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I just managed to catch up with this week's episode, so here is "my two cents":

It is kind of strange to watch Birkoff get grumpy with his whole department in the opening scene. Very unusual of Birkoff, I must admit.

Operations is not happy that Birkoff cannot delegate what he is doing, but naturally Madeline explains that they have been after this particular elusive group of terrorists for quite some time, but that finally Birkoff had a transmission that could lead to the location of this group. Begrudgingly, Operation agrees to give Birkoff until the morning to decrypt the transmission.

It looks like Birkoff decrypts it, but the location revealed is a trap and practically a whole team is lost. Operation takes it surprisingly well, considering that normally an operative would at least be put in abeyance for a failure like this. Instead, he gives Birkoff the task of finding a high-level mathematician/computer geek from outside.

Birkoff finds 3 people, but 2 of them are “behind the iron curtain” so to speak. The third one happens to be a teenage University professor who, due to his age, is still living with his Mom. Enter Greg Hillinger.

What no one realizes, however, is that Hillinger is quite a handful. He is arrogant and disrespectful of everybody to the point of not caring that he has been kidnapped and is potentially in danger, so he does not follow the instructions that could have kept him “protected” from staying in Section indefinitely. He practically seals his fate when he leaves his room to “go fishing”, and it is only after Nikita shows him what happens in the White Room that he belatedly feels afraid.

What follows is slightly surreal. Hillinger somehow leaves a virus in the Section computers. One wonders if that happened before or after Hillinger was caught by Madeline in the outside corridor. Naturally this immature genius uses this situation to blackmail Operations into letting him go. One should see the expression on the Operations’ face when Hillinger is being told to sign the non-disclosure agreements and baldly states that “it depends on what kind of an agreement”. It looks like the ruthless leader of Section 1 just wishes to cancel this boy on the spot. The scene is a classic!

Naturally, Hillinger is tricked by the operatives, and is taken back into section after he stops the virus. Madeline develops an “integration programme”, and, to Operations’ disapproval, the “survival likelihood” of Hillinger in Section is over 92%.

On the home front Nikita has a new neighbour in this episode. Barry. He appears to be a bit simple, until Nikita discovers that he is involved in drug dealing. To top it off, he seems to think that after he stole the heroin, all he had to do was to return it to the goons and that he would be fine. Luckily Nikita was there to save the idiot’s a$$. I really liked the scene where she very efficiently “takes care” of the goons in her apartment:

“Three, five, seven, black. I have been exposed. Send Housekeeping.” - This quote is such a classic!

Overall, I enjoyed watching this episode, apart from the scene where Michael loses practically a whole team, because the message initially decoded is an outer shell.

Pattyko,

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B never really got punished severly (except Noise when he faced abeyance) not even when he & W tried to blackmail Ops

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That would be interesting to see these 2 trying to blackmail Operations.