La Femme Nikita, Season 1

Nikita:
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't kill anyone!

Madeline:
Look at yourself. Admire yourself. See your beauty. You can learn to shoot. You can learn to fight. But there's no weapon as powerful as your femininity. Madeline strokes Nikita's cheek and puts her hand on her shoulder. We're family now, Nikita.

Operations:
It's been two years. That's our policy. We start making exceptions, we're no better than the CIA. Cancel her.

Operations:
If she fails, you fail.

Nikita:
You knew?

Michael:
We had to see if you could improvise. Did you get the PDA?

Nikita:
Why didn't you tell me this was a job, instead of pretending?

Michael:
No matter what state of mind you're in, you have to be able to perform.

Nikita:
You're sick. You don't want a person, you want a machine. I can't do that.

Michael:
You just did.

Michael:
Section One is the most clandestine organization on the planet. It's our job to bring down the criminals and terrorists that no one else can get.

Nikita:
I can't do what you want me to do.

Michael:
Mistakes are not an option.

Nikita:
I can't pull the trigger.

Michael:
Why not?

Nikita:
Because I'm not who you think I am. I'm not a killer.

Michael:
The moment I believe that, Nikita, you're cancelled.

Operations:
Nikita remains a puzzle, she continues to break Section code, and yet she manages to succeed.

Michael:
What code did she break?

Operations:
Please, Michael, you've been here long enough. Information is what we do here. If you don't think that I know every detail of every operation... Why didn't you find Julie the first time you went to Nikita's apartment?

Michael:
I looked everywhere.

Operations:
One would think you didn't want to find her.

Michael:
That's not true.

Operations:
Nikita's not a trainee anymore. She has to be held up to the same standards as everyone else. If you can't demand that of her, then you both become a liability. That'll be all.

Nikita:
Who's Simone?

Michael:
My wife.

Nikita:
Did Simone work for the Section? Michael, you can't tell me you had a wife and she was killed then just drop it, get back to business.

Michael:
Listen, Nikita, you asked me what happened... and I told you.

Nikita:
You told me the facts. Michael, I want to know how you feel. Sometimes you have to let yourself trust someone. I'm right here.

Michael:
Nikita.

Michael:
I wanted to thank you.

Nikita:
I'm so sorry.

Michael:
If it wasn't for the Section, no one of us would have a life. What right do I have to feel cheated?

Nikita:
You have a right to feel anyway you want. Do you want to have a cup of coffee?

Michael:
I'd love to.

Nikita:
Good.

Michael:
You don't have to like the job. You just have to do it. I'll be at the party tomorrow night. His perimeter security is very tight. We'll have to work from the inside. You'll be briefed in the morning. And, ah, get rid of the cat. It's a distraction. When you walked in, it was the first thing you noticed. If I were an enemy, you'd be dead by now.

Nikita:
Sometimes I think you are the enemy.

Michael:
I came to apologize.

Nikita:
You know you're becoming very predictable, Michael. You lie, then you say you're sorry. You lie, then you say you're sorry. Can you come up with anything a little more interesting?

Nikita:
Why shouldn't I... just kill you, hmmm? Why shouldn't I just pull the trigger?

Michael:
I can't think of a single reason.

Madeline:
Do you think there's anything I won't do to get this information from you?

Madeline:
You did your job. Thank you.

Michael:
I'm sorry it had to come to that.

Nikita:
Do I have to love, honor and obey?

Michael:
Just...obey.

Nikita:
Peter's my first, my only...true love.

Stephanie:
You two look so beautiful together.

Michael:
Sage is beautiful.

Stephanie:
You must be in love.

Michael:
We are.

Michael:
Take your clothes off. No... slowly. Perform for me.

Michael:
There you are, bitch!

Nikita:
It's not what it seems!

Michael:
What it seems? You think I'm a fool?

Nikita:
Please! Tell him nothing happened!

Michael:
Where'd you get this dress? It's a disgrace! You're pregnant!

Michael:
Let me give you one piece of advice, mister, don't get married!

Michael:
You were out last night. I called to ask if you wanted to get a cup of coffee.

Nikita:
Why?

Michael:
I like coffee.

Nikita:
First you compliment me on my new sunglasses, and now you're asking me out for coffee?

Michael:
I've been thinking about you lately.

Nikita:
And what have you been thinking?

Michael:
That we might spend more time together outside the Section.

Nikita:
I didn't think there was anything outside Section.

Michael:
There is.

Madeline:
Somehow I don't think it's the mission you're having trouble figuring out.

Nikita:
How did he get here? What's his life like outside? Does he even have one?

Madeline:
Would knowing the answers make you perform your mission more efficiently?

Nikita:
It might.

Madeline:
Is it his life you want to know about, or his heart?

Nikita:
Does he even have a heart?

Madeline:
Michael loved once, very deeply.

Nikita:
Simone.

Madeline:
Some men can only love once. Whether Michael's like that or not, I don't really know.

Nikita:
Gee, Madeline, I thought you knew everything.

Madeline:
I know what I need to know, Nikita. If you can say the same, you'll be all right. Get some rest.

Nikita:
Good night, Madeline.

Nikita:
Michael?

Michael:
We're on standby, so I thought that we could go over that plan again.

Nikita:
I know the plan. I'm sure you do, too.

Michael:
May I come in?

Nikita:
Of course.

Michael:
Then we could have that cup of coffee... or the drink.

Nikita:
All right.

Michael:
No need to leave the apartment. Whatever you have will be fine.

Nikita:
What if I'm out of everything?

Michael:
That will be fine, too.

Nikita:
Are you trying to seduce me? I've never been able to figure you out. Why should today... be different?

Michael:
It's very simple... after Simone, I thought if I ever cared for anyone again... it would have to be someone from outside the Section, but I was wrong. No one from the outside can understand who we are. We fight all the time just to stay alive. Let's not fight what's between us. Let's take what we can get.

Nikita:
You mean there's a backup system?

Michael:
He won't get far. And anyone who went with him, wouldn't have either.

Nikita:
You knew about his plan all the time, didn't you? This was all one big manipulation to keep me from going with him, wasn't it?

Michael:
To keep you alive.

Nikita:
But why? Why bother?

Michael:
(He says nothing)

Nikita:
Welcome back, Michael.

Nikita:
Your cameras. I'm not having them in my apartment any more.

Operations:
You're not?

Nikita:
No. And if you don't like it, you can-

Operations:
We can what?

Nikita:
Cancel me, because I'd rather be dead than watched like an animal in the zoo.

Operations:
Are you sure about that?

Nikita:
I'm very sure.

Nikita:
Madeline, where do you go when you leave here?

Madeline:
Very good. It usually takes the new one several years to ask me that question.

Nikita:
So how many years does it take for you to answer that question?

Madeline:
I don't know. I haven't yet.

Madeline:
You've done a good job with Nikita. She still lacks perspective, that's all. You don't think she's formed any attachment to Wellman?

Michael:
They've only seen each other a couple of times.

Madeline:
That's not what I asked.

Michael:
I don't think she has.

Madeline:
Good! But sooner or later, she will. Whether it's with Wellman or someone else. And when that situation happens, will you be able to handle it?

Michael:
Why wouldn't I be?

Madeline:
That's a question only you can answer.

Madeline:
Your relationship with us is the only real relationship you'll ever have. If knowing that, you still want to proceed. I just hope he's a good cook.

Nikita:
It's not a good time Michael

Michael:
Since when do you decide when it's a good time?

Nikita:
What are you telling me? That I can't see him? That I can't care about him?

Madeline:
One or the other. Your choice.

Nikita:
Can I go now?

Madeline:
The world outside these walls is an illusion. It's not really there for us. We're ghosts

Walter:
You can't dwell on what you can't have. Nikita, look, if you lost an arm you could spend the rest of your life depressed because you can't play the piano... or

Nikita:
Or?

Walter:
Or, you could learn to sing. Do this guy a favor, sugar... learn to sing.

Nikita:
This place, the Section, is full of lies! They talk about all the innocent people they save, well what about the innocent people we hurt? Like the four year old girls who are left just wondering why they've been abandoned?

Michael:
You were warned. You should have never gotten involved. You still believe in free will. In here there's no such thing.

Nikita:
You keep telling me that, Michael, but I don't believe you anymore. You couldn't handle it, could you? You got jealous of Gray because I love him and not you.

Michael:
You don't love me?

Operations:
If you think we just played an impersonal game of global espionage… The fact is, what we do here is try to ensure the safety of every man, woman, and child in this so-called civilized world. There is such a thing as evil. It exists. It’s an insidious force that trickles down to innocent people. Now when we fight that force, we help save those innocent people.

Nikita:
How are you feeling?

Michael:
I'll be fine.

Nikita:
I was worried.

Michael:
I'm glad you came back.

Nikita:
When I was first recruited in the Section, you were my trainer. You decided whether or not I made it.

Michael:
That is right.

Nikita:
How did you make your decision? What were you looking for? Is it some kind of checklist, 7 out of 10 I live, anything less I die? Or is it intuition, gut feeling?

Michael:
I don't believe in intuition. You scores were high, you excelled in all areas. It wasn't a very difficult decision.

Nikita:
So why did Operations resist?

Michael:
Who told you that?

Nikita:
Intuition.

Michael:
Operations didn't like you.

Nikita:
But you did.

Nikita:
I need to know if your admiration for her is purely professional.

Michael:
I thought you would know me better then that.

Nikita:
It's funny you should say that, cause I don't know you at all.

Madeline:
My primary function is to get inside the enemy's head. Anticipate his next move whenever possible.

Nikita:
Are you sure there's nothing wrong?

Madeline:
Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm still strong enough to do this.

Nikita:
Well, you're the strongest person I've ever met.

Nikita:
So why are you here?

Madeline:
To remember.

Nikita:
To remember what?

Madeline:
Who I was.

Michael:
What is it, Nikita?

Nikita:
Michael, she's a nice woman. She loves you. You? You're gonna destroy her.

Michael:
She's not in love with me. She'd feel the same about any man that treated her well.

Nikita:
I see. So, that makes it okay?

Michael:
If you feel so concerned about her, tell her to break off with me. She trusts you, she'll listen. But, first make sure that you're willing to watch more innocent people die while we stand by and do nothing. Because that's what will happen if we don't get the Book.

Nikita:
Death's easy - you don't have to do anything. It's life you have to face.

Michael:
When I was in there and things started to get bad... [...] I thought I was gonna break, but I didn't. I thought of you. You're the only one of us who still has a soul. I'm so sorry, Nikita. We'll never leave this place alive. I don't know what love is anymore... but the only part of me that's not dead is you.

Nikita:
What about all your words?

Michael:
(He says nothing)

Nikita:
I finally get it. I finally know... what attracts me to you. It's the character you pretend to be. The real Michael disgusts me, I'm sure.

Michael:
Can we finish this later?

Nikita:
We're finished!

Michael:
It wasn't all a lie.

Madeline:
What about Michael?

Nikita:
Michael? A friend's someone you can trust.

Madeline:
It's true, Michael has played a role with you from time to time. He's doing his job. It doesn't mean he's incapable of caring.

Nikita:
Michael's not the solution to my problem, Madeline.

Madeline:
What is?

Nikita:
I need to know that, one day, when the Section is done with me, and I have performed all the functions I'm capable of, that I will be free. Will I?

Madeline:
What kind of answer would you like?

Nikita:
The truth?

Madeline:
No. You will never be free from the Section.

Nikita:
Thank you.

Michael:
I can't protect you anymore.

Nikita:
I never asked for your protection.

Michael:
Without it, you'd be dead now.

Nikita:
You seem to care more about that then I do.

Michael:
Why can't you just... do the job?

Nikita:
I tried to tell you.

Michael:
Tell me what?

Nikita:
I'm not who you think I am. I never killed anyone before I came into Section. I know you don't want to believe it, but you know it's true.

Michael:
It's not important what you did. It's what you do now.

Nikita:
I can't change who I am.

Michael:
Then I can't help you.

Nikita:
Why did you ever?

Michael:
I wish things could be different.

Nikita:
Me too.

Madeline:
We may have some problems with him. There was something between them.

Operations:
The question is now, can he let it go?