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3.6 Love and Country Madeline: "You have to admit it looks like you're going after Markali for personal reasons." Gee, Madeline. You think? You know what I think? I think Operations just used Section to victimize two completely innocent people. Having Markali turn out to be dirty in the end just didn't ring true for me. After all, if Operations could torture a lie out of that poor guy in the teaser, he could certainly construct convincing evidence to make Markali look bad. I wonder what poor Corinne did that was so terrible? Was it that she didn't mourn Operations forever? Okay, counterpoint. Markali was too good to be true. Intelligent, distinguished, thoughtful, faithful, in other words, nothing like the typical politician. We could, of course, choose to believe that Operations did all of this persecution reluctantly, and Markali really was bad... no. I just don't believe it. Madeline is no fool. She had to know that Operations was lying; she even questioned him about it. Why did she let it happen? Maybe she was just relieved that Operations hasn't been sexually harassing her lately. I did love seeing Madeline as Corinne's shrink, with glasses, doing very convincing shrink-speak, although I felt terrible for poor Corinne. Speaking from her heart, confiding in a health care professional, the absolute height of vulnerability. If you can't trust your shrink, who can you trust? This time, it was Nikita's turn to give her all for Section... except that she got a reprieve because Markali was determined to be faithful to his wife. Madeline expressed disappointment that Nikita didn't try hard enough with Markali, but come on, Madeline. A woman who looks like Nikita? Most men would have her on her back in two seconds with the absolute minimum of encouragement from her. Bits and pieces: -- The woman who played Corinne deserves a gold acting star. She did a fabulous job with an extremely difficult role. -- I assume Operations is American. Corinne sounded British. What was Markali? What country were they in? Corinne also mentioned diplomats, so that kind of makes sense. But how close were they to Section, if Nikita could so easily return and report? -- What about Steven Wolfe? In "Missing," Steven said that his mother died of a broken heart. Wasn't Operations supposedly married to Steven's mother when he "died" in Vietnam? And hey, for that matter, did Operations divorce Corinne, and/or Steven's mother? Is he a bigamist, like Michael? -- Nikita wore red and grey in Section. Loved her pseudo-intellectual look: glasses, long braid, grey sweater, very little make-up, very Julie Christie in "Dr. Zhivago." Of course, Peta is gorgeous, no matter what she wears. -- Nikita: "I wonder what kind of woman would be married to Operations." Good question. -- Michael: "I'm sorry." Corinne: "What are you sorry for? Are you cheating on your wife, too?" Well, technically, since he can never divorce Elena, yeah. -- Cancelled scene: There is an extended version of the scene where Operations was watching clips of Corinne talking to Madeline. Operations fantasizes that Corinne comes into his office and hugs him, he tells her he is sorry, and she forgives him. It's hard to rate this one. The story was clever and the acting was great, but it ticked me off. Two and a half stars? Billie |
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