8.6/10110 votes#1 - Hard Landing
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1998
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
8.7/10110 votes#2 - Spec Ops
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/1998
While Nikita is reassigned to Special Operative Jurgen, Section is contacted by one of Freedom League's operatives in order to verify Nikita's story about her capture.
Director: T.J. Scott
Writer: Robert Cochran
8.3/10100 votes#3 - Third Person
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/18/1998
Nikita is brought back to full operative status when Birkoff discovers a six-man terrorist team are making several random attacks.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1099 votes#4 - Approaching Zero
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/1998
Section believes that terrorists are after the nuclear power source of a downed satellite. They later discover the terrorists are actually after it because it is a military satellite and it will give them access to the Pentagon if they are able to salvage it and crack the codes. Nikita grows closer to Jurgen and Section uses it to their advantage.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Loceff
8.3/1096 votes#5 - New Regime
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/1998
Egram Petrosian, the former Section deep cover agent rescued by Section One, takes over and promotes Nikita to second in command when Operations is seriously wounded by an insane operative.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1096 votes#6 - Mandatory Refusal
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/8/1998
During a mission, Michael is forced into a stage where he must cut communication with Section and complete the mission at any cost, but the target of Michael captures Madeline, and Operations is willing to kill Michael in order to protect her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1090 votes#7 - Half-Life
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/22/1998
Michael's loyalties are divided when Nikita discovers his friend is a bomber and Operations tells him to betray his friend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1090 votes#8 - Darkness Visible
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/29/1998
Nikita and Michael are sent on a mission to take out someone in a Balkan nation, but Nikita must force Michael into protecting two displaced children, however that protection prevents Nikita from hitting their target, and they must risk their lives in order to get him down.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1092 votes#9 - Open Heart
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/5/1998
On an assignment to capture a Red Cell agent known as Jenna, with valuable information, Nikita is arrested and brought to jail in order to serve time, where Jenna is also serving time. But she is forced to betray the trust she has with Jenna when she must escape the jail along with her, only for Jenna to be captured and interrogated.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1087 votes#10 - First Mission
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 4/12/1998
Nikita is promoted to team leader early and is sent on a much more dangerous than expected mission with a disobedient operative.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/1095 votes#11 - Psychic Pilgrim
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 4/19/1998
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1086 votes#12 - Soul Sacrifice
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/14/1998
A Section operative known as Terry fails a mission and admits to Nikita, the cause was her pregnancy. When she is teamed up with Nikita and Michael, she plans to escape from Section, and Nikita must choose a side.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1092 votes#13 - Not Was
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/21/1998
Michael is captured and interrogated by terrorists, then loses his memory and does not know who he is.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1089 votes#14 - Double Date
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 6/28/1998
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1087 votes#15 - Fuzzy Logic
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 7/5/1998
Section captures a mathematician in order to decode a code that is aiding terrorists in their attacks.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Michael Loceff
7.9/1080 votes#16 - Old Habits
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/12/1998
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
8.3/1089 votes#17 - Inside Out
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 7/26/1998
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
8.0/1087 votes#18 - Off Profile
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 8/2/1998
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
7.6/1080 votes#19 - Last Night
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 8/9/1998
Operations orders a raid to capture the leader of a terrorist group, which turns out to be a sentient computer.
Director: Clark Johnson
Writer: Robert Cochran
8.1/1078 votes#20 - In Between
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 8/16/1998
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: N/A
Writer: Michael Loceff
8.5/1095 votes#21 - Adrian's Garden (1)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 8/23/1998
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
8.9/1095 votes#22 - End Game (2)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 8/30/1998
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
Writer: Robert Cochran, David Ehrman
The Best Episodes of La Femme Nikita Season 2
Every episode of La Femme Nikita Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of La Femme Nikita Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Hard Landing" is the best rated episode of "La Femme Nikita" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by Jon Cassar and written by Michael Loceff, it aired on 1/4/1998. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Spec Ops".