Operations and Madeline plot to kill Nikita. Nikita locates the elusive Michael and experiences an emotional jolt when she meets his wife and son.

Nikita moves in with Michael and his family in order to help Section One locate and kill Elena's father--Salla Vacek, the richest terrorist in the world. Section One captures and tortures one of Vacek's Cambridge classmates to elicit information about the terrorist's activities. Vacek fails to keep an appointment to see his daughter, foiling Section One's plan to kill him.

Section One orders Michael to poison Elena in order to trap her father, international terrorist Salla Vacek. From her hospital bed, Elena witnesses the actual death of her father and the staged death of her husband, Michael. Operations and Madeline tell Michael he can never see his wife and son again. Obnoxious Section informant Mick Schtoppel moves into Nikita's apartment building --right next door to her!

Unable to see his son ever again, Michael contemplates suicide. On a mission with Michael, Nikita is kidnapped. With total disregard for his personal safety, Michael kills many enemy agents and successfully rescues Nikita. Birkoff discovers a damaging secret file that belongs to Operations.

Section One destroys a genetics laboratory designed to create perfect little terrorists. Nikita suspects that Section One has a similar laboratory of its own, but she fails to prove so to Michael. Operations places Felix in abeyance, sending him on a suicide mission, which he apparently survives. Birkoff fears retaliation from Felix.

Madeline poses as a psychotherapist to convince a South American political candidate's devoted wife--who is also a Section operative once married to Operations--to kill the politico. Nikita and Michael assist in Operations' plan to manipulate Corrine and her environment until she becomes paranoid and hateful enough to commit murder.

Without Section One's knowledge, Nikita is ambushed during a mission and replaced by a Red Cell look-alike. Nikita is forced to assist her double in order to protect Michael. Series star PETA WILSON plays a dual role.

Section One kidnaps Benjamin Kruger, a man with a photographic memory, to help on a mission. To force Kruger to cooperate, Madeline shows him a manufactured videotape of him killing a man. Seeing Kruger get trapped into working for Section One, Nikita wonders if Section One did the same to her. An arrogant computer expert, Greg Hillinger, tries to sabotage Birkoff's computer.

Michael empties a vial containing a psychotropic agent into Operations' coffee mug. As his judgement disintegrates and paranoid delusions increase, Operations sends operatives on a mission to capture a man who's been dead for four years. Michael assumes command of Section One, and an elaborate plan to kill Red Cell leader Philo is revealed.