Summary
Episode 3 gives The Night Agent Season 2 a little more shape, as well as introducing a potential new villain with mysterious motives.
Episode 3 of The Night Agent Season 2 feels like a table-setting installment, an hour dedicated to putting all the right pieces in position and getting the key characters on equal footing so that we can start to push through the rest of the narrative. “Government Property” is the point where the concurrent plot threads start to intertwine, and we’re developing a clearer picture of what’s going on, although some brief scenes here introduce a new player whose identity and motives are thus far mysterious.
The bulk of this episode belongs to Rose and Peter’s investigation into the man Warren Stocker identified as “Arthur”, so it makes sense to deal with everything else first and then circle back so we can see how it all comes together.
Noor Takes Things to the Next Level
Time is running out for Noor. She’s on the clock to secure a deal that’ll get her brother, Farhad, out of Iran, and lightly asking Haleh about Abbas’s schedule isn’t going to cut it. So, she needs to take matters into her own hands.
Side note: I really like that the Iranian characters communicate with each other exclusively in subtitled Farsi. It feels much more natural than using accented English for everything.
Noor plants a tracker on Abbas’s suit coat so that she can tail him to his secret meeting. She watches from across the street as the man we know as “Arthur” goes in carrying a briefcase that Abbas leaves with. She takes photos of the exchange and sends them to her CIA contact, who still isn’t happy. Since she’s desperate, she offers to find out what’s in the briefcase, but while the CIA guy advises against it, he doesn’t do a great deal to talk her out of it.
An Unexpected Hijacking
“Government Property” introduces a potential new villain in the form of Tomas, whom we know very little about at the moment except he’s dating a very posh English woman named Sloane and his father is a war criminal imprisoned in the Hague awaiting sentencing.
We meet Tomas trying to petition a political functionary named Elliot to get the Foreign Secretary involved in his father’s case, which Elliot refuses to do, in no uncertain terms. It’s unclear how Tomas is connected to anything until later, when we see a truck full of what we can assume are chemical weapons developed through the Foxglove program, is hijacked by his cousin, Markus.
Because Markus’s compatriot, Elek, uses his name, they’re forced to murder the truck drivers, which wasn’t part of the initial plan. Neither, apparently, was seizing the whole truck. But either way, they’ve got it.
(L to R) Elise Kibler as Sloane, Rob Heaps as Tomas Bala in episode 203 of The Night Agent. Cr. Christopher Saunders/Netflix © 2024
Peter and Rose Are Reunited Again
The man calling Peter at the end of the previous episode turns out to be the mysterious bearded buyer from Bangkok, who also called Rose in the premiere to trick her into tracking Peter down. So, my theory was correct there, at least.
The buyer wants Peter dead because he can ID him, and he’s willing to kill Rose to strongarm him, so The Night Agent Season 2, Episode 3 opens with two simultaneous chases as Peter and Rose both try to get away from their respective attackers. Since Peter is guiding Rose through the ordeal on the phone, it’s a nice throwback to their initial conversation in Season 1.
Peter is able to get away and Rose is rescued by Catherine, who takes a picture of her assailant – the guy we know as Arthur. Catherine agrees to take Rose back to Peter and then lets them go to look into the buyer, with some cash and her car. Peter doesn’t tell her anything about Foxglove at this juncture, since he still isn’t sure he can trust her.
Peter and Rose are still a little tentative around each other, and I like that Catherine constantly pushing the angle of him being off the deep end underscores these sequences. When Peter opens up to Rose about his nightmares about Alice’s death, is he giving too much away? Might Catherine use his trauma against him later? This is all becoming a very prevalent theme.
Arthur Is Really Solomon Vega
Using the picture Catherine took of “Arthur”, Rose uses AdVerse to search for him. They turn up an obituary of a former Marine named Solomon Vega, who is clearly the same guy. He’s survived by his sister, Celeste, whom Peter and Rose go to see after Artoun realizes Rose has been messing with the source code and restricts her access to AdVerse.
Celeste is in a wheelchair and has a good boy named Wrigley, all, apparently, paid for by Solomon’s VA benefits. But Peter is skeptical of this and so steals a bank statement that reveals she receives regular payments from a company called KinCare Trust. It’s time to follow the money.
In the meantime, Catherine wants another meet. This time Peter tells her about Foxglove and plays the recording of Warren’s final words. He pushes Catherine about Bangkok and the security of Night Action, but she’s adamant that there isn’t a leak and that he or Alice must have made a mistake. They’re on relatively even footing, for now. Despite Catherine offering her a Secret Service protection detail, Rose wants to stay with Peter, and Catherine allows it on the assumption that her access to AdVerse might prove useful. Nobody tells her she no longer has access to Adverse.
Oh, and the image search for Solomon turned up a match from the CIA’s new “asset” – the pictures Noor took. Since Night Action is taking over her case, Peter is going to meet her.
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