Nikita tests a virtual reality device and finds herself brainwashed into performing a suicide/assassination.
Nikita and Michael pose as heroin dealers to get close to a dashing, drug-using playboy and arms supplier with ties to Red Cell. When the weapons dealer proposes marriage to Nikita, Operations orders her to accept.
Michael discovers that his wife, Elena, is involved with a Section operative named Corliss. Stefan Vacek, Elena's uncle, heads a terrorist organization that tries to kill Elena and her son by Michael, Adam. When Elena and Adam disappear, Operations informs Michael that they have been taken care of--but are they alive or dead?
To locate a Section communications satellite that has crashed in the southern United States, Nikita and Michael visit a strange, rural town that turns out to be Black Storm's central base. Birkoff's replacement, Corman, theorizes that Oversight or another division of Section intentionally brought the satellite down. Operations directs Davenport to ensure that Michael and Nikita's mission fails.
Nikita continues to suffer the negative effects of Gelman's brain reprogramming, which becomes permanent in five days. With Birkoff and Walter's support, Michael kidnaps Nikita to deprogram her. After being restored to her former self, Nikita returns to Section One, where she lies to Madeline about her true feelings for Michael.
Chosen for a pilot program allowing her to leave Section One but have no contact with either her former or Section lives, Nikita wonders if she's about to be cancelled. George orders Nikita to kill Operations, who supposedly killed her father years ago. Madeline tells Nikita that Operations is really her father, but he will not answer any of Nikita's questions. George reveals the dead body of a look-alike, but which one gave Nikita the order to kill Operations?
Facial prosthetics makes Nikita look like Kate Quinn. Michael and Nikita/Quinn escape from Section One, killing Davenport in the process. Operations orders Madeline to capture them or lose her position. On Madeline's orders, Jason accesses George's files, which reveal George's covert dealings with Red Cell. Operations kills George. (Part two of a three-part episode)
42:51
La Femme Nikita: Abort, Fail, Retry, Terminate
On his computer, Birkoff invents a form of artificial intelligence intended to maintain the system during his upcoming two-month vacation. The computer program develops an agenda of its own and kills Section operatives. Birkoff electrocutes himself to stop the computer.
George sends a two-man bio-tech team into Section One when a mysterious gas enters the headquarters, causing symptoms of a viral infection in several people. Rather than contain the virus, the bio-tech team performs neural scrapes on the Section's top members, totally incapacitating Walter and Nikita. Michael injects George with a syringe, transforming the latter into a Section One puppet.
Injured during a mission, Nikita is taken prisoner by a demented junk collector and declared dead by Section One. Michael is ordered not to use Section One resources to find her. Nikita escapes her captor but is recaptured by the junk dealer's equally deranged mother. Madeline trains Jason to be more like his twin, Birkoff.
Oversight sends a telekinetic 10-year-old boy, who also has the ability to read minds, to help Section One recover a stolen package. But can the boy's powers be controlled?
A new Red Cell regime surfaces, and Operations sends Michael and his team to assassinate Maurice Grenet, the Cardinal's replacement. Nikita escapes Section One, and Michael discovers her connection to Section One's foremost enemy. Section One kidnaps Jason's girlfriend to ensure his cooperation in impersonating his twin brother.(Part one of a three-part episode)
When another Section gets destroyed, Operations sends Nikita and Michael to train a group of hostile, young recruits. Operations uses the team of recruits as bait to destroy a new terrorist group, Crystal Sky, and capture its leader. Crystal Sky captures Nikita and Michael, and the recruits decide to rescue them.
Operations sends Nikita and Michael on a personal mission to help Operations' hero--Willie Kane, a fellow Vietnam War veteran. Walter kills Willie to prevent Operations from learning the truth about his hero, but Operations thinks Willie's murder is a Mob hit and wreaks a staggeringly harsh vengeance. Birkoff discovers he has a twin brother.
42:45
La Femme Nikita: Four Light Years Earlier
Section One captures Nikita and Michael and brings them back to headquarters. Operations and Madeline decide to kill Nikita. Mr. Jones wants Madeline cancelled, but she commits suicide by injesting cyanide. Nikita saves Michael's life, but she refuses to accompany him on his escape from the Section.
In order to stop the sale of an anthrax-based weapon, Nikita infiltrates a mental institution, where the son of the weapon's creator is a patient. But can Nikita overcome the effects of the medication her doctor gives her and electroshock therapy long enough to complete the mission?
Madeline falls in love with Leon, her Red Cell counterpart. Operations orders Madeline to kill Leon, but she shoots Operations instead. A tracking device implanted in Madeline leads Section One operatives to Leon's headquarters, where Operations kills him. Birkoff locates his twin.
Michael discovers that Madeline had Nikita "adjusted" in order to eliminate her emotions and keep her under strict control. Fearing this process will be used on everyone in Section One, Michael attempts to find the mysterious Gelman, the man who created this form of brainwashing. Operations learns of Michael's search and gives the order to have Michael cancelled.
Determined to reverse the effects of Gelman's mind-control process on Nikita, Michael enlists Adrian's aid. Operations and Madeline send Nikita to kill Michael, but he kidnaps her instead. Michael thwarts Operations and Madeline's plan to kill George from Oversight. Michael regains his former status within the Section.
Birkoff uncovers the secret location of Red Cell's base camp, which harbors the Cardinal--the leader of Red Cell--for whom Section has been searching for almost 20 years. When the mission to extract the Cardinal goes awry, Operations decides to kill Birkoff, but Michael possesses evidence to prove the mission was sabotaged.
Madeline intructs Nikita to carry out Operation's order to kill the missing Michael. Nikita has a physical confrontation with Michael when he infiltrates Section One, and she ends up bound and gagged. Michael kidnaps the cryogenically preserved Adrian from Section One, and Birkoff pretends not to see the rogue operative's activities.
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