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| 315 - Hand To Hand |
| Writer/Director |
Ed Horowitz / T J Scott |
| Michael's POV Onscreen:
11 minutes |
Nikita is sent undercover to a
brothel where she is forced to take part in fights, girl against girl, for the pleasure of
rich men. Michael is also undercover, posing as one of these rich men, and pretends to
choose her for sex in order to exchange intel. The mission profile has her early escape
arranged, but Nikita refuses to leave, believing that she can help the other women.
Michael has to endure watching Nikita fight to the death whilst he waits for his target to
appear. Holding on long enough to ensure that she doesn’t lose her fight, he rushes
off to complete the mission, before returning to Nikita’s aid. |
| Michael Moments |
Michael pretending to be
European, and dressed in classy shirt and tie at the "entertainment" complex
The look of pure lust with which one of the entertainment girls views Michael as he
prepares to select his companion. (Was she an undercover Royette?!)
The smile crossing Michael’s face when he receives the shock device with which to
control Nikita
When racing to carry out the assassination of his target, Michael takes out a guard with a
leg kick to the head – M. LeDeaux’s mother must have been a can-can dancer! |
| Words of Wisdom |
"Am I not permitted to select
a woman to accompany me?"
"Send someone for the
girl. I’m finished with her." |
Performance Rating
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A ‘Nikita’ episode
where yet again our favourite spygirl gets the chance to moralise and remind Michael she
is a caring individual. Roy revives Michael’s familiar weariness with her inability
to ‘just do the job’ (culminating in his dismissal of Nikita’s company for
the night), and shows that he’s more than a little hurt when she petulantly assumes
he’s going to let her go, only to be hunted down. Later though we sense that Michael
might be prepared to compromise the entire mission to ensure that Nikita isn’t
killed. M. LeDeaux is probably Michael’s most unsavoury alter ego, so he gives
him a rather sleazy smile and a strangely unpleasant, oily accent. Though identical in
appearance, he transforms back into infinitely more attractive, true-blue Mickey when he
and Nikita are alone. The blonde’s episode, but Roy went down fighting. |
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