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| 314 - I Remember Paris |
| Writer/Director |
Michael Loceff / Terry Ingram |
| Michael's POV Onscreen:
16 minutes |
Captured Glass Curtain
operative, Boris Tyco, overpowers Madeline in the White Room and rampages through Section,
rewiring the computing channels as he goes. Michael hunts him down and kills him, but not
before Glass Curtain has been supplied with the location of Section One’s premises.
Operations orders the immediate destruction of Section and he and Michael are the last to
evacuate, as the Parisian establishment explodes behind them. Michael takes Mick Schtoppel
on a mission to capture a key link back to Tyco’s employer, who turns out to be
Sparks (Simone). Once everyone has started
settling into the new HQ, Michael and Nikita discuss the week’s events over dinner at
Nikita’s apartment, and Michael suggests that he’s ready to consummate their
relationship. |
| Michael Moments |
His focus on the hunt for Tyco
- suffused in green light, running up those stairs, delivering the death blow to
Tyco’s chest, then calmly walking away afterwards, leaving the mess to
‘housekeeping’
The ride in the lift with Operations as they are the last to leave the old Section One HQ
The look Michael gives Mick on being assured that Mick only used good quality contacts to
obtain information
Michael’s interesting use of the following combination of everyday household
utensils: jump leads, handcuffs, radiator grill, uncooperative suspect |
| Words of Wisdom |
"There were four, we let one
live."
"You hired Boris Tyco
to do a job - on behalf of whom?" (Got to love this man’s grammar!)
"It’s been a
strange week."
"Maybe enough time
has passed."
"I missed you." |
Performance Rating
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The episode where the
Continuity Fairy screamed in agony. Quite what Roy made of this script where he
unblinkingly accepts that the villain is the same character who had previously kidnapped,
tortured, and then died with his wife Simone, we shall never know. The non-reaction
presumably wasn’t Roy’s decision. However, the Tyco chase is consummate Michael
stuff, stalking his prey in the eerie green light like a deadly python, while his composed
heir-apparent status during the exit from Section contrasts markedly with Nikita’s
fraught relationship with Operations. And we’ll even give him extra points for
managing to squeeze in a stint as straight man to Mick’s comic B.S. The Continuity Fairy did have a minor success, though, as Michael is
allowed to build on the sequence of tags from Walk on By
(his awakening) through Threshold of Pain (confirmation
to self) to Beyond the Pale (confirmation from Nikita),
by declaring officially that his self-imposed period of ‘mourning’ for Elena is
now over ("Maybe enough time has passed"). Despite Nikita’s cynical
response, it made perfect artistic sense to have this tag lead straight into the teaser
for All Good Things (318), so a major shuffle of
production numbers was needed to achieve this essential airing sequence. #315 Hand to Hand and #316 Before I
Sleep slot in here in the production schedule, but were aired earlier in the
sequence. |
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