Twenty years after French action auteur Luc Besson created La Femme Nikita, the street-punk-turned-sleek-assassin is still kicking -- and breaking necks, shooting machine guns and playing cat-and-mouse games with the secret agency operatives who trained her to kill.

Preceded by two movies and a TV series, the latest iteration, titled Nikita, debuts at 9 p.m. /8 p.m. Central Thursday on The CW with Maggie Q in