# The Night Agent

The Night Agent is an American action thriller television series created by Shawn Ryan based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk. Starring Gabriel Basso in the title role, it premiered on Netflix on March 23, 2023. The series emerged as the third-most-viewed debuting series on Netflix in its first four days, and within a week it was renewed for a second season. Within a month, it became the streaming service's sixth-most-viewed series. In October 2024, ahead of the second-season premiere, the series was renewed for a third season. The second season was released on January 23, 2025.

## Plot

FBI agent Peter Sutherland is thrown into a vast conspiracy about a mole at the highest levels of the United States government. To save the nation, he plunges into a desperate hunt for the traitor, while protecting former tech CEO Rose Larkin from the people who murdered her aunt and uncle.

## Cast and characters
### Main

* Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland, an FBI agent who works at the White House as a Night Action telephone operator
* Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin, a young cybersecurity entrepreneur and the niece of two Night Action agents
* Fola Evans-Akingbola as Chelsea Arrington (seasons 1 and 3; guest season 2), an ambitious U.S. Secret Service agent who leads the Vice President's daughter, Maddie Redfield's protective detail, and later campaign security for Governor Richard Hagan
* Sarah Desjardins as Maddie Redfield (season 1), the daughter of the vice president of the United States
* Eve Harlow as Ellen (season 1), an unpredictable assassin with a tragic and sad past
* Phoenix Raei as Dale (season 1), a professional hitman who is partnered with Ellen
* Enrique Murciano as Ben Almora (season 1), the director of the U.S. Secret Service
* D. B. Woodside as Erik Monks (season 1), a veteran U.S. Secret Service agent newly assigned to Maddie
* Hong Chau as Diane Farr (season 1), the White House chief of staff
* Arienne Mandi as Noor Taheri (season 2), a junior aide to the Iranian Mission at the United Nations in New York who is seeking asylum by cooperating with the FBI
* Louis Herthum as Jacob Monroe (season 2), an illegal dealer of intelligence
* Berto Colon as Solomon Vega (season 2), a Marine veteran who works for Jacob
* Keon Alexander as Javad (season 2), a Quds Force counterintelligence officer and the head of security at the Iranian Mission in New York
* Michael Malarkey as Markus Dargan (season 2), nephew of deposed terrorist dictator Viktor Bala
* Amanda Warren as Catherine Weaver (season 2), Peter's handler in Night Action

### Recurring

* Andre Anthony as Colin (season 1), perpetrator of a bombing in Washington, D.C.
** Anthony also portrays Matteo, Colin's identical twin brother
* Christopher Shyer as Ashley Redfield (season 1), the Vice President of the United States
* Toby Levins as Briggs (season 1), the U.S. Secret Service agent who is part of Redfield's detail team
* Ben Cotton as Gordon Wick (season 1), the CEO of a government contractor, Turn Lake Industries
* Kari Matchett as Michelle Travers, the President of the United States
* Brittany Snow as Alice Leeds (season 2), Peter's Night Action partner in Bangkok
* Teddy Sears as Warren Stocker (season 2), a former FBI agent who sells intelligence in Bangkok
* Albert Jones as Aiden Mosley (season 2), the Deputy Director of the FBI
* Marjan Neshat as Azita Taheri (season 2), Noor's mother
* Anousha as Haleh (season 2), an aide at the Iranian United Nations Mission in New York and Noor's friend
* Navid Negahban as Abbas Mansuri (season 2), the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations
* Rob Heaps as Tomás Bala (season 2), Markus' cousin and Viktor Bala's moderate, privately educated son
* Elise Kibler as Sloane Killory (season 2), Tomás' girlfriend
* Marwan Kenzari as Sami Saidi (season 2), a Night Action agent and former Delta Force sergeant
* Dikran Tulaine as Viktor Bala (season 2), the deposed dictator and war criminal from an unnamed country imprisoned at The Hague

## Episodes
### Series overview

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally released | Originally released |
| 1 | 10 | 10 | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |

### Season 1 (2023)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 1 | 1 | "The Call" | Seth Gordon | Teleplay by : Shawn Ryan | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| FBI Special Agent Peter Sutherland saves countless civilians from a bombing on the DC Metro. A year later, he is working for White House Chief of Staff Diane Farr at a position monitoring a phone seldom used by the secretive Night Agent program. Rose Larkin is staying with her aunt and uncle Emma and Henry Campbell in Loudoun County, Virginia when their house is attacked. Before they are both killed, they give Rose a phone number that she calls and is connected to Sutherland. She is rescued by local police before the assassins can reach her. Sutherland is instructed by Farr to take Larkin into protective custody. Sutherland explains that the Campbells were members of the Night Agent program. En-route to a safe house they are pursued by the assassins, but are able to evade them. At Farr's debriefing the next day she tells Sutherland that someone in the White House cannot be trusted. Meanwhile, assassin couple Dale and Ellen break into a suburban house in Racine, Wisconsin, killing its owner, and retrieve a hidden bag. ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Redial" | Seth Gordon | Shawn Ryan | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| In a flashback, several high profile clients of Larkin's are hacked due to internal sabotage. She lies in the debrief about seeing Dale's face, and is sent to a hotel under Secret Service protection. Hawkins discloses that Campbells worked in counterintelligence. Sutherland matches the ring emblem, that he photographed in episode one, to the House of Karađorđević. He also discovers Hawkins was the Campbells' former handler. Dale takes a call from their employers, who know Larkin's whereabouts and want her eliminated. Sutherland arrives at the hotel, but notices the Secret Service agents are gone. He evacuates Larkin and they are pursued unsuccessfully by Ellen and Dale. Sutherland and Larkin revisit the Campbell residence, and travel to her uncle's woodland cabin to retrieve an encrypted hard drive. Hawkins meets with one of the assassins' clients, but is killed for his silence. Farr is informed of his death, and goes to where his body was dumped in a farm site. ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Zookeeper" | Guy Ferland | Munis Rashid & Shawn Ryan | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| President Michelle Travers is updated on the investigation into Hawkins death, and one of the assassins' clients is revealed to be Vice President Ashley Redfield. Farr demands the President reveal what the Campbells were involved in with Night Action. Sutherland calls Farr on her personal cell phone to arrange bringing Larkin in. When they covertly watch the assassins arrive at the cabin, Larkin bluntly tells Sutherland that Farr must be the traitor the Campbells warned about. Needing advanced computers to crack the drive, Sutherland returns to the White House with it claiming Larkin ran from him. He then discreetly sets up a remote connection allowing her to download the contents once it is decrypted and wipe the original. Farr discovers this and confronts Sutherland, but denies trying to kill them. She reveals the President was using the Campbells to investigate the metro bombing and a possible White House mole who was involved in it. Continuing to ignore Larkin's advice, Sutherland trusts Farr and brings her into the fold. Chelsea Arrington, the Secret Service agent guarding second daughter Maddie Redfield at Georgetown University is assigned a new partner, Erik Monks. Returning to active duty after being shot saving the previous President, he makes a mistake the first night on shift. Arrington questions his assignment to her team. Maddie's art teacher is revealed to be associated with the perpetrator of the metro bombing. ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Eyes Only" | Ramaa Mosley | Seth Fisher | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| Larkin finds several items on the hard drive, including building blueprints, CCTV footage from around DC and documents on the drive about the Peoples Independence Front (PIF), a radical Balkan political organization blamed for the Metro bombing. Spyware is found on Farr's phone, explaining how Sutherland and Larkin were tracked. Larkin reluctantly agrees to work with Farr and travels with Sutherland to an address found on the drive. They meet Lorna, an old friend of the Campbells who helped them gather intelligence, specifically blueprints for buildings and infrastructure around Washington, DC. She determines Sutherland's interference with the Metro bombing prevented the correct target being destroyed. Arrington discovers Monks is recovering from painkiller addiction and is only still in the job due to his friendship with the Director. Having got the assassins' license plate number at the cabin, Sutherland gets a friend in the Maryland State Police to trace their car to a residence, but it is empty when they raid it. Dale and Ellen are sent by Redfield to Lorna's house and torture her for information before killing her. Reviewing CCTV on the drive, Sutherland spots Arrington in multiple videos, deducing the Metro bombing might have been an assassination attempt on her charge. ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Marionette" | Guy Ferland | Corey Deshon | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| Sutherland questions Arrington on who she was protecting the day of the bombing, but she is instructed to divulge no information other than it was not Maddie. Larkin further investigates the ring image, tracing the heraldry to the Serbian Pavelić family, relatives of the defunct Yugoslav royal family. Andrej Pavelić, an assemblyman, recently disappeared in Montenegro and a police sketch of a suspect matches that of Dale. Sutherland visits Hawkins's widow, who reveals her husband always doubted the PIF's alleged involvement in the metro bombing, instead believing government contractor Turn Lake Industries was responsible. Returning to Larkin, she reveals that Pavelić was campaigning against US contractors conducting black operations in the Balkans, and referenced Turn Lake by name. She also discovers via the FEC website that they are a major political donor to Vice President Redfield. President Travers orders Sutherland and Larkin to report to the White House. Maddie starts a relationship with her art teacher, and escapes her detail to visit him. However, his associate (involved in the metro bombing) kills him and kidnaps Maddie before Arrington and Monks can reach her. ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Fathoms" | Ramaa Mosley | Imogen Browder | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| Two years prior, the assassins kill Andrej Pavelić, but Dale keeps his ring. Sutherland declines to take Larkin to the White House with the drive, electing to leave her in the protection of his State Trooper friend Cisco whilst he attends alone with paper copies. He reveals Redfield's connection to Turn Lake and its CEO Gordon Wick to Farr, but deduces she is involved when she alludes to knowing Larkin is with a trooper (information he did not provide). Farr worriedly calls Wick, instructing him to kill Larkin. Sutherland warns her and Cisco to run. Farr orders Sutherland's arrest, but he narrowly escapes the White House via a secret tunnel. Cisco drops off Larkin so she can meet Sutherland at a pre-arranged spot, and is later killed by Ellen. Dale pursues Larkin, but after a brutal fight she and Sutherland are able to kill him. The two seek refuge in a boat owned by Sutherland's godfather, where Larkin treats his wounds. Arrington and Monks continue to investigate the kidnapping. Farr and Redfield argue over their involvement in the conspiracy, and she has Redfield give a press conference where he falsely names Sutherland as the main suspect in Maddie's disappearance. ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Best Served Cold" | Adam Arkin | Tiffany Shaw Ho | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| A flashback shows Maddie's younger sister Sarah drowned in the family pool, something her father's negligence caused but he blamed her for. Arrington and Monks investigate an environmentalist group Maddie's art teacher was involved with. A colleague identifies his associate (who kidnapped Maddie) as a man named Matteo. Matteo demands Redfield confess to orchestrating the metro bombing in 2 days, otherwise Maddie will be killed. The three traitorous conspirators – Wick, Farr and Vice President Redfield – discuss how Maddie was planning to publicly ruin her father by leaking the nanny cam footage the assassins retrieved from Wisconsin. The footage shows him assaulting 13 year old Maddie when she refuses to continue being blamed for Sarah's death. A grieving Ellen confronts Wick, and with a knife to his throat he gives her Matteo's last known whereabouts, asking her to kill him in exchange for Sutherland's location. Farr and Wick, and independently Sutherland and Larkin, identify Matteo as Colin Worley, a former employee of Turn Lake and the metro bomber, who is legally considered dead. Arrington and Monks interview Sutherland's godfather Jim, a reporter with The Baltimore Sun, and, encountering a photo of him and his godson at the houseboat, track Peter and Rose to the dock and arrest them. ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Redux" | Adam Arkin | Rachel Wolf | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| It is revealed that Colin Worley's twin brother Matteo was mistakenly killed instead of him by Turn Lake to cover their tracks after the metro bombing, and Colin assumed his identity before going on the run. Sutherland and Larkin discuss their findings with Arrington and Monks, who reluctantly agree to further investigate due to the potential of a second attack happening. Arrington reveals the day of the metro bombing she was guarding PIF leader Omar Zadar, who was meeting with someone from the Travers administration, and bears his codename, Osprey. They deduce he was the intended target of the failed bombing. In the Situation Room, President Travers discusses wanting to establish relations with Zadar as an ally for democracy in the Balkans, which Redfield opposes. Redfield discovers Farr and Wick know the kidnapper's identity, and they assure him that Worley is being tracked. Farr amends the order to have Ellen kill Maddie also. Maddie secretly discovers a number on metal behind the drywall of her cell, and convinces Worley to record another ransom video to send directly to her father. However, she gives him Arrington's cell number and uses a visual code to covertly convey the information. The team are able to track her to a shipping container depot. They rescue Maddie, but Worley and Monks are killed by Ellen, who had been trailing the group. Larkin kills Ellen by pushing her off a crane. ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Devil We Know" | Millicent Shelton | Munis Rashid | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| The night of the bombing, Redfield summons Farr and reveals he orchestrated the attack with Wick to kill Zadar, due to him believing he is a terrorist and Wick's activities in the Balkans being threatened should he be elected. With Travers' administration and legacy threatened should anything be discovered, Farr reluctantly agrees to work with them. Sutherland and Larkin flee the depot before backup arrives, and take shelter with his godfather. Arrington plans to take Maddie to President Travers and Secret Service Director Almora to tell them the truth, but they are diverted to One Observatory Circle instead. Wick, Redfield and Farr discuss a second attack on Zadar, planned for the following day when he arrives stateside. Larkin hacks Ellen's cell, discovering images of files and documents taken inside the Night Action office. They discover Farr took the photos, and forward the evidence to Jim. Larkin, Arrington, Maddie and Sutherland deduce Zadar is meeting the President at Camp David, and Wick likely intends to kill Travers also to elevate Redfield, who can then issue pardons. Farr agrees to help them when she discovers Travers is also under threat, revealing she was not aware of the development as Redfield and Wick have frozen her out. ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Fathers" | Millicent Shelton | Seth Fisher | March 23, 2023 (2023-3-23) |
| Arrington and Maddie fly with Redfield to Camp David on Marine Two. Redfield locks himself and Maddie in a basement panic room, telling her he thinks Travers to be the enemy for cooperating with Zadar. She threatens to tell the truth to the press and he lets her out, believing she will instead be killed in the assassination attempt. Farr uses her position to sneak Sutherland and Larkin into Camp David. She warns Almora of the threat to Travers, but Briggs, a rogue Secret Service agent working for Wick, kills Almora and shoots Farr. Sutherland and Arrington realize two bombs have been planted. Arrington kills a rogue agent, finds one of the bombs and evacuates Laurel House. She also releases Maddie from the basement and evacuates her just before it explodes. Intercepting Briggs' comms after subduing him, Sutherland discovers the second bomb has been planted on Marine One, where the President will be evacuated to. Pursued by US marines and Secret Service, he is able to intercept Travers' detail and prevent her from boarding just before the helicopter explodes. Instead of seeking vengeance, Larkin keeps Farr alive so she can stand trial and die in prison. Redfield is arrested, with Maddie agreeing to testify against him at his trial. Wick flees the country. Arrington is asked by her new boss if she would like to be on Travers' Secret Service detail, and she accepts. Travers provides Sutherland with conclusive evidence of his father's guilt, but reveals he was planning on becoming a double agent and was assassinated, not killed in a car accident as was reported. She recruits him to become a full Night Agent in the program. Now in a relationship with Larkin, he later departs Joint Base Andrews on his first mission. ||||||

### Season 2 (2025)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 11 | 1 | "Call Tracking" | Guy Ferland | Shawn Ryan | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Ten months after the attack at Camp David, Peter and his Night Action partner Alice Leeds are compromised whilst tailing Warren Stocker in Bangkok as he sells intelligence to broker Jacob Monroe. Alice is killed at their extraction point. Peter escapes and goes into hiding, telling his new handler Catherine Weaver he believes someone in the program gave up their location. Rose Larkin, now working for AI marketing company AdVerse, attends therapy to process her PTSD. She gets called by an unknown man telling her Peter is in trouble. Catherine informs Rose he is AWOL. Rose alters AdVerse source code to run facial recognition on CCTV and social media and tracks him to New York City. President Travers reveals Catherine used to work with Peter’s father. Peter tracks down Warren to Jamaica, Queens after stealing his estranged son Ethan’s phone. Rose tracks the phone and encounters Peter as he chases Warren, but the two are confronted by Solomon, one of Jacob’s gunmen who killed Alice in Bangkok. ||||||
| 12 | 2 | "Disconnected" | Guy Ferland | Tiffany Shaw Ho & Corey Deshon | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Nine months prior, Peter meets Catherine, who tells him Night Action is investigating an intel leak from the CIA’s Bangkok Station. Rose and Peter escape Solomon and his team, and he explains why he is tracking Warren and his current situation. They detain Warren after he tries to flee the country with Ethan. Warren tells Peter the intel he sold was on “Foxglove,” an experimental chemical weapons program, but is killed by Monroe’s team before he can reveal anything further. Noor Taheri, a New York based aide to Iranian Ambassador to the UN Abbas Mansuri, attempts to secure political asylum for herself and her family by providing information to the CIA. She tells her handler of rumors Abbas is secretly talking with someone in US intelligence leaking information. Catherine and Night Action are copied in, as the CIA and FBI believe it may be Warren. Noor befriends Javad, the new head of security for the Iranian UN Mission. ||||||
| 13 | 3 | "Government Property" | Adam Arkin | Imogen Browder | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Peter and Rose are pursued separately by Jacob’s team, after Peter refuses to tell him what Warren revealed. Rose is rescued by Catherine. The three meet, and Catherine reluctantly allows him and Rose to remain in the field to track down Solomon and identify Jacob. Rose identifies Solomon as a former Marine said to have died 6 years prior, but her boss revokes her access to AdVerse. Noor follows Ambassador Abbas to a secret appointment and photographs him meeting Solomon and receiving a suitcase. Rose and Peter discover Solomon’s disabled sister, Celeste, is receiving recurring payments from a trust. Peter tells Catherine about Foxglove. Tomás Bala, son of imprisoned dictator Viktor Bala, meets with an aide to the British Foreign Secretary to try and negotiate his father's release from The Hague. Markus Dargan, Tomás’s cousin, leads a team that hijacks a mobile laboratory associated with the Foxglove program. ||||||
| 14 | 4 | "Desperate Measures" | Adam Arkin | Anayat Fakhraie | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Peter meets with Noor as her new handler. He and Rose infiltrate a party at the Iranian Mission to obtain copies of the briefcase contents from Abbas’s study. Suspicious of Peter, Javad detains him. Rose has to enter Abbas’s study herself but succeeds and scans documents in the briefcase with Noor’s phone. Peter escapes the mission after fighting two guards. Catherine tries to visit Celeste but discovers she moved suddenly overnight. Information on the trust paying her also dries up. She confronts CIA Director Byron Gedney for an explanation about Bangkok, the death of Alice, and Foxglove. Peter and Catherine scatter Alice’s ashes in New York Harbor. Tomás and Markus meet with Solomon, who gives them the Foxglove intel Warren sold to Monroe. Tensions arise between the cousins. The Foxglove contents stolen by Markus are revealed to be 9 novel chemical weapons, created for the purpose of developing antidotes. Noor refuses to hand over the document photographs until her mother and brother are extracted from Isfahan. ||||||
| 15 | 5 | "A Family Matter" | Ana Lily Amirpour | Munis Rashid | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Catherine introduces Peter to Sami Saidi, a Night Action agent and former Delta Force sergeant, to plan extraction of Noor’s family in 24 hours before her brother Farhad is conscripted. Catherine and Solomon make enquiries about Peter and what Night Action is. Javad continues to investigate the events of the party and starts to suspect Noor. Rose’s boss at AdVerse comes to support her source code alterations after an investor approves the new tracking functionality and offers funding, promoting her to CTO. Saidi extracts the Taheris, but Farhad’s reluctance to leave draws the attention of the neighbors and later the police as they drive to the airstrip. Saimi kills the two police officers but Farhad takes one of their guns, forcing him to reluctantly shoot Farhad dead and extract only her mother. He tells Peter, who lies to Noor and assures her they are both safe. ||||||
| 16 | 6 | "A Good Agent" | Ana Lily Amirpour | Lukas Johnson | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Thirteen years prior, Catherine is attacked and her Night Action partner killed whilst surveilling SVR agents receiving intel from Peter’s father, a mole in the FBI. Noor gives Rose the USB drive containing the documents, revealed to be DGSE files on Iranian dissidents in Europe. Peter and Catherine hypothesize that Foxglove is related, with Solomon and Jacob obtaining the chemicals for Iran to target its detractors. Abbas is informed of Farhad’s death and tells Noor. Catherine tracks the documents to corrupt French agent Laurent using MIC dots and forces her to arrange a meet with Solomon. Peter and Catherine are able to detain him but not before he kills Laurent. At the ICC Detention Centre, Tomás discovers and reluctantly agrees to take part in his father's plans with Markus to attack the US. ||||||
| 17 | 7 | "Tilt" | Nina Lopez Corrado | Tiffany Shaw Ho | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Javad follows Noor to a meeting with Rose and Peter, where she confronts them for lying to her about Farhad’s death. Javad later detains and confronts Noor about her treachery. Believing her mother to still be in Iran, Noor bargains for her life by offering to lead Javad to Peter. Rose meets with Dr. Wilfred Cole, a Columbia University scientist originally involved with Foxglove. Tomás joins Markus’s crew in stealing shipments of chemical ingredients used to make Foxglove blister agent KX. Needing him to make the weapon, the Balas kidnap Wilfred, but he is knocked unconscious in a struggle. Rose convinces them she is his postdoc fellow who can also help them if they keep her alive. Catherine and Peter interrogate Solomon, who tells the latter he can arrange a meeting with Jacob and provide info to stop the upcoming attack. Peter goes against Catherine’s orders and takes Solomon from the safe house. ||||||
| 18 | 8 | "Divergence" | Nina Lopez Corrado | Corey Deshon | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Tomás and Markus take Rose and Cole to the mobile lab and threaten to kill Wilfred's family if he doesn’t manufacture KX. Solomon takes Peter to Jacob, who says he will disclose the lab and Rose’s location if Peter steals a case file from the UN Secretary-General’s office. Peter meets with Noor and asks her to help get into the UN Headquarters and proves to her that her mother is stateside. They both fight and escape Javad and his men. Noor prints a UN guest pass at the mission but is confronted by Abbas. He allows her to leave and inform the French about the DGSE files, as his estranged daughter is on the EU-based dissidents list. Tomás discovers Rose is working for the FBI, but as he questions her she deduces his discomfort with the planned attack and tries to persuade him to help her stop it. After Wilfred explains the devastating effects of KX, Tomás tries to call off the mission, but Markus kills him with a sample of the weapon. ||||||
| 19 | 9 | "Cultural Exchange" | Millicent Shelton | Anayat Fakhraie & Imogen Browder | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Peter arrives at the UN Headquarters and obtains the Secretary-General’s file, and Noor gives the DGSE files to the French, warning them of Iran’s plans to hunt down the defectors. She escapes Javad again and reunites with her mother with the assistance of Sami. Catherine kills Solomon at the parking lot as he holds her at gunpoint. After Javad threatens Abbas, the ambassador has him arrested, utilizing CCTV footage of him and Noor together to make it appear he was conspiring with her. Peter gives the file to Jacob, who claims Viktor Bala used KX on his own people before he was deposed but the UN and ICC covered up that the US sold it to him. Jacob gives Peter the lab location on the condition he becomes his informant. Back at the warehouse, Markus departs and takes a team disguised as a maintenance crew with him and plans to feed the KX canisters into the UN Headquarters HVAC system after 15 were manufactured. Wilfred and Rose refuse to continue working on KX and instead launch a gas attack that kills some of the guards in order to save his family. They proceed to escape, but more guards appear and chase after them. Peter arrives at the warehouse and kills the penultimate guard by smashing his head on a side table. The final guard throws Rose and Gloria into a fridge unit, but he is struck by Wilfred with a pipe and forced to beat him to death. The chaos ends with the guard pinning Peter down untill Rose intervened and them killing him by making him choke to death from inhaling the gas. Markus arrives at the UN Headquarters and has the canisters loaded into the air conditioners. ||||||
| 20 | 10 | "Buyer's Remorse" | Millicent Shelton | Munis Rashid | January 23, 2025 (2025-1-23) |
| Eight years prior, Jacob becomes acquainted with Richard Hagan, the present day Governor of Kansas and an isolationist candidate for President. The UN Headquarters is evacuated. Markus is furious at the damage Peter and Rose have done to his operations at the warehouse and kills two UNDSS officers on the rooftop, but his first remaining henchman also dies in the ambush before he goes under disguise as a UNDSS officer. Peter and Catherine accompany NYPD ESU on a raid to stop Markus while coming across his penultimate two henchmen, arresting one and killing the other. Markus escapes on the other hand with a canister, saves a hostage from his own final henchman by gunning him down and rigs the canister to the HVAC of a hotel where numerous diplomats and Tomás’s girlfriend Sloane Killroy are staying, but hazmat teams secure the rest of the canisters. Jacob gets a phone call about Solomon being killed. Peter and Rose save Sloane by assaulting and killing Markus, order the diplomats to evacuate, stop the canister from deploying to prevent the KX attack and agree that they can’t be together due to the risk to her as he is arrested for his prior actions. Noor and her mother settle in Illinois. Jacob gives the UN file to Richard at a campaign rally (where Secret Service agent Chelsea Arrington is in charge of security). It contains evidence of his opponent Patrick Knox selling KX to Viktor Bala during his time as CIA Director, which Richard leaks. This causes Patrick to drop out, virtually guaranteeing Richard the presidency and Jacob access to untold information. Catherine releases Peter, instructing him to act as a double agent against Jacob and wait for his call so they can investigate to expose Richard and the wider conspiracy. ||||||

## Production
### Development

On December 24, 2020, it was announced that Sony Pictures Television would produce the TV series adaptation of Matthew Quirk's novel The Night Agent, with Shawn Ryan as writer. On July 21, 2021, the series was acquired by Netflix, with Seth Gordon set to direct the pilot and produce the ten-episode series with Ryan, Marney Hochman, Julia Gunn, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, Nicole Tossou and David Beaubaire. On March 29, 2023, Netflix renewed it for a 10-episode second season. On October 8, 2024, ahead of the second-season premiere, Netflix renewed the series for a third season.

### Casting

On November 22, 2021, Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan were cast in the series. On February 1, 2022, Hong Chau, D. B. Woodside, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Eve Harlow, Phoenix Raei, Enrique Murciano and Sarah Desjardins joined the cast as regulars. On February 24, 2023, Kari Matchett joined in a recurring role. On December 8, 2023, Amanda Warren was cast as a series regular for the second season. On January 11, 2024, Berto Colon, Louis Herthum, and Arienne Mandi joined the cast as new series regulars while Brittany Snow and Teddy Sears were in recurring roles for the second season. On February 16, 2024, Michael Malarkey and Keon Alexander were cast as new series regulars while Navid Negahban and Rob Heaps joined the cast in recurring capacities for the second season. On March 26, 2024, Marwan Kenzari, Elise Kibler, and Dikran Tulaine joined the cast in guest roles for the second season. On November 19, 2024, Genesis Rodriguez was cast as a series regular for the third season. On December 13, 2024, David Lyons, Jennifer Morrison, Stephen Moyer, and Callum Vinson joined the cast as new series regulars while Suraj Sharma joined in a recurring role for the third season. On January 31, 2025, Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton and Albert Jones were promoted as series regulars for the third season.

### Filming

The first season was filmed in British Columbia, Canada, with the city of Vancouver standing in for Washington, D.C. Filming for the second season began on February 5, 2024 in New York City, with additional filming in Thailand and Washington D.C. It was announced on June 17, 2024, that the second season had concluded filming.

## Release

The first season of The Night Agent was released on Netflix on March 23, 2023. The second season premiered on January 23, 2025.

## Reception
### Audience viewership

According to Netflix, the series had 168.71 million hours of worldwide views over its first four days, the third-highest for a new series. In its second week, it amassed 216.4 million hours of views. In its third week, it gained 130.48 million hours of views, and became the streamer's ninth-most-viewed series, with a total 515.57 million hours viewed. By 25 days, it accrued 605.62 million total hours, emerging as the streamer's sixth-most viewed series.
Between its release and June 2023 the series totaled 812.1 million hours watched, the most of any Netflix original in that time span.

### Critical response

For the first season, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 74% approval rating based on 31 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Bingeable as a beach read and just as forgettable, The Night Agent is a routine spy thriller told with commendable bravado." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 68 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews".
Lucy Mangan of The Guardian gave the show 4 out of 5 stars, writing: "It is propulsive, slicker-than-slick fun, with every hairpin turn perfectly negotiated. There are fine performances—especially from Basso, who is getting two or three notes out of what could easily have been a one-note part." Comparing The Night Agent and Rabbit Hole in the New York Times, Mike Hale writes: "The two new shows are ... cheerfully, maddeningly implausible. Night Agent is on more of a meat-and-potatoes level... but it strings the viewer along in sufficiently teasing fashion to carry hard-core fans of the genre through its 10 episodes."
The second season has an 83% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 critic reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics consensus states, "Growing more assured in its second season, The Night Agent executes its mission to entertain with no muss or fuss." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

### Accolades

| Award | Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
| Astra TV Awards | 2024 | Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama | Sarah Desjardins | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Super Awards | 2024 | Best Action Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie | The Night Agent | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Super Awards | 2024 | Best Action Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie | Gabriel Basso | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Super Awards | 2024 | Best Actress in an Action Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie | Luciane Buchanan | Nominated |
| Hollywood Professional Association | 2023 | Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects – Episode or Series Season | Grant Miller, Hallana Barbosa, Pierceon Bellemare, Mariia Osanova, Ben Stommes | Nominated |
| People's Choice Awards | 2024 | The Bingeworthy Show of the Year | The Night Agent | Nominated |
| UBCP/ACTRA Awards | 2023 | Best Supporting Performance, Series | Christopher Shyer | Nominated |

## Note

* ↑ Credited as Sony Pictures Television Studios for season 1.
* ↑ The listed year refers to the date of the ceremony, not necessarily the year in which the corresponding season or episode aired, and is linked, where available, to the ceremony's article.