‘The Night Agent’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap – I Know Who Gave That Order

Oh, blimey. All sorts is going on in Episode 8 of The Night Agent Season 3. We’re close to the end now, obviously, and that has given “Truth Be Told” carte blanche to push its various storylines to more dramatic junctures. The biggest one involves the Broker, needless to say, but there are also big developments for Chelsea and Peter, the latter of whom is confronted by his worst nightmare – having to talk openly about himself.

To be honest, I think I have most of what’s going on figured out by now, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few more surprises in store, or that there won’t still be some cool stuff to enjoy in the meantime. But there’s plenty to unpack here anyway, so let’s just get on with that for the time being.

Jenny Deliberately Got Brian Killed

Thanks to the opening flashback, we now know for certain that Jenny Hagan deliberately got Brian Mott killed. We also have a good idea of why.

Brian had been paid off by Jacob to take photographs of the president’s daily briefings in exchange for his kid’s cancer treatment being covered. Jenny was complicit; however, she was having second thoughts. Brian wanted to keep going. He got a little forceful. When Jenny spied her opportunity – hearing Chelsea outside – she took it, claiming Brian had a gun, knowing that Chelsea would take him down.

This also explains why Jenny was hiding the phone, and why she claims to Patterson that Chelsea took it from the scene, which gets her suspended. I also believe this is only the second-worst thing that Jenny does in this episode, but we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.

Freya’s Motive

Jacob finally explains to Isabel what Freya’s motive in all this is, since that hasn’t been clarified yet, and Freya has only been in, like, two scenes. But essentially, she’s in charge of all of Raul Zapata’s complex banking arrangements. On paper, she’s just a pencil pusher, which is the point. Behind the scenes, she’s the string-puller, which is why she hired the Father to kill Isabel and prevent her from publishing the story that’ll draw too much attention to her activities.

Jacob has evidence that’ll prove Freya’s complicity in his operation, but it’s locked away in a cloud database that can only be decrypted with the rare misprint of Grimm’s Fairytales.

Peter Opens Up

Arguably, the best scenes in The Night Agent Season 3, Episode 8 are shared between Peter and the Father, who is interrogating him with the help of an IV full of truth serum. This works for two reasons. One is that the Father is genuinely intimidating in his manner, and the second is that we know this is Peter’s worst nightmare. He’s having to open up about himself and his past.

I loved the way the Father coached Peter through his admissions, tricking him into revealing more and more. It’s a smartly written scene that convinces us the Father has done this plenty of times before, and also allows Peter to unburden himself of his deepest, most unresolved traumas. It almost becomes a therapy session after a while. Torture is often badly mishandled in film and TV, but this is very unique and memorable.

It’s also something of a payoff to the relationship that has been building between the Father and the Son. The latter has stowed away in the interrogation and starts speaking to Peter when he gets a moment. Peter convinces him that he’s his dad’s partner, and this is all just a training exercise, leveraging the Father’s obvious love for the kid to facilitate his escape. These two part with a soft guarantee that they’ve seen the last of each other, but something tells me that probably won’t be the case.

Adam Follows Orders

While all this is going on, Adam continues to babysit Jacob, taking him to see Hutson in the hope of uncovering more information that might reveal where Zapata is hiding and what his next target might be. This yields some leads – he’s working with a New Jersey shipping company, and will be in one of only three locations.

Jacob tries to sway Adam with a tempting offer, and it seems like he takes it, but not quite. Adam gets a call from someone, and shortly after, he coldly executes Jacob, claiming to be following orders. I think there’s a better than even chance that it was Jenny Hagan, or the President on Jenny’s behalf, who gave the order to kill Jacob to cover up Jenny’s involvement with him. Who else would Adam take orders from so unflinchingly?

Either way, Peter probably isn’t going to be thrilled by this development. And given how necessary Jacob’s intel might have been in stopping Zapata and exposing Freya, his death could easily do more harm than good. We’ll see in the final two episodes.