Previously on Nikita:
I know who killed your parents.
They're Division, a black-ops program that's gone rogue.
If I was on the inside, I could get revenge for my family.
We have to stop Division. To do that, we need to find the black boxes.
They contain evidence of every job Division has done.
Operation Sparrow is a move by Division against the government.
Percy's hiding the prep work on the boxes.
Cracking the box is the way to get ahead of Percy.
How much time do we have?
Birkhoff said the op would go active in a couple of weeks.
I'm guessing Percy pushes back that time now that you have his black box.
Operation Sparrow. Honestly.
Where does he come up with these names?
All I know is the more innocuous they sound, the more lethal they are.
Percy plays things close to the vest, but this is...
Paranoia.
- He's scared. - He should be.
Sparrow's an inside job. It's a move against the government.
So assassinate the president?
Fake a terror attack to start a war?
Whatever it is, if it fails with Percy's fingerprints on it...
he burns, and he knows that.
Hon.
I don't think Morse code is gonna break the encryption.
There's only one person who can.
And grabbing Birkhoff's not gonna be easy.
Why not? I've done it twice already.
Exactly, so he's gonna be on the lookout for you.
This time, I don't think he's going down without a fight.
Anyway, he won't be on the lookout for you.
What?
Nikita, if I do this, I blow my cover within Division.
Michael, if we succeed...
Percy goes down. Then you're free to go wherever you want.
Like here, for example.
It's been 10 years living mission to mission.
Well, then it's time to come in from the cold.
I should really get over there, just in case Percy suspects anything.
Michael, when you get there, will you check on Alex?
- I should have heard from her already. - Okay.
That was just to test the chair.
I wouldn't get up if I were you.
The more you struggle, the more it hurts.
Good, you're here.
Not good. I was in the middle of things in Engineering.
I can get the report on Jaden's death when you're done.
I am done. And so is Alex.
She is Nikita's mole.
I intercepted a phone call she made to Nikita for help...
while she was standing over Jaden's dead body.
Is that so?
She won't answer you, she's all out of lies.
Cancel her.
There's more. She wasn't someone Nikita picked up off the street.
- She's... - Alexandra Udinov.
She was gonna tell you she found out through examining my father's watch.
The watch he was wearing when a Division strike team gunned him down.
Amanda's very proud of this and hopes you'll give her a big kiss.
I was looking forward to telling you.
Alexandra Udinov.
The long-lost heir to the Zetrov corporate empire's alive.
That is interesting. Good work.
Thank you. - You're excused.
What?
- I'd like to talk to our friend alone. - But...
There's no need to keep me out.
I know what you've been busy with in Engineering.
Do you?
Operation Sparrow.
Percy, I don't keep secrets from you.
I'd ask you to return the favor. You can trust me.
You'll forgive me if I don't trust anyone right now.
No one outside this office needs to know about Alexandra.
What's the smile for?
Well, now that I'm Alexandra, suddenly you wanna talk.
You don't know me at all.
I know Nikita has one of my black boxes and you're going to lead me to it.
I'm not gonna lead you anywhere.
I started this mission ready to die.
So you can try whatever you want...
but you're gonna have to kill me.
Mm, no.
Today's the day I save your life.
Amanda.
Your debrief of Alex, what happened with that?
It's still happening.
I'd like to see her.
No one sees her until I'm done with the report.
And when is that gonna be?
I'm waiting for ballistics to confirm her story...
that she killed Jaden in self-defense. Couple of hours.
As you were.
Birkhoff.
Michael. Dude.
Okay, listen to me, man. Just listen.
You have to kill Nikita.
Okay.
I know, tortured reluctance and everything, but you have to.
Birkhoff, you look like you need some air.
You think? I'm on lockdown here, Michael.
Confined to Division.
Did you see those two deltoids over there?
They have to follow me everywhere I go.
They even accompany me to the bathroom, Michael.
Percy ordered this?
He doesn't want her to learn about Sparrow before it's hatched.
He thinks she's gonna try and decrypt black box number three.
And he is convinced she's gonna try to put a gun to my head to do it.
Yeah, that's pretty crazy.
Yeah. Oh, that's just the beginning.
Keeping me here under lock and key is just phase one.
Percy is taking out everyone who even has a chance of breaking the encryption.
Who's he targeting?
Targeted.
A math professor at Cambridge, a computer scientist in Bangalore...
These three can crack the box?
Ha, ha. We'll never know.
And after they crypt this last cryptographer...
I'll be the only one left that can do it. And I will never ever see the sun again...
until you take care of Nikita.
Malcolm Mitchell.
Electrical engineer consultant with the CIA.
- Percy going after a company man? - Yeah.
And all because Nikki has his third Horcrux.
And I thought she was supposed to be protecting the innocent.
- Have a good day. - Thank you.
He's entering the house now.
CIA security detail is down. Malcolm Mitchell's inside.
Terminate with extreme prejudice.
Hi, Malcolm.
Don't worry. I'm not here to hurt you.
- What are you doing in my house? - There are people trying to kill you.
What are you talking about?
Two cryptographers dead. You'd be as well if you'd been in town.
I don't play and you're not ready All I can say is I'm so heavy
I'm so heavy I'm on point all day.
Better stay out of my way I don't play and you're not ready.
All I can say is I'm so...
Wake up and slap yourself Better still get a schrap and prep yourself.
You ain't heavy yourself Can't catch yourself.
Keep running your mouth Just relax yourself.
Doing over class, rest your ass You're too fast.
Can't carry on like that You won't last.
It's die time!
Wow.
You said you were taking me to safety.
Yeah, this is a safe house.
For you or me?
Am I being kidnapped?
No. Those guys back there that wanted to kill you...
they were trying to prevent you from cracking this.
Then maybe I shouldn't. What's on it?
Plans for their attack that I'm trying to stop.
- How do I know you're telling the truth? - Because I saved you, Malcolm...
and because I'm not currently torturing you.
Hey.
Alex is on hold in Amanda-land, but she should be emerging soon.
- Who's this guy work for? - We just sleep together. Hey.
What do you think about the box?
- This is a biometric sensor? - Yeah.
First level of security requires a blood sample. We have that.
The rest is up to you.
- Well, how soon do you need it broken? - Yesterday would be nice.
You can hook up to my computer.
How long do you think it'll take?
Well, if it's a public key with asymmetric algorithms...
and I do a brute-force attack, then we're looking at, I don't know...
roughly 1000 years.
- Dude... - Look, most locks are unbreakable...
if you're just guessing the key. My approach is different.
I like to mess with the hardware that generates the code.
I'm like the kid who hotwired the cable box to get the adult channels.
At least he sounds like Birkhoff.
Look, if I'm gonna break your box, I'm gonna need my toys.
Supercomputers, oscilloscopes, lots of other gear.
Where do you keep your toys?
Birkhoff, what part of "do not disturb" do you not understand?
Nikita has Malcolm.
What does Malcolm need to crack the box?
If he even has a hope of cracking the box...
he needs access to the SCIF room at CIA headquarters.
Well, then we know who she'll be calling.
Have a survey team track Ryan Fletcher, and stay on top of it this time.
Uh, you want me to run the survey?
Yeah, I'm working another angle.
- Running out of time? - Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.
I have a limited amount of time to deal with Nikita.
- I need you to help me with that. - No way in hell.
Well, we'll see about that.
- Do you know what this is? - Yeah.
It's the only thing stopping Nikita from putting a bullet through your brain.
No. It holds the truth.
Which can be ugly sometimes, but we all deserve to see it.
And the truth about you...
is that you've been manipulated by those closest to you.
It was my choice to infiltrate Division. My choice to bring you down.
Okay. But why? Why me?
- Because Division killed your family? - Yes.
Wrong.
Division was just the weapon.
Someone else ordered the hit.
Pale Fire, February, 2005.
Say hello to camera phone, Alexandra.
Da?
Nothing can be drank or eaten on Christmas Eve...
until the first star appears in the sky.
Then you have to put that vodka away, Sergei.
You can have your cookie if you like.
I won't have my daughter fasting on account of some silly tradition.
Mama. - Here is the first star now.
I see your mother was doing some last-minute shopping.
Semak, enough. I don't want anybody filming my daughter.
You're so innocent.
How did you get from there to here?
It started the night you burned my house down.
We used this video to plan the strike.
It was given to us by your father's right-hand man.
For what it's worth, I regret our involvement in the action.
If I had it to do over again, Division wouldn't be there.
Are you apologizing?
I was following orders.
I have someone ordering me to spy for them too.
They call themselves Oversight.
And they made a deal to replace your father...
with a man more friendly to U.S. Interests.
I know this. I get it.
You do? Well, then I'm confused.
Because if you know this, then why are you here...
when your real enemy is on another continent?
Was that a choice you made or a choice Nikita made for you?
It's okay, I understand. You were, what, 13 when it happened?
You didn't know how to fight. All you knew how to do was run.
By the time Nikita found you...
you'd pretty much run yourself into the ground.
Addicted, lost.
Nikita got you clean.
Gave you a sense of purpose.
Only it was her purpose. Her agenda.
And now you're ready to die for her.
When you really think about it...
how do you justify that?
Robert Allen on the line.
How are you, Bob?
Fletchy, I could stand to blow off some steam.
How about a game of racquetball tonight?
Um, I'm kind of busy right now, Bob.
Oh, but I let you win last time.
Come on. I promise, this will be our best game ever.
Well, in that case, I could probably shuffle my schedule around.
Great. I booked Court 2, 7 p.m., downtown Y.
- See you then, buddy. - Okay. Sounds good.
I'm meeting Ry...
I'm meeting Ryan, Platform 2, Union Station, downtown Washington.
What are you gonna offer him?
Offer him? He wants to take Percy down as much as we do.
Technically, you kidnapped the CIA's top code-breaker.
- Think that's gonna buy some goodwill? - Hey, I thought I wasn't kidnapped.
You weren't. He wasn't. I saved him.
You can't trust the CIA.
I don't. I trust Ryan.
Then you can trust Percy to be all over him. I'm coming with you.
Hey, better for you to run interference inside Division, don't you think?
We can have Alex do that. You need backup on-site.
Where is she? You said she'd be out in a couple hours. It's been longer than that.
Uh, three hours and 12 minutes since I arrived.
Amanda has been more evasive than usual.
Something's not right.
Michael...
get her out of there.
Division might have been the weapon that killed my family...
but you pulled the trigger.
I'm trying to show you the truth. The whole truth.
You don't have to take my word for it.
It's all right here.
Operation Pale Fire is green. Go, go, go.
Your father's right-hand man left the proverbial back door open.
He gave us the radio frequency for your father's security team.
Some of the guards were in on it. The rest of them we took care of.
- Where's Mama? - Come with me.
Alexandra, come with me.
Mama.
We used U.S. Issue weaponry.
Our job was to make the whole thing look like anything but an inside job.
Perimeter secured.
Tango's neutralized.
Mother down.
Papa!
Stop.
Just one last thing.
You were wearing your gas mask, it was smoky...
the house was falling down all around you...
are you sure it was him?
Father down.
Of course I recognized him. The man I killed was Nikolai Udinov.
You wanna know who pulled the trigger?
That's your answer.
Or did she forget to mention that?
Alex isn't in Debrief or Holding. Where is she?
I really can't say.
Yes, you can. You know everything that goes on here.
I used to believe that as well.
Lately, there seems to be a lot I don't know about.
Operation Sparrow, you've heard of it?
I've heard rumors.
So tell me.
Tell me where Alex is.
Like I said, I really can't.
Why don't you ask Percy?
Michael, you were saying about Sparrow?
Why don't you ask Percy?
I got company, don't I?
Two guys in overcoats at your 7 o'clock, 30 yards back.
Head towards the lockers. Locker 410.
Back off. Nikita might have tipped him off he's being followed.
- Open the bag? - No. Walk back through the concourse.
- You still wanna meet on the platform? - Plan has changed.
Head towards the metro. Hustle.
If he makes it to the subway...
it's gonna be harder to tail him. What do you want us to do?
Ugh. We must have spooked him. Um...
Can't let him run off with the box.
Grab the bag. It's gotta be in there.
What am I supposed to do? - Duck.
You okay? - I'll live.
They grabbed it.
Head towards the exit. Hurry.
Check the bag. Make sure it's in there.
Aw, hell, no.
No, just don't... Don't try to blend in. Just get out of there. Get out of there!
Halt! Hold it there!
Did I just bomb a train station?
I'll explain at 1 st and G Street in five minutes.
Percy, I need a minute.
And she should probably go, I have sensitive information.
So do I.
Alex is Nikita's mole.
- How do you know that? - Amanda told me.
Why?
Go to hell.
I blame you, Michael.
- Huh? - This was your recruit.
Your responsibility.
Your mess to clean up.
We could still use her.
No. She doesn't wanna be turned. She'd rather die.
Sir...
Am I gonna have a problem with you now?
No.
There's no problem.
What the hell are you doing?
Something I've been waiting to do for a long time.
Michael. Get me out of this.
- Careful. - Shut up.
- Get me the remote for that chair. - Can't do this.
- Watch me. - You can't shoot me.
My heart stops beating...
this sensor sends an alert to the guardians to upload the boxes.
I don't think either one of us wants that to happen.
No, that's okay, there's a lot of other places I can shoot you.
You should know this, Alexandra.
Never trust your right-hand man.
- Is he dead? - Not yet.
Now the clock is ticking. It didn't take Nikita long to send him in...
once she discovered you'd been compromised.
Wonder how long it'll be...
before she starts worrying about him. - What?
Well, she is running out of playing pieces.
Play?
This is a game to you.
Not just any game. Chess.
A match between Nikita and myself.
You're one of her pawns.
I just captured her knight.
And she's about to move her bishop, Ryan Fletcher.
But she doesn't realize that I'm always thinking several moves ahead.
Come on, you're Russian.
Your father must have taught you chess.
Remember how a pawn can be converted to a queen?
By crossing all the way over to the other side.
I will never be on your side.
Nor should you be. You should be on your own side.
You've gotta start thinking for yourself, Alex.
Alexandra.
Whoever you are.
Who are you?
I'll tell you who you are.
You're the girl with a bomb in her brain.
I must admit that Nikita demonstrated some very skillful tradecraft...
when she managed to disarm it.
Your kill chip has been reactivated.
Kill chip?
No.
She didn't tell you about that either?
- You really are a pawn. - You're lying!
No. No more lies.
For the first time in your life, somebody's telling you the truth.
There is a kill chip next to the tracker on your medulla...
that will drop you instantly at the touch of a button.
Now, earlier today you said you were prepared to die.
If that continues to be the case, I respect it.
On the other hand, you could leave Division and return to Nikita.
I'm not asking you to take her life. I'm not asking you to pull the trigger.
All I'm asking you to do is exactly what she's done to you.
Lie.
You will be bugged and monitored.
If you choose to run, if you choose to warn Nikita...
you choose to die.
Or you can choose to live.
Whatever happens in the next few hours will be your choice.
We've already lost two people. You need to bring Malcolm in now.
I intend to. Sort of.
You're gonna sneak us into the CIA.
Once Malcolm decrypts the box, I split, you get him back.
- Win, win. - No way.
I will be in and out before anyone notices.
This isn't some field office. You're talking about breaking into Langley.
What you want has to be done in a SCIF room.
And nobody gets in there without SCI clearance, which I don't have.
Tom Cruise on a harness couldn't get in there.
- There has to be a way. - There is.
I'll give it to the people who can, and I will convince them to let you sit in.
- Director Abbott is a good man. - Look, if it wasn't for this attack...
I wouldn't even be looking into this box. I'd be destroying it.
There's things about you on there.
Yes.
Things that could send you to prison.
You know I won't get that luxury. They'll burn me.
Nikita, I can protect you.
- You were forced to do those things. - I should have said no!
I always looked at this as my mission.
My responsibility.
And I would have died for it.
You don't have to do this alone.
I'm not alone.
That's the thing.
It's not just me anymore.
I have someone to live for, and he's on that box too.
Going through the official channels is the only way I can help you.
You have a tough choice to make.
- Nikita. - Hey.
Can I ask you something?
- It's just down the hall. - Okay.
I've been worried about you.
What's wrong? What happened?
I've been placed in inactive status pending the final report.
I mean, before that.
I don't wanna talk about it.
Okay. Why?
I wasn't sure I was gonna make it out of there alive.
And you blame me for that.
Why didn't you tell me to escape?
I wanted out before Jaden died.
Alex, I gave you many chances to leave Division...
and you passed on every one of them.
I wanted you out more than you did.
I mean, after that.
When I wanted to leave my apartment, move in here.
It's much harder for you to walk away if they know you're still alive.
You mean it's much harder for you to let me get away right now.
You're the one who wants me to keep my cover.
Until the surgeon takes out your tracker in a couple weeks, yeah.
Unless you have a better idea.
I mean, I thought that we agreed, until then you'd stay put.
Is that what we agreed?
Or is that what you needed me to do so you can keep hunting your black boxes?
Alex, I would never have let you go back in there...
if I thought you were in danger.
The minute I didn't hear from you, I sent Michael in to get you. Did he find you?
What is it?
Michael's trapped inside Division.
Division is on lockdown.
All non-essential personnel has been ordered to leave, including me.
- Operation Sparrow. - Michael can't leave.
And the whole place is under radio silence.
- But he wanted me to get word to you. - What'd he say?
He said that he heard chatter...
and that agents are mobilizing everywhere.
They're about to hit targets all over the country.
Good girl. Just say your lines.
- What targets? Where? - All he could get was a location...
of the staging area for the strike on New York. I have an address.
Good. Now we have a target too.
You're gonna hit the staging area?
After I get Malcolm and the black box to the CIA.
And you're gonna help me.
Good thing you're non-essential.
I've been ordered to stay home. I'm not sure I should be away.
I doubt anyone at Division will notice.
Looks like they're gonna be pretty busy.
I don't suppose you have a jacket my size?
I really don't. Ready to get back to work?
Yeah, I finished all your sudokus.
Here. Suit up. You can borrow my BDUs.
You're always taking care of me.
Somebody's got to.
Roan.
Nikita and Alex are en route.
When it's done, clean them both.
Malcolm. We're colleagues. Ryan Fletcher, CIA. How you feeling?
He's a little shaky.
Well, somebody did try to kill him.
It's not that. It's just I've never been offline this long.
Ryan will get you back online as soon as possible.
Listen, I don't know how to thank you.
Just get cracking.
- I'm glad you decided to do this. - Yeah, that makes one of us.
My life is on this box.
And the lives of people I care about.
I'll guard it with mine.
Trust me.
You must be Alex. It's an honor to meet you.
- You're very brave. - Not so brave.
Being in that lion's den, living a lie, never flinching, I couldn't have done it.
- I have a good mentor. - I'm glad I could help Nikita...
deactivate your kill... - Your tracker. Yeah. Ooh.
That was quite the mission.
Come on, Alex. Let's go.
Actually, I'd love to talk about it.
You know, we never did debrief about it.
How did you turn it off?
Careful.
Do you know anyone who could take it out?
Nikita says it's very complicated.
We'll get your tracker out. Don't worry.
Now we have to get to the staging area. Come on.
Keep me posted.
Come to gloat?
Come on, you think I enjoy seeing you in here?
I thought I knew you.
Then you surprised me.
Well, imagine my surprise...
when I found out it was you who put out the hit on my family.
Your family wasn't the target.
You think that makes it any better?
No, I think it makes it tragic.
You're such a liar.
And you're such a man of principle.
Always have been.
That's how I knew you turned.
What?
When I first started sounding you out on Operation Sparrow...
I was wary to even bring it up.
Wasn't sure you could roll with the hard decisions.
You mean to attack our own government?
A few days later you changed your tune.
Did you think about what we discussed?
- Yes. - And?
I'm with you 100 percent.
I had to ask myself...
why would Michael suddenly be backing this?
So I did a little digging.
Discovered Kasim turned up dead.
That wasn't the only thing you'd been keeping from me.
Nikita's a light woman with a heavy foot...
and there are a lot of traffic cameras in London. As fate would have it...
we put in a call to you while you were sitting right next to her.
And then you proceeded to back up Alex's story.
So I knew the three of you were in it together.
Why did you let me live?
You don't have to get rid of people just because they make mistakes.
Look at Dana Winters.
I knew about her family before I sent you to Plainview.
I made a deal with her in advance.
She could retire with the cop and his kid...
as long as she played along with the two of you.
Yup. Losing a few early rounds to Nikita was helpful.
My losses made you overconfident.
You didn't notice when I started to lose on purpose.
A box in plain view, Malcolm the cryptographer.
I led you to those victories.
They were my victories.
There is no way you could have pulled that off.
I built this place.
I've kept it running for years.
You have no idea what I'm capable of pulling off.
We're still gonna stop Sparrow.
Michael...
I intended for Nikita to deliver the box to Langley.
I wasn't worried that she'd give my box to the CIA.
I was worried that she wouldn't.
You rigged this whole thing.
And I couldn't have done it without you.
Sure is quiet around here. All these rumors about Sparrow...
that we're launching some massive attack, but nothing seems to be happening.
You never give up, do you? I'd hate to get on your bad side.
But you're right.
Sparrow is not a major offensive. It's an extremely surgical strike.
The box is a Trojan horse, isn't it? What's really inside?
A nasty surprise designed to shake up the intelligence community.
There's about to be a complete power shift.
There's been too many Indians, now there's gonna be one chief.
I'm guessing the reason you kept this from me...
is because I would have warned you what a dangerous gamble it is.
And the reason I'm telling you now is to give you a heads-up.
Everything is about to change.
Just be glad you're on the right side of things.
I know this is the right address, but you sure this place is it?
Shouldn't there be guards?
Not if they wanna keep this under the radar.
- There's no cameras either. - Michael went through a lot of trouble...
to get this intel. The least we can do is check it out.
Empty.
I was afraid of that.
An Alpha team's been tracking us for the past half hour.
What? Why didn't you...?
I didn't wanna spook you, tip them off.
This isn't a staging area, it's an ambush.
Michael was fed bad intel. He could be compromised.
We gotta get him out of there, but first, we ambush them.
There's no cover here. This is what's gonna happen.
I'm gonna be at that door popping them off as they come in. You hold your fire.
If they get past the kill zone, you keep them busy till I can reload.
Then we cover each other till I can leapfrog back.
I don't think that's gonna work.
If I'm gonna die, I wanna know.
- Did you do it? - Alex, what are you talking about?
Did you kill my father?
- Put the gun down. - I wanna hear you say it!
Calm down.