| 419 - Time Out Of Mind |
| Writer/Director |
David Ehrman / Brad Turner |
| Michael's POV Onscreen:
12 minutes |
Nikita has been given a
psychosis-inducing drug to ensure that she is admitted to the Zurich mental institution
that houses David French, whose mother has developed a deadly anthrax-type toxin. When
Michael speaks to her through her comms unit, she thinks she’s hearing voices in her
head. Drugged and destabilised, Nikita is in danger of compromising the mission, so
Michael poses as her stepbrother to extract her. Just as they are about to leave, Michael
is told to abort the extraction and has to watch her being dragged back screaming. Nikita
eventually supplies enough intel to identify the time and place of the toxin sale, and
Michael provides tactical for the mission. |
| Michael Moments |
Stepbrother Michael resplendent
in pale grey, explaining the family pharmaceutical business.
The pain of watching Nikita being dragged back into the asylum. |
| Words of Wisdom |
"The mission, Nikita.
Remember the mission."
"My sister is um
….she’s an addict." |
Performance Rating
 |
Introducing ‘Stepbrother
Michael’, the last character part ever that Michael has to play. Laurie Drew gives
him a very nice grey suit and Roy gives him crinkly little furrows of concern to wear on
his brow. But it’s level 5 Operative Michael who obeys Operation’s orders, and
Michael the man and lover who watches in despair as those orders take effect. Roy slips
effortlessly from one Michael nuance to another after four years of living in his skin. |
