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La Femme Nikita Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1997 - 1997
Episode 1
Nikita
Mon, Jan 13, 199743 mins
The story of how Nikita arrives to Section One after being falsely accused of murder. We see her early days training to become an operative in the facilities of Section One and having to accomplish her first mission after what seemed to be just a dinner in a fancy restaurant. She is given false directions about how to escape so that they can be sure she can handle it.
Episode 2
Friend
Mon, Jan 20, 199743 mins
Waiting at a café for an informant who will advise her who the next Section One target will be, Nikita is recognized by her longtime friend Julie, who knew Nikita before she went undercover with Section One.
Episode 3
Simone
43 mins
Nikita plays the part of an impressionable yet very smart and strong person in order to infiltrate an eccentric organization that, among other known crimes, just claimed responsibility of the clash of two airplanes in flight. This is the same organization that as far as Section One knows, was responsible for the death of Simone Samuelle : Michael's wife. During her very first day within the complex, Nikita hears the weird screams of a woman and she is told her name is Simone, that she used to be a government agent and that their leader keeps her alive just in case.
Episode 4
Charity
43 mins
Nikita is assigned to get close to Alec Chandler, without knowing the real reason why. When she begins to fall for him, she learns things that make the assignment truly challenging.
Episode 5
Mother
43 mins
While the clock is ticking on the delivery of a nuclear trigger device to terrorists, Operations sends in Nikita to pose as a criminal super couple's long lost daughter. But finding out the device's location proves more difficult than expected.
Episode 6
Love
43 mins
Section One intercepts a husband-and-wife bodyguard team hired to work for terrorist Perry Bauer. To gain information on Bauer's next strike, Section One assigns Michael and Nikita to impersonate the captured couple and infiltrate Bauer's operation.
Episode 7
Treason
43 mins
Nikita'a latest assignment is to take down a man named Suba. When an attempt goes bad Nikita suspects someone on the team might be a traitor.
Episode 8
Escape
43 mins
Section One operative Eric Webber offers to help Nikita escape from Section One with him, but Nikita does not know whether she can trust him.
Episode 9
Gray
60 mins
After infiltrating Section One's computer system and stealing a directory containing the identity of every operative in Section One, a criminal named Harding arranges a secret auction between Section One and a ruthless terrorist...
Episode 10
Choice
60 mins
After a major drug deal goes awry and results in many deaths, Section One is called in to investigate. One of the dead was an undercover operative in a covert C.I.A. task force assigned to stop the distribution of heroin in North America and Europe.
Episode 11
Rescue
45 mins
Nikita is desperate to recover a wounded Michael when he's left behind after a mission to destroy a chemical weapons plant.
Episode 12
Innocent
60 mins
Nikita realizes that the man Section thinks is the key to a terrorist threat is an innocent victim of bad timing.
Episode 13
Recruit
45 mins
Nikita digs into the past of her violent new recruit Karyn and uncovers shocking facts about the newest Operative.
Episode 14
Gambit
60 mins
Madeline confronts her mysterious past while foiling a terrorist plot to contaminate the water supply with radiation.
Episode 15
Obsessed
43 mins
Michael seduces a hit man's wife to get access to the man's computer, but Nikita's heart aches for the betraying and betrayed wife, Lisa.
Episode 16
Noise
43 mins
Nikita helps Birkoff recover from the aftereffects of his first murder as their mission goes wrong.
Episode 17
War
45 mins
This is the story of one of the most aggressive attacks of "The Red Cell" against Section One. With many operatives having been attacked in their mere apartments, the whole existence of Section One is at stake. - "We are at war and right now, we - are losing!" - says Operations to his surviving teammates. Walter disagrees with many of the measures that are being taken as he says that their defense system is not prepared to confront that kind of attack. The operatives are dismissed without revealing them the location of the new headquarters. Nevertheless, Michael reveals this info to Nikita. Nikita and later Michael will be captured by the Red Cell that will use any means necessary to try to take the data out of any of them.
Episode 18
Missing
45 mins
Operations offers Nikita her freedom if she agrees to keep his son, an arms dealer, alive.
Episode 19
Voices
45 mins
A serial killer picks the wrong victim when he attacks Nikita. But after she sends him on his way, a cop on the case begins searching for her as a vital witness to the man's crimes.
Episode 20
Brainwash
Sun, Sep 21, 199745 mins
Nikita tests a virtual reality device and finds herself brainwashed into performing a suicide/assassination.
Episode 21
Verdict
45 mins
An assassin kidnaps Jovan Mijovoch along with bodyguard Nikita, who is torn when she hears the killer's story.
Episode 22
Mercy
45 mins
Nikita is sent on a suicide mission and Michael tries desperately to save her.