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1.5 Mother Nikita: "You know, my real mother would have let them keep beating me." This was the second episode in a row with a focus on a complex situation with a bad guy (or bad mom, in this case), and again, there were parallels to Nikita's past life. John and Helen Wicke were creepy as your basic, friendly neighborhood terrorists; on first viewing, I even wondered if Helen Wicke was actually Nikita's real mother. Even though Nikita connected with Helen, she kept it professional and showed maturity as an agent. Her sangfroid during the scene with John and the computer was surprising. "That's for Chuck." Although Section showed concern over the death of its operatives, we are finally starting to see how brutal Operations and Madeline can be. Madeline wore black and conducted an interrogation for the first time ("You can torture me all day and that won't change." "It's a deal.") And we saw their willingness to have Nikita savagely beaten for real and possibly even killed in order to get the necessary information out of Helen. Michael nodded to the goons in order to start the beating, and then looked away; that was the only emotion he showed. It was impossible to tell that he was ordering the beating of someone he cared about. The beating probably would have looked more gruesome, though, if we could have seen more of Nikita's face through all that hair. Bits and pieces: -- The opening scene was so obviously a set-up for an untimely death that when Chuck was introduced, Dan said, "Well, Chuck's dead." -- Halifax was mentioned as the fake Nikita's birthplace; the license plates looked somewhat European. Where are they? Again, geographically null. -- Nikita looked very young, especially in that pretty sundress, but I'm not sure she looked young enough to be Helen's daughter. -- I liked what Peta Wilson did with the scones. Very cute, and in character. -- Helen: "Are you a prostitute?" Nikita: "No. Are you?" -- This week's wardrobe note: Michael rarely wears anything other than black. Here, he wore a gray-green shirt nearly the color of his eyes. Nice for a change. Two stars? Billie |
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