8.4/10511 votes#1 - 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
8.3/10450 votes#2 - Dead or Alive
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/28/2013
Nikita reunites with Michael, Birkhoff and Ryan aboard the team’s aircraft command center. Michael refuses to discuss their relationship but tells Nikita she should stay with the group and let them help her clear her name. Ryan realizes Amanda is making doubles of VIPs with The Shop’s help. Nikita discovers that one of the doubles is the Director of the FBI, but doesn’t know how to kill him without exposing herself. Meanwhile, Alex holds Sam at gunpoint and demands he return what he stole from her, but when a gang of thugs attacks them they are forced to work together to escape.
Director: John Badham
Writer: Albert Kim
8.2/10441 votes#3 - Set-Up
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 12/6/2013
Tensions continue to escalate between the United States and Pakistan after Amanda plants evidence that Pakistan hired Nikita to kill the President. Ryan becomes suspicious of Birkhoff's increasingly odd behavior and tells Nikita and Michael that he thinks Amanda may have kidnapped Birkhoff and planted a double on the plane. Meanwhile, the CIA captures Alex and questions her about her involvement with Nikita.
Director: Marc David Alpert
Writer: Juan Carlos Coto
8.7/10468 votes#4 - 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
8.8/10511 votes#5 - 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
9.2/10836 votes#6 - 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
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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
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Wanted" is the best rated episode of "Nikita" season 4. It scored 8.4/10 based on 511 votes. Directed by Eagle Egilsson and written by Kristen Reidel, it aired on 11/21/2013. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Dead or Alive".