La Femme Nikita Season 3 Episode 16

Birkoff: What do you think of this place?
Walter: Um, I don't like the way it smells.
Birkoff: Why? What does it smell like?
Walter: New. I don't like anything new. In fact, I don't like change.

Operations: So we live to fight another day.
Nikita: Where?
Operations: Not here. Oversight will select a location.
Nikita: Where are we going to go until it's ready?
Operations: They're ready now.

Nikita: I wanted to follow up on the driver I wounded yesterday.
Walter: I had a field kit. Birkoff uploaded the data to the CIA.
Operations: Why were you wasting your time with that?
Nikita: It only took two minutes. There was nothing to lose, only something to gain.
Operations: You're not here to think, you're not here to plan strategy - you're here to do whatever I tell you to do. The Section runs simply: the people who are trained to think, think. The people who are trained to fight, fight. Why am I always having to remind you where you stand?

Nikita: Now there's no reason to kill her.
Operations: She's seen us.
Nikita: She does not know Brogan. Look at yourself. You talk about all the innocent people we protect. You've got one sitting right in front of you and you're going to kill her.

Operations: Where is he?
Matteo: I don't know.
(Operations points the gun at Ellen, who freaks)
Operations: Tell me.
Matteo: I don't know.
Ellen: No!
Operations: Tell me.
Matteo: I don't know!
(Nikita stands between him and target)
Operations: Get out of my way, Nikita.
Nikita: He's telling the truth.
Operations: What did I say on the street? No one is clean.
Nikita: Killing her is not going to make him talk.

Nikita: For this cover, he's using Pierre Brogan.
Operations: And he's part of a syndicate that owns the gallery?
Nikita: Limited partner, and he officially withdrew in April. You know, it's possible he's just an art lover and the people associated with the gallery are clean.
Operations: No one is clean. I've tolerated enough of your soft pedaling over the years - but not today. We have zero margin for error. I'll kill ten innocents to get to Allen. And you'll do the same.

Nikita: Where are we going?
Operations: To find Freddy Allen.
Nikita: I don't understand.
Operations: As of now, everyone's an operative.

Madeline: (About missing finding Freddy Allen) Who should I send?
Operations: I'll take it.
Madeline: Why would you do that? You're needed here.
Operations: Comm isn't fully operational. I need to control this one.
Madeline: You're not expendable.
Operations: If we don't find Freddy Allen soon, we'll all be expendable.

Birkoff: What's going to happen?
Walter: What do you mean? We're going to get all the bad guys and we'll all live happily ever after.
Birkoff: Where?
Walter: Hell if I know. This is my first incineration.
Birkoff: Have there been others?
Walter: You never know what to believe.
Birkoff: I like Paris.
Walter: You'll visit.

(at the Section's hiding temporary place))
Operations: I want him broken within the an hour. Do we have anything you can use?
Madeline: A few chemicals, not much.
Operations: Use whatever's available. Just don't kill him until he talks.

Operations: I understand we have a three day window.
Birkoff: Yes and no.
Operations: What does that mean?
Birkoff: A portion of the data was not encoded.
Madeline: What is it, Birkoff?
Birkoff: They know where we are.
Operations: Are you sure?
Birkoff: Yes.

Operations: Tyco's dead.
Madeline: The depth of the breach?
Operations: We don't know everything yet, but we do know he tapped into Comm.
Madeline: This was a well choreographed plan.
Operations: Even his capture must have been expected. Whoever's behind this has substantial resources.
Madeline: I'll check the initial intel. See who fed us.
Operations: Birkoff's already on it. We're going to brief in Systems in ten minutes.
Madeline: This isn't good, is it?
Operations: No.

(Suspect gets lose)
Birkoff: Michael, he's up there somewhere.
Michael: I know.
Birkoff: All right, I'll send in a team.
Michael: No. Seal us off.
Birkoff: Are you sure? They can be there in twenty seconds.
Michael: Now, before he moves.

Boris: (being interrogated) I see your point. I suppose you're probably right. But if I tell you about this tracker, are you gonna kill me?
Madeline: Most likely. Unless there's anything else. But it will happen quickly and you won't feel anything.
Boris: That's good, because I'm not really fond of pain.

Sparks: (as she munches candy and breaks the Section's encryption) You don't even care what we do in here, do you, Siobhan? God help us if the other side has more candy.

Michael: It's been a strange week.
Nikita: That's one way to put it. I don't know what was more unusual, Operations blowing up Section or you coming for dinner again.
Michael: I didn't choose to stay away.
Nikita: But you did. So what's changed?
Michael: Maybe enough time has passed.
Nikita: Maybe too much time has passed, Michael.
Michael: I hope not. (he pours her some more wine)
Nikita: Thank you... So why are you here now?
Michael: I missed you.

Operations: ...Thank you.
Nikita: For what?
Operations: You're competent and you keep your wits about you under fire. I tend towards impatience. It doesn't always work as well in the field.
Nikita: Sometimes I do things differently than what you would like, but I've set boundaries for myself. If I was to work outside those boundaries, I couldn't live with myself.
Operations: I appreciate that, Nikita, but it's not about you and your boundaries... it's not even about me and my impatience.
Nikita: I know. It's about the Section, right?
Operations: I know most of the operatives think of what they do here as nothing more than indentured servitude; it's a way to stay alive. If I could just impart the way I feel about this place...