Nikita is an American action thriller drama television series that aired on The CW from September 9, 2010, to December 27, 2013, in the United States.[1][2] The series is an adaptation of the Luc Besson's French film La Femme Nikita, the second such adaptation after the 1997 TV series La Femme Nikita.
The series focuses on Nikita (Maggie Q),
a woman who escaped from a secret government-funded organization known
as "Division" and, after a three-year hiding period, is back to bring
down the organization. The main cast in various seasons features Q, Lyndsy Fonseca, Shane West, Aaron Stanford, Melinda Clarke, Xander Berkeley, Noah Bean, Tiffany Hines, Ashton Holmes, Dillon Casey, and Devon Sawa.
The series focuses on Nikita Mears, a woman who escaped from a secret
U.S. government-funded organization known as Division, and after
spending three years in hiding, is back to bring Division down.
Division, created and supervised by an organization called Oversight, is
responsible for black operations including espionage, sabotage, and
assassination. Under the leadership of its first director and founding
member, Percival "Percy" Rose, Division has gone rogue and performs
under-the-table murder-for-hire. To protect himself, Percy has created a
series of 'black boxes', hard drives containing every job Division has
ever done, as leverage to prevent Oversight from removing him and/or
ending Division. Percy's black boxes are hidden in secret locations
around the world, under the protection of Guardians, high-ranking
Division agents.
Division fills its ranks primarily by recruiting young people
with troubled backgrounds, often directly from prison. Division fakes
the recruits' deaths, erases all evidence of their past lives, and molds
them into efficient spies and assassins. The recruits generally do not
have the freedom to leave the agency. Recruits may be "cancelled"
(killed) if their progress is deemed unsatisfactory, and to this end,
Division implants the recruits with tracking devices and kill chips.
Nikita was recruited by Division when she was a deeply troubled
teenager, on death row. Division rescued her, faked her death, and told
her she was getting a second chance to start a new life and serve her
country. Throughout her grueling training, Nikita never lost her
humanity. Once she graduated from recruit to field agent, she broke
Division rules by falling in love with a civilian, to whom she became
engaged and planned to run away. When Division found out and
assassinated Nikita's fiancé, Nikita went rogue. She makes it her
mission to bring down Division, as a way to avenge her fiancé and atone
for the sins she committed as a Division agent. Percy orders Michael,
the Division operative who trained Nikita, to deal with her.
On the outside, Nikita trains a young woman named Alex, who as a
child was saved by Nikita during a mission that killed Alex's father
years ago. Nikita has Alex become a recruit inside Division, working as a
mole to gain intelligence. Over the course of season one, Nikita works
to disrupt Division's operations, with the support of Alex's
intelligence from the inside. Nikita also encounters Gogol, a Russian
security department and established enemy of Division. Nikita slowly
brings other allies to her side, including Michael when he realizes the
true extent of Percy's corruption as well as his own feelings for
Nikita. At the end of the season, Nikita manages to foil Percy's plan to
take over the CIA and gain its top-secret funding. However, she is
forced to go on the run with Michael. At the same time, Nikita loses
Alex when Alex discovers that Nikita killed her father on the Division
mission years ago. When Alex is exposed as Nikita's mole and finds
herself at the mercy of Division and Oversight, Amanda offers Alex a
deal: help Division stop Nikita, and Division will help Alex bring down
the man who ordered the hit on her father.
In season two, Nikita and Michael focus and press their efforts
against Oversight, seeking to destroy the group, which will also cripple
Division at the same time. Division has changed, with Percy being
locked up for his actions in season one, and Amanda taking control of
the organization, with Oversight supervising her. Alex has set her
sights on Sergei Semak, her father's right-hand man and also the one
responsible for ordering his death, who has taken over Zetrov, her
father's company and controller of Gogol. Nikita and Michael manage to
expose and/or kill most of Oversight, with the help of Seymour Birkhoff,
a former Division head technician, who left the organization after
Percy was imprisoned. While trying to bring down Oversight, Nikita and
Michael hunt down the remaining black boxes, finally destroying all but
one. The final black box has fallen into the hands of Gogol's leader,
Ari Tasarov, who is later revealed to be Amanda's lover and exposes her
as a traitor. With the help of the last of the Guardians, Percy escapes
his prison and manages to overthrow Amanda's control of Division,
sending Ari and her into hiding, along with the last black box. Percy
also manages to kill all members of Oversight and puts a plan into place
to use plutonium to gain membership of an unknown group of powerful
people. Having no other choice, Nikita and Michael decide to take the
situation to the president, with the help of Ryan, who has been helping
Nikita on her mission since season one. Alex reconciles with Nikita,
after having finally brought down Semak and restored her father's
company. While her allies attempt to stop Percy's most trusted man,
Roan, from using the plutonium to blow up Washington, DC, Nikita and
Michael infiltrate Division, managing to expose Percy of his corruption
and evil deeds, ending his leadership over the organization. Percy is
killed by Nikita after trying to escape, and Roan is killed by Alex
before he could set off the plutonium. The vice president assigns Ryan
as the new director of Division and gives Nikita the task of hunting
down Amanda and the last of Division's agents whom have gone rogue.
The series borrows many characters, or at least their names, from the 1997 television series La Femme Nikita, which was also based on the French film La Femme Nikita. Maggie Q
portrays Nikita, the protagonist and a former spy and assassin who has
gone rogue and now plans to bring down Division. Q also performs her own
stunts.[3] Shane West
plays Michael, a Division operative who trained Nikita. He sees
Division and its recruits as a kind of family to him, the complete
opposite of Amanda, portrayed by Melinda Clarke, Division's psychologist, interrogator, and a master manipulator. Seymour Birkhoff, Division's computer genius and head technician, is portrayed by Aaron Stanford. The head of Division is Percy, played by Xander Berkeley.
In the season one finale, the audience is introduced to a Senator Madeline Pierce, played by Alberta Watson, who also played the part of Madeline in the former La Femme Nikita television series (Madeline was that series' counterpart to Amanda). Lyndsy Fonseca
portrays Alexandra "Alex" Udinov, a former sex slave and drug addict
who was arrested after a robbery and later became Division's newest
recruit. She is also a mole whom Nikita is using to destroy Division
from the inside. Other recruits include Jaden (Tiffany Hines) and Thom (Ashton Holmes) but their characters are later killed off by Nathan (Thad Luckinbill) and Alex respectively. Dillon Casey portrays the role of Sean Pierce, a former Navy SEAL sent to Division directly from Oversight. Noah Bean portrays Ryan Fletcher, an agent in the CIA, but later takes over Division. Some other notable recurring characters include Ari Tasarov (Peter Outerbridge), Sergei Semak (Peter J. Lucas), Roan (Rob Stewart), and Nathan Colville (Thad Luckinbill).
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