Nikita is about to feel the wrath.

When the CW drama kicks off the final episodes of season two, its heroine will be forced to deal with issues left off to the side. Written by Albert Kim and directed by Jeffrey Hunt, "Wrath" sees Nikita captured and left to face a side of herself she had buried a long time ago.

In crafting the episode, Kim saw it as a bit of a reset.

"Going into this episode was a little bit of a reset for our characters, especially for Nikita and for Michael," Kim told The Hollywood Reporter in previewing Friday's return. "So it felt like it was time to come back to the emotional and character issues that they've sort of been avoiding for much of the season, which had to do with what the status of their relationship was."

It was important for the story to unravel organically instead of hitting it head on. "Plot-wise, an old foe of Nikita's returns and is seeking his revenge, captures and proceeds to torture her. Within that crucible, Nikita confronts a lot of her emotional issues, stuff that she may not have been able to say or get to without the threat of physical and emotional distress," Kim said.

"It was a combination of things that we needed to get to and we needed to address these character issues that have been left hanging," he added.

Where Nikita ultimately goes during the hour will be devastating.

"Nikita ends up in a dark place, where she has to confront the questions of her identity as well as the damage in her past," explained Kim, who added that it is "unsettling as a writer when you try to write those scenes."

From a writing standpoint, he admitted that "Wrath" "was one of the toughest scripts I've ever had to write. I had to get into the heads of these characters who were going through some very raw places."
By the end of "Wrath," Nikita will have questioned her past at Division and the choices she made and could have made. As Kim tells THR, "the thing she's been saying all along throughout the series is that she was a slave to Division, but one of the realizations that she doesn't like to admit to herself but is forced to is that there were times where she enjoyed her missions."

Kim praised series star Maggie Q, who plays Nikita, calling the episode "her best performance of the season."

As for the upcoming finale, Kim revealed that it doesn't exactly end on a cliffhanger.

"The finale will be satisfying and complete in itself," he said. "There will be threads that we will leave open that will point us in the direction of where season three might go, but it's a traditional cliffhanger where our heroes are trapped in a room with a bomb waiting and we go black."

Nikita airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on the CW.

滬江娛樂(lè)快訊：隨著CW電視臺(tái)的《尼基塔》第二季漸入尾聲，女主角將不得不面對(duì)一些曾經(jīng)不堪回首的往事。由阿爾伯特?金(Albert Kim)任編劇、杰弗里?亨特(Jeffrey Hunt)執(zhí)導(dǎo)的新一集《憤恨》中，尼基塔被俘，也使得她必須直面一直以來(lái)都想埋葬的另一個(gè)自己。

劇情應(yīng)該循序漸進(jìn)地發(fā)展，而不是帶有強(qiáng)烈的跳躍感，這點(diǎn)很重要。“尼基塔的宿敵回來(lái)尋仇，將她俘獲然后折磨她。在這樣的嚴(yán)厲酷刑下，她開(kāi)始直面自己的內(nèi)心世界。如果不是在身心俱損的情況下，她也許無(wú)法講出或者面對(duì)自己的這些感受?！苯鹫f(shuō)道。

“前面很多方面我們沒(méi)有涉及到，這是填補(bǔ)空缺的過(guò)程。同時(shí)我們想重點(diǎn)描繪某些一直不曾染指的人物性格特征問(wèn)題。”他補(bǔ)充說(shuō)。

“尼基塔被關(guān)在一個(gè)黑屋子里，不得不面對(duì)她曾經(jīng)的身份和過(guò)去造成的傷害。”金解釋道，他接著補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，“作為一個(gè)編劇，當(dāng)你嘗試寫這些場(chǎng)景的時(shí)候，內(nèi)心是很難受的。”

金對(duì)女主角尼基塔的扮演者M(jìn)aggie Q贊口不絕，稱這是她“這一季中表現(xiàn)最好的一集”。
至于即將播出的結(jié)局篇，金透露并不一定在懸念中結(jié)束。

“結(jié)局會(huì)非常圓滿，”他說(shuō)，“我們留下一些開(kāi)放式的情節(jié)線索，為第三季故事的發(fā)展指出方向。不過(guò)典型的懸念式結(jié)局就是主角們被困在有炸彈會(huì)隨時(shí)爆炸的房間里，然后劇集在這里結(jié)束。”