Like season 1, the sophomore season of The Night Agent also ends on a strong cliffhanger that paves the way for a new story and mission for Night Agent Peter Sutherland (played by Gabriel Basso). So is The Night Agent season 3 in the works? Here’s everything we know so far.
The Night Agent season 2 was released on 23 January on Netflix. This season showed Peter, his handler Catherine Weaver (played by Amanda Warren) and Rose Larkin (played by Luciane Buchanan) go after a dangerous international terror cell planning a massive attack that can kill thousands across New York City. As he digs deeper into the deadly conspiracy involving some of the top officials in the US government, The Night Agent season 2 ending shows Peter facing the terror threat with far-reaching global consequences — one that can potentially make him the villain.
The ending raises several questions: What happens to Rose? Does Peter fall prey to what he has been fighting? What does his future hold?
All these naturally bring us to the main burning question — Is The Night Agent coming back for season 3 to answer our burning questions?
Here’s all the intel we have about The Night Agent season 3
Is The Night Agent season 3 announced?
Three months before the second season’s arrival, Netflix officially renewed The Night Agent for a third season in October 2024. Speaking to Netflix Tudum on 23 January, showrunner Shawn Ryan said, “We’re so excited that our fans will get to watch Season 2 of The Night Agent in early 2025, and we’ve been hard at work writing Season 3 to deliver more breathless Peter Sutherland Night Action adventures to our rabid audience.”
Based on Matthew Quirk’s novel, The Night Agent has become a global hit for the OTT juggernaut, dominating Netflix’s US charts. Hence, it’s not a surprise that despite season 2 production being derailed due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Netflix greenlit new episodes of the espionage thriller giving viewers a hint about Peter Sutherland coming back for a new mission.
Is there a release date for The Night Agent season 3?
Netflix hasn’t announced a release date yet. However, although there was a two-year gap between the first two seasons, the third season won’t be too long.
In October 2024, Deadline reported, “Fans won’t have to wait that long for Season 3 — like streamers typically do with their strongest performers, Netflix clearly had commissioned a writers room to work on the new instalment.”
Although production details are under wraps, speaking to ExtraTV in January 2025, Gabriel Basso revealed that filming of the first episode of The Night Agent season 3 wrapped up in Istanbul and that “we’re off to a crazy start”. Deadline also stated that a filming schedule is slated to take place in New York in 2025 as well.
Cast members and crew of The Night Agent season 3
While Basso will continue to lead The Night Agent season 3, he will be joined by several new cast members — David Lyons, Jennifer Morrison, Stephen Moyer, Genesis Rodriguez and Callum Vinson. Life of Pi star Suraj Sharma also joins the drama in a recurring role.
Ryan helms the third season as creator, showrunner and executive producer with MiddKid Productions. Marney Hochman, Seth Gordon, Julia Gunn, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, Nicole Tossou, Munis Rashid, Paul Bernard, Guy Ferland and Seth Fisher are on board as executive producers as well.
What can we expect in The Night Agent season 3?
While we don’t have a plot line yet for the third season, the season 2 ending gives the perfect launch pad for the ensuing instalment to lift off.
In the second season, Peter Sutherland takes on a role on the other side of the phone in the White House basement. He begins working as an official night agent with the night action force.
After infiltrating the United Nations and delivering a file from the Secretary General’s office to intelligence broker Jacob Monroe (played by Louis Herthum), Peter decides to turn himself in. Jacob struck a deal with him to reveal the details of Foxglove and where the terrorists had abducted Rose if Peter gave him the file.
Once the air settles down after the climax showdown, the last episode of season 2 shows Peter Sutherland locked up. Catherine visits him and takes him on a walk to the White House. She informs him that the file he handed over to Jacob linked Presidential candidate Patrick Knox to the Foxglove scandal, following which he was compelled to withdraw from the presidential election race. This implies that the other candidate, Hagan, becomes a puppet President, while Jacob Monroe and other such brokers wield burgeoning power.
Catherine tells Peter that she is sure Monroe will contact him in the future to use him. To gauge the exact nature of Jacob and Hagan’s relationship and the depth of his nexus, Catherine wants Peter to become a double agent.
This indicates that season 3 will have a lot more espionage but things could still turn explosive.
Watch both seasons of The Night Agent on Netflix
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