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1.10 Choice

Nikita: "All I wanted was one hour to myself. Is that too much to ask?"
Michael: "Yes."

When Gray started acting like he was about to propose at any moment, I could see the end coming. An occasional date was one thing, but Nikita can't have a husband and a child. She can't unplug the phone. She can't win, because Section holds all the cards. And in the end, she was almost suicidally angry about it.

The fun undercurrent here was Michael's jealousy. He was practically petulant in the hallway scene after the mission: "No, you can't debrief in the morning." (He might as well have said, "No, you can't go home to Gray.") My favorite Michael moment was at the beginning, when he barged in on Nikita's tryst with Gray; he was all smiles and charm on the surface but clearly angry underneath, and not just because Nikita had unplugged her phone. Symbolically, Nikita had also tried to unplug Michael, remove him from her life. We certainly can't have that.

The fact that Michael kept Section from killing Gray at the end indicated to me that Michael is not vindictive... although I bet he did it for Nikita's sake, not Gray's. I got the feeling Michael could have cared less if Gray fell off the edge of the earth.

Bits and pieces:

-- There was some near nudity; Peta Wilson was topless in the opening scene with Callum Keith Rennie.

-- I expected Casey's disappearance in the mall to be kidnapping, either by Section or the bad guys. Wrong.

-- The ambulance that picked up the guy in the pink shirt had English words on the side.

-- Nearly everyone in Section wore black. Nikita wore bright blue.

-- Nikita asked Walter for advice again. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" "You can do anything you want to me, and you can take more than a minute."

-- Madeline: "This isn't a job. You can't go home at night and be someone else." Madeline also told Nikita, "We're ghosts."

-- Operations told Nikita, "There is such a thing as evil. It exists." Irony R Us. Section itself is evil.

-- Cancelled scene: An extended version of the drug deal in the teaser.

Two out of four stars,

Billie





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