La Femme Nikita

S01E17: War

The stolen Directory has ended up in the hands of Red Cell, and operatives are being hit around the world. Section is being forced to evacuate. In order to learn Red Cell's next move, Nikita and Michael attempt to capture Red Cell's next move, Nikita and Michael attempt to capture Red Cell's counterpart to Birkoff, but instead, they themselves are captured and tortured. Neither of them are willing to divulge Section's current location, but when Michael admits his love for Nikita, she breaks, because she can not stand to see Michael tortured any further. Far from destroying Section One, Nikita quickly discovers that this was the intended plan all along, and Section has a big surprise for Red Cell.

Overview

La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five television seasons—until March 2001. The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV Television Network. La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following.

Episodes

Nikita

S01E01 Nikita

January 13, 1997 6.0 45 min
Nikita, a girl living on the streets, is wrongly accused of a murder she did not commit and sentenced to life in prison. After the government arranges to fake her suicide, Nikita wakes up at...
Friend

S01E02 Friend

January 20, 1997 7.0 45 min
Section One is assigned to protect Jovan Mijovich, a politician attempting to negotiate peace among opposing forces in his section of the world. When Nikita meets with a contact to find out who has attempted...
Simone

S01E03 Simone

January 27, 1997 7.0 45 min
Glass Curtain is a high-tech terrorist organization that attracts new members via internet chat rooms. Posing as a new recruit, Nikita is taken to Glass Curtain headquarters, where she discovers that Michael's wife Simone is...
Charity

S01E04 Charity

February 3, 1997 7.0 45 min
Nikita is assigned to get close to a money launderer in order to steal his data files. When she learns about his successful charity for troubled youth, she starts falling in love with him. However,...
Mother

S01E05 Mother

February 9, 1997 7.0 45 min
A nuclear trigger is stolen by a cold-blooded terrorist couple responsible for killing an entire team of Section One operatives. In an attempt to retrieve the trigger, Nikita poses as the wife, Helen's long-lost daughter,...
Love

S01E06 Love

February 17, 1997 6.0 45 min
When an international arms smuggler steals a canister of deadly nerve gas, Nikita and Michael pose as a married mercenary couple in order to infiltrate his compound. However, when the gas is discovered wired to...
Treason

S01E07 Treason

February 24, 1997 7.0 45 min
Section One is assigned by the CIA to ""quietly"" deport Suba, a foreign anti-terrorist contact who is smuggling waste uranium out of the country for his own profit. The first attempt to capture him goes...
Escape

S01E08 Escape

March 3, 1997 45 min
A mysterious Section One operative offers Nikita a seemingly ironclad opportunity to escape from Section One for good. All the information he gives her checks out, and Nikita seriously weighs his offer. However, Michael states...
Gray

S01E09 Gray

March 10, 1997 6.0 45 min
Section One's computer security is breached and the directory of all their agents is stolen. Michael goes to Prague to reclaim the directory, but the man who stole it is killed by another terrorist seeking...
Choice

S01E10 Choice

April 7, 1997 6.0 45 min
The CIA believes that a rogue element of their agency is responsible for a recent massacre of heroin dealers, performed in order to steal money and drugs as part of an embezzlement scheme. Section One...
Rescue

S01E11 Rescue

April 14, 1997 7.0 45 min
During a mission to destroy a Russian chemical plant, Michael is injured and is left behind. Section determines that it is too risky to save Michael, but eventually does go to find him by sending...
Innocent

S01E12 Innocent

April 21, 1997 7.0 45 min
A live nuclear warhead is smuggled into the states and the only witness to the act is a mentally challenged pizza driver named Rudy who witnessed the transfer. A transmission claiming that the warhead is...
Recruit

S01E13 Recruit

June 22, 1997 7.0 45 min
Nikita is assigned to evaluate Karyn, a recruit who is nearing the end of her two year training period. During her first live mission, Karyn kills her mentor, Brian, in cold-blood. When Nikita confronts her,...
Gambit

S01E14 Gambit

June 29, 1997 7.0 45 min
Section was informed that the water of the city would be polluted if the United Coalitions needs weren't met. Gregor Kessler, the one with many aliases and disguises, steals the Cobalt 60. Kessler was offered...
Obsessed

S01E15 Obsessed

July 20, 1997 7.0 45 min
David Fanning is one of the world's most dangerous hit men, but Section One is powerless to stop him. Fanning possesses ""The Book,"" a collection of top-secret information damaging to Western governments, and if the...
Noise

S01E16 Noise

July 27, 1997 7.0 45 min
While on a mission to tag a stockpile of Stinger missiles, the Section van is breached, and Birkoff is forced to defend himself for the very first time. Now, his fear of being killed on...
War

S01E17 War

August 3, 1997 6.0 45 min
The stolen Directory has ended up in the hands of Red Cell, and operatives are being hit around the world. Section is being forced to evacuate. In order to learn Red Cell's next move, Nikita...
Missing

S01E18 Missing

August 10, 1997 6.0 45 min
One of the members of a criminal organization that steals classified information to sell to the highest bidder is Operations' long-lost son, Steven. Section One's mission is to eradicate this group along with a dangerous...
Voices

S01E19 Voices

August 17, 1997 7.0 45 min
While working undercover near a Central European Consulate, Nikita is confronted by a known serial rapist. Nikita easily subdues the man, leaving him battered and bruised. O'Brien, the police detective on the case, has been...
Brainwash

S01E20 Brainwash

September 21, 1997 6.0 45 min
When Nikita is sent to investigate a bartender at a posh club who may be a terrorist contact, he responds to her questioning by leaping from the 65th floor window to his death. A search...
Verdict

S01E21 Verdict

September 28, 1997 6.0 45 min
Jovan Mijovich has been elected as premier of his new nation, but there is a hit man out to assassinate him. Nikita and Michael, along with other Section One operatives, are dispatched to provide security....
Mercy

S01E22 Mercy

October 5, 1997 7.0 45 min
Section One is hot on the trail of Tyler, one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. After Tyler kidnaps a young inventor who has created a new, completely un-detectable plastic explosive, Nikita is sent to...

Cast

Peta Wilson
Peta Wilson
Nikita
Roy Dupuis
Roy Dupuis
Michael
Matthew Ferguson
Seymour Birkoff
Eugene Robert Glazer
Eugene Robert Glazer
Operations
Don Francks
Don Francks
Walter

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