La Femme Nikita (1997)

Action · Crime · Drama

Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.

IMDb rating: 7.5 (11,804 votes)
Episode average: 7.9 ↑ +0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 5
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1997)

7.50 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 8.2 47 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Nikita	7.5	310
2	Friend	7.3	204
3	Simone	7.1	192
4	Charity	7.3	169
5	Mother	7.2	157
6	Love	7.7	167
7	Treason	7.5	141
8	Escape	7.7	148
9	Gray	7.5	140
10	Choice	7.4	143
11	Rescue	7.9	144
12	Innocent	7.3	125
13	Recruit	7.8	129
14	Gambit	7.7	126
15	Obsessed	7.9	134
16	Noise	7.4	121
17	War	8.0	132
18	Missing	7.4	122
19	Voices	7.2	127
20	Brainwash	6.9	124
21	Verdict	7.1	120
22	Mercy	8.2	117

Season 2 (1998)

8.04 avg 22 episodes 8.1 → 8.9 46 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Hard Landing	8.1	122
2	Spec Ops	8.2	121
3	Third Person	8.3	107
4	Approaching Zero	8.4	105
5	New Regime	8.3	103
6	Mandatory Refusal	8.1	102
7	Half Life	7.8	97
8	Darkness Visible	7.7	100
9	Open Heart	7.8	97
10	First Mission	8.1	95
11	Psychic Pilgrim	8.2	101
12	Soul Sacrifice	7.7	95
13	Not Was	8.1	103
14	Double Date	7.7	98
15	Fuzzy Logic	7.5	95
16	Old Habits	7.8	88
17	Inside Out	8.3	96
18	Off Profile	7.9	96
19	Last Night	7.5	85
20	In Between	8.1	84
21	Adrian's Garden	8.4	102
22	End Game	8.9	101

Season 3 (1999)

8.10 avg 22 episodes 8.3 → 8.1 45 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Looking for Michael	8.3	105
2	Someone Else's Shadow	7.9	91
3	Opening Night Jitters	8.4	97
4	Gates of Hell	8.4	90
5	Imitation of Death	7.9	83
6	Love and Country	8.0	87
7	Cat and Mouse	8.3	87
8	Outside the Box	8.2	82
9	Slipping Into Darkness	8.4	90
10	Under the Influence	7.9	82
11	Walk on By	7.9	87
12	Threshold of Pain	7.7	86
13	Beyond the Pale	8.1	87
14	Hand to Hand	8.4	90
15	Before I Sleep	8.2	88
16	I Remember Paris	8.3	87
17	All Good Things	8.8	100
18	Third Party Ripoff	7.1	107
19	Any Means Necessary	7.9	88
20	Three Eyed Turtle	8.1	86
21	Playing with Fire	8.0	82
22	On Borrowed Time	8.1	86

Season 4 (2000)

7.95 avg 22 episodes 8.5 → 8.3 50 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Getting Out of Reverse	8.5	88
2	There Are No Missions	8.2	88
3	View of the Garden	8.2	84
4	Into the Looking Glass	8.4	91
5	Man in the Middle	7.9	83
6	Love, Honor and Cherish	8.0	84
7	Sympathy for the Devil	7.9	82
8	No One Lives Forever	7.7	84
9	Down a Crooked Path	6.9	82
10	He Came from Four	7.4	93
11	Time to Be Heroes	7.7	98
12	Hell Hath No Fury	8.0	88
13	Kiss the Past Goodbye	8.0	84
14	Line in the Sand	8.5	89
15	Abort, Fail, Retry, Terminate	7.5	90
16	Catch a Falling Star	7.8	88
17	Sleeping with the Enemy	8.4	88
18	Toys in the Basement	7.5	82
19	Time Out of Mind	7.3	84
20	Face in the Mirror	8.5	85
21	Up the Rabbit Hole	8.4	93
22	Four Light Years Farther	8.3	93

Season 5 (2001)

8.07 avg 8 episodes 7.8 → 8.8 58 min avg

Big finale

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Deja Vu All Over Again	7.8	87
2	A Girl Who Wasn't There	7.7	81
3	In Through the Out Door	7.8	82
4	All the World's a Stage	8.0	81
5	The Man Behind the Curtain	8.0	86
6	The Evil That Men Do	8.1	91
7	Let No Man Put Asunder	8.4	85
8	A Time for Every Purpose	8.8	126