The Natagent: Breaks down the end of season 2

WARNING: This post contains spoilers to The night agent Season 2.

When The night agent It was a premiere on Netflix in 2023, it didn’t take long to find an audience. The undercover spy thriller, based on the named Matthew Quirk novel, was the most viewed series on the streamer in the first half of the year. And for good reason. The 10-episodes series mixed engaging protagonists, exciting action set pieces and just enough twists to have you on the edge of your seat without leaning back in full disbelief. Not necessarily prestige and not exactly a pulpy paperback, it stretched comfortably in between.

The first season set a high narrative bar (it’s hard to top a government conspiracy that leads all the way to the White House and ends with our fully saving president and deeper. This time candidates from Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) from the desk to the field (He starts in Bangkok and then Jets to New York), while his tech-whhiz sidekick and love interest rose Larkin (Lucianne Buchanon) recreates with him and tries to decipher the consequences and seize ethics for their high risk, hidden operations and subsequent trauma.

In the Season 2 final “Buyer’s Anger”, Peter and Rose ultimately prevent Midtown Manhattan -chemical disaster they have run to prevent, but there is much more to break down and unpack when the dust settles and the yellow ties have been fooled. With Netflix, who has already confirmed a third season of the show, here are things and what burning questions this season leaves us and asks.

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Peter and Rose’s chemistry saves the day, literally

The night agent. (L to r) Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin, Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in section 110 by Night Agent. Cr. Dan Power/Netflix © 2023
Buchanan like Rose, Basso as Sutherland, which embraces in section 110 of The night agent. With the permission of Netflix

Throughout most of the show’s second season, Peter and Rose spend time investigating, committing side tasks and escaping tight jams to understand and uncover a closed government’s chemical weapons project called “Foxglove.” The classified information (which contains all the chemical compounds needed for him a special file within the UN, Monroe will give him the terrorist’s whereabouts – led by a man named Markus (Michael Malarkey) – which plans to loosen the murder broker throughout Manhattan.

The police bombing and the FBI grabs or kills most of the terrorists and catches 14 cans of the chemical weapon attached to the UN building’s air openings, but Markus escapes and puts the last can inside the HVAC system in a nearby hotel. After Peter and Rose shoots and kills Markus inside a hotel room, they crawl to evacuate everyone from the building before a trip thread releases the deadly gas. What is their next move? Start a fire inside the HVAC system, which automatically closes all openings and prevents KX from spreading. With a few minutes left, Rose Sulfuric Acid and Ethanol grabs a cleaning car and sees it slowly burning, which triggers enough flames to close the ventilation openings, just as KX starts to diffuse.

It is another win at the last second, which ends with an embrace between Peter and Rose. It also leads to a sober conversation. Like the speech that a superhero gives their significant other, Peter explains to Rose that he cannot continue to put her in life -threatening situations every time they are together. “I need you to promise me something. As long as I’m a Natagent, people will try to use you to come to me, ”Peter tells her. “As long as you come after me, you’re in danger. Promise me that you are not waiting for me to call. You hear, I have trouble, you’re not going to look for me. Just forget me. “

Then Peter turns in to his FBI dealer, Catherine (Amanda Warren), who handcuffs him to his SUV. Despite saving thousands of lives, Night Agent had released one of Monroe’s restrained assassins to meet with him. In a vacuum it is a treacherous act. But Peter knows it helped save another mass accident.

Did Peter help influence the next presidential election?

The night agent. (L to r) Arienne Mandi as Noor, Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland, Marwan Kenzari as Sami Saidi in section 205 of the Natagent. Cr. Christopher Saunders/Netflix © 2024
Arienne Mandi as Noor, Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland, Marwan Kenzari as Sami Saidi in section 205With the permission of Netflix

This is how Catherine sees it and it’s hard to blame her. In the course of file from the archives. What was inside? We will soon find out that it contained criminal evidence against President Hope Patrick Knox, who led the FoxGlove project and monitored his sales to Viktor Bala (Dikran Tulaine), the dictatorial leader who admitted Markus to build and loosen it on American soil .

Thanks to Peter, Monroe was able to deliver that file to Knox’s opponent, Governor Hagan. With the implicative information, it is not long before this “October surprise” forces Knox to withdraw from the presidential race, all of securing Hagan the White House. Why does that mean something to Monroe? As suggested throughout the season, Hagan plans to adopt an isolationist foreign policy from the oval office, which means that the price of information and intelligence will Skyrocket. It is an ideal situation for Monroe, who now has the president in his hip pocket, who now suggests, as Catherine fears, “that every piece of classified intelligence crossing resolute desk is for sale to the highest bidder.”

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Season 3 requires Peter to become a double agent

The night agent. (L to r) Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin, Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in section 204 by Night Agent. Cr. Christopher Saunders/Netflix © 2024
Buchanan and Basso in section 204 of The night agentWith the permission of Netflix

At the end of the final, Catherine explains to Peter how he helped and emerged the swing in an election – but that doesn’t mean he wants to spend life in a cell. As it says, Monroe thinks he has Peter on his Beck and Call (Monroe even gave him a personal phone to answer his call) to make sure information comes in the right hands. Instead of burning their deal, Catherine explains that Peter will continue the relationship as a FBI double agent, just like his disgraceful father.

“We need you to determine the exact nature of their relationship,” Catherine says him. “He still thinks he owns you, so we let him. There comes a day when he encourages you to an advantage or to give orders, and when he does, I want you to do exactly as he prays. Get his confidence, then we cover each snake on his payroll and then postpone him. “” You already know I’m in, “says Peter.
Like the end of Season 1, Peter has renewed the purpose and another challenging job ahead of him. But will praise get involved a third time, especially after he explicitly asked her not to wait for her phone call? From now on, she has returned to California, busy with a working promotion, in therapy twice a week, with no idea what Peter has made up for. Unless The night agent Plans to completely turn its formula in Season 3, it’s hard to believe that they won’t find each other again and prevent more mass terror together.