Episode
La Femme Nikita: Half-Life
Overview
Michael's loyalties are divided when Nikita discovers his friend is a bomber and Operations tells him to betray his friend.
Details
- Series
- La Femme Nikita
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1998-03-22
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Half-Life is Episode 7 in Season 2 of La Femme Nikita. It aired on 1998-03-22. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 6: Mandatory Refusal
During a mission, Michael is forced into a stage where he must cut communication with Section and complete the mission at any cost, but the target of Michael captures Madeline, and Operations is willing to kill Michael in order to protect her.
Episode 8: Darkness Visible
Nikita and Michael are sent on a mission to take out someone in a Balkan nation, but Nikita must force Michael into protecting two displaced children, however that protection prevents Nikita from hitting their target, and they must risk their lives in order to get him down.
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Episode 5: New Regime
Egram Petrosian, the former Section deep cover agent rescued by Section One, takes over and promotes Nikita to second in command when Operations is seriously wounded by an insane operative.
Episode 9: Open Heart
On an assignment to capture a Red Cell agent known as Jenna, with valuable information, Nikita is arrested and brought to jail in order to serve time, where Jenna is also serving time. But she is forced to betray the trust she has with Jenna when she must escape the jail along with her, only for Jenna to be captured and interrogated.
Episode 4: Approaching Zero
Section believes that terrorists are after the nuclear power source of a downed satellite. They later discover the terrorists are actually after it because it is a military satellite and it will give them access to the Pentagon if they are able to salvage it and crack the codes. Nikita grows closer to Jurgen and Section uses it to their advantage.
Episode 10: First Mission
Nikita is promoted to team leader early and is sent on a much more dangerous than expected mission with a disobedient operative.
Episode 3: Third Person
Nikita is brought back to full operative status when Birkoff discovers a six-man terrorist team are making several random attacks.
Episode 11: Psychic Pilgrim
Section believes that an imprisoned terrorist leader is ordering an attack through his lawyer. Nikita and Michael go undercover as a couple, and Nikita is supposed to be a psychic. The terrorist's lawyer asks Nikita to contact his dead son, but Nikita is shocked to discover something else.
Episode 2: Spec Ops
While Nikita is reassigned to Special Operative Jurgen, Section is contacted by one of Freedom League's operatives in order to verify Nikita's story about her capture.
Episode 12: Soul Sacrifice
A Section operative known as Terry fails a mission and admits to Nikita, the cause was her pregnancy. When she is teamed up with Nikita and Michael, she plans to escape from Section, and Nikita must choose a side.
Episode 1: Hard Landing
With Michael's help, Nikita survived the destruction of a Freedom League hideout in the first season's final episode. Since then, she has been on the run from Section One. While working as a waitress, Nikita is captured by the Freedom League and used as bait to lure Section One into a trap. During a raid by a Section team led by Michael, Nikita saves Michael's life and they manage to escape together. Later, on an abandoned ship, Nikita and Michael share a night of passion. However, Michael's lies about Nikita's whereabouts are in danger of being exposed.
Episode 13: Not Was
Michael is captured and interrogated by terrorists, then loses his memory and does not know who he is.