( Playing mellow jazz version of "my romance" )
I'm glad you came.
How could I refuse your invitation?
You seem more at ease than I've ever seen you.
Must be the full moon.
Perimeter teams, converge.
Tyler's coming up the north stairwell now.
Any new intel, birkoff?
None. We still don't know why he's here.
Nikita: He's meeting someone at the bar.
Do you recognize him?
Michael: No.
Can you I.D. Him?
See what I can do.
Draizin, give me a view.
Who is he, birkoff?
I'm not getting a match.
He's not in any of our data bases.
Michael, what do you want to do?
They're moving.
Draizin, stay with Tyler.
Teams two and four
pick up our mystery man.
Let's find out who he is.
What mode?
Make it look like an arrest.
Got it.
All teams, switch to "b" channel.
Are we done?
Not yet.
Not yet?
After this dance.
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Richard j. Spidel.
Not our typical guest.
How so?
He's clean.
I mean, really clean.
Entrepreneur... started with a small software company
then went out on his own.
He hasn't had a gray day in his life.
Why was he meeting with Tyler?
Claims Tyler approached him
looking to invest in one of his companies.
Unlikely.
( Gasping and coughing )
I'm sorry, Mr. Spidel
but the hood
was necessary for your protection.
Why am I here?
I didn't do anything.
I'll explain everything.
What is this place?
What the hell is going on?
I want some answers!
Why were you meeting with Mr. Tyler?
I already told the other guy.
I know what you told him.
Now tell me.
This time, the truth.
I did tell him the truth.
Look, you can't keep me here.
I'm a respected businessman
and I haven't done anything wrong.
We'll let you go.
I just have one more question.
What is it about that meeting you're not telling us?
( Spidel screaming )
Spidel has developed a relationship
with a young chemist named Stanley shays.
Shays has nothing to do
with any of spidel's other companies.
What kind of relationship?
Shays claims to have created a new polymer...
An explosive with none of the characteristics
of existing plastiques.
What makes it so special?
It can't be detected.
How significant is the charge?
According to spidel
it would take less than five ounces
to level a building.
It's a security nightmare.
Operations: Gabriel Tyler is a high-ranking member of the freedom league
one of the extremist factions
trying to gain leverage in the Balkans.
We've been watching him for over a month
hoping a picture would emerge.
It now appears
he's trying to procure a new, untested weapon.
An entrepreneur named spidel has teamed with a young man
Stanley shays, who claims to have created this new
breakthrough material. Walter?
I talked with spidel.
I heard his story.
Don't believe it.
This technology is ten years away
not something
you cook up in a garage
after school.
I hope you're right.
Birkoff?
I agree with Walter.
It's unlikely.
But if spidel is already peddling
to someone like Tyler
I'd check it out.
All right, let's do it.
If it's the real thing
we need to get the material, the formula
and debrief shays.
Want us to keep the same offset on Tyler?
For the time being, there's no need to pick him up.
In the meantime
let's go meet our young inventor.
( Dogs barking )
Easy, boys.
It's just me.
Come on in.
Stanley?
Stanley!
Hey, Richard.
Uh...
What's... What's up with this?
Something came up.
We need to do a little demo.
You-you guys investors?
This the polymer?
Hey, keep your hands off my stuff!
It's not your stuff anymore.
What's he talking about, Richard?
Hey, I said keep your...
Listen, Stanley
we're going to be spending
a little time together
so let's not make any sudden moves.
Who are you?
We're here to make sure
your partner doesn't get you in trouble.
We've been bought out.
Really?
How much?
Where is it?
( Sighing ): The second drawer.
So what do you do with all this stuff?
Blow it up.
Why?
It's what... It's what I do.
What do you do?
I was just trying to figure out
why a bright guy like you
would waste so much time.
Oppenheimer... nobel... Ever hear of them?
Albert Einstein?
They used to waste time, too.
I think I'm in pretty good company.
All set.
Besides...
Everybody likes a good explosion.
( Beeping )
See...
It's what I thought.
This material's in...
See what I mean?
We just heard from Michael.
Spidel was telling
the truth.
It eluded our most sensitive detectors.
And the energy yield?
Three times our standard c-4.
Not bad.
Maybe we could use it.
What do we do with shays and spidel?
We don't need them.
They're not hostile.
Hand them over to n.S.A.
I still don't know why I got to do this.
Aw, Stanley, it's no big deal.
You spend a couple of days in Washington
bragging to the brass about how smart you are.
You'll be back here in no time
blowing up things.
Well, they can't arrest me
because I haven't done anything wrong.
That's right.
Who knows, 50 years from now
when they mention nobel and Oppenheimer, they might add
Stanley shays to the list.
Are they going to pay me for this?
Not that I care
about money.
Oh, I know, I know.
You have a lifestyle to maintain.
You don't have to be condescending.
I was just teasing.
No. I could have made a lot of money
doing R&D for dupont... My own condo, 80 grand a year...
But I want to do things my way.
Your way?
I was curious about your way.
I was...
I was wondering what you
were planning to tell your family
and friends about your way... The selling-explosives-
to-terrorists way.
I didn't know anything about that.
Richard snowed me.
Now, that's the truth.
I don't care if you believe me or not.
Got everything?
I think so.
Good luck
Stanley.
Thanks.
What is it?
This just came in.
You should see it.
"A small commercial jetliner en route to Sarajevo crashed..."
About an hour ago.
The plane blew up in mid-air.
Where'd the flight originate?
Birkoff: Tel Aviv.
Wait a minute.
Draizin's been on Tyler since the meet.
He checked in this afternoon... From Tel Aviv.
Bring in Tyler now.
Where is shays?
Let me go, let me go!
Thank you.
Interesting compound, Mr. Shays.
How did you make it?
Y-You wouldn't understand.
We'd understand that, Mr. Shays.
Please...
Tell us.
It's, uh, it's a halide based, not a nitrate.
That's why it can't be detected.
We know that.
But how did you create
a branch chain reaction this powerful?
What are you going to use it for?
If I were you
I'd be more concerned about staying alive.
The formula... please.
The n.S.A. Vehicle was ambushed.
What happened?
The agents were killed
along with spidel.
What about shays?
Apparently, he was the target.
There was no sign of him.
Do we know who did it?
Tyler.
We know spidel gave Tyler sample polymer
which means they grabbed shays to extract the formula.
We have to get to shays before that happens.
Birkoff, where are we on a location?
I haven't been able to pick up the signal.
You put it on shays, right?
Yeah. On his shirt when I hugged him.
His shirt? I thought I told you his skin.
It makes a difference?
Thermal conductivity is completely different.
I should be able to...
Got him.
Good. Don't lose him.
Put together a convergence plan.
Let's go... Let's get shays out of there.
( Faint voices )
I'm in.
Everyone hold.
Nikita's taken point.
Nikita, be careful.
( Panting ): I'm wired.
Careful.
Nikita, you've got to get me out of here.
I will, Stanley.
They're going to kill me.
I gave them a bogus formula.
It won't take them long to figure it out.
Just stay calm... I'll get you out.
Hurry.
I've got him... he's restrained and booby-trapped.
I'll need some help.
We have incoming hostiles.
What do we do about Stanley?
Did he give them the formula?
N-N... not yet.
Okay.
Cancel him and get out.
Are they coming to get me?
Y-Yeah, they're coming.
They're going to need some ballast weights
and a voltage supply.
You better tell them.
Yeah, they already know.
I thought I was going to die in here.
You know, nikita...
When I get out of here
I'm going to grow you a diamond.
I can do it.
All it is, is a carbon plasma
but it'll be real.
You'll love it.
Nikita?
I'm sorry, Stanley.
Where are you going?
Did you cancel him?
I couldn't.
What do you mean?
I just couldn't, not in cold blood.
What happened?
Shays was wired with explosives.
There was no time to get him out.
That's not what I mean.
You had orders. Why weren't they implemented?
We had incoming hostiles.
Nikita was in danger of imminent discovery.
So?
Our team would've been exposed.
We were at a tactical disadvantage.
None of us would have made it out.
What about the formula?
Shays gave them a fake.
So let me understand this.
We had the opportunity
to contain the situation
but we didn't, because we...
We were at risk.
Michael... in my office.
I'm sorry.
What are they doing to me?
What's going on?
You gave us an incomplete formula.
There was no branch reaction.
I-I-I, uh... I made a mistake.
It was a mistake.
I-I-I...
It's very complicated.
Um, I-I don't have my notebook with me
and, um... I, I-I think I can remember it now, though
but... please
please don't hurt me.
( Terrified gasping )
No! No, I'll tell you everything you want!
We know that
but let's just be sure.
( Screaming )
I heard about your mishap.
What's wrong?
I don't know if I can do this anymore.
I don't know how I ever did.
That's what you said when you first came to us
but despite your own self-doubts
you've performed quite well.
( Sighing )
Where you see targets and security risks...
I see flesh and blood.
Someone's son...
Someone's friend.
That's okay.
It's not okay.
I can't live like this.
I can't take it.
What about when you're not here?
How's that going?
I don't sleep.
Lost my appetite.
I'm afraid to make a friend
outside the section.
What about Michael?
Michael?
A friend's someone you can trust.
It's true Michael has played a role with you
from time to time.
He's doing his job.
It doesn't mean he's incapable of caring.
Michael's not the solution to my problem, Madeline.
What is?
( Sighing )
I need to know that...
One day when the section's done with me
and I've performed all the functions I'm capable of...
That I'll be free.
Will I?
What kind of answer would you like?
The truth.
No.
You will never be free from the section.
Thank you.
( Medium tempo modern noir rock playing )
Nikita: "The only sins I ever committed were on behalf of the section.
"I'm only guilty of not taking charge of my own destiny.
"My fake obituary claimed I died in prison.
In the end, that statement is true."
( Knock at door )
Nikita?
We have to talk.
About what?
I can't protect you anymore.
I never asked for your protection.
Without it, you'd be dead now.
You seem to care more about that than I do.
Why can't you just do the job?
I tried to tell you.
Tell me what?
I'm not who you think I am.
I never killed anyone before I came into section.
I know you don't want to believe it
but you know it's true.
It's not important what you did.
It's what you do...
Now.
I can't change who I am.
Then I can't help you.
Why did you ever?
I wish things could be different.
Me, too.
You wanted to see me?
Comm has run an analysis.
There is no way
to surgically remedy the situation.
Shays is not equipped to hold out.
Tyler will have the formula, if he doesn't already.
We've worked up a containment plan.
Team's already been selected.
They will consist of six members of the abeyance pool.
Only the mobile control team will be returning:
You, Walter and birkoff.
The other six will be sacrificed.
Madeline: Needless to say, you are
the only operative
who has the intelligence on this mission.
Michael?
What's wrong?
Nothing.
( Breathing unevenly )
Good news, Mr. Shays...
Our preliminary tests were successful.
See?
The truth doesn't hurt... Too much.
W-What are you going to do to me now?
First things first.
We'll do a trial run tonight
and if all goes well, you're aboard.
Aboard?
Yes.
What do you mean?
I told you... you got the job.
You're hired.
No. I gave you what you want.
Now... let me go home.
Listen to me.
For every new weapon we create
the other side develops a defense, unfortunately.
We have to stay one step ahead.
That's the name of the game.
A talent like yours is priceless, Stanley.
We're going to make beautiful music together.
No... please...
I-I can't.
Sure, you can.
You just need a little... Motivation.
No...
That's right, enjoy the morphine.
You'll be on it the rest of your life
and that's why you'll help us.
I can't get this plugged in.
It doesn't go there.
Right, right, they changed that.
I haven't been out in over three months.
Why not?
I don't know.
I think it's because
I screwed up in Zaire.
Really?
Walter's prepared the c-4.
You'll each be given a charge.
Birkoff will give you specific coordinates
and access pathways to get there.
Once you plant the explosive, signal me.
Two pulses.
That's a lot of juice.
How are we getting out of there?
You'll be given instructions.
Keep your channels open.
We're at Alpha point.
Let's go.
Michael, what about shays?
He's collateral.
And if I can get him out?
Don't try.
It'll compromise everything.
It's important you understand this.
Nikita
if anything goes wrong and your comm unit fails...
Keep an eye on this.
We'll be able to communicate
from anywhere.
Michael, what's going on?
Go.
Okay, nikita, are you in position?
Almost there, birkoff.
I'm inside.
Your point two is to the north.
Point two, 30 seconds.
( Grunts )
Second position covered.
Continue to plant point.
I've been detected.
Doesn't matter. Get to your position.
Get the vehicles ready.
Kill anything that moves.
I'll get shays.
Nikita's in place.
Start the sequence.
What's our exit strategy?
Tell everyone to hold their positions.
Do it.
All positions...
Stand by.
Michael, we're armed.
Get them out of there now.
That's not the mission profile.
Not the mission profile?
Nikita's in there!
Man: Birkoff, what are we waiting for?
Get us out of here.
Stanley?
( Moans )
Stanley, I'm going to get you out of here.
( Moaning )
( Groans )
( Grunts )
Stanley?
Oh, Stanley...
( Groans )
( Beeping )
( Speed dialing )
Sequence completed.
Let's go.
We pulled n.S.A.'S ass out of the fire once again.
Report shows we had 100% containment.
Everything went as planned.
Look, Michael, I know nikita was your material.
We often form bonds.
I hope you understand our position.
Of course.
Is that all?
Yes.
We may have some problems with him.
There was something between them.
The question is now...
Can he let it go?
( Moody music playing )
( Beeping )
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