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La Femme Nikita - The Complete First Season:

The fatal femme you can't take your eyes from.

Top secret. Eyes only. Enclosed in 22-episode detail is information about Section One, the deep-cover organization whose mission is to stop the terrorists who elude other ops agencies. Mistakes are not an option for the operatives of this clandestine group - even for a novice agent named Nikita.

The entire First Season of the fiery five-year series from 24 co-creators Robert Cochran and Joel Surnow unfolds in this DVD collection including a must see Bonus Features Portfolio. Peta Wilson (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) portrays Nikita, framed for murder... but given a way out by becoming a Section One operative codenamed Jospehine. She's dressed to kill. Trained to survive. A new fashion in action.

Disc One

Episode 1: Nikita (Gallery)
Written by Cyrus Nowraseth
Directed by Jon Cassar
Original Airdate: 1/13/97

Looks that can kill -- and a know-how that's deadlier. Nikita says goodbye to her past and plunges into a new world of training and danger when forced to join the secret anti-terrorist group Section One.

1 A living death (Credits).
2 "They own you now."
3 Battle tested.
4 Lethal lipstick.
5 First blood.
6 Up in smoke (End credits).


Selectable Audio Commentary by Surnow, Creative Consultant Robert Cochran and Driector Jon Cassar

2 Bonus Cancelled Scenes from This Episode with Optional Surnow Commentary:
Berkoff Trains Nikita
Michael Pleads


Episode 2: Friend

Written by Naomi Janzen
Directed by Guy Magar
Original Airdate: 1/20/97

Knowing Nikita can be a dangerous thing: A childhood friend who contacts the Section operative suddenly finds her life in great paril. But an even greater peril awaits Nikita as she tries to protect her friend.

1 Cyanide (Credits).
2 The meet.
3 Bodyguard.
4 Good cop.
5 Bad cop.
6 Standards (End Credits).

Bonus Cancelled Scene from This Episode with Optional Surnow Commentary:
Nikita and Julie Reminisce


Episode 3: Simone

Written by Michael Loceff
Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
Original Airdate: 1/27/97

Nikita's infiltration of a terrorist cell's subterranean ops center leads to the astonishing discovery of a captive woman long thought to be dead -- Michael's wife!

1 Collision course (Credits).
2 JB 1.
3 JB 2.
4 Sparks' bunker.
5 Payback.
6 Girl talk (End Credits).

Bonus Cancelled Scene from This Episode with Optional Surnow Commentary:
Michael Meets Carla


Disc Two

Episode 4: Charity

Written by Robert Cochran
Directed by Kari Skogland
Original Airdate: 2/3/97

Philanthropist Alec Chandler (Simon MacCorkindale) puts his money where his heart is: he helps rescue homeless children from the streets. But the more Nikita learns about him, the closer she gets to revealing Chandler's dark secret.

1 Perfect set-up (Credits).
2 Date with a spy.
3 Soiree.
4 Slave trader.
5 Caged.
6 Apology (End Credits).

3 Bonus Cancelled Scenes from This Episode with Optional Surnow Commentary:
Candlelight Promise
Street Cat
Unexpected Guest


Episode 5: Mother

Written by Naomi Janzen
Directed by Guy Magar
Original Airdate: 2/9/97

Nikita is going home -- to a family she never knew. She poses as the long-lost daughter of a female terrorist whose posh lifestyle stands to grow more luxurious when she finds a buyer for a stolen nuclear device.

1 Priority 1 (Credits).
2 Mommy's dearest.
3 In from the cold.
4 For Chuck.
5 Battered.
6 How things are (End Credits).


Episode 6: Love

Written by Michael Loceff
Directed by Jon Cassar
Original Airdate: 2/17/97

'Til death do they part. Nikita and Michael pose as a hip and somewhat kinky married couple in order to work on the inside of a group bent on unleashing a deadly nerve gas.

1 Virus (Credits).
2 Mr. & Mrs.
3 No way out.
4 Spy dance.
5 Performance.
6 Gray zone (End Credits).


Episode 7: Treason

Written by Robert Cochran
Directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
Original Airdate: 2/24/97

Her probation status is over, but that only mires Nikita deeper in the workings of Section. Yet one thing about Nikita may never change: her willingness to sidestep regulations in order to help the innocent.

1 Probation over (Credits).
2 Party girl.
3 A third shot.
4 Enemy's lair.
5 Rescue.
6 "Why?" (End Credits).


Disc Three

Episode 8: Escape

Written by Andrew Dettman & Daniel Trudy
Directed by George Bloomfield
Original Airdate: 3/3/97

Someone has been watching Nikita -- someone who now comes forward and offers a foolproof way of slipping free of Section's grasp. Is it the opportunity Nikita has saught? Or is it a covert test of her loyalty?

1 The offer (Credits).
2 Leverage.
3 Proof.
4 Lovestruck.
5 Erased.
6 The camera (End Credits).


Episode 9: Gray

Written by Robert Cochran Original Airdate: 3/10/97

The secret is out. Someone has hacked into Section's computer and stolen the personnel file. The thief may have planted the microdisc with the file on an unsuspecting civilian -- a man that Nikita is asked to woo.

1 Security breach (Credits).
2 $30 million.
3 The architect.
4 Collared.
5 Simulation.
6 Relationships (End Credits).

Bonus Cancelled Scene from This Episode with Optional Surnow Commentary:
Nikita Discovers the Directory


Episode 10: Choice

Written by Michael Loceff
Directed by George Bloomfield
Original Airdate: 4/7/97

Is there room for romance in Nikita's dangerous life? Her relationship with an architect compromises her on-the-job effectiveness... and could put ber beau in the crosshairs of rival agents and Section One alike.

1 Rogue agents (Credits).
2 Unplugged.
3 Ghosts.
4 A family thing.
5 Over and out.
6 Michael's idea (End Credits).

Bonus Cancelled Scene from This Episode with Optional Surnow Commentary:
Choice Beginnings


Episode 11: Rescue

Written by Peter Bellwood
Directed by Ken Girotti
Original Airdate: 4/14/97

Mission accomplished - but the cost is high when Michael is injured and left behind after a raid on a chemical weapons plant. Rescuing Michael is the new mission. And it leads to the revelation of a troubling Section secret.

1 MIA (Credits).
2 Rambo factor.
3 The sample box.
4 Escape.
5 Sacrifice.
6 Insult to injury (End Credits).


Disc Four

Episode 12: Innocent

Written by Michael Loceff
Directed by George Bloomfield
Original Airdate: 4/21/97

Terrorists sneak a nuclear device into the country, and Section finds that its only hope of locating it rests on a childlike pizza deliveryman (Maury Chaikin) who witnessed something suspicious.

1 Cyber snoop (Credits).
2 Pizza guy.
3 Death sentence.
4 "That's him."
5 The code.
6 No disposal (End Credits).


Episode 13: Recruit

Written by Larry Raskin
Directed by Reza Badiyi
Original Airdate: 6/22/97

It's not a pass/fail program that Section newcomers face. It's do or die. Nikita fully empathizes with their plight. However, there's no room for compassion when she's asked to decide the fate of a new recruit.

1 Test (Credits).
2 Holo training.
3 Assassins.
4 Distrust.
5 Bank job.
6 Decisions (End Credits).


Episode 14: Gambit

Written by Michael Loceff
Directed by Jon Cassar
Original Airdate: 6/29/97

He's skilled, deadly and refuses to crack. Extreme interrogation techniques have no effect on a terrorist (Harris Yulin) who knows the whereabouts of a cache of Cobalt 60... but Section may yet have ploys that no terrorist would suspect.

1 VE (Credits).
2 Kessler.
3 Jugular.
4 House of pain.
5 Unmasked.
6 Remembering (End Credits).


Episode 15: Obsessed

Written by Robert Cochran
Directed by T.J. Scott
Original Airdate: 7/20/97

Love is just part of the job. To obtain a book containing high-level secrets about nations allied with Section, Michael woos the vulnerable wife of a hitman who knows where the book is hidden.

1 Bride and doom (Credits).
2 Hooked.
3 The tail.
4 Caught.
5 Free.
6 Loose ends (End Credits).


Disc Five

Episode 16: Noise

Written by Michael Loceff
Directed by T.J. Scott
Original Airdate: 7/20/97

In the high-tech, high-risk world of covert ops, emotions do not compute. A brush with death during a mission rattles the emotions of Section's top electronics wiz and puts him at risk of being cancelled.

1 Hit on (Credits).
2 Stinger sting.
3 Exposed.
4 Tough love.
5 Team leader.
6 Don't tell (End Credits).


Episode 17: War

Written by Maurice Hurley
Directed by Rene Bonniere
Original Airdate: 8/3/97

Torture Nikita and she won't crack. Torture Michael and she's likely to let her feelings for him get in the way. Red Cell holds the two agents, subjecting them to a painful inquisition to discover the location of Section's command center.

1 Shower power (Credits).
2 Evacuate!
3 The cage.
4 Broken.
5 New file entry.
6 Truth (End Credits).


Episode 18: Missing

Written by Naomi Janzen
Directed by Reza Badiyi
Original Airdate: 8/10/97

This assignment could be the way out Nikita's been seeking. In exchange for her freedom, she agrees to protect one of the targets of a Section sting -- a target who happens to be the son of Section's top exec.

1 Night caller (Credits).
2 CM-12.
3 Nikita's terms.
4 "She means business."
5 The meet.
6 The big lie (End Credits).


Episode 19: Voices

Written by Maurice Hurley
Directed by David Warry-Smith
Original Airdate: 8/17/97

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, especially if the knowledge is about Section. A police detective's investigation of a serial rapist inadvertently puts him too much in the way and too much in the know.

1 Flushed (Credits).
2 Composite.
3 Impeded.
4 No deal.
5 New recruit.
6 Never (End Credits).


Disc Six

Episode 20: Brainwash

Written by Peter Bellwood
Directed by Rene Bonniere
ORiginal Airdate: 9/21/97

Section needs a volunteer, and Nikita is the one volunteered. She's subjected to a mind-control machine that's come into the organizations's possession... and secretly falls under the machine's deadly sway.

1 Diver (Credits).
2 The phasing shell.
3 Delure.
4 Shell hell.
5 Sleeper agent.
6 Rage (End Credits).


Episode 21: Verdict

Written by Robert Cochran
Directed by Gilbert Shilton
Original Airdate: 9/28/97

Judge, jury, executioner. A band of insurgents is bent on becoming all three when it overruns the Inaugural Ball of a strife-torn nation's new leader. Among the hostages held by the rebels: Nikita.

1 Boom (Credits).
2 Dressed to kill.
3 Blind justice.
4 Inside.
5 Betrayal.
6 Guilt (End Credits).


Episode 22: Mercy

Written by Michael Loceff
Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
Original Airdate: 10/5/97

Total obedience. That's what's expected of Nikita. But she doesn't have the heart to obey an order to destroy a naive young inventor... and Section responds by sending her on a suicide mission.

1 Mystery man (Credits).
2 Demo.
3 Cancel the cancel.
4 Doubts.
5 Suicide mission.
6 Message (End Credits).

Selectable Audio Commentary by Surnow.


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Bonus Features Portfolio

Your Assingment: Study Them Carefully.

Documentary Section One Declassified:
The Making of La Femme Nikita


Cancelled Scenes with Optional Surnow Commentary:
Berkoff Trains Nikita
Candlelight Promise
Choice Beginnings
Michael Meets Carla
Michael Pleads
Nikita and Julie Reminisce
Nikia Discovers the Directory
Street Cat
Unexpected Guest