Previously on Nikita:
Operation Pale Fire.
Division collaborated with Semak to kill Nikolai Udinov and his family.
- I saved the daughter, Alexandra. - Your partner?
That's why she's working to take down Division.
Her focus has shifted.
Revenge. That's where I'm going.
To get the man who ordered my parents' death.
And I'm going to kill him.
Mama?
The guardians, they're gathering, and Percy is behind it.
We don't know if there's anything with Percy.
What we do know is that Ari has the box.
I'll go after the guardian, you go after Ari and you'll be fine with him.
No, Michael goes with you.
You're chasing Ari into the heart of Gogol territory?
- You don't know where he's headed. - She does. I put a tracker on his car.
Don't know what I'm gonna find, but it's the right thing to do.
Hello, Ari.
Operation Pale Fire.
Background is need-to-know.
This is the target zone.
These are the tangos.
Papa Bear, Momma Bear and Baby Bear.
Our man inside has provided extensive intel to the layout of the home...
and all the security measures that are in place.
Papa Bear likes to maintain a semblance of normalcy for his family...
so the estate grounds will be far more heavily-guarded...
than inside the house itself.
Patrols will be shifted to the north...
so you will come up through the woods from the south...
up the drive and into the front door.
Alarm codes will be in your briefing packet.
Review the material, be ready in two hours. Dismissed.
Roan, stay back a minute.
Is there a problem?
How?
Mama.
I thought you were dead.
"They said, “Mother down."
No. Nikolai. Nikolai, he heard men downstairs.
Shooting. He left me.
I can't remember. I saw gun.
I...
I woke up in hospital.
You were dead.
Everyone was dead.
How?
Someone took me.
She saved my life.
Bingo.
What's that? Update from Nikita?
The tracker you put on Ari Tasarov's car worked.
She's found the black box.
I know you guys wanna replace the box you lost, but maybe she should let it go.
We can't let Ari keep that box. If he finds a way to decrypt it...
I don't wanna think about what he'd do.
You should be with her.
- I could've tracked this guardian. - He's gonna meet the other guardians.
Wanna take on all three? No, Nikita was right.
Gotta grab that box, figure out what the guardians are up to.
What Percy's up to. What'd you find?
I narrowed it down to these six hotels.
These are some nice places.
I thought the guardians were more bed of nails and all.
Easier to get lost in a crowd at a big hotel.
These are the right size, near transportation...
multiple points of egress.
We zero him down, track him to the gathering...
and figure out how Percy's pulling the strings.
- Why are you still in London? - Excuse me?
Nikita says you're staying in London.
Is that gonna be a permanent thing, or...?
Whoa. Why is she even talking to you about this?
She needs to talk to somebody.
It's getting harder for her.
Maybe she can't talk to you because she thinks she already lost you.
- She hasn't. - I know.
That's why I'm warning you.
You need to make a choice before someone makes it for you.
And who's gonna make that for me? You?
I don't have a kid.
- You killed her fiancé. - Yeah.
Nikita said he was a nice, normal guy.
Didn't deserve to die.
Neither did Emily.
She was innocent, just like your son.
She died because of me. That's what happens...
when normal people get sucked into our world.
They get hurt.
Mama, have you been here all these years?
In this house?
I'm going upstairs for a minute.
Wait here. Make sure...
I have to hide.
No one can know that I'm here.
Are you all right?
I hear voices downstairs.
- What's happening? - I'm attending to some business. Uh...
Why are you so nervous?
Whenever I hear voices downstairs, it makes me think of the men who...
Who cannot hurt you now. The house is protected.
No one knows you're here.
I don't need that.
Let's not go through this again, Katya.
You need some rest.
Take the pill.
I should have killed Semak when I had the chance.
- Alexandra. - It's okay, Mama.
I understand now.
Semak was always jealous of Papa.
He always wanted everything Papa had, so he took it.
He can have Zetrov, but he can't have you.
Not anymore.
I just don't understand.
I have to leave for a few minutes, but I'll be right back.
Just stay here.
- Oh. - Crap.
Hello, Ryan.
How are you feeling today?
More cooperative?
If this is about Oversight...
I need to neutralize them now...
in a way that doesn't raise questions or leave evidence to trace back to me.
I've given you their identities. You've had a while to think.
I kept you alive because I thought you might be useful...
but if I was wrong...
- Aah. - Then I should correct my mistake.
I told you...
the only way I can help is if I know everything.
On Division, Oversight, even the details you don't think are relevant.
You know, today is your lucky day.
I'm gonna have to take you to the files.
They don't transport well.
So now you wanna take down Oversight?
And your big hope is the little librarian over there.
That's just sad.
I need some leverage to keep the lights on around here.
Bringing down Oversight is something we all want.
You, me...
even the librarian here.
Remind me, what's in it for me?
Fine.
I'll give you your things back if you give him something useful.
How about I give him the mercy of a quick death?
That wouldn't be very polite, would it?
Yeah, what are you gonna do about it? Kill me?
Medically-induced coma.
Consider the consequences.
Play nice.
What a bitch, right?
Why are you here?
Ari Tasarov has a black box.
I'm here to steal it back.
Your plan is to cut the power, let everyone freak...
and grab the box in the chaos?
That was the... Yeah.
- Whoa, careful. - I can't let you do that.
Not without screwing up my plan to rescue my mother.
She's alive, Nikita. She's upstairs.
- Your mother'? How? - I don't know.
But if I'm gonna get her out, no one can know we're here.
Where are we with the box?
Well, we think we've found a way around the biometrics lock...
but the data encryption may take weeks to break.
I've never seen anything like it.
Percy is nothing if not paranoid.
It's one of his few admirable qualities. Keep on it.
Mr. Abramov, did you receive the photograph I sent you?
It's her. The girl who bought my weapons.
She's here in Russia.
Tell no one else. I'll take care of it.
Yes, Mr. Tasarov.
Increase patrols on the estate immediately, then come to the house.
I'd like to discuss the perimeter breach we spoke of earlier.
I have to disable the alarm.
- I'm gonna sneak her out and then I'll go. - Alex.
Look, you can blow up this damn house for all I care. After I know she's safe.
What are you doing?
When he misses his next check in, they're gonna know something's wrong.
That should give us time to make a plan.
What kind of plan?
The black box can wait.
We're gonna get your mother out. Tonight.
Nothing on the hotel guest list matches our guardian.
Well, that's our fourth strike.
That's a guardian.
Not that I should say this, but I kind of wish you were still on the Regimen.
So do I. That a bad thing?
He's picking up his shirts?
It's a four-star hotel.
Why would he send his shirts out for cleaning?
Percy loved all that Cold War spy crap.
Dead drops and code words and...
In two hours, he's gonna be at the drycleaners.
Maybe then we'll find out where the meeting is.
Once we do, I'm pretty sure we got a way inside.
So I'll go in the way I did before.
Through the cellar and up the laundry chute, which puts me outside the bedroom.
I'll take my mother down the back.
If you wait at this door, we can take the guards out then.
That should buy us enough time before they realize there's a breach.
You're missing something.
How do we get off the estate? We both got here on foot, through the woods.
Don't think that's an option for your mother.
We have to steal a car.
That could draw ta-0 much attention.
Depends on the car.
- Ari's here, right? - Yeah.
He's got his own car and driver.
Only an insane Gogol agent would try and stop Ari Tasarov's car.
- How do we know which car is his? - Ari's driver never leaves the car.
- I'll deal with him, get behind the wheel. - If they follow us...
They won't. I'm going to disable all the other cars.
It's a trick Michael taught me. If you can delay your enemy for a few minutes...
It may be enough to win the day. You taught me that.
Thank you.
- For helping us. - Don't thank me yet.
Anyone missed their scheduled check-ins?
No, sir. They've all reported in.
Let's be vigilant. I want you to go personally.
Check with your own eyes that everyone is at their posts.
Yes, sir.
I have new information with regards to Miss Udinov.
I believe she's here. Somewhere on the property.
Amanda thinks that you're gonna be able to come up with the scheme...
to dismantle Oversight, huh?
- That offends you. - It does, yeah.
I mean, I had them under control.
And then they got to Amanda, and she got intimidated.
Now she's running into the ground everything you took years to build.
Well, you and Oversight.
There's always a group behind the group. Hm?
Division was mine. It was my concept.
Snap out of it.
Mama. Mama.
I found us a way out. It's time to go.
What?
No. Alexandra, no.
Mama, it's okay, it's okay.
No!
Welcome home, Alexandra.
Miss Udinov, I have heard so much about you.
It is a pleasure to finally make your acquaintance.
- You'll understand I can't say the same. - Of course, of course.
I've heard that Percy is being held prisoner inside Division.
Have you seen him? What's his cell like?
Yes. Let's talk about Percy.
I'm curious why he saved you.
- What was he planning to do with you? - I don't know what you're talking about.
You were supposed to die.
Yet here you are.
Why would Division spare your life?
Percy never struck me as a soft touch.
Oh, my God.
That story Yuri told...
about me being brainwashed.
That wasn't just some cover story.
You actually thought it was true.
I thought it was quite a brilliant plan.
I'm sorry to disappoint.
Division didn't rescue me that night, Nikita did.
- Nikita? Hm. That is the, uh...? - Rogue agent, yes.
She is a soft touch.
I infiltrated Division.
I wanted to make Percy pay.
Mission accomplished. He's in a hole.
My new mission is to kill you.
Your mission has failed, Alexandra.
Night's not over yet.
That's enough. You know where to take her.
It's 7:00.
Think this is our guy?
I seem to have misplaced my ticket.
What are you picking up?
Three shins, blue.
Lightly starched and pressed. Boxed.
- This isn't a clue to the meeting. - This is the meeting.
I say we bomb the place.
No more guardians, no more black boxes.
No, this meeting is our only chance at figuring out what Percy's up to.
Last time he had a secret plan, he tried to level the seventh floor of the CIA.
So you're gonna walk in there, alone, and meet with two guardians?
We barely managed to take down one of them together.
I'm not going in alone. We'll be on comms, and that box is my back up.
- Be ready when I give the word. - I got you.
I seem to have misplaced my ticket.
What are you picking up?
Three shirts, blue.
Lightly starched and pressed. Boxed.
- You're the other guardian? - When did that happen?
I thought you were Percy's right-hand man.
That's why he chose me.
Thanks to Nikita, you guys were dropping like flies.
Percy wanted extra insurance.
Right before Amanda took over, he gave me a box and told me to run.
I don't believe you.
Then I'll prove it to you.
I can't believe he didn't tell us.
Well, things happened pretty fast that day.
Are we missing a box? I see only two, but there are three of us.
Did you lose something?
How'd you go from Oversight's golden boy to its chief extortioner?
Downside of being invisible?
Lack of visibility.
Running this place, you'd become a deniable asset.
Someone who could be wiped away if he stepped out of line.
- You needed leverage. - That's what the black boxes were for.
But there had to be a catalyst.
Right? Some incident that soured your relationship with Oversight.
Well, that reached critical mass with Operation Pale Fire.
2005, Russian conglomerate Zetrov...
refused to do business with the United States.
That was a threat to national security?
Oversight saw it as a threat to financial security. Theirs, in particular.
So they came to me, and I discovered...
that the CEO's number two, a man named Sergei Semak...
might be pliable.
You turned him...
plotted with him to kill Zetrov's founder, Nikolai Udinov, Alex's father.
I know the backstory.
It was Semak's idea to kill the family.
He said that if he could have control, he would be our man on the inside.
Expand U.S. interests throughout his hemisphere.
That's a pretty big promise.
Exactly what I said. I said he couldn't be trusted, and I was right.
- He took over. - And reneged on the deal.
Yeah. And they wanna blame me for it.
Now, Amanda and Oversight think that Alex is gonna take over Zetrov.
Well, that ain't gonna happen.
She's gonna kill Semak and plunge the company into complete chaos.
Amanda has lost control of her girl.
History does tend to repeat itself.
You say that that mission was when everything...
went sideways with Oversight.
No.
The real threat wasn't forming over your head, it was happening under your nose.
Pale Fire was the first time Nikita ever disobeyed orders.
She rescued Alex that night.
Her first strike against Division...
and the first step of your journey right into this cage.
You sent Nikita on that mission and sealed your own fate.
How bad is it?
It looks worse than it is.
Take this, okay?
What are you doing?
Wait for my call. I need you to tell Katya who I am.
- You're going back? - I told you.
We're getting your mom out tonight.
Guardians, did everyone make it?
Three guardians present.
Open your packets.
Visually confirm each other's identity.
Maintain security profile alpha. We rendezvous in New York in two days.
You're right, I'm not a guardian.
I'm just a guy who rigged the black box with explosives.
Don't stop until we get to Brussels, just to be safe.
I'm not slowing down till this thing runs out of gas.
Nikita hasn't called me back.
It's been a while.
Who are you?
I'm a friend of your daughter's. I'm here to get you out. Okay?
Here.
Talk to her.
- You will get her killed. - No, she's safe.
I saved her from Ari's men.
I made her safe.
I told Sergei she was here, not Ari.
My Alexandra is sick, very sick.
Yes?
Mr. Tasarov, we have two guards down...
at the back of the house.
Secure Mr. Semak. Do not leave his side until I tell you otherwise.
Have your men sweep the house, someone is here. Find them.
The Americans took her, and they filled her head with lies.
Lies about Sergei.
Now she wants to kill him?
Sergei wants your daughter dead.
No. No, he wants to help her.
He wants to put her someplace safe...
where doctors can come heal the damage done to her mind...
make her see the truth.
You wanna know the truth?
He hired the Americans to wipe out your family...
so he could take control of Zetrov.
- This is a lie. - I was there, Katya.
I was on the strike team. We had everything. We had alarm codes...
floor plans, security patrol schedules...
all given to us by Semak.
Katya, I killed your husband.
No. Sergei loves me.
He wanted Zetrov and he wanted you.
He had me.
We had each other.
You were having an affair.
That's why you survived that night.
It was part of his deal with Percy, wasn't it?
All right, now you come with me. I'm not asking.
- Nikita! - Aah!
- Let's go. - Okay.
You feeling better?
I don't feel anything now.
That's what you wanted, no?
You were screaming and tearing the room apart.
You could've hurt yourself. I had to do something.
I've lost her again.
Now she'll never come back to me.
Let's hope not.
Sergei, you won't hurt her.
We had a deal.
She and her associate killed half of my men. I cannot let that stand.
You promised not to hurt Alexandra.
But she's not your Alexandra anymore, Katya.
You must see that now.
I see many things now.
Living down here, I've had time to reflect.
You know what I've come to realize?
You like your reflection.
I've seen that I've made mistakes...
but that I can also learn from them.
Sometimes all you need is a slight shift in perspective...
to bring things into focus.
You have had time to reflect.
I've also had time to plan.
Against Oversight?
I told you, they're irrelevant.
As you said, there's always a group behind the group.
If you look close, you'll see there's a door up there.
Where could you possibly go?
To a higher place.
Not the place you're thinking of.
- Phone's a dead end. - We know they're headed home.
Roan's running things. He's how Percy's communicating with them.
- We were his insurance policy. - What?
The guardians. We were the thing that kept Percy alive.
Percy planned for every contingency. In the event of his death...
we were to upload the boxes. Maybe in the event of his capture...
You'd break him out.
I'll stay home until you get here and we'll figure out the Percy stuff then.
Owen thinks we should let him escape and then shoot him.
That's not a bad idea.
Although, we'd probably fight over who got to shoot him first.
And we should talk...
about us and where we stand.
I'll be here.
You don't have to go on this one.
I can talk to Percy, find another agent for Pale Fire.
- Maybe Kelly. - Oh, she'd love that.
I'd never hear the end of it.
Nikita.
I know you hate these kinds of missions.
- With civilians. - It's important to Percy, right?
Be good for me to go.
You're a capable agent.
You don't have to prove that to him anymore.
You once told me that Division was a second chance...
an opportunity to be a new person, make a difference.
This mission, this is how I prove to myself what kind of person I've become.
You know, for years, I've had these memories to hold on to...
an image in my head of what I'd lost.
No matter how bad things got, I could close my eyes...
and they were there.
It's what got you through.
But it was a lie.
And now I can't even trust my own memories.
Her and Semak.
I never had a clue.
You were a kid who loved your parents.
I've wasted so much time...
and energy.
Avenging what?
A father that loved me but wasn't innocent...
and a mother that...
- maybe never loved me at all. - Alex.
I don't understand Katya's choices...
but I do think that she loves you.
You can't know that.
She could have been in on Semak's plan all along.
No, I think that she's misguided and not facing reality.
But when she said that she wanted to keep you safe...
I believed her.
She was afraid of losing you.
She was more afraid of losing him.
I don't know how to get past that.
You don't have to figure it all out right now.
Don't give up on her. Not yet.
I heard you.
On the phone, you...
Even after you knew what she did, you still tried to reach her.
People make mistakes.
They make bad choices.
And then, to make up for them, they make even worse ones.
But if you give them a second chance...
sometimes they surprise you.
Yeah.
Sometimes they do.