"I still don't see him." "Do you want me to abort, Michael?" "No, stay in position." "He'll show up." "Buy you a drink?" "That's okay." "I'll get the next round." "Cosmopolitan, straight up." " You have incredible eyes." " Thanks." " Wanna hear about my day?" " No, thanks." "Look, I've been watching you for the last twenty minutes." "He's not coming." " What do you mean?" " You got stood up." "It happens." "But that's why I'm here." "Jay Yerkovich." "I'm in for the trade show." " You are, uh...?" " Michael?" " Your name is Michael?" " Is it him?" " Yes." " Okay, hi, Michael." "What do you do?" "Keep a visual." "We won't take him until he leaves the bar." " Perimeter teams are in place." " C'mon, talk to me." "I'm a good listener" " Look, this is a bad time." " What's the deal, blue-eyes?" "You fidget, you talk to yourself." "You're all alone." " What did you say your name was?" " Jay." "Jay..." "This is the deal, Jay." "I'm a secret government agent and I'm working right now, and you're in my way." "Really?" "You show me your gun and I'll show you mine." "Can't do that." "Against regulation." " Are you on a mission right now?" " Yep." "See you in a minute." "Be careful!" "Excuse me." " Mission accomplished?" " Yep." " Good luck at the trade show." " Chicks are crazy, every last one of 'em." "Buy you a drink?" "Hello." "Whoever the hell you think you are, you don't know who you're dealing with." "My people will carve you up and feed you to the dogs." "Let's talk about your people." "They've recently done business with a man named Cyrus Kavali." "You are so far out of your league." "You should've done your homework before you picked me up." "You are dead and you don't even know it!" "Shouldn't take long." "Let me know when you're through." "Gee!" "Look who they sent in now to spook me!" "And who are you guys?" "A couple of accountants?" "I'm scared now." "Where are we?" "Give you the punch line first:" "we're nowhere." "Kavali could be anywhere from the Straights of Gibraltar to the Caspian Sea." " You put markers on his known contacts?" " Satellite and ground based." "Everyone we know or think is involved with him." "What about the military in his country?" "Any sign of defections?" "Our intel there's scarce." "So far nothing's shown up." "They seem to be remaining loyal to the ruling democratic government." " Birkoff?" " Yeah?" "Tell Madeline he's ready." "Till further notice this is the only thing on your desk." "Got it." "How were the new units?" "I think you'll be pleased with the results." "Thank you." "Are we ready to talk, Mr. Golden?" "Three years ago Cyrus Kavali's regime was overthrown and replaced with a democratic republic." "Embargoes were lifted and political prisoners freed." "The economy is finally starting to show signs of recovery." "In his exile, Kavali has been mobilizing support around the globe to re-claim his seat to power." "There are dozens of hostile countries in that region." "Why are we concerned about his?" "Because it's in the midst of so many of our enemies." "Geographically, it's perfectly positioned for tracking and reconnaissance." "Madeline?" "R. J. Golden is one of Kavali's arms suppliers." "He has been kind enough to reveal to us the location of a stockpile of Stinger ...missiles about to be delivered to Kavali." " The plan's simple." "We tag the crates, follow them to their destination." "That's where we find Kavali." " Where are the Stingers now?" " Above an art gallery." "The owner is a Kavali sympathizer who uses his international export privileges to ship him arms." "There's one more of theirs at the southeast corner." " Ten feet from the stairs." " I've got him." "Okay, that brings it to four inside." "Any more outside, Lonnie?" "No." " Just the two at the front." " Alright." "Outside team stay in position." " Michael?" "How much longer?" " Another five." "Birkoff, number four is headed for the stairs." "Don't let him!" "Michael's still up there." "Excuse me....excuse me?" "I'm sorry." "Don't take this the wrong way but" "I represent models who pose for artists and..." " What?" " I'm sorry, let me start over." "I've got a client who's an artist who's requested a model with a body type exactly like yours from what I can tell." "Is there any way I could see you without your clothes on?" "Lame!" "C'mon, Michael." "Nikita can't hold this guy forever." "Two more crates." "Alert the perimeter teams we'll be coming out." "Hurry up." "This van is freezing tonight." "Lonnie, what's going on?" "Lonnie, can you hear me?" " Nikita, switch to B channel, now!" " I'm here." " Who are you talking to?" " I've got a sequence anomaly." "Hang on, Birkoff." " Nikita, where are you?" " I'm here." "What's wrong?" " Someone's coming." " What do you mean?" " Someone took out Lonnie." " How do you know?" "He's got his comm unit." "I'm tracking it." "What do I do?" "What do I do?" "!" " Birkoff, just stay calm." " I can't!" "Yes you can." "Listen to me carefully." "There's a 9-millimeter in the floor." " There should be a clip right beside it." " It's not here!" "It's not here!" " Look in the case." " What case?" "Underneath your seat to the left." " See it?" " Yeah." "Well, chamber the damn thing." "I don't know how!" "Bullet end up into the handle of the gun." "Do it!" "Birkoff, do it!" "Everyone in." "We've been breached." " Shipment's already moving." " Are they on a plane?" "Not yet." "Simon's monitoring the Stingers but he's having some trouble with the frequencies." "I'll check it out." " Is he okay?" " He'll be fine." "We can't be far behind those missiles." "Everybody stays in." " Heard they shot holes in my van." " Why wasn't the clip under the nine-mil?" " Should've been." " Well, it wasn't, ...and Birkoff almost got killed." " I hate to get in your face, sugar, but that clip was close enough." "And the reason Birkoff almost got killed is because he doesn't know how to shoot a gun." "Now, believe me, I have tried to teach him, but tearing him away from those computers is almost impossible." "Can't you fix it?" " No, that's okay." " There's nothing to fix." "I'm not having a problem with the frequency." "It's just a bit fuzzy because we're bouncing it off the repeater." "Yeah, let's work around it then." "Use the deconvolution filter." "I did, at the same frequency as the repeater." "It's twice the frequency as the repeater." "It's called the sampling theorem...?" " Hey, Birkoff." " Oh." "Hi." " You okay?" " Yeah." "Why wouldn't I be?" "Listen, Birkoff, no one expects you to be a cold op." "I'm kinda busy right now." "This is your first time, wasn't it?" "What are you talking about?" "These keyboards are dead!" "You've never killed anyone before, have you?" "I'll deal with it, okay?" "You told me that you killed your sister." "That's why they brought you in." " I lied." " Why?" "Why isn't B channel up?" " Yes, Nikita?" " It's about Birkoff." "What about him?" "I heard he was quite efficient last night." "Are you planning on sending him out right away?" "Why shouldn't we?" "I think he may need a little extra time to recover." "Well, extra time isn't something we have in abundance here." "I know..." " What is it you're not telling me?" " Nothing." "We've known Mr. Birkoff longer than you have." "We appreciate your concern, but we know what he is and is not capable of." " Is that all?" " Yeah." " Madeline?" " Yes?" "We've got a destination on the Stingers" "Good." "Prepare transport." "You better get ready." "The signal has stabilized." "We'll drive within a kilometer." "From there we'll approach on foot." "Kavali has satellite surveillance throughout the entire area." "I can only scramble it 100 meters at a time." "When we get into position set the coordinates on your transmitters ...so Birkoff can monitor." " We need to be in constant communication so I can keep you protected in the blackout radius." "Let's go." "Hold your position." "I've got to keep you centered." "Okay." "Proceed." " Michael, are we still intact?" " Yes." "Why?" "Nothing." "It's okay." "They're exposed!" " Go." "What happened?" " I don't know!" "Is everyone all right?" "What happened?" "I dunno." "One minute we were fine then suddenly we were exposed." "Not today." "The other night at the art gallery." " I already told you." " I know what you told me." "What didn't you tell me?" "Did something happen to Birkoff that's interfering with his ability to help our people?" "If you're withholding to protect him, you're doing more harm than good and endangering yourself." "You forget what we do here." "I don't need hard data to draw a picture but I do need to know where my operatives stand at all times." "Including you." " I'm here for the Section!" " Oh, I hope so." "For the time being, Birkoff will be held in abeyance." "Held in abeyance?" "That's one step aw" "You would cancel Birkoff?" "If he can no longer perform his function here... yes." "Have the tags on the Stingers been compromised?" "Yep." "They've all been removed." "There's no way to trace them now." " So we're back to square one!" " Not quite." "I was able to compensate for Birkoff's miscue." "I used one of my programs to salvage enough data to run another sim." " On what?" " I took infrareds of the shootout, pinpointed the source of the artillery, then linked that ...with the movement afterwards." " You picked them up." "Picked several things up, but what got my attention was this area, here." "Some of the exit movement converged outside Istanbul with two high level" "Kavali contacts we've been watching." "If Kavali's in Turkey then he's ready to make his move." " How sure are you about this, Simon?" " I ran the analysis three different ways." "All right, then we'll proceed quickly, and carefully." "Run a recon first and if the information's consistent, escalate." "Yes, Nikita?" "You told me when I first came here that Section One would become my family." "It's taken me some time but I'm beginning to accept that." "I don't know much about Birkoff, but" "You feel protective towards him like an older sister." " How can I help him?" " He has to help himself." " He's just a kid." " What is it you think you could do?" "I dunno." "I could be a friend." "Maybe he needs that ...more than anything right now." " I doubt it." "But you can try." " Where is he now?" " At home." " Where's he live?" " You don't know?" "Birkoff?" " Hey, can I come in?" " Yeah." "So you really do live in Section." "Madeline showed me your file." "Except for the van, seems you haven't been Outside Section over seven years- that's not healthy." "You killed a cop in cold blood." "Don't tell me what's healthy." " I didn't kill" " Get out of here." "I'm sorry." "I didn't come here to fight with you." "I wanna help." "Simon can't do my job." "He's linear." "A to B to C... click, click, click." "There's more to it than that." "You gotta make connections that aren't there." "No one gets that." "Look I don't understand the stuff you do, but I just know you do it very well." "You should be upstairs right now doing it!" "What happened?" "You can't protect me." "I always thought I could just go on doing my work." "You guys would always be around, keeping me safe." "Never occurred to me anyone would get close enough to shoot at me." "So... you used to think you were safe." "Now you know you're not." "None of us are." "Birkoff, it happens to everyone." "It's called... growing up." " Doesn't mean you have to stop living." " I can't live knowing that I could die." "You will die." "See?" "You just did." " You're crazy!" " Am I?" "Then you'd better get crazy too." "I'm so scared." "Scared?" "Birkoff, you've got it backwards." "Death's easy- you don't have to do anything." "It's life you have to face." "Come on, let's go." "Where are we going?" "We're going out." "Pull out the 240's and replace them with these." "Set the scanners for one meter." "And delete Birkoff's code and upload my program." " Oh." "Hi." " What are you doing?" " We're going out." " What's wrong with the 240's?" " My algorithms need more storage." " Let's go Simon." "Gotta run." "Oh, give me that, will you?" " What are you doing with a K.L. transform?" " I used it to train my program." "You used a K.L. transform to do a location sim..." "Yeah." "Pretty slick, huh?" "What is it Birkoff?" "Let it go." "Come on, it's not our problem." " It's nothing." "It's just..." " What?" "Be careful." "See you when you get back." "This is the place we picked up Golden, right?" "That's right." "Sit down." "Relax." "So, do you ever talk to anyone outside the Section?" "No." " Why?" " Take a look around." "What do you see?" " People." " Anyone look interesting to you?" "Anyone you might want to talk to?" " What about her?" " She smokes." "Well, what about them?" "What about you?" " Me?" " Yeah." "You, me." "The two of us." "Why not?" "You're the best looking girl in the Section..." " And you care about me, right?" " Sure I care." "Then what's the problem?" "I'm a little brother, right." "Birkoff, what about her?" "Out of my league." "Birkoff, we don't even know what league you're in!" "Where are you going?" "What are you doing with a K.L. transform?" "I used it to train my program." "You used a K.L. transform to do a location sim..." "Birkoff, say hello to Ginger." " Hi." " Hi." "I told her about your band." "I hope you don't mind." " My band..." " Yeah." "Sounds pretty cool." " You got a CD coming out?" " Yeah." "Yeah?" "Are you guys, like, doing a video or something?" " I'll be right back." " Nikita!" "Wait...!" "So... what do you play?" " Drums." " Really?" "My brother played drums, but y'know my folks kicked him out of the house." "He made too much noise." "The whole neighborhood was complaining." " Noise..." " You could hear him a mile away." "Nikita!" "Kavali's gonna be waiting for them." "The frequency domain delta's ...way too large for the bandwidth." "They probably" " Woah, woah!" "Slow down, Birkoff." " What are you talking about?" " Simon used a K.L. transform to track Kavali." "Those transforms are way too noisy for the kind of electronics Kavali must have." " So?" " Michael's taking the whole team in exposed." "We've got to stop them." "Their plane's gonna be shot down." "Here." "Here." " My legs are broken." " Do you have the microwave uplink?" " Can't use it." "They'd pick us up." " We'll have to take the chance." "No, we don't!" "We just can't use the voice link." "I sent out a low frequency beam" "If they're looking for us they'll pick it up without giving away our position." "Hold this." "Shut up." "It's been nine minutes since the last transmission." " Were they shot down or did they land?" " We can't tell yet." "Why are all communication channels dead?" "We received a short burst on the alarm frequency just before we shut down." "Switch to LAN sat coverage." "Scan both visible and inferred channels." "Start transmitting in the C band from any satellite we have in the area." " What's on B net?" " I'm getting thirty-second pulses." " Good." "At least someone's still alive." " Birkoff, what's going on?" "Our team was breached." "Whoever is alive is on the ground." " I jammed all satellite and radar." " For how long?" "Maybe six hours." "What do you wanna do?" " Where's Koi?" " He's in the Middle East." " What about Pollach?" " He's on a plane due back tonight." "Is she ready to, uh..." "run a team?" " It's a risk." " I can get him out, but I'll need Birkoff." "Nikita, I don't know if I'm ready to go out in the field." " You are." "Well?" " Alert mobile comm." "Tell them to have an inventory for Nikita in three minutes." "Go." "Go, Birkoff!" " The beacon is in this sector." " How far away are we?" "Another four hours till we land." " What time zone are we going to be in?" " It'll be morning." "Do you think we might be able to land on top of them?" "I'd leave a five kilometer buffer." "We can use the van to pull in." "Good." " Check your comm-set." " Copy P-2." " We're getting close to their beacon." " Is it still low frequency?" "Yeah." "We won't be able to pinpoint the location." "Get us as close as you can." "Team one, you rake north/south." "Team two, east/west." "We'll spread into a dilution pattern." "I'll run a small inter-radius from the van." "21, Birkoff?" " Yeah." "You're all clear." " Signal still strong?" "You should be tripping over them any minute." " We've got 'em." " We found them, Nikita." " All of them?" " Yep!" " All right." "All teams in." " Copy that." "Nikita, I've got movement near you." "Looks like some kind of transport." " Can you hear anything?" " No." " Can I come in Birkoff?" " I can't tell yet." "Birkoff, I hear it." "I see them now." "There's two of them." "They're coming from the south." "Send team two!" "There's no time." "They're closing in on you." "Birkoff, where are you?" "!" "Nikita, over here!" " You okay?" " Yeah." "How many were there?" " I picked up two." " Good." "I got 'em both." "Let's go." "Oh, no!" "Here." "Go!" "Go." "Restore all the J-MEV files." "Run a scan." "Make sure we didn't miss anything." " You sure you want me doing this?" " Why not?" "I messed up." "I thought I had everything covered but I forgot about the noise on those transforms." " You can do it." "Work through it." " Nikita!" " Hey." " I see you're back in the saddle." " Yeah." "You wouldn't believe how disorganized this place can get in a couple of days." "I've got three F.L.T. chips that need total re-programming" " Birkoff, shut up." " Sorry." "Um..." "These E-proms are ready for you." "Do you want me to put them on your desk?" "I'll take them." "That's great." "Thanks." " Gail." "Are we still on?" " I'll see you tonight, Seymour." " Seymour?" " Don't tell anybody, okay?" "I won't." "Nikita." "I'm... not very good at this kind of thing." "Birkoff, you're welcome." "Seymour..."