ALEX’S PAST CATCHES UP TO HER — While out on a mission for Division, Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) runs into Irina (guest star Ksenia Solo), a woman from her past. Alex tries to help Irina break free from her captor, but her old friend double crosses her and turns Alex over to Vlad (guest star Mark Ivanir), a Russian mobster, with a debt to settle. Nikita (Maggie Q) realizes Alex is in trouble and sets out to save her but runs into Michael who is searching for his missing agent. Realizing she can’t compromise Alex’s secret, Maggie must find a way to work with Michael to save Alex without getting her friend killed by Division. Ken Fink directed the episode written by Andrew Colville (#115).
It ain’t easy being Alex’s (Lyndsy Fonseca) love interest on “Nikita.” Just ask Ashton Holmes. In the mid-season finale, “All The Way,” she ended up killing his character Thom (accidentally) and setting him up to take the fall as Division’s mole. Talk about a heartbreaker.
Thad Luckinbill, who plays Alex’s new love interest Nathan, tell Zap2it that after her watched the episode he texted Fonseca to say,”‘Oh, that’s how you treat your love interests? Great!'”
Luckinbill makes his first appearance in tonight’s (Jan. 27) episode, “Free,” and plays Alex’s new neighbor now that she’s been activated to a full-blown agent and is living on her own. Luckinbill says Nathan will have questions about Alex from the very start. “He definitely sees there are some serious questions about who is this person?”
One thing Nathan has going for him is that he’s not part of Division. (then again, they have killed their fair share outsiders.) “He’s a really nice normal guy. I think that’s what is interesting to Alex is first of all, why he’s so nice, but also that he kind of represents this new world that she’s been placed into, you know, things she doesn’t really know about that most of Nathan-type people do,” Luckinbill explains. “It’s kind of interesting for her to meet somebody who is not like all the other people she’s been around since the start of the show.”
Fonseca adds, “Alex doesn’t know what to do with it at first. It’s unlike anything else, but I think ultimately I think that’s why she really likes him. He’s someone stable and true.” Luckinbill tells us, “He’s her first real friend really outside of this Division world and Nikita (Maggie Q).” All together now: Aw!
Nathan won’t be Alex’s little secret from Division for long and fans can expect some fun scenes between Nathan and Michael (Shane West) in the Feb. 3 episode “Coup De Grace.” “There’s a really fun scene between Michael, Alex and Nathan which is really awkward but it’s also a fun teaser ‘because he learns a lot of stuff just in that exchange of what’s going on and it’s a really funny scene. There’s a few scenes actually,” Luckinbill teases. He also reveals there’s a “really fun” scene coming up between Nathan and Nikita.
We’re assuming Nikita is going to wary of Alex and Nathan’s relationship considering Division had her fiance, Daniel, killed and seems to like eliminating any distractions in their agents’ lives. Luckinbill says Nathan hasn’t been in any danger yet but knows that could change pretty quickly on this show. “That’s always a possibility and I think that’s an inherit risk. Even in the first episode they talk about how you can’t have friends or relationships on the outside because it’s too dangerous. There’s definitely a risk.”
Chatting with Thad below the cut:
Maggie Q assures fans: There’ll be no love triangle on Nikita.
The trio involves Michael (Shane West), who once trained Nikita — and has a romantic past with her — and Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca), his Division trainee who has graduated to agent. As Michael and Alex grew closer, fans worried that the show’s main couple was going from a twosome to a threesome, especially since Alex’s previous love interest is now dead.
Nikita Scoop: Will Alex betray Nikita?
“I don’t see the triangle,” Maggie Q tells TVGuide.com. “She’s 19! That would be kind of gross. I don’t want to be on that show.”
RYAN RECRUITS NIKITA FOR A MISSION – Ryan (guest star Noah Bean) intercepts a message about a dangerous cutting edge weapon coming into the U.S. so he asks Nikita (Maggie Q) to help him stop the delivery. Nikita discovers the man bringing the weapon into the country is Voss (guest star Matthew Marsden), a man she was forced to have a relationship with while undercover at Division. She reluctantly resumes her alter ego to retrieve the missile. Meanwhile, Michael (Shane West) interferes in Alex’s (Lyndsy Fonseca) new life with Nathan (guest star Thad Luckinbill). David Solomon directed the episode written by Carlos Coto (#114).
Via KSiteTV
How lucky are we?! Not only did we get to attend the Kick-Ass Women of the CW cocktail reception after the Television Critics Association press tour on Saturday, but we also got to spend some quality one-on-one time with Nikita cutie Lyndsy Fonseca. The former soap star partied it up with fellow CW colleagues, including her costar Maggie Q (whom we spoke to exclusively!), as well as Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, and Ian Somerhalder from The Vampire Diaries.
We know you’re all dying for more info on Alex’s new digs, so we asked Lynds to dish about her life outside Division’s walls. And boy, did she dish! Read on at your own risk for more behind-the-scenes spoilers straight from Miss Fonseca herself!
By any chance, is she [Melinda] your mother?
“No.”
[DAMNIT. THIS WAS THE ONE THING I WANTED IT WOULD HAVE SCREWED WITH PEOPLE SO BAAAADLY. That was the one story I was hoping on, I wanted to bank on it you guys…]
Yeah so. Spoilers under the cut. Thad included!
NIKITA — Alex’s (Lyndsy Fonseca) first assignment is a group mission to kill the Prince of Georgia at a museum gala. After Alex tells Nikita (Maggie Q) about the order, the two devise a plan to foil the assassination. However, Nikita trusts the wrong person and their plans are foiled, resulting in a stand-off and alerting Division that Nikita is in the building. Percy (Xander Berkeley) sends Michael (Shane West) in to kill Nikita. Nathan Hope directed the episode written by Albert Kim (#113).
The kids of Nikita’s Division are not exactly what you’d call happy, but Jaden (Tiffany Hines) and Thom (Ashton Holmes) were totally working on a happily ever after, you know? Another TV romance bites the dust. Sigh.
Following last night’s sad twist, we caught up with the gorgeous Hines to find out what the tragedy means for Jaden and how her feelings about Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) just escalated from suspicious to “I’m going to take you down”:
Regarding last night’s death of poor Thom, Tiffany Hines tells us, “Thomas was the first person she ever met at Division. She loved him dearly, and after everything you find out that they did hook up, and it was important to her.” For that matter, Hines isn’t just mourning the character, she’s also losing a real-life friend. She told us, “It makes me sad [that this happened], because I love Ashton Holmes. I love him as a person and then he’s leaving.”
At the same time, Hines says Thom’s death gives Jaden “more purpose, more reason to really go after Alex, and now it’s going to get interesting.”
Do tell! Well, says Hines, “Alex has been on Jaden’s radar forever, they haven’t gotten along. It’s been like this playful catfight, but now it’s going to turn serious…I found the thumbprint, the thing she used to break into the office, so I have a feeling that she’s a plant and she’s working with Nikita (Maggie Q). I feel like she’s a mole. I go to Thom and I confide in him, and the next thing I know he’s dead, and he’s [set up] as a mole. So now all bets are off. You’ll see in the following episode, all bets are off. It’s not about, ‘I don’t like this girl’ anymore; now it’s a vendetta. ‘You killed the man I love, and I’m going to take you down.’ ”
We can’t wait to see the ensuing battle between these superbabes, but is there any chance that Jaden and Alex would ever join forces to help Nikita take down Division? Says Hines, “Do you remember the girl on Prison Break with the pretty eyes, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe? I always remember when her character was like, ‘All right, fine, we’re going to do this, but only because I need you guys right now.’ I believe that’s the only way Jaden would do that, because at this point she wants to take revenge [on Alex]—and not just take her down, Jaden wants to kill her.”
Turner & Hooch 