Nikita (2010–2013): Season 3, Episode 6 - Sideswipe - full transcript

Let's be honest. Sacrifice is for losers.

I mean, martyrdom is what it is.

It's exciting, your family's proud of you,
also sad.

But you're not around to reap the rewards.

Unless we're talking about the afterlife,
which, come on...

...big roll of the dice.

I mean, sure, there could be
77 virgins waiting for you.

Could also be one 77-year-old virgin.
You never know.

We are not interested in suicide.

Neither am I. That's why I say...

...live longer. Stay remote.



With the Mark 2 Longarm,
resolve differences from your living room.

Remote target from anywhere
with optional sat upgrade.

On this model we sacrificed nothing.
Because sacrifice is for losers.

Then what does that make you, Cyrus?

What's this?

You guys didn't think you'd be
the only ones bidding?

That is what you told us.

You're right. Shoot her.

Whoa, hey. I don't even have a gun.

Now I do.

Me too.

Nice to finally meet you, by the way. Big fan.

Let's go back to Division. I'll get you
an autograph. After I bring you in alive.

Thanks, but right now
I'm a little more concerned about you.



That's a Glock 17, 10 box mag, sights are off.

Classic choice. This is a state-of-the-art,
air-cooled, 1200-round-per-minute...

- ...seven-six--
Seven-six-two...

...armor-piercing discarding sabot
with an automated reload.

You sold one to Wade. He used it on us.

Damn. You know it's guys like that,
that give us rogue agents a bad name?

You're the one currently pointing
an assault cannon at my fiancée.

Fiancée?

Congrats.

I walk, he lives, you keep the Longarm.

Think of it as a wedding present.
Mazel tov and all that.

I don't know. Honey, wasn't there a problem
with the override systems...?

Yes, yes. Birkhoff found it
kind of easy to hack.

- How about that autograph?
- How about that wedding present?

- Anything you want. Name it.
- Amanda.

Nikita. This is her handiwork.

Her latest triumph.

- I still think you should let me kill her.
- Death would be a mercy, Anne.

She doesn't deserve mercy.

What does she deserve, then?

Nikita thinks she can run Division
without selling her soul.

She's wrong. She's going to have to sacrifice
more than she could ever imagine.

That is the lesson she needs to learn.

How will she learn it?

Same way she's learned everything
she knows.

I teach her.

- When?
- If one is patient...

...the opportunity will always present itself.

Perhaps sooner than anticipated.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. There it is.

- Is the mole sending another message?
- Not done yet.

Can we piggyback our trace
to Amanda's location?

I'm trying.

It keeps getting lost in dark space.

Okay, okay. Just try and isolate the terminal
they're sending from.

Rerouted. Multiple times.

Son of a bitch.
How does he keep doing this?

How do you know it's a he?

Okay, daughter of a bitch.
Whoever it is, they're in the building right now.

I gotta tell Nikki.
You keep trying to trace the source terminal.

- We have a clear path to interrogation?
- Yeah. No one's gonna see you.

- What about the mole hunt?
- Closing in.

Mole is active, knows you're back
but not where you went or who you got.

- Who do you got, by the way?
- Birkhoff.

- How'd you manage to hack the Longarm?
- You busted your ass to find the gun guy?

He knows where Amanda is.

I told you, I haven't seen Amanda in years.
Why do you want her so bad?

She declared war on us.

VZ-58 super shorties. With modifications.

Your modifications.

We recovered these on a raid
of Amanda's safe house in Luxembourg.

Once I figured out you sold them to her...

- ...I put you at the top of our list.
- I made a list?

Yeah, when you cut out your tracker
and refused to return to Division.

Percy put me into the world
to be his guy who could get anything.

Special orders. Untraceable gear.
Stuff you could drop in the field...

...that wouldn't point back to Division.

The world was my office.

Champagne, yachts and women.

So excuse me
for not immediately reporting...

...back to the underground bunker
in New Jersey when so commanded.

My heart breaks for you, it really does,
but if you ever wanna see the sun again...

...you're gonna tell me
exactly what I want to know.

I like the sun.

Amanda. You supply her. I want to know
where you're supplying her next...

- ...and when.
- She moves around.

I deal mostly with her boyfriend now.
Russian guy.

Ari Tasarov.

Always making special orders.
Some of the stuff I can't get, some I can.

I'm on the trail of a next-gen weapon
right now.

Was gonna pick it up this week
in the Caribbean. Saint Lucia.

- And when you get it?
- I contact Ari...

...he tells me where to meet.
You grab him, you get to dragon lady.

Why do I smell a catch?

Because there is one.

Not a good idea. You just caught this guy.

But this is how we get Amanda.
You're gonna love it. Birkhoff?

This is what Cyrus is buying.

- The Sideswipe. It's a missile jammer.
- Actually--

Actually, it's a multispectral array.

It can trick anything you shoot at it,
from an RPG to a Sidewinder.

- It jams missiles.
- And other stuff.

Okay. Check it out.

The Pentagon slipped a prototype
to the Egyptian army for the War on Terror.

But this man...

...General Tariq Rafat,
has fled the Egyptian army.

He's taken the Sideswipe. He's on his way
to Saint Lucia to sell it to Cyrus.

- What's Cyrus want with it?
- Profit. Resell it to Ari Tasarov.

- What's Ari want with it?
- More profit.

Plans to resell it to his old contacts
in Russian defense.

Which would put their helicopters on par
with ours in a heartbeat.

It'll never get that far.
We run a tight screen on Cyrus at the sale.

You get Sideswipe.
We get Ari, but, yeah, most importantly--

We get Amanda.

But first we've gotta put this snake
back in the pit.

And give him the real tech,
risk it falling into the wrong hands.

It's already in the wrong hands.
Amanda has a mole in here. I want her first.

The only way to get her is through Ari.
Those two are attached at the hip.

Okay, Cyrus. Let's make a deal.

Ten men. For surveillance?

I need it.

Well, I need a security detail.
Don't be unreasonable.

When it comes to Nikita,
I can be very unreasonable.

- Look what happened in Luxembourg.
- You happened in Luxembourg.

Your obsession with Nikita almost killed
us both. Now I have to recoup our losses.

All you care about is money.

Open your eyes, Amanda.
Our soldiers don't work for free.

They're hired with money
from the deals I made.

Money that is meant to build something.

After this deal, you'll have all the resources
you could ever need.

Sometimes to get what you want,
you have to make sacrifices.

You know, this tracker thing
really ruins my bikini line.

Michael thought you might run
when we get to Saint Lucia.

Heh. Michael. So paranoid.

I know. I told him to relax.
Everything's under control.

- What the hell was that?
- Ha, ha.

I upgraded your tracker with a little
voltage spike to the sciatic nerve.

Makes running a little bit ouch.

I thought torture was Amanda's thing.

You're lucky you didn't have one
of Amanda's trackers.

They were paired with kill chips.

Drop an agent like that if they got out of line.

We deactivated them. Every last one of them.

You really think
you can turn Division around?

And you don't think I can?

This place was designed to do
some very bad things and keep them secret.

Old habits die hard.

You feel weak.

And you're angry because you feel weak.

You have a right to feel that way.

You're an addict.

You're not the only one in Division.
Which is why we do random searches.

Oxycodone. From Medical.

I didn't have any.

But you wanted to.

You will always want to.
And sometimes that need will become rage.

You can use that, Alex.

Take it easy on that arm.
It's not a hundred percent yet.

I'm fine.

Ah. You don't look fine.
Have you heard from Sean?

Michael, do you really want
to talk to me about boys?

- No.
- I'm just anxious to get back out there. Aah.

Yeah, well, don't be too anxious.

Jet leaves in 20.

So how many guys does the general
usually roll with?

Tariq? Four, five guys since
they had the Sideswipe.

Shouldn't be too much trouble once they
see how relaxed I am, chilling with my lady.

We got a couple minutes to kill. At least.

- Was that necessary?
- Hmm.

For Michael, it was.
He's got your head in a rifle scope right now.

Easy there, Romeo.

Can you believe this guy?

Two suits taking positions
on the rooftop of the pavilion.

Tariq must be close.
They're packing sidearms, maybe a sub gun.

Don't know if they got vests,
but maybe we should switch to AP rounds.

Alex, we knew they'd be packing.
We're not here to start a fight.

Is something wrong?

Just keep to your target.

You've been on edge
since we got off the plane.

- If you wanna talk about it, maybe I can--
- What, save me?

Help.

Why do guys always think they need to fix
or save or help?

Look, I have no trouble with you
getting Amanda or whatever you want.

As long as I get what I want.

And what do you want?

After we get the Sideswipe
and we get Ari's location...

...you let me vanish.

Give me one good reason.

- Because you owe me.
- Heh.

Oh, this should be good.
How do I owe you, Cyrus?

You think you're the only person that can
track someone through their weapons?

When you went rogue
and declared war on Percy...

...you didn't just pick up a 12-gauge
from Big 5. That Beretta ARX...

...with the ACOG scope
and modified stock for your petite frame?

I tracked that cocktail
through the back channels...

...designed to make it untraceable.
And it led me to...

...your fabulous loft in Chelsea.

Nice pad, by the way.

My favorite lair of yours by far.

That ARX I got from Travis
in, what, June 2010.

You're telling me you knew
where I was the whole time?

The dealer's name was Trevor,
it was July, and I'm telling you...

...I knew where you were the whole time,
and I never told a soul.

Why?

Your drinks.

It's go time.

- Sammy. Have you seen Birkhoff?
- He's not in his club den?

No, I was just there.

Can I ask you something?

Have you heard this rumor about a mole?

What rumor?

Just whispers. Thought maybe you
heard something from the Round Table.

- The Round Table.
- You know, Camelot.

Nikita's inner circle. They always seem
to know more than they're telling us.

Since you're dating Birkhoff...

- ...I thought you heard something.
- How'd you know I was dating Birkhoff?

Come on, you know it's hard
to keep secrets in here.

That's Division. Someone's always watching.

Whoever it is,
they're in the building right now.

Now, now, boys, no need to get paranoid.

We're buying goodies today,
not carrying them.

He's clean.

General, how's that Rhino
working out for you?

Oh, I love it. I plan to order
a few more from you.

Mwah.

"Make my day."

- You gotta try this. I'm gonna get you one.
- I'm good. I don't like guns.

This gun you're gonna love. Trust me.

Let's get down to business.
We never fully settled on a price.

I think that's fair.

Nice. Mind if I try?

I don't have a missile for you to jam,
but go ahead.

Nikita?

Signal's blocked.

So is Cyrus' tracker.

Where the hell are you guys?

That's not good.

All good?

One problem.

She's an Interpol agent, I'm under duress...

...and this meeting's
about to get busted now.

- Son of a....
- Take her.

No!

Good luck.

Hey!

He's down. Alex.

Come on. Come on.

He has the Sideswipe.

And we don't have him.

Nice place you got here. Very medieval.

Actually, it was rebuilt
after the Second World War.

The catacombs below...

...they date back to the Crusades.

Blacksmiths were forging
the blades of the holy wars.

I guess back then my business was
God's business.

Amen.

We heard there was some trouble
in Saint Lucia.

Anything we should be worried about?

Not unless you're an Egyptian national
wanted for war crimes.

Was only a matter of time before
Interpol caught up with Tariq.

Excellent work, Cyrus.

- Cyrus' tracker is back online.
- He handed the Sideswipe to Ari.

- Where is he?
- Southern Spain.

Your payment.

It's all there.

Now, if you'll excuse me,
I have a plane waiting.

Sideswipe, I hardly knew ye.

How long will you be gone, dear?

Not long at all.

I don't mean to impose,
but mind if I get out of these clothes?

- It's been a long trip.
- Down the hall.

- We can have a team there in seven hours.
- He won't be there for more than one.

- He's cutting out his tracker as we speak.
- So we didn't get Tasarov.

He got the Sideswipe,
is about to deliver it God knows where...

- ...and Cyrus is out in the wind.
- We know where they met. Ari's in Spain.

Amanda's probably there too.
Look, let's go now.

They'll move on after Cyrus warns them.
He's Team Amanda, remember?

No. He's Team Cyrus.
He made that very clear.

I have no problem with you
getting Amanda or whatever you want...

...as long as I get what I want.

Well, he left us with zero.

Just a gun.

This gun you're gonna love.

Trust me.

Wait a minute.

What is it?

Son of a....

You get what you want, I get what I want.

What?

Krilov Industries.

"You owe me twice."
What does that mean?

Krilov? Where is that?

Ari's headed to Romania.
We grab him, he'll lead us to Amanda.

- Feeling better?
- Like new. Thanks. But I'd better get going.

So soon?

You know how this business is.
Keep moving if you want to stay--

I can smell her on you.

I selected that perfume for Nikita years ago.

- I know a lot of women.
- I'm only interested in one.

All right, easy. Easy.
You don't need that. We're all friends here.

Nikita grabbed me a couple days ago.

She tried to edge in on my deal
and get the Sideswipe.

I shook her and came straight here.

Then why not tell us that
when you arrived? Why lie?

You get Sideswipe, I get paid.
The rest is just noise.

See, I don't think so.
I think you're protecting her.

I know you, Cyrus.

Remember our sessions?
You used to talk about your father.

The sad tale of the police officer
charged with corruption.

Rings a bell.

He was innocent and everyone knew it.

But he still lost his badge
and drank himself to death.

Must have been so sad for a little boy...

...to watch someone he loves
suffer so much.

I got over my issues.
You should try it sometime.

See, I used to think that this experience
explained your aggressive neutrality.

No good deed goes unpunished, hmm?

Wait, wait, wait-- Aah! Aah!

I told her. She knows about Romania.

She knows about Ari's deal.

I think deep down you're more like
your father than you want to admit.

I can see it. There's good in you.

And I'm betting Nikita saw it too.

Now this is something I can work with.

You see, Anne? I told you
an opportunity would present itself.

Factory Cyrus told us about
is abandoned. It's gonna be easier to raid.

But we need to grab Ari and the Sideswipe
before the Russians get there.

I can get an alpha team in there.
Michael, you'll have to guard that door.

- Alex, we'll need you on the roof.
- Got it.

Birkhoff, the mole cannot get wind of this.
Where are you on the hunt?

Tracking the source has been tough.
I solved a piece of the puzzle, though.

- What?
- The messages aren't being sent in real time.

They're on a 30-minute delay.

Guys, we just intercepted a video call
on our private relay.

- It's Amanda. Start a trace.
- Futile trace already in process.

Hello, Nikita.
I'm sorry I missed you in Luxembourg...

...but I had urgent business elsewhere.

Oh, no doubt.
You had to find some rattrap to hole up in.

My new home is quite comfortable,
thank you.

In fact, I have my very first houseguest
right here.

A friend of yours. Say hello to Cyrus.

He's no friend of mine.

Cyrus has been quite reticent
when it comes to you...

...specifically what you two talked about
back in Division.

- Wasn't really that interesting.
- Then this should be easy.

You tell me what Cyrus is holding back,
and I give him the gift of a quick death.

Or I find out the truth my way. Your choice.

Do me a favor, Amanda.
Keep those ropes tight. He's slippery.

Could've told her something false
and spared him pain.

That pain is gonna buy him time.
I'm going after him.

Where?

- Tracker says he's still in Spain. Andalusia.
- Probably where Amanda is.

Correction: where Amanda's trap is.
She's luring you there.

That's why she kept his tracker online.

- Michael, I owe him.
- He made his choices.

I know. That's why I gotta go get him.

Nikita, you know I can't authorize this.

I won't stop you,
but I can't send a team with you.

- Yeah, I know. I'm going alone.
- No, you're not.

You can't be in Spain and Romania
at the same time.

Your plan to get Ari and the Sideswipe is good.
You designed it.

Who's gonna carry it out?

I'll do it.

I can prep a team, be wheels-up in an hour.

I am just dying to say hello to Ari.

All right, it's decided. Let's do it.

I know. I'll make sure they're covered.

Both of them.

All right, all right, all right.

Filter program on.

Server protocols active.

Flux capacitor fluxing.

Ready.

Let's see your moley ass
get ahead of this one.

Gotcha. Ha, ha. Oh, yeah.

Where have you been?

I am hot on the mole. Turns out they were
sending messages on a 30-minute delay.

What about the source terminal?

That has been a little bit trickier, but....

Uh....

I'm using a new filter program that hunts down,
um, rerouting algorithms.

It found the last relay,
but it didn't, uh, find the source yet.

- Where was the relay?
- A terminal on Sublevel 9. It just said:

"Nikita has left. Destination unknown."

We should investigate that terminal
and see what we can find.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll, uh, go down there with you.

Don't let anyone see you in transit,
just to be safe.

"Nikita has left. Destination unknown."
I bet I know where she's heading.

She's on her way to rescue you.

Nikita doesn't care about me.

Disagree, but that's why we test.

- Car's ready.
- We going somewhere?

Goodbye, Cyrus.

It's just up there.

Is this the terminal the mole used?

You tell me.

Seymour.

How long?

Since I've been here?

- Please.
- Since we were together?

- Is that why we were together?
- Don't.

Was any of it real?
What happened between us?

Any of it?

Take one more step and I will kill you.

Then do it.

I'm dead anyway.

Amanda, she reactivated my kill chip.

On my way home to my apartment
three weeks ago...

...a van pulled up and this woman
grabbed me. Anne. She was a cleaner.

- They threw me in the back of the van--
- Stop. Stop it. Stop.

- I don't believe you.
- She showed me the uplink.

Amanda's not here. So she can't know
if you asked for help, which you never did.

There's someone else inside.

She told me there was someone else
and that they'd be watching...

...and in Division there's
always someone watching.

- You can't know that's true.
- I can't know that it isn't.

She has me restricted. I have to send her
an update every two hours.

I haven't slept the night in weeks.

If I even walk in the direction of Medical,
which Amanda gas-bombed...

...as a warning to me, her spy will see
and tell her and she will trigger the chip...

...and I will drop--

Okay, okay, all right.

All right.

I wanted to tell you.

I was so scared.

I was scared that they would see it
on my face and they would know.

Okay.

All right.

We can beat this.

When my people get back from overseas,
I'm going to fill them in quietly--

No. You can't tell anyone.
It could be anyone.

It's not Nikita. It's not Michael or Alex.

- How do you know?
- I know.

- You don't know. You don't know.
- Okay. All right.

You need to calm down. If there is
another spy, they can't see you like this.

They can't know anything's wrong. They
have to think you're still with the program.

When do you have to send
your next update?

- Twelve minutes.
- All right, we give them something.

Something true but low value.
That'll buy us some time.

And then we will figure a way out of this.

No, we're in Spain. She is in Romania.

Yeah. That's right.
Do you have the coordinates?

No, trust me, thank you.

- All good?
- Let's hope. You?

I will be. Whatever happens,
I'm really glad you're here.

- Please. You know I love Spain.
- I know I pushed too hard on this.

All right, then do me one favor.
If Amanda really is here, push harder.

This time, kill the bitch.

Where is she?

She's gone.

You really shouldn't have come for me.

- How is it wired? Pressure plates?
- No. No, it's remote.

She wanted to be the one....

Nikita. So glad you could make it.

And I see you've brought your fiancé.
What a nice surprise. Congratulations, you two.

We're not here to chat.

Then let's start the lesson, shall we?

- We get any closer, we're in the blast radius.
- Nikita, just go. Go.

There's no way to disarm the bomb on site.

- What's the point of a test I can't pass?
- It's not a test. It's a lesson.

The first of many. This one is simple.

To stop me, you're going to have
to sacrifice people you care about.

Even the ones you care about just a little,
like Cyrus there.

As a bonus, your friends in Romania
are about to suffer as well.

I'm sorry.

I told her.

Target reached. Moving in.

We've got you in view.

Hold positions.

Old news.

Ops, we've got an empty nest here.

Ops, signal is lost. Can you--?

If you really wanted to teach me something,
why aren't you here?

It's not in the lesson plan. Not this time.
I'll give you 20 seconds.

- Nikita, we have to go.
- I'm not leaving.

Listen to Michael. She will kill you.
And believe it or not...

...that would upset me very much.

- Now please go.
- No.

I get it now. The lesson.

The things we care about can hurt us,
so the trick is not to care.

- Nikita, no.
- Let's see how well you learn.

What are you waiting for?

Do it.

Do it.

Cover me!

What now?

Alex, what's the call?

Running low on ammo!

I'm trying to break through--

Alex!

How did--?

Michael said you might need
some backup.

Why'd you do this for me?
Why'd you risk your life?

Don't take this the wrong way, but I didn't.

If Amanda wants to teach me a lesson,
she can't do it if I'm dead. She cares too much.

She's not done with me yet.

So, what are we looking at?

A farm in Iowa?
Maybe something by the beach in Maine?

We were wondering...

...after Saint Lucia and Romania,
if you think you can still operate your business.

It'll take some damage control.
Some fence-mending.

But yeah. Absolutely.

Consider yourself reinstated.

Help us get what we need to run operations
and shut the doors on Division.

What's this?

A list of organizations and individuals
with whom you can no longer do business.

Not as a sanctioned American agent.

This is like everyone I've ever sold....

I like a challenge.

Good.

We'll be in touch.

What?

I knew you were warming up to me.

I knew you'd pick a side.

Hey. What's the real reason
you didn't give me up to Percy?

You were doing the right thing.

Let's just say that
you remind me of someone.

- Hey. You're still here.
- Yeah, just debriefed with Ryan.

Great. Um, look, about Romania.
I just wanted to say--

You don't need to explain yourself. It's fine.

Well, I wasn't going to explain myself.
I just wanted to say thank you.

Michael asked me to do a job and I did it.
That's all.

Another rogue in from the cold...

...and we've taken the Sideswipe
off the black market for good.

- Any update on the mole?
- Yeah, I think I'm getting close.

And what about Amanda?
Any theories as to her next move?

Yes.

Before today I thought that
Amanda just wanted me dead...

...because I was the obstacle to her plans.

But that's not it.

I am her plan.

She doesn't want to kill me.
She wants me to suffer.

And that means destroying
everything I care about.

I'm not her target.

All of you are.