# List of La Femme Nikita episodes

This is a list of episodes in La Femme Nikita, a television series from Warner Bros. and Fireworks Entertainment. The series premiered on USA Network on January 13, 1997 and ended March 4, 2001, with a total of 96 episodes over the course of five seasons.
The number of words comprising each episode's title is equal to the number of the season in which the episode first aired. Thus, for example, every third-season episode has a title that is three words long.

## Series overview

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally released | Originally released |
| Season | Episodes | Episodes | First released | Last released |
| 1 | 22 | 22 | January 13, 1997 | October 5, 1997 |
| 2 | 22 | 22 | January 4, 1998 | August 30, 1998 |
| 3 | 22 | 22 | January 3, 1999 | August 29, 1999 |
| 4 | 22 | 22 | January 9, 2000 | August 27, 2000 |
| 5 | 8 | 8 | January 7, 2001 | March 4, 2001 |

## Episodes
### Season 1 (1997)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 1 | 1 | "Nikita" | Jon Cassar | Cyrus Nowrasteh | January 13, 1997 (1997-01-13) |
| Young Nikita is falsely accused of murder; while in prison a secretive agency makes her an offer she cannot refuse. ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Friend" | Guy Magar | Naomi Janzen | January 20, 1997 (1997-01-20) |
| An old friend of Nikita recognizes her while she is in a mission; danger threatens now both of them. ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Simone" | Jerry Ciccoritti | Michael Loceff | January 27, 1997 (1997-01-27) |
| Section One is fighting the terrorist organization that assassinated Simone, Michael's late wife. ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Charity" | Kari Skogland | Robert Cochran | February 3, 1997 (1997-02-03) |
| Nikita is supposed to seduce Alec Chandler for reasons unknown; when she starts to fall for him she discovers something unexpected. ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Mother" | Guy Magar | Naomi Janzen | February 10, 1997 (1997-02-10) |
| A nuclear trigger is in the hands of two criminals, husband and wife, who intend to sell it to the highest bidder. Nikita has to get creative in order to infiltrate the criminal group. ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Love" | Jon Cassar | Michael Loceff | February 17, 1997 (1997-02-17) |
| Section One needs to obtain information on the next terrorist attack planned by some Eric Webber. Michael and Nikita, to infiltrate that terror cell, pose as the husband and wife bodyguards that Webber has hired. ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Treason" | Jerry Ciccoritti | Robert Cochran | February 24, 1997 (1997-02-24) |
| When things go awry in a mission, Nikita suspects there is a traitor in Section One. ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Escape" | George Bloomfield | Andrew Dettmann & Daniel Truly | March 3, 1997 (1997-03-03) |
| Eric Webber, a Section One operative, proposes NIkita to escape together from Section One; however Nikita is apprehensive whether she can really trust him. ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Gray" | Ken Girotti | Robert Cochran | March 10, 1997 (1997-03-10) |
| Section One's computer infrastructure is hacked and someone stole the directory listing all operatives in Section One. Then, a secret auction is organized by criminal mastermind Harding, and Section One has to outbid a terrorist network intended in obtaining that directory. ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Choice" | George Bloomfield | Michael Loceff | April 7, 1997 (1997-04-07) |
| Section One is tasked to investigate a drug deal gone wrong that caused many deaths. Among the dead is a CIA agent that was undercover in a drug network that distributes heroin in Europe and North America. ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Rescue" | Ken Girotti | Peter Bellwood | April 14, 1997 (1997-04-14) |
| Michael is wounded and left behind during a mission to destroy a chemical weapons installation; Nikita frantically tries to rescue him. ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Innocent" | George Bloomfield | Michael Loceff | April 21, 1997 (1997-04-21) |
| While Section One focuses on a man being involved on a terrorist operation, Nikita comes to believe it's a misunderstanding and that he is innocent. ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Recruit" | Reza Badiyi | Larry Raskin | June 22, 1997 (1997-06-22) |
| Nikita feels disquieted by Karyn, a new recruit who flirts with Michael. However, there may be deeper troubles than personal disaffection. ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Gambit" | Jon Cassar | Michael Loceff | June 29, 1997 (1997-06-29) |
| Madeline may have found her match when Section One goes after Kessler, a cold-blooded assassin, and master of disguise, hired by a terrorist network to contaminate the water supply of a major city. ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Obsessed" | T.J. Scott | Robert Cochran | July 20, 1997 (1997-07-20) |
| Lisa, a married woman, is befriended by Nikita and seduced by Michael in order to obtain the computer files of her husband's computer; Nikita is anguished by the way she and Michael are deceiving Lisa. ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Noise" | Reza Badiyi & T.J. Scott | Michael Loceff | July 27, 1997 (1997-07-27) |
| Birkoff kills a person during a mission. Nikita sees Birkoff seems distressed after that and tries to help him without Section One noticing Birkoff's problems. ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "War" | René Bonnière | Maurice Hurley | August 3, 1997 (1997-08-03) |
| When all-out war between Section One and Red Cell is triggered, Nikita and Michael are captured and tortured for information. ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Missing" | Reza Badiyi | Naomi Janzen | August 10, 1997 (1997-08-10) |
| Operations promises Nikita her freedom in exchange of keeping his son, an arms dealer, alive. ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Voices" | David Warry-Smith | Maurice Hurley | August 17, 1997 (1997-08-17) |
| A serial killer haphazardly attacks Nikita, who foils him. Then, a cop pursues her afterward as a key witness of those crimes. ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Brainwash" | René Bonnière | Peter Bellwood | September 21, 1997 (1997-09-21) |
| Nikita tries a VR headset but gets brainwashed into performing a murder. ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Verdict" | René Bonnière & Gilbert M. Shilton | Peter Bellwood & Robert Cochran | September 28, 1997 (1997-09-28) |
| Nikita is the bodyguard of Jovan Mijovoch, a foreign premier that is in danger of being murdered. However, the unsavory past of Jovan Mijovoch makes Nikita doubt whether he is worse than his would be assassin. ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Mercy" | Joseph Scanlan | Michael Loceff | October 5, 1997 (1997-10-05) |
| Nikita makes an irreparable decision on a mission; Section One seems weary of her and Michael unable to further protect her. ||||||

### Season 2 (1998)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 23 | 1 | "Hard Landing" | Jon Cassar | Michael Loceff | January 4, 1998 (1998-01-04) |
| Nikita escaped Section One and is believed to be dead; while working as a waitress she is kidnapped by the Freedom League, a terrorist group that locks her up in their HQ. ||||||
| 24 | 2 | "Spec Ops" | T.J. Scott | Robert Cochran | January 11, 1998 (1998-01-11) |
| Nikita is afraid Section One may discovers her deceitfulness when she is assigned to Jurgen, an agent who will evaluate her psychological and emotional fitness. ||||||
| 25 | 3 | "Third Person" | Jon Cassar | Michael Loceff | January 18, 1998 (1998-01-18) |
| Jurgen keeps training and monitoring Nikita and they start to share a bond; Michael is distrustful and Jurgens fears Michael wants to kill him. ||||||
| 26 | 4 | "Approaching Zero" | René Bonnière | Michael Loceff | February 1, 1998 (1998-02-01) |
| Jurgen invites Nikita to his country house; when they are to make love Section One interrupts them with an important assignment. Jurgen accepts to run in a suicide mission. Unbeknownst to Nikita, Jurgen is blackmailing Section One. ||||||
| 27 | 5 | "New Regime" | Jon Cassar | Robert Cochran | March 1, 1998 (1998-03-01) |
| The new chief of Section One, Egran Petrosian, begins to perform significant changes to the agency while Operations is in recovery of an assassination attempt. Petrosian offers Nikita to be his right hand, which diminishes Madelaine's role. ||||||
| 28 | 6 | "Mandatory Refusal" | Ken Girotti | David Ehrman | March 8, 1998 (1998-03-08) |
| Michael is sent to kill a terrorist called Dorian Enquist, but the mission goes wrong. As Enquist captures Madeline, she uses her to blackmail Operations into stopping Michael, who keeps trying to accomplish his original mission. ||||||
| 29 | 7 | "Half Life" | René Bonnière | Maurice Hurley | March 22, 1998 (1998-03-22) |
| Michael meets again Rene Denon, the leader of a terrorist group, and an old friend of his. Rene Denon looked after Michael's sister after Section One faked Michael's arrest and death, and now Michael tries to return the favor by helping Rene to escape from Section One. ||||||
| 30 | 8 | "Darkness Visible" | Ken Girotti | David Ehrman | March 29, 1998 (1998-03-29) |
| While in a mission in the Balkans to stop an international arms dealer to procure weapons for a rebel force, Michael and Nikita help two kids to escape the country. ||||||
| 31 | 9 | "Open Heart" | René Bonnière | Elliot Stern | April 5, 1998 (1998-04-05) |
| Red Cell uses a surgeon to implant a bomb in the abdomen of a person. Nikita has to contact Jenna Vogler, the only person who can identify the human bomb, and purposefully lets herself be arrested for hashish smuggling. ||||||
| 32 | 10 | "First Mission" | Guy Magar | Peter Mohan & Jim Henshaw | April 12, 1998 (1998-04-12) |
| Operations has many active missions and not enough team leaders, so Michael designates Nikita as team leader. Nikita has to choose her own team to capture Phillip Stark, who has been acquiring worn out fuel rods from Eastern Europe nuclear reactors. ||||||
| 33 | 11 | "Psychic Pilgrim" | René Bonnière | Michael Loceff | April 19, 1998 (1998-04-19) |
| Michael and Nikita pretend to be a married couple to gather information from Roland Armel, the lawyer of the leader of First Flag, a terrorist group. ||||||
| 34 | 12 | "Soul Sacrifice" | David Warry-Smith | Michael Loceff | June 14, 1998 (1998-06-14) |
| Terry is an operative that, being pregnant, decides to escape Section One to save her unborn child. Michael and Nikita bring her back to Section One and, to save her life, do not report her transgression. ||||||
| 35 | 13 | "Not Was" | René Bonnière | Michael Loceff | June 21, 1998 (1998-06-21) |
| Section One steals some secret files from a high level operative of Red Cell. Later, Michael is kidnapped by Red Cell, interrogated and injected with a drug that ends up erasing his memory. ||||||
| 36 | 14 | "Double Date" | Jon Cassar | Robert Cochran | June 28, 1998 (1998-06-28) |
| David Fanning, that was supposed to have been assassinated by Section One, comes back to work for Section because of his knowledge on Nikolai Kusto, the next target and former head of the Romanian Secret Police. However, David Fanning is a psychopath, an assassin and a brutal wife-beater. ||||||
| 37 | 15 | "Fuzzy Logic" | Ken Girotti | Michael Loceff | July 5, 1998 (1998-07-05) |
| A new terrorist group causing small bombings is detected by Section One, that suspects they are preparing for an attack of mass destruction. Section One needs to uncover the computer cipher the group is using to have any chance of stopping them. ||||||
| 38 | 16 | "Old Habits" | Terry Ingram | Maurice Hurley | July 12, 1998 (1998-07-12) |
| Nikita sees a bus depot exploding while full of people, and swears to herself to stop Bright Star, the culprit terrorist group. Section One has found out that Gregory Formitz is who forges the passports and visas used by the group, and they try to recruit him for a mission targeting Bright Star. ||||||
| 39 | 17 | "Inside Out" | Ken Girotti | Maurice Hurley | July 26, 1998 (1998-07-26) |
| Section One identifies a possible munitions depot of Red Cell near Glasgow and sends a team to attack and destroy the depot. However, when Mowen returns to Section he is infected with a deadly virus. ||||||
| 40 | 18 | "Off Profile" | John Fawcett | David Ehrman | August 2, 1998 (1998-08-02) |
| Andrea Karsov, a beautiful and snotty mission profiler, is assigned to Michael's team to gain field experience. ||||||
| 41 | 19 | "Last Night" | Clark Johnson | Robert Cochran | August 9, 1998 (1998-08-09) |
| Nikita is searching for Julia, a nine year old girl she met during a mission to capture Jaochin Beeka, a mercenary demolitions expert hired by a terror group. ||||||
| 42 | 20 | "In Between" | Joseph Scanlan | Michael Loceff | August 16, 1998 (1998-08-16) |
| Oligarch Abel Goellner uses his huge financial assets to destabilize Third World countries aligned with the West. Nikita and Michael pose as money brokers to meet with Goellner. ||||||
| 43 | 21 | "Adrian's Garden" | Brad Turner | Michael Loceff | August 23, 1998 (1998-08-23) |
| Nikita is kidnapped by Carla, her former neighbor, together with her boyfriend Steven, and taken to the country house of Adrian, founder of Section One and the only person alive who has been able to leave it. ||||||
| 44 | 22 | "End Game" | Joseph Scanlan | Robert Cochran & David Ehrman | August 30, 1998 (1998-08-30) |
| Adrian convinces Nikita that he wants to destroy Section One. Adrian instructs her how to obtain compromising files from privy areas in Section that would incriminate the agency, but Operations and Madeline are suspicious of Nikita concerning several security breaks that have been detected in Section. ||||||

### Season 3 (1999)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 45 | 1 | "Looking for Michael" | Jon Cassar | Michael Loceff | January 3, 1999 (1999-01-03) |
| Nikita is desperately seeking Michael while Operations and Madeline are setting up a plan to kill her. Nikita meets Michael's wife and son. ||||||
| 46 | 2 | "Someone Else's Shadow" | René Bonnière | Michael Loceff | January 10, 1999 (1999-01-10) |
| Section One captures and tortures a friend of Salla Vacek to gather information about his terrorist plans, while Nikita moves closer to Elena, his daughter. ||||||
| 47 | 3 | "Opening Night Jitters" | Jon Cassar | David J. Burke | January 17, 1999 (1999-01-17) |
| Michael poisons his wife Elena, as he was ordered by Section One in order to trap her father, terrorist Salla Vacek. ||||||
| 48 | 4 | "Gates of Hell" | René Bonnière | Robert Cochran | January 24, 1999 (1999-01-24) |
| Michael considers suicide after he is forbidden to have any contact with his son. Nikita is kidnapped during a mission with Michael and he tries to rescue her without any regards for his own life. ||||||
| 49 | 5 | "Imitation of Death" | Brad Turner | Cyrus Nowrasteh | March 7, 1999 (1999-03-07) |
| Section One wipes out a genetics lab created to produce perfect terrorists. Nikita has a suspicion on Section One having a similar lab, but Michael remains unconvinced. ||||||
| 50 | 6 | "Love and Country" | Ted Hanlan | Laurence Hertzog | March 21, 1999 (1999-03-21) |
| Madeline tries to convince the wife of a South American politician to kill his husband; she is also a former wife of Operations. ||||||
| 51 | 7 | "Cat and Mouse" | Terry Ingram | Ed Horowitz | March 28, 1999 (1999-03-28) |
| During an operation Nikita is kidnapped and, unbeknown to all others, supplanted by a terrorist made to look exactly like her. ||||||
| 52 | 8 | "Outside the Box" | Gord Langevin | Jim Korris | April 4, 1999 (1999-04-04) |
| Benjamin Kruger, a man with eidetic memory, is kidnapped by Section One, but refuses to cooperate. Madeline, to threaten him, shows Kruger a fake tape of him murdering someone. ||||||
| 53 | 9 | "Slipping Into Darkness" | Rick Jacobson | Peter M. Lenkov | April 11, 1999 (1999-04-11) |
| Michael slips a psychotropic agent into Operation's coffee. As Operation's mind breaks apart into paranoia and delusions he sends several operatives to apprehend a man who has been dead for years. ||||||
| 54 | 10 | "Under the Influence" | Rick Jacobson | Peter M. Lenkov | April 18, 1999 (1999-04-18) |
| Section One tries to find anthrax rockets that two terrorist brothers stole. A risky plan with Nikita posing as the wife of one of the brothers is put into effect by erasing his memory. ||||||
| 55 | 11 | "Walk on By" | René Bonnière | Michael Loceff | April 25, 1999 (1999-04-25) |
| An old acquaintance of Nikita tells her where is Nikita's mother. As she realizes her mother does not believe Nikita is dead, and wants to hire a private eye to find her, she asks Michael to pose as a private detective. ||||||
| 56 | 12 | "Threshold of Pain" | Terry Ingram | Michael Sloan | June 6, 1999 (1999-06-06) |
| Nikita and two operatives are captured when Section One attacks a terrorist network called Blak March. One operative gives out the location of a Section substation to save his lover; later, he blames Nikita for the unveiling. ||||||
| 57 | 13 | "Beyond the Pale" | René Bonnière | Lawrence Hertzog | June 13, 1999 (1999-06-13) |
| Zalman gets promoted to head strategist instead of Michael. Nikita and Michael escape from Section, but he is captured. Michael resists torture but when Zalman threatens his son he reveals Nikita's location. ||||||
| 58 | 14 | "Hand to Hand" | T.J. Scott | Ed Horowitz | June 20, 1999 (1999-06-20) |
| Nikita infiltrates a white slavery ring while Michael poses as a business man in order to take out a terrorist that is a client of the ring. ||||||
| 59 | 15 | "Before I Sleep" | Joel Surnow | Peter M. Lenkov | June 27, 1999 (1999-06-27) |
| 60 | 16 | "I Remember Paris" | Terry Ingram | Michael Loceff | July 18, 1999 (1999-07-18) |
| 61 | 17 | "All Good Things" | Terry Ingram | Ed Horowitz | July 25, 1999 (1999-07-25) |
| 62 | 18 | "Third Party Ripoff" | T.J. Scott | Michael Loceff | August 1, 1999 (1999-08-01) |
| 63 | 19 | "Any Means Necessary" | David Straiton | Lawrence Hertzog | August 8, 1999 (1999-08-08) |
| 64 | 20 | "Three Eyed Turtle" | Jon Cassar | Maurice Hurley | August 15, 1999 (1999-08-15) |
| 65 | 21 | "Playing With Fire" | Joseph Scanlan | Peter M. Lenkov | August 22, 1999 (1999-08-22) |
| 66 | 22 | "On Borrowed Time" | Ted Hanlan | Peter M. Lenkov | August 29, 1999 (1999-08-29) |

### Season 4 (2000)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 67 | 1 | "Getting Out of Reverse" | Jon Cassar | Michael Loceff | January 9, 2000 (2000-01-09) |
| 68 | 2 | "There Are No Missions" | René Bonnière | Michael Loceff | January 9, 2000 (2000-01-09) |
| 69 | 3 | "View of the Garden" | Jon Cassar | Robert Cochran | January 16, 2000 (2000-01-16) |
| 70 | 4 | "Into the Looking Glass" | René Bonnière | Peter M. Lenkov | January 23, 2000 (2000-01-23) |
| 71 | 5 | "Man in the Middle" | Ted Hanlan | Lawrence Hertzog | February 20, 2000 (2000-02-20) |
| 72 | 6 | "Love, Honor and Cherish" | Terry Ingram | Lawrence Hertzog | February 27, 2000 (2000-02-27) |
| 73 | 7 | "Sympathy for the Devil" | Brad Turner | Lawrence Hertzog | March 5, 2000 (2000-03-05) |
| 74 | 8 | "No One Lives Forever" | Brad Turner | Peter M. Lenkov | March 12, 2000 (2000-03-12) |
| 75 | 9 | "Down A Crooked Path" | Terry Ingram | Peter M. Lenkov | March 19, 2000 (2000-03-19) |
| 76 | 10 | "He Came From Four" | René Bonnière | Ed Horowitz | April 2, 2000 (2000-04-02) |
| 77 | 11 | "Time to be Heroes" | Jerry Ciccoritti | Peter M. Lenkov | April 16, 2000 (2000-04-16) |
| 78 | 12 | "Hell Hath No Fury" | René Bonnière | Lawrence Hertzog | April 23, 2000 (2000-04-23) |
| 79 | 13 | "Kiss the Past Goodbye" | Brad Turner | Frederick Rappaport | June 25, 2000 (2000-06-25) |
| 80 | 14 | "Line in the Sand" | Joel Surnow | Peter M. Lenkov | July 2, 2000 (2000-07-02) |
| 81 | 15 | "Abort, Fail, Retry, Terminate" | Brad Turner | Peter M. Lenkov | July 16, 2000 (2000-07-16) |
| 82 | 16 | "Catch A Falling Star" | Joseph Scanlan | Lawrence Hertzog | July 23, 2000 (2000-07-23) |
| 83 | 17 | "Sleeping With the Enemy" | Jon Cassar | Erica Byrne | July 30, 2000 (2000-07-30) |
| 84 | 18 | "Toys in the Basement" | René Bonnière | Lawrence Hertzog | August 6, 2000 (2000-08-06) |
| 85 | 19 | "Time Out of Mind" | Brad Turner | David Ehrman | August 13, 2000 (2000-08-13) |
| 86 | 20 | "Face in the Mirror" | René Bonnière | Peter M. Lenkov & Lawrence Hertzog | August 20, 2000 (2000-08-20) |
| 87 | 21 | "Up the Rabbit Hole" | Terry Ingram | Lawrence Hertzog & Peter M. Lenkov | August 27, 2000 (2000-08-27) |
| 88 | 22 | "Four Light Years Farther" | Joseph Scanlan | Michael Loceff | August 27, 2000 (2000-08-27) |

### Season 5 (2001)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 89 | 1 | "Déjà Vu All Over Again" | Jon Cassar | Robert Cochran | January 7, 2001 (2001-01-07) |
| 90 | 2 | "A Girl Who Wasn't There" | Terry Ingram | Lawrence Hertzog | January 14, 2001 (2001-01-14) |
| 91 | 3 | "In Through the Out Door" | René Bonnière | David Wolkove | January 21, 2001 (2001-01-21) |
| 92 | 4 | "All the World's A Stage" | Joel Surnow | David Wolkove | February 4, 2001 (2001-02-04) |
| 93 | 5 | "The Man Behind the Curtain" | René Bonnière | Lawrence Hertzog | February 11, 2001 (2001-02-11) |
| 94 | 6 | "The Evil That Men Do" | Roy Dupuis | Andrew J. Horne & Katherine Tomlinson | February 18, 2001 (2001-02-18) |
| 95 | 7 | "Let No Man Put Asunder" | René Bonnière | Lawrence Hertzog | February 25, 2001 (2001-02-25) |
| 96 | 8 | "A Time For Every Purpose" | Brad Turner | Michael Loceff | March 4, 2001 (2001-03-04) |