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For a black-ops program called
division that has now gone rogue.
With the help of Alex,
my partner on the inside,
we discovered the location
of a black box,
a hard drive that holds our
government's darkest secrets
and makes Percy and
his division untouchable.
It was guarded by one
of division's deadliest,
an assassin
who killed my fianc�.
I captured him, but he escaped.
Now on the run from division,
he has the black box.
I'm going to get it back,
and then I will take Percy
and division down,
and the last word they'll breathe
before the end will be my name.
[Children's choir singing]
Wait! Wait!
Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!
Wait.
Wait.
Owen?
What the hell
are you doing here?
I had to make sure
you weren't armed.
Who was I kidding?
What do you want?
I started something.
I need your help to finish it.
Owen
What did you do?
This is the situation
in Chile right now,
widespread anti-American protests
over the release of shocking video.
You are about to see footage
from a traffic camera.
This car accident was thought
to have killed Andr�s Quintana,
a candidate in Chile's recent
presidential election.
But this was no accident.
Birkhoff: Brakes disengaged
by hacking onboard system.
We have visual.
Please confirm target is down.
Watch and listen as covert
American operatives
reach into the car and
asphyxiate Quintana,
who had not died
from his injuries.
We need to restrict his airway.
Stand by.
He's fighting it.
We're good.
We're good.
Tango down.
"We're good," he says.
The world bears witness
to the sanctioned ***
of a foreign political
figure by the United States.
No, we just don't do this
kind of blunt work anymore.
Put it this way.
I am not Ollie north,
and this is not 1986.
Now, we have no official word on
who could have pulled this off,
but cover your desks
and stay vigilant.
There will be
retaliation against us.
Who could have done this?
A private contractor?
D.
O.
D.
?
There's no way to tell.
Maybe it's
Fletcher's ghost unit.
Excuse me?
Fletcher?
You got something?
I have been tracking off-book
counter-intel activity for 3 months.
It started with the Mirko
Dadich incident in New York.
Subversion, infiltration
it all points to a single
black-budget organization
funded and sanctioned from
within our government.
Right.
Sir, I've been on desk
rotation for almost a year.
If I could get
back down to Chile,
I could find
some trace of them,
someone they turned
in Quintana's camp,
local hires they made
local hires who made?
I'm not sure,
but these guys are
everywhere and nowhere,
like I mean, like the dark
matter of the universe.
They fill all the empty spaces.
Dark matter.
You know, we deal in facts,
not science fiction.
Better get back to work.
Nikita:
Where the hell is it?
The black box is
in a safe place.
Don't look at me like I'm
some sort of dumb recruit.
I'm in this fight
just as much as you are.
I fired a shot
across Percy's bow.
That's not all you've done.
There is a reason
why I don't release
division operations
to the press, Owen.
First there is chaos,
and then there is a coverup.
Someone will get
framed for this.
Or did you not consider that?
I have a plan.
Oh.
I've heard
that before.
The video didn't come
from the black box.
The video came from this.
Percy sends these
to the guardians,
and we use them to update
the black boxes.
Still not hearing a plan.
There is a division scientist,
designation engineer.
He built the boxes.
He encrypted them.
He set up the entire system.
I released the video, because if Percy
thinks the system is compromised
Then the engineer
will come in and fix it.
Exactly.
And when he does,
it's our chance to locate
the other 6 boxes.
We do that, we take 'em out,
and then we take out Percy.
And how did you think you were
gonna get close to this engineer?
That's why I came to you.
He's gonna report to division.
You got someone on the inside.
Hello, John.
How's your day goin'?
Don't you start with me.
Oversight is
not happy about this.
Oversight?
Are you calling
on behalf of them or
that bloated dinosaur
of an agency
that writes your checks?
Look, you exist because
the group allows it.
You and your division are a tool
of oversight.
You got that?
It was a data breach.
It's being dealt with.
Division will remain invisible.
Yeah, well, don't be so sure.
I have a junior analyst
who's started a file.
He's found your fingerprints
all over the world.
Lucky for you I denied
his request to go to Santiago.
Hey, are you listening to me?!
Send him.
Send him
down there now.
Now, why would I do that?
He's not your problem, John.
He's your patsy.
Excuse me?
Your patsy,
your Lee Harvey oswald,
your scooter Libby,
your who's the guy that said
he fathered John Edwards' kid?
What are you suggesting?
I'm not suggesting anything.
I'm telling you.
We're gonna control
the narrative on this.
Division will create an
electronic paper trail
that will paint your junior
analyst as a political zealot,
an anti-Quintana
firebrand
determined to prevent a radical
shift to the left in Latin America.
What's his name again?
Ryan Fletcher.
You're gonna frame him
for the assassination?
No, John, you are.
Remember, I'm just a tool.
Your assignment for today is to
create an electronic paper trail.
I want you all to pose as a
political zealot online,
someone opposed to the
policies of this man.
Anybody know who this guy is?
I didn't think so.
Letting you kids watch cable
news would only make you dumber.
Browsers open!
You made first strike alone,
knowing that you would need my
asset for follow-through.
Why?
Did you think that I was just gonna
go along with your little plan?
I didn't think you'd help,
all right?
Not after what I did.
Back at the pool,
when you saw it was me
Part of you wanted to kill me.
I don't blame you, nikita.
Stop.
Division made me what I am,
and Percy put me in a cage
to guard his secrets.
I had no idea what I
was helping him do.
Until you came along
stop it.
Stop.
Help me.
We can do this.
If I do this, there's no we.
My operation, my rules.
Say it.
Your rules.
[Computer beeping]
Division's creating an
electronic paper trail
to paint someone
as anti-Quintana.
You were right.
I never considered this kind
of collateral damage.
Actions have consequences
that division
teaches you to ignore.
First thing you have to learn
is forget everything
they taught you.
Do we know who they're framing?
We'll find out.
All right, this engineer,
what's he look like?
He's, like, 40, 45, weird,
glasses, kind of,
um, eccentric.
Weird.
I got it.
Engineer?
You're supposed to be
working on the assignment.
I got a new one,
burying you.
Isn't that the old one?
I have a picture of you
trying to escape division.
Remember?
Nothing lasts forever,
not even a picture.
I got something.
Division's linking this paper trail
to the same IP address every time,
pinged at a home wi-fi, belongs
to Ryan Fletcher of Alexandria.
Oh, here we go.
He consults for
an import-export company,
Madrazo imports,
offices in Virginia
and Santiago, Chile.
Import-export,
that seems a little
like a CIA front.
Framing a company man.
Bold stroke.
[Newscast in Spanish playing]
[Buzzer sounds]
[Knock on door]
Fletcher.
They told me you were comin'.
This place is blowin' up.
What'd you do to get this gig?
Must have been
something I said.
It's times like this,
glad to be down here
in my paygrade keepin' watch.
Why is that?
After it hits the fan,
keeps goin'
right past me to you.
That's beautiful, gil.
It's deep.
Your desk is just
the way you left it.
[Telephone rings]
Fletcher.
There's already
a call for you on 2.
This is Ryan Fletcher.
Listen to me very carefully.
Who is this?
You are being framed for
the *** of Andr�s Quintana.
What?
I have credible intelligence
from an active mission
to compromise you.
Who is this?
I'm a friend.
Ryan, listen to me.
You need to sever ties
and go to ground immediately.
I'm not doing anything until
you tell me who you are
and how you know who I am.
[Automatic weapons firing]
Ryan?
Ryan, can you hear me?
Ryan?!
��nadie se mueve!
��nadie se mueve!
��navaja!
��navaja!
Abajo lo.
What the hell are you doing?
What does it look like?
I'm goin' with you.
As the world
reacts to the assassin
of a political figure
by the United States,
the street protests in Chile
have escalated
to full-scale
geopolitical chaos.
I thought we'd taught nikita
better than this.
I'm not sure putting us
on the news was her play.
I paid a visit to the owner
of the leak site
who posted the video.
He talked?
After some persuasion,
gave up his sources.
I was right.
Owen?
Mm-hmm.
So he is alive.
Now nikita has a partner.
Any mention of the black box?
No.
Apparently he uploaded the
video from a thumb drive.
Can't believe Nikita's getting
involved in all this,
the chaos it's causing.
I suppose if it
serves her mission
to bring down division
She's all about
herself, Michael.
You should know that
better than anybody
after what happened
in tashkent.
Newscaster: And we are
just getting this.
Ryan Fletcher,
a CIA operations officer
has been linked to the Quintana
assassination in Chile.
Fletcher is not under covert
status with the agency
and therefore can
be named publicly.
You framed a CIA agent?
Well, he wasn't
under covert status.
He was a punk analyst
who stepped out of line and
needed to be put in place.
The rebels'll squeeze
a confession out of him,
post it, and by the time
it's been retweeted
around the world,
he will have assumed
room temperature,
and the scandal
will have blown over.
If she's involved,
she's seen this,
and she'll try
and save that agent.
Bring your best team.
If those two are
working together,
they're gonna be hard to stop.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Close the door.
Wait here.
I've got credentials.
I'll tell them Langley sent me
to follow up on the kidnapping.
All I have to do
is cross-reference
this alias with their servers,
find the location
and an I.
D.
Number.
Is there a problem?
You lost me
at "wait here.
"
I have credentials.
You don't.
That makes you
backup.
Got it?
You're used to workin'
on your own, huh?
Kind of just get
right in there,
direct offense.
Solo, right?
Do you know what
I'm not used to?
Sitting outside a building
I'm about to infiltrate
and talking about how I'm
going to infiltrate it.
When I do something, I
just get in there
yeah.
Just wait here.
Welcome to Santiago,
Ms.
Jordyn.
Thank you.
Uh, Ryan was usin'
that desk over there.
You lookin' for anything
in particular?
Rebels.
You must have intel
on their local camps.
Hola, navaja.
It's funny
Langley didn't say anything
about you comin' down.
That's because
they didn't know.
The director
asked me personally.
Really? 'Cause you know
what I think?
I think that you uhh!
Somebody call for backup?
[Broadcast in Spanish playing]
[Banging]
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
I
��callate!
You are going to tell
the world what you did
for your country.
I swear to you
the CIA did not sanction this.
Look, why me?
Huh? You could have taken
anyone in the office,
all of us,
but you came for me.
Why?
Please, li I want
the same thing as you do.
I want to find out
who did this.
Y t�, arregla eso.
Where you going?
We're supposed to be sparring.
I didn't sign up with you.
I signed up with you.
We're besties now, remember?
Just engineer?
It's too cold in here.
You're hoarding gear,
not sides of beef.
Yeah, that's how I roll.
Hey, d-don't
touch that.
Look, what's this about?
Percy told me I was gonna
fix a data breach.
Ok, look, if you won't
tell me your name,
at least tell me what
you are engineer of.
Apparently your future.
Percy: Gentlemen.
I brought you here
because I was
promised a secure,
self-contained
storage system,
and now I find there's a
hole in pandora's box.
First off, it ain't pandora's box.
It's mine.
Second, my system is flawless,
and my encryption is
exquisitely impervious.
The only failure is the human
element, those guardians,
which you brought
into the mi
the guardians are fine.
The breach was caused
by the update drives,
which, last time I checked,
were part of your system.
Uh, why do you even need that?
This thing's got
onboard wireless.
Exactly.
See, birkhoff here
is a signals expert.
Now, I want the two of you to
take this out of the equation.
Update the black boxes
wirelessly
without hurting the encryption.
Great.
Love a challenge.
I've never even seen
one of these before.
What clearance level is this?
My level.
Today's the day you reach
your full potential, birkhoff.
Don't let me down.
Amazing.
You already look lost.
Put that away.
This isn't a cleaner job.
I'm sorry.
That's ok.
I'm new at this hero stuff.
You been doin' it a lot longer.
I'm not a hero, Owen.
We go in hot, we put
Fletcher in the crossfire.
Nonlethal wherever possible.
You got it?
Yeah.
¿qu�� pasa?
Ese no quiere hacer el video.
¿y por qu� me llamaste?
Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.
I have a statement
from the president.
There will be
no questions afterwards.
Quiet enough?
Yeah.
This administration vowed
to uncover the truth
about the horrific events
in Chile,
so it is with a heavy heart
that we confirm tonight
that one of our own, a CIA
officer named Ryan Fletcher,
has squandered his promise
as our best and brightest.
His zealotry has lead to the
senseless death of Andr�s Quintana,
and this office will use
everything in its power
to see him brought to justice.
Your president
stole my thunder.
Oh, well.
��navaja, mu�vete!
[Blade stabs]
[Click] I'm out.
Who are you?
Nikita.
You hung up on me.
Let's go.
Where? Ryan.
Look, I just watched
myself get framed for ***,
and now you two show up.
I warned you that might happen.
Who did this?
You know about
the black ops group.
Let's get you out of here.
We'll talk later.
[Automatic weapons firing]
There's more of them.
Those aren't rebel guns.
Who the hell's out there?
You wanted black ops,
you got it.
Nikita, you're surrounded!
It's over.
Nikita, there's no way out.
He's right.
The only way out
is through the forest.
We'll be totally exposed
and running for days.
We could blow up that truck,
create a diversion,
and flank 'em.
Or we could be smarter,
hide in the forest,
pop 'em off one by one.
We tried quiet.
Didn't work.
Who are you again?
Forest.
They're on the move.
Let's go.
Go! Go!
What a mess.
It's a sign of genius.
Not this.
This.
Got a lot on my mind.
It's not every day
lord Sauron steps down
from mount doom and asks
you to forge the one ring.
Damn it.
There's no way
this codec is ever
gonna fit the satellite bandwidth.
Quantum key distribution
is too sophisticated.
You sure you wrote this?
Are you sure
you're not someone else?
Percy says he plucked you
from obscurity,
that you're a diamond
in the rough.
Well, that's very cute,
but I am not a spice girl,
and I was never, ever obscure.
I was elusive
and a little dangerous.
I was a legend.
Ah, a, uh, shadow walker.
Caused a little craziness
at the Pentagon back in the day.
I was making a statement.
But Sauron captured you,
and now what?
Well, are you still a legend?
[Weapons firing]
United States army!
Drop your weapons!
Drop your weapons!
Hands up!
You, too, Ryan!
Gil
now!
I don't think
escape is an option,
not at 30,000 feet.
If this was a division job,
they'd be sendin' me
in right now
with a couple of
briefcases full of acid.
I'm pretty sure that's what's
waiting for us on the ground.
Even if I could
slip these cuffs,
I don't see a way out of here.
[No audible dialogue]
I do.
My rules, remember?
Say it.
Your rules.
The rebels could have
taken anyone.
They took me.
You don't know that for sure.
Oh, come on, gil.
The white house spokesman
called me out on national tv
few hours after I was grabbed.
This was a coordinated
smear campaign
that I guarantee you was supposed
to end with me in the grave.
What do you want?
I wanna talk to them.
Absolutely not.
You're a prisoner.
How long have you
known me, gil?
You really think that I
would betray my country?
I am trying to find the group
behind the assassination.
Those two represent the
only concrete evidence
I have ever
come close to finding.
They're also the only shot
I got at clearing my name.
Situation is
being contained, John.
How? There are 2
division operatives
and Ryan Fletcher
on that plane.
That kid is squeaky clean
and practiced in the art
of pain in the ***.
He will go public.
I'll handle it.
Well, oversight does not share
your confidence, Percy.
The group is weighing
options as we speak.
If that plane lands,
then that is game over
for division and for you.
You might remind oversight
that I'm still in possession
of all their dirty laundry.
I'll decide
when it's game over.
Finish him.
Scorpion:
Get over here!
Ahh!
Scorpion wins.
How is that even possible?
Killer instinct,
you can't survive without
it in this place.
Present the problem
again, quickly.
Uh, I I got rid
of the flash drive,
but your encryption is too robust
for the satellite bandwidth.
Why?
I don't know.
This thing's got
a white-fi emitter,
isn't even
in the real world yet.
But it is an emitter,
so that means
it's designed to broadcast,
so if I shut off that
functionality during download
Ha!
Yes! Ha ha ha ha!
Frees the mind.
It's switching back
to broadcast mode.
This thing is programmed to upload
to news servers all over the world.
Yes, but only after the guardians
receive the order to broadcast.
Let me guess.
Percy's got the only trigger, right?
No.
Percy is the trigger.
Aha.
Heh.
Ladies and gentlemen,
shadow walker.
[Both laugh]
Thanks, by the way,
for your help with everything.
Problem solved?
I hope so.
I need one thing
to work out today.
Excellent.
Yeah.
Uh, gangbusters.
You satisfied?
Yeah.
The kid was
his own worst enemy,
but he gets it.
You given him
all the encryptions?
He knows 'em better than me.
Good.
First box I wanna
test is in London.
Let's uplink from operations.
That should really be easy,
because this kid is just
oh, my God.
Oh, my God, what did y
what did you do?
[Sniffs] I promoted you.
Now go.
Be brilliant.
Go on.
I'll take
care of this.
Jaden.
Who do you work for?
I'm an independent contractor.
What about the strike team
that chased us
through the woods?
Who are they?
They were specially
trained operatives.
Most of them were assassins.
You're not answering
my question.
What organization?
You've gone rogue
from them, haven't you?
Where are you from?
What?
Where were you born?
St.
Louis.
Why?
Why'd you join the CIA?
I'm asking the questions.
They recruit you?
I signed up in college.
Watched a bunch
of James Bond movies,
wanted free dental?
I had an older brother,
died in Afghanistan in '03.
Gil: All right.
This little exercise
is over.
Come on, kid.
Nikita: No.
I'll talk.
But only to you.
Nikita, don't do this.
We can't trust him.
We are 30,000 feet in the air,
with nothing to look forward
to on the ground.
I have to trust someone.
Let's talk.
You really wanna go above your
paygrade on this one, gil?
'Cause it's about
to hit the fan.
All right, 5 minutes.
***, I know
it's in here somewhere.
At least I got somethin'.
[Voices approaching]
Jaden: Alex.
Alex isn't in her room.
I just think that
she's up to something.
Hey.
I just had to get out
of my room, you know?
Couldn't sleep.
Division?
Just division?
Pretentious, I know.
How can they
be allowed to exist?
Well, they have secrets,
operational details
on covert missions
going back 5 administrations.
Most of it, the oval office
never even knew about.
If this program is
threatened in any way,
the man who runs it will
release those secrets.
How much could he really have?
Enough to turn the world
against us,
our own people against us.
This program,
it's a cancer, Ryan.
We need to get rid of it
without killing the patient.
You can help.
How?
Help me find
their co-conspirators
in the government.
There is a group.
I just
I don't know who they are,
but they sanction division.
What's in this for you?
What do you mean?
What's your angle?
There's no angle.
Why did you and
your partner go rogue?
We're not partners.
We are.
We're trying
to bring them down.
Why?
When I was there,
I did a lot of things
under orders.
I engaged on the black.
Do you understand?
Sins I can never repay.
I don't know how
to come back from that.
Maybe bringing division down
Gets me one step closer.
Ok.
If I do this,
I'm gonna need proof.
This is all the proof
you'll need.
We're gonna need
one thing in return.
Name it.
Get us off this plane.
I'll make sure cleary gets you
protection on the ground.
He means now,
before we land.
Gil, something's wrong.
He's not breathing.
[Choking]
Don't move!
Oh! Hey!
Don't move!
Hey! Easy!
Get back.
Sergeant, no.
Don't move.
Arm! Arm!
We're good!
You should have listened to me!
I have no comment at this time.
Trust me.
I will.
Should have blown that
plane out of the sky
when I had the chance.
If you did that, we'd have no
hope of finding the black box.
That was not an option.
Now our problem is Fletcher.
He's out in the open.
Nothin' we can do about that.
We can ignore him.
We control the narrative.
[Modulated] All I got was the
name of one city.
London.
Got it.
See anything else?
Yes I saw what Percy
is capable of.
Newscaster: John Fiedler,
deputy CIA director
and a career officer
of the agency
has been implicated as the
mastermind of the assassination.
Internal documents
have surfaced that show
Fiedler tried to create
a web history for Fletcher
to paint him as
an anti-Quintana zealot.
Now, our producers have
placed a call in to
This is me
standing in the light.
Good plan.
What'd we get
from the engineer?
There's a new one.
Percy replaced
the old one permanently.
We get anything?
London.
When do we leave?
I have a few things
to take care of here.
It's getting worse inside
for my contact.
Well, if there's
a guardian on the ground
in London, I'll know
what to look for.
I can advance it.
Then call me.
No more surprises.
Oh.
Told you it was safe.
Well, shouldn't we talk
to Ryan?
I mean, there might be some
secret we could use on that.
Or not.
One down, 6 to go.
Seventh one's for Percy.
Oh, uh, you were wrong,
by the way,
you know, back at the camp,
what you said.
About going in quiet?
About not being a hero.