SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Season 2 of Netflix’s The Night Agent. Season 1 of The Night Agent had a clear blueprint, Matthew Quirk’s novel, on which creator Shawn Ryan based the series.
With an open-ended Season 1 finale and no source material for Season 2, Ryan and his writers had a creative license to take the character of newly minted Night Agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) anywhere they wanted.
They opted to put him through the wringer as Peter rushed to prevent a terrorist attack on New York City while trying to keep Rose alive and searching for a mole within Night Action who may have caused the death of his partner in Bangkok.
To accomplish these goals, Peter had to bend his principles, including lying to Noor, an idealistic young staffer at the Iranian UN mission, about the fate of her brother and allying with a shady businessman, Jacob Monroe.
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