The Truth Behind Birkhoff is Revealed on NIKITA!!! (My 4x03 Thoughts)
Once again, I apologize for the messed up formatting...I know that it ticks me off. -_-
No gifs tonight.
**MAJOR SPOILER ALERT**
"Nikita" - ep. 4x03 ("Set-Up") [Promo] [My Tumblr Page for 4x03]
Synopsis: ALEX IS CAPTURED - Tensions continue to escalate between the United States and Pakistan after Amanda (Melinda Clarke) plants evidence that Pakistan hired Nikita (Maggie Q) to kill the President. Ryan (Noah Bean) becomes suspicious of Birkhoff's (Aaron Stanford) increasingly odd behavior and tells Nikita and Michael (Shane West) that he thinks Amanda may have kidnapped Birkhoff and planted a double on the plane. Meanwhile, the CIA captures Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) and questions her about her involvement with Nikita.
Quick question again...where is Sonya in this synopsis? She escaped with Sam/Owen at the end of the last episode so will they be trying to find a way to rescue Alex from the CIA?
I saw one theory on tumblr that has me intrigued...what if Amanda re-triggered Birkhoff like she had previous done to Owen/Sam?
THEN:
- Nikita being framed for the murder of the President
- Ryan's conspiracy theory
- Alex is arrested
- Amanda's 'ace in the hole' = Birkhoff
NOW:
Televisions around the World
- Newscast everywhere are talking about Nikita
CIA Safe-house (in Mumbai)
- Alex is taken and restrained for questioning
- Alex is introduced by a forensic accountant
- Alex plays her public image (the Russian party girl)
- Accountant brings out the device that Alex had confiscated at the dock
- Nikita is brought up
- Alex only claims knowing Nikita due to the news
Aircraft HQ
- Nikita is working out while the newscast plays her video (with her deal)
- Michael is on the phone with Sonya...he learns of Alex's situation
- Sonya and Sam managed to escape to another room
- Nikita demands to speak to Sam
- Sam doesn't want to get involved
- Nikita tries to reason with him
- Sam doesn't want to be a wanted man like Nikita
- Sam gives Sonya the phone before walking out
- Nikita says to hang tight before hanging up
- Nikita wants to get to Alex
- Michael wants to wait for the autopsy results (since that is what they need to end things)
- Nikita thinks Birkhoff could ensure that the results remain mismatched
- Birkhoff is not part of the brainstorming
- Birkhoff is in another room
- Nikita goes to retrieve him
Shop HQ
- Jones asks if Amanda is worried about the results
- Amanda has her faith in her secret weapon
Aircraft HQ
- Birkhoff gets ready to hack into the lab doing the autopsy
- Nikita and Ryan watch
- The results say 'no match' before they change to 'match'
- Nikita and Ryan are stunned that Birkhoff couldn't get in
- Birkhoff claims that another hacker had locked him out
- "Better than you?" -Ryan
- Birkhoff walks off
- Already that is suspicious!
COMMERCIAL
Aircraft HQ
- Ryan works on his conspiracy board
- Nikita wants an update
- Ryan moves to check on Birkhoff's computer
- Nikita is stunned
- Birkhoff has been using his laptop since the previous day
- Michael joins them
- Ryan explains how Birkhoff messing up is off for Birkhoff
- Michael and Nikita dispute Ryan's claims
- Ryan gets back to checking the computer
- Nikita wants answers
- WEBCLIP starts
- Ryan voices his suspicions to Nikita and Michael ("What if that's not Nerd?")
- Michael and Nikita are amused
- This is no joking matter!
- "Ryan, you need to step away from the wall of crazy." -Nikita
- Ryan defends his suspicions
- Ryan fears that Alex is in custody because of Birkhoff (who's actions have helped the other side)
- Ryan lists all the times they've been compromised before
- Alex was turned against them
- Nikita was turned against the President
- He forgot about how Owen was turned against them by becoming Sam again
- Nikita wonders why Imposter!Birkhoff hasn't killed them already if Ryan is right
- Ryan believes the imposter is in deep-cover for a reason
- "It's the Shop, their plans have plans." -Ryan
- So very true
- Nikita looks to Michael
- Michael nods to the 'wall of crazy'
- They are still doubtful
- Ryan is frustrated
*I don't get why they won't take Ryan's suspicions seriously. Most of his speculations come true thanks to his skill to recognize patterns.
- Ryan confesses that he's trying to find proof of the switch
- Nikita is stunned to realize that Ryan wants to test his theory
- Ryan says nothing to refute her conclusion
- Nikita and Michael share a look
- [Nikita and Ryan] = "I can test it." // "How?" // "Make it personal. If it's not Nerd, I'll know."
- Nikita looks at Birkhoff (who is playing with a guitar in another part of the aircraft)
CIA Safe-House
- Alex refutes any accusations against her
- Accountant shows Alex how they connect her to Nikita
- They have footage of both Alex and Nikita at the G-Summit in Toronto
- Alex is left alone in her containment
- Alex takes apart a pen and hides it
Marketplace (in Mumbai)
- Sam tries to keep a low profile
- Sam is ambushed by men that want to be paid
- Sam kills the men before grabbing the phone
- Doesn't that draw attention to him?
- Sam calls the leader and ensures that a payment is coming before he hangs up
Aircraft HQ
- Birkhoff is listening to music when Nikita walks in
- Nikita wants to talk to Birkhoff about Michael
- Ryan uses the distraction to check Birkhoff's laptop
- Birkhoff is fidgety before he comes to a conclusion
- "I'm not really Seymour Birkhoff." -Birkhoff
- Nikita gets ready to pull out her gun
- Birkhoff backtracks and brings up his family
- Nikita is stunned to learn that at 15, Birkhoff had faked his own death
- Birkhoff's real name is Lionel
- Ryan finds the deleted file
- Ryan interrupts with a gun pointed at Birkhoff
- Birkhoff pulls a move and grabs Ryan's gun
- Nikita pulls her gun out on Birkhoff
- It's hostile for some time until Nikita gets Birkhoff to disarm
- Ryan shares what he found buried in Birkhoff's laptop
- Birkhoff reveals that Amanda's mole is Birkhoff's birth-father
- Not matter how much Birkhoff hates his father, he doesn't want Nikita to kill him
- *gasp* OMG!!! Trailer was so misleading for that part! I really hope that Birkhoff is truly Birkhoff!
COMMERCIAL
Aircraft HQ
- Ryan adds Birkhoff's dad (Ronald) onto the conspiracy board
- Birkhoff wants no hit on Ronald because killing the double would mean killing the original
- Nikita wants to 'catch and release' on the double
- Nikita tells Ryan the new plan...the team is splitting up
Shop HQ
- Amanda has a brief talk with Ronald after some DNA thing
- They are getting ready to make a double
CIA Safe-House
- Alex is visited again by the Accountant
- Alex is interrogated
- Alex fights back
- "You want to know what I am? I'm a survivor." -Alex
- Alex demands for the music to be turned up
- Accountant leaves
Motel
- Michael and Sonya have heard nothing about Alex
- Sam walks in
- Guns are drawn
- Sam tries to plead his case about joining them in raiding the Safe House for Alex
Ronald's Place
- Birkhoff and Nikita watch Ronald from a distance
- Nikita moves to kidnap Ronald...some resistance before she knocks him down
- Birkhoff helps Nikita contain Ronald
- Ronald doesn't recognize Birkhoff
- I don't know if the real Ronald would recognize Birkhoff or not since he believes him to be dead
- I wonder if Amanda ever knew about Birkhoff's real identity
COMMERCIAL
Shop HQ
- Jones and Amanda wait for the double to be prepped for surgery
Greenhouse / Shop HQ
- Nikita gets ready to interrogate Birkhoff
- Amanda is listening in on a communication device connected to the camera
- Nikita asks questions that Birkhoff gives her
- Birkhoff notices some differences in the answer
- Birkhoff realizes that they have the imposter and that Amanda has his father (who's coaching her)
- Amanda has no idea that Nikita knows
Marketplace
- Sam and Michael make a move to get Alex back
Greenhouse
- Birkhoff and Nikita walk through the plan again
- Nikita suggests that Birkhoff leave something in the trace so that Ronald could contact him
- Birkhoff is hesitant
- Nikita and Ryan watch as Birkhoff does his part in the plan with the Imposter
Shop HQ
- Real!Ronald monitors what Birkhoff is feeding...he recognizes it as the 'monkey' from the morgue
- As he watches the feed he receives the encoded message
- How could he find that? That's amazing!
- Ronald asks Amanda questions once he realizes some similarities
- He gets a brief rundown about him being the creator of Shadownet and being known as Shadow Walker
- I guess Amanda doesn't know the connection between Ronald and Birkhoff...
Team Nikita has the upper hand now...right?
- Ronald asks and sees a picture of Birkhoff
- Ronald types a code out to Birkhoff
- "Hello Lionel." // "Hello Dad."
- I really liked that!
COMMERCIAL
CIA Safe-House
- Accountant visits Alex again
- Alex suspects that the CIA believe that Alex knows what's coming
- CIA has heard chatter from Pakistan
- Alex makes the conclusion that the Shop plans to put a double there
- Accountant leaves (she doesn't want to hear conspiracy theories)
- Alex makes her move
- Gun fight starts
- Alex takes down a few men before she runs out of ammunition
- Accountant has a gun on Alex
- Sam knocks Accountant out before moving towards Alex
- "You look surprised." -Sam // "I am." -Alex
- She wasn't expecting him to help save her
Shop HQ / Greenhouse
- Ronald and Birkhoff communicate some more
- Birkhoff gets the file key thanks to Ronald
- Birkhoff and Imposter!Ronald move to leave
- Amanda is pleased that she has the upper hand
- Ronald looks at Birkhoff's picture
- Ronald slips up in front of Amanda
- Amanda is furious and orders the imposter to execute the failsafe
- Damnit Ronald!! You just had to stay quiet!!
- Imposter!Ronald attacks Birkhoff
- They fight until Birkhoff is knocked down
- Imposter!Ronald is about to impale Birkhoff but Nikita shoots him dead
COMMERCIAL
CIA Safe-House
- Alex gets ready
- Sam walks in with Alex's bag
- Alex brings up her surprise that Sam had come for her
- Sam corrects her that he had left at some point
- Alex confesses that Michael had told her that
- Sam isn't surprised by that
- Alex kisses Sam's cheek as a thank you
- Sam looks stunned
- Michael walks in with a call for Alex
- Alex walks out and takes the call
- Michael thanks Sam
Aircraft HQ / CIA Safe-House
- Ryan doesn't have new information for Alex
- Alex tells him to keep looking
Shop HQ
- Jones is disappointed with Amanda's impulsive move
- Jones is taking control of the plan
- Amanda doesn't look pleased
Aircraft HQ
- Nikita tries to comfort Birkhoff
- Birkhoff is grateful that he had the chance to talk to his dad
- Nikita apologizes about breaking her promise
- Birkhoff tells Nikita to follow her own advice (to not run away)
- Nikita rests her head onto his shoulder
- "You never cease to amaze me Nerd." -Nikita
- I love their moment!
Shop HQ
- Amanda talks about how she could never crack Birkhoff and she plans to use Ronald to get an understanding into Birkhoff
- Amanda is going to use techniques on Ronald that she was never allowed to use on Birkhoff (because of Percy)
CREDITS
NEXT WEEK: The Shop plans to start World War 3!!
So it looks like there is a chance that Birkhoff can reunite with his dad but I'm definitely revealed that Birkhoff wasn't a double. That promo was very misleading. And Olex (Alex/Owen) got their little moment together. =)
We're halfway to the end now.
No gifs tonight.
**MAJOR SPOILER ALERT**
"Nikita" - ep. 4x03 ("Set-Up") [Promo] [My Tumblr Page for 4x03]
Synopsis: ALEX IS CAPTURED - Tensions continue to escalate between the United States and Pakistan after Amanda (Melinda Clarke) plants evidence that Pakistan hired Nikita (Maggie Q) to kill the President. Ryan (Noah Bean) becomes suspicious of Birkhoff's (Aaron Stanford) increasingly odd behavior and tells Nikita and Michael (Shane West) that he thinks Amanda may have kidnapped Birkhoff and planted a double on the plane. Meanwhile, the CIA captures Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) and questions her about her involvement with Nikita.
Quick question again...where is Sonya in this synopsis? She escaped with Sam/Owen at the end of the last episode so will they be trying to find a way to rescue Alex from the CIA?
I saw one theory on tumblr that has me intrigued...what if Amanda re-triggered Birkhoff like she had previous done to Owen/Sam?
THEN:
- Nikita being framed for the murder of the President
- Ryan's conspiracy theory
- Alex is arrested
- Amanda's 'ace in the hole' = Birkhoff
NOW:
Televisions around the World
- Newscast everywhere are talking about Nikita
CIA Safe-house (in Mumbai)
- Alex is taken and restrained for questioning
- Alex is introduced by a forensic accountant
- Alex plays her public image (the Russian party girl)
- Accountant brings out the device that Alex had confiscated at the dock
- Nikita is brought up
- Alex only claims knowing Nikita due to the news
Aircraft HQ
- Nikita is working out while the newscast plays her video (with her deal)
- Michael is on the phone with Sonya...he learns of Alex's situation
- Sonya and Sam managed to escape to another room
- Nikita demands to speak to Sam
- Sam doesn't want to get involved
- Nikita tries to reason with him
- Sam doesn't want to be a wanted man like Nikita
- Sam gives Sonya the phone before walking out
- Nikita says to hang tight before hanging up
- Nikita wants to get to Alex
- Michael wants to wait for the autopsy results (since that is what they need to end things)
- Nikita thinks Birkhoff could ensure that the results remain mismatched
- Birkhoff is not part of the brainstorming
- Birkhoff is in another room
- Nikita goes to retrieve him
Shop HQ
- Jones asks if Amanda is worried about the results
- Amanda has her faith in her secret weapon
Aircraft HQ
- Birkhoff gets ready to hack into the lab doing the autopsy
- Nikita and Ryan watch
- The results say 'no match' before they change to 'match'
- Nikita and Ryan are stunned that Birkhoff couldn't get in
- Birkhoff claims that another hacker had locked him out
- "Better than you?" -Ryan
- Birkhoff walks off
- Already that is suspicious!
COMMERCIAL
Aircraft HQ
- Ryan works on his conspiracy board
- Nikita wants an update
- Ryan moves to check on Birkhoff's computer
- Nikita is stunned
- Birkhoff has been using his laptop since the previous day
- Michael joins them
- Ryan explains how Birkhoff messing up is off for Birkhoff
- Michael and Nikita dispute Ryan's claims
- Ryan gets back to checking the computer
- Nikita wants answers
- WEBCLIP starts
- Ryan voices his suspicions to Nikita and Michael ("What if that's not Nerd?")
- Michael and Nikita are amused
- This is no joking matter!
- "Ryan, you need to step away from the wall of crazy." -Nikita
- Ryan defends his suspicions
- Ryan fears that Alex is in custody because of Birkhoff (who's actions have helped the other side)
- Ryan lists all the times they've been compromised before
- Alex was turned against them
- Nikita was turned against the President
- He forgot about how Owen was turned against them by becoming Sam again
- Nikita wonders why Imposter!Birkhoff hasn't killed them already if Ryan is right
- Ryan believes the imposter is in deep-cover for a reason
- "It's the Shop, their plans have plans." -Ryan
- So very true
- Nikita looks to Michael
- Michael nods to the 'wall of crazy'
- They are still doubtful
- Ryan is frustrated
*I don't get why they won't take Ryan's suspicions seriously. Most of his speculations come true thanks to his skill to recognize patterns.
- Ryan confesses that he's trying to find proof of the switch
- Nikita is stunned to realize that Ryan wants to test his theory
- Ryan says nothing to refute her conclusion
- Nikita and Michael share a look
- [Nikita and Ryan] = "I can test it." // "How?" // "Make it personal. If it's not Nerd, I'll know."
- Nikita looks at Birkhoff (who is playing with a guitar in another part of the aircraft)
CIA Safe-House
- Alex refutes any accusations against her
- Accountant shows Alex how they connect her to Nikita
- They have footage of both Alex and Nikita at the G-Summit in Toronto
- Alex is left alone in her containment
- Alex takes apart a pen and hides it
Marketplace (in Mumbai)
- Sam tries to keep a low profile
- Sam is ambushed by men that want to be paid
- Sam kills the men before grabbing the phone
- Doesn't that draw attention to him?
- Sam calls the leader and ensures that a payment is coming before he hangs up
Aircraft HQ
- Birkhoff is listening to music when Nikita walks in
- Nikita wants to talk to Birkhoff about Michael
- Ryan uses the distraction to check Birkhoff's laptop
- Birkhoff is fidgety before he comes to a conclusion
- "I'm not really Seymour Birkhoff." -Birkhoff
- Nikita gets ready to pull out her gun
- Birkhoff backtracks and brings up his family
- Nikita is stunned to learn that at 15, Birkhoff had faked his own death
- Birkhoff's real name is Lionel
- Ryan finds the deleted file
- Ryan interrupts with a gun pointed at Birkhoff
- Birkhoff pulls a move and grabs Ryan's gun
- Nikita pulls her gun out on Birkhoff
- It's hostile for some time until Nikita gets Birkhoff to disarm
- Ryan shares what he found buried in Birkhoff's laptop
- Birkhoff reveals that Amanda's mole is Birkhoff's birth-father
- Not matter how much Birkhoff hates his father, he doesn't want Nikita to kill him
- *gasp* OMG!!! Trailer was so misleading for that part! I really hope that Birkhoff is truly Birkhoff!
COMMERCIAL
Aircraft HQ
- Ryan adds Birkhoff's dad (Ronald) onto the conspiracy board
- Birkhoff wants no hit on Ronald because killing the double would mean killing the original
- Nikita wants to 'catch and release' on the double
- Nikita tells Ryan the new plan...the team is splitting up
Shop HQ
- Amanda has a brief talk with Ronald after some DNA thing
- They are getting ready to make a double
CIA Safe-House
- Alex is visited again by the Accountant
- Alex is interrogated
- Alex fights back
- "You want to know what I am? I'm a survivor." -Alex
- Alex demands for the music to be turned up
- Accountant leaves
Motel
- Michael and Sonya have heard nothing about Alex
- Sam walks in
- Guns are drawn
- Sam tries to plead his case about joining them in raiding the Safe House for Alex
Ronald's Place
- Birkhoff and Nikita watch Ronald from a distance
- Nikita moves to kidnap Ronald...some resistance before she knocks him down
- Birkhoff helps Nikita contain Ronald
- Ronald doesn't recognize Birkhoff
- I don't know if the real Ronald would recognize Birkhoff or not since he believes him to be dead
- I wonder if Amanda ever knew about Birkhoff's real identity
COMMERCIAL
Shop HQ
- Jones and Amanda wait for the double to be prepped for surgery
Greenhouse / Shop HQ
- Nikita gets ready to interrogate Birkhoff
- Amanda is listening in on a communication device connected to the camera
- Nikita asks questions that Birkhoff gives her
- Birkhoff notices some differences in the answer
- Birkhoff realizes that they have the imposter and that Amanda has his father (who's coaching her)
- Amanda has no idea that Nikita knows
Marketplace
- Sam and Michael make a move to get Alex back
Greenhouse
- Birkhoff and Nikita walk through the plan again
- Nikita suggests that Birkhoff leave something in the trace so that Ronald could contact him
- Birkhoff is hesitant
- Nikita and Ryan watch as Birkhoff does his part in the plan with the Imposter
Shop HQ
- Real!Ronald monitors what Birkhoff is feeding...he recognizes it as the 'monkey' from the morgue
- As he watches the feed he receives the encoded message
- How could he find that? That's amazing!
- Ronald asks Amanda questions once he realizes some similarities
- He gets a brief rundown about him being the creator of Shadownet and being known as Shadow Walker
- I guess Amanda doesn't know the connection between Ronald and Birkhoff...
Team Nikita has the upper hand now...right?
- Ronald asks and sees a picture of Birkhoff
- Ronald types a code out to Birkhoff
- "Hello Lionel." // "Hello Dad."
- I really liked that!
COMMERCIAL
CIA Safe-House
- Accountant visits Alex again
- Alex suspects that the CIA believe that Alex knows what's coming
- CIA has heard chatter from Pakistan
- Alex makes the conclusion that the Shop plans to put a double there
- Accountant leaves (she doesn't want to hear conspiracy theories)
- Alex makes her move
- Gun fight starts
- Alex takes down a few men before she runs out of ammunition
- Accountant has a gun on Alex
- Sam knocks Accountant out before moving towards Alex
- "You look surprised." -Sam // "I am." -Alex
- She wasn't expecting him to help save her
Shop HQ / Greenhouse
- Ronald and Birkhoff communicate some more
- Birkhoff gets the file key thanks to Ronald
- Birkhoff and Imposter!Ronald move to leave
- Amanda is pleased that she has the upper hand
- Ronald looks at Birkhoff's picture
- Ronald slips up in front of Amanda
- Amanda is furious and orders the imposter to execute the failsafe
- Damnit Ronald!! You just had to stay quiet!!
- Imposter!Ronald attacks Birkhoff
- They fight until Birkhoff is knocked down
- Imposter!Ronald is about to impale Birkhoff but Nikita shoots him dead
COMMERCIAL
CIA Safe-House
- Alex gets ready
- Sam walks in with Alex's bag
- Alex brings up her surprise that Sam had come for her
- Sam corrects her that he had left at some point
- Alex confesses that Michael had told her that
- Sam isn't surprised by that
- Alex kisses Sam's cheek as a thank you
- Sam looks stunned
- Michael walks in with a call for Alex
- Alex walks out and takes the call
- Michael thanks Sam
Aircraft HQ / CIA Safe-House
- Ryan doesn't have new information for Alex
- Alex tells him to keep looking
Shop HQ
- Jones is disappointed with Amanda's impulsive move
- Jones is taking control of the plan
- Amanda doesn't look pleased
Aircraft HQ
- Nikita tries to comfort Birkhoff
- Birkhoff is grateful that he had the chance to talk to his dad
- Nikita apologizes about breaking her promise
- Birkhoff tells Nikita to follow her own advice (to not run away)
- Nikita rests her head onto his shoulder
- "You never cease to amaze me Nerd." -Nikita
- I love their moment!
Shop HQ
- Amanda talks about how she could never crack Birkhoff and she plans to use Ronald to get an understanding into Birkhoff
- Amanda is going to use techniques on Ronald that she was never allowed to use on Birkhoff (because of Percy)
CREDITS
NEXT WEEK: The Shop plans to start World War 3!!
So it looks like there is a chance that Birkhoff can reunite with his dad but I'm definitely revealed that Birkhoff wasn't a double. That promo was very misleading. And Olex (Alex/Owen) got their little moment together. =)
We're halfway to the end now.