La Femme Nikita(1997)

series - first aired/released 1997-01-13 - audience 7.4

Action & Adventure, Drama

Directed by Brad Turner, Clark Johnson, David Straiton, David Warry-Smith, George Bloomfield, Gilbert M. Shilton, Gordon Langevin, Guy Magar, Jerry Ciccoritti, Joel Surnow, John Fawcett, Jon Cassar, Joseph L. Scanlan, Kari Skogland, Ken Girotti, René Bonnière, Reza Badiyi, Rick Jacobson, Roy Dupuis, Ted Hanlan, Terry Ingram, T.J. Scott

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.