Nicole "Nik" Khan is the tritagonist of the Netflix 2020 movie Extraction and its 2023 sequel. She is a private military contractor who helped Tyler Rake save Ovi Manhajan.
She is portrayed by Golshifteh Farahani.
History[]
Extraction[]
Nik Khan took her helicopter to meet with Tyler Rake at his shed to inform him of a possible job. She waited outside and when he arrived, she told him that they had "landed the whale," and then gave him information on an extraction mission they were planning to do: rescuing the After Rake expressed interest in seeing his friend Gaspar, Khan quickly noted he was "out of the game" and would not be joining him on the mission. Rake agreed to take the job regardless, but Khan warned him that Amir Asif's sway in Dhaka would make the job "complicated." Rake dismissed the warning before taking painkillers with a glass of alcohol. Khan realized he was disinterested and went to leave, but Rake asked her what brought her to him, believing she was there because no one else would take the job. Khan revelead that she was aware of Rake's suicidal tendencies, and said him she'd meet him the next morning in Fitzroy Crossing the next morning. She also told Tyler not to meet her if he wasn't going to arrive sober. Rake then asked about his target's name, and she informed him it was Ovi Manhajan. Before departing, Nik told Rake to keep his "head on straight" before finally taking off in her helicopter.
The next day, Khan and her extraction team arrived at Dhaka in a helicopter to rescue Ovi and Rake. She and her team fight off Asif's men while Saju Rav leads Ovi to the helicopter. After Rav is killed by Baljur Rashid, Nik kills him in revenge and Rake joins the battlefield to protect Ovi. As Ovi managed to reach the helicopter, he and Nik witness Rake getting shot by Farhad and fall into the river where he holds his breath underwater to fake his death, much to Ovi's horror. Nik shoots at Farhad, but he managed to get away. Ovi wants to go back for Rake, but Nik drags him to the helicopter and flies him home.
Eight months later, Khan kills Asif in a men's restroom and avenges Rake.
Extraction 2[]
Nik gets a call from the hospital that they found Rake's body in Saudi. She and her brother Yaz pray for Rake and come to see him at the hospital when he's comatose. Nik feels it's wrong to prolong Rake's suffering and wants to pull the plug on him, but Yaz stops her and retorts that she would not give up on Rake. When Rake recovers, Nik and Yaz take him to a cabin in Austria and suggest he retires from mercenary life.
9 months later, Nik, Yaz and Rake break into a prison in Georgia to rescue Rake's ex-wife's sister Ketevan and her children Sandro and Nina, who were imprisoned there by Ketevan's abusive husband Davit Radiani and his brother Zurab. As they sneak out, Nina accidentally drops her toy alerting the guards to their breakout. A prison riot erupts, during which Davit tries to kill Ketevan with a shovel, forcing Rake to kill him to save Ketevan. They have a rendezvous with Yaz and Nik, but are attacked by Zurab's men after Sandro called him as revenge for Rake killing his father, whom he idolized despite his abuse. Nik gets knocked unconscious and nearly slips off a ledge, but Rake catches her only to be dangling with her. Zurab walks up to kill them both, but Nik wakes up and shoots the glass under Zurab's feet trapping him and allowing Rake to pull both himself and her to safety. The family escapes in Yaz's helicopter, but Yaz dies of wounds he sustained during the attack, much to Nik's horror.
They regroup in Rake's cabin where Rake reunites with his ex-wife Mia. However, Rake gets a call from Zurab who kidnapped Sandro during the attack. Rake and Nik break into Zurab's base to save Sandro and find that Zurab strapped him to an explosive jacket. Nik manages to kill the rest of Zurab's men and deactivates the jacket, while Rake overpowers Zurab by stabbing him repeatedly and eventually shoots him in the head when he refuses to stop attacking Ketevan's family, killing him and finally ending his reign of terror.
In the aftermath, Nik and Rake are arrested while Ketevan and her children are taken under protective custody. Fortunately, both are transported out of prison to do another job.