- John Fleder: Hey, you work for us, remember that.
- Percy: I work for whoever happens to be sitting in your chair. That person tends to come and go.
- Amanda: [threatened with scissors] The elevator doesn't lead to freedom, just another room.
- Alex: What?
- Amanda: The more you try to get out, the more you realize there will always be another room. I don't know who told you these things, Alex, we're not murderers, we're protectors. We protect our home.
- Alex: [shakes her head] What home?
- Amanda: Home is wherever you stop running. You haven't been home for so long, you probably forget what it even feels like, or how it begins. It begins with a promise. You promise to put down the shears, and I promise to forget this ever happened, and we begin again.
- [first lines]
- Nikita: [voice-over] My name is Nikita. Six years ago, I was taken out of prison and forced by a covert unit of the government to be an assassin. Three years ago I escaped, and have been hunted ever since. I was the first recruit to get out. I'm going to make certain I'm not the last.
- Nikita: They told me I killed a cop. I don't remember. I try to. I had just turned eighteen, so they were able to charge me with Murder One. I was sentenced to die by lethal injection.
- Gary: No friggin' way!
- Nikita: Trust me... you'll wanna save your "no friggin' way" for the next part... where my execution was faked by a secret unit of the government called Division. They told me they were giving me a second chance. They told me I'd be serving my country. What they didn't tell me... : They were training me to be an assassin. They're probably telling some other girl the same thing right now.
- Amanda: I'm here to show you, Alex, you don't have to be hard to survive. Sometimes vulnerability can be our greatest weapon.