Nikita quotes from La Femme Nikita

Michael

You were out last night. I called to ask if you wanted to get a cup of coffee.

Nikita

Why?

Michael

I like coffee.

Nikita

First you compliment me on my new sunglasses, and now you're asking me out for coffee?

Michael

I've been thinking about you lately.

Nikita

And what have you been thinking?

Michael

That we might spend more time together outside the Section.

Nikita

I didn't think there was anything outside Section.

Michael

There is.

Madeline

Somehow I don't think it's the mission you're having trouble figuring out.

Nikita

How did he get here? What's his life like outside? Does he even have one?

Madeline

Would knowing the answers make you perform your mission more efficiently?

Nikita

It might.

Madeline

Is it his life you want to know about, or his heart?

Nikita

Does he even have a heart?

Madeline

Michael loved once, very deeply.

Nikita

Simone.

Madeline

Some men can only love once. Whether Michael's like that or not, I don't really know.

Nikita

Gee, Madeline, I thought you knew everything.

Madeline

I know what I need to know, Nikita. If you can say the same, you'll be all right. Get some rest.

Nikita

Good night, Madeline.

Nikita

Michael?

Michael

We're on standby, so I thought that we could go over that plan again.

Nikita

I know the plan. I'm sure you do, too.

Michael

May I come in?

Nikita

Of course.

Michael

Then we could have that cup of coffee... or the drink.

Nikita

All right.

Michael

No need to leave the apartment. Whatever you have will be fine.

Nikita

What if I'm out of everything?

Michael

That will be fine, too.

Nikita

Are you trying to seduce me? I've never been able to figure you out. Why should today... be different?

Michael

It's very simple... after Simone, I thought if I ever cared for anyone again... it would have to be someone from outside the Section, but I was wrong. No one from the outside can understand who we are. We fight all the time just to stay alive. Let's not fight what's between us. Let's take what we can get.

Nikita

You mean there's a backup system?

Michael

He won't get far. And anyone who went with him, wouldn't have either.

Nikita

You knew about his plan all the time, didn't you? This was all one big manipulation to keep me from going with him, wasn't it?

Michael

To keep you alive.

Nikita

But why? Why bother?

Michael

(He says nothing)

Nikita

Welcome back, Michael.

Nikita

Your cameras. I'm not having them in my apartment any more.

Operations

You're not?

Nikita

No. And if you don't like it, you can-

Operations

We can what?

Nikita

Cancel me, because I'd rather be dead than watched like an animal in the zoo.

Operations

Are you sure about that?

Nikita

I'm very sure.

Nikita

Madeline, where do you go when you leave here?

Madeline

Very good. It usually takes the new one several years to ask me that question.

Nikita

So how many years does it take for you to answer that question?

Madeline

I don't know. I haven't yet.

Nikita

It's not a good time Michael

Michael

Since when do you decide when it's a good time?

Nikita

What are you telling me? That I can't see him? That I can't care about him?

Madeline

One or the other. Your choice.

Nikita

Can I go now?

Madeline

The world outside these walls is an illusion. It's not really there for us. We're ghosts

Walter

You can't dwell on what you can't have. Nikita, look, if you lost an arm you could spend the rest of your life depressed because you can't play the piano... or

Nikita

Or?

Walter

Or, you could learn to sing. Do this guy a favor, sugar... learn to sing.

Nikita

This place, the Section, is full of lies! They talk about all the innocent people they save, well what about the innocent people we hurt? Like the four year old girls who are left just wondering why they've been abandoned?

Michael

You were warned. You should have never gotten involved. You still believe in free will. In here there's no such thing.

Nikita

You keep telling me that, Michael, but I don't believe you anymore. You couldn't handle it, could you? You got jealous of Gray because I love him and not you.

Michael

You don't love me?

Nikita

How are you feeling?

Michael

I'll be fine.

Nikita

I was worried.

Michael

I'm glad you came back.

Nikita

When I was first recruited in the Section, you were my trainer. You decided whether or not I made it.

Michael

That is right.

Nikita

How did you make your decision? What were you looking for? Is it some kind of checklist, 7 out of 10 I live, anything less I die? Or is it intuition, gut feeling?

Michael

I don't believe in intuition. You scores were high, you excelled in all areas. It wasn't a very difficult decision.

Nikita

So why did Operations resist?

Michael

Who told you that?

Nikita

Intuition.

Michael

Operations didn't like you.

Nikita

But you did.

Nikita

I need to know if your admiration for her is purely professional.

Michael

I thought you would know me better then that.

Nikita

It's funny you should say that, cause I don't know you at all.

Nikita

Are you sure there's nothing wrong?

Madeline

Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm still strong enough to do this.

Nikita

Well, you're the strongest person I've ever met.

Nikita

So why are you here?

Madeline

To remember.

Nikita

To remember what?

Madeline

Who I was.