List of Nikita characters
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Nikita
is an American
spy
drama
which premiered on September 9, 2010 on the CW Television Network. The series is based on French
film Nikita, the films remake: Point of No Return
and a previous series La Femme Nikita. The series stars Maggie Q
as Nikita, the title protagonist of the series, as a rogue spy and assassin who's mission is to bring down the secret government agency called Division. Other main cast members include Shane West
as Michael, Lyndsy Fonseca
as Alex Udinov, Aaron Stanford
as Seymour Birkhoff, Ashton Holmes
as Thom, Tiffany Hines
as Jaden, Melinda Clarke
as Amanda and Xander Berkeley
as Percy.
, Nikita Meers was a waif who never knew her parents and went from one foster home to another. She later became a felony addicted teenager sentenced to death row. The secret government agency, Division, recruited her and faked her death in order to rescue her from death row. Following her rescue, she was trained as a spy and assassin. Her dreams of serving her country well were broken after Division, the only people she thought she could trust, betrayed her. After a three-year hiding period, Nikita now seeks retribution against Division and vowed to bring the agency down. She is Michael's main love interest throughout the series. Maggie Q performs her own stunts.
, Michael is a Division operative who trained Nikita. Michael is second in command at Division surpassed only by the ruthless Percy. He is a former US Navy
intelligence officer. Shane West, the actor who plays Michael, described Michael as "confused" and "torn between his loyalty to Division and his own feeling on where he should be going in his life" West also said that "Michael's not inherently a bad guy, at all. He's doing some things that I think he started off believing in, and now he's a little unsure". It is later revealed that Percy, Division's head, hired Kaseem Tariq to kill Michael, but due to an accident, Michael's wife and daughter died. It was this that Percy used to get Michael into Division saying that he could seek retribution. Michael also serves as Nikita's main love interest throughout the series.
, Alexandra "Alex" Udinov is a new recruit in Division. Udinov shares many similarities to Nikita. She is a former street kid who was arrested after a robbery. Udinov, secretly, assists Nikita in her quest to destroy Division by acting as a mole. Alex suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder
after she was kidnapped by Russians and sold as a sex slave. In "Alexandra", the 15th episode of the first season, it is revealed that Alex is the daughter of a Russian Oligarch
, and the heir to his business empire. After accidentally killing Thom, then framing him as Nikita's mole, she graduated to agent.
In the 21st episode, Alex's true identity was recovered by Amanda, and Percy re-activated her kill chip as a deal to use her against Nikita. In the Season 1 finale, Alex faked Nikita's death so that Nikita could stop Percy, resulting in her recapture by Division. Amanda, however, permanently deactivated Alex's killchip and let her escape, persuading her to make her own life without being Nikita's mole. Alex then abandoned Nikita, only to be captured by Oversight, who controls Division, and given an order to find and apprehend Nikita and Michael. In Season 2, Alex becomes a free agent and an independent contractor for Division, working with Amanda to bring down Nikita and Michael in exchange for Division's support in her own mission to bring down Sergei Semak; accepting herself as the Udinov heiress.
, Seymour Birkoff is Division's head technician and is later promoted to head engineer. A talented computer genius and hacker, Birkhoff, as a college student, was originally an infamous cyber criminal known as "Shadowalker", responsible for many infamous digital attacks on the government and its agencies; he was caught after trying to gain access into the security systems at The Pentagon
from his college dorm room. While in prison, Percy got Birkhoff released and recruited him to Division. Birkhoff was recruited at around the same time as Nikita. Birkhoff is known for his nonconformist nature; despite his work for Division, he maintains pride in his individual work with computers. Despite his fear of Amanda and Percy, Birkhoff is fairly loyal to Division, although at times protests against his more violent duties. In Season 2, Birkhoff, after rescuing Nikita and Michael from a Division ambush, revealed he had escaped Division, like they had, after Percy was relieved of command and Amanda put in charge; and Birkhoff feared her wrath if she ever found out Birkhoff was responsible for decrypting Percy's black box master drive so much that he fled altogether. Initially hesitant to get involved with their efforts to undo all of Division's crimes, Birkhoff, after seeing the effects of a Division mental manipulation program turning a woman; Alicia, who he had quickly grown to care about, into a mindless killer, eventually he teamed up with Nikita and Michael to take down Division and Oversight.
, Thom is a Division assassin and Alex's love interest. Thom arrived at Division two years after Nikita and a year before Alex. Originally one of the recruits who were on the brink of becoming full agents, Thom had an unwavering determination to prove himself to Division; as a recruit team leader, Thom took care of the recruits who were struggling with Division's training programs, and when Alex was a new recruit, helped her out when he could. Thom also defended her against Jaden, who he had a short relationship with, and developed feelings for Alex, kissing her at one point, although Alex didn't know how to react and rejected him. In Season 1, Episode 8; Thom graduated and became a full-fledged agent after killing a Gogol asset; an act that was hard for him to bear. Thom later discovered that Alex was working together with Nikita, and tried to take Alex in at gunpoint, but the two fought and Thom is accidentally shot and killed by Alex with his own gun. A heartbroken Alex, who later admits she loved Thom in the end, swears revenge on Division for the situation that resulted in Thom's death, seeing him as one more victim of Division. Posthumously, Alex framed Thom as the mole and he took the fall for Nikita's infiltration. In the Season 1 finale, Alex is exposed as a the true mole, a fact everyone knows by the Season 2 premiere, clearing Thom's name.
, Jaden is a Division assassin who regularly clashed with Alex. Jaden arrived at Division two months before Alex, having been recruited after murdering her boyfriend while he slept, an action Percy admirably describes as "taking initiative". Jaden embraced her new life at Division, and had a brief romancee with Thom. Although having similar backgrounds as former street kids, she became resentful of Alex, feeling the latest addition was stealing her thunder. Thom's interest in Alex didn't help matters due to the previous relationship she shared with him. Alex and Jaden's rivalry reaches dangerous levels when they brawl and are reprimanded bu Michael. Afterwards, under threat of "cancellation" (death) if they continued their fights, Jaden maintained an outward cordiality towards Alex, but despite this, Jaden clearly didn't trust Alex and almost found out Alex's secret: that she is Nikita's mole. Alex was able to keep Jaden in line by deciding to frame Jaden for trying to escape Division, acquiring a picture as evidence to blackmail her. After Thom is killed by Alex for working with Nikita, Jaden clearly believed that Alex framed Thom, set him up as the mole, and then killed him. Later, Jaden was appointed a provisional agent, and worked together under Alex on an operation that lead to her graduation and appointment as a full-fledged agent, the events of the mission finally cooling relations between them. Shortly after, however, Jaden fought Alex for a final time when she stopped her from reporting Nathan Colville; Alex's boyfriend who had just learnt of Division, to Division to have him killed, and during the fight, when Jaden is about to kill Alex, Nathan stepped in and shot Jaden in the stomach, which instantly kills her. After her death, Roan comes to the scene and takes Jaden's body and proceeds to melt her body in a tub of hydrofluoric acid
. It the debrief with Amanda afterwards, Amanda revealed she had place a new undetectable earpiece on Jaden without her knowledge; when Alex called Nikita for assistance, mere meters away from Jaden's dead body, Amanda heard and recorded Alex doing it - exposing her as the mole.
, Amanda is the intelligent and beautiful resident psychologist and a master of mental manipulation; she is the official manipulator (as well as torturer) of Division, under the code-name "Inquisitor". Percy is rumored to have built his entire operation around Amanda's methods and relies on her to get inside people's heads, both during torture and to break them down to believe in Division unconditionally. As an expert manipulator, she can usually tell when people are lying to her and enjoys getting to know the recruits and their secrets. She has a certain fascination for Nikita because she was never able to break her completely. Although she works for Division, she seems to care for some agents and recruits. In Season 2, Amanda has been promoted to Commander of Division and Director of Operations following Percy being relieved of command by Oversight. Amanda, over the course of Season 1, develops a fascination with Alex, similar to Nikita, due to their similar personalities and actions during missions - ultimately resulting in Amanda finding out Alex is Nikita's mole. In Season 2, Amanda and Alex are "business partners". Amanda wants the black box master drive which Nikita and Michael possess and are threatening to expose Division and Oversight with, Alex wants to kill Sergei Semak; who used Oversight to order her family's deaths. Amanda gives Alex information to further this goal, and Alex promises to get the black box master drive.
, Percy is the Commander of Division and its Director of Operations. He will stop at nothing to destroy Nikita and protect his empire. As witnessed by his co-workers, Percy is more ruthless than as what he seems, being capable of doing anything in order to achieve what he wants. He has a fair set of skills, including using firearms and self-defense tactics. He is often sardonic and sarcastic, having a notable dark sense of humor. His ambition to eliminate Nikita often drives him into failure, but not before anticipating her every move. In Season 2, Percy has been relieved of command and deposed as head of Division after attempting to overtake Oversight - he now resides in a Division jail, miles underground. Amanda, promoted to take Percy's place, make it clear Percy is only alive as Amanda needs him that way, because if he does die, the content of the remaining three black boxes will be published, plunging the world into chaos, and she does not want that.
, Sean is an Oversight agent sent to keep an eye on Amanda. Sean, when he met Alex, thought of her as a government traitor and completely untrustworthy; although later, after seeing her in action, acts as a mentor to Alex - reminding her to see past her own mission in like to bring down Semak. Sean is a former Special Forces soldier, and has a code of honor and is determined to never leave a man behind, unlike Division, something Alex quickly comes to respect. In "Clawback", it is revealed that one member of Oversight, Madeline, is actually Sean's mother.
meant for her in his face, leaving him scarred. In Season 2, despite Percy being relieved of command and Amanda's promotion, Roan still works under Amanda's command, and becomes Alex's partner in one mission (where Roan actually became impressed with Alex, according to Amanda in the debrief). Though half of his face is burned now, he keeps on having the same deadly skills as before.
, Owen is a former Division "cleaner" operative who is one of the specially chosen few that have been trusted to handle one of Percy's black boxes - a Guardian, based in Montreal, Canada. Owen, like Nikita, works for Division and fell in love with a civilian, Emily Robinson - Division operatives are forbidden from falling in love with civilians. When the black box location is exposed and Owen requests a relocation, Percy agrees and personally comes to Montreal with a large team, Percy secretly intending to kill Owen after his mission of obtaining the box for security reasons. When Division agents came after him, and Emily was shot and killed by a Division sniper in the process, Owen goes against Division to avenge her, and Nikita convinces Owen to join her in her mission and find and destroy the other Division black boxes, and then kill Percy. Owen later realizes that he was the "cleaner" who killed Daniel Monroe, Nikita's civilian fiancé, a fact he revealed and he later apologises for - as by this time, Owen is emotionally weighed down by the number of victims he has from his service to Division. Owen continues working with Nikita through to Season 2, when he disappears again to hunt down and kill the remaining Guardians and destroy their boxes. Owen, without Nikita's knowledge, goes so far as to ally with Gogol under Ari Tasarov's command; agreeing to destroy the black boxes in exchange for Gogol's financing and support for his activities.
, Tasarov is the leader of the Russian
criminal organization Gogol, an organization seeking to rival and topple Division, as well as serving as the shadow arm of Sergei Semak. Nikita was close to assassinating him, but refrained upon seeing Tasarov with his son. He is former KGB and currently serves as Chief of Intelligence (and later Security) of Zetrov. He is cold-hearted, calculating and is always attempting to outdo Division operations. Nikita and Tasarov first cross paths during his operation to assassinate U.S. Senator Jack Kerrigan, one of Percy's few trusted government allies, only for Nikita to outsmart him an foil the assassination, but instead she ruined Kerrigan's career and his usefulness to Percy. Satisfied with the result, Tasarov later met with Nikita, offering for them to work together to take down Division, revealing his knowledge of the black boxes. Later, Tasarov and Nikita meet again when Tasarov and Gogol go after Emile Voss and the dirty bomb he developed, with Tasarov, due to Nikita's interference, failing to acquire the bomb, and instead for the bomb to be delivered to Ryan Fletcher. Nikita later comes to Tasarov to ask for his help in getting to Kasim Tariq, the al-Qaeda leader whom Gogol has a partnership with. Tasarov agrees but warns her about striking back at Gogol a third time. After Nikita hit a convoy full of heroin, Kasim goes to St. Petersburg to confront Tasarov as to who the "Knights of Shi'ra" are. Tasarov simply bluffs his way through, before Nikita doublecrosses him again, and capturing and killing Kasim. In Season 2, Tasarov is revealed to have created an alliance with Owen Elliot; a former Division Guardian and an associate of Nikita, collaborating to find the remaining black boxes by having Owen's search and activities funded and supported by Gogol. However, when he questions Owen as to whether or not Nikita has Percy's black box master drive, Owen denies it and warns Ari that if he moves against Nikita, he will kill him. Owen's threat, however, instead confirmed Tasarov's suspicions, and so Tasarov began his own efforts to locate Nikita and retrieve the drive; beginning by recruiting Kelly, a disavowed Division agent and Nikita's old Division partner, to infiltrate Nikita's operation and retrieve the box; an effort that fails. Tasarov, under pressure from Sergei Semak, ultimately finds out Alex is Anton Kochenko's assassin and the missing Zetrov heiress; a fact that Semak realizes could only mean that she is plotting to retake her father's empire, and insists that she be killed.
, Nathan is Alex's neighbour in their apartment building and love interest following Alex's graduation and Thom's death. Nathan, unaware of Alex's true life and current tenure as a secret government operative, quickly grew interested in her, and soon their relationship took a romantic turn - something Nikita warned Alex that Division would know if she proceeds. Regardless, Alex and Nathan begin a sexual relationship, though Alex, mindful of Nikita's words, feared for his safety. Alex decided to reveal the truth, but her initial attempts to explain left him assuming Alex was indebted to the Mob, until Alex finally explained she wanted to protect him from government assassins. Nathan somewhat didn't believed her and left. He later returned to Alex, just as Jaden was visiting. He sarcastically commented that she must be another government assassin before walking out the door. When Alex and Jaden get into a fight about this, and Jaden is about to kill Alex, Nathan steps in and shot Jaden in the stomach, which instantly kills her. Alex instructs Nathan to immediately pack up and leave as soon as possible, Nathan then fled. Nathan does not return in Season 2.
, Ryan is a CIA
agent and analyst who is known in the agency as a conspiracy theorist regarding Division. Initially a junior analyst and case officer, when Owen Elliot released information detailing Division assassinating a Chilean presidential candidate, Ryan reports his suspicions to his superiors - and that he had been tracing leads since the Mirko Dadich incident, to confirm that a sanctioned black-ops unit of the government is committing these acts. However, the deputy director, a contact of Percy's, agrees to have Ryan framed by Division for the assassination, allowing Chilean rebels to capture Ryan, who attempt to force a "confession" out of him before his own government frames him. Nikita and Owen soon rescue him. When the existence of Division is revealed to him, Ryan, now possessing leverage as his knowledge of Division means they won't be able to kill him, becomes Nikita's ally, and agrees to help find and track down the group of officials who sanction Division, and also discreetly allows them to escape CIA custody from a plane en-route to the United States. When he arrives back, Division frames the deputy director as the instigator of Ryan's frame-up and has him killed, clearing Ryan. Later, Ryan, at Nikita's request, renditions Birkhoff and brings him to his CIA office to interrogate him. Once Division finds out, the CIA is contacted and Ryan is demoted to monitoring Cold War stations - Ryan at this time shows romantic interest in Nikita and feels betrayed when they capture Birkhoff and he realizes that revenge is more important to her than his career. Later, as a way of apology, Nikita kisses him and promised to "make him a hero", placing him in a different department of CIA after he "uncovers" certain information through Nikita, and Nikita also gave him information on Birkhoff and Michael. When Ryan later gets intel on Emile Voss's dirty bomb, with Nikita's help, they dispel the threat and Ryan personally delivers the weapon to his superiors - he is promoted to clandestine operations, enabling him more access. Ryan ultimately had to sacrifice his career; Ryan is able to get Nikita out of CIA custody after she saved the CIA from being taken over by a coup made by Division, and Ryan is arrested for allowing Nikita to escape again. But even in prison, he is still gathering clues as to how Oversight gets its funding. In the episode Clawback Ryan's death was faked by Amanda in order for him to help her take down Oversight. Nikita and his mother believe that Ryan is dead.
Nikita (TV series)
La Femme Nikita is a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Brothers. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow...
is an American
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spy
Espionage
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drama
Drama
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which premiered on September 9, 2010 on the CW Television Network. The series is based on French
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film Nikita, the films remake: Point of No Return
Point of No Return (film)
Point of No Return is a 1993 American action film directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda. It is a remake of Luc Besson's 1990 film Nikita.-Plot:...
and a previous series La Femme Nikita. The series stars Maggie Q
Maggie Q
Margaret Denise Quigley , professionally known as Maggie Q, is an American-born actress and former fashion model. She currently stars as the titular character on the action-thriller TV series Nikita.-Early life:...
as Nikita, the title protagonist of the series, as a rogue spy and assassin who's mission is to bring down the secret government agency called Division. Other main cast members include Shane West
Shane West
Shane West is an American actor, musician and songwriter. West is best known for portraying Eli Sammler in Once and Again, Landon Carter with Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember, Darby Crash in What We Do Is Secret, and Dr...
as Michael, Lyndsy Fonseca
Lyndsy Fonseca
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca is an American actress known for playing Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless, Dylan Mayfair on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, and Ted Mosby's daughter on How I Met Your Mother. She also played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film...
as Alex Udinov, Aaron Stanford
Aaron Stanford
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as Seymour Birkhoff, Ashton Holmes
Ashton Holmes
Ashton Holmes is an American film and television actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in A History of Violence and Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific. He currently appears as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series Revenge.-Personal life:Holmes was born in Albany, New...
as Thom, Tiffany Hines
Tiffany Hines
Tiffany Hines is an American television actress and singer best known for her role as Michelle Welton on the Fox series Bones and Jaden on The CW's Nikita. She also co-starred in the TeenNick series Beyond the Break as Birdie Scott...
as Jaden, Melinda Clarke
Melinda Clarke
Melinda Patrice Clarke is an American actress who has primarily worked in television. Clarke is best known for playing Faith Taylor on the daytime drama Days of our Lives, the manipulative and cunning Julie Cooper-Nichol on The O.C., and the professional dominatrix Lady Heather on CSI...
as Amanda and Xander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley
Alexander Harper "Xander" Berkeley is an American actor. His roles include George Mason on the television series 24.-Early life:Berkeley was born in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey...
as Percy.
Nikita
Portrayed by Maggie QMaggie Q
Margaret Denise Quigley , professionally known as Maggie Q, is an American-born actress and former fashion model. She currently stars as the titular character on the action-thriller TV series Nikita.-Early life:...
, Nikita Meers was a waif who never knew her parents and went from one foster home to another. She later became a felony addicted teenager sentenced to death row. The secret government agency, Division, recruited her and faked her death in order to rescue her from death row. Following her rescue, she was trained as a spy and assassin. Her dreams of serving her country well were broken after Division, the only people she thought she could trust, betrayed her. After a three-year hiding period, Nikita now seeks retribution against Division and vowed to bring the agency down. She is Michael's main love interest throughout the series. Maggie Q performs her own stunts.
Michael
Portrayed by Shane WestShane West
Shane West is an American actor, musician and songwriter. West is best known for portraying Eli Sammler in Once and Again, Landon Carter with Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember, Darby Crash in What We Do Is Secret, and Dr...
, Michael is a Division operative who trained Nikita. Michael is second in command at Division surpassed only by the ruthless Percy. He is a former US Navy
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intelligence officer. Shane West, the actor who plays Michael, described Michael as "confused" and "torn between his loyalty to Division and his own feeling on where he should be going in his life" West also said that "Michael's not inherently a bad guy, at all. He's doing some things that I think he started off believing in, and now he's a little unsure". It is later revealed that Percy, Division's head, hired Kaseem Tariq to kill Michael, but due to an accident, Michael's wife and daughter died. It was this that Percy used to get Michael into Division saying that he could seek retribution. Michael also serves as Nikita's main love interest throughout the series.
Alexandra Udinov
Portrayed by Lyndsy FonsecaLyndsy Fonseca
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca is an American actress known for playing Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and The Restless, Dylan Mayfair on the ABC series Desperate Housewives, and Ted Mosby's daughter on How I Met Your Mother. She also played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film...
, Alexandra "Alex" Udinov is a new recruit in Division. Udinov shares many similarities to Nikita. She is a former street kid who was arrested after a robbery. Udinov, secretly, assists Nikita in her quest to destroy Division by acting as a mole. Alex suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
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after she was kidnapped by Russians and sold as a sex slave. In "Alexandra", the 15th episode of the first season, it is revealed that Alex is the daughter of a Russian Oligarch
Business oligarch
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, and the heir to his business empire. After accidentally killing Thom, then framing him as Nikita's mole, she graduated to agent.
In the 21st episode, Alex's true identity was recovered by Amanda, and Percy re-activated her kill chip as a deal to use her against Nikita. In the Season 1 finale, Alex faked Nikita's death so that Nikita could stop Percy, resulting in her recapture by Division. Amanda, however, permanently deactivated Alex's killchip and let her escape, persuading her to make her own life without being Nikita's mole. Alex then abandoned Nikita, only to be captured by Oversight, who controls Division, and given an order to find and apprehend Nikita and Michael. In Season 2, Alex becomes a free agent and an independent contractor for Division, working with Amanda to bring down Nikita and Michael in exchange for Division's support in her own mission to bring down Sergei Semak; accepting herself as the Udinov heiress.
Birkhoff
Portrayed by Aaron StanfordAaron Stanford
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, Seymour Birkoff is Division's head technician and is later promoted to head engineer. A talented computer genius and hacker, Birkhoff, as a college student, was originally an infamous cyber criminal known as "Shadowalker", responsible for many infamous digital attacks on the government and its agencies; he was caught after trying to gain access into the security systems at The Pentagon
The Pentagon
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from his college dorm room. While in prison, Percy got Birkhoff released and recruited him to Division. Birkhoff was recruited at around the same time as Nikita. Birkhoff is known for his nonconformist nature; despite his work for Division, he maintains pride in his individual work with computers. Despite his fear of Amanda and Percy, Birkhoff is fairly loyal to Division, although at times protests against his more violent duties. In Season 2, Birkhoff, after rescuing Nikita and Michael from a Division ambush, revealed he had escaped Division, like they had, after Percy was relieved of command and Amanda put in charge; and Birkhoff feared her wrath if she ever found out Birkhoff was responsible for decrypting Percy's black box master drive so much that he fled altogether. Initially hesitant to get involved with their efforts to undo all of Division's crimes, Birkhoff, after seeing the effects of a Division mental manipulation program turning a woman; Alicia, who he had quickly grown to care about, into a mindless killer, eventually he teamed up with Nikita and Michael to take down Division and Oversight.
Thom
Portrayed by Ashton HolmesAshton Holmes
Ashton Holmes is an American film and television actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in A History of Violence and Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries The Pacific. He currently appears as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series Revenge.-Personal life:Holmes was born in Albany, New...
, Thom is a Division assassin and Alex's love interest. Thom arrived at Division two years after Nikita and a year before Alex. Originally one of the recruits who were on the brink of becoming full agents, Thom had an unwavering determination to prove himself to Division; as a recruit team leader, Thom took care of the recruits who were struggling with Division's training programs, and when Alex was a new recruit, helped her out when he could. Thom also defended her against Jaden, who he had a short relationship with, and developed feelings for Alex, kissing her at one point, although Alex didn't know how to react and rejected him. In Season 1, Episode 8; Thom graduated and became a full-fledged agent after killing a Gogol asset; an act that was hard for him to bear. Thom later discovered that Alex was working together with Nikita, and tried to take Alex in at gunpoint, but the two fought and Thom is accidentally shot and killed by Alex with his own gun. A heartbroken Alex, who later admits she loved Thom in the end, swears revenge on Division for the situation that resulted in Thom's death, seeing him as one more victim of Division. Posthumously, Alex framed Thom as the mole and he took the fall for Nikita's infiltration. In the Season 1 finale, Alex is exposed as a the true mole, a fact everyone knows by the Season 2 premiere, clearing Thom's name.
Jaden
Portrayed by Tiffany HinesTiffany Hines
Tiffany Hines is an American television actress and singer best known for her role as Michelle Welton on the Fox series Bones and Jaden on The CW's Nikita. She also co-starred in the TeenNick series Beyond the Break as Birdie Scott...
, Jaden is a Division assassin who regularly clashed with Alex. Jaden arrived at Division two months before Alex, having been recruited after murdering her boyfriend while he slept, an action Percy admirably describes as "taking initiative". Jaden embraced her new life at Division, and had a brief romancee with Thom. Although having similar backgrounds as former street kids, she became resentful of Alex, feeling the latest addition was stealing her thunder. Thom's interest in Alex didn't help matters due to the previous relationship she shared with him. Alex and Jaden's rivalry reaches dangerous levels when they brawl and are reprimanded bu Michael. Afterwards, under threat of "cancellation" (death) if they continued their fights, Jaden maintained an outward cordiality towards Alex, but despite this, Jaden clearly didn't trust Alex and almost found out Alex's secret: that she is Nikita's mole. Alex was able to keep Jaden in line by deciding to frame Jaden for trying to escape Division, acquiring a picture as evidence to blackmail her. After Thom is killed by Alex for working with Nikita, Jaden clearly believed that Alex framed Thom, set him up as the mole, and then killed him. Later, Jaden was appointed a provisional agent, and worked together under Alex on an operation that lead to her graduation and appointment as a full-fledged agent, the events of the mission finally cooling relations between them. Shortly after, however, Jaden fought Alex for a final time when she stopped her from reporting Nathan Colville; Alex's boyfriend who had just learnt of Division, to Division to have him killed, and during the fight, when Jaden is about to kill Alex, Nathan stepped in and shot Jaden in the stomach, which instantly kills her. After her death, Roan comes to the scene and takes Jaden's body and proceeds to melt her body in a tub of hydrofluoric acid
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. It the debrief with Amanda afterwards, Amanda revealed she had place a new undetectable earpiece on Jaden without her knowledge; when Alex called Nikita for assistance, mere meters away from Jaden's dead body, Amanda heard and recorded Alex doing it - exposing her as the mole.
Amanda
Portrayed by Melinda ClarkeMelinda Clarke
Melinda Patrice Clarke is an American actress who has primarily worked in television. Clarke is best known for playing Faith Taylor on the daytime drama Days of our Lives, the manipulative and cunning Julie Cooper-Nichol on The O.C., and the professional dominatrix Lady Heather on CSI...
, Amanda is the intelligent and beautiful resident psychologist and a master of mental manipulation; she is the official manipulator (as well as torturer) of Division, under the code-name "Inquisitor". Percy is rumored to have built his entire operation around Amanda's methods and relies on her to get inside people's heads, both during torture and to break them down to believe in Division unconditionally. As an expert manipulator, she can usually tell when people are lying to her and enjoys getting to know the recruits and their secrets. She has a certain fascination for Nikita because she was never able to break her completely. Although she works for Division, she seems to care for some agents and recruits. In Season 2, Amanda has been promoted to Commander of Division and Director of Operations following Percy being relieved of command by Oversight. Amanda, over the course of Season 1, develops a fascination with Alex, similar to Nikita, due to their similar personalities and actions during missions - ultimately resulting in Amanda finding out Alex is Nikita's mole. In Season 2, Amanda and Alex are "business partners". Amanda wants the black box master drive which Nikita and Michael possess and are threatening to expose Division and Oversight with, Alex wants to kill Sergei Semak; who used Oversight to order her family's deaths. Amanda gives Alex information to further this goal, and Alex promises to get the black box master drive.
Percy
Played by Xander BerkeleyXander Berkeley
Alexander Harper "Xander" Berkeley is an American actor. His roles include George Mason on the television series 24.-Early life:Berkeley was born in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey...
, Percy is the Commander of Division and its Director of Operations. He will stop at nothing to destroy Nikita and protect his empire. As witnessed by his co-workers, Percy is more ruthless than as what he seems, being capable of doing anything in order to achieve what he wants. He has a fair set of skills, including using firearms and self-defense tactics. He is often sardonic and sarcastic, having a notable dark sense of humor. His ambition to eliminate Nikita often drives him into failure, but not before anticipating her every move. In Season 2, Percy has been relieved of command and deposed as head of Division after attempting to overtake Oversight - he now resides in a Division jail, miles underground. Amanda, promoted to take Percy's place, make it clear Percy is only alive as Amanda needs him that way, because if he does die, the content of the remaining three black boxes will be published, plunging the world into chaos, and she does not want that.
Sean Pierce
Portrayed by Dillon CaseyDillon Casey
Dillon Casey is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his role as Trevor Lemonde in the television series MVP. He has appeared in The Best Years and 11 Cameras, among other works in television, film and on stage....
, Sean is an Oversight agent sent to keep an eye on Amanda. Sean, when he met Alex, thought of her as a government traitor and completely untrustworthy; although later, after seeing her in action, acts as a mentor to Alex - reminding her to see past her own mission in like to bring down Semak. Sean is a former Special Forces soldier, and has a code of honor and is determined to never leave a man behind, unlike Division, something Alex quickly comes to respect. In "Clawback", it is revealed that one member of Oversight, Madeline, is actually Sean's mother.
Roan
Portrayed by Rob Stewart, Roan is the most notable assassin and "cleaner" operative in Division. He often works as Percy's right-hand man and never questions his orders. Roan is noted to almost never speak, save for a few terse and literal comments towards others; he is a proficient and calm killer. In the Season 1 finale, Roan tries to "clean" Nikita's seemingly dead body, when she wakes up and splashed hydrofluoric acidHydrofluoric acid
Hydrofluoric acid is a solution of hydrogen fluoride in water. It is a valued source of fluorine and is the precursor to numerous pharmaceuticals such as fluoxetine and diverse materials such as PTFE ....
meant for her in his face, leaving him scarred. In Season 2, despite Percy being relieved of command and Amanda's promotion, Roan still works under Amanda's command, and becomes Alex's partner in one mission (where Roan actually became impressed with Alex, according to Amanda in the debrief). Though half of his face is burned now, he keeps on having the same deadly skills as before.
Owen Elliot
Portrayed by Devon SawaDevon Sawa
Devon Edward Sawa is a Canadian actor. Although he appears in independent films, he is best known for portraying the part of Alex Browning in the 1999 movie Final Destination...
, Owen is a former Division "cleaner" operative who is one of the specially chosen few that have been trusted to handle one of Percy's black boxes - a Guardian, based in Montreal, Canada. Owen, like Nikita, works for Division and fell in love with a civilian, Emily Robinson - Division operatives are forbidden from falling in love with civilians. When the black box location is exposed and Owen requests a relocation, Percy agrees and personally comes to Montreal with a large team, Percy secretly intending to kill Owen after his mission of obtaining the box for security reasons. When Division agents came after him, and Emily was shot and killed by a Division sniper in the process, Owen goes against Division to avenge her, and Nikita convinces Owen to join her in her mission and find and destroy the other Division black boxes, and then kill Percy. Owen later realizes that he was the "cleaner" who killed Daniel Monroe, Nikita's civilian fiancé, a fact he revealed and he later apologises for - as by this time, Owen is emotionally weighed down by the number of victims he has from his service to Division. Owen continues working with Nikita through to Season 2, when he disappears again to hunt down and kill the remaining Guardians and destroy their boxes. Owen, without Nikita's knowledge, goes so far as to ally with Gogol under Ari Tasarov's command; agreeing to destroy the black boxes in exchange for Gogol's financing and support for his activities.
Ari Tasarov
Portrayed by Peter OuterbridgePeter Outerbridge
Peter Outerbridge is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Dr. David Sandstrom in the TMN series ReGenesis, as William in Saw VI and his role as Dan Farmer in Happy Town.-Life and career:...
, Tasarov is the leader of the Russian
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criminal organization Gogol, an organization seeking to rival and topple Division, as well as serving as the shadow arm of Sergei Semak. Nikita was close to assassinating him, but refrained upon seeing Tasarov with his son. He is former KGB and currently serves as Chief of Intelligence (and later Security) of Zetrov. He is cold-hearted, calculating and is always attempting to outdo Division operations. Nikita and Tasarov first cross paths during his operation to assassinate U.S. Senator Jack Kerrigan, one of Percy's few trusted government allies, only for Nikita to outsmart him an foil the assassination, but instead she ruined Kerrigan's career and his usefulness to Percy. Satisfied with the result, Tasarov later met with Nikita, offering for them to work together to take down Division, revealing his knowledge of the black boxes. Later, Tasarov and Nikita meet again when Tasarov and Gogol go after Emile Voss and the dirty bomb he developed, with Tasarov, due to Nikita's interference, failing to acquire the bomb, and instead for the bomb to be delivered to Ryan Fletcher. Nikita later comes to Tasarov to ask for his help in getting to Kasim Tariq, the al-Qaeda leader whom Gogol has a partnership with. Tasarov agrees but warns her about striking back at Gogol a third time. After Nikita hit a convoy full of heroin, Kasim goes to St. Petersburg to confront Tasarov as to who the "Knights of Shi'ra" are. Tasarov simply bluffs his way through, before Nikita doublecrosses him again, and capturing and killing Kasim. In Season 2, Tasarov is revealed to have created an alliance with Owen Elliot; a former Division Guardian and an associate of Nikita, collaborating to find the remaining black boxes by having Owen's search and activities funded and supported by Gogol. However, when he questions Owen as to whether or not Nikita has Percy's black box master drive, Owen denies it and warns Ari that if he moves against Nikita, he will kill him. Owen's threat, however, instead confirmed Tasarov's suspicions, and so Tasarov began his own efforts to locate Nikita and retrieve the drive; beginning by recruiting Kelly, a disavowed Division agent and Nikita's old Division partner, to infiltrate Nikita's operation and retrieve the box; an effort that fails. Tasarov, under pressure from Sergei Semak, ultimately finds out Alex is Anton Kochenko's assassin and the missing Zetrov heiress; a fact that Semak realizes could only mean that she is plotting to retake her father's empire, and insists that she be killed.
Nathan Colville
Portrayed by Thad LuckinbillThad Luckinbill
Thaddeus Rowe "Thad" Luckinbill is an American actor best known for playing J.T. Hellstrom on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless for 11 years...
, Nathan is Alex's neighbour in their apartment building and love interest following Alex's graduation and Thom's death. Nathan, unaware of Alex's true life and current tenure as a secret government operative, quickly grew interested in her, and soon their relationship took a romantic turn - something Nikita warned Alex that Division would know if she proceeds. Regardless, Alex and Nathan begin a sexual relationship, though Alex, mindful of Nikita's words, feared for his safety. Alex decided to reveal the truth, but her initial attempts to explain left him assuming Alex was indebted to the Mob, until Alex finally explained she wanted to protect him from government assassins. Nathan somewhat didn't believed her and left. He later returned to Alex, just as Jaden was visiting. He sarcastically commented that she must be another government assassin before walking out the door. When Alex and Jaden get into a fight about this, and Jaden is about to kill Alex, Nathan steps in and shot Jaden in the stomach, which instantly kills her. Alex instructs Nathan to immediately pack up and leave as soon as possible, Nathan then fled. Nathan does not return in Season 2.
Ryan Fletcher
Portrayed by Noah BeanNoah Bean
Noah Bean is an American actor best known for his role as David Connor on the FX legal drama Damages and as Ryan Fletcher on the The CW action series Nikita.-Career:...
, Ryan is a CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
agent and analyst who is known in the agency as a conspiracy theorist regarding Division. Initially a junior analyst and case officer, when Owen Elliot released information detailing Division assassinating a Chilean presidential candidate, Ryan reports his suspicions to his superiors - and that he had been tracing leads since the Mirko Dadich incident, to confirm that a sanctioned black-ops unit of the government is committing these acts. However, the deputy director, a contact of Percy's, agrees to have Ryan framed by Division for the assassination, allowing Chilean rebels to capture Ryan, who attempt to force a "confession" out of him before his own government frames him. Nikita and Owen soon rescue him. When the existence of Division is revealed to him, Ryan, now possessing leverage as his knowledge of Division means they won't be able to kill him, becomes Nikita's ally, and agrees to help find and track down the group of officials who sanction Division, and also discreetly allows them to escape CIA custody from a plane en-route to the United States. When he arrives back, Division frames the deputy director as the instigator of Ryan's frame-up and has him killed, clearing Ryan. Later, Ryan, at Nikita's request, renditions Birkhoff and brings him to his CIA office to interrogate him. Once Division finds out, the CIA is contacted and Ryan is demoted to monitoring Cold War stations - Ryan at this time shows romantic interest in Nikita and feels betrayed when they capture Birkhoff and he realizes that revenge is more important to her than his career. Later, as a way of apology, Nikita kisses him and promised to "make him a hero", placing him in a different department of CIA after he "uncovers" certain information through Nikita, and Nikita also gave him information on Birkhoff and Michael. When Ryan later gets intel on Emile Voss's dirty bomb, with Nikita's help, they dispel the threat and Ryan personally delivers the weapon to his superiors - he is promoted to clandestine operations, enabling him more access. Ryan ultimately had to sacrifice his career; Ryan is able to get Nikita out of CIA custody after she saved the CIA from being taken over by a coup made by Division, and Ryan is arrested for allowing Nikita to escape again. But even in prison, he is still gathering clues as to how Oversight gets its funding. In the episode Clawback Ryan's death was faked by Amanda in order for him to help her take down Oversight. Nikita and his mother believe that Ryan is dead.