9.3/104 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
9.2/105 votes#2 - Shadow Walker
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/27/2012
Nikita convinces a reluctant Birkhoff to use 20 million dollars of his own money in a plan to bankrupt Percy and Division, but when Percy ends up stealing Birkhoff’s entire life savings, Birkhoff and Nikita clash. Team Nikita has one last chance to hit Percy again, but Birkhoff is arrested trying to regain his millions and Nikita realizes she must break him out of jail before Division gets to him. Michael and Alex go after Birkhoff’s stolen money while Nikita goes to save Birkhoff.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: Kristen Reidel
9.0/105 votes#3 - Pale Fire
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2012
Alex’s mission to take down Gogol comes to a head as she infiltrates her childhood home and faces ghosts from her past. On a completely separate mission, Nikita also ends up at the mansion to steal Semak’s black box. Nikita and Alex run into each other and decide to join forces, but they run into a major roadblock. Meanwhile, Michael and Owen work together to figure out Percy’s secret plan with the Guardians.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Kristen Reidel
9.0/105 votes#4 - Kids Today
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2019
Athena enlists the 118’s help when a teenager speeds out of control on the freeway. Meanwhile, a routine traffic stop uncovers a shocking kidnapping and Buck struggles with his recovery.
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.8/105 votes#5 - 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
8.8/105 votes#6 - Consequences
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/2012
Amanda sends a rogue Division agent, Anne to spring Owen from a Russian prison, but Owen manages to escape her clutches and sends a message to Nikita that he’s free. When Nikita tracks him down, Owen is shocked to learn that Nikita is with Division now but returns to base with her. Michael and Ryan aren’t sure they can trust Owen but Nikita stands by her friend.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.8/106 votes#7 - Fight or Flight
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/1/2019
The First Responders rally together to search for a missing Maddie.
Director: Millicent Shelton
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.8/1012 votes#8 - One Minute More
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 6/29/2018
The beginning of the end as Cole and Cassie embark on their final mission.
Director: David Grossman
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.7/106 votes#9 - Echoes
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2011
In order to speed up her healing, Amanda sedates Alex after her last mission then takes advantage of Alex’s drugged condition to question her about the secrets Amanda believes Alex is keeping. Nikita realizes Alex is in danger and tries to secure her another identity to smuggle her out of the country. However, Nikita’s contact double-crosses her and she comes face to face with a surprising opponent. Meanwhile, Michael becomes suspicious of Alex and asks Birkhoff to investigate her.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.7/106 votes#10 - Brave New World
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2/8/2013
Michael gives up his role as a field agent and resumes his role inside Division running Operations. After learning key information from Birkhoff, Nikita preps a secret mission that takes her into dangerous territory. When Michael and Alex and Ryan find out, they follow her into Kosovo but the outcome has far-reaching consequences for Division.
Director: Marc David Alpert
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.5/106 votes#11 - Self-Destruct
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2013
Shattered by Amanda’s programming, her inability to save everyone, and her ultimate responsibility for the tragic events at Division, Alex reverts to old ways and violently strikes out. With most of their compatriots dead, broken, or scattered to the wind, Nikita and Michael together must pick through the ashes of Division to see who and what can be salvaged – and quickly, before the President realizes the sinking depth of the damage. Memories of Division’s glory days haunt them. Birkhoff struggles with his own personal losses.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.2/106 votes#12 - Partners
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2011
Nikita is stunned when she hears that her old Division partner Kelly escaped from a Turkish prison. Nikita thought Kelly died years ago and always felt responsible because it happened on the mission where Nikita escaped from Division. Knowing Amanda will go after Kelly, Nikita tells Michael they have to go to Turkey to help her. Amanda sends Alex and Roan to Europe to stop the former partners from reuniting.
Director: Dermott Downs
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.2/106 votes#13 - Inevitability
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/29/2013
When Nikita decides Division should take on a government mission to eliminate the President of Chad while he’s in Paris, Alex takes a stand and refuses to participate. Upset that Nikita is keeping secrets from everyone, much like Percy did, Alex recruits Birkoff to dig up secrets on Danforth to use as leverage in case things get messy with the government. Alex and Birkhoff are shocked when they come across a secret so big it could blow up Division — literally.
Director: Mark C. Baldwin
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.0/102 votes#14 - Athena Begins
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2019
When a murder weapon from a case close to Athena in the early '90s resurfaces, flashbacks to 1989 show how Athena joined the LAPD and became the police officer she is today.
Director: Tasha Smith
Writer: Kristen Reidel
8.0/102 votes#15 - Powerless
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 5/4/2020
The 118 races to rescue a little girl in a runaway hot air balloon and help with a city power outage caused by a hijacked tree-trimmer truck; Athena's investigation into a serial rapist case puts her life in jeopardy.
Director: Kristen Reidel
Writer: Kristen Reidel
7.8/109 votes#16 - Causality
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/20/2017
Out of time and in need of answers, Jennifer and Deacon are sent to 1989 to steal the a sacred document. Can Railly and Cole get to the Word first before it reveals the one secret they want kept?
Director: David Greene
Writer: Kristen Reidel
7.7/103 votes#17 - Starting Over
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 5/16/2022
Another day in the life of the 118, as its members race to rescue a cliffside wellness retreat guru after his followers turn on him. Then, they respond to an emergency call at an upscale hair salon. Meanwhile, Maddie contemplates returning to work, Eddie and May make decisions on their future, as do Buck and Taylor, and the 118 gathers for a surprise wedding.
Director: Kristen Reidel
Writer: Kristen Reidel
7.3/102 votes#18 - New Beginnings
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/18/2019
Bobby meets Athena's parents for the first time and Maddie attempts to end her marriage for good, causing Doug to insinuate himself even deeper into Chimney's life. Meanwhile, a tanker carrying a tiger shark crashes on the freeway and a gas leak in a plastic surgeon's office happens mid-surgery.
Director: John Gray
Writer: Kristen Reidel
7.2/1025 votes#19 - The Front
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2014
The team targets an eco-terrorist cell seeking a deadly weapon. Liz attempts to lose her guardian. Red resorts to manipulation to pursue a special someone.
Director: Paul A. Edwards
Writer: Kristen Reidel
7.0/103 votes#20 - What's Next?
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 5/11/2020
The 118 rush to save lives in the aftermath of a massive train derailment.
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Writer: Kristen Reidel
6.8/1014 votes#21 - Blue Moon
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 10/13/2021
An unexpected visitor arrives at the White House and reveals the details of a very horrific plan.
Director: John J. Gray
Writer: Kristen Reidel
6.6/105 votes#22 - Awful People
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/2018
Maddie goes for a ride-along with Athena in the hopes of being on the other end of a 9-1-1 call; Hen attempts to learn how to prevent her family from falling apart at the seams; disaster strikes at a military funeral and movie theater.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Kristen Reidel
6.0/1013 votes#23 - Inside
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 10/6/2021
The President struggles with the morality of a deal he must make.
Director: Tessa Blake
Writer: Kristen Reidel
5.9/1014 votes#24 - Take Me To Your Leader
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 9/29/2021
A group of college students on a camping trip are swept up in a horrifying and deadly conspiracy decades in the making.
Director: Max Winkler
Writer: Kristen Reidel
5.8/106 votes#25 - Karma's A Bitch
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/2018
What goes around comes around for an unremorseful widower, an arrogant fitness club owner and an unsuspecting thief. Meanwhile, Bobby gets a surprising phone call from his doctor after donating at Chimney's blood drive, and Athena confronts Michael after having a heart-to-heart with their kids.
Director: Barbara Brown
Writer: Kristen Reidel
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"Wanted" is the best rated episode written by Kristen Reidel. It scored 9.25/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by Eagle Egilsson. It aired on 11/21/2013 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Shadow Walker".