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The Best Episodes of La Femme Nikita

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Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection,

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 1 - Hard Landing
    8.3/10(123 votes)

    #1 - Hard Landing

    S2:E1

    With Michael's help, Nikita survived the destruction of a Freedom League hideout in the first season's final episode. Since then, she has been on the run from Section One. While working as a waitress, Nikita is captured by the Freedom League and used as bait to lure Section One into a trap. During a raid by a Section team led by Michael, Nikita saves Michael's life and they manage to escape together. Later, on an abandoned ship, Nikita and Michael share a night of passion. However, Michael's lies about Nikita's whereabouts are in danger of being exposed.

    Director:Jon Cassar
    Writer:Michael Loceff

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  2. La Femme Nikita Season 1 Episode 1 - Nikita
    8.0/10(302 votes)

    #2 - Nikita

    S1:E1

    Nikita, a girl living on the streets, is wrongly accused of a murder she did not commit and sentenced to life in prison. After the government arranges to fake her suicide, Nikita wakes up at Section One, a top-secret agency that aims to train her to become an anti-terrorist operative. Nikita wants to resist, but in order to stay alive, she has no choice, but to comply with their plans.

    Director:Jon Cassar
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. La Femme Nikita Season 1 Episode 2 - Friend
    8.0/10(200 votes)

    #3 - Friend

    S1:E2

    Section One is assigned to protect Jovan Mijovich, a politician attempting to negotiate peace among opposing forces in his section of the world. When Nikita meets with a contact to find out who has attempted to assassinate Mijovich, Nikita is recognized by Julie, a childhood friend. Nikita attempts to protect Julie's life by creating a new identity for her, but Julie is actually an operative for the organization attempting to assassinate Mijovich.

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 10 - First Mission
    8.0/10(95 votes)

    #4 - First Mission

    S2:E10

    Nikita is promoted to team leader early and is sent on a much more dangerous than expected mission with a disobedient operative.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 11 - Psychic Pilgrim
    8.0/10(102 votes)

    #5 - Psychic Pilgrim

    S2:E11

    Section believes that an imprisoned terrorist leader is ordering an attack through his lawyer. Nikita and Michael go undercover as a couple, and Nikita is supposed to be a psychic. The terrorist's lawyer asks Nikita to contact his dead son, but Nikita is shocked to discover something else.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 13 - Not Was
    8.0/10(101 votes)

    #6 - Not Was

    S2:E13

    Michael is captured and interrogated by terrorists, then loses his memory and does not know who he is.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 14 - Double Date
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #7 - Double Date

    S2:E14

    Michael and Nikita are sent on a mission along with former hit man David Fanning, but during the mission he takes Nikita hostage and demands that Michael return his wife, or Nikita will be killed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 16 - Old Habits
    8.0/10(89 votes)

    #8 - Old Habits

    S2:E16

    Section is trying to stop a terrorist group from engaging in suicide bombings, and Nikita is assigned to recieve information from an agent known as Formits, who, unbeknownest to Nikita, is in fact a serial killer.

    Director:Terry Ingram
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  9. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 17 - Inside Out
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #9 - Inside Out

    S2:E17

    Section falls into a trap when a mission to take out a Red Cell munitions base causes a virus to be spread throughout Section.

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  10. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 18 - Off Profile
    8.0/10(96 votes)

    #10 - Off Profile

    S2:E18

    A new recruit named Andrea is romanced by Michael. When she learns that it was just a setup to gain allegiance to Section, she wants Nikita's help for revenge. Upon Nikita's refusal, Andrea proves dangerous to both Nikita and Michael when their mission ends up in a dangerous lab containing viruses.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:David Ehrman

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  11. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 20 - In Between
    8.0/10(85 votes)

    #11 - In Between

    S2:E20

    When Section discovers a wealthy terrorist plans to fund upcoming civilian attacks, Michael and Nikita pose as money launderers in order to stop him. However, his assistant, Giraldi, claims to be a Section operative who has been in the field for nine years and wants to be brought back in. When Nikita informs Operations, he tells her to ignore his request, but when Madeline finds out, she insists Nikita bring him in. Now, Nikita is caught between Madeline and Operations, and a man's life hangs in the balance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Loceff

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  12. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 21 - Adrian's Garden (1)
    8.0/10(102 votes)

    #12 - Adrian's Garden (1)

    S2:E21

    When the founder of Section One comes back to destroy her own creation, Nikita must make a choice between the life of Michael or the existence of Section.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Michael Loceff

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  13. La Femme Nikita Season 2 Episode 22 - End Game (2)
    8.0/10(101 votes)

    #13 - End Game (2)

    S2:E22

    With Adrian's help, Nikita manages to breach the most sensitive area of Section and secure a file, code named Gemstone, which contains evidence which will bring down Operations and destroy Section One. Meanwhile, Operations forces Michael to identify the Section operative most likely to work with Adrian to undermine Section, Nikita. Michael confronts Nikita in order to try to find a way to protect her, but she denies any association with Adrian. Now Michael is forced to kidnap both Nikita and Adrian and bring them back to Section, knowing that Nikita and Adrian will be cancelled and that the incriminating Gemstone file will be permanently erased.

    Director:Joseph L. Scanlan
    Writers:David Ehrman, Robert Cochran

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  14. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 1 - Looking for Michael
    8.0/10(105 votes)

    #14 - Looking for Michael

    S3:E1

    Operations believes Nikita is a threat to Section, and wants to kill her during a mission. She survives his plot, and when she returns to Section, she looks into the disappearance of Michael, and finds what she didn't expect.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 5 - Imitation of Death
    8.0/10(83 votes)

    #15 - Imitation of Death

    S3:E5

    Section goes after Ivan Chernov, a terrorist who trains kidnapped children to do his dirty work. Michael sells Nikita to Chernov, who she discovers wants her for cloning experiments. Birkoff finds his life threatened by Felix, an abeyance operative who is extremely upset about being in abeyance. After returning to Section, a comment from Madeline makes Nikita think that Section might also be doing cloning. After some investigating, she discovers a room full of children, one of which looks identical to herself as a child. When she returns with Michael a while later, the room is mysteriously empty.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 6 - Love and Country
    8.0/10(87 votes)

    #16 - Love and Country

    S3:E6

    Section goes after Nikolai Markali, a politician whom Operations correctly believes is connected to the terrorist organization, Badenhein, although the suspicions at first appear to be unfounded. Other than these suspicions, he appears to be a man whose only crime appears to be being married to Operations' ""widow,"" Corinne - the woman Operations was married to when he ""died"" upon his recruitment into Section. Madeline, posing as a therapist taking over Corinne's case, and Michael, posing as a therapist slowly drive Corinne insane using a highly addictive ""medication"" which makes her extremely unstable and an altered videotape making it appear Nikolai was having an affair with Nikita. According to the mission profile, Corinne takes her husband's life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lawrence Hertzog

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  17. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 7 - Cat and Mouse
    8.0/10(88 votes)

    #17 - Cat and Mouse

    S3:E7

    Nikita is acting out of character. Michael observes she is pre-occupied, and when mission tapes of a disastrous mission show, the enemy was avoiding shooting her, he believes she is working for Red Cell.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 8 - Outside the Box
    8.0/10(83 votes)

    #18 - Outside the Box

    S3:E8

    A new operative with a photographic memory is brought in to ""remember"" the directory of a terrorist organization. When he is made a permanent recruit, Nikita looks into her own recruitment, wondering if it was planned or not.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 9 - Slipping Into Darkness
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #19 - Slipping Into Darkness

    S3:E9

    Nikita, Walter, and Birkoff consider mutiny when Operations' orders become more and more illogical.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 10 - Under the Influence
    8.0/10(83 votes)

    #20 - Under the Influence

    S3:E10

    Brothers Karl and Simon Peruze are responsible for some of the most vicious attacks on civilians ever recorded. Eliminating both of them proves difficult, since neither brother would ever give up the other. Section One kidnaps Karl, wipes clean his short-term memory, and places Nikita with him when he comes to, so she can pose as his fiancee and lead Section to Simon. Strangely, the more Nikita learns about Karl's cruel history, the more she is drawn to him, falling in love with him. However, Nikita's slowly dawning realization that her mind is being controlled by Section threatens to unravel the entire mission.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 11 - Walk On By
    8.0/10(88 votes)

    #21 - Walk On By

    S3:E11

    Nikita finds a colleague in the new recruits, someone named Jamey. Jamey tells Nikita that if she helps him stay in Section, he'll lead Nikita to her mother, who has been looking for Nikita ever since she supposedly committed suicide in jail.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 13 - Beyond the Pale
    8.0/10(88 votes)

    #22 - Beyond the Pale

    S3:E13

    Operations passes over Michael for Chief Strategist in favor of a smarmy Section operative by the name of Zalman, and Michael is so furious that he plots with Nikita to escape from Section One. Indeed, after stealing a Section One "Field Router" Michael and Nikita successfully disrupt a mission against new Red Cell leader Vincent Tomas, and make their escape. Zalman is going to take the fall for Michael's and Nikita's escape, and he will stop at nothing to find them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 14 - Hand to Hand
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #23 - Hand to Hand

    S3:E14

    On an operation to get industrialist and terrorist financier Charles Meyer, Nikita is sent to a "modeling agency" run by Amalin Anagar, which is in reality, not just a brothel, but also an arena where beautiful girls are forced to fight each other to the death in a place called "The Pit" While undercover at Anagar's, Nikita tries to protect a naive young girl named Sondra from fighting in ""The Pit,"" while also trying to figure out a way to save all the girls at Anagar's (an objective which is not in the mission profile). Meanwhile, Madeline appears to be jealous of Renee from Oversight who is visiting Section One. She may have reason to be, as Renee immediately puts moves on the very willing Operations.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 15 - Before I Sleep
    8.0/10(89 votes)

    #24 - Before I Sleep

    S3:E15

    This time, Section is out to get an outfit by the name of The Alliance, and Section's way in is a psychotic courier by the name of Jan Bailin. Bailin has other plans and she kills herself before the Section can use her. So, as a backup, Section employs a meek, terminally ill lookalike for Bailin by the name of Sarah Gerrard. As she trains her, Nikita starts to get suspicious, did Section purposely make Sarah ill to make it easier for Section to convince Sarah to work for them? And if so, will Section even let Sarah live if she completes the mission?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 16 - I Remember Paris
    8.0/10(88 votes)

    #25 - I Remember Paris

    S3:E16

    After an operation against a terrorist group, Michael brings one of the terrorists back to the Section for questioning. The "capture" is a plant, and he knocks Madeline out during interrogation and runs amuck in Section One's HQ. Before Michael finds and eliminates the man, he successfully uploads many of Section One's crucial files, including the Registry (which is at least encrypted, and will take the terrorists several days to decipher) and the exact location (un-encrypted) of Section's HQ (located in Paris). Operations orders the evacuation and destruction of Section One's HQ. With Section in temporary quarters, Operations takes over the counter-operation personally, and goes out on a mission with a less than thrilled Nikita. Will Operations be able to find the terrorist base before the terrorists decode The Registry?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Hard Landing" is the best rated episode of "La Femme Nikita". It scored 8.3/10 based on 123 votes. Directed by Jon Cassar and written by Michael Loceff, it aired on 1/4/1998. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Nikita".