La Femme Nikita (TV Series)

Hand to Hand (1999)

Don Francks: Walter

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Walter : It was a three man mission in the Balcans. A motion detector failed, I got out live, but the other two didn't. They were in the five percent I told you about.

  Nikita : Good men.

  Walter : The best. And got me interested in the gadgets we use, I... designed a few myself, and eventually I got into it full time. In it ever since. Hmmm, by the way, you should start thinking about *your* future too.

  Nikita : In my future?

  Walter : People *don't* live forever in the field. You should... move into another area, Comm, Research, Profiling. I could use an assistant.

  [Nikita gently laughs] 

  Walter : No, come on, I'm... I'm serious.

  Nikita : I think I'd feel too guilty knowing there are people out there risking her lives.

  Walter : Trust me. You're get over it.

  Nikita : How you do it? How you stay sane?

  [pauses] 

  Nikita : What's the secret?

  Walter : Knowing, when to lie and when to tell the truth.

  Nikita : To them?

  Walter : To yourself. At night you go to bed, *knowing* that you live in hell, that's the truth.

  Nikita : And the lie?

  Walter : When you wake up in the morning, thinking that *this* day, may... change everything. You'll escape, you fall in love, they'll close the place up and send everybody home.

  Nikita : At the night, have to face the truth again.

  Walter : Yeah, but in the meantime, you've accomplished something trully remarkable.

  [pauses] 

  Walter : You made it thru another day.

  Nikita : [phone rings; Nikita answers]  Hello.

  Michael Samuelle : [on the phone]  Josephine.

  [Nikita hangs up]