Time Out Of Mind
Transcript by Northstar

RESTAURANT

Nikita is eating a meal alone. She watches a man also eating alone until another man joins him. They are served and when the second man picks up the knife she reacts. She sees him repeatedly stabbing the first man over and over again. Nikita rushes over to stop him and grabs the knife out of his hand but the first man is fine. There is no blood on him. She looks down to her hands and sees them covered in blood.
Man1: What the hell's the matter with you lady?
A waiter comes up to her.
Waiter: Ma'am is there something...
She punches him and then she looks down at her hands and the blood is gone from them. She was hallucinating.

OUTDOORS - DAYTIME

A run-down looking building with barbed wire on the fencing, old looking taps, rusted, and dripping water. Nikita is laying strapped onto a bed in a room of empty beds. It's a mental hospital. She is looking around at the peeling paint on the walls and ceilings.

BRIEFING TABLE

Operations: Crystal French is an arms dealer with no ideological ties. (a photo of her comes up on the holo screen) She sells to the highest bidder. The latest weapon is an anthrax-based toxin called Drakium A.S. The subject has only been infected for 3 hours (the screen shows a hologram of a very decomposed body) One vial of Drakium A.S. could decimate New York in one week. Our intel indicates that the Freedom League has resurfaced and has made arrangements to purchase the toxin from our target.
Michael: What's our window?
Quinn: Unknown but limited. Crystal French operates under a heavy veil of security. She's never surfaced long enough to tag. Our field operatives have been unable to locate her.
Operations: This is David French (new hologram picture comes up)
Jason: I read about that guy. He went loony tunes or somethin', over an accident in some kind of chemical plant.
Operations: Yes. He had a complete psychotic break. Currently he's in a mental institution in Zurich and he may be our only link to finding his mother. Twenty-four hours ago Nikita was given a psychosis inducing drug. She was admitted to the Zurich facility (flash to where we see Nikita strapped to the bed) two hours later. We have to be able to move at a moment's notice once we obtain the information.

COMM CENTER

We also keep switching back and forth between Section and the hospital.
Michael: Nikita's status?
Jason: We're trying to initiate contact. There's no response.
Michael: Tell her to take the anti-psychotic. She knows where it is.
Jason: Nikita? (she's on the bed and then the door opens up... Jason walks up to her)
Nikita: What are you doing here? What are you doing here? (Jason pulls a gun and points it at her) No! (Jason turns out to be the doctor who is checking her out)
Doc: She's coming out of it. Give me the benitol.
Jason: Nikita. The halomine. Take the halomine. It will counteract the psychotic we gave you.
Nikita mumbles something and then the doctor prepares a syringe for her which he then injects into her. She is looking around.
Doc: Can you tell us your name?
Nikita: Nikita.
Doc: Nikita. Can you remember how you got here?
Jason: Maybe she'll respond to your voice. (as he hands the link to Michael)
Michael: Nikita. It's Michael. (the name echoes as she hears it)
Nikita: Michael?
Doc: Michael? You said the name Michael. Is he a friend?
Nikita: Yeah. ( nodding)
Michael: The pill is in the makeup kit.
Nikita: Voices…
Doc: We'll help you stop the voices.
Michael: Hidden under the compact.
Nikita: Makeup, I get...
Doc: (looking to nurse) Why not. Every young woman needs her makeup. (he unstraps her) I'm going to go away now for a while Nikita but I'll be back. (Nurse takes compact from Nikita's purse) We're going to try and find out who you are.

NIKITA'S ROOM AT THE HOSPITAL

Nikita grabs the compact off the stand and then she gets up and goes out into the hallway. She goes to a chair and sits down. She opens the compact and looks at herself, then opens it up and takes one of the pills.
Michael: Nikita?
Nikita: Michael?
Michael: Did you take the pill?
Nikita: Michael? (she gets up and looks around and then into some doors as if she is looking for him not realizing where the voice is coming from) Where are you?
Michael: You have to take the pill and contact the target.
Nikita: Target? Target?
Michael: David French.
She goes into the hallway again, it's crowded with people this time.
Nikita: Stop! (yelling)
Michael: The mission Nikita. Remember the mission.
Nurse: Come on. We'll get you all cleaned up.
Nikita: I’m sorry. (almost like she is cowering)
The nurse leads her through the hallways. There are a lot of patients around. There is a man at a water fountain washing his hands, it's David. She looks around some more and she sees an old bearded man in a window. The nurse is leading her back to her room where Nikita sits on the bed.
Nurse: If you need anything, just shout. Everybody else does. (she leaves and closes the door)
Nikita: Michael. Found David French.
Michael: We're on an accelerated clock. You know what you have to do.

HOSPITAL BATHROOM

David is there washing his hands at the sink when he hears the door open. He looks up to see it's Nikita.
Nikita: I just spoke to your mother David.
David: My mother? No. Why? What did you tell her?
Nikita: I saw what you did. I haven't said anything yet. (she leans closer) I will.
David: Don't tell my mother. Please don't tell her.
Nikita: She already knows. (she turns to leave and opens the door and then turns back) She knows. (she leaves)
David: Mommy knows? Ha ha ha...
The nurse observes Nikita leaving David in the bathroom and she hears David yelling No, No. Nikita goes back in her room.
Nikita: I made first contact.
Jason: Time to take the 2nd pill.
Nikita opens the drawer and takes out the compact but when she opens it up the last pill is gone. The doctor and some assistants have come into the room.
Doc: I understand you've been keeping something from us Nikita.

COMM CENTER

Jason: Nikita? (pause) Nikita? You have to move. Did you take the last dose? (Nikita is just lying there. Madeline is with Jason and he turns to her) She can't get the last dose.
Madeline: Nikita? Can you hear me? White Rabbit Nikita.
Nikita looks up to the ceiling where we see some peeling paint but she sees the form of a rabbit.
Nikita: white rabbit?
Madeline: (explaining to Jason) We gave her a trigger to fight the drugs.
Jason: A trigger?
Madeline: Under hypnosis. An image from her childhood. Memory invigorates the synapses. She'll cooperate now.
Jason: Nikita?
Nikita slowly gets up off the bed and stands up and looks at the window in the door. She sees a rabbit there. A woman is singing a song...
"Hush little baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna sing you a lullaby"

DAVID'S ROOM

David is lying on his bed cringing as he listens to the song.
"Hush little baby don't say a word.
Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird."
David: No. No (he sees a woman standing there, presumably his mother) Where are you? (She continues with the song. ) No, no, get out. Get out. Help me! (yelling this he gets up and crouches at the head of the bed. Two male nurses come and take him out. Nikita was doing the singing all along. She looks at her hand and sees a rabbit drawn on it but when she looks down again it is gone. David in the meantime is being dragged to the ECT room. Nikita follows them.) Noooo!
Doc: That's it (as he watches them strap David down onto the gurney)
Jason: Nikita have you initiated the breakdown sequence?
Nikita: Yeah. (she pushes open the door to the room and she sees what they are doing to David)
Doc: Hold him down.
Nurse: Get back to your room now. (she shuts the door)
Doc: Steady... Hold up. (as they shock David)
Nikita is on her bed and she can hear David screaming. She looks down on the floor and can see an image of a rabbit on the tile flooring. She smiles.
Jason: Break him down Nikita. More intel. (pan to Michael standing there)
Nikita: Jason? Michael? (she looks up thinking it's them but in actual fact it is 2 orderlies. They leave.)
Back at Section.
Jason: Nikita? Nikita? (Walter walks up to com) Nikita?
Walter: Let me take it. (he sits down) Hey Sugar. It's me. When are you coming home? The place is downright empty without you. Sugar, you're the best. You can handle this.

DAVID'S ROOM - NIGHTTIME

He sees a green vial drop onto the floor by his bed.
David: No, no. Get away.
Mom: This can't hurt you. (as she bends down to pick it up)
David: It's deadly. It'll kill everyone. Don't touch it. Don't touch it. You'll die.
Mom takes the vial and drinks from it. David is upset as he looks up and he can see her face starting to deteriorate.
Mom: Help me.
David: I can't. No one can.
Mom: I need the antidote. Where David? I need the antidote... Where David?
David: Where the bulls are. The ones that run through the street. (she leaves the room) No. No Mommy, No! (the doctor is there)
Doc: David?
David: She's dead.
Doc: Who?
David: My mother. She drank it and she died.
The orderlies come and carry him away again. Nikita is standing against the wall watching.
Jason: Nikita, did you make an approach? (silence)
Michael: What have you found out Nikita? Did you acquire intel? (she is walking not answering) David French. The mission Nikita, Remember the mission. (Nikita looks up at a TV that is enclosed behind some wire.)
Nikita: I see you.
Michael: Nikita, did you acquire intel?
Nikita: The toxin's where the bulls run. Why are you on TV? (she looks at it again and but there's only noise on the screen)
Jason: She must be hallucinating.
Nikita: Why are you on TV? (shouting) Why are you on TV?

THE PERCH

Michael: It's manufactured in ...
Operations: I'll put Davenport's team in play.
Madeline: Is there something else?
Michael: Nikita. Her mission is complete.
Madeline: You think we should remove her?
Michael: There are signs of diminished capacity. She could jeopardize the mission.
Madeline: Arrange an extract.
Operations: Have Davenport prepare for the mission.

HOSPITAL

Davenport's team is searching inside a dark building. Inside the hospital Michael is in talking to the doctor.
Doc: Nikita is your stepsister?
Michael: Yes. She has a history of cerebral incidents. When she disappeared we knew to check local hospitals.
Back to the mission/Section...
Davenport: Lab is deserted sir. Do you detect any hostiles?
Jason: It's a sterile site.
Operations: Evidence of the Drakium A.S.?
Davenport: Yes.
Back to the doctor and Michael.
Doc: I don't think she's ready for release.
Michael: We've always taken care of her. She won't do well in a strange environment.
Back at mission. Davenport opens a bag with a decomposed body in it.
Davenport: Two experimental subjects have been left behind.
Operations: Is the package on site?
Davenport: We haven't completed our sweep.
Back with the doctor and Michael.
Doc: We have one question. We found a pharmaceutical hidden on her. Highly sophisticated. Something I've never seen. Why would she take something like that?
Michael: My sister... uh... she's an addict.
Doc: This is not something an addict would take. It creates no feelings of euphoria. Quite the opposite.
Michael: Her family owns a pharmaceutical company. They make experimental drugs. Nikita must have gotten into it and take one of them thinking it was a barbiturate. (pause) Her drug of choice. I don't see any other explanation.
Doc: I'll have her brought in. You can take her home.
Meanwhile, the mission goes on.
Davenport: Sir, the package isn't here.
Operations: Bag and retrieve the subjects. (Madeline arrives) The package has been moved.
Madeline: So we need to keep minding David French.
Operations: Yes.
Back at the hospital, they are walking Nikita to the doctor's office where Michael is waiting for here. He turns as she walks in the door.
Nikita: So glad you are here.
Michael: (rubbing his hand down her arm) You look tired.
Doc: She's been through a lot.
Nikita: (talking quietly) I couldn't have held out much longer.
Back at Section.
Operations: Michael, abort the extraction. We need Nikita inside.
Hospital.
Nikita: Let's go Michael. Get me out of here.
Michael: Dr. Lucas feels you're not well enough to be released. (Nikita looks shocked) Let them help you. It'll just be a few more days.
Doc: You're still hallucinating, hearing voices. She's far from recovered.
Nikita: Let's get out of here...
Michael: It's for the best Nikita.
Doc: Go with Nurse Adder Nikita.
Nikita: Michael no... (she is fighting off the orderlies as they grab her)
Michael: I promise. (as he watches them drag her literally struggling and fighting)
Nikita: (still screaming) Michael, don't leave me... Don't leave me... (as they drag her away).

NIKITA'S ROOM

She is strapped down again to the bed. The nurse comes in with the orderlies.
Nurse: Dr. Lucas says to let you out but to watch you closely. (They unstrap her and then leave)

HOSPITAL BATHROOM

David is at the sink washing his hands again and humming. The door opens.
Mom: You'll never get them clean enough.
David: Mother?
Mom: You betrayed me David.
David: Where are you mother?
Mom: You told them about the toxin didn't you?
David: No, I didn't do anything.
Mom: You betrayed me David.
David: No, no, no. I wouldn't tell them. (he is very agitated)
Mom: But you did. What did you say? Tell me.
David: Please... (the mother is actually Nikita with him)
Nikita: Your own mother.
David: Those people. Your poison killed them.
Nikita: You told them didn't you?
David: Yes.
Mom: What did you tell them?
David: I didn't tell them Mother. I wrote it down on this piece of paper. (he pulls out the paper from his pocket)
Mom: You showed it to them.
David: I had to mother. Someone had to stop you.
Mom: Let me see it. David. (he hands it to her just as the nurse comes in)
David: No, no.
Nurse: (turning to Nikita) Take her to Electroshock.
Nikita: No, no, no, no. (as they are dragging her down the hallway and just as she is about to be strapped onto the gurney she yells out…) Jason I have the intel.
Doc: I'm sorry, I have to do this Nikita, but acts of violence have to be dealt with. (She keeps screaming as they ready her for the shock. They shock her and then she sees the rabbit again in the ceiling.) Steady…
Next she is sprawled out on her bed looking well out of it.
Michael: What did David tell you? (pause) Nikita? What did David French tell you?
Nikita: Who's David French? David French? (she is drooling! Who is David French? Who?

THE PERCH

Operations: The window is now two hours.
Madeline: Nikita has the intel but they administered electroshock so it's affected her short term memory.
Operations: Can you retrieve it?
Madeline: I believe so.
Operations: Then do it. We're running out of options.
Cut to the hospital where Nikita is on the bed.
Madeline: Nikita? (pause) Nikita?
Nikita: Madeline?
Madeline: Good. Now concentrate on my voice. (pause) Remember what we talked about before you left for the mission?
Nikita: Uh... self medication.
Madeline: That's right. You have to find the medical supply room. (pause) Get up and go to the door. (Nikita slowly gets up off the bed and stands up) Do you see the door? (Nikita opens the door and steps into the hallway)
Nikita: I'm in the hallway.
Madeline: Turn left. (Nikita looks confused) Left Nikita. The hand you eat with Nikita. (she starts to walk) count the doors, one, two, three. The fourth door… open it.
Nikita walks to the right door. It's locked but the nurse is sitting there. Where she sees Nikita she gets up and opens it.
Nurse: this room is off limits to patients. Now get back to your room.
Nikita: (mumbling) I have to leave.
Madeline: Nikita are you inside?
Nurse: I said get back to your room.
Nikita: I have to do what she says.
Madeline: Nikita, cancel her.
Nikita kind of laughs...
Nurse: Do as I say. Get back to your room
Madeline: Cancel her Nikita. (which Nikita does by breaking her neck as she twists it around)
Nikita: She's dead.
Madeline: Take the key… go to the third shelf from the top… there is a vial marked Alinol. The drawer in front of you, there are syringes. Fill the syringe… inject it into your vein… this will take away from the effect from the drug you took. You will remember what David French told you.

THE PERCH

Madeline: It's a church in Munich. Davenport's there.

MUNICH - OLD CHURCH

Some people arrive.
Davenport: French is on site. We believe she has the toxin. (he watches as they go inside the church. There are three of them)

HOSPITAL

Nikita is watching as David is in an office going through some file cabinets. He takes something out of the file and then he leaves the room. Nikita then goes in and checks it out. She sees the file folder and it is empty. She closes the drawer and then she looks down by the desk and we see the doctor laying there dead on the floor.
Back at the church another car pulls up as Davenport watches. Three men get out and head inside.
Davenport: Buyers are on site. (pause) Team two standing by.
Michael: Proceed. (we watch as they check on the screen) Perimeter is neutralized.
Operations: initiate acquisition.
Davenport and team move inside the church. Back at the hospital, David's room. Nikita is there.
Nikita: David? (he suddenly rushes up beside her)
David: Nikita, sorry but I'm in a bit of a hurry to leave this place. (he goes to the cabinet beside the bed) A place like this can make you crazy.
Nikita: You faked it?
David: Huh?
Nikita: You faked it. Why?
David: Well I should actually ask you the same question, but then Section wouldn't send a lunatic to get intel on Crystal French now would they? (he rushes her with a syringe in hand and injects it into her)
Back at the church.
Davenport: All teams move in.
The team moves inside and then all hell breaks loose, as there is all kinds of gunfire going on. Davenport takes out one guy and just as Mrs. French is about to fire on him he shoots her.
Back at the hospital, David is putting Nikita onto the bed. She is quite groggy.
Nikita: Why?
David: My mother's time has passed. Was only a matter of how to make the change. (he kisses her) Send your superiors my thanks okay? Bye Nikita. (he grabs his bag and leaves)
Back at the church Davenport and the team retrieve the package.

THE PERCH

Operations: Toxin was acquired. Crystal French has been terminated.
Madeline: David French?
Operations: Unknown.
Madeline: Nikita? (no answer as they look at each other)

HOSPITAL

Nikita is walking around, looking dazed in the common room. There are people all around doing different things.
Nikita: Get me out of here. Jason what's wrong? (she starts to yell) Michael, help me. Get me out of here. (The orderlies appear and she runs for the doors trying to get out.) No. No! Michael help me. No! (they are dragging her out and then strapping her to the gurney in the EST room again.) Michael get me out of here. Michael get me out of here please. (they put the strap in her mouth and she looks up to see Operations instead of the doctor)
Operations: Are you ready to tell the truth?
They shock her. She wakes up and she is at home, in her bed. She sees what appears to be a white rabbit sock puppet on the table. She starts to cry. She was dreaming.

THE END

Edited by Dana
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