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1.4 Charity Nikita: "It's not enough to lie to them. We've got to lie to each other, too." Nikita finally used her beauty in an assignment for Section. About time. Alec Chandler was a three-dimensional villain; Simon MacCorkindale did a great job here. He appeared to be so nice at first, and even a believable love interest for Nikita; hey, money-laundering just didn't sound all that bad in the grand scheme of things. Of course, he turned out to be totally subhuman. I thought his comment about the weather playing havoc with his shoes in the truck-burning scene was even more illustrative of his relentlessly evil character than that whole rant about the "market in mature flesh" and selling Nikita to a cathouse in Asia. Michael managed to show jealousy of Chandler, even though he remained impassive. (It's those eyes of his.) My favorite Michael moment was the final scene where he tried to apologize to Nikita for lying to her, she pulled a gun on him, and he kissed her hand, with the gun still in it; Roy Dupuis actually made my toes curl. ("Why shouldn't I just pull the trigger?" "I can't think of a single reason.") I also liked his drunk scenes while wearing the red jacket and ... was that actually a ruffled shirt? He was almost giggling as he told the guys searching him, "I'm giving you guys twenty minutes to cut that out." Bits and pieces: -- Michael and Nikita looked at each other at the party. How un-secret-agent of them. -- The obligatory Walter/Nikita scene was seriously cute: "When I start something, I can't stop, even if it takes days. That's how it would be with you and me. Nonstop sweat." And Nikita actually kissed his forehead. -- Alec Chandler didn't sound like he came from a bad neighborhood. Maybe he took elocution lessons. -- Nikita drank milk out of the carton. That's such a guy thing. -- Madeline told Michael that the password was GRAYSTONE, all caps. But she didn't tell him that it was "gray," not "grey." -- Nikita pissed off Operations by saving the lives of the children. That said a lot about Section, and Operations' priorities. -- Wardrobe note: In the initial street car rescue and the scene in Alec's office, Nikita was wearing stockings and a garter belt instead of the more plebian pantyhose. And Simon MacCorkindale actually pulled off a bright orange tie; not many can. -- In this week's hair report, again with the tails, although there were a couple of other interesting bun-like do's. Peta Wilson's hair was so long that there must not have been a lot of options. -- Cancelled scenes: There are three brief deleted scenes on the DVD that are all about the cat that Nikita adopts: (1) She and Alec petting a cat on the street; (2) Nikita coming home and finding another cat in her apartment (a present from Alec? they don't say), and (3) Nikita in bed, petting the cat and bonding with it. This episode gets three out of four stars, mostly for that Michael/Nikita scene at the end, Billie |
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