Summary of ‘The Night Agent’, Season 2, Section 6

The night agent

A good agent

Season 2

Section 6

Editor’s assessment

3 stars

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Photo: Netflix

Conspiracy Thrillers like The night agent can be intricate over time as more and more characters from different places and organizations come into conflict. For the most part, this particular series manages to overcome it; The plot can be messy and ridiculous, but on stage-for-scene base it is usually easy enough to understand what’s going on. With momentum and revelations from the last two sections, I have felt that we have begun to control the larger story and understand the efforts of each of the characters here.

“A Good Agent” is not a bad episode at all, but it has less of the satisfactory clarity that once again muddy the water and complicates what once seemed simple. It begins early when Peter and Catherine finally have access to pictures of the documents from the ambassador’s briefcase, just to realize that they have nothing to do with Foxglove. At least there is no obvious context. It is a list of Iranian dissidents in Europe, the type of information that does not have as much interest in the United States as it does for Iran.

What is the nature of the relationship between the ambassador and Jakob? Peter speculates that Jacob and Solomon are foreign assets on the Iranian payroll that provides the regime with chemical weapons and potential targets. Either way, there’s no way to learn more without making direct contact with Solomon. So Catherine leaves to do some risky spy work.

The files from the folder came from DGSE, France’s foreign intelligence service, and like many color prints contain the tracking points unique to the device that printed them. Catherine quickly uses this watermark and some surveillance images to identify the leak as a French diplomat and undercover DGSE agent Jacqueline Laurent, who knows Solomon well and can help score a meeting. Jacqueline sets it up even though the alarm bells go early for Jacob.

Rose spends much of this episode in a gnawing mood, frustrated with Peter and Catherine over how they have handled the Noor situation (more on it later) and depressed of her own participation. But a serious visit from Catherine brings the two closer together, especially after she read her into Foxglove (of course with advance approval from Mosley). It is also useful to get some background about what was going on with Catherine and the other Night Action Case Throughout Through Season 1: They got dark after the killing of Jamie Hawkins as well as Roses Uncle and Aunt without knowing who to trust.

Rose agrees to exploit his evil algorithm and help Peter with surveillance, while Catherine and Jacqueline meet Solomon in the designated apartment. But none of them can see Inside The place, and praises extra eyes around the block, are unable to keep track of Solomon’s other comrades in every moment. After a few minutes of communication over communication, Rose realizes that the friends have to listen in some way and expect them to show up. This means that Catherine is also in danger.

It is quite easy to throw away the comrades by falsifying a dialogue about the communications about boarding a bus nearby – but not until Peter makes anything impressive (and then not) sneaking work where he scales the side of a building To evade one of Solomon’s men until an AC device crashes to the ground and announces its presence.

Jacqueline, an interesting single character à la Lorna from Season 1, is a diplomat that was forced out of fieldwork because of her age until she won the agency’s respect back by securing some much sought -after intelligence. The only wrinkle? She got that information by switching away another part of DGSE information. It is an interesting twist on the expected story; One would think that Jacqueline was selling secrets to get back to her discriminatory employers but she actually did it because she loves her job also very. She’s like Catherine that way.

Jacqueline’s long -standing professional relationship with Solomon is almost sweet to witness until it suddenly isn’t. In all these years this is the first time one source has referred him to another, and he does not buy Catherine’s story at all. So he takes Jacqueline to another room and shoots her to death, and then asks Catherine with weapons about Peter and Night Action. It is when Peter comes in, perfectly timed, to suppress Solomon and secure the meeting they really need.

It’s all good, but I still feel most attracted to Noor, whose history has the greatest emotional effort right now. Early in the episode, she senses the clear expression of Rose that Peter and Catherine hides something from her, but Rose lies straight up the face to make her hand over the flash drive. She just says Farhad “broke his arm” and that Peter and Catherine were afraid to tell her.

However, Noor finds out the truth soon. Abbas has heard of the unrest in her home that left her mother missing and her brother’s death on the road near her home. He even shows her a picture of Farhad, and she responds with denial, convinced that it can’t be true to night action lied to her. She is, of course, really despairing and I can’t tell what Javad’s reaction indicates. He has been on her all the episode, taken her phone to run scans and question her bathroom story, but maybe he will convince him to go even easier to her than he has been to see what she’s going through. In this episode we again see the threatening, threatening side of Javad, and it complicates his early characterization as a sweet, simple guy who would be the ideal romantic partner.

What can Noor really do now that she has already sacrificed flash -driven and abandoned her influence with Night Action? I’m excited and scared to find out. Although she has not personally injured anyone herself, she feels as one of the most dangerous and most unpredictable characters in this role, but also one of the most endearing. Oddly enough, I also start to love Tomás, whose recent trip to the cold -blooded feels like a transparent trick for his war criminal affair’s devotion. (Men will literally green light for a terrorist attack on American soil instead of going into therapy.)

I still have questions about the complex relations between these three pairs of dangerous men (Abbas/Javad, Jacob/Solomon and Tomás/Markus), and I am impatient to find out how exactly the two slightly seen but very noticed- When presidential candidates bind into everything. But I can feel that everything is starting to hang together now. Here is to hope that the convergence lives up to expectations.

• Peter’s father gets a publicity in the opening flashback to 13 years ago when Catherine’s Night Action partner Noah was killed. During a surprising performance from Jamie Hawkins (Robert Patrick, last seen in episode two of the show), we are told that Peter Sr. Was the FBI mole identified by Noah’s killer.

• Rose has a much needed therapy session with Gretchen, which opens up on Peter in as vague terms as possible. Gretchen’s conclusion after about a minute’s speech with Rose is that she and Peter were linked to common trauma, and these types of compounds are not always healthy or permanent. “You have to ask yourself if you will still feel the same way when the smoke disappears.”

• In Solomon’s recent meeting with Abbas and Javad, he sticks to his code and refuses to identify the source of the list he gave them. He doesn’t even help them when they show pictures of Peter and Rose, so it’s pretty interesting.

• As you might have expected before you met Tomás ‘father, he is impressed with Markus’ work ethic, not disappointed. Tomás is the real disappointment, a person who liked to claim ornaments as trophies after his father’s hunt as a child, even though he did not attend. “All the glory, none of the blood,” notes his father. Logan Roy Vibes.

• Javad has a lot to say to Noor about Abbas’ divorced daughter Shirin, who never came home after falling in love abroad and then put his father’s career back by publicly criticizing Iran. This is the second time we hear about her; Is she an important part of this story, perhaps to explain ABBAS’s motives somehow?