Season 1 - 4 times

114 Gambit
Michael: We have two candidates, both held in abeyance. Brianne's an ex-junkie, she was recruited after being convicted of a double homicide, drug-related. She scored well in physical and tactical but we believed she would start using again given the chance. Cancellation recommended. Shellen was recalled after incurring excessive collateral in Budapest last month. He's been in psych reconditioning, but his aggressive response has not been contained. Cancellation recommended.

116 Noise
Madeline: For the time being, Birkoff will be held in abeyance.

Nikita: Held in abeyance? That's one step away ... You'd cancel Birkoff?

122 Mercy
Operations: We've worked up a containment plan. The team has already been selected. They will consist of six members of the abeyance pool. Only the mobile control team members will be returning: you, Walter, and Birkoff. The other six will be sacrificed.


Season 2 - 9 times

209 Half Heart
Birkoff looks at Belinda's file and sees the following: STATUS: EVALUATION UNSATISFACTORY TRANSFER TO ABEYANCE TERMINATION RANKING: 2

Operations: The Profile calls for an Abeyance Team of five. They'll draw fire while the primary Team carries out the Mission. Send the Abeyance Ops to Walter to get their inventory.

Birkoff: What's the survival likelihood of the Abeyance Team?

Operations: You know what I mean. We know you tampered with her Abeyance records. Don't start thinking with your heart.

210 First Mission
Operations: Do you recommend abeyance?

Michael: She's a marginal performer. She's lucky she's not in abeyance.

216 Old Habbits
Birkoff: No, it's not great. Belinda's in abeyance.

Birkoff: I took her off abeyance once before. Operations found out. Do you think I should tell Walter?

218 Off Profile
Operations: I had no choice. She was in abeyance. (talking about Belinda)


Season 3 - 20 times

301 Looking For Michael
Madeline: They were all abeyance operatives.

305 Imitation Of Death
Operations: And not for the first time. Put him in abeyance. (talking about Felix)

Felix: You're lying. I'm in abeyance, aren't i?

Felix: Am I in abeyance or not???

Michael: Don't worry about him. He'll be in abeyance soon.

Birkoff: He might do it to me. What's he got to lose, he's in abeyance!

Birkoff: Yeah. I mean, nobody comes back from an abeyance mission, right?

Birkoff: Felix made some threats. He said he had a way out of abeyance.

Birkoff: It just seems strange. There were three other abeyance ops, they're all verified. Felix isn't. The one tape that could verify him... is defective. This is some kind of test, isn't it? To see how I'll react under stress.

309 Outside The Box
Michael: He was in abeyance.

310 Slipping Into Darkness
Madeline: He was an abeyance operative.

Nikita: I didn't know we executed abeyance operatives. I thought they performed a function?

311 Walk On By
Madeline: I'll have to review your record before I decide whether I'm going to put you in abeyance.

312 Threshold Of Pain
Operations: Bring Nikita to abeyance.

318 All Good Things
Michael: Put Venchek in abeyance.

322 Three Eyed Turtle
Madeline: Or we could use him on the Brulois maneuver. He’d make a valuable abeyance operative.

Greg types on the computer, sees that he?s in abeyance.

Nikita: Well, how could Hillinger be in abeyance?

Nikita: Greg, you're in abeyance. Set it at neg 40, now.

Operations: Hillinger. Everything you did, was calculated. Even getting Birkoff to put you in abeyance so you could escape.


Season 4 - 7 times

404 Into The Looking Glass
She walks downstairs and outside where Michael promptly shoots her with a tranq dart and she falls. He drags her under the stairwell where another blonde female puts on her jacket and walks off down the street. This completely fools Nikita's bodyguard, who must be a member of the abeyance pool who Madeline sent to watch Nikita, thinking that this might result in him simply being annoyed to death Michael throws Nikita in the mission van and.

409 No One Lives Forever
Michael: If I do that and they find out, they'll put you in abeyance.

Madeline: Violation is grounds for abeyance.

Madeline: With all that you've done, all the protocol that's been broken, you should be in abeyance, or even cancelled by now Why do you think you're still alive?

411 Time To Be Heroes
Michael: Why didn’t you use abeyance operatives instead of recruits?

Operations: Even abeyance ops were too valuable for this type of mission. No one gives a damn about these kids.

422 Four Light Years Farther
Michael: Is there an abeyance mission pending?


Season 5 - 9 times

501 Deja Vu All Over Again
Quinn: Well... the abeyance mission...

Operations: The abeyance mission was a sham. She could have no more killed him than I could have.

Nikita: Such as doing away with some of the worst features in this place. The constant surveillance, the use of abeyance operatives, that sort of thing.

O'Brien: You forgot something. An abeyance op.

O'Brien: Too risky. Nikita, reform Section after the mission. We need an abeyance op.

Quinn: I'm punching up the abeyance list now.

506 The Evil That Men Do
Nikita: Well, Michael died in an abeyance mission.

Operations: No, because now the Collective is using a number of his maneuvers that he specialized in. He survived abeyance and changed sides. I'm sure of it.

508 A Time For Every Purpose
Walter: If she takes over the Perch, I’m toast. Toast! You can forget the Farm. I’ll be sent right to abeyance. I’ll be dead in week!