Last night's Nikita

[Martin Phipps]

Okay so this episode opens with a CIA analyst going to see her boss
and telling him that there's a secret organization called Division
conducting assassinations.

Wait. Wasn't it last season's finale that had Percy using Division to
blow up a nuclear reactor? The president sent in the army but before
they could go in and kill everybody Nikita captured Percy and brought
him out only to have to kill him in self-defense in front of
everybody. So when a CIA analyst goes to see her boss and says that
Division MIGHT exist I would have thought the appropriate response
would have been "Really? No kidding? This information would have
been useful, say, a year ago. Good job!"

Okay, so the general public was told that the explosion was an
accident but still I was under the impression everybody at the CIA -or
at least all the analysts- now knew about Division. It's kind of
their job to know these things.

I'm not accusing the writers of forgetting what they wrote last
season: they just think the audience is a bit stupid and doesn't
remember much from season to season. Well, for the most part they are
probably right.

Anyway, this episode was actually okay. The only bit that got me was
the very end when Nikita left the analyst in the morgue with a Jane
Doe toe tag. Really? Nobody is going to remember her and her talk
about Division? Really?

Oh and when all is said and done, didn't people know about Sean
working with Division seeing as how he was, you know, actually there
when the army showed up last season? I mean, a navy seal was working
with Division and they didn't know that? Not even the President?
Really? Of course, I don't know if the fact that Sean was working
with Division helps his case or not: at the very least I would have
expected the President to ask Ryan if the hit on the CIA director was
sanctioned by Division. Ryan would have told her that Division,
including Sean, was there to _protect_ the director and he was killed
by somebody else. Surely the President would have been able to then
do something to help Sean so that, even if he had to give up being a
navy seal, he wouldn't have to face the death penalty.

Well, then I can nit pick: the plan really depended on Ryan shooting
himself but if Ryan had actually shot himself in the face then he
wouldn't have been coming back and a bullet to the shoulder is usually
not fatal. It's really really difficult to fake your death (I would
imagine) with a gun shot wound. Or is this the sort of thing people
are taught how to do in the navy seals?

Okay, so there were a few things that got to me this week but it was
still a good episode overall.

Martin