black boxes got installed in planes in 1969.
when did black boxes get installed in planes?
1969
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portrayed by devon sawa, owen is a former division "cleaner" operative who resides in montreal, canada as a guardian- one of the specially chosen few trusted to handle one of percy's black boxes. owen, like nikita, worked for division and fell in love with a civilian named emily robinson (division operatives are forbidden from falling in love). when the black box location is exposed and owen requests relocation, percy agrees and personally comes to montreal with a large team, secretly intending to kill owen after retrieving the box. when division agents come after him, emily is shot and killed by a division sniper. owen then turns against division to avenge her death and joins nikita on her mission to find and destroy the other division black boxes and kill percy. owen later realizes that he was the "cleaner" who killed daniel monroe, nikita's civilian fiancé- a fact he reveals and he later apologizes for; owen is emotionally weighed down by the number of victims he has taken during his time in service to division. owen continues working with nikita through season 2, when he disappears again to hunt down and kill the remaining guardians and destroy their boxes. owen, without nikita's knowledge, goes so far as to ally with gogol under ari tasarov's command, agreeing to destroy the black boxes in exchange for gogol's financing and support for his activities. owen resurfaces in the episode guardians where he had tracked down the latest guardian patrick miller and planned to raid his home with a gogol team, but the guardian had left before he could capture him. having got word of his alliance with gogol nikita sneaks into his home and in an sneaks up on him and attacks him and confronts him in an enraged state. after he calmed her down she spends the night and in the morning he cooks her breakfast and they have a heart to heart. they go investigating the guardian, but in the middle of it all they discuss nikita's lovelife and she reveals her relationship troubles with michael to him and he consoles her. he later returns to gogol only to have them turn on him and he calls nikita to go confront the guardian on her own because she would get to him before gogol having that he himself is currently already incapacitated. he and nikita are later saved by michael during a fight. since there was two tasks at hand in two different locations going to get the black box in the possession of gogol and defeating the guardians and destroying their black boxes nikita told owen and michael to team up to go defeat the guardians while she heads to gogol believing that it would be easier for them to handle the guardians if it was the two of them together. in the episode pale fire having partnered up both him and michael together they were able to find, defeat, and kill a guardian and find the rest of the guardians and destroy all their black boxes. after the mission was done they gather with alex and nikita at the beach house and he tells them he was going to go off by himself once again. somewhere in the next six months, owen was caught and imprisoned in russia. another cleaner helped him escape, although she did this on amanda's orders, who needed information from owen. nikita and division were alerted about his escape, and helped him get back to division. he was shocked to learn that percy was dead, and nikita was now running division with ryan. however, after learning that amanda knew who he was before division captured him and turned him into an agent. he is now a part of nikita's team.
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