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 Falsely accused of killing a police officer, Nikita is sentenced to life in prison. Soon afterward, she is recruited into Section One when the organization fakes her suicide. As the only truly innocent recruit into Section, her compassion and sympathy constantly conflicts with the often ruthless orders she is given. After spending two years being trained by Michael, Nikita learns to use her beauty as a weapon and becomes an expert in martial arts and ordinance.
Initially reluctant to kill (she uses creative measures to avoid
having to commit a murder during her first mission), she eventually
becomes more efficient at doing so. She is used in a wide variety of
capacities, from "valentine operative" to assassin, despite her moral
qualms, but manages to hold on to her humanity while working for the
organization. Eventually, she and Michael become romantically involved,
a development that threatens not only their standing in Section One,
but their very lives. Their relationship is seen as a threat by
Operations and Madeline, and they use a mind altering method on Nikita
to rid her of all emotions. Michael manages to alter the progress, but
Nikita's performance take a more professional tone. In the 5th season
Nikita discovers the real reason she was taken into Section- her father
was Mr. Jones the head of Center, the organization that controls
Section. His plan was to make Nikita take over as head of Section One.
Blank-faced,
often emotionless and coldly efficient, Michael Samuelle is a former
radical student activist whose protest group sparked the Paris Riots of
1984. Not long after being sent to prison, he is recruited into Section
One and becomes one of their most successful and respected team
leaders. A few years later, however, the apparent death of his wife,
Simone — a fellow Section operative whom he married against the wishes
of Operations and Madeline and who is revealed still to be alive early
in the first season but sacrifices her life to save both Nikita and
Michael — profoundly affects him, and he completely shuts down
emotionally, becoming almost an automaton. It is not until Nikita
enters the organization that he begins to open up emotionally once
again. Complicating their often difficult relationship is Michael's
"blood cover" marriage to Elena Vacek, the daughter of a fearsome
terrorist that Section One has pursued for decades. His son, Adam, is a
product of that union, and his protective fatherly instincts will have
a major impact on his future relationship with the organization.
Seymour
Birkoff is Section One's resident genius, whose computer abilities are
legendary, and who, as the head of Comm, supervises Section missions in
progress. He and Walter are close friends despite their wide difference
in age, and even Nikita is especially fond of him. It isn't until many
years later that Birkoff learns he was one of two twin boys born to a
Section operative. The boys became the subject of a Section One
psychological comparison, in which Birkoff was kept within Section One,
while his brother Jason was adopted by the Crawford family outside the
organization.
La Femme Nikita - tv series
(1997 - 2001) - Peta Wilson, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer
Genre: Action and Adventure / Drama
CAST
Peta Wilson
Don Francks
Eugene Robert Glazer
Roy Dupuis
Matthew Ferguson
Alberta Watson
Carlo Rota
Cindy Dolenc
Lawrence Bayne
Lindsay Collins
David Hemblen
Anais Granofsky
Malcolm Xerxes
Evan Caravela
Stephen Shellen
Sian Phillips
Hakan Coskuner
Kris Lemche
Larissa Gomes
Edward Woodward
Aidan Devine
Conrad Coates
Josh Holliday
Kira Clavell
Jeffrey Scott Grice
Bruce Payne
Polly Shannon
Tara Slone
Jill Dyck
Geoff Murrin
Samia Shoaib
Christopher Cordell
Callum Keith Rennie
James Faulkner
Julian Richings
Yvonne Scio
Douglas O'Keeffe
Joseph Scoren
Ingrid Veninger
Nigel Bennett
Will Corno
David Calderisi
Robbi Jay Thuet
Alisa Wiegers
Colm Feore
Janet Kidder
Christopher Lee Clements
Roman Podhora
Henry Alessandroni
Hrant Alianak
John Bourgeois
Vince Corazza
Jacqueline Pillon
Maxwell Caulfield
Lawrence Dane
Michelle Nolden
Steve Lucescu
Created by:
Joel Surnow
Writing credits:
Luc Besson
Michael Loceff
Robert Cochran
Lawrence Hertzog
Peter M. Lenkov
Maurice Hurley
David Ehrman
Naomi Janzen
Cyrus Nowrasteh
Peter Bellwood
David Wolkove
Larry Raskin
Ed Horowitz
Opening theme: La Femme Nikita
Written by: Mark Snow
Original music by:
Sean Callery
Cinematography by:
Nikos Evdemon
Jim Westenbrink
David Perrault
Danny Nowak
John Holosko
Milan Podsedly
Michael Storey
Michael McMurray
Language: English
Country: United States
Directed by:
Chris Gross
Rene Bonniere
Jon Cassar
Brad Turner
Terry Ingram
Joseph L. Scanlan
Ken Girotti
T.J. Scott
Jerry Ciccoritti
Guy Magar
George Bloomfield
Joel Surnow
David Warry-Smith
Reza Badiyi
Ted Hanlan
Rick Jacobson
Produced by:
ay Firestone
Jamie Paul Rock
Peter M. Lenkov
Brian Gibson
Rocco Matteo
Original channel:
USA Network
Baton
CTV Television Network
Fireworks Entertainment
LPN Productions Inc.
Awards:
1998 Nominated Saturn Award Best Genre TV Actress, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
2000 Won Gemini Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series, Gemini Awards
2000 Nominated Gemini Best Costume Design, Gemini Awards
1999 Nominated Gemini Best Costume Design, Gemini Awards
1999 Nominated Gemini Best Dramatic Series, Gemini Awards
1999 Nominated Gemini Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series, Gemini Awards
1998 (fall) Won Gemini Best Costume Design, Gemini Awards
1998 (spring) Won Gemini Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series,Gemini Awards
1998 (spring) Won Gemini Best Production Design or Art Direction in a Dramatic Program or Series, Gemini Awards
Also Known As:
Nikita
Kodenavn Nikita
La Femme Nikita
Nikita, a bergyilkosno
Trivia
The show ran five seasons. The season number determined the number of words in an episodes title (i.e., all third season episodes had three words in their title).
In the original film as well as the remake, Nikita murders someone and is found guilty. In the TV show, she did not murder anyone, and is found guilty anyway.
In the first episode of season one, "Nikita", footage taken from the movie Point of No Return (1993) is used while Nikita is sliding down the garbage chute when she's in the restaurant.
Don Franks (Walter) originally read for the part of Operations.
There was never any paper used in the Section.
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