9.2/10836 votesLoading...#1 - Canceled
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/27/2013
Frustrated that MDK is still active, Nikita decides to end it her way. Leaving Michael and the team behind, Nikita takes Alex on the road to exact revenge. Nikita and Alex capture Mr. Jones and force him to reveal the names of the rest of the members of MDK. Armed with the information, Nikita goes down a dark path that may ultimately cost her her soul. Michael tracks her down and must get her to surrender before the military opens fire and kills her. However, Nikita isn't one to give up on a fight, leading her to make a shocking decision.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Albert Kim, Juan Carlos Coto
8.9/10794 votesLoading...#2 - All the Way
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/2010
Alex informs Nikita that Division is sending her on her first mission to kill the leader of a crime syndicate. Alex is uneasy about taking someone's life but is reassured by Nikita who insists on helping her with the kill order. Birkhoff informs Percy and Michael when he discovers the shell program that a Division mole has been using to connect to Nikita in the outside world. When the mission doesn't go as planned, Nikita makes a quick decision in an effort to clear Alex's name. Inside Division, Jayden attempts to reveal Alex as the mole but Thom steps in and a shocking accident clears her name.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Craig Silverstein
8.9/10615 votesLoading...#3 - Homecoming
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/2012
Nikita and Michael invade Division in an attempt to capture Percy. Alex and Sean get caught in a deadly gunfire battle with the U.S. Marines and Ryan must convince the President of the United States not to destroy Division until he is sure Nikita and Michael are safely out of the building, but the President is eager to end Percy’s reign. Meanwhile, Birkhoff asks Sonya for help, and Nikita corners Percy in his office, but he pulls out one final trick that may cost her the battle.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: N/A
8.8/10656 votesLoading...#4 - Betrayals (1)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/2011
After Michael learns that Percy has ordered Divison to kill anyone who could decrypt the black boxes, he sends Nikita in to save the last person on the list, a CIA cryptographer named Malcolm. Nikita kidnaps Malcom and takes him to Ryan for protection. Meanwhile, Percy turns on Alex.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Andrew Colville
8.8/10689 votesLoading...#5 - Pandora (2)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/12/2011
Percy makes a move to take over the CIA, Alex goes rogue, and Michael gets trapped inside Division making him unable to help Nikita, who may have to pay with her life for helping Alex.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Craig Silverstein
8.8/10597 votesLoading...#6 - Fair Trade
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/2011
Nikita steals funds from Oversight, forcing them to host an emergency meeting. Nikita and Birkoff figure out how to spy on the meeting so Nikita can identify the other members of Oversight, but things go awry and Sean captures Birkoff. Amanda demands to know where Nikita is hiding but Birkoff refuses to give up his friend so she tortures him. Meanwhile, Alex sets her plan in motion to reclaim her father’s empire. With a price on her head, Alex realizes the easiest way to get into Russia undetected is the same way she was smuggled out – through the illegal sex ring.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
8.8/10528 votesLoading...#7 - Broken Home
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/2013
Strapped down and drugged, Nikita is subjected to Amanda's horrific mental conditioning process, sending her down a terrible trip through memory lane. In the process, Nikita discovers Amanda's deepest, most guarded secret ever. Now revealed as leader of the uprising, Alex struggles to save everyone as events violently escalate. With Michael locked away by Division conspirators, Birkhoff and Sean must step up to save the women they love. Meanwhile, Owen's newfound memories drive him to disturbing actions during Division's lockdown.
Director: John Badham
Writer: Terry Matalas, Travis Fickett
8.8/10511 votesLoading...#8 - Bubble
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/20/2013
Just as Nikita is finally starting to see an end to the long war with The Shop, Ryan confesses a secret that could unravel it all. Meanwhile, Michael tries to get Nikita to accept their new circumstances as he contemplates what comes next for the two of them. Realizing Sam was planning to steal her diamonds, Alex gives him a suitcase of fake diamonds to deliver to her contact in France. Alex is surprised when he upholds his end of the bargain and doesn’t take off with the jewels. However, things get messy when Sam is jumped by the loan shark he owes money to, and Alex must step in to save him.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: Oliver Grigsby
8.7/10625 votesLoading...#9 - Sanctuary
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2012
Sean attacks Nikita and Michael in an effort to protect his mother. Meanwhile, Percy gets the upper hand on Amanda and threatens to level Division unless she releases him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.7/10468 votesLoading...#10 - Pay-Off
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/2013
Jones benches Amanda and takes back the reigns of the operation. He calls Nikita and offers her and the entire team complete freedom by wiping away their identities and faking their deaths if they walk away from their mission. The team lands the plane on a secluded Pakistan air strip, but when the local drug czar and his men storm the plane and demand ten million dollars, so Nikita calls Alex for the money. After Alex pulls diamonds out of a safe deposit box to pay the insurgents, Sam sees an opportunity to recoup his losses and contemplates stealing the diamonds. Meanwhile, Michael comes face-to-face with an old adversary, Ramon, who hits Michael with some hard truths.
Director: Dwight H. Little
Writer: Terry Matalas, Travis Fickett
8.6/10683 votesLoading...#11 - Covenants
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/7/2011
Michael confronts Nikita in her lair and reveals that he knows Alex is the mole. He tells Nikita that she has 24 hours to find Kasim, the man who killed Michael’s family, or he will tell Percy about Alex.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Jim Barnes
8.6/10595 votesLoading...#12 - Clean Sweep
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2012
Percy has his Guardians hold the members of Oversight hostage until Amanda agrees to his demands. If she doesn't, the Guardians will shoot all the members of Oversight and release a deadly gas inside Division that will instantly kill everyone, including Amanda. Nikita is torn between letting the enemy fall and saving the innocent lives inside Division. Meanwhile, Sean is frantic to save his mother from Percy's clutches and turns to Nikita, Michael and Alex for help.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Kalinda Vazquez
8.6/10506 votesLoading...#13 - Intersection
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1/18/2013
Birkhoff tells Nikita that Sonya is Amanda’s mole and not only has Amanda reactivated Sonya’s kill chip but she also placed a second mole in Division to keep an eye on her. Nikita, Michael and Ryan devise a plan to use Sonya to ferret out Amanda’s hiding place and Birkhoff sets a trap for the second mole. Meanwhile, Michael confronts Alex about her drug use and she begs him not to tell Nikita.
Director: Dwight H. Little
Writer: Brandon Guercio
8.6/10498 votesLoading...#14 - Til Death Do Us Part
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2013
Amanda forces Nikita into a life-threatening situation where she has to choose between saving Michael or saving herself. The team races to find a way to stop Amanda, but with a diminished Division, they might finally be out-gunned.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Albert Kim
8.5/10689 votesLoading...#15 - Alexandra
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/2011
While out on a mission for Division, Alex runs into Irina, a woman from her past. Alex tries to help Irina break free from her captor, but her old friend double crosses her and turns Alex over to Vlad, a Russian mobster, with a debt to settle. Nikita realizes Alex is in trouble and sets out to save her but runs into Michael who is searching for his missing agent. Realizing she can’t compromise Alex’s secret, Nikita must find a way to work with Michael to save Alex without getting her friend killed by Division.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Andrew Colville
8.5/10530 votesLoading...#16 - Doublecross
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/16/2012
Division is in an uproar when their agents are being assassinated one by one. Amanda realizes Percy is behind the murders and is trying to undermine her authority with the other Division agents. She reluctantly calls Nikita with an offer that is hard to resist – stop Percy and she’ll give Nikita Ryan.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.5/10540 votesLoading...#17 - Power
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/30/2012
Amanda and Ari set up a board meeting with Zetrov and prepare to take over the company. After a heated face-to-face confrontation between Nikita and Amanda, Nikita recalls what Amanda was like when she was first brought to Division. Meanwhile, Alex surprises Ari by showing up at the board meeting with an old and powerful friend.
Director: Chris Peppe
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
8.5/10528 votesLoading...#18 - Crossbow
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/2012
Percy calls the President the United States and threatens to set off a nuclear explosion unless his demands are met. Birkhoff finds two scientists who could help stop Percy’s new nuclear satellite, so Nikita and Michael head after one and Sean and Alex look for the other. Unfortunately, Alex and Sean get caught at the very location that Percy blows up as an example of his power. Meanwhile, Nikita realizes the best way to stop Percy is to go into the belly of the beast – Division itself.
Director: Danny Cannon
Writer: N/A
8.4/10575 votesLoading...#19 - Clawback
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2011
While in prison, Ryan Fletcher discovers patterns that reveal how Oversight gets its funding. Ryan arranges a meeting with Nikita to fill her in, but Amanda intercepts their coded messages to each other and alerts Oversight, who sends in one of their own to interrogate Ryan. Nikita and Michael scramble to break Ryan out of prison before Oversight gets to him. Meanwhile, Alex is being tailed by Gogol, and comes face to face with someone from her past.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Brandon Guercio
8.4/10568 votesLoading...#20 - Guardians
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/2011
With Michael out of town, Nikita turns to Owen to help her track down and steal another black box from a Guardian. Unfortunately, she discovers that Owen is working for an unlikely employer that could jeopardize Nikita's whole operation. Amanda realizes Alex received privileged information about Semak and that information could only have come from Percy. Furious that Percy undermined her, Amanda strips him of all his amenities. Back home in Russia, Alex finally makes her move on Semak.
Director: Dwight H. Little
Writer: Albert Kim
8.4/10510 votesLoading...#21 - Dead Drop
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/2012
When it looks like Percy’s nuclear weapons plan is getting out of control, Ryan suggests they go to the Director of the CIA, Morgan Kendrick, for help. Nikita is vehemently opposed to the plan and is surprised when Michael takes Ryan’s side. Tensions escalate when Nikita is proven right after they discover Kendrick has a link to Percy. Meanwhile, Sean is shot by Percy’s men, shaking Alex to the core.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: N/A
8.4/10567 votesLoading...#22 - Innocence
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/26/2012
Nikita, Michael and team extract a young girl named Liza, who is being held captive by a rogue Division agent, Wade. Wade has brainwashed Liza and trained her to be a Division agent to help him on his own personal mission. Nikita tries desperately to break through to Liza but, in a moment of chaos, the girl escapes Division. The team races to find her before she can complete her mission to unleash a deadly chemical into the UN building during a special event. Meanwhile, Liza’s abduction brings up painful old memories for Alex.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Mary Trahan
8.4/10511 votesLoading...#23 - Wanted
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/21/2013
Nikita is still on the run after she was framed for the assassination of the President of the United States. Dale, a reporter from the news channel ENN, starts questioning what really happened that night. Nikita sees this as an opportunity to clear her name so she re-enters the country to talk to Dale but walks right into a trap set by Amanda. The team is alerted and Michael sets out to find Nikita before Amanda does. While Birkoff and Ryan help Michael from their new mobile office, a high-tech aircraft, Alex stakes out a human-trafficking ring and learns The Shop is involved. Things go south and Alex is surprised when Owen/Sam shows up at the scene.
Director: Eagle Egilsson
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.3/10673 votesLoading...#24 - Phoenix
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2010
Division sends Thom to eliminate Anna, a woman who was having a secret affair with a U.S. Senator. Division agrees to cover up any trace of the affair as long as the Senator agrees to help pass a bill that will continue to fund the agency. Nikita, with Alex's help, attempts to reach out to Anna's parents, but the conversation doesn't go as she expected.
Director: David Barrett
Writer: Jim Barnes
8.3/10678 votesLoading...#25 - One Way
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/2010
Nikita and Michael temporarily team-up to kill a terrorist who murdered Michael’s family many years ago. When Percy learns this information, he sends Division agents to kill Nikita, who ultimately compromises the mission, leading to Michael’s capture by the terrorist group. Alex is caught going through medical files inside Division so she creates a lie that involves Jaden and almost blows her cover.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Albert Kim
The Best Episodes of Nikita
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Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
Genres:DramaAction & Adventure
Network:The CW
Best Episodes Summary
"Canceled" is the best rated episode of "Nikita". It scored 9.2/10 based on 836 votes. Directed by Eagle Egilsson and written by Albert Kim, Juan Carlos Coto, it aired on 12/27/2013. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "All the Way".