Summary
The Night Agent Season 2 has a two-pronged ending, with Episode 10 closing off this season’s plot but also leaving plenty on the table for an inevitable Season 3.
Given the immense popularity of The Night Agent, it was virtually inevitable that its ending wouldn’t really be an ending. Just like how the first season finale dealt with the main threat while very much leaving things open for a sequel, Episode 10, “Buyer’s Remorse”, takes a similar approach. It’s a finale of two halves – dealing with Viktor Bala’s revenge plot against the UN and setting up Season 3.
There are a couple of surprises along the way, including a last-minute cameo for a fan-favorite Season 1 character, and there’s genuine emotional heft thanks to the relationship between Peter and Rose. But crucially I don’t think this season’s narrative arc feels short-changed by the need to keep the show in motion. There’s plenty of payoff.
Let’s break it down.
The Attack on the UN Is Foiled
Despite Episode 10 beginning – as usual – with a flashback cold open, we’ll deal with that later. In the meantime, let’s pick up where we left off in the penultimate episode, with Markus and his remaining men conducting a terror attack on the UN with 15 canisters of K.X. gas.
Catherine is still incredibly unhappy about whatever deal Peter made with Jacob, but she’s willing to vouch for him until this situation is sorted out, especially since he promises to tell her everything afterward. In the meantime, there’s a day to save. Peter and Catherine head into the building while Rose accompanies Mosley to help identify Markus and his men.
I perhaps should have mentioned this earlier, but Markus is a very good villain. He seems genuinely capable, which is really highlighted here as he’s consistently able to evade capture despite his mission collapsing around him.
It doesn’t take law enforcement long to take down all of Markus’s team except him and retrieve 14 of the 15 canisters, all of which are safely handled by the bomb squad. It turns out the attack was going to be timed when the UN was at its busiest, right when it was being decided how Viktor Bala’s conspicuously unnamed country was going to be divvied up after his sentencing.
With Markus missing, Rose, as usual, opens her laptop.
Markus Is Taken Down
Using AdVerse, Rose is able to track down Sloane, who Tomas mentioned to her earlier. Markus just so happens to be hiding in her penthouse suite, trying to use her connections to get a private jet out of the country.
Rose, Peter, and Catherine head to the hotel, where it’s quickly revealed the final K.X canister has been rigged to kill everyone inside. Rose alerts a maintenance guy to call in the chemical weapon threat and then helps Peter get the drop on Markus, who is holding Sloane hostage. They’re able to take him down and Sloane is unharmed, but there’s still the small matter of the pending chemical attack to deal with.
In the best suspense sequence of The Night Agent Season 2, Episode 10, Peter and Rose race to set off the fire suppression systems on the top floor, which will seal the K.X in the vents and prevent any casualties. Rose even uses a little fact Dr. Cole taught her to save the day. It’s a close call.
Peter Turns Himself In
As promised, once the day is saved, Peter turns himself in to Catherine. Before that, though, he says his emotional goodbyes to Rose. As long as he’s a Night Agent, she’s never going to be safe, and if she wants anything even resembling a normal life, she’s going to have to forget about him. When I realized I was getting a little choked up by this scene it dawned on me that I’ve really bought into this relationship across the two seasons.
Since Peter did indeed free a captive suspect, break into the UN, and hand sensitive intelligence to an information broker, Catherine’s hands are pretty much tied. Peter has to be taken in and interrogated, and even then, the FBI doesn’t seem to know what to do with him.
The answer reveals itself eventually.
Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin in episode 206 of The Night Agent. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024
Jacob Monroe Is Puppeteering Governor Hagan
The ending of The Night Agent Season 2 reveals Jacob’s plan – to position himself in the highest echelons of power by ensuring that Governor Hagan becomes President. We figure this out in a few different steps.
The aforementioned cold open, set eight years prior, finds Jacob attending the opening of the Anthony Ming Centre for Entrepreneurship, which he funded almost entirely. There, he’s approached by a smarmy politician who’s making an obvious effort to retain his services. Jacob isn’t willing to bankroll him for nothing in return, but he does suggest a quid pro quo arrangement.
We don’t know it at the time, but this is Governor Hagan. We don’t see him again until Jacob visits him with the drive that Peter stole for him. During this scene, Jacob is patted down by Hagan’s Secret Service detail – Chelsea Arrington from the first season. Remember when Catherine said she was working for a candidate on the campaign trail?
When Catherine lets Peter out for a while, she shows him the latest news in America – Knox, Hagan’s political opponent, has dropped out of the presidential race. As it turns out, when he was director of the CIA, he oversaw the Foxglove program and the sale of its chemical weapons to Viktor Bala. This makes it clear that Jacob needed a smoking gun connection between Knox and Bala to secure Hagan’s presidency.
New Beginnings
The Night Agent Season 2 ends with its core cast all facing new beginnings.
Noor and Azita are granted asylum in America and are coldly “reimbursed” for Farhad’s death. Rose later goes to see her, and things aren’t going especially well. Azita refuses to get out of bed and barely eats, spending all her time looking at pictures of Farhad on her phone. Noor is working a job she doesn’t particularly like because her qualifications can’t be confirmed back in Iran. She’s hoping things will get better. Rose assures her that they will.
Rose, you’ll recall, has been promoted, and is being kept busy by that, and she’s having therapy twice a week. She still has no idea what’s going on with Peter but is beginning to believe it’s better that way (at least until the Season 3 wages come around.)
As for Peter, Catherine makes him an offer. If he’s willing to go undercover and do whatever Jacob asks of him to root out the real relationship between him and Hagan, his record will be wiped clean. Of course, he can’t wait. But what he uncovers might go all the way to the Oval Office. “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” says Catherine. I’m sure we will.
