 |
|
211. Psychic Pilgrim
Written by: Michael Loceff
Directed by: Rene Bonniere
Guest Cast: Joaquim de Almeida, Susan Kottmann, Marcus Spilotro, Christopher
Clements
Transcribed by Jean
[Note: Transcript dialogue only until updated.]
BEDROOM
MICHAEL: Have I ever told you how beautiful you are?
NIKITA: Not today.
MICHAEL: Well, you are.
NIKITA: Mmm....
MICHAEL: Beautiful.
NIKITA: Ah, ah, no you don't. That's how you hurt your back in the first place.
MICHAEL: I should report you for that kind of cruelty.
NIKITA: Mm. I know. I know, I know. Michael ...?
MICHAEL: Yes?
NIKITA: I love you.
MICHAEL: I love you, too.
ARMEL'S RESIDENCE
TONIO: Get me Mr. Armel, please.
WOMAN’S VOICE: Yes, sir.
ARMEL: Yes, Tonio?
TONIO: It's the end of the fifth day. Everything checks out, I see no reason to wait.
ARMEL: That's good news. Set it up.
TONIO: Yes, sir.
SECTION: BRIEFING AREA
OPERATIONS: Ten months ago, Franz Gerrin, the leader of the First Flag Terrorist Group, was sent to prison for the air disaster in the Bering Straits. Despite his imprisonment First Flag continues to cause disruption.
WALTER: So their second level is filling in.
BIRKOFF: There is no second level. Every order comes from Gerrin.
OPERATIONS: Which means he's operating from inside prison. The only outsider allowed to visit him is this man here. Joaquin Armel. Armel is Gerrin's attorney. So far our intel has turned up nothing hard on Armel, but he must be the conduit for Gerrin's directives. There's evidence of an upcoming attack; we don't know where or when. Our only lead is Armel.
STILLMAN: Is he exposed?
MADELINE: Yes. But we can't risk a direct assault. His files will be protected. We have to get to them without his knowledge.
STILLMAN: How?
MADELINE: He has vulnerability.
MICHAEL AND NIKITA'S HOUSE
NIKITA: Yes?
ARMEL: My name is Joanquin Armel, and I'd like you to help me.
NIKITA: Help you do what?
ARMEL: Contact my son.
NIKITA: Ah.
ARMEL: Please! I've come a long way.
NIKITA: Just a moment.
ARMEL: He was hit by a car ten months ago. He died instantly.
NIKITA: I'm sorry.
ARMEL: We had an argument that morning over what he wearing to school. Do you understand what I'm saying? We were best friends, he was my life, was everything I am. And he died thinking I was mad at him. I need to let him know how sorry I am, how much I love him.
NIKITA: I am very sorry, Mr. Armel, but there's nothing I can do. Perhaps a grief counselor could help you with your loss.
ARMEL: Please.
NIKITA: I'm sorry.
ARMEL: Maybe, we ....
Nikita closes the door.
COMM
OPERATIONS: What happened?
BIRKOFF: We made contact.
OPERATIONS: How?
BIRKOFF: Armel came to the house.
OPERATIONS: And?
BIRKOFF: Nikita followed the script, she refused his request.
OPERATIONS: What was his reaction?
BIRKOFF: He just left.
OPERATIONS: He'll use force. Tell Michael to prepare. Does Madeline have this?
BIRKOFF: No.
OPERATIONS: Why not?
BIRKOFF: Can't get through to her.
MADELINE'S OFFICE
OPERATIONS: There's something wrong.
MADELINE: My mother is dying.
OPERATIONS: I didn't know you still followed her progress.
MADELINE: It started again last fall. There was something in the air, a scent...burning leaves, took me back to when I was a child. I couldn't help it.
OPERATIONS: Is she being properly cared for?
MADELINE: She's comfortable.
OPERATIONS: Is there any more we can do for her?
MADELINE: No. Not for her -- for me. I'd like to see her. She's senile and has no one, there's no risk.
OPERATIONS: You know I would do anything to help you, Madeline, even break policy. But not this one.
MADELINE: It was wrong of me to ask.
OPERATIONS: Is there anything else?
MADELINE: No.
MICHAEL AND NIKITA'S HOUSE
MICHAEL: I'll be there in about...let’s see...three quarters of an hour? Okay? See you. It smells wonderful.
NIKITA: Just some brioche. I like that tie.
MICHAEL: Who's there?
Armed men invade the house.
MICHAEL: Who are you?
NIKITA: What do you want?
MICHAEL: Don't shoot! Please don't shoot!
NIKITA: Michael!
MICHAEL: We'll give you anything you want -- please don't hurt us!
NIKITA: Michael? Where are you taking us?
COMM
BIRKOFF: Sir, they've been taken.
OPERATIONS: Good.
BIRKOFF: They're at the house.
ARMEL'S RESIDENCE
ARMEL: I am sorry it had to be done this way. I have no intention of hurting either one of you.
MICHAEL: Then why don't you just let us go?
ARMEL: After I speak to my son. You were born with certain abilities, but your father never respected this gift. What it took out of you. He sold it like a commodity -- circuses, police departments -- whoever paid. That's why you ran away, that's why you don't do it anymore.
MICHAEL: It nearly killed her, that's why she doesn't do it any more!
ARMEL: Can you help me, Nikita?
NIKITA: Please, don't ask me to do this.
ARMEL: Have you ever lost someone you loved? I can't bear it. It's an emptiness so deep sometimes I think I'd rather be dead. Please, could you at least just try?
NIKITA: Where did he live?
MICHAEL: Nikita, no!
NIKITA: I'll be careful.
ARMEL: Here, in this house.
NIKITA: I'll be all right, I promise. Show me.
ARMEL: Thank you. His mother died during childbirth. I raised him alone. He was borne December twenty-eighth. Does that matter?
NIKITA: Oh, I don't know anything about astrology.
ARMEL: Can I tell you something about him that can help?
NIKITA: Nothing.
ARMEL: That's his bedroom. He had dozens of those games until he lost interest a couple of years ago.
NIKITA: He had trouble sleeping when you went away.
ARMEL: Went away? Where?
NIKITA: Lisbon.
ARMEL: That's five years ago.
NIKITA: It was the first time you'd left him alone. He never told you, he didn't want you to worry about him. You brought him something back. You gave him this.
Nikita reads from an inscribed book.
NIKITA: To my little artist. I love you with all my heart. Dad
ARMEL: We used to have this joke about the 'real' little artist — Toulouse-Lautrec.
BIRKOFF: They were going to wear matching Lautrec costumes. ...
NIKITA: ...Matching Lautrec costumes on Mardi Gras.
ARMEL: That's right. We were -- we were planning a masquerade party. He died two weeks before.
NIKITA: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm just dizzy. I'm sorry.
ARMEL: You can do this, can't you? You can talk to him!
NIKITA: Yes.
ARMEL: Then do it!
NIKITA: Not now.
ARMEL: When?
NIKITA: Soon. A day or two.
ARMEL: No, do it now! I want to talk to him now!
NIKITA: That's not how it works. I - I need time to prepare. It takes strength.
ARMEL: Nonsense! You can do it!
NIKITA: You broke into my home! Kidnapped me and my husband! I've given you more than I thought I had!
COMM
BIRKOFF: She's transmitting. Triangulate her position. Give me a delta to the target room. Run infrared and microwave, I want to link this directly to the mainframe. We're in the house.
MICHAEL AND NIKITA'S HOUSE
NIKITA: Are you hungry? May I fix you something to eat?
MICHAEL: No, I'm fine.
BIRKOFF: Okay, we're rolling.
NIKITA: Covered?
BIRKOFF: Yeah, they're watching our feed, they think you're in the house. Come back in.
NIKITA: Michael, how did Birkoff know so much about Armel's son?
MICHAEL: From his intel.
NIKITA: And, how about Marti Gras? Armel said that nobody else about it, that it was their little secret.
MICHAEL: Surveillance.
NIKITA: But, how does Birkoff processing the answers so quickly? He's feeding me responses quicker than real time.
SYSTEMS
BIRKOFF: Here's the picture we've been able to construct so far. You were in Louis' bedroom, right here. His router is right behind this wall. I was able to pick up fragments of his transmissions. There's definitely something in the works. But the details are encoded. In order to break the code, we need you to get in here. The encryption key is in a console in this room.
OPERATIONS: Sensitivity on our scanners isn't good enough. We're going to have to get in there. Michael, work it out with the mission profiler. You and Nikita go back in tomorrow.
MICHAEL: When do we have to get back into the house?
BIRKOFF: The tape runs another five hours.
MUNITIONS
WALTER: So, how's things in the suburbs?
NIKITA: Normal.
WALTER: Yeah, we all remember 'normal.' Okay, this is your gear for tonight. It's just comm equipment. You can have your weapons now or you can pick them on site tomorrow.
MICHAEL: How much is there?
WALTER: Let me check.
NIKITA: I've been meaning to ask you: did you choose me for this assignment, or was it Madeline?
MICHAEL: I did. I thought it would be an opportunity for you to improve your field mechanics.
NIKITA: Is that the only reason?
MICHAEL: No.
NIKITA: What's the other reason?
WALTER: Do you want silencers?
MICHAEL: Yes.
NIKITA: As you were saying?
MICHAEL: We're convincing as two people in love.
WALTER: There are seven pieces, total weight forty-seven kilograms. What do you want to do?
MICHAEL: I'll get it tomorrow.
NIKITA: Thanks.
MADELINE'S OFFICE
MADELINE: How is Birkoff's feed? Is it clear?
NIKITA: It's fine.
MADELINE: Good. I know this is a difficult mission. After all, a man has lost his son and we're exploiting that.
NIKITA: How did he die?
MADELINE: He got hit by a car.
NIKITA: An accident?
MADELINE: The answer to the question you're really asking is ... no, Section didn't kill him. By the way, Armel is still watching you. He has to remain convinced that you and Michael are husband and wife.
NIKITA: Is there something wrong?
MADELINE: The average couple who have been married under five years have intimate relations at least twice a week. Also, I would suggest a small argument perhaps about finances or in-laws.
NIKITA: Right.
COMM
BIRKOFF: Nikita, stand by. Okay, they're watching the live feed now.
TONIO: It's all yours.
ARMEL: How is it going?
TONIO: Nothing new.
ARMEL: I was with Gerrin this afternoon. He wants to know when we are going to hit the Embassy.
TONIO: They closed it down. It's empty right now.
ARMEL: Then get them in their homes.
NIKITA: You never told me you had a meeting today.
MICHAEL: I postponed it.
NIKITA: Why? I thought it was your biggest account?
MICHAEL: I can't concentrate on anything until we're past all this.
NIKITA: Don't worry. It'll be okay, I promise. As long as I've got you, I can make it.
MICHAEL: You should get some rest, you must be exhausted.
NIKITA: Not really. I mean, I-I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep, unless....
MICHAEL: You need to relax tonight?
NIKITA: Yeah.
MICHAEL AND NIKITA'S HOME
NIKITA: You're up early.
MICHAEL: I didn't sleep well.
NIKITA: Is everything okay?
MICHAEL: Yeah. Yeah.
NIKITA: Michael…
MICHAEL: What?
NIKITA: What's wrong?
MICHAEL: It was a mistake. What you're doing for Arnel is going to hurt you. You can't expect me to support that.
NIKITA: Oh, I never expected your support. But I do expect your love.
SYSTEMS
OPERATIONS: What's our status?
BIRKOFF: They just left the house.
OPERATIONS: Profile?
BIRKOFF: Support is standing by. Is she okay?
OPERATIONS: Why do you ask?
BIRKOFF: Seems out of it lately. If I didn't know her better I'd think she was almost...
OPERATIONS: What?
BIRKOFF: ...sad.
OPERATIONS: Let me know when we're underway.
ARMEL'S RESIDENCE
ARMEL: Why didn't Michael come with you?
NIKITA: My connection with Michael is too strong. Before I can reach Louis, I must disengage from everything familiar.
ARMEL: May I get you anything?
NIKITA: No. Let's start. Wait. Did they know Louis?
ARMEL: Yes.
NIKITA: Have them stay. Close the blinds. Turn out the lights. All of them.
ARMEL: Throughout the house?
NIKITA: Yes. Any EMF will interfere.
TONIO: Yes, Sir?
ARMEL: Tonio, shut off all the primary circuits.
NIKITA: Give me your hand. What's on Park Hill?
ARMEL: Oak Park Hill? Louis and I went sledding there once. It was many years ago.
NIKITA: What happened there?
ARMEL: I-I don't know.
NIKITA: Here, boy! Over here!
ARMEL: That's right. T'was a terrier. Louis called him from across the street and when he came a car hit him.
NIKITA: Where are they taking him, Daddy? Where are they taking him?
ARMEL: Louis?
NIKITA: He's dead! It's my fault, isn't it?
ARMEL: No, no.
NIKITA: I'm all right now, Daddy. I'm all right now.
ARMEL: Louis, are you there?
NIKITA: Yes, I'm here.
ARMEL: In this room? Can you see me?
NIKITA: I know where you are.
ARMEL: How can I know that its really you?
NIKITA: When we visited Mom, last year in the cemetery, we did something different.
BIRKOFF: ... After you put flowers on her gravesite, you found three rocks...
NIKITA: ...and put them on too. You said that -- that was us...and we'd be together always...like rocks.
ARMEL: Oh, Louis, I miss you so much! Please forgive me.
BIRKOFF: Nikita, we can't get it yet. His security system is still on. You've got to get him to turn it off.
ARMEL: What's wrong?
NIKITA: He's gone.
ARMEL: What do you mean, he's gone?
NIKITA: I don't know. Something's interfering.
ARMEL: What?
NIKITA: There's a power source still switched on. It’s causing a electromagnetic force which is drowning him out. There.
ARMEL: I -- I can't shut that down. Can you do this somewhere else?
NIKITA: No.
ARMEL: Tonio, shut down the security system.
TONIO: The security system?
ARMEL: Just do it!
BIRKOFF: You've got it, Nikita. Keep him busy for another twelve minutes. Michael, you're clear. Go.
NIKITA: It's all right, Daddy. It's all right. I don't want you to worry about me.
ARMEL: I have so many things I want you to know. So many things left to say. Oh, God.
NIKITA: Don't cry, Daddy.
VAN ACCESS
MICHAEL: I didn't have time to get everything, but I think the critical files are there.
BIRKOFF: I'll check them out.
MICHAEL: Did you upload your panel?
NIKITA: Not yet.
MICHAEL: Let's do it now, and then debrief.
NIKITA: All right, I'll meet you up there.
WALTER'S AREA
NIKITA: Hey, Walter.
WALTER: Hey! How you doing, Sugar?
NIKITA: Good. Do you know where they keep the buffered hostiles?
WALTER: Level Five. Why? Who you looking for?
NIKITA: No one in particular, just curious.
SYSTEMS
Nikita finds information about Louis Armel on the computer.
OPERATIONS: He's been treated fairly.
NIKITA: Fairly? He's done nothing. You faked an innocent boy's death to get to his father.
OPERATIONS: Who is not innocent.
NIKITA: What are you going to do with him when you're done?
OPERATIONS: That hasn't been decided, but if I have to sacrifice him, I will. Armel is now the de facto leader of a terrorist network. He's been responsible for bombings and assassinations. One incident alone claimed the lives of over 200 civilians. As you know, sometimes we make very hard choices.
MADELINE'S OFFICE
MADELINE: I'm not going to have this ready for an hour.
OPERATIONS: That's not why I came. I made a decision. I'm not sure it's the right one.
MADELINE: What are you talking about?
OPERATIONS: You can go see her any time.
WHITE ROOM
MADELINE: Hello, Mother. I've been thinking a lot about you lately. About us. You don't know who I am, do you? I didn't think so. After Sarah died, I made a choice. Of course, I didn't realize it was a choice at the time, but it was. I chose to be the person you saw. The girl who killed her sister. I still can't say for sure what happened on the landing that day. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it wasn't. When I heard you were dying, it occurred to me that maybe you never blamed me for Sarah's death, that you loved me all along. If that's true, then I created my own hell and have lived in it ever since.
Madeline’s mother does not respond. Madeline stands.
MADELINE: I hope its true. Good-bye, Mother.
MADELINE’S MOTHER: Sarah? Sarah, is that you?
MADELINE: Yes, Mother. It’s me.
MADELINE’S MOTHER: Sarah...
SYSTEMS
BIRKOFF: The intel we got from the house checks out. They were going after Embassy members in Panama.
OPERATIONS: Have you intercepted?
BIRKOFF: Yes.
MICHAEL: Does Armel know this?
BIRKOFF: Not yet.
OPERATIONS: Take him out.
ARMEL'S RESIDENCE
ARMEL: Gerrin wants to step up the frequency of the bombings. We are still not on the front pages. So, gentlemen...the red circles represent where the hits where...
The Section operatives surround and invade Armel’s meeting.
ARMEL: What the hell is this? You!
MICHAEL: Yes, me.
WHITE ROOM
ARMEL: That's everything -- that's all I know.
MADELINE: Good. Then, we're done. Take him to Disposal.
NIKITA: What about Louis?
MADELINE: What about him?
NIKITA: Can't Armel see him?
MADELINE: What purpose would that serve?
NIKITA: Probably none.
MADELINE: Armel's peace of mind means nothing to us.
NIKITA: It would help mine.
MADELINE: Fine.
HALLWAY
NIKITA: You deserve what you're about to get. But, I thought you should know your son was never harmed. You were a good enough father to spare him from knowing you were really are. That's why I'm giving you this.
Armel can see his son on a monitor.
NIKITA: I wanted you to know he'll be okay.
DINING ROOM
OPERATIONS: I see I have a meeting with Section Four this afternoon.
MADELINE: They want to go over the recruitment numbers with you.
OPERATIONS: Has Birkoff prepared the file?
MADELINE: He'll have it in an hour. What do you want to do with Louis Armel?
OPERATIONS: Louis Armel? Oh, yes, the young boy. What's our exposure if we release him?
MADELINE: If you want to do that I'd recommend some memory modification.
OPERATIONS: Is he of any use to us?
MADELINE: We considered that, but it wouldn't work.
OPERATIONS: Let's do the modification and let him go, but keep him monitored.
MADELINE: By the way, I never thanked you.
OPERATIONS: Did it help seeing her?
MADELINE: No, you were right.
OPERATIONS: I think you should take some time off.
MADELINE: Maybe a couple of days. I see we had a nice result in Hong Kong.
OPERATIONS: Yes.
COMMON AREA
MICHAEL: Did you finish your debrief?
NIKITA: Yes, it's done.
MICHAEL: Was it difficult for you?
NIKITA: The debrief?
MICHAEL: No, the mission.
NIKITA: At the time, no.
MICHAEL: And now?
NIKITA: Well, that sort of depends upon you. How do you feel about it?
MICHAEL: Conflicted.
NIKITA: Well, maybe I can help. We could talk about it.
MICHAEL: I'd love to, but what you need to hear I can't tell you yet.
NIKITA: Yet?
MICHAEL: You know a lot about me, Nikita, but not everything. There are things that have to remain hidden.
MICHAEL: And it has nothing to do with how I feel about
you.
|
|