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221. Adrian's Garden
Written by: Michael Loceff
Directed by: Brad Turner
Guest Cast: Sian Phillips, Anais Granofsky, Jim Murrin, Geoff Murrin,
Ted Atherton
Transcribed by Jean
[Note: Transcript dialgue only until updated.]
NIKITA'S APARTMENT
NIKITA: Hey.
CARLA: Hey. Where you been the past couple of days?
NIKITA: It's a long story.
CARLA: I forgot. I'm not supposed to ask that.
NIKITA: Don't worry about it.
CARLA: How about a glass of wine?
NIKITA: Sure. So, how are you holding up?
CARLA: Okay. I guess...sort of... It's all so sudden, you know. It was like, when he hit me, the person I loved, died.
NIKITA: Well, Carla… I'm sorry that I haven't been able to be here for you…but I'm here now, and you can stay as long as you like.
CARLA: Thanks. You're a good friend.
CARLA: Do you have to get that?
NIKITA: Yup? Hello.
CARLA: Who was that?
NIKITA: They hung up.
CARLA: So, um, you still seeing that guy who used to come around here, what's his name?
NIKITA: Michael?
CARLA: Yeah. What's going on with him?
NIKITA: Nothing.
CARLA: Hmmm. It's too bad. He was cute.
NIKITA: It's Steven.
CARLA: Steven?
NIKITA: Should I send him away?
CARLA: Yeah.
STEVEN: Hi. Is Carla here?
NIKITA: She doesn't want to see you.
STEVEN: I bet she does.
CARLA: It's okay, Nikita. I've changed my mind. Sorry, Nik.
CARLA: We're on our way.
SECTION
OPERATIONS: I see Birkoff's Intel on Central Africa is nearly saturated.
MADELINE: Yes. I've scheduled a Pre-Op for later this morning.
OPERATIONS: That soon?
MADELINE: I want to make this window. Kaddafi's people won't be exposed again for several weeks.
OPERATIONS: It would be nice to put this to rest, once and for all. Who should we give it to?
MADELINE: Michael.
OPERATIONS: Fine. Is there a chance we could have dinner tonight?
MADELINE: What for?
OPERATIONS: You confuse me Madeline. If you don't want to enjoy my company why did you agree to open things up again?
MADELINE: I didn't open anything up. I slept with you. There's a difference.
OPERATIONS: Okay. Then why did you sleep with me?
MADELINE: Because you wanted it.
OPERATIONS: And you didn't?
MADELINE: That's irrelevant. The foreplay ... was becoming a distraction to both of us. It was affecting your work and your decisions. And, in turn, it was affecting mine.
OPERATIONS: That's especially cold, Madeline, even for you. I was wondering if this has something to do with Charles.
MADELINE: What? That you allowed me to believe that my husband had been dead for the past nine years?
OPERATIONS: Yes. You could bear some ill will over that.
MADELINE: Not at all.
OPERATIONS: You didn't have to kill him, you know.
MADELINE: Yes, I did.
OPERATIONS: I'll see you at the briefing.
MADELINE: What we had has been over for years. The other night doesn't change a thing. I think you need to face that.
MICHAEL'S OFFICE
Michael calls Nikita at her apartment, but gets no answer.
BEDROOM
Nikita lays unconscious on a bed in a strange room. Meanwhile, as she slowly wakes up, Michael investigates her empty apartment. In the strange room, Nikita looks around, investigating, until Carla enters.
SECTION: COMM
BIRKOFF: Madeline's waiting for you in Systems.
MICHAEL: I need the password for the clock frequencies.
BIRKOFF: Why?
MICHAEL: We've lost an Operative.
BIRKOFF: Lost an Operative? Who?
MICHAEL: Nikita.
BEDROOM
NIKITA: Who are you?
CARLA: It's not important. I'm here to get you ready.
NIKITA: Ready? Ready for what?
CARLA: You're going to meet someone. We need to make sure you're coherent.
NIKITA: So, what are you? Terrorist?
CARLA: No.
NIKITA: You pretended to be my friend for two years. Very good.
CARLA: You seem to be clearheaded. I'll send someone up in five minutes. Freshen up.
NIKITA: Freshen up!
SECTION: COMM
BIRKOFF: Okay, here you go.
MICHAEL: Southern Spain ...
BIRKOFF: Torremolinos. Looks like a couple kilometers outside the city.
MICHAEL: Do we have anyone in that area?
BIRKOFF: I've got two Panda Teams in Valencia.
MICHAEL: Patch me in.
BIRKOFF: Olen.
OLEN: Yeah, Birkoff. I'm here.
BIRKOFF: Stand by.
MICHAEL: Olen, your priority's been downgraded.
OLEN: You want me to come in?
MICHAEL: No. I'm attaching an address. We'll give you instructions on the way.
BIRKOFF: Michael, something happening. Now it's telling me she's not in Spain.
MICHAEL: What do you mean?
BIRKOFF: Her clock's now reading...Korea ...Inchon…Wait a minute…Forget it. Signal's all over the place. She must have tampered with her clock.
MICHAEL: How? She doesn't even know she has one.
ADRIAN’S HOUSE
ADRIAN: Nothing to be alarmed about, dear. The Section placed a cesium crystal inside of you for tracking. It's probably because you were outside the rim for those six months. It's astonishing, isn't it? How much they can do without your knowledge. "The Operative is to assume that any information revealed under interrogation, no matter how insignificant, will result in the loss of innocent life." Is it still worded that way?
ADRIAN: That's fine, dear. A response isn't necessary. I do need something from you, but I need your compliance and at this point, no doubt, you would no doubt inveigh against any request.
NIKITA: Why am I here?
ADRIAN: It's an orientation. My name is Adrian. Hmmm. I've just been planting a tree peony. It probably won't survive these winds, but the flowers are so beautiful, I thought it worthwhile challenging the odds.
NIKITA: Good luck.
ADRIAN: What are your hobbies, Nikita? We've been watching you for some time, and haven't been able to detect much of an inner life.
NIKITA: I'm sorry. Who are you?
ADRIAN: Someone unlike anyone you've ever met. I gather Madeline has acquired my fascination with horticulture. When you go back, Section won't even know you've been gone. Michael will see to that.
NIKITA: Why would he do that?
ADRIAN: He loves you of course. But you will need to give him a plausible scenario. So, two members of L'heure Sanguine, former colleagues of Michael's, sought revenge for the death of Rene Dion. They grabbed you inside your apartment and took you to Vienna, where you overcame them.
NIKITA: What is this all about?
ADRIAN: What it's always been about; the small matter of saving the world. On your next Mission, something will happen that will convince you of the gravity of all this. Oh, one last thing. Anything you might want to say to Michael -- apart from the story I've just given you -- would endanger his life.
SECTION CORRIDOR
NIKITA: Michael, why are we meeting here?
MICHAEL: Tell me again what happened.
NIKITA: Well, I told you everything I remembered. They wanted to get to you and they mentioned Rene Dion's death. Sounds like revenge.
MICHAEL: Are you sure there's nothing more?
NIKITA: I'm sure.
MICHAEL: It's hard to believe that Rene had friends who could have tracked either of us down.
NIKITA: Yeah. Obviously, he did. So, did you tell anyone?
MICHAEL: No one needs to know.
NIKITA: That's fine with me. Is everything alright?
MICHAEL: Yes. Get upstairs. We have to ready the Mission.
MADELINE'S OFFICE
OPERATIONS: You know Ray Leeds, from Oversight?
MADELINE: Of course. Ray, how are things at the Department?
LEEDS: Actually, I've left.
OPERATIONS: As of today, he's going to be working with us.
MADELINE: Really? Doing what?
LEEDS: Executive strategist.
OPERATIONS: He's not here to take your job. He's here to learn it.
MADELINE: Why?
OPERATIONS: George has been pressuring me for months now to have back-ups in place. In practical terms, it'll help all of us lighten our workloads.
MADELINE: Good. Then I suggest you get started. Five recruits have just been brought in, they need to be evaluated. There's a debrief in progress on Level Three and there's two Missions going out today that need to be profiled. I'll handle Central Africa. I'm already up to speed on it.
OPERATIONS: I was going to take him up to Systems today, get oriented.
MADELINE: Fine. If you'd rather have him to that.
LEEDS: Look, I don't want to get in the middle of any politics here.
MADELINE: All we do here is politics. If you don't want to get in the middle of 'that,' then I suggest you return to the Department.
OPERATIONS: Okay. We can do Systems later this week.
BRIEFING AREA
OPERATIONS: Since the beginning of this century, Central Africa has been the theater of several covert wars engaged in by various Western interests. Currently, secret cells inside one of the French Ministries are planning retaliations .. in areas where they have recently lost influence. This man here, Henri Sauvage, is leading the raids. We have been asked to take him and his encampment out.
MICHAEL: This looks like a straight military operation. Why are we involved?
OPERATIONS: He's not static, and the government hasn't been able to tag him.
BIRKOFF: An advance team is standing by in Rwanda, collecting data for the profile, which should be completed by this afternoon.
OPERATIONS: We're on Standby until we go out.
RWANDA LOCATION
NIKITA: Wait.
MICHAEL: What is it?
NIKITA: Are we sure there's no other variables?
MICHAEL: Why?
NIKITA: No reason. I'm just -- just being careful.
MICHAEL: Everything's covered. Get to your position.
BIRKOFF: Tell me your time.
MICHAEL: Two minutes ten seconds.
BIRKOFF: Looks like there are six bodies in there. I can't tell which one's Sauvage.
BIRKOFF: (via comm) Better flush them all.
MICHAEL: Going to second mark.
MICHAEL: Flush him.
SAUVAGE: Get out!
MICHAEL: Sauvage is down with a tranq. Clean the area. Go back to first mark.
OPERATIVE: Moving to first mark.
SECTION: COMM
OPERATIONS: What's going on?
BIRKOFF: Someone's shooting at us.
OPERATIONS: Sauvage's people?
BIRKOFF: No. They've been contained.
VAN ACCESS
MICHAEL: Take him to Containment.
OPERATIONS: Where's our losses?
MICHAEL: In the van.
OPERATIONS: What happened?
MICHAEL: The shots came from above.
OPERATIONS: Building?
NIKITA: A plane.
OPERATIONS: Did you see it?
NIKITA: I heard it.
OPERATIONS: We're lucky the entire Team wasn't lost.
MICHAEL: It wasn't luck. Rounds were grounded within centimeters of me. Whoever did this could have killed me if they wanted to.
OPERATIONS: Alright, begin with Sauvage then let's start putting this thing together.
MUNITIONS
NIKITA: Hey, Walter.
WALTER: Hi, Sugar. I really hate it when we lose ops.
NIKITA: Yeah, pretty scary.
WALTER: Mm. You okay?
NIKITA: Yeah. I don't think Sauvage did this.
WALTER: Yeah. Analysis shows it doesn't have his signature.
NIKITA: What did it show?
WALTER: Firstly, the ammo's way off. Also, we pulled audio on the aircraft and it doesn't match anything Sauvage could put his hands on.
NIKITA: Tell me about the ammo.
WALTER: A very strange thing. I haven't seen rounds like that in years. We used to use it here. Used mostly for distance. It's gold.
NIKITA: Tell me about Adrian.
WALTER: What?
NIKITA: You know. Adrian; English, mid-sixties. ...
WALTER: Who told you about her?
NIKITA: Is she in the Community?
WALTER: Adrian founded this place. She's the mother of Section One.
NIKITA: Is she alive?
WALTER: I don't know. If she is, she's invisible. Adrian's the only one who ever got away from here.
NIKITA: What was she like?
WALTER: Let's just say that Adrian is the only person Madeline has ever been afraid of.
NIKITA: Mmmmm. So she choose Operations.
WALTER: Choose him? Huh! No, Operations took control himself. And it was a bitter struggle. Left Operations with a whole of enemies and a whole lot of power.
NIKITA: And her?
WALTER: She got what we all want: freedom.
NIKITA'S APARTMENT
STEVEN: Keep your coat on. Let's go.
ADRIAN'S RESIDENCE
ADRIAN: Sit down, please.
NIKITA: Why don't you just quit with the English gentility and tell me what you want from me?
ADRIAN: Together, my dear, you and I are going to destroy Section One. Malcolm, will you bring us in some tea and scones, please?
ADRIAN'S GARDEN AREA
ADRIAN: It started almost by accident. After the engagement in Korea, in the early fifties, there were several factions in the West who were frustrated by the failures of Communism in Asia. They conspired to take down the Capitalist Regimes they saw as impeding their ideology. They targeted civilian populations in many metropolitan areas. It was the aborted birth of modern terrorism. CIA, MI6, Mossad, NATO and a handful of other worked together to prevent the calamity. This is flowering so late this year. It was this federation that gave me the idea to start the Sections.
NIKITA: Sections?
ADRIAN: The others don't matter. Section One is where the power resides.
NIKITA: What did you do exactly?
ADRIAN: I analyzed intelligence, utilized game theory, produced scenarios. I performed the function that would today be served by a Cray supercomputer.
NIKITA: How did you...?
ADRIAN: Steven, why do I hear aircraft?
STEVEN: It's a commercial airliner. They've been rerouted for weather.
ADRIAN: Is this confirmed?
STEVEN: Yes, ma'am.
ADRIAN: You can't be too careful.
NIKITA: You said you wanted to destroy Section. Why?
ADRIAN: I'm certain you've heard many times the rhetoric of sacrifice for the greater good. It's may have even assuaged your guilt over killing all those people.
NIKITA: Actually, it hasn't.
ADRIAN: Of course, my dear. You're different, aren't you? That's one of the reasons you were chosen.
NIKITA: Chosen? To do what?
ADRIAN: Know your history, my dear. It's important. When Operations took over, the original ideals of the Section were being preserved. Then, gradually, almost imperceptibly, things changed. Section began to serve itself.
NIKITA: I don't understand. What is there to serve?
ADRIAN: When you have the kind of capability, the kind of power, that Section wields you're not content to do the bidding of faceless bureaucrats. At least, Operations isn't.
NIKITA: What would he gain?
ADRIAN: He wants to draw the map of the world in his own image. He already owns the heads of state of many Eastern and Middle-Eastern countries. What he doesn't have is critical mass. And when he has that, he can do what he wants.
NIKITA: What would he do?
ADRIAN: It doesn't matter. No one man should be allowed to wield that kind of influence.
NIKITA: What do you want me to do?
ADRIAN: I need someone on the inside. Someone to help me stop Operations.
SECTION
SAUVAGE: I'm not afraid to die.
LEEDS: You're not going to die. I want every detail of your supply lines: country of origin, names of purveyors, destinations.
SAUVAGE: I have no idea what you are talking about.
LEEDS: You're a very handsome man. You take pride in your appearance. Fresh manicure, well-groomed, you're trim, well-appointed.
SAUVAGE: Is that why I'm here? To give you fashion tips?
SAUVAGE: Ow!
LEEDS: We have someone here who can close that up without leaving much of a scar. That is the last warning you will get. You will give me the information I have requested or I will disfigure your face beyond the repair of the most skilled plastic surgeon.
SAUVAGE: They have a group from Turkey ...
OPERATIONS: He's good.
SAUVAGE: I've never met them.
LEEDS: From Turkey, hmmm. Please, continue.
COMM
NIKITA: Hey, Birkoff.
BIRKOFF: Busy.
NIKITA: I need the access code to Level Two.
BIRKOFF: You're not cleared for that.
ADRIAN: Tell him to check the Vickers log file.
NIKITA: Check the Vickers log file.
BIRKOFF: When did that happen?
ADRIAN: Shane and Elston are tied up in South…
NIKITA: ... America. Madeline upgraded me this morning. Thanks, Birkoff.
SECTION: CORRIDOR
NIKITA: I'm in the elevator.
ADRIAN: Enter this code: two-two-one-seven-one.
NIKITA: It stopped on seven.
ADRIAN: Use your pad. There's a port on the right. Try it now.
NIKITA: I'm here.
ADRIAN: You're in an undocumented area. There shouldn't be anyone there.
NIKITA: There isn't.
ADRIAN: Turn right and start walking.
NIKITA: What's stored here?
ADRIAN: Each segment is a Mission. When you see one that's lit, that means it's active.
COMM
MICHAEL: I just saw you talking to Nikita Why is she here?
BIRKOFF: She needed something on Level Two.
MICHAEL: Level Two?
NIKITA: Yeah. She had clearance.
SECTION: LEVEL TWO
ADRIAN: Can you see the end yet?
NIKITA: Yes. It's about fifty meters away.
ADRIAN: Then start looking for lit panels. Find K314.
NIKITA: Got it.
ADRIAN: Good. Open it.
NIKITA: How?
ADRIAN: There's a handle at the bottom. It rolls up. There should be a docking port for your panel somewhere about waist high. Can you see it?
NIKITA: Yes.
ADRIAN: Plug in your panel.
NIKITA: Now what?
ADRIAN: Nothing. Just wait.
ADRIAN: Excellent. All right, dear. You're done. Fold it up and go.
MICHAEL: Hi.
NIKITA: Hi.
MICHAEL: What are you doing here? How did you get access to this level?
NIKITA: I had clearance.
MICHAEL: From whom?
ADRIAN: You can't tell him that. Just say it.
NIKITA: I can't tell you that.
MICHAEL: Why not?
ADRIAN: Tell him you're tracing ...
NIKITA: ... a linkage factor.
MICHAEL: For whom?
NIKITA: Section Four, Northern Europe.
MICHAEL: Why would they use you?
NIKITA: That's all I can tell you. If you want to know more, you could ask Operations. If you do, he'll want to know what you were doing down there.
MICHAEL: Which Bureau op?
ADRIAN: Don't answer him, Nikita. He knows you can't tell him that.
BRIEFING TABLE
OPERATIONS: One of South America's most powerful leaders, President Ricardo Arou, is stepping down next month. This man here, Renzo Marin, is to succeed him. The opposing parties see Marin as a puppet of the West.They want to stop his succession.
LEEDS: We've uncovered an assassination plot. Marin will be making his first public appearance at the palace tomorrow.
OPERATIONS: Birkoff has the appropriate intel to configure a counter against the attempt on Marin's life. Leeds will be managing the operation in place of Madeline, and will supply tactical oversight. He's taking full responsibility for this Mission. Michael, you'll be taking four Teams in. Any questions? Let's get started.
ADRIAN’S RESIDENCE
ADRIAN: I commend you. We've got off to an excellent start.
NIKITA: No. I can't do this anymore.
ADRIAN: But you must!
NIKITA: Look, I got you what you wanted so that you wouldn't hurt Michael. Now leave me out of the rest, please.
ADRIAN: The Mission you've just been called in for, the protection of Renzo Marin, will fail. Marin will die.
NIKITA: Why? Are you going to kill him?
ADRIAN: No. Section will. The Mission is a cover. Operations couldn't buy Marin's allegiance, so he's having him killed.
NIKITA: Why would he bother going through the motions of pretending to intervene?
ADRIAN: Oversight ordered the intervention. Operations will take some of the flak for the failure, but it won't matter. He'll get what he wants.
NIKITA: Which is what?
ADRIAN: The next in line to succeed the President is owned by Operations. The country is an important part of the puzzle for him.
NIKITA: I don't believe you.
ADRIAN: No, I don't suppose you would. After all, the only coping mechanism you have intact is your belief that Section protects the innocent. If you didn't believe that, you'd have been gone long ago, one way or another.
NIKITA: Fine. Whatever. You got what you want. Bring the whole thing down, I really don't care.
ADRIAN: I can't. Only you can.
NIKITA: This is your show, not mine.
ADRIAN: On the contrary. From this point on, nothing can happen without you. I know you have grave doubts about all this, and obviously I can't force you to do something you don't want to do. We'll speak after the Mission. You tell me then what you've decided.
CITY/COMM
BIRKOFF: Okay, Teams One and Three, move to your next mark.
NIKITA: Limo's pulling up to the Palace.
BIRKOFF: On approach. Open up the east-west.
NIKITA: Shouldn't we keep those sides protected?
BIRKOFF: Our Intel says nothing's coming in that way.
NIKITA: Our Intel's over two hours old, Birkoff.
MICHAEL: We're waiting, Birkoff. What's going on?
BIRKOFF: Hold, Michael. We need to check something out.
LEEDS: What's the problem?
BIRKOFF: Nothing. Nikita's refreshing the exposure map.
NIKITA: Birkoff!
BIRKOFF: Good catch. Okay, West Team, pull back. Hold your previous position.
NIKITA: He's pulling in front. We just need to get him up the steps and we're secure
BIRKOFF: Michael, status.
MICHAEL: One-fifty to two-twenty is clean. Still scanning. I've got something.
BIRKOFF: Where?
MICHAEL: Building D, Third Floor.
BIRKOFF: You're right, Michael. He's hot.
NIKITA: We're not cleared. Keep him sealed.
BIRKOFF: That's it. Send him up.
NIKITA: Sure we covered everything?
BIRKOFF: What do you mean?
NIKITA: I don't know. I've just got a feeling that we're missing something.
LEEDS: We don't operate on hunches. Stick to the Profile.
OPERATIONS: What's going on down there?
LEEDS: We took out a shooter. Marin's ready to go up.
OPERATIONS: Good. Get it done.
LEEDS: Send him up.
NIKITA: Team One, go.
LEEDS: What happened?
BIRKOFF: I don't know. Is Marin clear?
MICHEL: No.
BIRKOFF: Send Containment in now. Lock up the perimeter. Make sure every circuit is recording.
MADELINE'S OFFICE
MADELINE: How did it go?
OPERATIONS: Not well. Oversight's not going to let this one go. Marin was important to them. They're going to make us pay.
MADELINE: How?
OPERATIONS: They're rescinding Leeds.
MADELINE: Are they going to take him back?
OPERATIONS: No.
MADELINE: If you hadn't brought in Leeds, I'd be the one facing cancellation now. Instead, it’s him.
OPERATIONS: Yes, that's true.
MADELINE: I thought you did it out of hurt feelings. But it had nothing to do with that, did it?
OPERATIONS: You were right when you said not to dwell on the past.
NIKITA'S APARTMENT
NIKITA: Hello?
ADRIAN: I need to know, dear. Can I count on your support? I can't promise it's going to be easy, there's a lot at stake. You know that now, don't you? Nikita?
NIKITA: Okay. What do I do next?
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