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| 222 - End Game |
| Writer/Director |
David Ehrman and Robert Cochran /
Joseph L Scanlan |
| Michael's POV Onscreen:
21 minutes |
With Section now aware that
Adrian is plotting against them, Michael is ordered by Operations to find the double
agent. He goes to Nikita’s apartment and offers her his help if she will just
co-operate. When she refuses, Michael walks away, knowing that he has to hand her over to
Operations, thereby signing her death warrant. Later, Michael and a Section team capture
Adrian and Nikita, and once again, against every Section directive, Michael gives Nikita
another chance to escape. Back at Section, Michael is astounded to discover that Nikita
has been working with Operations all along. When Nikita forces Section to defend itself
and asks for Michael’s advice, he, cryptic as ever, tells her to decide based on what
she’s seen with her own eyes. In their final scene together, Michael tells Nikita
that unless she runs now, she will be cancelled, and gently kisses her goodbye, walking
away with the weight of the world on his shoulders. |
| Michael Moments |
Carrying the KL6 in a clear
plastic handbag and still managing to look macho!
At Nikita’s apartment Michael, heart breaking, symbolically standing in front of a
red heart-shaped light
Throwing Nikita against the refrigerator door, infuriated almost beyond reason, shading to
profound sadness while gently caressing her face
The melancholy of the final parting |
| Words of Wisdom |
"I want you to let me help you."
"It’s gone too far
Nikita, they won’t let this pass."
"If there was ever a
time … you had to trust me … it’s now."
"They will roll up
Section like it never existed, and if you think Adrian can protect you, you’re wrong."
"This is your last
chance, our last chance."
"Outside you have a
very small chance. Back at Section you have none."
"What have you seen
with your own eyes?"
"They’ll cancel
you." |
Performance Rating
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In the final episode of Season 2
Roy shows us Michael fighting not just for Nikita but for Section. In an echo of Not
Was and Half Life, Roy reminds us that Michael was once, and still is, a
believer in fighting for a cause, an older, more cynical Michael, but still a believer.
Through Roy’s restrained display of Michael’s anger, and his weary acceptance of
Nikita’s possible death, we see the journey that Michael has made, from teenage
terrorist to a more mature righter of wrongs. Channelled into the LFN tradition of ending
a season on a major downer, Roy reprises a lot of the sentiments he used in Brainwash
and Mercy, although the surprised expression when Nikita’s duplicity is
revealed is so extreme as to be almost out of character. Nope Roy, we didn’t believe
it either. |
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