The CW has released a batch of promotional stills from Nikita season 4, episode 4 “Pay-Off,” featuring what looks like some kind of explosion.
It looks like Team Nikita’s airborne command center may have seen its last days, if the flames in these stills are any indication.
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Besides the flaming wreckage, we also see Michael and Nikita holding The Group’s Mr. Jones at gunpoint as well as Ryan, Michael, Nikita, and Birkhoff being held at gunpoint on their plane.
It also looks like Ronald Peller, guest star Judd Nelson’s NSA/Shop operative, will be sticking around for more than one episode. We got our first look at the Breakfast Club alum in the episode 3 stills.
The official synopsis for the episode reads:
THE SHOP OFFERS NIKITA THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME — Jones (guest star David S. Lee) benches Amanda (Melinda Clake) and takes back the reigns of the operation. He calls Nikita (Maggie Q) and offers her and the entire team complete freedom by wiping away their identities and faking their deaths if they walk away from their mission. The team lands the plane on a secluded Pakistan air strip, but when the local drug czar and his men storm the plane and demand ten million dollars, Nikita calls Alex (Lyndsy Fonseca) for the money. After Alex pulls diamonds out of a safe deposit box to pay the insurgents, Sam (Devon Sawa) sees an opportunity to recoup his losses and contemplates stealing the diamonds. Meanwhile, Michael (Shane West) comes face-to-face with an old adversary, Ramon (guest star Simon Kassianides), who hits Michael with some hard truths. Dwight Little directed the episode written by Terry Matalas & Travis Fickett (#404).
Judging from the synopsis, then, notably missing from the stills is Ramon, who will serve as a catalyst for helping Michael let go of the hurt he felt from Nikita leaving.
Nikita season 4, episode 4 “Pay-Off” airs Friday, December 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET on The CW.