“Nikita” season 4, episode 4: “Pay-Off” premieres tonight on the CW.
In this week’s episode, Mr. Jones benches Amanda and takes back the reigns of the operation. He calls Nikita and offers her and the entire team complete freedom by wiping away their identities and faking their deaths if they walk away from their mission.
The team lands the plane on a secluded Pakistan airstrip, but when the local drug czar and his men storm the plane and demand $10 million, so Nikita calls Alex for the money. After Alex pulls diamonds out of a safe-deposit box to pay the insurgents, Sam sees an opportunity to recoup his losses and contemplates stealing the diamonds. Meanwhile, Michael comes face-to-face with an old adversary, Ramon, who hits Michael with some hard truths.
A summary of “Nikita” season 4 reads:
‘When Nikita (Maggie Q, “Live Free or Die Hard,” “Mission Impossible 3”) was a troubled teenager on death row, she was ‘recruited’ by a secret U.S. black ops program known only as Division. They faked her execution and turned her into an assassin. Nikita never lost her humanity, and when she learned that Division was a corrupt organization, she went rogue, exposing their covert operations, destroying their plans, righting their wrongs.
Two years later, she finds herself working for a new Division, fighting alongside a team of allies she’s gathered throughout her adventures. They have vowed to clean up the mess left behind by the old Division–rogue spies, violent assassins – Nikita is hunting down killers just as skilled as she is. The war against Division’s demons is led by Ryan Fletcher (Noah Bean, “Damages”), a former CIA analyst whose life has been saved by Nikita. Fletcher made a deal with the President to keep Division running, with the understanding that it would be cleaned up quickly and quietly or else.
That won’t be easy with Amanda (Melinda Clarke, “The O.C.,” “The Vampire Diaries”) in the world. Formerly Division’s second-in-command, she manipulated her way into its top spot, just in time for Nikita to take her down. Amanda’s out for vengeance herself, and her ties to Nikita run deep. She taught her how to walk, talk – and how to kill. Nikita was her star pupil at Division, and Amanda is not done teaching her a lesson.”
“Nikita” season 4, episode 4: “Pay-Off” airs Dec. 13, 2013, at 9 p.m. EST on the CW. Take a look at a preview and a spoiler video of the upcoming episode below.
