Season Two

	Season Two
Premiere Episode	Finale Episode
Hard Landing	End Game
Total Episodes	22
Aired	January 4, 1998 - August 30, 1998
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Season Two of La Femme Nikita aired from January 4, 1998 to August 30, 1998 on the USA Network. It consisted of twenty-two episodes.

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Season	Series	Title	Writer	Director	Original Airdate
2.01	23	"Hard Landing"	Michael Loceff	Jon Cassar	January 4, 1998
With Michael's help, Nikita survives Section One's assassination attempt on her, but Section One believes that she is dead. While working as a waitress, Nikita is kidnapped by the Freedom League and taken to the terrorist group's headquarters.
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2.02	24	"Spec Ops"	Robert Cochran	T.J. Scott	January 11, 1998
Nikita's deception could be uncovered when she must retrain with Jurgen, a special operations agent ordered to evaluate her physical, psychological and emotional states.
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2.03	25	"Third Person"	Michael Loceff	Jon Cassar	January 18, 1998
Nikita continues her retraining sessions with Jurgen, and Michael is not happy about it. Jurgen believes that Michael wants to kill him, and the two men fight. Nikita and Jurgen have affection for each other. Operations returns Nikita to full status.
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2.04	26	"Approaching Zero"	Michael Loceff	René Bonnière	February 1, 1998
Nikita visits Jurgen at his spacious country house. Nikita and Jurgen are about to make love when both are summoned for an assignment. Jurgen is blackmailing Section One. Jurgen volunteers for a suicide mission.
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2.05	27	"New Regime"	Robert Cochran	Jon Cassar	March 1, 1998
Egran Petrosian leads Section One and begins making changes while Operations is badly hurt because of an assassination attempt. Petrosian wants Nikita to be his second in command and this endangers Madeline's status quo.
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2.06	28	"Mandatory Refusal"	David Ehrman	Ken Girotti	March 8, 1998
Michael's mission to kill Dorian Enquist, a fringe member of the terrorist community, goes awry, and Enquist holds Madeline hostage. Nikita realizes that the only way to save Michael is to rescue Madeline.
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2.07	29	"Half Life"	Maurice Hurley	René Bonnière	March 22, 1998
Michael helps a college friend, Rene Dian, who heads a terrorist group. Rene took care of Michael's sister after Section One orchestrated Michael's arrest and phony "death," and now Michael repays the favor by helping Rene escape from Section One.
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2.08	30	"Darkness Visible"	David Ehrman	Ken Girotti	March 29, 1998
Section One must stop Radovan Luca, whose contacts to the international arms community aid a rebel force inside the Balkans. While on a mission to eliminate the Balkan terrorist, Nikita and Michael help two children flee the country.
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2.09	31	"Open Heart"	Elliot Stern	René Bonnière	April 5, 1998
A surgeon paid by Red Cell implants a powerful time bomb in the abdomen of a human. Nikita intentionally gets arrested for smuggling hashish to make contact with Jenna Vogler, the only person who can identify the human time bomb.
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2.10	32	"First Mission"	Peter Mohan & Jim Henshaw	Guy Magar	April 12, 1998
Faced with too many missions and too few team leaders, Operations and Michael appoint Nikita as a team leader. Assigned to capture Phillip Stark, who has been buying spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors in Eastern Europe, Nikita chooses her own team.
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2.11	33	"Psychic Pilgrim"	Michael Loceff	René Bonnière	April 19, 1998
Nikita and Michael pose as a happily married couple in order to obtain information about First Flag, an infamous terrorist group, from its leader's attorney, Roland Armel.
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2.12	34	"Soul Sacrifice"	Michael Loceff	David Warry-Smith	June 14, 1998
Terry, a veteran operative who is pregnant, escapes from Section One in order to save her baby, but Nikita and Michael return her to Section One, not reporting the incident to Operations, to save Terry's life.
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2.13	35	"Not Was"	Michael Loceff	René Bonnière	June 21, 1998
Section One steals secret files belonging to Orlando Perez, a high-level enemy operative from Red Cell, but Red Cell captures Michael and gets interrogated. An intravenous drug administered by Red Cell causes Michael to lose his memory.
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2.14	36	"Double Date"	Robert Cochran	Jon Cassar	June 28, 1998
A psychotic murderer and sadistic wife-beater who was thought to have been killed by Section One, David Fanning comes to work for Section because he knows its next target, Nikolai Kusko, the former head of the Romanian Secret Police.
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2.15	37	"Fuzzy Logic"	Michael Loceff	Ken Girotti	July 5, 1998
An unknown terrorist group performs small bombings while preparing for a major act of mass destruction. In order to expose the terrorist group, Section One must figure out the computer code the group is using.
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2.16	38	"Old Habits"	Maurice Hurley	Terry Ingram	July 12, 1998
After seeing a bus depot filled with people get blown up by the terrorist group Bright Star, Nikita vows to stop its activities. Gregory Formitz, who supplies the group with forged passports, visas and press credentials, agrees to help Section One.
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2.17	39	"Inside Out"	Maurice Hurley	Ken Girotti	July 26, 1998
Section One uncovers a possible Red Cell munitions outpost in Glasgow, Scotland, and sends a team of operatives to overtake and neutralize the facility. Instead, Mowen returns to Section One bringing a deadly virus back with him.
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2.18	40	"Off Profile"	David Ehrman	John Fawcett	August 2, 1998
Operations assigns sexy but arrogant mission profiler Andrea Karsov to Michael's team in order for her to obtain necessary field experience.
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2.19	41	"Last Night"	Robert Cochran	Clark Johnson	August 9, 1998
Nikita searches for Julia, a 9-year-old girl whom Nikita encountered during a mission to capture free-lance demolitions expert Joachin Beeka, who has been hired by a terrorist group.
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2.20	42	"In Between"	Michael Loceff	Joseph L. Scanlan	August 16, 1998
With his massive financial resources, Abel Goellner destabilizes Third World countries friendly to the West and places hostile governments in control. Posing as money brokers, Michael and Nikita meet with Goellner and his confidante, Karel Giraldi.
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2.21	43	"Adrian's Garden"	Michael Loceff	Brad Turner	August 23, 1998
Former neighbor Carla and her boyfriend Steven kidnap Nikita and take her to a cottage in the country owned by Adrian, the founder of Section One and the only person to successfully leave it.
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2.22	44	"End Game"	Robert Cochran & David Ehrman	Joseph L. Scanlan	August 30, 1998
Under Adrian's direction, Nikita risks her own life to retrieve incriminating files from restricted areas within Section One for Adrian's quest to destroy it. Operations and Madeline suspect that Nikita may be guilty of security breaches at the Section.
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