Nikita (2010–2013): Season 2, Episode 9 - Fair Trade - full transcript

It's called a red-eye.

Cup of drip, shot of espresso,

no room for cream or anything else.

Ugh.

Some of us need the jolt.

Hit that target heart rate.

Some of us?

Oh, I'm here for my boss.

And me.

My boss doesn't need caffeine.
She's high on life.

Super-dedicated, super-focused.



It's annoying as hell.

What do you do?

Uh, I'm a partner
in a start-up company.

Looking to take down
a big Division sector

of the military industrial space.

Still got a few Goliaths
we got to slingshot first.

So you must be David.

Seymour, actually.

Allyson.

Yeah.

Uh, allow me.

You're all set.

Allyson.

You should become a regular here.



This place could use
some more regulars.

Thanks.

Enjoy.

Yes, all of it, 80 million... gone.

How does Nikita
do anything these days?

She found the account on a Black Box.

I transferred African relief
money into our slush fund.

We then converted it
into bearer bonds,

and she stole it.

Gotcha.

Nikita knows
I'm a member of oversight.

I'm calling an emergency meeting.

We have to move the rest
of our money.

Just a second.

Thanks, Allyson.

Division's top priority
is to neutralize Nikita

and retrieve that Box.

They have someone very good on it.

Someone I trust.

You're still here.

Not for long.

Percy was right.

This is the house that I grew up in.

After Division burned it down,

Sergei Semak rebuilt it.

He lives in it now.

With no security.

I'm sure you could
just walk right in,

put a bullet in him.

I'm going to Russia,

and I'm going to kill him.

So don't try to talk me out of it.

How do you plan on
getting into Russia?

If you had Division support,

you could hop a C-130
out of Ramstein, parachute in...

Oh, is that how
Captain America would do it?

Lieutenant Commander,
and, yes, I would.

Semak still has his own Division
hunting you, remember?

- He won't see me coming.
- Yeah?

Zetrov owns two airlines
and two shipping firms,

which means Semak
has every border official

in his back pocket...
Land, sea, and air.

There's no way Alexandra Udinov
gets back into Russia.

She doesn't.

I'm going as someone else.

Someone that I used to be.

You're going back
the same way you came in.

Illegally and completely
under the radar.

You really did your homework.

Yeah, that's something
Nikita taught me.

If you don't want to go to plan "B",
have a good plan "A".

What is that?

This is for you.

It's for luck.

I knew I wouldn't be able
to talk you out of anything.

I got it out of the evidence locker.

From what I've read,
it belonged to your father.

Does Amanda know you took this?

No.

And she's not gonna know.

Not about any of this.

Thank you.

One condition.

You call me as soon as
you hit the ground over there.

If you're gonna pull this off,

you're gonna need at least
one other person

watching your back.

Whoa.

Could you not do that
in the living room, please?

I haven't figure out
where to put my stuff yet.

Yeah, I know.

It's amazing how much
you've already bought

- with my money.
- Not really.

I am a girl.

Just tell me where the Senator is.

I don't really trust this
ingestible tracker of yours.

The microdot is activated
by stomach acid.

Give it time.

And give me props.

It wasn't easy getting that thing

into the Senator's double half-caf.

I had to work my mojo.

Let's go.

Go?
Go where?

I want to be in motion when
the Senator calls the meeting.

Wait, so the last four
members of the secret cabal

get together and we're in motion?

I have a plan.

Has it occurred to you that
Division knows you're coming?

I mean, you killed oversight's banker

in his own penthouse.

I wasn't the one who did
the actual...

We haven't done our homework.

Okay, we should have spent
a week at least

doing recon on the Senator.

Now you want to take out
the entire imperial senate?

I'm not taking anyone out.

We're doing surveillance.

It's okay to be scared, nerd.

You know, maybe fear
is not such a bad thing.

It causes you to stop, look around,

become situationally aware.

Oh, now you're gonna lecture
me on situational awareness?

Somebody has to.

You know, ever since
you left Mikey in London,

you've been on some kind of a bender.

Coming in here,

pulling slugs out of your Kevlar,

acting like it doesn't hurt.

I've had worse.

I'm not talking about physical pain.

Look, Nikki,
you're allowed to miss him.

But he's coming back.

You guys are...

You're meant to be.

You're like Bonnie and Clyde.

Except without the last scene.

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

She's on the move.

Shall we?

Of course she's gonna make a move.

Nikita stole the money
to force the meeting.

Which is why I sent
an advance team to the stadium.

I've arranged for oversight
to gather in the basement.

Yeah, that's no good.
Too many exits and entrances.

I already found a better venue,

and I redirected the team.

Funny, I don't recall asking
you to run point on this.

I'm not running point.

I'm running everything.

- It's already been approved.
- By mother?

I'm not going to let Nikita
anywhere near her.

- And I will?
- You couldn't keep her away

from Jonathan Gaines,
and look what happened to him.

As I recall, you shot him.

And I supposed I have to follow
oversight's orders,

but don't put this on me, Sean.

You want to protect your mama,

it's a perfectly natural instinct.

Especially for the baby boy.

They changed the venue.

And upped security.
Why?

Boy scout.

Always prepared.

Who?

Met him at Gaines' penthouse.

He changed my plans then too.

I had Gaines talking,
naming members of oversight.

And?

Boy scout started blasting.

Never as easy as it should be.

Go.

Baby, I want another bottle
for the table.

Can you make that happen?

For you, anything.

♪ ♪

The way you look at the clients,

they don't pay you to know
how you really feel.

The men at my old jobs
were different.

Really?

Where was that?

By the docks.

They appreciated us.

Men never appreciate
a woman they pay for.

I'll try to remember that.

Sasha.

Oksana.

Your English is very good, Sasha.

Who would ever know that you
are from Petersburg?

I watched a lot of American
movies as child.

♪ ♪

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

Well, I've called
three times already.

I know that this is the hotline.

How many times do I have
to call you people?

♪ ♪

Where is she?

I already gave you the address.

Look, I overheard my husband...

What are you doing?

I'm sorry, I bring bottle back.

No, he changed his mind.

He buy two bottles if you dance.

I don't dance.

You do now.

Got to hand it to the boy scout.

They're having a foreign
correspondents' luncheon up top.

Place is full of bigwigs.

Any one of them could be oversight.

Rear entrance is just as secure.

There's no way for me
to get a gun in there.

This just keeps getting
better and better.

Lobby's clear.

Advance team, have you
secured the meeting site?

Affirmative.

We're on our way down.

You said up top.
What's down below?

Oh, just an old cold war bunker

with three feet
of concrete all around it.

At least that's according
to the historical society.

Nice little place for the evil
council of evil to hang out.

Excuse me, excuse me.

The extra flowers are here,
but they're late of course.

I know, we're on it.

Have the other attendees
started arriving?

Number two has arrived.

Three and four are a mile
and two miles out respectively.

What about flash traffic?

Anything that could be
Nikita's comm signal?

There's a significant
amount of chatter.

I've got three teams monitoring.

So far, nothing.

Hey come on, guys.
Let's go.

We got to move.

Right through there.

Can I help you?

Is there anywhere else
Birkhoff could hide a signal?

Think.

What would you do?

All right, the best way
into that bunker unnoticed

is through an old ventilation shaft.

Cross the dining room to a staircase

that's in the rear of the kitchen.

Proceed to your next checkpoint.

You'll find a ventilation shaft

in the main boiler room.

Connects up to the hotel's
air conditioning system.

Damn it.

It's a long way down, though.

200 feet underground.

The hotel uses the room
as kind of a junk drawer,

but it's perfect.

If you say so.

Operations, number one is arriving.

Copy that.
Number two is right behind you.

I'm sorry about all this.

Listen, I understand your concern.

Having this Black Box out there
is a significant deterrent

to our efforts.

If any of our operations are exposed,

it could be devastating.

Not only to us,
but to the whole country.

Nikita won't stop.

Nikita is nothing more
than a disgruntled employee.

And we are gonna get her.

One down, two to go.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Party's over.

All right, all right.

Party's over.

Immigration and customs enforcement.

Everyone stay calm,
and I will go easy on you.

I want all the ladies
on this side of the...

Hey!
Hey!

Hey!

Enough!

Enough, enough.

Okay, calm down.

Calm down.

What the hell
do you think you're doing?

You really stepped in it this time.

We got an anonymous tip
from an angry wife.

Boris, your girls are illegal.

I was gonna put you ladies
in holding for a few days,

but now I think you're on
a fresh flight back to Russia,

thanks to you.

Stop.

Hey, Nikki,
how's it going down there?

I've got eyes on number three.

Almost there, Birkhoff.

One more to go,
and we'll have them all.

Uh, yeah, copy that.
Barely.

Got to re-route the comms
through another wireless node.

Commander, you were right.

I'm picking up
an embedded comm signal

in the hotel's wireless system.

Pinpoint the source, dispatch a team,

and get me Sean.

Sean, this is Amanda.

I realize I'm not in charge,

but we've found
an embedded comm signal.

I think Nikita's nearby.

Meeting's over.
Abort. Abort!

Birkhoff, they're onto us.

Meet me at the exfil point.

I'm on my way.

Come on!

Sean.

Sean.

Get her in the car.

Gun!
Drop it!

Put the gun on the ground!

Drop it!

Down on the ground, now!

Drop your weapon.

Birkhoff, I'm at the exfil point.

Birkhoff!

Birkhoff.

Birkhoff!

So I talked to my supervisor.

There's a deportation flight
going wheels-up tonight.

You're on the express.

Okay, let's go.
What you got over here?

Go give him something special.

Maybe he'll let us stay here.

You want to stay here?

At least I have nice clothes,
nice food here.

Even a few nice men.
What I have in Petersburg?

Everything will be all right.

I'll take care of this, trust me.

Trust you?

You are a lie.

All of you is a lie.

Your Russian's too refined.

You're from Moscow.
You're a girl of privilege.

What is it?

You run away from home?

You're happy to go back
to see mama and papa again.

You will be okay,
but the rest of us are screwed.

Let's go, come on.

Okay, let's go.

I like the naughty schoolgirl look.

So we're gonna play
truth or dare, huh?

That's cool.

You want some truth?

You nailed me out there.

Fair and square.

You got skills.

But when they're finished with you,

they will snap your neck
and dissolve you in acid.

I've seen 'em do it.

Seymour.

Thank you, Sonya,
but forget standard protocol

in this interrogation.

There are more efficient ways
to find the truth.

Well, I see the boys
gave you a nice welcome home.

Amanda, thank God
you got me out of there.

Michael and Nikita were forcing
me to do their hack work.

They threatened to kill me.

Really?

Was that before or after

you saved them
by using attack drones?

Is it my imagination, Seymour,

or have you developed a hero complex?

Look, I don't know what you want.

Nikita and the Black Box.

You're going to tell me
where they are.

Or what, you gonna kill me?

Kill you?

Oh, Birkhoff,
you're smarter than that.

You're the shadow Walker,

able to break down any system

and type 120 words a minute.

Now 60.

Birkhoff?

Birkhoff?

Hey, what's wrong?

Michael, man down.

What?

I lost Birkhoff.

Uh, how?

We were running recon on oversight.

I had them.

I had them all.
Division found out.

They took him.

- When?
- It doesn't...

It doesn't matter!
Are you listening to me?

They took Birkhoff.

Okay, I'll get on the first flight.

There's no time for that.

We have to do something now!

What are you gonna do,

launch a frontal assault on Division?

Why aren't you here?

Nikita, stop. Focus.
Prioritize... now.

Now when was he taken?

One hour, 14 minutes ago.

The good news is he's still alive.

But the bad news is that Amanda

is probably interrogating
him right now.

Michael, we have to do
something to save him.

- Michael.
- There is.

But you won't like it.

What is it?

A trade.

Or more like a sacrifice.

I can have the finest
surgeons in Division medical

- fix that for you.
- Oh, go to hell.

I know how important
it is to your work.

Just give me a location.

You might as well ask me
where Carmen Sandiego is, bitch,

'cause I'm not giving up Nikki.

What?

What?

This cranial needle

is designed to remove brain tumors.

I'm told patients love it.

Instead of taking
a saw to your skull,

the probe is simply
inserted through the nose.

Of course those patients

were unconscious
during the procedure.

I'll be puncturing
the cerebrospinal membrane

to access your frontal lobe,

where I'll administer this paralytic.

Soon after,
your most prized possession,

your mind, will whither and die.

Think of it as a reboot.

You're a psychopath.

You used to be
such a selfish creature.

You're mutated into something
entirely different.

You're a puzzle, Seymour,
and I'm going to solve you.

- Hello.
- Put Amanda on.

- I'm sorry, who is this?
- Do it now.

I have something she wants.

No, please, please, please,
don't do this.

Please.
I can help you.

There are other Black Boxes
that you need me to decrypt.

I'm the engineer.

Tell me where she is.

What is it about Nikki, huh?

- Why are you so taken with her?
- Please don't do this.

I mean, you must know
Michael's first in line.

Please don't do this.

She could never see you that way.

Stop! Stop! Stop!

Stop!

Amanda.

What?

I'm sorry.
Nikita's on the line.

Sonya!

Simple, you give me Birkhoff,

- I give you the Box.
- You won't do it.

It means too much to you,
to your crusade.

This may surprise you, Amanda,

but Birkhoff means more.

He is a friend.

A friend is someone who
knows you and still likes you,

in case that's something
you can't fathom.

I'm trying to fathom
a lot of things today.

How do I know you haven't
copied the Box?

If you attempt duplication,
the data eats itself.

It's one of Percy's little gems.

You know oversight wants this Box,

and you know I'm willing
to give it to you.

Now, do you need to put me on hold

while you talk to your boss?

She agreed.
That's good.

Probably won't stop her
from trying to kill you both.

You need a real threat for leverage,

preferably an explosive.

I have an idea for that.

What about the trade site?

You need to control it.

Ingress, egress, everything.

And the best way to do that

is pre-selected mode
of transportation.

I got some ideas for that too.

The only wild card is
who do they send?

There was a guy
at the oversight meeting.

I tangled with him
in Gaines' apartment.

He shot Gaines when he started
naming members of oversight.

- The soldier.
- The what?

He didn't move like a Division agent.

Probably special forces.

Max.

Max is awake?

Yeah, he couldn't sleep.

Definitely my son.

Son.

Sean.

Sean.

It says she has three kids,
two girls and a boy.

Youngest son not pictured.
He serves in the armed forces.

Well, if he's special forces,

they're not gonna advertise it.

Hang on.
Firing up Shadownet.

Lieutenant commander
Sean Mason Pierce,

United States Navy.

Designation Devgru.

Special warfare development group.

He's seal team six.

And the Senator's his mother.

Sean didn't shoot Gaines

because he was naming
members of oversight.

He shot him because
he was naming her.

And there's no telling
what someone will do

when they're pushed to the edge.

Welcome home, ladies.

There is something wrong.

We have to go this way.

They, um, don't want undesirables

walking through the airport, so...

Something is wrong.

What is going on?

Hey, relax.

You're back home in Russia.

You get to keep your old job.

You work for Bratva?

No, I work for immigration
and customs enforcement.

Bratva's like my 401k.

So you put us with
same family on the other side.

Who the hell are you?

Someone who can't afford
to have that question asked.

It's gonna be me and the boy scout.

- Excuse me?
- The boy scout.

We had a brisk little
run in the part today.

You know who you are, boy scout.

I'm listening.

Bring Birkhoff
to the pedestrian walkway

at 28th and 3rd in Manhattan. Alone.

If I smell even a whiff of Division,

I upload the contents
of the Box live,

starting with operations sanctioned

by Senator Madeline Pierce.

He'll be there in one hour.

Senator, you heard?

I did.

Needless to say,
our priority is that Box.

I still don't believe
she'll give it up.

I want two teams shadowing me.

This is no longer your operation.

I'm keeping the teams at a distance.

Do you really believe

Nikita would release its contents?

She knows how dangerous it could be.

It doesn't matter what
she knows or what she thinks.

She's not thinking right now,
not rationally.

Nikita is on the verge
of losing someone she loves.

We must tread carefully.

No one can deny you're in
a very delicate situation.

I simply want to confirm
the data in the Box

cannot be copied,
not even by the engineer.

It's not just software,
it's hardware.

It's Excalibur.

You're so proud of it, aren't you?

Better believe it.

Have you been following the news?

They're so angry,

raging against the machine.

What do you think would happen

if they got even
the slightest glimpse

inside that Box?

If they found out that the machine

is actually a steel trap

that was set for them,

the 99%?

Think they'd have a candlelit vigil

and sing Kumbaya?

I doubt it.

They'd riot and burn the place down.

People want to believe
God has a plan for them.

They don't want to know
that anyone else does.

Lieutenant commander Sean Pierce?

Who the hell are you?

I am your ride.

He's on the move.

Jesal, are you there?

Yes, ma'am.

Are you being followed?

- No, ma'am.
- Good.

What's the point?

She has to know
they're tracking my comm.

Well, if she's smart, which she is,

she hacked the taxi's transponder.

It's not precisely a transponder,

but it's similar.

It allows the taxi company
to track their cars.

How do you know she hacked it?

Because it's interfering
with Sean's signal.

- We've lost him.
- Can you track it?

See, she can't track us,

because she probably never got

the cab's transponder number,
and there's at least...

Dozens of cabs on the road right now.

Jesal, turn into the parking
garage on your left,

go up to the sixth floor.

I've got him.

He's in a parking garage
on 51st near park Avenue.

I'm not gonna wave.

Whoa, whoa, sailor.

I jacked 17 wireless connections.

I let this go,
the world's in for a nightmare.

- Let's have it.
- Him first.

Birkhoff, wand yourself.

Make sure there's no trackers
on you or in you.

I'm sure they've picked up
my signal by now.

Let 'em come.
The more, the merrier.

I'm clean.

Upstairs.

- What?
- Go now.

Give me the Box.

Careful with this.

It's a loaded weapon.

Good, Sean. Now take the Box
and get out of there.

No need.

Plan "b".

You're a decorated soldier.
Why are you doing this?

You're trying to kill my mother.

Your mother is a bitch.
I am not the threat, Sean.

Open your eyes.

It's over.

You're a good boy scout.

You wore your Kevlar, right?

What are you doing?

I'm leaving, but before I go, here.

Take this.

These are pass codes
to numbered accounts

at the bank of St. Petersburg.

One for each girl.

I had old boss
who gave me lots of money,

and I'm spreading it around.

There should be enough
in there for all the girls

to start new lives.

Wait.
You can't leave.

You tell us
to restart our lives, but...

How?

We can't do this.

Where are you going?

Hey, don't forget to take
your anti-inflammatories, okay?

And please don't miss
a doctor's appointment.

Copy that.

Please repeat your command.

Go to hell.

Why does this
voice-activated software

sound just like Alex?

It's the shell program
we used to communicate with.

You know, the one that took you

three years and six months to find.

You give new meaning to
the phrase "insult to injury."

Hey, Birkhoff...

You were right.

I flew too close
to the sun on this one.

I never thought it would be you
who got burned.

I'm a big boy.

I knew what I was getting into.

Still do.

You okay?

I almost gave you up in there.

But you didn't.

Thanks for coming back for me.

You are so worth it.

You rule, nerd.

Packing up?

Where you going, anyway?

Find Owen.

He's on the trail
of another Black Box.

Anti-inflammatories.

We needed the data on that Box.

You shouldn't have destroyed it.

It was Nikita's leverage.

I had to take it out of the equation.

- Why?
- To save your life.

You said you had a way to get to her.

Through Alex.

Yes.

Then activate the plan immediately.

If Alex is gonna be useful,
let's use her.

This is Pierce.

I made it.

How'd it go?

- It went.
- You all right?

Yeah, I just didn't expect
it to be like this.

How's that?

Empty.

Just be careful out there.

If you get into trouble, you know,

you don't have to do this alone.

What, are you gonna fly out here?

I wish I could.

But listen, if you do
get into a bind,

you call someone.

Doesn't matter who it is.

You call someone
to get you out of there.

Amanda, Nikita, just call somebody.

Will do, Sean.

I'll be seeing you.