Meet The Strong Women of Nikita (TV Series)

Nikita is a TV show based on the French film "Nikita" which was released in 1990. As what the title of the show implies, Nikita is the name of a rogue assassin who takes it upon herself to bring down a secret organization who has transformed her into a killer. The name of the organization is Division.

In Season 1, Division is controlled by a man named Percy. Together with a woman named Amanda, the organization's psychologist, Percy sends out agents on missions to assassinate top executives and officials. Nikita's mission is to sabotage these missions and to put an end to the organization's operations.

In Season 2, we see Amanda taking control over Division and Percy being on the run. At the end of Season 2, Division is at its tipping point when Percy is killed by Nikita and Amanda goes rogue.

In Season 3, Division is under a new leadership, under Ryan Fletcher. Amanda is determined to seek revenge and makes sure Nikita suffers.

Nikita first aired on September 9, 2010, attracting almost 4 million viewers for its Pilot episode. It is currently in its third season. 

I'd like to commend the show for picking the perfect cast.

Maggie Q stars as Nikita, Melinda Clarke is the manipulative Amanda, and Lyndsy Fonseca plays Alexandra Udinov.

Let's take a look at how these women fared in the show. 

Maggie Q plays Nikita Mears, an agent who goes rogue when Division killed her fiance, Daniel Monroe. In the Pilot episode, Nikita comes back to the scene after three years, trying to stop and sabotage Division’s missions to kill innocent people.

Eventually, she finds a partner in Alex, a girl who she has rescued in one of her past missions. After saving Alex from drug addiction, Alex becomes her accomplice, and together, they plan on bringing down Division.

Their efforts, however, always end up in vain, so Alex proposes that she tries to penetrate Division by becoming a recruit. Nikita stages an armed robbery, which leads Alex to be convicted and sentenced. When Division learns about this, they recruited Alex to be one of their agents.

Just like Alex, Nikita was forced to become an assassin. When she was sentenced to death, Division jumped into the opportunity and trained her to kill people.

Amanda is Division’s psychologist. Every once in a while, the recruits and agents spend time with her to answer her questions. Aside from that, she is in charge in making sure that the agents are mentally sound to partake in any mission. She’s a master manipulator, and her weapon is very simple yet powerful. She digs deep into the thoughts of people, and uses them to control their emotions.

Amanda and Nikita go a long way. In one of the episodes in Season 3, Amanda and Nikita are seen to have a special bond, which partly explains the common hatred felt by these women against each other.

In Season 2, we see Amanda taking control of the organization. She was relentless, but she has obvious limitations as a leader. In the end, she was ousted by Percy.  

Lyndsy Fonseca is Alexandra Udinov, heiress to Zetrov, one of Russia’s biggest and most powerful companies.

But when she was young, her father’s right hand hired Division to murder her family. Nikita was one of the agents tasked to complete the mission, but although Alex’s father was killed, Nikita spared Alex’s life.

Alex was sent to a family friend, but fearing for his and his family’s lives, the friend sold Alex and she became a sex slave. She was sent to America, and she became a drug addict.

When Nikita and Alex crossed paths again, Nikita took in Alex and helped her get sober.

When Alex was “clean,” the two formed a bond and eventually helped each other take Division down.