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| Lethal in leathers. NIKITA (Maggie Q) is all revved up for the new third season. Images: THE CW CHANNEL. |
Hopefully returning to the SKY LIVING HD channel later in 2013, it's a new third year, and a whole new ball game, of intrigue and danger for our dutiful and beautiful heroine with a conscience, and formidable kick-ass skills, NIKITA (played with confidence and lethal physical prowess by the sterling Maggie Q), as she and her loving and equally experienced spy partner, Michael (the shadow eyed Shane West), must keep control of the restructured Division and its world-influencing, continuing legacy- its agents and powerbase no longer held in the corrupt iron fist of darkness that was terrific super villain Percy, whose death at the hands of an ultimately payback thirsty Nikita, was surely much savoured by audiences at the end of Season Two (kudos to Xander Berkeley for making so much from the part. He will be much missed, but, in all honesty, where else could the character now go?). Fortunately, not all of the gang’s old foes have been vanquished-Melinda Clarke’s devilish sexy and manipulative sadist Amanda is still out there (alongside Peter Outerbridge’s Russian/American double-agent Ari Tasarov), and you can bet that her new alliances with some of the worlds worst villains (most notably a group called the “Dirty Thirty”) and other evil corporations (especially unfinished business in Russia), plus that black boxes of hers filled with dark secrets and unexpectedly grim surprises, will continue to cause epic mayhem and even more ambitiously staged action sequences for our delightfully leggy heroine, and her action posse, to go charging into…
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| New missions, new dangers begin for Nikita and the reformed Division. |
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| A more relaxed and confident Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) this time around? |
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| Super-spy black box keeper Owen (Devon Sawa) is manipulated by the returned Amanda (Melinda Clarke) in Consequences. |
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| Seymour (Aaron Stanford) and Michael, with Sonya (Lyndie Greenwood), in the episode Black Badge. |
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| Will Nikita and Michael ever get any time off? A scene from The Sword's Edge. |
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| Tortured Ari (Peter Outerbridge) has problems in With Fire. |
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| Nikita and Michael go into darkness in Sideswipe. |
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| A leggy offensive from Sonya (Lyndie Greenwood) in Broken Home. |
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| Their fates linked: Nikita and Amanda in Invisible Hand. |
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| Danger in Division. Alex fights back in Broken Home. |
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| Getting the boot in. Nikita in action in Invisible Hand. |
Season Two of the CW’s always stylish/often exhilarating action drama suffered a little bit from a confused middle, and co-star Lyndsy Fonseca’s character of young and sexy Alex looked a little lost in things, but it regained its mojo for a spirited and spectacular, very James Bond’ish two- part action finale, courtesy of direction from Brit talent Danny Cannon. It’s going to be interesting to see where this new season, and its brighter visual look with its opening episodes, ultimately goes within its reset button phase, for both the main cast and the many, numerous supporting characters that have appeared on and off over the last two years. Like last season, I’m sure we can ultimately expect another intriguing game-changing event, and several more key deaths, along the way.
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