You've seen the annoying promos enough to know the back-story: Nikita was trained to be assassin, she escaped, she's going to help others escape, she's a rock star, hey baby. The episode is far less annoying, thankfully, and revolves around the titular heroine, who's bent for revenge after a secret government agency known as Division trained her to be an assassin and then killed her fiancé. She leaves Division a trail, first by contacting her skeezy foster dad, then by visiting the grave of her lost love and thwarting an op to kill a peace-making African leader. Pissed that Nikita is somehow intercepting their intel, Division head Percy assigns an operative named Michael to take her down. Mike swears he's up to the job, but he's got feelings for Nikita. When Nikita confronts him and Percy at a fancy party, he soft-heartedly agrees to give her a head start before hunting her down. She thanks him by shooting him in the shoulder. That's just one half of the story.
The other half deals with the inside workings of Division. It starts with recruiting a feisty young woman named Alex. We meet Alex when she and a masked companion rob a pharmaceutical company, but things go south. The companion gets away, but Alex is taken in and eventually winds up in Division's training program for young assassins. She struggles against her fate, but is told Division killed her boyfriend and framed her for the job. Then, because they're really thorough, they also faked her death. In the training program, she meets fellow baby assassins, as well as a "teacher" named Amanda, whose job is to turn a bunch of Eliza Doolittles into cold-blooded killers.
Alex still seems very much against the whole idea, but at the end we see that her recruitment was actually by design: She's Nikita's "inside woman," feeding her information from Division computers, while Nikita was her masked companion in the heist. Dun! Stay tuned for the full weecap.
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