Nikita was a renegade teenage girl who got set up by the Section (Division in TV series Nikita) so they could recruit her to help them do their dirty (wet) work.She was framed(In part, she did actually shoot one person) for a crime she didn't commit. Taken to the Section/Division. Trained to be an operative and killer of terrorists.This was not in her nature, while she was overtly rebellious, she wasn't vicious, ruthless, cold or vindictive. She was just outlandish in dress and actions like many young girls trying to find themselves. Her work at the Section/Division did not come easy for her as she believed in fair play and the safety of innocents, who were deemed expendable as an unfortunate but necessary part of collateral damage in the war against terrorism.Instead, she became a corruptive and bad influence with her soft side and fair play on Section/Division functionaries like Michael, who has a crush on her and she eventually reciprocates his feelings, along with Section/Division workers Walter and Birkoff, much to the anger of Section/Division head Paul, known in the ranks as Operations, who is always one step away from putting her in abeyance (on probation) or outright terminations (which he did once).Nikita walks the razors edge between stopping terrorism but not with collateral damage. That is a no-no in their world of accidents happen, don't concern yourself with those little problems.In hindsight Nikita and the show can be deemed life imitating art after 9-11 (the show began in 1997, long before the major terrorist attacks on America and England and long before the concept of Gitmo).For the TV series the Nikita character was warmed up far from the version in the original French feature film, who was truly a rotten egg with a touch of the soft side. In the TV series Nikita is a total innocent whose only crimes were adopting an alternative look, dress and mannerisms. She was your neighbor's 18 year old who dressed as an Emo or Puckett but still smiled and said hi to you instead of dissing you. Show less «