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1.6 Love Stephanie: "You two look so beautiful together. You must be in love." How utterly romance novel, being forced to make love under cover. Michael and Nikita did extremely well at portraying two people in love. Were they using their cover to express their real feelings for each other? Of course they were. Did Michael refuse to let Bauer have Nikita because it was in character for "Peter," or because he was protecting her? What would Madeline have expected him to do, I wonder? Nikita's face showed that she certainly expected Michael to throw her to the wolves again. Would she have slept with Bauer with Michael watching, in the line of duty? My favorite Michael moment was the way he looked at Nikita while they were dancing. I also loved his almost-but-not-quite blank expression when she nibbled on his jaw. Michael has an almost perfect poker face, but his eyes are very expressive. Michael had been ready to pop in with a cover story on how they met, but we can see that he was very interested in seeing where Nikita would go with her cover story. This was the episode when the series began coming together for me, and it wasn't just the romantic carrying-on between Michael and Nikita (although that was certainly a big part of it.) We also had Madeline starting to look like the dragon lady we all know and love in that brief scene with Peter and Sage in the White Room. We had Nikita's completely justified suspicion that Section was planning to sacrifice civilians to make the nerve gas attack look real. And then there was the final twist, with the villainous Bauer having a drink with Operations. "Shades of grey," indeed. Bits and pieces: -- During the bedroom scene, Nikita literally squared her shoulders and gathered her courage before throwing herself at Michael. She initiated their very first kiss, and was more than ready to take her clothes off for him, even in front of an audience. -- "Walter, there is no 'w' in 'menage a trois.'" "Michael, do you mind? We're having a moment." Menage a trois? Whom did Walter have in mind as a third? Interesting, too, that Bauer had something like that in mind. A little parallel there. -- Nikita outright flirted with Michael during the wedding ring scene in Madeline's office. -- L-Virus sounded like a name to me at first. Elvirus. The male counterpart of Elvira, a guy with a long, black wig. -- Again, with the pseudo-North American license plates, and Bauer made a reference to John Wayne. -- Did Roy Dupuis actually carry Tobin Bell, who played Bauer, over to the truck? It looked like he did, and that takes serious upper body strength. Tobin Bell was wonderful as Bauer here, by the way. Totally despicable. -- When Nikita ran into the building, she broke cover and called Michael "Michael." Michael stayed in cover and called her "Sage." -- Oooh, wardrobe notes. Michael's clothes were cheap and tight; he looked like a French sailor, and he had a rather silly little ponytail. Nikita was wearing black leather undies to go with her hideous black wig. Couldn't they have given her a short blonde wig? -- There were close-ups of Roy Dupuis' hands during the strip-tease and wedding ring scenes. He still had that bruised fingernail, and a bunch of other dings and scrapes. Yes, I know he was restoring an old farmhouse in real life at this point. There's something I like about knowing Roy is clearly not the manicure type. Not that there's anything wrong with manicures. Quotes: Nikita: "Do I have to love, honor, and obey?" Michael: "Just obey." Bauer: "That's an interesting management dilemma, isn't it? Do I reward you for disobeying me, or do I punish you for saving my life?" Nikita: "Who are these butchers we're working for, Michael?" It had its weak points, but I just loved this episode. Four stars, Billie |
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