Previously on Nikita:
A mutiny? I was afraid this would happen when you told everybody about Danforth.
I did this?
You told 300 trained killers the government has a gun to their head.
Not all of them wanna stick around.
Rachel, we need to lay low.
Division will never get shut down.
We are gonna get there, Chris. We are gonna be free.
Rachel says she's the leader, but that isn't true.
If Division is left standing, people are gonna die.
Give me the gun.
- That plan will still work. - How?
You're gonna 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, give 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.
You had help trying to blow the tracker array.
Someone tried to get you out of Interrogation.
- When you shot Ryan. - Give us a name before anyone gets hurt.
You got me.
It's over.
Oh, this is nowhere near over.
She won't break.
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 she's here is because a lot of other people feel the same way 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 flash traffic you need to see.
It's Danforth.
He's dead.
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.
- After you blackmailed him. - Nikita played the only card we had.
The point 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 has 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 equipment there.
Uh, phone taps, keystroke loggers. Feds do a sweep, they're gonna find it.
- They won't be able to trace that. - If the president learns...
there's unidentified tech in Danforth's place, she'll know we're behind it.
She'll think We killed him.
Owen, get to Danforth's place and clean the scene.
Want the quick version or the full works?
The full works. But also quick.
Copy that.
President's gonna wanna talk to Ryan about this.
What are we supposed to do? Say Ryan lost his voice?
- He's on extended vacation? - No.
We tell her the truth.
We tell her Ryan's been in an accident, but 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.
Think that'll be enough to keep her finger off the SEAL trigger?
Ops, we have a problem.
Owen? Owen?
No response.
- 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?
Sand-
You still alive?
- Sam? - Owen?
Owen.
Owen, are you okay?
What happened?
You called in and 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.
It looks like it's causing his brain to rewire sections that were previously damaged.
- 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 there somebody already there?
No. Nobody was there.
It's like I had a seizure or something. Must have hit my head when I fell.
Well, 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, we finished cleaning.
Birkhoff's hacking their system just to make sure.
I'm gonna go see how he's doing. You should take it easy.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
- Still hurt? - No.
I've 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?
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.
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 gonna break her.
Even if they don't, once Ryan wakes up, he'll ID 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 gonna have to do something about the trackers.
Birkhoff's decentralized the entire array.
We can't just take out one server to bring down the system.
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? I'm trying to make sure if the rabble rousers 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.
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? - Hmm.
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 blackmail him, then we kill him?
- The government's not gonna like this. - I think that's different.
You're right about that.
We can't survive without the Senate.
- You gotta wonder about retaliation. - There's just so many variables.
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?
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.
Are you serious?
Tell me you haven't thought about it.
Birkhoff...
you're the only person I can talk to about this.
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 10 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?
Hey. Michael asked me to check those new security protocols.
- You finish? - Ahem. Yeah, sure.
Did I interrupt something?
No.
Wow. Looks like your friend had a 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?
Yeah? What's it about?
Hey, Scotty. Been a long time.
Sam?
No, no. It can't be.
- You're dead. - We're not here to hurt you.
You don't know me like he does.
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 and 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.
Because 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?
Scotty's mistake was not finishing the job.
You get a man down, you finish him. Else it's gonna bite you in the ass.
It might not happen right away, it might take 10 years...
but it's gonna 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.
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.
It felt like I was medicated the last 10 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.
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.
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 because it's gonna cost you.
You're not really gonna 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...
you just didn't wanna 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. Got caught in the crossfire.
You spent three months recovering in Medical from those bullet wounds.
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 gonna let that happen?
If I gave you access, could you reroute tracker control?
Not with Birkhoff's security protocols. You have to disable those.
- I thought you were taking care of him. - Still working on it.
There's another way. Take control of Ops. Ryan's out of commission.
Nikita's on one of her personal missions. We have a window here.
- Out of the question. - You heard Michael. It's business as usual.
Nothing is gonna 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 gotta 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?
Fifty thousand dollars.
That's it?
I get you Nikita, you think it's worth 50 grand?
This is what's gonna happen. I'm gonna give you a bank-account number...
you're gonna transfer all your funds into it. The entire Tasarov bankroll. Understand?
There is no more bankroll. That's all of it.
My goal was never money.
Sucks to be you.
There's another way.
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 gonna 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 them.
- 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.
Michael, Amanda must have a plan for her.
- She'll keep her alive. - Yeah, but for how long?
I'm taking an Alpha team. You stay here and start the sweep.
Check satellites, cell towers, traffic cams.
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 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?
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 present circumstances in Division.
I introduced her to someone who could link those two worlds.
Look out!
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 is hurt. She needs your help.
Let me see.
Keep pressure on it.
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.
But 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 gonna forget that.
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?
Not yet. But I got everybody in here on the hunt.
Come on, I'll catch you up 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.
- 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.
Considering Ryan's condition right now...
I don't think anybody's gonna 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've 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 can 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.
- They do anything? - No. Critical systems are all secure.
Need command-code access to get at those anyway.
I told these doofuses to stay off my station.
Sean? What are you doing?
I was gonna ask you the same question. Where you going?
I don't have to explain myself.
Sean, wait.
What am I gonna find here, Alex? Huh?
Let's 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.
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, people are gonna get hurt.
You mean like Ryan.
- Help us. - What?
You're the one who 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.
Chris, back off.
- He knows too much. He could expose us. - He's isn't going to. He's with us.
I 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 is the time.
What are you talking about?
We're gonna 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.
Oh.
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.
Take him to Holding.
- I said... - You're not in charge anymore.
Excuse me?
What?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I'm on your side.
What do you think I was just doing?
Keep your head down until this is over.
Till it's over? No, no, no, I'm gonna get out of here right now.
No one leaves until we've secured the facility.
Everyone, stand down.
We're taking charge.
What? Unh!
- Unh!
- Seymour. - Stop!
Stop! No shooting! No one needs to get hurt.
We have Michael in custody and we control the exits.
Disable the trackers and transfer the money. Once that's done, 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.