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The opening scene shows Michael and Nikita during on a mission. Nikita gets the necessary intel to Birkoff , but gets trapped in the office. She calls out to Michael, who leaves his position and helps her get out, but is then captured himself, by a terrorist who uses something that looks like a stun gun (I had to research this device on the net) on him from behind.

In this episode, the Section operatives have to fight their usual enemy – the Red Cell. This time they are after Orlando (?) Perez, a Red Cell tactician who arranges kidnappings of highly positioned people, and then uses them as involuntary sources.

They show the scene inside the Perez’s human experimentation/torture lab. The terrorists use a cage to bring Michael inside the lab. Perez then injects Michael with some drug, and we can see him passing what appear to be glass cells or refrigerators (?) full of barely alive brain dead people. Eek!

Meanwhile, at the Section, Nikita interjects during a mission briefing telling Operations that Michael is valuable and they should rescue him. Operations says that there is the option of killing him, but then notes that Michael is “Class 5” so he won’t be “sacrificed unnecessarily”. -- The latter comment actually surprised me, since normally Operations is not the one to care about his operatives.

Birkoff manages to find Perez’s lover – a Ms Ying Kam, and the bad girl is brought in for interrogation.

Operations enters Madeline’s office to send her to the White Room, and finds her in the company of a stunning young valentine operative, Russell Burke. – One can see how jealous Operations gets, when he looks up Russell’s profile. Naturally, he decides to send him on a suicide mission. Surprisingly, Madeline does not seem to care, but one can see her accessing Russell’s file on her computer as Operations is leaving. When, at the end of the episode, he tells her that Russell “is still single sourced (?) in some areas” one actually wonders whether she has altered his file.

The interrogation chair used by Red Cell looks almost like the White Room chair apart from the strange drugging etc. machine that sticks into Michael. Michael is helpless, he is so drugged that when he is asked Perez asks his name, he tells him his real name. But when he is asked where he works, he resists. The interrogator increases the drug dosage, and in two hours Michael is interrogated again – this time the drug’s blood concentration is so high, that the interrogator warns Perez, that Michael soon will be damaged. This time Michael reaches breaking point, and starts talking by answering Perez that he works for Section One. He is about to break when the Section operatives attack the building, and the automatic weapons fire scares away both the Red Cell strategist and his expert interrogator.

When freed by Nikita from the torture machine, Michael cannot remember her or even who he is, so it takes her some time to convince him to come with her.

Upon returning to Section, Michael is completely helpless without his memory, and Nikita realizes that she must do something to save him. She takes him to her apartment, draws his blood, and when they are called in to prepare for the next part of the mission, she gives the vial of blood to Walter, whom she has to tell the truth. Walter is a really “good sport” though – he understands that he also has to keep Michael’s condition secret from Operations and Madeline.

The mission part they go out on next would have been quite simple if Michael had his memory. But memory or understanding is not his strong point at the mission, thus the whole outcome of the mission gets dependent on Nikita’s competence. There is one scene that I find almost funny – when Michael walks into the room full of Perez’s guards and they demand to know what he is doing there – and on the other end Operations and Birkoff tell him to act – he says “I am looking for the library”. That’s a classic!

Thanks to Nikita’s competence in her tradecraft, and Birkoff’s quick realization that he had to change the profile mid-mission and order everybody in, Perez is captured, and Michael is rescued once again, still without his memory.

Luckily Walter finds the antidote for the “limbic suppressors” (??) that were used on Michael, and Nikita gets it to him at the Med Lab just in time. And, just as she injects the antidote into his IV, Michael tells her that he loves her. This is SO romantic – just like the scene when he danced with her and tried to kiss her at her apartment earlier in the episode.

The next morning Michael wakes up as himself again, and Nikita has to tell him what happened to him, because he does not remember being captured or anything that happened since then in the past 3 days. And he is very sincere when he says “thank you” to Nikita for protecting him from Madeline and Operations.

I found this episode to be a bit unusual, in the sense that it was unusual to see Michael so helpless. But it is also partly romantic, and, on occasions, even almost funny. Not a bad episode at all.

QuiGonJ,

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And before I go further, blackcondor1 is doing an amazing job on the episode recaps, so I just want to applaud and say thank you! Nice work!

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Well, thank you for reading them

NIGHTJESSI,

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Wasn't there a deleted scene featuring these people or similar people that was floating around somewhere, or was that just my 'magi-na-a-tion?

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Actually I seem to vaguely recall that deleted scene, too. Those people were taken to Section and were on the tables inside what seemed like a morgue, and the doctor ro someone was talking about them as if they were dead, but at least one of them was actually moving.

NIGHTJESSI,

Yes, I think that was the scene.