Michael quotes from Nikita

Michael

You can quit or you can die, but you can't stop Division. No one can.

Michael

[to Alex] I'm not gonna let them do anything to you. I'm not gonna let anything happen to you. I'm not gonna lose you too.

Michael

[to Elizabeth] They'll never be another woman for me, you know that right? Unless she's really hot.

Michael

If Percy finds out an agent went AWOL, it'll give him a reason to test out his kill chip.

Michael

When I was in the Navy I felt like I was a part of something much bigger than myself and that didn’t change when I joined Division. I need to know that I can make a difference. It’s a part of who I am. It’s a part of who you are too.

Michael

You know I am really sick of people telling me that you’re dead.

Michael

The bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe

Michael

So you seriously rescued us so we could tell Division that you’re not working with us?

Michael

Cassandra, remember when you were talking about Max being thing that gets you through life? No matter how hard it hits or how tough it gets? I know what you were saying. Because I have someone like that too. There's no way I'm gonna leave her.

Michael

Your life is over, Alex. I'm here to offer you a new one. But you have to be willing to earn it.

Alex

What do I gotta do?

Michael

Learn...how not to sound like a teen meth-whore for starters. Learn to stand up straight. Learn how to walk right. Learn how to talk right. Learn how to serve your country, instead of just yourself.

Percy

[about Nikita] Did she say who she was working for?

Birkhoff

No. Honestly, I think it's a bluff. I think she's on her own. I mean, you should have seen her, she was a wreck. I was able to turn the tables on her easy.

Michael

Yeah, was that before or after she duct-taped you to that springy rocking horse?

Nikita

Just like old times, huh?

Michael

Shut up. You were free. You had gotten out, you were gone. What the hell are you doing back here?

Michael

I know you're in this for revenge.

Nikita

You blame me? You know firsthand what it feels like. Have the thing you love most in life taken away from you.

Michael

It wasn't your life. It was your cover. I warned you not to get emotionally attached.

Nikita

You mean the way you did... With me?

Michael

Don't. Don't.

Nikita

Michael, I know why you're staying there. You want to protect the other recruits the way you protected me.

Michael

I can't protect you anymore.

Nikita

Then let me go. Or stop me now.

Michael

I'll give you a head start. If we meet again I can't promise what will happen.

Nikita

I can. It's a good wound. They'll think you tried to stop me. Just trying to protect you.

Percy

What we do know is that she's been ahead of us at each step. At a certain point we have to consider the possibility of a leak from the inside...a high level leak.

Michael

I'd like to rule out a data breach before we start the mole hunt.

Birkhoff

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Data breach? No way. No. Our network is Fort Knox. Internal servers are air-gapped and I run routine PAN tests on the outer defenses. We're talking five-tier security with protocols that rotate every hour, on the hour. That's proprietary software. Only person who could dream of hacking into Division is me. [The two men stare at Birkhoff] What?

Michael

I also, uh, would like to give them the target's full profile.

Percy

Absolutely not.

Michael

Like you said, we're on the clock. Redacting Intel will only slow us down.

Percy

If we give them a full profile, it will invariably prompt the inane moral debate about the target being a good person. Last thing we need right now is for another recruit to discover their inner Nikita. Tell 'em it's a training exercise.