Two years after Shawn Ryan’s “The Night time Agent” exploded on Netflix, the action-thriller starring Gabriel Basso returns on January 23. Season 1 viewers will recall that Basso performs FBI agent Peter Sutherland, tasked with answering a mysterious telephone within the White Home basement that by no means rings — till it does.
The decision from Rose (Luciane Buchanon) modifications Peter’s life in additional methods than one, catapulting each of them right into a life-and-death chase the place they lose allies each day and might’t even be certain who’s after them. Every thing Peter thought he knew about his job, his employers, and the FBI itself is known as into query, and someplace in all of the high-octane insanity, he and Rose fall in love.
Forward of the Season 2 premiere, Netflix launched the primary eight minutes as a teaser, in addition to the information that Season 3 is formally a go. However earlier than diving into all that, let’s refresh ourselves on every little thing to recollect from “The Night time Agent” Season 1.
The Previous
The chilly open of “The Night time Agent” Season 1 takes place a yr earlier than the remainder of it. Peter boards a prepare within the DC Metro, the place he spots a suspicious hooded determine who drops off a backpack after which exits the prepare automotive. Sensing hazard, Peter runs to the bag and opens it, revealing a bomb. He pulls the prepare’s emergency cease and orders everybody to evacuate, however the wrongdoer escapes. Whereas some rejoice Peter’s heroism, he additionally turns into a goal of suspicion, with conspiracy theorists suggesting that he orchestrated the bombing and thwarted it for his personal glory.
A part of the rationale individuals doubt Peter is as a result of his father additionally labored for the FBI and was part chief of counterintelligence. When labeled paperwork leaked and threatened nationwide safety, the breach was traced again to Mr. Sutherland, however he died earlier than being charged of any crimes. The proof was by no means made public, however his title was, and Peter spent his complete life believing in his father’s innocence however unable to show it. Within the Season 1 finale, President Travers (Kari Matchett) provides Peter entry to the case recordsdata, which reveal that his father was responsible of treason, however not conscious of how sinister his collaborators had been.
The Males Behind the Curtain
Rose calls Peter as a result of individuals assault her aunt and uncle of their dwelling, placing all three of their lives at risk. The police arrive earlier than something occurs to Rose, however her aunt and uncle — two former Night time Brokers — are murdered. The killers then shift their focus Rose and Peter, however each die by season’s finish.
The assassins had been working for Gordon Wick (Ben Cotton), the actual wrongdoer behind the DC Metro bombing together with Vice President Redfield (Christopher Shyer). The person tasked with it was Colin (Andre Anthony), who finally kidnaps Redfield’s daughter Maddie (Sarah Desjardins) to get him to confess to what he did (which incorporates killing Colin’s twin brother as a failed try to punish Colin for not finishing up the bombing). When Maddie overhears her father speaking about issuing pardons, she realizes that he plans to kill President Travers, and collectively along with her Secret Service agent Chelsea (Fola Evans-Akingbola) Peter, and Rose, she helps save the President and the day.
The President isn’t the principle goal, although. Each the occasions of the finale and the metro incident had been meant for Omar Zadar (Adam Tsekhman), a international chief that Redfield and Wick needed out of the best way. They find yourself deciding that their greatest shot to get rid of him is at Camp David with the President. Certain!
Belief No One
For many of Season 1, Peter’s main higher-up contact is White Home Chief of Employees Diane Farr (Hong Chau), who seems to be compromised and dealing with the others. She’s not completely morally bankrupt (when you ask her); when she learns in regards to the plan to assassinate the President, she joins Peter’s staff to cease it, however she’s acquired an extended highway of repenting forward of her. With fingers being pointed after the assassination try (and Wick on the run), Farr is sadly in prime place to be scapegoated for every little thing that transpired.
“Belief nobody” additionally occurs to just about be the theme of Season 2, with the trailer displaying Peter now working as a Night time Agent however suspecting, as soon as once more, that sources he belief has been compromised. He says he trusts nobody, and Rose replies “Besides me, proper?”
The silence says all of it.
“The Night time Agent” Season 2 premieres January 23 on Netflix.