Third Person Transcript
By Dana


Nikita is in the simulation room, retraining. Jurgen is watching her.
Jurgen: Hold up, Nikita. Why did you shoot the driver?
Nikita: He was a hostile.
Jurgen: How did you know that?
Nikita: Well, it had to be someone on the grid. Everyone else cleared.
Jurgen: So you made an indirect conclusion.
Nikita: There was no time.
Jurgen: That's because you took too long.
Nikita: What, so I was wrong?
Jurgen: No. You got lucky. Again.
Nikita smiles and goes back to her exercise. Michael walks in.
Michael: Why is she still in re-training?
Jurgen: We are not done yet.
Michael: She's ready.
Jurgen: She's been ready since day one, hasn't she, Michael?
Michael: I don't know what you're talking about.
Mechanical voice: Sim completed.
Nikita looks up, Michael and Jurgen are standing side by side watching her. Michael turns and walks away.

Jurgen is watching Nikita via surveillance camera. All the sudden, everything goes blank.
Jurgen: Birkoff.
Birkoff: (on the com) Yeah.
Jurgen: Why am I losing sync on 2-18?
Birkoff: Hold on.
Michael walks into Nikita's room.
Nikita: Hello.
Michael: Did Jurgen say anything about us?
Nikita: (whispers) Michael...
Michael: We're insulated for another minute. Did he ask any questions, anything personal?
Nikita: He had his chance, I think if he was going to expose us he would have done it by now.
Michael: He knows too much.
Nikita: There's no physical proof that you helped me escape the section, or brought me back in.
Michael: He needs no proof to make things difficult for us. Accelerate your performance; he'll have no choice but to release you.
Nikita: But won't that draw attention?
Michael: Yes, to him. If he doesn't let you go when you're obviously ready. Might let you go before entered.
Michael leaves; in the surveillance room the camera comes back.
Birkoff: Is it back?
Jurgen: Yeah.

BRIEFING

Operations: Eight separate terrorist acts, each one claimed by different political factions, none of whom have any linkage to each other. In the process of routine intelligence gathering, Mister Birkoff has found something rather remarcable.
Birkoff: I back traced debris and data, came up with a characteristic signature, all eight acts were the work of the same aggressor. We're dealing with a mercenary special force.
Michael: How large?
Birkoff: Six.
Walter: Six?
Operations: That's right. That's why they have been so hard to pin down. They have no facilities, no infrastructure, they can surface and vanish at will.
Walter: I take it we've picked up a trail.
Operations: Cullen Dorset, an MI-5 agent undercover with Red Cell sent a communiqué to a contact just hours before his death yesterday. Red Cell has contacted this group for its next disruption.
Michael: Was Dorset's death related to this transmission?
Operations: We don't know yet, all we have is some random intel from our friends in Great Britain. Let's force through it and find this group. For purposes of identification, it will now be referred to as Helix.

MADELINE'S OFFICE

Madeline is taking care of her bonsai plants.
Operations walks in.
Operations: Jurgen thinks we should restore Nikita to provisional status.
Madeline: I thought she was still some weeks away.
Operations: Take a look at these numbers. Her score have spiked in the last couple of days. Looks like she's come through the wall.
Madeline: Impressive.
Operations: What do you think? Should we transfer her back to Michael?
Madeline: Not quite yet. Restore her status, but keep Jurgen close.
Operations: Why?
Madeline: I don't like singularities. If she spiked up, she can drop just as quickly. Jurgen will be more sensitive to any fluctuations.
Operations: Good.
Operations start to leave, before he stops.
Operations: Isn't today your birthday?
Madeline: No, it's the 7th.
Operations Today is the 7th.
Madeline smiles as Operations leaves.

Jurgen brings Nikita back to her old apartment. Everything is gone.

Jurgen: Must be strange to be back.
Nikita: Where are my things?
Jurgen: They don't leave anything.
Nikita stares out of the window for a while.
Nikita: So, what about my neighbor Carla? Where am I gonna tell her I've been?
Jurgen: Carla is gone.
Nikita: What are you talking about? (comes closer) What did they do to her?
Jurgen: Nothing.
Nikita: I don't believe you.
Jurgen: She's moved, Nikita. She lives with her boyfriend downtown.
Jurgen takes out his cell phone and punches in a number, then hands it to Nikita.
Jurgen: Here.
Carla: (on the phone) Hello... hello... who is this?
Nikita hangs up and gives him the phone back.
Nikita: So, who's material am I?
Jurgen: Mine.
Nikita: What about Michael?
Jurgen: They don't want you back with him yet. They want me to take you to completion.
Nikita: When's that gonna be?
Jurgen: They haven't told me. Nikita, if you need anything, let me know.
Nikita stands in the middle of the room. She is having flashbacks of her decorating the apartment, she and Michael dancing (ESCAPE), and at last Michael's face.

SECTION ONE

Jurgen catches up with Nikita down the hall.
Jurgen: So, how's it going?
Nikita: Not bad.
Jurgen: It's been a couple of days, I thought of calling.
Nikita: Why?
Jurgen: Just to talk, see how you're doing.
Nikita: So why didn't you?
Jurgen: I got called in. Would you have minded?
They get interrupted by Michael
Michael: Load Birkoff's mission profile. Jurgen, help with the P6s, we're keeping a second supply in standby.
Jurgen leaves, reluctantly.
Michael: (to Nikita) On departure do an integrity check on the topological.
Nikita nods and is about to leave. Michael grabs her arm and pulls her back.
Michael: This is not a training session, this is a mission, I am in charge.
Nikita: Of course.
The team is dressed as janitors for the building. They are in the elevator.
Michael: Birkoff, are we detached?
Birkoff: Hang on. (punches some keys on his workstation) Go.
They get out and Michael sets up a PDA thingie on the wall (most likely a P6).
Michael: Birkoff, you're online.
Birkoff: Michael, there's warm bodies up there.
Michael: How many and where?
Birkoff: I see 5. 2 in, three out. Could be incidental. I can't tell from here.
Michael: (to Nikita) Get dressed. Nikita quickly changes out of her janitor clothes and into a business-style two-piece white suit, under Michael's watchful eye.
Michael: Let's go.
Nikita walks into an office, a man is in the room.
Nikita: Hello.
Man: Can I help you?
Nikita: Yes... uhm... I was given this address, but... uh... this isn't Corto Cosmetics, is it?
Birkoff: Push the infrared, Nikita.
Nikita rearranges her glasses, probably turning on a video device.
Man: No, it isn't. I think that's on the 33rd floor.
Birkoff: He's carrying, Michael, vest pocket.
Michael: Shoot him, Nikita.
Man: Just let me check my directory. Nikita pretends to fix her hair in the back and gets a gun out of the vest and shoots the guy with no hesitation.
Michael: Which way, Birkoff?
Birkoff: Office, on the right.
The team moves in, Jurgen places something on the lock of an office door.
Michael: Backup team, prepare for egress.
The lock is destroyed, Nikita moves in. She gets on the computer.
Nikita: Got it, Birkoff?
Birkoff: (smiling) No problem. Ok, put in the disk.
Nikita proceeds and the mission is completed.

SECTION ONE

The team returns to Section One. Operations catches up with Michael down the hall.
Operations: Birkoff has sifted through Dorset's intel, there was a name.
Michael: Who?
Operations: Rudolph Pontiagen. He's a tactical implementer in Red Cell's third tier, also their connection on the freelance market.
Michael: Did he hire Helix?
Operations: We're going out on that assumption. As soon as we locate him, Birkoff will work out a scenario.
Nikita passed by down the hall side by side with Jurgen. Michael and Operations look at her.
Operations: How did she do?
Michael: Everything went as planned.

WALTER'S TOY SHOP

Jurgen and Nikita are giving Walter's toys back to him.
Nikita: Hey Walter.
Walter: How did it go?
Jurgen: With no deaths just worked great.
Walter: Try it on a K4 the next time.
Jurgen: Nikita, um . . . what are you doing now?
Nikita: I'm going home.
Jurgen: Do you wanna grab a coffee.
Nikita: Co . . .coffee? (She is really shocked)
Jurgen: No problem, some other time. Hey, that was good work today.
Nikita: Thanks.
Jurgen leaves.
Walter has watched this whole exchange.
Nikita looks at him, Walter smiles back.
Walter: It's ok, he's one of the good ones.
Nikita: How long have you known him for?
Walter: Since they get him in.
Nikita: He's different.
Walter: He is in what I call the 5% club.
Nikita: Dare I ask what that may be?
Walter: 95% of the recruits have their souls sucked out of them the first year. For some reason this place doesn't get everybody. He's one of us.
Nikita: Where does Michael fit in?
Walter: Good question.

Michael is planning a mission with another operative.

Nikita: Michael, aren't we on close quarter standby?
Michael: No, you can go.
Nikita: So, what about you? (she pauses) It's just you haven't been to see me since I moved in.
Michael: I am busy now.
Nikita walks away with a defying smile. She stops Jurgen.
Nikita: Jurgen, is it too late to change my mind?
Jurgen smiles: No. (he gets her coat and help her to put it on.)
Jurgen: Let's go.
This is all done right in front of Michael. It was quite obvious that Nikita did this to make Michael jealous.

Nikita is with Jurgen. They are talking.
Jurgen: Well, that was a long time ago. My first couple of years in section I had to stand a reaction. I went through all the alpha levels, everything from denial through wishing I was dead, almost acting on it.
Nikita: It's hard to believe. You seem to have everything just roll of you.
Jurgen: It hasn't always been that way.
Nikita: What does that mean?
Jurgen: Once I was part of a 4 men cell. We had to get a hostage out. Everything was going great, we were...
Jurgen: (continuing on Michael's com) hitting all our marks, just like last night, then out of nowhere everything went black, I didn't even hear a noise. (Michael listening very carefully)
Nikita: What happened?
Jurgen: Landmines. Two feet to my right. Killed my partner. Sent me into a coma. I came out of it three days later. They told me I died. I don't remember any tunnels or white light, but, I was different.
Nikita: How?
Jurgen: Everything was clear. I realized that it didn't matter where I was. It was a state of mind. People on the outside, they, they're not freer than we are.
Nikita was smiling before but her smile fades as if the mention of freedom makes her sad.
Jurgen: If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you a few questions about Michael.
Nikita's cell phone rings.
Nikita: Yeah.
Michael: (on the phone) Josephine.

SECTION ONE

Nikita goes to talk to Birkoff.
Nikita: Hey Birkoff, what's going on?
Birkoff: Er, waiting for a confirm on our location.
Nikita: Is there no briefing cause Michael called me in?
Birkoff: No.
Nikita: So we're not going out?
Birkoff: Not until I get this intel.
Nikita walks into Michael's office.
Nikita: What's up?
Michael: Why were you with Jurgen?
Nikita: That's why you called me in?
Michael: We've been through this. He can hurt us, you shouldn't be talking to him.
Nikita: I disagree with you.
Michael: I'm not arguing, I'm telling you, stay away from him.
Nikita: Michael, you been in Section for too long, you're paranoid about everything. Jurgen doesn't want to hurt anybody. He's a decent person, why can't you accept that?
Michael: Did Jurgen tell you about his past?
Nikita: No, not yet.
Michael: Have a look. (Nikita sits at his workstation and looks at a file) Seven different identities by the time he was captured. The jury didn't convict him on his first murder charge. He convinced them he was innocent. He wasn't. The second time around he wasn't so lucky.
Nikita: Committed suicide while waiting to be sentenced.
Michael: Jurgen's never what he seems to be. He reads people, gives them what they want, then destroys them.
Nikita: Is that what you think? He wants to destroy me?
Michael: If you were a hammer you'd treat everything as being a nail. Jurgen has only one way of seeing the world.
Nikita: Well, thanks for the enlightening, Michael. Can I go now?
Nikita seems skeptical. She gets up and prepares to leave, but turns back from the door.
Nikita: I was just curious, the night we had together, did it happen? Or was it just a dream?
Before Michael can answer, Birkoff walks in.
Birkoff: We got a punch from Jurgen, we're gonna have to move fast.
Nikita and Michael exchange heavy glances. Birkoff looks from one to the other, noticing that something was going on.
Birkoff: Should I call in your team?
Michael: No, I'll do it.
Birkoff nods and gets out.

Jurgen is on mission with Michael. A truck gets into a building and Michael is on the ground watching it.
Michael: Jurgen, are in position?
Jurgen: Yeah. We'll be ready when they come out.
Michael: Don't wait. Take them now.
Jurgen: Why run the risk? It would be almost as hot from here and we're not exposed.
Michael: Just do it.
Jurgen: What are you trying to pull, Michael? I'll lose half of my team.
Michael: Conversation's over. Move it.
Jurgen: (to his team) You heard it. Boy one, ten seconds.
They go in, there's a lot of gunfire, Michael is watching intently.
Jurgen: Target secured.
Michael: Loss?
Jurgen: Three down, one injured.
Michael: Medical is on its way. Bring in Pontiagen. Either Michael wants Jurgen to die so that the rest of the arch doesn't have to go the way it does, or he wants Nikita angry with him for having done this.

SECTION ONE

Operations and Birkoff watch the white room.
Operations: Has he transferred yet?
Birkoff: A little while ago. She's just getting some final details.
Operations: And?
Birkoff: Red Cell did hire Helix. Bombing of a chemical plant in Tripoli.
Operations: Tripoli? Good. Let them do it.
Birkoff: What?
Operations: It's a target we've had on our lists for a while. We'll get them on the way out. See, every once in a while you get lucky.
Birkoff: I guess.
Female voice: Sir...
Operations: I'm here.
Voice: Nikita's waiting for you.

In the Perch, Nikita is looking nostalgically down over the commons area.
Operations: Nikita.
Nikita: Yes.
Operations: Several months ago I sentences you to death. How you've managed to survive the Freedom League incident is still unclear. But that doesn't matter now. You've reassimilated, and you seem to be on top of your game.
He shows her a portion of the tape from the mission.
Operations: I won't mince words, I've had my doubts about you since you joined us. But if you continue to perform like this, we'll get along fine. You're back on full status.

Back downstairs, Nikita meets Michael.

Nikita: When did you get back?
Michael: About an hour ago.
Nikita: So, how did it go?
Michael: Well. What you're doing here?
Nikita: Operations wanted to see me. I'm back on full status.
Michael: Good.
They exchange a long look and then Nikita looks behind him.
Nikita: Jurgen?
Jurgen goes straight to Michael, looking angry.
Jurgen: Peter's dead.
Michael: I am sorry.
Jurgen: You're sorry! That's all you have to say. You killed three of my men.
Michael: If we had waited till they came out, there would have been a blood bath.
Jurgen: That's crap. If you want me dead, do it yourself.
The next scene you see, Michael is wearing a sleeveless t-shirt, and fighting with Jurgen. It is clear that both men are very good.
Nikita: (to Walter)What are they gonna do to each other?
Walter: Come to terms. Sometimes it's better to keep things primal.
Nikita is standing outside the room. She can hear thumping sounds coming from the room. The fight continues until they are both down. The door opens, Jurgen comes out, he doesn't look good. A few seconds later, Michael comes out. He's got a cut right above his eye, and a bruise on his right cheek. Either man speaks to Nikita. She looks disturbed but more worried about Michael than about Jurgen (she looks longer in the direction where Michael went).

NIKITA'S APARTMENT

She is taking down one of the walls of her apartment.
Someone knocks on her door. It's Jurgen.
Nikita: Hi.
Jurgen: Hi. What are you doing?
Nikita: Just a little redecorating.
Jurgen: I need to clear a few things up.
Nikita: Good idea. Come in. Can I get you something to drink?
Jurgen: No thanks. I just came by to say something, then I'll go. I don't know the details, but I do know you and Michael have a connection. And you both work very hard keeping it private.
Nikita: Obviously not hard enough.
Jurgen: So, I guess I was wondering if there is a place for me in your life?
Nikita: Could be . . .
Jurgen: If . . .
Nikita: Uhm, Michael showed me your file, I am not judging anybody, but . . .
Jurgen: So tell me, who was I? Serial killer? Subway bar? Or did I rape my sister?
Nikita: What are you saying?
Jurgen: Whatever Michael showed you, it's exactly what he wanted you to see. I was a special forces soldier. Almost everybody in our unit was killed because my seal set us on an insane mission. When it was all over, I blew. These were my best friends in the world and he sent them to their death.
Nikita: So, what did you do?
Jurgen: I killed him.
There's a pause, Nikita looks down, doesn't know what to believe. Jurgen looks sincere.
Jurgen: Michael loves you Nikita. I could grow to love you, but I could also live without you. I'm not sure if he can.

MADELINE'S OFFICE

Madeline is tending to her plants and Michael walks in.
Michael: You wanted to see me?
Madeline: By the end of the day we'll have all the intel we're gonna get on Helix.
Michael: I thought we already had the end game.
Madeline: If this were an ordinary group, that would be enough. The psychological profile of these six men is more deadly than we're used to.
Michael: In what way?
Madeline: They are a precision synchronized team that has the ability to act with few or no emotions. We're up against a machine.
Michael: Should I pull from the B ends?
Madeline: No. We need our best people. This is what we're up against.
Madeline goes to her monitor to show Michael something. It's a building looking like a castle of some sort.
Madeline: Helix is going to cripple the facility. We're not interrupting the our tactical weapon to take it out. But we're gonna have to be on top of them to get them as they exit.
Michael: I will need to be inside the perimeter.
Madeline: You'll have two enemies: Helix, and the refinery they're attacking.
Michael: It will have to be a small team.
Madeline: Take Nikita, Anderson, Strom, and Jurgen. Is there a problem?
Michael: No.
Madeline: Cause there's been entirely too much externalizing of emotion lately. (Referring to the fight b/t Michael and Jurgen) You can be sure Helix won't be thinking about anything but their target.

MUNITIONS

Nikita: Walter, why did Jurgen get inside Section?
Walter: I don't know. Why?
Nikita: Well, he told me one thing, Michael told me another.
Walter: Don't get into it with these guys, Sugar, they operate on a whole other level.
Nikita: Michael showed me his file.
Walter: He can show you anything he wants. Doesn't make it true.
Nikita: What, he can just modify the data?
Walter: Sure. I'm not saying Michael did anything. But if he did, I bet it was for your own good.

MISSION

Helix plants the charges.
Birkoff: I'm checking up the signals. Michael, do you have visual?
Michael: I've got them.
Birkoff: Yeah, they've planted the charges. Go crate them up. You've got 2 minutes.
Michael: All right, we're live. Let's do it.
Michael takes out one by breaking his neck.
Michael: One down.
Michael: Ok, Birkoff, you should be hot.
Birkoff: Got them. I'm jamming their channel. Sending the coordinates now.

Michael: Sturm, take two and five. Jurgen, take three. Nikita, four is right behind you. The other four members are taken care of by other operatives.
Nikita: Four down.
There is only one left.
Birkoff: OK, Nikita, get to the exit point and wait.
Nikita: Anybody need any backup?
Birkoff: No, the last one is pinned into sylo. Michael's got it.
As Nikita returns for the van, she notices Michael aiming his gun at Jurgen who is running toward one of the warehouses.
Nikita: (whispers) Michael, NO.
Michael doesn't waver and shoot Jurgen in the leg. He then runs toward Jurgen.
Michael: (yells at Nikita) Get stay back.
He helps Jurgen to get up, and drags him behind a building. Just then the whole warehouse blew up.
Michael: I couldn't get the last one out. So I planned a charge, I tried to warn you but your com. set was out. Birkoff, get us out of here.

MEDLAB

Jurgen is in recuperation. Nikita walks in wearing a big hat.
Nikita: Hi.
Jurgen: Hi.
Nikita: So when are you getting out of here?
Jurgen: In the morning, I will be fine. Michael saved my life.
Nikita: Yes, he did. I was gonna get to the lake tomorrow, if you are up to it . . .
Jurgen: I'd like that. (huge smile)

Nikita is leaving Section One.
Michael is standing on the catwalk.
Michael: Good work.
Nikita: Thanks.
Michael: Where are you going?
Nikita: Grab something to eat.
Michael: Want some company?
Nikita: Not really. (She turns and leaves.)

The end
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