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1.14 Gambit Nikita: "It was an accident, right? You didn't mean to." Madeline: "I wanted the doll." And it was Madeline versus a low-rent Hannibal Lector. Not that I'm dissing Harris Yulin, mind you; he's a fabulous actor and was probably first alternate for Anthony Hopkins. Madeline loves her job. Pretending to be evil in virtual reality was actually fun for her, and at one point, she acted like working on Kessler was something akin to a hot date. Was Madeline up to the challenge of out-thinking and out-maneuvering a man so deeply nuts? Clearly, she was. And we learned something very interesting about her: as a child, she killed her own sister. Madeline a bad seed? She couldn't have gone to jail as a child, so did she kill someone else, too, as an adult? This was the first time we got an indication that Operations and Madeline were very fond of each other. "I can't allow it. You're too valuable." "Thank you." She actually kissed his cheek, too. I wasn't quite sure where they were going with the scene at the end, though, when Madeline visited Nikita's apartment in order to "remember who she was." (Madeline, not Nikita.) Was Madeline a young operative like Nikita once? Did this experience make her wish she was relatively young and innocent again? (Not that she's a hag now or anything.) Bits and pieces: -- Two episodes ago, we learned that Birkoff also killed his sister. We have a little theme going. -- As soon as I saw the retina scanner, I knew we were going to get a disembodied eyeball. -- Was this the first time abeyance operatives were discussed? Disposable agents. How Section. -- When Nikita was alone in her apartment this time, she was reading a book instead of creating plastic fish sculpture. -- The whole thing about Toronto and "get the plane ready" had to be an inside joke, since this show was filmed in Toronto. Big hint, though, that Section was not in Toronto. -- Michael in drag as Madeline. Loved it. -- Nearly everyone in Section wore black. Nikita wore a beige jacket in one scene, and blue stripes in another. And interestingly, in all of Madeline's final scenes, she was wearing green. We were seeing Madeline as a human being, after all, so that fit. -- Silly hair again. Nikita as security guard had a modified Princess Leia with kinky bangs. Good episode. Three out of four stars, Billie |
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