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311. Walk on By
Written by Michael Loceff
Transcribed by Jean
[Transcript dialogue only until updated.]
COMM
NIKITA: No, it's a few frames later.
BIRKOFF: I don't see how that could be. You were on the second mark by then.
NIKITA: Look, there.
NIKITA: Jamey.
BIRKOFF: What?
NIKITA: Uh, nothing.
BIRKOFF: Well where are you going?
NIKITA: Just give me a minute.
BIRKOFF: I need you for this.
NIKITA: Jamey.
JAMEY: Whoa. Nikita.
NIKITA: Yeah. How long you been here?
JAMEY: Just over a year. What are you doing here? I thought you were dead. I thought you died in prison.
OPERATIVE: Jamey, let's go!
NIKITA: Don't tell anyone.
JAMEY: What do you mean?
NIKITA: You don't know me, and I don't know you.
WAR ROOM
OPERATIONS: Stephanie Groves. First year special service op, Poland. She's been coordinating the Krakow operation, due to culminate in five days. She was grabbed this morning.
MICHAEL: By the target group?
OPERATIONS: Likely. Birkoff?
BIRKOFF: If it is the target group, they'll assume she's attached to government. It'll slow them down, but not for long.
OPERATIONS: Groves has never been in hostile hands before; we don't have a predictor for her response. We have to extract or eliminate her before we can proceed with Krakow.
MICHAEL: Do we have a location?
OPERATIONS: Our advance intel indicates very low resistance. I'm going to open it up as a wet run. We'll use recruits in redundancy positions. Let's get to work.
EGRESS
NIKITA: That's everything.
MICHAEL: Okay, wait for the recruits then lock it up.
NIKITA: Checklist at the van. We'll go over it en route.
JAMEY: You got my pack?
NIKITA: Yeah. Go in, don't screw up.
MISSION VAN
MICHAEL: We're on an eight-minute clock. The hostage is being held in the pool. Three in, two out. Up to five on the circle. Jamey, you stay 90. You're at 270. Take out any of their retreat.
JAMEY: Will there be any?
MICHAEL: How are we doing, Birkoff?
BIRKOFF: There's no change in their configuration. We'll work off your clock.
MICHAEL: We're going into position, use a high frequency if there's a delta.
BIRKOFF: You got it.
NIKITA: Don't ask non-tactical questions.
JAMEY: Why not?
NIKITA: If you've got a problem on point, you can contact me on channel D.
NIKITA: Approaching circle.
BIRKOFF: Go.
NIKITA: Two down on circle.
MALE OP 1: One down, on circle.
BIRKOFF: Hold, Peter.
MALE OP 2: One down on circle.
BIRKOFF: OK Michael, circle's clean. Go.
BIRKOFF: 90 seconds 'til it burns through. Everybody stay where they are. You'll get a pulse.
JAMEY: Nikita are you there?
NIKITA: What is it Jamey?
JAMEY: I got movement on the north neighbor.
NIKITA: Hostile?
JAMEY: I'm not sure, how do I know?
NIKITA: Run your program.
JAMEY: Nothing's coming up. The program's not running.
NIKITA: It is running, you just didn't recycle it.
JAMEY: I forgot how, I'm just going to drop him.
NIKITA: Do you see the A register?
JAMEY: No, I'm just going to shoot.
NIKITA: Don’t shoot; they could be innocent. Wait there.
BIRKOFF: 30 seconds.
NIKITA: Where?
JAMEY: Second floor, lit window.
NIKITA: They're innocents.
BIRKOFF: OK, all units in.
MICHAEL: Nikita, where are you?
NIKITA: Right here. I thought I heard a hostile on the stairs.
MICHAEL: Let's go.
READY ROOM
JAMEY: Hey. I didn't even know this area existed. I always wondered if there was someplace we could talk.
NIKITA: When I tell you to meet me at two minutes past the hour, that's when you show up. Well, this place tolerates no mistakes, you should get used to it.
JAMEY: What are you doing?
NIKITA: I'm giving you a fraction of what you deserve for what you did to Sheridan.
JAMEY: Sheridan? What'd I do to him?
NIKITA: Sold him dope that killed him. Recall?
JAMEY: I was messed up back then. Nikita, I think we all were, come on. You going to help me out here or not?
NIKITA: I don't know yet.
JAMEY: I could use some help, from a friend.
NIKITA: I'm not your friend. I was never your friend, Jamey.
JAMEY: Well, you're the closest thing I've got in this place. Did you tell them I screwed up in the alley?
NIKITA: No, not yet.
JAMEY: Good, don't.
NIKITA: You don't talk to me like that, Jamey!
JAMEY: You want to do this? You know one thing you were always good at? Making deals. Pack of cigarettes, place to crash, remember?
NIKITA: What's your deal?
JAMEY: It's real simple. You help me; I'll help you.
NIKITA: You don't have anything that I want.
JAMEY: What about your mother?
MUNITIONS
JOE: Hey Walter.
WALTER: Oh, hey Joe, let's take a look. They got you running recon in Belize?
JOE: Two days on the beach, you know, I can't say I mind.
WALTER: I used to know a girl who lived outside the city, you know, we're talking old life.
JOE: Yeah?
WALTER: Yeah.
JOE: So?
WALTER: Come back here, get an address, pick it up…and then maybe you could take a couple of flicks? Huh? Huh? I owe you, Joe.
JOE: Yeah, you do.
SECTION ONE: HALLWAY
NIKITA: So tell me about my mother.
JAMEY: I know where she is.
NIKITA: Where?
JAMEY: This was a deal point, remember?
NIKITA: I didn't report you, Jamey. If you don't screw up again, I won't report you. That's the deal. Where is she?
JAMEY: Last I heard, she was looking for you.
NIKITA: Why?
JAMEY: Well, she didn't believe that you’d kill yourself. She kept trying to get them to produce a body, and when they didn't, she was convinced you were still alive. She even hired a detective to find you. And now I know why he didn't.
NIKITA: I don't believe you, she wouldn't do that.
JAMEY: She did, when she stopped drinking, she changed.
NIKITA: Stopped drinking?
JAMEY: Yeah.
NIKITA: Where's she live?
JAMEY: Why? You can't go back there anyway, isn't that like rule number one?
NIKITA: Just tell me where she lives.
JAMEY: Oak Bluffs.
SECTION ONE, A COMPUTER ACCESS POINT
MICHAEL: What are you doing?
NIKITA: Just filling in some gaps from yesterday's mobile. So how's the operative we recovered? Groves?
MICHAEL: She never gave up Krakow.
NIKITA: So we're on schedule?
MICHAEL: We leave Friday.
NIKITA: Anything happening between now and then?
MICHAEL: It's yours. I'm down tomorrow.
NIKITA: Yeah.
MICHAEL: You want to spend the day together?
NIKITA: Well, I'd like that Michael, but I've already made plans. Perhaps another time?
OFFICE BUILDING
NIKITA: Where's Raymond?
RAYMOND: Yes? What is this?
NIKITA: That's a closed-circuit live feed. That's your wife? My partner's waiting to hear from me. If you don't cooperate…do you need details?
RAYMOND: No. What do you want?
NIKITA: Pull up the file on Roberta Wirth.
RAYMOND: Roberta?
NIKITA: Yeah.
RAYMOND: There it is.
NIKITA: Who's James Lowe?
RAYMOND: MI-6
NIKITA: What have you told him?
RAYMOND: I asked him to check into the missing daughter. He, uh, knows about some agencies I don't have access to.
NIKITA: What did he say?
RAYMOND: Nothing. He hasn't gotten back to me yet.
NIKITA: Okay. So here's what you're going to do. You're going to call Mr. Lowe, you're going to cancel your request. Make up something believable.
RAYMOND: And what about Roberta?
NIKITA: You're also going to call her and tell her you're off the case. You're passing the file along to a colleague. Very pretty, your wife. Very pretty.
ROBERTA’S APARTMENT
ROBERTA: What do you mean, you're handing over the case? Miles, what's going on?
RAYMOND: Another case, it's taken priority. I'm sorry Roberta, I just can't put in the time this deserves.
ROBERTA: Well, who's going to take over the case then?
RAYMOND: I'll have someone contact you. I've got to go now Roberta.
NIKITA’S APARTMENT
ROBERTA: Hey, that's a waltz. Want me to teach you how to do it? Come.
MADELINE’S OFFICE
JOE: Did you want to see the report on Belize?
MADELINE: Sit down. Granting personal favors for other operatives violates Section code. May I have the pictures, please? Thank you.
JOE: I told Walter. I knew it was a bad idea. But he said it wouldn't hurt since I was going to be in the country anyway. I mean, what the hell, right?
JOE: You know I've never done anything like this before. This isn't going to be a problem is it?
MADELINE: Please give this to Walter.
JOE: What do I tell him?
MADELINE: Tell him these are the photographs you took and that there's a contact number in the camera's text field. You put it in for him.
JOE: Are we cool?
MADELINE: I'll have to review your record before I decide whether I'm going to put you in abeyance.
JOE: Please. Look, I will never do this again --
MADELINE: Walter's waiting.
MUNITIONS
WALTER: Hey man, good to see you. So how'd it go?
JOE: It was okay.
WALTER: So, did you find Lita?
JOE: Yeah, here.
WALTER: This is great, this is excellent. Well how about you? Did you have a good time?
JOE: I attached a phone number for you. It's in the camera.
WALTER: Hey amigo, you are mas macho….gracias!
MICHAEL’S OFFICE
NIKITA: Can I talk to you?
MICHAEL: I'm busy.
NIKITA: It's important. I uh…I need a favor. Something from my old life's come up.
MICHAEL: What?
NIKITA: My mother.
MICHAEL: What about her?
NIKITA: She's been looking for me. She doesn't believe I'm dead.
MICHAEL: How close is she?
NIKITA: She had an indirect connection to someone at MI-6. I severed it. But she'll keep trying.
MICHAEL: Have you talked to anyone in Procedures?
NIKITA: No. They'll take extreme action. I want to protect her, Michael.
MICHAEL: What do you want me to do?
ROBERTA’S APARTMENT
ROBERTA: I…I don't understand the connection. I mean, do you work at Breamare with Miles?
MICHAEL: No, I'm an independent investigator. Sometimes Miles and I help each other out.
ROBERTA: This just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, Miles was so committed to finding Nikita.
MICHAEL: One of the reasons Miles called me is I have deeper connections in the intelligence community. And if you're daughter's alive, that's how we'll find her.
ROBERTA: Oh, um. Okay. Well, um, excuse all the clutter here. I, um, I didn't know what was important and what wasn't, so I just kept everything.
MICHAEL: Is that her?
ROBERTA: Uh-huh.
MICHAEL: I'll get on the case right away.
BELIZE: A PUBLIC GARDEN
LITA: I can't believe you're here. It's you. Ay, hombre tanto tiempo.
WALTER: I'm here, and it's me.
LITA: The years have been hard. I'm afraid I'm not the woman I used to be.
WALTER: Don't say that Lita, you're beautiful. You know what this reminds me of? The time we were at the party in Belize and we had to run into the garden because it was the only place we could find to be alone.
LITA: My little cousin would never leave.
WALTER: Oh, her. What was her name?
LITA: Era….Maria.
WALTER: Maria, that's it.
LITA: I used to worry that you thought she was prettier than I was.
WALTER: Get out of here, there's nobody prettier than you, Lita. Not then, and not now.
LITA: Stop it, Walter. You're embarrassing me. Si me da pena.
WALTER: That's something else I miss.
LITA: Que?
WALTER: What you did just then, with the flower? Put it in your hair like that. Nobody but you.
LITA: So what have you been doing all these years?
WALTER: Uh - consulting, working for different companies.
LITA: What kind of consulting?
WALTER: Nothing really important.
LITA: Don't you want to tell me about your life?
WALTER: Yes I do.
LITA: Pues?
WALTER: I can't.
LITA: Were you involved in something bad?
WALTER: Oh, no. I'm not a criminal or anything like that.
LITA: Entonces, no entiendo.
WALTER: I work at a place that doesn't exist. No, I mean it - it exists. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? I - I work for an organization called Section One. It's not important. Not now. It's not important.
MICHAEL’S OFFICE
NIKITA: How did it go?
MICHAEL: She's closer than I expected. She wasn't just relying on the investigator. She has other sources.
NIKITA: So what do we do?
MICHAEL: She's not going to stop until she finds you.
NIKITA: I know how this has to end. I'd just like to see her first and, uh…talk to her.
MICHAEL: You know this can't happen.
NIKITA: Why not? Because they tell us it can't? You know that my whole life I - I lived with a mother that was a drunk. She couldn't hear me, couldn't talk to me…But the other day, when I saw her, it was like I saw her for the first time and all those horrible things … just gone. I've never seen her like that. Please…Let me do this. Please. She needs me to forgive her. That's why she's looking for me.
SECTION ONE: UPPER LEVEL
BIRKOFF: We're ten kilometers from a population center. The building has third-level target security. There's no indications of air base defense. Lewis, where's our greatest exposure?
LEWIS: Our target isn't problematic. It's the local authorities we have to worry about.
BIRKOFF: Good. Jamey, why?
JAMEY: It has something to do with egress.
BIRKOFF: No. Anyone?
NIKITA: Actually, Jamey's partially right. According to the panel, local authorities have mixed allegiances. If we get caught mid-op, we couldn't invoke immunity.
BIRKOFF: That's right. The team would be treated as criminals.
JAMEY: So we'd be detained by the locals?
BIRKOFF: No. It wouldn't go that far. Air support would incinerate the entire area. There'd be no one left to be detained.
SECTION ONE: NEAR EGRESS
JAMEY: I just don't understand the sequences! Why don't they just tell me what to do in plain English?
NIKITA: Jamey, it's going to be okay. Look at me. Look at my face. I'm going to be listening on the E channel. There'll be no problems, I'll make sure of it.
JAMEY: I'm not going to make it.
NIKITA: Yes you will. Don't forget, these people went to a lot of trouble to put you here. All right? And I remember once watching you walk into a drugstore and rip it off. You had no fear. You were in complete control. That's all they want.
JAMEY: All right. You're going to be there, right?
NIKITA: Yes. You should go. It's time to load.
SECTION ONE: EGRESS
MICHAEL: Nikita.
MICHAEL: You're not going out on this one.
NIKITA: Why not?
MICHAEL: Personnel change.
NIKITA: Good luck. What's going on?
MICHAEL: If we're going to solve your problem, we have to do it now.
MADELINE’S OFFICE
OPERATIONS: Sit here, please.
MADELINE: Hello Beverly. That's a very pretty dress, did you get it here in the city?
BEVERLY: Yes.
OPERATIONS: So, tell us about your meeting with Walter.
BEVERLY: We were together for six hours and 20 minutes. He picked me up at the airport; we had dinner and went to the public gardens.
MADELINE: What was his emotional state?
BEVERLY: He was nervous at first, but he loosened up.
MADELINE: When?
BEVERLY: I guess it was when we went to the gardens. Or maybe it was me who was nervous. I was worried that he might suspect that I wasn't Lita.
OPERATIONS: Did he mention Section?
BEVERLY: No.
OPERATIONS: What did he say he'd been doing all these years?
BEVERLY: Working for a defense contractor. Doing R and D.
OPERATIONS: So you're saying he maintained integrity?
BEVERLY: Definitely.
MADELINE: Thank you Beverly. You've been very helpful.
OPERATIONS: Was it a clear signal?
ANONIA: Yes. Baseline on the dress. Time on the meeting was 1.3. Emotional
state 1.8.
Location 1.6. Integrity, 7.4.
MADELINE: Thank you, Antonia.
OPERATIONS: Walter betrayed the Section.
MADELINE: What would you like to do?
OPERATIONS: Perhaps he was just purging and it's a one-time event.
MADELINE: Possible. Or it could be the start of a behavioral change.
OPERATIONS: No. I'm not going to cancel Walter. I owe him for Belinda.
MADELINE: What would you like to do about Beverly?
OPERATIONS: Beverly?
MADELINE: She lied to protect Walter. She must have formed an emotional bond.
OPERATIONS: You're right. Take care of it.
ROBERTA’S APARTMENT
MICHAEL: Hi.
ROBERTA: Come in.
MICHAEL: I found your daughter.
HOSPITAL CENTER
MICHAEL: This way.
ROBERTA: My baby. My baby, what have they done to you? What have they done?
MICHAEL: When she was in prison, they offered her an alternative to incarceration. To be a part of a high risk, top secret medical experiment. She knew what she was getting into.
ROBERTA: How could they do this?
MICHAEL: Well, these things happen all the time.
ROBERTA: Is there any hope for her?
MICHAEL: The damage is total.
ROBERTA: Then why are they keeping her like this?
MICHAEL: They were planning to use her body parts to do some other experiments.
But
I was able to gain her release
ROBERTA: You -- you mean I can take her home?
MICHAEL: No. But you can set her free. I'll let you say goodbye to her.
ROBERTA: Nikita? Nikita? I was never a mother to you. You know, when I -- I think back on our time together, I feel like my heart is ripping out, and I'm so ashamed. I … What I need to say to you, sweetie, the reason I tried so hard to find you, is -- is -- that -- that wasn't me. This is me. And you're in my heart. And you always have been. And you al -- you always will be. You know…you know I'm sure that there's -- there's one memory in there -- a fond memory -- and that if you really try hard enough you can find it. Please. I want…I want you to find it, please, and take it with you.
ROBERTA: I want her taken off life support and her organs donated to someone who can use them.
MADELINE’S OFFICE
MADELINE: Yes, Nikita?
NIKITA: Have they come back from Surinam?
MADELINE: Yes, they have. Why?
NIKITA: How did Jamey do?
MADELINE: Well.
NIKITA: So, he'll move on to his next rotation.
MADELINE: Yes, he will. You've taken an interest in him.
NIKITA: It's more than that. I know him. We grew up in the same neighborhood together. We weren't friends. In fact I didn't want anything to do with him, but I did know him and I wanted to tell you that.
MADELINE: I'm glad you did.
SECTION ONE: COMMON AREA
WALTER: Hi sugar!
NIKITA: Hi Walter. Is Michael in his office?
WALTER: Yeah, he just went in. So how are you doing?
NIKITA: I'm okay.
WALTER: Mm…. You look just as beautiful as ever.
NIKITA: So, I gather you had a very good time on your days off?
WALTER: No, good doesn't cover it. It transcends good, great, excellent, on its way to splendido.
NIKITA: So, are you going to see her again?
WALTER: No, I just wanted to see her this once. She's got a life of her own. But it was, um…
NIKITA: It was…
WALTER: Mmmmmm…!
MICHAEL’S OFFICE
NIKITA: I just wanted to … say thank you. That's the kindest thing you've
ever done for me. Thank you.
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