight.

Ah.

Nice try.

Ah...Aah!

- Where is she?
- The girlfriend?

I don't know.

She paid me 2 grand to come in here

to talk to him.

What did he tell her?

I couldn't follow.

Something about the Chinese

wanting to take oversight
of a factory.

If Ryan is right,

if we cripple oversight's funding,

we could ends this
sooner than we know.

If he's right.

Either way, he put himself

in Division's cross-hairs.

What Amanda doesn't know

is I did my own digging
on Ryan Fletcher.

The guy is a boy scout.

Clean slate his entire career.

Now I'm supposed to believe

that Nikita seduced him
into smuggling a neurotoxin

into the CIA and he helped her
kill three agents?

That's not what happened.

The neurotoxin was Percy's plan.

And those three dead agents...
One of them

was a Division plant,
and he killed the other two.

The only thing that Nikita ever
offered Ryan was the truth.

Why don't you know any of this stuff?

Didn't oversight
brief you on everything

that went on inside Division?

Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you?

Exactly who are they?

And why are you working
for them anyway?

It's not like Division
is wire-tapping us out here.

You sure about that?

Someone's been tailing us
for the last two minutes.

See, I told you.
I'm not crazy.

1:00.

See if you recognize him.

It's not Division.
It's Gogol.

Wait.
Don't.

We need to question him.

Operation Grey Rain...

Division sparked a riot in Chiayi

over a tainted water supply.

Big setback
for bright-ling pharmaceutical.

Chiayi is where they purify heparin.

It's a blood thinner.

What about the factory fire
in Ireland?

Operation Silent Cross.

Official story was some guy
left his station unmanned.

Anyway, dozens of companies
were affected

by Sorsteel supply chain.

I'm gonna give you one guess

who their biggest client was.

bright-ling pharmaceutical.

Birkhoff just hacked
into the sec database.

You ever heard of a company called...

Transworld Consortium?
No. Who are they?

Don't know.

They bought a million shares
of bright-ling

six months back.

Just covered their short when
their stock hit a 52-week low.

The chemist who had a heart attack

was probably the tipping point.
Ryan was right.

If you could secretly control
when a company failed...

Your earnings would skyrocket.

They're betting on the house to lose.

Here, Transworld consortium
headquartered

in Dover, Delaware,
336 Boyer Street, suite 400.

According to the box,

each mission was authorized

by the same member of oversight,

Midas.

How much do you want
to be that's their money man?

You scratch Transworld,
maybe he'll itch.

You expect me to believe

that a low-level CIA analyst

figured all this out...

From his prison cell?

Ryan Fletcher's skill level is rare.

He can see patterns
other analysts can't.

That's how he got on Division's
radar in the first place.

You mean it's how Division
got on his radar.

Your value is that you don't exist.

The members of oversight
don't have that luxury.

We have public profiles.

And if this surfaces,

it is we
who will be held accountable.

Fletcher won't be a problem.

Accidents happen all the time
in prison.

No.

No, no, not yet.

I need to know
how he spotted the pattern.

I worked too hard to make sure
that wasn't possible.

I want a face-to-face
with this rare genius.

And compromise your identity?

You'd put us all at risk.

We're already at risk.

My cash flow system worked well

for years with no problems.

Suddenly this kid comes along
and starts spotting it

in newspapers and magazines?

I need to know how

so I can make sure
it never happens again.

Then he can have his accident.

This is Transworld consortium?

It's the right address.

Evil corporations
aren't what they used to be.

Can I help you?

Sorry to bother you.

I think we have the wrong address.

Is this Transworld consortium?

Oh, now that name
does sound familiar.

Yes, I think they're in here.

Come on in.
Well, come on in.

I'm surprised you rang the doorbell.

Nobody does that anymore.

Excuse me, but what exactly
is this place?

Oh, this is Dover corporate services.

I harbor p.O. Boxes for companies

who want to remain anonymous.

Is it legal to operate
from your home?

In the great state
of Delaware, you betcha.

Got my mortgage paid off,

got me the satellite TV,

and Sampson.
He's my cat.

I give him salmon filets
for dinner every night.

He's 21 pounds now.

I spoil him.

Sampson, where you at, baby?

Kitty?
Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty?

- Where are you?
- Suite 400.

Kitty, kitty, kitty.

I got her.

You're Division?

I'm thinking this is the right place.

You betcha.

We need to know how many
people they got on the ground,

where their safe house is,
how they tracked Alex.

Gogol trains their agents to resist

all forms of interrogation.

I'd like to get my hands
on their manual.

It may take us some time
just to learn his identity.

Yuri Lavrov.

His father was Artem Lavrov,

a bodyguard of my father's.

He was shot down the...

The night a Division strike team
raided my home.

Are you sure about that?

We grew up together.

We were friends.

If you knew him as a child,

then he's aware you're
Alexandra Udinov, which means...

Sergei Semak knows
you're still alive.

- Let me talk to him.
- No.

No, that's not a good idea.

You're personally invested.

You will not be able
to stay emotionally detached.

Neither will he.

I thought we weren't allowed
to transit past lights out.

Just shut up and keep moving.

Jonathan Gaines.

I'd ruled you out.

Excuse me?

I didn't think
oversight would have any members

from the private sector.

We mustn't forget
I was chairman of the sec.

Yeah, your country thanks you
for your service.

I guess it makes sense, though.

There's only so many dollars
one can divert

from Pentagon black budgets
until it gets suspicious.

Oversight needs some love
from wall street

to keep 'em plotting in style.

That's where you come along.

You're like a dog
with a bone, aren't you?

I read your company file.

Boy with the crystal ball.

Except nobody wants to hear
what I see in there.

No. Government conspiracies
can be very demoralizing.

No one needs that right now.

But, hey, I was interested

in how you read the tea leaves on me.

How'd you spot the pattern?

Was it supposed to be hard?

Don't sell yourself short.

I designed that system
to be invisible.

Well, let's just say
you're not as clever

as you think you are.

If I can spot the pattern,

somebody else can.

I don't think so.

I think you're special.

That's why I'm gonna make you
this offer.

One call from me and you bounce
from here tomorrow

to a minimum security prison,

one where you won't have to
worry about dropping the soap.

So oversight's got someone
in the justice department.

That's good to know.

Always working.

It's time to take a break, Fletcher,

start thinking about your future.

The second you showed your face,

I knew my future was over tonight.

If you want to know
my system, it's pretty simple...

I pick up your trail,

I point it out to Nikita,

and she follows it
straight to your door.

My only regret is I won't be there

to see you get your ass kicked.

You're a dead man, Gaines.

Right back at ya.

How much are they paying you
for this?

Enough.

We got it.
Birkhoff crunched the numbers

on those spreadsheets
we snagged from Transworld.

Half the profit was taken
by a single hedge fund,

but the rest of it just disappears.

Who runs the fund?

Jonathan Gaines,

former chairman of the sec
turned wall street wolf.

Midas.

Oversight's piggy bank.

We snag him,
we hit him where it hurts.

What is it?

Something's coming
over the news wire about Ryan.

Attacks prison guard?

Division tried to kill him,

but he was ready for them.

What are you doing?

Amanda won't fail twice.

We have to get him out of there.

He'll get moved to the infirmary.

- The original plan won't work.
- Then we change the plan.

Are you all right?

I heard
you were involved in a shooting.

I'm fine.

I want to know who called
the hit on Ryan Fletcher.

Called the hit?

You make us sound like criminals.

- Who?
- The group voted on it.

That's what I thought.

Tell the group I resigned.

I'm calling Major Clark and
going back to camp Pendleton.

I refuse to be part of an operation

that murders innocent civilians.

Agent Fletcher made himself
an enemy of the state

when he chose to work with Nikita.

The sanction was necessary.

Can the doublespeak, will you?

I'm not 12 years old anymore.

You've got a good heart, Sean.

Your father'd be proud
to see how far you've come.

I know I am.

I don't like this
anymore than you do.

- But we were forced in...
- You weren't forced.

Fletcher uncovered Division's dirt,

and now you're trying to bury it.

The only reason there's dirt
to uncover

is because we allowed Percy
to spiral out of control.

I'm done trying to clean up
your mess for you.

- Let Amanda do it.
- I don't think she can.

Her failure to contain Nikita

only proves that.

We need someone at Division
who can right the ship,

provide real course correction.

Who better than a Navy man?

Mother, if you think
that you can convince me

- to take over...
- Division needs new leadership,

someone who won't play games with us,

someone straight and true.

And I can't imagine anyone
who's better suited.

I won't consider anything
until the hit on Ryan Fletcher

is called off.

I'll see what I can do.

Privyet, Yuri.

You look the same.

Older...
But the same.

Are there any of our other friends

running around out there,
trying to shoot me?

You don't have any friends.

Not anymore.

In the park, you called me a traitor.

Why?

I am sorry for that.

I know it's not your fault.

What exactly do you think
you know, Yuri?

I will not tell
your Division anything.

You're not talking to Division.

You're talking to me.

Look at me, Yuri.

It's me, Alexandra.

We used to play Boaire together
in the backyard, remember?

What happened?

My father died
protecting your father.

That was his job.

They told us there were
no survivors that night,

that the Udinovs were dead.

I left school

to work.

I was 14.

An orphan until Bratva took me in.

When I turned 17, I get call

from company, from Zetrov.

They say, "we have been watching you.

"We knew your father.

"He was a good man.

"Strong.

"There is a job for you

in our security department."

Gogol.

They have been my family

five years now.

But I only learned the truth
about you two weeks ago.

The truth?

That you were spared
by Division that night

and brought back here
to be raised by them,

brainwashed to be their... their doll.

To one day return
to take over Zetrov.

You would claim it
in the name of Nikolai Udinov

but secretly
you would take your orders

from your American masters.

I don't hate you, Alexandra.

I pity you.

I volunteered to be part of the team

that hunts you down
to put you out of your misery.

I came here to give you mercy.

- Coming from Sussex?
- Yup.

I don't know why he's getting
the upgrade, but he is.

What happened to his eye?

He ran into a door.

I said she looked pretty.
Bitch hit me in the face.

Mind if I take him down
to the infirmary for processing,

clean him up a little?

Yeah, go ahead.

Thanks.

I'll radio when it's clear.

♪ Feel it cut through the crack ♪

♪ everything is right on track ♪

♪ I'm never coming back ♪

♪ everything ♪

♪ everything is echoing ♪

♪ ♪

♪ everything is echoing ♪

♪ this is really happening ♪

♪ ♪

♪ again and again and again ♪

♪ and again and again ♪

♪ ♪

♪ close enough to feel
the flame ♪

♪ I can push through the pain ♪

We're clear.

I'm on my way.

♪ ♪

♪ again and again and again ♪

♪ ♪

Hey!

Sussex has no record
of a Michael Flynn.

Or you.

♪ ♪

Let me see your badge again.

Ryan.
Ryan, can you hear me?

Ryan, Ryan.

Ryan, stay with me, okay?
Ryan.

Can you hear me?

- Gaines.
- I know.

- Gaines.
- I know. We'll get him, okay?

I promise.

I know.

You're good for it.

Ryan.

Ryan?
Ryan.

Nikita, you gotta get out of there!

Nikita.

Nikita.

Drink your tea.
It's good for recovery.

Division knows we've I.D.'d Gaines.

They'll be waiting for us.

Two escort teams at least.

And roan.

Let's hope so.

Listen, we can nail Gaines
on our own schedule.

Oversight will move him tonight

if they haven't already.

He'll hop from one island to another

for the next 20 years.

We won't find him.

He will answer to me tonight.

Okay.

I'm going with you.

You're wounded.

I can still pull a trigger.

Michael, you're not going.

What are you gonna do,
handcuff me to a chair?

- No.
- Whoa.

Damn it.

What did you do?

I have to do this, okay?

I have nothing to lose.

You have a son,
who may need you one day.

I'm not gonna be the one
who takes that away from you.

I love you too much.

Yuri, everything
you have been fed is a lie.

It was Semak who was
behind the massacre that night.

The attack by Division was his alibi

to make him look like a hero
in the aftermath.

It was Semak who made a deal
to take over Zetrov.

This is what they taught you.

No, this is the truth.

Listen to me.

Division did not save me that night.

It was one of their agents,

a rogue agent, Nikita.

A rogue agent who was part
of the strike team?

Yeah, but she hadn't gone rogue yet.

She...This was...This was a year
before that.

She made a decision that night
to save me.

She had never disobeyed
one of their orders before.

So Nikita saves you from Division,

who's trying to kill you.

And this is the same Division

that we are in right now.

I know how that sounds,

but I'm not working for Division.

I'm just using their resources
to get to Semak.

To take over Zetrov.

No, I don't care about that.

I just want revenge
for my family and for yours

and for everyone who died that night.

Division tried to kill you
and now they help you?

I know that it sounds...

And this Nikita, where is she?

- Is she even real?
- Yuri.

Where is she?

She's trying to attack Division.

- I'm not with her anymore.
- Why?

Because she...

Because she killed my papa.

Oh, so now she... she killed Nikolai.

Now was this before
or after she saved you?

No, she...

It was self-defense.

She didn't have a choice.

She had her reasons to lie.

Everyone lies.

They have their claws so deep in you,

you do not know what to believe.

Ryan Fletcher is dead.

You said you were gonna call it off.

I brought it before the group,

but I couldn't convince them
to see your way.

They sided with Gaines.

So Fletcher dies
and Gaines just walks away.

Not quite.

Nikita knows who he is,

so we're gonna send him
out of the country tonight

to spend the rest of his life
in exile.

Where he can keep consulting for you

and making money for oversight.

- Where are you going?
- To turn him in.

You can't do that.

Yeah, I can.

I'll be ready in five.

Shh.

Ryan Fletcher says hi.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Before he died, he was trying
to name members of oversight.

Guess what you're gonna do.

I give you those names,
I'm a dead man.

Works for me.

Where's Gaines?

- What are you doing?
- Just answer the question.

I can't.

You will.
Start talking.

- Let him go.
- Get back.

Shoot her, damn it!
Shoot her!

Nikita, I know
Ryan Fletcher is innocent.

Just let him answer
in a court of law.

Drop your guns, I will.

Nikita's taking Gaines hostage.

She's using him as a body shield.

How should we proceed?

I have to check with oversight.

Hold.

Kill them both.

You want names?

Senator Madeline pier...

What the hell were you
thinking, drugging me like that?

I was trying to protect you.

You almost got yourself killed.

Look, avenging Ryan was my mission.

No, there's no "my" anymore.
There's only "ours,"

as in we share the losses,
we share the risks,

and, most of all,
we share the decisions.

I was thinking about you.

No, you made the decision for me.

Do you ever stop to think

how I would feel if I lost you?

You have no idea
how much you mean to me, Nikita.

No idea.

You ever pull a stunt
like that again...

We're through.

Jonathan Gaines, former sec chairman

turned wall street tycoon,
was gunned down tonight

by an outraged investor
in his Manhattan penthouse,

shocking wall street and
investors across the country.

How are you feeling?

Better.

Listen, about Yuri...

Yes, I want to talk
to you about that.

I would like another chance
to talk with him.

- Alex...
- Please.

He's not a real threat.

He's just been lied to by Semak.

Most of the people
that work for Zetrov

think that I'm dead,
and the ones that know

I'm alive think that I'm a threat.

I can make him see the truth.
I know I can.

And, once...Once we do,
we can turn him on our side.

Yuri's been canceled.

What?

I'm sorry.

I can't allow a direct attack
against us go unpunished.

Especially on our own soil.

We need to send
our enemies a message.

No.

He's not an enemy.

He's...He's a kid.

It's all right.

You're about to learn

how Division takes care of their own.

This facility is impenetrable,
its location unknown to Gogol.

Right now it's too dangerous
for you to return

to your apartment or to move anywhere

without an armed escort.

When the threat against you
has been neutralized,

you'll be the first to know,
but, in the meantime,

the safest place
for you is right here

inside these walls.

The loss of Jonathan Gaines
has created

a critical threat
to the future of oversight.

Wish I could say I was sorry.

Is it true you fired the first shot?

Why?

For the same reason
I'll be going back to Division.

Gaines told Nikita your name,

which means you are next on her list.

I may not agree
with what you're doing,

but you are my mother.

And I will do whatever it takes

to protect you.

Just know this.

After I take down Nikita,

after I make sure you're safe,

I'm out.

Julianne?

Yes?

I was a friend of your...

I was a friend of Ryan's.

Your son, he was a hero.

Welcome to Division.

I don't understand.

Sometimes it's hard
to see all the angles,

even for someone as talented as you.

For all intents and purposes,

you are dead.

No one knows you are here.

No one will be coming to rescue you.

Your continued survival
depends on how well you're able

to put your skills
to work for Division.

I don't need a rescue.

I need you to finish what you started

and kill me.

After all the effort I went through

to fake your death?

It's a waste of time.

I'm never gonna help you.
Ever.

I think you will.

You see, I only want you
to do the same thing

you've been doing all along...

Finding out a way
to take down oversight.