Besides all the good story and action about fighting terrorism with a "Modus Operandi" that seems sometimes even more ruthless than the one of the terrorists themselves, in today's plot we get a good close focus to one of the main characters inside Section One: Seymour Birkoff.
My title, I want to explain, does not refer to Birkoff's first appearance but his first time as the center of the story. Seymour Birkoff, who normally prefers to be called just Birkoff is (or at least looks like) a man in his early twenties, being one of the youngest characters of the section. Besides being a computer expert, he is, next to Walter one of the two best friends of Nikita inside the section facilities and foremost also one of the few, again Walter included, that seems to have remained mostly a good and sincere person along the series.
This episode's main event is Birkoff having to defend himself against a gunman who infiltrated the van where he was located, killing the hit-man before he could kill him, amazingly, even when was the gunman who made the first shots. After leaving the place, Birkoff is completely uneasy and after her questioning, has to admit to Nikita that he had never killed anyone before, different to the version Nikita previously had about Birkoff having been recruited to Section One after killing his own sister.
The rest of the episode pretty much has to do with Nikita helping Birkoff recovering from the trauma of having had to fire a gun to defend himself and helping him to have a slightly wider social life than he had before. All that,not without first having had Birkoff "in advanced" by Madeline and presumably by Operations after he couldn't perform adequately in the subsequent immediate mission to the one where he had to defend himself.
As in most Nikita episodes, there are still many open discussions about the elements in the plot like if Birkoff would have been able to perform adequately if Madeline had followed Nikita's advice of allowing Birkoff to take some extra time to recover before putting him into action again. There are also new mysteries in the story that could or could not be solved in future episodes, like the real story about how Birkoff arrived to Section One in the first place. Nevertheless I want to think I have been able to display to you some of the reasons about why this is one of my favorite LFNikita episodes (and no, it is not because people sometimes used to tell me I looked a little bit like Birkoff in my college years, lol!)
Also, one of my favorite parts of the plot is when Birkoff gets that glimpse of inspiration when a girl he is talking to pronounces the word "Noise" in a cocktail bar where Nikita had taken him.
Thanks for reading. IMDb Review by David del Real. Mexico City. Mexico. November 2017.
My title, I want to explain, does not refer to Birkoff's first appearance but his first time as the center of the story. Seymour Birkoff, who normally prefers to be called just Birkoff is (or at least looks like) a man in his early twenties, being one of the youngest characters of the section. Besides being a computer expert, he is, next to Walter one of the two best friends of Nikita inside the section facilities and foremost also one of the few, again Walter included, that seems to have remained mostly a good and sincere person along the series.
This episode's main event is Birkoff having to defend himself against a gunman who infiltrated the van where he was located, killing the hit-man before he could kill him, amazingly, even when was the gunman who made the first shots. After leaving the place, Birkoff is completely uneasy and after her questioning, has to admit to Nikita that he had never killed anyone before, different to the version Nikita previously had about Birkoff having been recruited to Section One after killing his own sister.
The rest of the episode pretty much has to do with Nikita helping Birkoff recovering from the trauma of having had to fire a gun to defend himself and helping him to have a slightly wider social life than he had before. All that,not without first having had Birkoff "in advanced" by Madeline and presumably by Operations after he couldn't perform adequately in the subsequent immediate mission to the one where he had to defend himself.
As in most Nikita episodes, there are still many open discussions about the elements in the plot like if Birkoff would have been able to perform adequately if Madeline had followed Nikita's advice of allowing Birkoff to take some extra time to recover before putting him into action again. There are also new mysteries in the story that could or could not be solved in future episodes, like the real story about how Birkoff arrived to Section One in the first place. Nevertheless I want to think I have been able to display to you some of the reasons about why this is one of my favorite LFNikita episodes (and no, it is not because people sometimes used to tell me I looked a little bit like Birkoff in my college years, lol!)
Also, one of my favorite parts of the plot is when Birkoff gets that glimpse of inspiration when a girl he is talking to pronounces the word "Noise" in a cocktail bar where Nikita had taken him.
Thanks for reading. IMDb Review by David del Real. Mexico City. Mexico. November 2017.
