Summary
The Night Agent Season 3 turns up the action in “Orion”, with Peter and Isabel trapped in a swanky hunting lodge in the sights of multiple villains.
Things are heating up in The Night Agent Season 3, even though Episode 4 has the coldest setting yet. A swanky hunting lodge in the wintry forests of Upstate New York provides the venue for some proper mortal peril, with the enigmatic “The Father” — that’s the officially credited name of the homeschooling assassin — catching up with Peter and Isabel. But closer to death doesn’t mean closer to answers, so there’s still a good amount left to unravel here in the remaining episodes.
But we’re getting somewhere, and that’s what counts, even if it isn’t good news for Peter’s bodily function. Something tells me the concussion he suffers here will be the least of his injuries throughout the season.
White House Mysteries
Picking up from where we left off, there’s something a bit amiss going on in the White House. Why would a long-time, innocuous janitor, married with children, attempt to kill the First Lady? And why did FLOTUS wait for almost ten minutes before sounding the alarm? Why did she pocket his phone in the aftermath, and why doesn’t she want to talk about it?
More to the point for Chelsea, why is her fiancé — who I think is the press secretary — reading out a statement with several deliberate factual errors, that names her in person for her heroism, despite the fact that outing agents is against protocol? Thus far, we don’t have the answers to any of these questions, but Jenny is immediately more suspicious than her husband.
These scenes are also threaded with a bit of backstory for Chelsea and Theo’s meet-cute, and they crack a small window into their home life, but let me just get ahead of the curve here by saying that I really don’t think these two are going to last.
New Partners
Meanwhile, Peter isn’t thrilled about having a new partner. Adam, or “Harvestman”, seems legit, but it’s weird that Hagan sent him without any communication. For now, Peter keeps him out of the way by tasking him with finding a connection between the shell companies that funded the crypto wallet, but he shows up again towards the end in the nick of time.
Peter is also continuing to work with Isabel in an effort to get access to Senator Lansing. By threatening to publish a story linking him to Mike’s death in Episode 2, she’s able to get an exclusive invite to the swanky Barrow Lodge, a hunting retreat Upstate. Peter follows along, posing as someone applying for a job, and hilariously, once Isabel dresses him up in slightly smarter attire, he’s able to walk around the place totally unmolested.
This doubles as a bonding exercise, obviously. Isabel sharks Peter by pretending to be rubbish at pool; he agrees to answer one of her personal questions every time she makes a shot, and she clears up with little issue. But we know Peter’s backstory. More interesting is Isabel’s. She at least reveals where her aversion to money comes from — her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was young, bought his way back into her life by paying for her education. And she let him, which has clearly never sat quite right.
A Camping Trip
“The Father” and his son are out camping in The Night Agent Season 3, Episode 4, which I need to mention now since it’s important. As usual, the Father is dressing up the whole excursion as a learning opportunity, with lots of quizzing about constellations and woodland life, but he obviously has ulterior motives.
It’s a weird character, this. Sometimes he genuinely does seem like a decent, caring dad, but then it turns out he has a rifle in the trunk and is happy to leave the kid alone for a couple of hours so he can go off and murder someone. You could probably have predicted it, but it isn’t until the kid follows a deer through a fence with a clear “No Trespassing” sign that we realise they’re very close to the vicinity of Barrow Lodge.
Shots Fired
Lansing is trying to throw Isabel off the scent, but he stiffens up when she points out that the main donor of his super PAC is being linked to the downing of Flight Pima 12. He’s in communication with someone, though we don’t know who for certain, and he’s also obviously desperate. He calls Isabel the night after their dinner, tells her he “can’t do it anymore”, and then asks to meet her the next morning.
This meeting turns into a walk in the woods that has a frisson of danger to it since Lansing is armed with his hunting rifle. And he does indeed raise it in Isabel’s direction when she refuses to take the rather limp deal he offers her. Luckily, Peter arrives in the nick of time to intervene, but unluckily, the Father shoots Lansing dead from distance and rounds on Peter and Isabel. They attempt to flee, but the brakes in Peter’s car have been cut, causing a crash that gives him a nasty bump on the head.
Peter, despite his injury, manages to lead the Father away from Isabel, but he loses consciousness just as the assassin rounds on him. However, Adam shows up out of nowhere and puts a bullet in the Father, saving Peter’s life. That’s one way to kick off a new partnership. But that doesn’t mean we can trust him just yet.
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