| 202 - Spec Ops |
| Writer/Director |
Robert Cochran / TJ
Scott |
| Michael's POV Onscreen:
19 minutes
|
Michael is concerned to
discover that Jurgen has been assigned as Nikita’s new trainer. There is clearly
history between these two. Michael is sent on a mission which could blow apart the cover
story he arranged to bring Nikita back to Section, so he destroys the computer holding the
evidence. Operations confronts Michael regarding his motives, and when Jurgen convinces
Section that Nikita is withholding information, Michael offers her another chance to
escape. She refuses to go without him and also refuses his alternative plan, that she kill Jurgen. While Nikita
is convinced that Jurgen is not a threat, Michael becomes increasingly paranoid that he
will betray them both. |
| Michael Moments |
‘Hong Kong Mikey’
running down the corridor in pursuit of Kudrin |
| Words of
Wisdom |
"Get over it."
"I have a higher
P.O.S."
"You just signed our
death warrant."
"Betrayal gets him nothing.
But he has power over us because he knows the truth, and one day he’ll use that
power." |
Performance
Rating
 |
For the first time
we see Michael under constant threat from Section itself. Roy gives his voice an edge that
conveys Michael’s growing awareness of danger everywhere, his simmering agitation
contrasting with the laid-back nonchalance of Bruce Payne’s Jurgen. In fact he spends
a great deal of this episode whispering conspiratorially, the start of a tendency to speak
in the choked whisper that will become a trademark of later seasons whenever Section is
giving him a hard time. However Roy’s controlled, mannered performance is a welcome
contrast to the brattish child that Peta has to play. |
