Night Agent Season 1 Summary

This is important as it is the premise of the entire series! Night Action is a secret US counterintelligence program within the FBI

While most of the program’s agents do covert investigative work around the globe, Night Action also requires a White House-based phone operative to sit in a windowless room next to an old-school landline, waiting to answer any emergency calls from the field. As one government official explains, “It rarely rings.”

How did Peter become a night agent?

Season 1 begins with a literal bang. As a low-level FBI agent, Peter breaks into a DC Metro train and sees a hooded figure drop a suspicious bag next to a seat before exiting the train car. Discovering a bomb inside the bag, Peter pulls the emergency brake and forces the passengers to evacuate, severely limiting the explosion’s blast radius and saving countless lives. But his heroism is not appreciated by all. After Peter fails to understand the terrorist, it is not long before conspiracy theorists suspect that he planned and prevented the attack for his own personal gain.

A year later, Peter has been reassigned to night duty as a telephone operator in the White House basement, reporting to the president’s chief of staff Diane Farr (Hong Chau). The role takes the heat off Peter’s name, but promises to be a boring job. That is, until he unexpectedly gets a call from Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan)a former CYbersecurity CEO who is in danger after witnessing two assassins murder her aunt and uncle who she just learned were government operatives. Instructed to call Night Action in an emergency, Rose connects Rose with Peter, who sends the police over and helps her hide from the people who killed her relatives. When it’s ready, the pair team up and try to uncover a large-scale conspiracy while being pursued by the same relentless assassins.

Ultimately, what was season 1’s plot point?

Let’s break this down quickly. Peter and Rose learn that her aunt and uncle’s deaths are actually part of a larger plot to cover up a murder. It turns out that the Metro bombing was orchestrated by Vice President Ashley Redfeld (Christopher Shyer) and his shady contractor Gordon Wick (Ben Cotton), who believed that a broad attack would kill Omar Zadar (Adam Tsekhman), a controversial foreign leader Redfield Don’t trust unless it turned out to be a targeted kill. After Peter’s unforeseen heroics, Wick hired the killers to clean up loose ends (including Peter and Rose, who eventually discover the vice president’s intentions) and began planning another attack.

This time, he and Redfield plan to bomb Camp David, where President Michelle Travers (Kari Matchett) has set up a meeting with Zadar. When Peter and Rose escape being killed, they learn that Farr had been working with Redfield and Wick all along to cover up the subway bombing. It’s a massive betrayal for Peter, but Farr promises she had no idea Redfield intended to make Travers collateral damage and promises to prevent another mass casualty. With her help, Peter and Rose infiltrate and evacuate Camp David before the compound detonates. In a tense final scene, Peter then grabs the President (and holds her at gunpoint, which looks like something a maniac would do, but was actually his only option), preventing her from boarding the Marine, who had been timed to explode on her airlift.

How did season 1 end?

Pretty good! As a reward for personally saving his life, President Travers offers Peter the opportunity to be a night-action field agent, which requires him to travel and be stationed internationally. It’s a bittersweet proposition considering he developed romantic feelings for Rose through their trauma-filled attempt to avoid death. But that’s not the only thing that Travers gives Peter.

Throughout his life, Peter has struggled to reconcile the widespread belief that his father, a former FBI adversary section chief, betrayed his country. Although leaked classified documents threatening national security were traced back to him, Peter’s father ultimately died in a car accident before he could be convicted. As a result, Peter has always believed in his father’s innocence – until Travers gives him access to his father’s undisclosed case files, which prove that he was indeed guilty of treason.

Travers still explains that his father had good reason to plead guilty: He had agreed to be a double agent. However, when his cover was blown, a foreign agent took his own life. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but Peter now knows the truth about his disgraced father.

What comes next? How is season 2 created?

With his name cleared, Peter accepts Travers’ offer, gives Rose an emotional goodbye on an airfield tarmac, Jets off to his next hidden destination and learns of his new mission. While Season 2 will undoubtedly put Peter at the center of another mass conspiracy, he will have to contend with his past experiences and lessons. There are also plenty of questions to answer.

Who can he still trust? Will Diane Farr pay for her crimes? Are the government sources closest to him compromised? Was there more to his father’s work as a double agent? And most importantly is there still a future with Rose? Keep an eye out.