- Previously on Nikita... - A mutiny.
I was afraid something like this would happen
when you told everybody about Danforth.
I did this.
Alex, you told 300 trained killers
the government has a gun to their head.
Not all of them want to stick around to see what happens next.
Rachel, we need to lay low.
Division will never get shut down.
We are going to get there, Chris.
We are going to be free.
Rachel says that she's the leader, but that isn't true.
If Division is left standing, more people are going to die.
Give me the gun.
- The plan will still work. - How?
You're going to have to take the fall.
Make it look like you took my gun.
Alex.
I should have been here.
Look at him.
You say you're trying to help the people in here?
That's all Ryan was ever trying to do--
help you, get you guys a new life.
Look at him!
Rachel, I know you're scared, but this isn't the old Division.
Cooperate, and there's still a way out for you.
Tell us who you're working with.
We know you had help trying to blow the tracker array,
and someone tried to get you out of interrogation.
When you shot Ryan.
So give us a name before anyone else gets hurt.
You got me. It's over.
Oh, this is nowhere near over.
She won't break.
Well, maybe it's time Nikita used some enhanced measures.
She did with Ari.
Ari was an enemy. Rachel's one of us.
Not anymore.
Rachel's just the tip of the iceberg.
The only reason that she is in here
is because a lot of other people feel the same way that she does.
Even if we hunt her friends down,
it will not solve the problem.
So you're saying you agree with her?
I'm saying I understand her.
This is Ops.
We're getting some flash traffic that I think you need to see.
It's Danforth.
He's dead.
♪ Nikita 3x17 ♪ Masks Original air date on April 12, 2013
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[Door closes]
If you're just joining us, this is a breaking story.
Commander Evan Danforth,
special advisor to the President, has died.
He collapsed earlier today at a Georgetown restaurant.
Preliminary reports indicate a ruptured brain aneurysm.
Brain aneurysm?
It's hard to diagnose. It's easy to fake.
Right out of the Division playbook,
which means-- Amanda.
Amanda? Why would she kill Danforth?
Because he was shielding us from the President.
Only after you blackmailed him.
Nikita played the only card we had.
The point is is Amanda found out about this.
She knows, by killing Danforth,
it would turn the heat up on Division.
Owen called it in. He's been surveilling Danforth.
Owen, where are you?
I'm on site.
They're taking the body out right now.
Did you see anything out of the ordinary?
No.
He was at the same place he had lunch at every day.
Same table, same time. Just like clockwork.
Once she knew his routine, it was easy.
Amanda saw the pattern, and she exploited a weakness.
We dropped the ball on surveillance.
Surveillance.
When Alex and I broke into Danforth's house,
we left some surveillance equipment there--
phone taps, keystroke loggers.
The feds do a sweep, they're going to find it.
Yeah, but they won't be able to trace that back to Division.
If the President learns there's unidentified tech
in Danforth's place,
she'll know that we're behind it.
She'll think we watched him, then killed him.
Owen, I need you to get to Danforth's place
and clean the scene.
You want the quick version, or the full works?
The full works, but also quick.
Copy that.
The President's going to want to talk to Ryan about this.
What are we supposed to do when she calls?
Say Ryan lost his voice? He's on extended vacation?
No. We tell her the truth.
We tell her that Ryan's been in an accident
but that he's expected to make a full recovery.
Until then...
You're in charge.
She trusted a Navy man to manage Division before.
She can do it again.
You think that'll be enough
to keep her finger off the SEAL trigger?
Ah!
Ops, we have a problem.
Owen? Owen?
No response.
[Digital distortion]
- I'm going out there. - Take a team.
Don't worry. It's just a mild paralytic.
I wouldn't want you to end up like poor commander Danforth.
Unlike him, you're far more valuable alive,
aren't you, Owen?
Or should I say "Sam"?
[Crackling]
Sam?
You still alive? Sam?
Owen?
Owen, are you okay?
[Panting]
What happened?
You called in, said there was a problem,
and then radio silence.
Where are they?
Who's they?
I mean Danforth.
Danforth's dead. You don't remember?
It's been over an hour since you called in.
Owen?
Sam.
- What? - My name.
It's Sam Matthews.
First special forces operational detachment Delta.
I remember.
What's happening to him?
He suffered a concussion,
and it looks like it's causing his brain to rewire sections
that were previously damaged.
And that's what's bringing his memories back?
Essentially.
It's rare, but it's been known to happen.
You need to relax.
I'm fine. I'm fine.
Were you attacked?
Was somebody already there?
No. Nobody was there.
It's like I had a seizure or something.
I must have hit my head on the floor when I fell.
It's a good thing we recovered you when we did.
The CIA got to Danforth's place
right after Nikita pulled you out of there.
- They find anything? - No, no, no.
We finished cleaning the place.
Birkhoff's hacking their system just to make sure,
but I'm going to go see how he's doing.
You should take it easy.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
- Still hurt? - No.
I had worse hangovers in the army.
When you were Sam.
Yeah.
So it really is coming back.
In flashes, like a strobe light.
I remember my unit going down. I was hit.
- And Amanda? - [Sighs]
Do you remember why she tried to wipe your memories
in the first place?
No.
There has to be a reason why she did this to you.
We figure that out,
we can find out why she tried to grab you back in Russia.
[Grunts]
What the hell are you doing?
They were worried you might have been followed.
They?
How's Rachel?
She's holding up.
But for how long?
This is Division. They are going to break her.
Even if they don't, once Ryan wakes up,
he'll I.D. you as the shooter.
Let me worry about that. The plan is still on track.
We get everyone new identities and money to start new lives,
then we get out.
Rachel too. All of us.
We're going to have to do something about the trackers.
Birkhoff's decentralized the entire array,
so we can't just take out one server
to bring down the system.
That means we need software access
to bring the trackers down.
We'll never get that.
- Let me handle it. - How?
Birkhoff is the only one who has access to those systems.
I told you that I will handle Birkhoff.
Nerd, we need you.
- I'm busy here. - This is important.
Yeah, well, I'm trying to make sure
that if the rabble rousers in our midst launch another attack,
they don't bring down our whole network.
Is it more important than that?
This could lead to Amanda.
Okay, what is it?
Check any records on Sam Matthews.
Your alter ego? I already did.
Mikey filled me in.
There is no trace of any Delta operative by that name.
Amanda must have wiped your file.
Did a thorough job too.
Usually there are some digital echoes left behind,
but with Owen--or Sam, whatever your name is--nada.
Try Ray Kramer, Enrique Morales,
and Darren Stoffer.
- Who are they? - Members of my old unit.
We were in Kosovo.
The guys in my unit were smuggling heroin.
I caught them.
And, uh, they shot me.
I was able to take them all down.
I killed them all.
Amanda was right. I killed all my friends.
Bingo.
[Computer beeps] Kramer, Morales, Stoffer.
Army special Ops, assigned to support
NATO peacekeepers in the Balkans.
All listed as killed in a helicopter crash
in Kosovo in '99.
Division cover story much? Mm.
Looks like there was one survivor--
a corporal Scott Atkins.
Scotty.
You remember him?
He tried to help when the others turned against me.
Honorably discharged in '05.
Last known address is in Baltimore.
All right, looks like you're going to visit an old friend.
First we blackmailed him, and then we kill him?
President's not going to like this.
That's declaring war.
You got to wonder about retaliation.
We can't survive a direct assault.
Hey, Michael.
People are jittery,
worried about what Danforth's death means.
Well, they know he was ready to kill us all.
They also stood here and watched us
as we blackmailed him.
They don't know what to think.
Is this good for us, is it bad?
Well, this couldn't have happened
at a worse possible time.
All right, everyone, listen up.
Stop what you're doing.
First, we had nothing to do with Danforth's death.
This wasn't some sort of covert kill,
and second, this changes nothing.
The President is aware of our situation
and is committed to letting us see our mission through.
So I'm here to tell you that everything is under control.
We just need to focus and keep doing our jobs.
Now, as you were.
That was interesting.
Where do we go from here?
Business as usual.
Are you serious?
Tell me you haven't thought about it.
Birkhoff, you're the only person I can talk to about this.
[Sighs] I know what you mean.
Nikita, Mikey, Ryan-- they're too close to it.
They can't see it.
So you'd really leave Division?
Why not?
Every mission leads to another.
Every secret leads to ten more.
Ryan's in a coma, and for what?
Because we have an obligation to clean up somebody else's mess?
I haven't told anybody this,
but right after you alerted the troops to the seal threat,
I asked Sonya to leave here with me.
What did she say?
She turned her back on me and walked out the door.
She's right. I'd be letting Nikki down.
I'd be leaving a lot of people in the lurch.
What if you didn't have to? Leave them?
What do you mean?
[Door opens]
Hey.
Michael asked me to check those new security protocols.
You finish? [Clears throat]
Yeah, sure.
Did I interrupt something?
No.
Wow.
Looks like your friend had a really rough time
since leaving the army.
I'd probably be in worse shape than him if it wasn't for you.
You always knew what was best for me, didn't you?
[Knocking on door]
Yeah? What's it about?
Hey, Scotty. Been a long time.
Sam?
No. Can't be. You're dead!
We're not here to hurt you.
You don't know me like he does.
[Gasps] Oh!
The nice thing about killing a drug dealer
is they always tend to have what you need to erase the job.
Owen, something's happened to you.
Let me help.
You already helped.
You found Scotty for me.
You said he was your friend.
He was.
Amanda was wrong when she said I killed all my friends.
One got away.
Not anymore.
Owen, let me go.
I'll help you fix this.
There's nothing to fix.
I remember now.
Everything.
My unit was smuggling drugs, but I wasn't the whistle-blower.
I was the leader.
I organized the whole operation, but they tried to cut me out.
What the hell?
Sam. This isn't what it looks like.
Good.
'Cause it looks like you're moving product without me,
and I know you wouldn't do that.
Right, guys?
No way.
We just intercepted an unscheduled delivery.
Don't worry.
You'll get what's coming to you.
Sam?
You still alive?
Sam?
[Cocks gun]
Scotty's mistake was not finishing the job.
You get a man down, you finish him.
Else it's going to bite you in the ass.
It might not happen right away, it might take ten years,
but it's going to happen eventually.
Am I right, Scotty?
Operator. How may I assist you?
You can shut up.
I'm talking to the bitch who's tapping this phone.
Call me back.
Let's talk Nikita.
[Phone beeps] Amanda.
Once she restored my memory,
she knew I'd come looking for Atkins.
I half thought I'd find her in the house.
- Owen-- - Sam.
Owen's a tool.
No, Amanda did this to you.
She created some kind of... delusion.
I don't know, but this isn't you.
You don't get it, do you?
Owen was the delusion.
He was just a whipped, little puppy dog following you around.
I mean, it felt like I was medicated
for the last ten years. Why would Amanda do that?
Why would she create someone like Owen?
You are so obsessed with that woman, aren't you?
Okay.
From what I remember, according to Percy,
the perfect candidate for Division
was a troubled, violent killer with low self-esteem.
Does that remind you of anybody?
I mean, they didn't want thinkers, planners, leaders.
They wanted to do all the thinking for themselves.
So Amanda, being Amanda, took her little needles
and blunted my edge.
Something about judgment centers around the brain.
Take a born leader, and turn him into a loyal follower.
A guardian.
No.
You can't tell me the man that I know--
the one who saved my life,
the one who loved Emily--
that that man doesn't exist?
Emily didn't know who I was.
I didn't know who I was.
If she knew, she wouldn't have been with me.
[Phone ringing]
This is Sam.
Sam.
It's been a long time.
I have to admit,
I thought you might call Atkins before killing him.
You're moving a bit faster than I expected.
Had a lot of time to make up for.
Meet me at Ellwood Park at midnight.
And why would I do that?
Same reason you're tapping this phone.
You knew I'd come with what you want.
Be prepared to pay 'cause it's going to cost you.
[Phone beeps]
You're not really going to go through with this.
You can fight her. I can help you.
Oh, she'll get what's coming to her,
after I get mine.
You're not really surprised this is who I am,
are you?
I mean...
deep inside, you always knew what I was.
[Sighs]
You just didn't want to believe it.
Where's the bad cop?
No bad cops.
I'm here as a friend.
Yeah?
Then let me go.
That's up to you.
Tell me who else you're working with.
You know, your Division record was outstanding--
five sanctioned solo kills, seven missions as team leader,
all clean successes.
Except for that last one in Madrid.
What happened there?
A member of your exfil squad went down.
Your orders were to leave him, but you went back for him,
got caught in the crossfire.
Said you spent three months recovering in medical
from those bullet wounds.
Now, you know what it means to be responsible
for the lives of your people,
and I am telling you that your friends
are following a very dangerous path.
If you give me their names, they'll be fine.
My friends will be fine when they are free.
But we both know that's not how it's going to end.
Division will come after you, with or without a tracker,
and this time, it won't be to put you into custody.
It will be to kill you, to kill all of you.
That is how this is going to end.
So...
Are you really going to let that happen?
If I gave you access to the server,
could you reroute tracker control?
Not with Birkhoff's security protocols in place.
You have to disable those first from his station.
What happened? I thought you were taking care of him.
- Still working on it. - There is another way.
Take control of Ops. Ryan's out of commission.
Nikita's off on one of her personal missions.
We have a window here.
- Out of the question. - You heard Michael.
He thinks it's business as usual.
Nothing is going to change unless we do something about it.
We don't have the numbers.
We can get the numbers.
Word is spreading fast. No!
No more recruiting people
until we get a handle on this tracker problem.
We've got to be smart, wait for our moment.
I will get everyone out, safely.
Check him.
He's clean.
And you're stupid.
What's the matter?
You don't have a plan for this?
That was unnecessary.
Seemed necessary to me.
You got the money?
What's this?
$50,000.
That's it?
I get you Nikita, you think it's worth 50 grand?
[Zips bag closed]
This is what's going to happen.
I'm going to give you a bank account number,
and you're going to transfer all of your funds into it.
The entire Tasarov bankroll. You understand?
There is no more bankroll. That's all of it.
My goal was never money.
Sucks to be you.
There's another way. [Grunts]
The Black Box.
A lot of people would pay for its secrets,
a lot more than $50,000,
and right now, there's a small window of time
where Division still thinks you're Owen.
You could go back and get it.
That's not a bad angle. Thanks.
But who would you sell it to?
I have all the contacts.
Your only avenue to them is through me.
I'm going to be so happy when I'm done with you people.
Wait for my call.
What about Nikita?
Any progress with Rachel?
Not yet, but I think I'm starting to get through to her.
Michael, it's Owen.
Owen? What happened?
Amanda was waiting for us.
I tried to fight them off, but there was too many of 'em.
What about Nikita?
Amanda has her.
Is there an active threat on site?
No, they cleared out.
All right, stay put. I'll bring an Alpha team.
All right.
[Wincing]
Michael, Amanda must have a plan for her.
She'll keep her alive.
Yeah, but for how long?
I'm taking an Alpha team out there.
You stay here and start the sweep.
Check the satellites, the cell towers,
traffic cams, all of it.
Birkhoff, give Alex full command code clearance.
You're in charge.
How do you like my new lair?
It somehow suits you.
I'd been hoping you'd come by for a visit.
Sam just made that happen sooner than expected.
Remember what I said?
You told me that the people I love would betray me,
but you had to destroy Owen's mind.
You had to turn him into a completely different person
for him to betray me.
That's not winning, that's cheating.
I'm not talking about Owen.
I was very specific, remember?
What did I say about her?
You said that...
"You made her,
and like everything you love--"
she will turn against you.
Which is exactly what Alex has done,
with a little help from me of course.
Birkhoff...
Dana found some traffic cam footage that could be Amanda.
It's grainy, inconclusive. Can you help her?
Yeah, no sweat.
I got a new full-spectrum analysis process,
should clean it up.
Where is she? Logistics.
With Owen, the solution was to build a wall.
A bit crude, I admit, but the memory wipe did its job.
With Alex, I needed a more elegant method.
Alex is still Alex. She remembers who she is.
That's because this time, I didn't need a wall.
What I needed was a bridge.
Alex is a survivor, and like most survivors,
she carries the guilt of that.
Her father died. She lived.
She had escaped the world of sex slavery
but left many girls behind to suffer.
I needed to connect the pain of her past
with her present circumstances in Division,
so I introduced her to someone who could link those two worlds.
Look out!
Ah!
Larissa?
The girl she was trying to save?
A hallucination.
During her stay with me, Alex thought she was in a bed
when she was really in my chair.
Larissa was an idea I projected into Alex's mind--
an innocent young woman who had lost everything,
still working for the people who killed her family.
Parallels, anyone?
I stimulated the empathetic regions of her brain,
gave her a few suggestions.
You can't leave now, Alex.
Larissa's hurt.
She needs your help.
Let me see.
Keep pressure on it.
Ah!
Her own mind filled in the rest of the story.
She blamed me for Larissa's death.
Transference.
Alex survived but couldn't save Larissa.
That feeling of being powerless, she needed someone to blame.
Who else but the most powerful figure in her life?
You.
No.
Alex has defeated your mind games before.
She's a good person.
She's not going to forget that.
And I wouldn't want her to...
Because there's no telling how far Alex will go
to save the people who depend on her.
She will sacrifice everything
before letting them die like Larissa.
Everything.
All you can do is sit there and wait for it to happen.
Owen, are you okay?
You're lucky Amanda left you alive.
I wasn't the target.
Once she got Nikita, she was gone.
Birkhoff, any leads?
None yet, but I got everybody in here on the hunt.
Come on, I'll catch you up on where we are.
Shouldn't you be in medical?
In a minute. I had a thought.
That's a new one.
What'd you say to me?
Easy. It's a joke.
Of course.
What's your thought?
I think Amanda might be making a play for the Black Box.
You mean like another trade? Nikita for the box?
Maybe.
Or she's got a mole inside
that could use the distraction to steal it outright.
Impossible.
It's in Ryan's safe with a biometric lock,
and considering Ryan's condition right now,
I don't think anybody's going to be getting
in there anytime...
Soon.
Charming as ever.
The thing is,
I hated Percy, but I got him.
You were either valuable, or you were dead.
Simple as that.
But you?
You poke around in people's heads for fun.
You manipulate who they become.
I help them become what they should have been.
I fix what was broken.
This is important work we're doing.
Did someone fix you?
Or was the problem that you were too broken
for them to even bother?
I didn't need anyone to fix me.
I did that for myself.
Well, I couldn't.
I needed help-- your help.
And I passed on what I learned from you to Alex.
I thought you didn't make Alex.
You made a point of saying that.
I didn't remake Alex in my own image.
I didn't need to do that.
She already was me, lying on the floor,
trying to kill herself,
believing that she was worthless
because she had nothing to live for.
I saw that,
and I thought...
I could help her.
Because you used to be her.
And you used to be me.
Transference, right?
That's what this is all about.
You're trying to break me the way someone broke you.
Though, when the people you loved betrayed you,
I'm doubting there was a cranial needle involved.
I have a feeling
they made that move of their own free will.
What's wrong?
I think someone's been using my terminal.
Did they do anything?
No. Critical systems are all secure.
They'd need command code access to get into those anyway.
I told these doofuses to stay off my station.
[Footsteps approaching]
Ah!
Sean? What are you doing?
I was going to ask you the same question.
Where are you going?
I don't have to explain myself.
Sean, wait!
What am I going to find in here, Alex? Huh?
Let's just go upstairs, and I'll explain everything.
You've been different ever since South Ossetia.
Aggressive, secretive.
This again? I told you--
You and Rachel were the only ones in the room
when Ryan got shot, and...
I saw you use your command code clearance at Birkhoff's station.
It's you, isn't it? Behind this whole mutiny?
It's not a mutiny, Sean. You don't understand.
You're right, I don't.
- I have to do this. - Why?
If I don't get everyone out of Division,
more people are going to get hurt.
You mean like Ryan.
- Help us. - What?
You're the one who always said how dangerous this place is,
how I had to get out of here.
That was about you.
And what about everyone else?
We have a chance to save them, Sean.
All of them.
Are they down here?
How many of them are there?
More than enough.
[Cocks gun]
Chris, back off!
He knows too much. He could expose us all.
He isn't going to say anything.
He's with us.
Find that hard to believe.
Rachel?
How did you get out?
People are joining our cause from all over,
including security.
Rachel, listen to me. Sean is helping us.
Who do you think shut down the trackers?
The trackers are down?
Not yet,
but when Michael went off-site, he put Sean in charge.
Sean used his clearance to bypass security protocols.
We can access them at any time now.
Division's responsible for my mother's death.
You think I have any loyalty to this place?
You know what this means?
Now's the time.
What are you talking about?
We're going to take Ops.
We have the numbers.
And if the tracker server really is vulnerable,
we can strike now before Birkhoff or anyone else
can turn the security protocols back on.
We don't need to do this.
I can still get everyone out quietly and safely.
We go in there, guns blazing, it'll be a bloodbath.
- It'll be their blood. - This is not the plan!
The plan has changed.
We're getting everyone out, tonight!
Hello, there. It's been a long time.
Going somewhere?
Following up on a hunch.
Is that why you visited Ryan first?
His guards have orders to report all entries.
Ew.
The first thing that bothered me was,
why would Amanda take Nikita and not you?
Then, Birkhoff told me about your Black Box theory,
and I thought, that's...funny...
How you never mentioned that to me.
Yeah. What can I say?
Memory's not my strong suit.
[Grunts]
[Groans]
[Grunts]
Take him to holding.
I said-- you're not in charge anymore.
Excuse me?
What?
[Guns cocking] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I'm on your side.
What do you think I was just doing?
Keep your head down until this is over.
Until it's over?
No, no, no, no, I'm going to get out of here right now.
No one leaves until we've secured the facility.
Everyone, stand down!
We're taking charge.
What?
Aah! Hey!
- [Gasps] - Stop!
Stop! No shooting!
No one needs to get hurt.
We have Michael in custody, and we control the exits.
All right.
Disable the trackers, and transfer the money.
Once that is done, then we can get everyone out.
No.
We also have to make sure
they can never come after us
because they will.
Attention, Division personnel.
There's been a change in leadership.
Ops is now under the control
of those who want to get out of this hellhole.
Those who are with us will get new lives,
free of Division forever.
Those who are against us, they will be shot on sight.
It's your choice.
Rachel, what are you doing?
What needs to be done.
We have a problem.
Hold on. I think you should hear this.
Go ahead.
There's been a coup in Division.
They've taken over Ops, instituted a lockdown.
I have the Black Box, but I can't get out.
You're resourceful.
I'm sure you'll find a way. Good luck.
So it begins.
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