Summary
Episode 2 gets The Night Agent Season 2 moving by introducing a few intriguing new elements.
While some of the complexity, mystery, and even urgency of The Night Agent’s first season was a little absent in its Season 2 premiere, Episode 2, “Disconnected”, gets things back on track. We now have a new subplot and POV character to follow which doubtlessly ties into the main story, an intriguing angle for Peter’s arc that affects his relationship with Rose, multiple people to suspect of corruption, and a slight idea of what might be going on.
There are still plenty more revelations to come, obviously, but this is plenty to be going on with in the meantime. “Disconnected” feels, in a way, like a quintessential episode of this show, with its fair share of action and drama, a touch of deeper character work, and various nesting mysteries to keep viewers engaged through ten episodes. If nothing else, they’re flying by.
A Bit of Backstory
If you were wondering why Peter never called Rose despite having promised to in the Season 1 finale, the nine-months-earlier cold open of this episode lets you know. As soon as he arrived in Bangkok on his first mission, Alice took his phone away, and cautioned him against personal relationships, and that was that.
Peter is always eager to please – he still has that puppy demeanor that characterized him in the first season – but he’s even more keen to impress as a Night Agent because his first interaction with Catherine made it clear that she thought he’d be useless. He doesn’t know she has a history with his father, but we do, so there’s a spiteful quality to this exchange that I’m sure will come up again later.
As far as the mission is concerned, Night Action was brought in to investigate Warren, who is suspected of leaking information from the CIA station in Bangkok, because the agency’s internal investigation turned up nothing. Does that imply Warren was very good at leaking secrets or that the CIA itself was covering its own back? Based on later revelations, it could be the latter.
Picking Up Where We Left Off
The bulk of The Night Agent Season 2, Episode 2 finds Peter and Rose on the trail of Warren in New York. After escaping from the alleyways where they were suddenly reunited at the end of the premiere, they take shelter in Peter’s apartment while they both fill each other in on their respective last few months.
Because they were just attacked by the same agents from Thailand, and Night Action’s mission and extraction point was compromised, Peter doesn’t know who he can trust. He can only go to the president with concrete proof, which means he needs to get Warren. Rose, in turn, explains how and why she tracked Peter down following the mysterious phone call she received.
Side note: It’s looking pretty obvious that whoever called Rose suspected she’d lead them to Peter, so I doubt it was an ally making that call.
While Peter sleeps, Rose uses AdVerse – it turns out she’s just an employee in the company, despite having written most of the code – to try and find Warren. Since he had fake passports created for himself and Ethan, it seems likely he plans to snatch him, and it’s Peter’s rudimentary surveillance on the townhouse that gives them their next lead – Ethan’s basketball tournament, where Peter reckons Warren might try to snatch him.
Peter’s right. Warren shows up and tries to abscond with Ethan, beating up his stepfather, Frank, when he tries to intervene. Peter and Rose show up moments later, and the latter uses AdVerse to pull up locations that Warren has visited recently. One of them Ethan’s mother, Patricia, recognizes, somewhere in Long Island close to a private airfield. Of course, Warren’s a pilot.
Arienne Mandi as Noor in episode 202 of The Night Agent. Cr. Christopher Saunders/Netflix © 2024
Foxglove
Peter and Rose show up at the airfield and apprehend Warren after a bit of a fight (it’s hilarious how Peter takes a licking in every exchange but never seems to wear any damage on his face.) Ethan’s understandably confused, and Rose is a little worried about Peter losing himself by taking Warren away in his creepy serial killer van full of zip ties and power tools. But national security is at stake!
Peter and Rose part ways – he’s unusually happy to let her travel alone by public transport, and she’s definitely being followed – so that Peter can whisk Warren off to be interrogated. And despite outward appearances, he doesn’t intend to torture him. Instead, he relates to his predicament, having been through something similar with his father. Peter promises to give Ethan a fair account of his father if he spills the beans, which is more than the FBI will do, so Warren talks.
Warren was selling a single file in Bangkok to a man named Arthur, which was obviously an alias, and he suspects the guy was also a middleman rather than the true buyer. The file pertained to the early stages of development of a covert, now apparently shuttered CIA program called Foxglove. And this must be more important than he realizes since he’s immediately sniped through the window when he mentions it.
Warren’s phone starts to ring, and Peter scurries across the floor to retrieve it so he can answer the call, which is technically where The Night Agent Season 2, Episode 2 ends. But we have one more thing to discuss.
A Different Point of View
“Disconnected” introduces a new character, Noor, an aide in an Iranian diplomatic delegation who is giving information to the CIA in exchange for asylum for her and her family. She only has a week to get her brother out of Iran for reasons we’re not privy to yet, but she’s obviously willing to turn on the ambassador she’s working under to make that happen, even if her CIA contact isn’t thrilled with the copied files on Iran’s drone program she takes from the office.
But Noor might have another lead. Whispers around the mission suggest that the ambassador has been having secret meetings with an American intelligence agent. This tip-off is passed up the chain, and it seems valid enough that Directors Gedney and Mosley, of the FBI and CIA, call Catherine to tell her it might be connected to Warren Stocker. And they want Night Action to investigate it.
Noor is no doubt going to need to acquire proof of these meetings, which is easier said than done, especially since the mission’s head of security, Javad Rahmani, has taken a shine to her. Noor seems to be understandably attracted to Javad, but he’s going to get in the way of her efforts with his relentless attempts to date her. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict Noor’s got a tough season ahead.
RELATED:
