[Amanda is heavily tied down]
Nikita:
So what's the truth.
Serena:
Well for starters, my name's not Rowena Ivy. Never was. A case of mistaken identity if you will. Let's just say Division recruited the wrong person. My real name is Serena Ryan.
Nikita:
How'd you get into Division?
Serena:
After my adoptive parents died, I was put into the foster system. I was bounced around for a while until I ended up in a girls home. There was another girl there about the same age as me. But she was always in trouble. Always coming up with new ways of getting even with the system. Then one night I caught her in theoffice where they kept all our files. She had hers in hand and was removing all the pictures from her file and burning them. When she saw me she pulled out my file and started to do the same. I tried to stop her and she went after me. I ran. We ended up in the kitchen and uh, she knocked me out and set the place on fire. Somehow I got out I remember being conscious long enough to collapse outside. The next thing I knew I was in an ambulance with Percy standing over me. He started telling me about my having a second chance. It took me a minute before I realized that he called me Rowena. But by then I realized that if I corrected him, he would probably kill me.
Nikita:
So you pretended to be Rowena. [looks at Amanda] When did you figure it out?
Amanda:
When I first met her. I could tell just from looking at her that she couldn't be the same girl we were looking for.
Nikita:
And you didn't cancel her?
Amanda:
Not only did she call me out on my thoughts, she managed to accurately profile every person she met through Division. Percy, Michael, one of the guards. I knew right then that even if she wasn't agent material, she had something to convince Percy to keep her.
Nikita:
You wanted to use her.
Amanda:
No. There was something about her that I just couldn't bring myself to even think
about canceling her. Something that made me want to protect her. But I couldn't easily sneak her out right then and there. Not without raising flags for Percy.
Serena:
Amanda helped me memorize everything about Rowena's past; as well as come up with some additional details for Percy.