"Okay, I want admin-level access to the Swiss P.D." "What they see, we see." "Heidi yodels in the woods and someone phones in a noise complaint," "I want to know about it." "It's been eight hours." "She could have crossed the border by now." "No, no, not Zurich--Geneva." "The radius starts here." "What was that exit strategy again?" "No exit strategy." "Cops were improvised." "Was that her call, or was that yours?" "Hers." "What does it matter?" "I'm just trying to figure out how the hell" "Amanda pulled Alex out of the back of a police car, when just an hour earlier, you were sitting three feet away from her." "Because you think the answers are so easy." "No, I think Alex is in danger again." "It doesn't matter what the exit strategy was." "We are going to find her." "We are." "Michael's right." "Amanda's not gonna kill her." "If she wanted that, she would have done it on the spot." "She has a plan." "Whoa." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, I got her." "I got Amanda." "Put it on the map." "No, I mean, I got Amanda on the line." "She's calling in." "Hello, Nikita." "It's prerecorded." "I can't trace it." "I don't know about you, but I found Switzerland to be very fruitful." "I may not have gotten what I came for, but I walked away with something far more valuable." "I guess that's the thing about being on the run." "You never know when things will suddenly turn your way." "The offer I'm going to make should be relatively easy for you." "Hand Ari over to me, and I'll give you Alex." "I'm sending the coordinates for the exchange." "Be there in 48 hours, or Alex dies." "You're not seriously considering this, are you?" "Why not?" "She's right for once." "It'd be an easy trade." "I have the code for decrypting the Black Box." "You hand me over to her, you'll be giving her the key to all of your government's darkest secrets." "She had access to the box's contents before." "We survived." "Yes, that's because I kept her in check." "What do you think she'll do with that information now?" "She'll topple presidents." "She'll cause global conflict." "She'll wipe out Division without even blinking." "That's tomorrow's problem." "Today we save Alex." "I'm assuming it's not even a consideration that you'll be signing my death warrant." "You should have picked your girlfriend better." "Of course, you can give us the password to the Black Box." "That'll give us a chance to negotiate, give her the code without turning you over." " Yes, I can't do that." " Why not?" "Because I don't actually have the code." "I am the code." "It's a subliminal password." "The security system only unlocks after I perform a series of tasks on the computer, very much like playing a video game." "It's a double lock, so Amanda needs to do the same." "The software detects patterns that we ourselves are unaware of." "You guys are just too clever for your own good, aren't you?" "Yes, while my death may be meaningless to you, there are a few things I'd like to point out." "Relax, Ari." "We are trading you for Alex." "But we'll get you back." "As much as you deserve it, we're not gonna let Amanda get her claws into you." " Why not?" " Because..." "Screw Amanda." "Amanda sure knows how to choose her vacation spots." "The coordinates she sent lead to South Ossetia." "Look up "hostile environment" in the dictionary, and I'm pretty sure they're using stock shots from here." "War in '08 pretty much left the place a smoking ruin," "Russians and Georgians still in armed conflict, organized crime groups profiting from the chaos." "It's like the wild west, if the wild west had A.K.s and vodka." "That's why she picked this place for the meet." "She's out of manpower." "This levels the playing field." "Great." "We'll go in small and quiet-- just Nikita and Sean." " And Owen." "Owen's in lockup." "I put him there after he assaulted a guard." "We need him." "We're taking a flight risk through a hostile theater." "It's more than a two-man Op." "The guy's a bull." "I thought you wanted to go in quiet." "Owen will be fine, and we could use him when we recover Ari." " We're recovering Ari?" " After we get Alex back." "We can't let Amanda use him to unlock the box." "Right, but Alex is the priority." "Where am I?" "Shh." "Don't worry about that now." "Careful." "You have been given a lot of sedatives-- phenobarbital, I think, probably some painkillers too." "Are you a doctor?" "A medic." "I'm Larissa." "It's just saline." "You have been out for over 24 hours." "They told me to watch you, make sure you didn't stop breathing." "Who?" "Hello, Alex." "How are you feeling?" "I can't have you dying on me now." "You're the key to getting everything I want." "♪ Nikita 3x14 ♪ The Life We've Chosen Original air date on March 15, 2013" "== sync, corrected by elderman ==" "Well, it's been a long time since we've had a proper conversation." "I'd offer you some tea, but I don't think these people can boil water." "Still keeping high-class company, I see." "The Ossetians are just a partner of convenience." "I was able to fill some of their needs." "Soldiers always need more weapons." "And in return, they've allowed me safe haven in their country." "So what's the plan... torture... videotaped and sent to Nikita?" "Perhaps later." "But for now, let's just keep it casual, hmm?" "Tell me, how are things at Division?" "Fine." "Everyone's very excited about hunting you down." "Hmm." "See, I-it must be stressful, knowing the government could come in and wipe you out at any moment." "Ginkgo biloba helps, so does ginseng." "And Michael and Nikita-- how are they dealing with his disability?" "Been rough, but I think they'll get through it." "I mean, other couples have survived bad haircuts before, haven't they?" "As long as Nikita has Ari, you still have some value, but I never promised to return you in one piece." "Now, about Ari, tell me-- how did Division capture him?" ""Capture"?" "He came in on his own." "That's how desperate he was to get away from you." "Don't gloat, Alex." "It wasn't your victory." "It was Nikita's, as they all are." "You're just a background player." "Status report." "Team touched down in South Ossetia 18 minutes ago." "They're headed to pick up their baggage." "He's gonna be so dead if you don't revive him in the next ten minutes, after which, the tetrodotoxin will kill him for realsies." "Ari looks kind of peaceful dead." "Let's leave him that way." "Sorry, I don't think Amanda's gonna trade for a mostly dead Ari." "If they stay on the back roads, they should avoid the military checkpoints." "Good." "Let me know when they reach the city." "You getting any E.M. interference out of that airport?" "Negative." "All clear on my end." "Okay, cycle the channels on the trackers." "I think whatever primitive transmission standards they're using out there in the land that time forgot might be messing with our signals." "You know, maybe you should go back there and help Nikita with the revival process." "It can get a little bit tricky." "I mean, I know." "I just went through it." "I'm pretty sure she's okay." "She's better at this kind of stuff than anybody." "So what's your deal, man?" "Are you just this guy who latches on to women that he knows he can't have?" "Excuse me?" "Nikita, Alex..." "You got your signals majorly crossed." "I was on the comms when you guys were tracking those terrorists." "I heard your little heart-to-heart." "I don't know what you think you heard, but we were having a conversation, like people do, nothing more." " Sure about that?" " Yeah, I am." "And if you're not, maybe your problem's not with me." "Maybe your problem's between you and Alex." "You know what?" "Maybe I will give her a hand." "Why don't you pull over right here?" "Why are you working with Amanda?" "I do not work for her." "The soldiers-- they tell me to help her." "So you're with the Ossetians." "I'm their prisoner." "When the war broke out, my husband and I gave shelter to the injured." "When the separatists discovered that some of the wounded were Georgians, they accused us of being sympathizers." "They took me with them because of my medical training." "And your husband?" "They stood him up against our living-room wall... and they shot him." "So I'm as trapped as you." "In that case, you can help me get the heck out of here." "It is no use." "This place is filled with soldiers because they store weapons in the building." "It's an old trick." "They know even the enemy would not bomb a hospital." "That will not work." "It is too small." "That won't be a problem." "So how did..." "Alexandra Udinov end up here?" "What?" "I don't" "Oh, I knew you immediately." "Your story was everywhere." "Anya loved hearing about it." " Anya?" " My daughter, seven-- she's with her grandparents." "We used to watch news every night, listen for the word of Russian princess who miraculously came back to life." "It was Anya's favorite fairy tale." "It wasn't exactly a fairy tale in real life." "What happened?" "You had all that money, all that fame." "I chose a different path." "Here, try this." "And you angered this woman-- the one who is so interested in you?" "Amanda." "She's not interested in me." "She's trying to hurt someone else." "I'm just her way of doing it." "So you're just another victim." "Anya would be disappointed." "Ugh." "So where are we?" "Welcome to South Ossetia." "South Ossetia?" "That's not good." "Wasn't exactly our choice." "Here, stay hydrated." "The tetrodotoxin can do a number on your electrolytes." "And if we get stopped, stay quiet." "Let us do the talking." "You try anything," "Amanda won't get a chance to rip you apart." "I'll do it first." "You know, it's no wonder you lost your memories." "Your brain had insufficient power to hold on to them." "If we get stopped, my silence might not be enough." "What are you talking about?" "Zetrov's defense contractors played a major role in the South Ossetian war." "They had me accompany some weapons systems here as a consultant." "I won't go into the details." "Suffice it to say, I'm not a very well liked man around these parts." "Why?" "What'd you do?" "They may believe" "I'm responsible for a massacre... or two." "I told you, South Ossetia--not good." "What's wrong?" "Did you modify those tracker signals?" "Yeah." "I'm still getting that weird interference." "It's narrowband in origin." "It looks like there's another signal coming from inside their truck." "Inside the truck?" "What kind of signal would be coming from in" "Do you recognize it?" "Unfortunately, yes." "Mikey, we got to talk." "You put a kill chip in Ari Tasarov's head?" "Yes, I did..." "During the tetrodotoxin procedure." "I did it to save Nikita's life." "It was never a question that we were gonna do this mission." "Alex's life depends on it." "But we need to be clear about what we're talking about-- giving Amanda the Black Box." "Giving Amanda the Black Box." "Yeah, we understand the consequences." "That's why we're rescuing Ari after we get Alex back, so she can't use him to decode the box, right?" "Give me your honest tactical evaluation of that plan." "It will be tough, but..." "It's a dog-- high risk, low probability of success." "Amanda will be on the move." "She'll have protection." "She'll be on guard." "No." "The smart play is to..." "Kill Ari after we make the trade for Alex." "Kill Ari, and the code dies with him." "Why did you keep us in the dark?" "We could have built a mission plan around that." "Because Nikita never would've let that happen." "She would have insisted on saving him." "She's Nikki." "That's why you sent Owen." "He's the triggerman." "He hates Ari." "Nikita can't know..." "For her own safety." "You're gonna tell her, right?" "Ryan's right." "She'll risk her life for him." " You have to tell her." " No!" "I do not like that you did this behind our backs, but I understand... why you did it in the first place." "But now that it is done, we have got to keep this quiet." "Did I do that right?" "It was perfect." "Come on." "Wait." "No, you go." "I-I'll tell them that you forced me." "It is too dangerous." "No, it'll be all right, I promise." "Look out!" "Let me see." "Let me see." "Okay, keep pressure on it." "Go." "No." "You must." "Birkhoff says there's a weapons cache at a dead drop in the village." "It's not that far." "Owen, why don't you go with Sean, back him up?" "It's okay." "I'll be all right with Ari." "Yes, I understand these small-minded tasks are usually reserved for you, Mr. Elliot, but I'm sure Nikita can handle this on her own." "The only drawback to turning you over to Amanda is that I won't get to watch you die." "Okay." "Why?" "Why do you do that?" "Is that necessary?" "I don't know." "There's just something about him that draws it out of me." "For the life of me," "I don't understand what you see in him." "There's more to Owen than you think." "Amanda was right." "Your compassion will be your downfall." "Amanda is not right about anything." "She has her blind spots, but she excels at ferreting out the weakness of people." "With you, she's aiming directly for the heart." "Only Amanda could use love as a weapon." "As I recall, when you needed some information on Saalim, you were very quick to use my son's safety as leverage." "That was-- I wasn't trying to" "I'm not looking for an explanation or an apology." "I know the rules of the game." "This is the life we've chosen." "And that's also why..." "I know there will be no rescue for me." "Ari, I'm not playing a con." " No?" " No." "I've run the scenario in my head." "Tactically, it doesn't make any sense." "If I was in Ryan Fletcher's shoes," "I wouldn't authorize the mission." "However you parse this, it ends with my death." "Very resourceful, Alex." "It seems you did learn a thing or two from Nikita." "But here's something I've learned." "Aah!" "Stop!" "You have yet another weakness." "Now, about those questions..." "What does it matter?" "Nothing I say will ever help you." "Interesting, isn't it?" "How fiercely you protect Division-- the place you've hated for so long." "How did that happen?" "Oh, right, it was Nikita's idea." "Did she even bother to ask you first?" "No." "Because she doesn't know what I know-- that there's another Alex, one who doesn't take orders, one who gives them." "I've seen her-- the heir to the Zetrov throne." "That was just a dream..." "One you created by pumping me full of drugs." "No." "It was your potential, one you could still fulfill." "Why do you care, Amanda?" "Because one day what you want and what Nikita wants will come into conflict, and I cannot wait to see the look on Nikita's face when it does." "Ugh, Amanda's bullet would be a welcome relief for this headache." "Move your hand." " Son of a..." " What is it?" "What is it?" "Birkhoff, there's a kill chip in Ari's head." "No, no, wait a minute." "Wait--wait a minute." "No, no, no." "You knew about this." " That's crazy." " Birkhoff?" " She knows." " How?" " I don't know." " Birkhoff, answer me." "Yeah, Michael wants to talk to you." "You put a kill chip in his head when the doctors put him under?" " Ryan did." " Then get him on the line." " Nikita, listen to me." " No, we agreed." "The plan was to get Alex and recover Ari." "The plan is too risky." "We could lose the Black Box." "But more importantly, we could lose you." "How are you gonna trigger it?" "There's no way to know from Ops when the trade was done." "You would need someone" "Owen." "Why should we let this bastard live?" "Have you forgotten how many times he's tried to kill us?" "No, I haven't." "And he'll pay for his crimes, but not like this." "Why not?" "This is what he deserves." "That's not your call." "I got something going on up here." "He stabbed me, he lied to me, and then he laughed about it." "I could push the trigger right now." " There's another way." " We don't need another way!" "Give me the trigger." "Ari..." "Why'd you save us?" "I saved myself." "It was the only way I could see not ending up facedown in a ditch." "The way I see it, my options are rather limited." "If I had let you die, the Ossetians would have hung me in the nearest town square or handed me over to Amanda." "Either way, you are still my best hope for coming out of this alive." "Besides, if you die, Amanda wins." "And to quote your eloquence," ""Screw Amanda."" "Here's the trigger." "You should have escaped when you had the chance." " I couldn't do that." " Why not?" "I was told you never leave a friend behind." "Time to go." "Listen to me." "You hold on, okay?" "I'm coming back for you." "No." "You saw how many soldiers there are." "It is suicide." "I have friends coming back for me, and I'm gonna return with all of them." "All right." "But if you can't, don't feel bad." "Sometimes no matter how much you want to help, you can't stop someone from dying." "No, don't do that." "Don't you want to see your daughter again?" "I will." "I will see her." "That's right." "Where did you say her grandparents live?" "I didn't." "They are with my husband also..." "So is Anya." "But she would be so happy... to know that I was friends with Alexandra Udinov." "Mm!" "I'll see you on the other side." "I am not leaving here without you." "Lots of eyes, lots of hardware." "Yeah, that's what Amanda wants." "If we try anything, this place erupts." "After the exchange, Amanda's not gonna stick around." "She's gonna have exfil ready." "I can track Ari's kill chip within a five-mile radius." "If we stay close, we'll be okay." "She'll have security, at least until she's out of the country." "Intercept, takedown, extract-- by my count, this is a four-man job." "Anything less, we got a high risk of failure." "We're getting Alex back." "We're going in at full strength." "Got 'em." "Amanda and Alex plus one." "I'm not leaving here without you." "Come on." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, it's been a regular holiday." "It's good to see you, Ari." "I can't say the same." "No point in drawing this out." "They say with any good trade, both parties leave a little disappointed." "I'm not disappointed at all." "Really?" "Then maybe I didn't ask for enough." "Or maybe you underestimated how much you've given up." "I certainly haven't." "Owen, they're on the move." "Find her transport." "They're in a black van headed west by southwest." "She's got an armed escort." "Thank God." "You okay?" "What did she do?" "I'm fine." "She didn't do anything." "We're going to recover Ari." "What?" "No." "No, there's a woman who was helping me, and she's hurt." "She's being held prisoner by the military." "I said that we would save her." "Okay." "We'll go get her after." "No, she's dying." "She doesn't have time." "Alex, Amanda's gonna use Ari to open the Black Box." "We have to get to her before that happens." "Okay, then you go." "I'm going back for Larissa." "Alex, we need you." "We can't do this unless we go in full force." "There's another option." "Use the trigger." " What trigger?" " Ari has a kill chip." "Nikita could end the threat of the Black Box right now." " No." " Why not?" "Because we don't sacrifice people, we save them." "That's what I'm trying to do!" " Ari is the priority." " Why, because you say it is?" "Alex, please..." "We need you." "Alex." "Let 'em go." "Let's go get Ari." "Come on." "Birkhoff, are you there?" "Alex?" "It's good to hear your voice, girl." "Thanks, we can get all emo later." "Look, I need you to find a hospital." "You hurt?" "No, it's where Amanda was holding me-- somewhere in the combat zone." "Check facilities that the Ossetians could have used for weapons storage." "Okay, just give me a minute." " Is she safe?" " Yeah, yeah, she's with Sean." "According to their trackers, Nikita and Owen have split off." "Owen." "Owen, why haven't you activated the contingency plan?" "Because..." "Nikita has the trigger." "Nikita, I want you to listen to me." "Activating that kill chip is the only smart course of action." " Can't do that." " Why not?" "Because we don't make that choice." "Or have you forgotten that we're not that kind of Division?" "Nikita, it's just you and Owen." "You cannot pull this off." "Nikita?" "Nikita!" "Like I said..." "She's Nikki." "Birkhoff, you find that hospital?" "Yeah, I think so." "I'm sending coordinates of a possible match to Sean's phone now." "Here." "You navigate." "Your turn." "I could refuse." "After I unlock the code, you're just going to kill me anyway." "You of all people should know there are many ways to die." "Over the years," "I envisioned how our relationship might end, Amanda, but I never thought it would end like this." "It didn't have to end at all." "You're the one who betrayed me and went scurrying to Division." "Yes, I know all about that." "It's astonishing how you choose to define your reality." "Division was a last resort after you tried to kill me." "Well, you know what they say-- betrayal is in the eye of the beholder." "Finish the code." "What's Alex and Sean's status?" "They just entered the hospital." " Can you get visual?" " No." "Thermal imaging registers multiple heat signatures in the facility." "Which room?" "I don't know." "Come on, we got to keep moving." "They'll get reinforcements soon." "We will not be able to hold them off." "I'm not leaving her." " Alex, grenade." " I see it." " Alex." " No." "Larissa, no." "Alex." "Alex!" "We have to move." "Hey, hey." "No cover." "We can't take 'em in one strike." "She's got another man in that van." "We need a flanking team to set up a crossfire." "But we don't have 'em." "I'll handle the soldiers." "You take the van." "You can't take them all on, not by yourself." "I'm not gonna take 'em on." "Check it out." "Don't go far." "No more stalling." "Don't-- don't try to talk." "It's the life we've chosen." "It's-- it's the" "The scan's all clear." "No hidden bombs or gas pouches." "I guess Amanda knew better than to turn you into a party piñata." "You okay?" "You zonked out during the exam." "It's been a long last few days." "How you doing?" "Neck's a little stiff." "I think I slept on it wrong." "You were probably talking to her, weren't you?" "I'm fine." "She pass?" "With flying colors." "She's the same old Alex." "You sure you're okay?" "You had me worried there." "Yeah." "If anything, I feel better than ever." "Listen, there's something Owen said about us." "There's nothing Owen could have said about us that I don't already know." "And what I know is you had my back." "Nikita didn't." "She had a mission." "She always has a mission... her mission." " Why didn't you tell me?" " You wouldn't have listened." "So you kept me out of the loop?" "It wasn't my call, but for the record, I think Ryan was right." "It was a bit risky, and we could have lost everything." "I could have lost everything." "You know, say what you will about Ari, but in the end, he's one of Amanda's victims." "And if we're not in the business of saving people from Amanda's cruelty, then what are we doing, Michael?" "I told him I would save him, and he knew he was lost." "Alex left." "And we lost." "I'll be in Ops." "So..." "So..." "I just want to say, job well done." "Look, I know we had some differences over tactics, but we got Alex back, and we recovered the Black Box." "And I cannot argue with those results." "You guys really do make a great team." "== sync, corrected by Oscar TACURA Cardozo =="