La Femme Nikita

While living in a crime-ridden neighborhood, young, beautiful Nikita Samuelle is wrongly accused of murdering a police officer who had been harassing and blackmailing her. Expecting life imprisonment, Nikita instead finds herself forced to work for a ruthless, top-secret government organization, Section One, which stages a fake suicide to cover her disappearance. Under the tutelage of a mysterious agent named Michael, Nikita must learn to suppress her compassion and develop the lethal skills that the government thinks she already possesses.

Waiting at a café for an informant who will advise her who the next Section One target will be, Nikita is recognized by her longtime friend Julie, who knew Nikita before she went undercover with Section One. When the informant sees that Nikita is not alone, he refuses to give Nikita the information. Michael tells Nikita that, because Julie recognized her, Julie must be killed--either by Nikita or someone else. However, what Nikita does not know is that Julie is actually Section One's next target.

Section One infiltrates a terrorist organization that uses a radar-cloaking device to cause midair collisions between airliners. This is the same organization that supposedly killed Michael's wife, Simone. Nikita poses as a terrorist to locate the deadly mechanism and learns that Simone has not been killed but has been held as a prisoner and tortured for two years.

During a routine assignment, Nikita saves an attractive man, Alec Chandler, from being hit by a car. When he asks her on a date, she declines but gives him information about where she works so he can send her a present. Nikita learns that the near-accident was staged by Section One so that Nikita could gain information about Alec's criminal activities. Michael informs Nikita that Alec is a slave trader who sells children around the world--not a money launderer as she was first told. Nikita exposes Alec's operation, saving a group of helpless children from a horrible fate. But Michael, who is becoming attracted to Nikita, will never know if Nikita ever made love to Alec.

Criminals John Wicke and his wife, Helen, obtain a nuclear trigger, intending to sell it to the highest bidder. During a failed purchase attempt, four Section One operatives die in an explosion. Helen continues her search for a child she put up for adoption while still a teenager--and a prison inmate. In a scheme devised by Section One, Nikita pretends to be Helen's long-lost daughter. Nikita kills John while searching for the trigger. Posing as police officers, Michael and a group of operatives arrest Nikita and her "mother" and beat Nikita to force Helen to reveal information about the trigger in order to save her supposed daughter.

Section One intercepts a husband-and-wife bodyguard team hired to work for terrorist Perry Bauer. To gain information on Bauer's next strike, Section One assigns Michael and Nikita to impersonate the captured couple and infiltrate Bauer's operation. After determining that Bauer plans to release poisonous gas into a crowded subway station, Michael and Nikita overcome Bauer's thugs and trap him in the station. Fearing for his life, Bauer tells Michael and Nikita how to prevent the crisis. Later, Michael and Nikita are disgusted to learn that their government will let Bauer go free.

Nikita and other Section One agents go on a mission that goes horribly wrong, resulting in several deaths. Believing that someone in the organization must have betrayed her and her colleagues, Nikita traces the information leak to a Section One operative, Roger, who admits that the intended target kidnapped and threatened to kill Roger's young son in order to get the information. With help from Section One, Nikita rescues the child, but Roger's desk at the Section is soon mysteriously vacant.

Section One operative Eric Webber offers to help Nikita escape from Section One with him, but Nikita does not know whether she can trust him. While mulling over Webber's offer, Nikita goes on a mission to help rescue two U.S. Marines held hostage by a South American terrorist. During the mission, Michael and Nikita act on their unspoken attraction to each other by kissing passionately. Nikita refuses to join Eric when he escapes, and she learns later that Michael was aware of Eric's plans all along. Eric will be eliminated. Michael reverts to his former businesslike self, and Nikita realizes that he manipulated her emotions to keep her from escaping. Michael saved her life, but at what cost?

After infiltrating Section One's computer system and stealing a directory containing the identity of every operative in Section One, a criminal named Harding arranges a secret auction between Section One and a ruthless terrorist, Ilya Benko, for the directory. After Section One offers more money than Benko, Harding promises to return its directory, but Benko kills Harding before Section One can retrieve it. Fortunately, Harding hid the computer disk containing the directory on a bus in a passenger's magazine. The passenger, Gray Wellman, is unaware that he has the directory, but Nikita, who is attracted to Gray, eventually finds the disk before Benko. Section One captures Benko as well.

After a major drug deal goes awry and results in many deaths, Section One is called in to investigate. One of the dead was an undercover operative in a covert Central Intelligence Agency task force assigned to stop the distribution of heroin in North America and Europe. Section One learns that a task force agent is subverting his division's mission, and Section One captures the rogue spy. Meanwhile, Nikita dates Gray, the widower she met during a previous investigation (episode #109), and forms a good relationship with both Gray and his young daughter. Madeline warns Nikita that Nikita's life belongs to Section One. Realizing that her job endangers Gray, Nikita ends their romance.

Nikita is desperate to recover a wounded Michael when he's left behind after a mission to destroy a chemical weapons plant.

Nikita realizes that the man Section thinks is the key to a terrorist threat is an innocent victim of bad timing.

Nikita digs into the past of her violent new recruit Karyn and uncovers shocking facts about the newest Operative.

Madeline confronts her mysterious past while foiling a terrorist plot to contaminate the water supply with radiation.

Michael seduces a hit man's wife to get access to the man's computer, but Nikita's heart aches for the betraying and betrayed wife, Lisa.

Nikita helps Birkoff recover from the aftereffects of his first murder as their mission goes wrong.

War breaks out between Section and the terrorist group Red Cell. Michael and Nikita are captured, and tortured for the new location of Section.

Operations offers Nikita her freedom if she agrees to keep his son, an arms dealer, alive.

A serial killer picks the wrong victim when he attacks Nikita. But after she sends him on his way, a cop on the case begins searching for her as a vital witness to the man's crimes.

Nikita tests a virtual reality device and finds herself brainwashed into performing a suicide/assassination.

An assassin kidnaps Jovan Mijovoch along with bodyguard Nikita, who is torn when she hears the killer's story.

Nikita is sent on a suicide mission and Michael tries desperately to save her.