In Through The Out Door
Originally aired in the U.S. January 21, 2001
Transcript by Cathy and Dana
TEASER
They show the 'previously on LFN segment' showing what took place in
501, with Nikita asking why she was brought into Section, the mission
in 501, the house exploding at the end of 502.
Then we're in Section. A pair of feet walk down the metal stairs. We
see a hand holding a gun. Operations is talking to a blonde
wimpy-looking guy from Oversight. Oversight Guy: It's true that
Center hasn't named a replacement for George, but in the meantime
there's an ad hoc committee. Operations: I'm well aware. Oversight Guy: And as part of that
committee, I want to assure you that we have no intention of letting
any of the Sections relax their standards of performance. Operations: Well, as you know
we've had major personnel changes. Oversight Guy: I'm not interested
in excuses. Operations: Those aren't
excuses. Those are facts. Oversight Guy: So's this... the
Collective has made you look foolish lately, and on more than one
occasion. And the prelim from Morocco indicates that your secondary
objective wasn't achieved. Operations: We were
undermanned. Oversight Guy:(sniffs
derisively) The team is due back in ten minutes. I'll debrief them
personally. Operative: We have the
prisoner. Oversight Guy: You failed to
destroy the substation. Operative: No time. Not with the
personnel available. Oversight Guy: When the leader
makes excuses, the subordinates inevitably follow suit. And that's
exactly what I'm going to say in my report.
As the operatives lead the bad guy away, he spins and knocks one in
the face with his handcuffs. He gets a hold of the gun and starts
shooting everybody. Operations ducks behind part of the wall and is
overlooked. He heads down the hallway and discovers the Oversight
Weasel, trying to hide. Oversight Guy: Please! I'm an
important man. We can work something out.
Other operatives arrive and pull their guns, holding them on the bad
guy. He grabs Mr. Oversight in a headlock. Bad Guy: Guns down! Now! Oversight Guy: Do what he says!
I'm from Oversight. If anything happens to me, you'll be sorry! All of
you!
The other operatives capitulate and drop their weapons. Bad Guy: Hands where I can see them!
Operations is standing above on a catwalk, unseen by the rest. He
trains his gun on the neck of the bad guy and then reconsiders, moving
it to the right. He shoots them both in a single shot. The other
operatives rush to the fallen bodies. Operations: Prisoner escaped, he
walked into the line of fire. That's the way I saw it. Anybody
disagree?
They shake their heads no. Operations: Dispose of the
body. (he turns and speaks to himself) He's right. The place
is falling apart.
Scene One - Section One - Munitions
Walter is working on something for Nikita. She has her hand to her
head, looks like she has a headache. Walter: I'm sorry, Sugar. I've
tried every crowbar program I've got and nothing comes up. Nikita: Could have been damaged in
the explosion. Walter: You know, if Birkoff were
still around here, he might be able to bring something up, but I've
drawn a blank. Do you think it could have been some kind of message
from your father? Nikita: Maybe. Or someone else. Walter: Michael? Look. The whole
point is, the house exploded and someone is trying to kill you! Nikita: Could have been a booby
trap, not personal. Walter: Either way, you better
cover that pretty rear end of yours, or it's gonna get blown
off. (he notices she's out of it) Are you okay? Nikita: Yeah. Just a headache
since that explosion. Walter: Just get out of here,
forget everything and relax. Nikita: Yeah, I will.
Scene Three - Section One - Systems
We're looking at a visual of Earth, with a satellite rotating around
it. We hear O'Brien's voice before we see him, sitting at a table,
working. O'Brien: Realign the
satellites. Sequence for dark approach. Good. Debrief in half an
hour. (Operations walks up and O'Brien addresses him) We took
out the guidance system in Nicosia. Operations: I want it
confirmed. The Collective's been running circles around us
lately. Ever since you've been slotted in for Michael, in fact. O'Brien: Are you suggesting a
connection? Operations: Oversight has been
getting testy lately, and if they need a sacrificial lamb, it'll be
you.
Operations turns to leaves and then hesitates. Operations: O'Brien?
O'Brien turns to look at him. Operations: Just thought you'd
like to know.
Scene Four - Section One - Munitions
Walter is messing with a minidisk that doesn't seem to want to eject
from a drive. In walks Jason. Jason: I'm gone a couple of months
and already this place is falling apart. Walter: Jace! Whatcha doing back
here! Jason: Slummin'. Walter: Slumming? Boy, it sure is
good to see a familiar face. This place is changing so fast that
you've got to have a program to tell who the players are. Jason: Well, that's why I'm
here. Center wants me to help with the transition team. Walter: Is that right?
Jasmine walks up, seems to be in a hurry. Jasmine: Walter, my panel's
baked. Can you take a look at it? Walter: Sure can, beautiful. I'll
get after it right away. Jason: Hey, darling. If you need
someone to look under your hood, I'm your man. I'm Jason, from
Oversight. Jasmine: Jasmine. From "Not
Interested".
Jason groans with disappointment. Walter grins. Walter: I'll have it done by this
afternoon. Jasmine: Thanks, Walter. Walter: Okay, Jas.
She leaves. Jason turns to Walter. Jason: Looks like I arrived just
in time. That lady needs a man in her life. Walter: Just take it easy with
that one. She's a man killer. Jason: God, I hope so.
Scene Five - Section One - War Room
Everybody arrives for a briefing - Nikita is having trouble
seeing clearly. Operations: Recent intel shows
increased mobilization in the Collective's forces in the Montenegro
region. O'Brien: What's the target? Operations: There are several
potentials, but most likely a bio-strike against civilian soil.
He brings up a face on the holoscreen. Quinn: Evan Hoffbauer. Nikita: Glass Curtain. Quinn: One of their few
survivors. Recruited by the Collective about six weeks
ago. Specializes in bio-warfare. O'Brien: Do we have a
position? Operations: We intercepted his
schedule for the next 24 hours. If we can get him and break him
quickly enough, we can at least destroy some of the Collective's
bio-weapons capability. Profiles are on your panels. That's all.
Everybody but Nikita gets up. After a moment she puts her sunglasses
on and rises slowly.
Scene Six - Section One -
Munitions O'Brien: Hollow points, contact
charges, anti-thermal pogs? I thought this was a simple grab and
bag. Walter: Equipment issues are
bulked up across the board. O'Brien: Why, because of the
Collective?
Nikita comes up and gets her weapons. She says nothing. Walter: It's been a while since
I've seen Operations spooked. He doesn't like playing catch
up. Sugar? There you are. O'Brien: What's wrong with her? Walter: Nothing. She's fine. O'Brien:(skeptically)
Really.
Scene Seven - The Mission
We are downtown - skyscrapers around. O'Brien and Nikita walk into an
elegant office building, she takes his arm. O'Brien: First team on site. Quinn:(in Section, scanning
the building) You're clear to proceed. O'Brien: Moving to B mark. Quinn: Hoffbauer's office is on
twenty-three. I'm holding the elevator on the second level. You have a
90-second window.
Nikita and O'Brien go up in the elevator and proceed through glass
doors into an office. They come up on a locked door. O'Brien: I'm looking for a
locksmith. Quinn: You've got the best.
O'Brien opens the door, shoots two guys. He and Nikita proceed to a
locked set of doors. More shooting. Nikita can't shoot. She's weaving
on her feet, unsteady. O'Brien: Shoot him! The tranq!
Quinn: Nikita, take the shot.
O'Brien: Nikita! Quinn: Window closing. Operations: Why doesn't she shoot
with the tranq? What's going on? Quinn: O'Brien's been hit. Operations: What about
Hoffbauer? Quinn: Shot. Operations: Is he dead?
Nikita is weaving on her feet, finally manages to shoot somebody in
the shoulder.
Scene Eight - Section One - Van
Access
Hoffbauer is brought in on a stretcher. Operations: Get him to Medical,
then Containment. (to Nikita and O'Brien) Mission parameters
were specific. He was to arrive unharmed. O'Brien: He's still alive. Operations: Another couple of
inches over and you wouldn't have been so lucky. What happened? O'Brien: It was the
tranq. Jammed. We were lucky to bring him in at all. Operations: You checked the
equipment when it was issued? Nikita: Yes. O'Brien: Field stress. These
things always seem to fail when you need 'em most. Operations:(skeptical)
File the weapons report with Walter, then deliver your
debrief. That's all.
Scene Nine - Section One - O'Brien's
Office
Formerly known as Michael's Office. Nikita is standing just inside the
door; O'Brien enters with his arm in a sling. He goes over and sits
down at his desk. Nikita: How's the shoulder? O'Brien: I got lucky. It's gonna
be okay. Nikita: Thank you for covering for
me. O'Brien: What's the problem?
What's wrong? Nikita: I don't know.
He gets up and walks over to her. Nikita: I get headaches. I see
white flashes. I'm disoriented. O'Brien: How long has this been
going on? Nikita: A couple of days. O'Brien: You should go to
Medical. Nikita: I don't want Operations to
find out. O'Brien: You mean, you're just
gonna ride this out on your own? Nikita: I don't have a choice. He
would love any excuse to bring me down. I know this isn't fair to
you. O'Brien: Don't worry about me. I
can take care of myself. You... you should take care of yourself. Nikita: Thank you. (she
leaves)
Scene Ten - Section One - The Perch Operations: Headaches? White
flashes? O'Brien: That's what she said. Operations: And the tranq gun? O'Brien: Tranq gun was fine. Operations: Why did you cover for
her? O'Brien: To get her trust. She's
hiding something. Walter's helping. Maybe this way I can find out what
it is. Operations: I'm glad to see you're
not falling into the same trap Michael did. O'Brien:(laughs) Not
likely. If it wasn't for Nikita, I'd still be living on the outside
fat, dumb and happy. I owe her big time. Operations: Keep me informed.
O'Brien leaves, Operations hits his intercom. Operations: Send Goliak to
Systems.
Scene Eleven - Section One -
Systems
Nikita walks into Systems. Jason is there. Jason: Hey, gorgeous. Nikita: I need your help. Jason: Sooner or later, they all
need my help. That's why I'm called the Love Doctor. Just tell me
exactly where- Nikita: -I need this
decrypted. Jason: Off book? Nikita: Way off. Jason: What's in it for me? Nikita: Absolutely nothing. Your
brother was a good man. I'm hoping you are too. Jason: I only met my brother
once. In the short time we had together, he spent half the time
talking about you. I'll do what I can.
She hands him the disk. Nikita: Thank you.
Scene Twelve - Section One - Comm
Operations walks into Comm and goes to Quinn. Operations: Hoffbauer
broke. Here's the intel file. Start verification. Where's Goliak?
Goliak! I have a job for you. O'Brien's keeping an eye on Nikita. I
want you to keep an eye on him. Make sure he's doing what he's
supposed to do. He's good, so stay dark until you have something to
report.
Goliak leaves to do as he has just been told. Operations goes back to
where Quinn is still seated. She looks up at him, smiling. Quinn: So... why don't you trust
O'Brien? Operations:(grins) I don't
trust any man where Nikita's concerned. She has a way of turning
heads. Michael, Birkoff, Walter... Thank God there are no other
female operatives with that effect.
He walks off. She grins - acknowledging the insult but taking it
lightly just the same.
Scene Thirteen - Section One -
Munitions
Walter walks up. Nikita's sitting there, sunglasses on, looking
unwell. Walter: How's the headaches? Nikita: It's not going away. I
think it's something to do with the house explosion... gas or
something. Walter: Maybe. Nikita: Who's behind all of
this? Walter: It could be
anybody. Anybody at all. Hey, Jace. Nikita: Find something? Jason: Sure did. Frankly, I was a
little disappointed. Kind of hoping for something a little
juicier. Nikita: Well, what was it? Jason: Coordinates, country road
south of Beauvais. It's decoded. Nikita: That's it? Jason: Like I said, major
letdown. Walter: Thanks. Nikita: Okay. Thanks.
Scene Fourteen - Adrian's "Rest
Home"
Nikita pulls up in her black Porsche and goes to the door. The guy
who opens it is the guy in whose care Michael left Adrian in season
three. Caretaker: Bonjour. Can I help you? Nikita: Uh... bonjour. My... my
name's Nikita. Is this a retirement home? Caretaker: Convalescent. We care
for the indigent and infirm. Is there someone you would like to
see? Nikita: Uh... yes... I'm not
sure of the name. I was wondering if I could take a look
around... Caretaker: I'm sorry. That is not
permitted.
He slams the door in her face. She gets dizzy. She then
pushes her way in and grabs him. Caretaker: What-what are you
doing? Nikita: I want to talk to you! Caretaker: If you don't leave
right now, I'll call the police! Nikita: You won't call the
police. You'll answer my questions. Vous comprenez? Caretaker: Please! Don't tell him
anything! He'll kill me! Nikita: Who's he? Caretaker: A - A man came here a
year ago. Nikita: How old? Old enough to be
my father? Caretaker: Brother perhaps. He had
a woman with him. His mother, I assumed. Nikita: When? Last year? August? Caretaker: August.
Nikita dials her cell phone. She is sweating and dizzy. Nikita: Walter, are you there? Walter: I'm here. Any luck? Nikita: Can you download a visual
of Michael, please? Immediately. Cathy in: Wouldn't that be
'upload'? Just a thought! Walter: Right. It's on the way.
She shows it to the caretaker. Nikita: Is that the man? Caretaker: Yes. A quiet man, but
dangerous. Nikita: What about the woman? Caretaker: Believe me, I gave her
the best of everything, but there was nothing I could do. I hide the
body. Please don't tell him.
Nikita: How did she die? Caretaker: I don't know. A
mystery. She talked of headaches and flashes of light. And then gone.
Scene Fifteen - Section One -
Munitions
Walter is working at his table. O'Brien approaches. O'Brien: Have you seen Nikita? Walter: No, no... not lately. O'Brien: She's supposed to be in
Systems for a pre-mission. Walter: Yeah, well, I'm sorry,
O.B., I can't help you.
O'Brien walks around him, leans down by him. O'Brien: Walter? Walter? I know
she's having problems. Walter: Well, that's her
business. O'Brien: Look. I covered for her
once on the last mission. If I was gonna bust her, I would have done
it then. Now, I wanna help, but you have to trust me. Walter: Have you heard of the
Gelman process? O'Brien: Yeah, it's some
brainwashing type deal, right? I never knew it was real or- Walter: -Oh, it's real. Wash,
rinse, tumble-dry - it's an ugly package. They did it to her about a
year ago. O'Brien: Why? Walter: To put a wedge in between
her and Michael. What we're seeing now is just the aftershocks. It's
gonna get worse. O'Brien: How do you know? Walter: They did it to somebody
else. A woman named Adrian. Now, the symptoms that she showed are
just like Nikita's. O'Brien: Where is she now? Walter: Dead, so if we're gonna do
something, we've gotta do it fast. O'Brien: Like what? Walter: Adrian died in a
retirement home. Nikita found out where she was buried, and she's
waiting there now. O'Brien: Where she's buried? Walter: The Gelman process used
chemicals that developed into a neurological virus, so what Nikita
needs is a vaccine. O'Brien: And you know how to do
that? Walter: I accessed Medical. I
downloaded Adrian's DNA sequence. All we need is a tissue sample.
Scene Sixteen - A Cemetery
Walter and O'Brien drive up. One wonders how he explained his absence
from the pre-mission. It's night and Nikita is sitting on the steps of
the mausoleum. Nikita: What's he doing here? Walter: He's here to help.
They all start to walk in. Nikita gets dizzy. Walter: You don't have to go in
there if you don't want to. Nikita: No, no. I'm going. Adrian?
Adrian? Cathy in: This is useful since
dead bodies answer all the time. *rolling eyes* Walter: Here? How do you know?
(Nikita can't answer, and gets dizzy again) Hey! Here. Sit over
here. Come on!
Nikita is making sounds like a cow in labor. O'Brien: Run the
verification. Hey! Are you all right? Nikita! C'mon, stay with
me. Stay with me. Walter:(looking at the screen
of his palm pilot thingy) It's Adrian. (to O'Brien) Give me
a hand with the lid. O'Brien: What's that? Walter: Huh? O'Brien: What's that? Walter: Where? What have you
got? O'Brien: I don't know.
O'Brien pulls out something that looks like a necklace. Walter: It's a PF3 communicator!
These things haven't even been deployed yet. O'Brien: What the hell's it doing
in here? Nikita: It's for me. It's for
me. The disk got me to Adrian. This is gonna get me somewhere
else. Walter: I'll get a tissue sample. O'Brien: Listen, Nikita, you're in
over your head. Why don't you let me take you back to Section? Nikita: No! O'Brien: Look, even if Operations
knocks you down a peg, you'll still be alive. Nikita: This is not about
Operations! O'Brien: Well, what's it
about? Nikita: I need to know who I am
and why I'm here. I'd rather die, than not know.
They all exit the mausoleum, Walter holding O'Brien: Walter, you know anything
about Spec Ops? Walter: Worked there ten years,
why? O'Brien: Well, if you had us
staked out, where would you be? Walter: Hedge behind the fence,
six o'clock. O'Brien: That sounds about right.
O'Brien spins and shoots. He gets somebody. Walter dumps Nikita into
the car. Nikita: That's it.
Walter then joins O'Brien at the body. O'Brien: You know him? Walter: Goliak, Operations' pit
bull. How did you know somebody was around here? O'Brien: I know Operations well
enough to know that he doesn't trust anyone. Walter: Mmm. O'Brien: He'd have to have someone
following me.
Scene Seventeen - Section One -
MedLab
Nikita lies there, wearing the PF3 communicator as a
necklace. O'Brien: Is this gonna work? Walter: We'll see in a minute. Can
I ask you a question? O'Brien: Sure. Walter: What made you change your
mind? O'Brien: She did.
Walter gives her a shot. Walter: This is gonna make you
feel better. O'Brien: How long is it gonna
take? Walter: Well, this will work
almost right away. We'll have her back on her feet again -- one or two
days. O'Brien: She's got a briefing in
three hours. Walter: Good luck. Nikita:(in her sleep)
Michael. Help me.
Scene Eighteen - Section One - War
Room
Everybody is gathered for the briefing. Nikita is nowhere to be
found. Operations: We're in Condition
Six, consider recon hot unless advised to the contrary. The
bio-chemical plant is located in this cover facility is southern
Kurdistan.
He pulls it up on the holoscreen. Quinn: We have confirmation from
in-house interrogation, as well as satellite surveillance. The
Collective acquired the facility last month. They plan to start
production within a week. The base is fifty feet below ground and
highly secured. It can only be taken from the inside. Operations: In four hours I don't
want this plant to exist. Go. Operations: O'Brien. In Nikita's
absence, you'll assume field command. I'll assign a floater to take
your spot.
Nikita has appeared. Nikita: Not necessary. Jason sent
me the mission parameters. I'm up to speed. Operations: Where were you? Nikita: My panel was misfiled. I'm
sorry that I'm late. Operations: Check in with Walter.
She goes, leaving O'Brien and Operations alone. Operations: O'Brien. You have
anything to report? O'Brien: No. Operations: You're sure? O'Brien: Positive.
They grin at each other. Uh-huh. Operations: That's all.
O'Brien leaves. Operations: Have you heard from
Goliak? Quinn: No. It's like he dropped
off the face of the earth.
Operations nods and walks off.
Scene Nineteen - Section One -
Munitions
Walter and Nikita are in Munitions. Walter: Here. You're still in one
piece.
O'Brien arrives. O'Brien: So far. You shouldn't be
in here. Nikita: It's just one mission. Get
through this, we're home free. O'Brien: Blackouts? Nikita: Getting better. O'Brien: Really? Nikita: Yeah. Walter: Hey. Sugar, I told you,
these transmitters are not operational yet! Nikita: Well, it wasn't in the
coffin for nothing. (She grabs her PF3 transmitter back and puts it
around her neck like a necklace)
Scene Twenty - The Mission - Chemical
Plant
We start off outside. Operatives are running around, shooting guards,
etc. Operative: We've acquired second
position. Quinn: Second position
secured. Diversion team, continue to your next mark.
Operatives run down a set of stairs. More shooting, of course. Quinn: I've triggered the
alarm. Hostiles heading toward stairwell. Nikita, scanning your level
with infrared. Hostile on the catwalk.
Nikita blasts him. She isn't having any problems, as of yet. Quinn: Diversion team, three more
hostiles approaching stairwell.
Operatives race up the stairs past a dead bad guy. O'Brien: You're clear to your next
mark. Go! Quinn: Trigger, then proceed to
egress. We've got hostiles. Security's going into lockdown. O'Brien: Override. Quinn: I'm trying. Nikita, you've
got a three-minute window.
Nikita starts having an attack. Everything gets fuzzy, she
groans and falls to her knees. Operative: Diversion team moving
to next mark.
More operatives racing up stairs. Nikita: O'Brien! Quinn: Nikita, did you set the
charge?
A bad guy gets shot, flies into something that electrocutes
him. O'Brien is trying to get to Nikita, shooting bad guys all the
way. Quinn: O'Brien, hold your
position. Diversion team, egress. Hostiles still in pursuit.
O'Brien throws some kind of gas bomb, taking out a bunch of bad
guys. Then the necklace around Nikita's neck starts talking. No, I am
not making this up. Necklace: Nikita. Nikita. Nikita,
you have to be strong. Nikita: Michael? Who is that? Necklace: A friend. Do as I
say. Quinn: Nikita, what are you
saying? Who are you talking to? Necklace: Switch to sub-channel
four. Quinn: Nikita? Nikita? (to
Operations) I've lost her. Necklace: You have to cycle
through the sequence. The black button to the right of the LED. Do you
see it? Nikita: Yeah. Necklace: The black button. Long,
short, long. Now the red button. Press and hold.
She does this and a one-minute countdown appears. Nikita: Michael? Necklace: Do it. Do it!
Nikita stands and puts the bomb on the wall where it belongs. Now she
runs unsteadily down the hall, her necklace bouncing. Quinn: She set the trigger
sequence. Necklace: Nikita, three o'clock!
She shoots a bad guy at three o'clock and gets to O'Brien,
who helps her escape.
TAG - SECTION ONE - VAN ACCESS
They return from the mission with one wounded operative. Operations: The mission had
irregularities. Nikita: Equipment failure. Operations:(suspiciously)
There's been a lot of that lately, hasn't there? O'Brien: Target was destroyed, we
suffered no casualties. That should be enough. Operations: She destroyed
Michael. She'll destroy you, too.
Operations walks off. O'Brien walks off too. Nikita follows him. Nikita: I don't really have the
words... O'Brien: Thanks'll do. Nikita: Thanks.
She looks down at and holds her communicator.