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.

沪江娱乐快讯：随着CW电视台的《尼基塔》第二季渐入尾声，女主角将不得不面对一些曾经不堪回首的往事。由阿尔伯特•金(Albert Kim)任编剧、杰弗里•亨特(Jeffrey Hunt)执导的新一集《愤恨》中，尼基塔被俘，也使得她必须直面一直以来都想埋葬的另一个自己。

剧情应该循序渐进地发展，而不是带有强烈的跳跃感，这点很重要。“尼基塔的宿敌回来寻仇，将她俘获然后折磨她。在这样的严厉酷刑下，她开始直面自己的内心世界。如果不是在身心俱损的情况下，她也许无法讲出或者面对自己的这些感受。”金说道。

“前面很多方面我们没有涉及到，这是填补空缺的过程。同时我们想重点描绘某些一直不曾染指的人物性格特征问题。”他补充说。

“尼基塔被关在一个黑屋子里，不得不面对她曾经的身份和过去造成的伤害。”金解释道，他接着补充说，“作为一个编剧，当你尝试写这些场景的时候，内心是很难受的。”

金对女主角尼基塔的扮演者Maggie Q赞口不绝，称这是她“这一季中表现最好的一集”。
至于即将播出的结局篇，金透露并不一定在悬念中结束。

“结局会非常圆满，”他说，“我们留下一些开放式的情节线索，为第三季故事的发展指出方向。不过典型的悬念式结局就是主角们被困在有炸弹会随时爆炸的房间里，然后剧集在这里结束。”