(M57) Nikita (aka la Femme Nikita)

nikita (aka marie aka josephine) begins as a thief who kills cops. she is sentenced to (30 years/ death?) but the secret service thinks it can use her, so she is allowed to live. she is a wild child, but her mentor bob has faith in her and he teaches her to be human (also female), but also to be an agent. He takes her out to dinner and gives her a gift. a gun. kill those people at that table, there's a window in the bathroom. she is upset at the betrayal, assuming the dinner is a real treat and not a test. and then she kills the people, finds out that the window has been boarded over, but still she manages to escape. she is released onto the world and falls in love with a check out clerk. she and fiancee invite bob over and bob gives them tickets to venice, where she is given a job, which arouses suspicions of her fiancee. she then is given a job to get some documents from an ambassador, but when the job goes bad, the violence drives her "nuts" and she has to escape. she leaves her fiancee and bob.

Solid B, maybe B plus.