‘The Night Agent’ season three ending explained: How does it conclude?
Just when viewers thought things couldn’t get any more serious with The Night Agent after Peter Sutherland prevented a terrorist attack on the UN in the second season, the third season, currently on Netflix, proved them wrong. In the current instalment, things are far trickier than before, as after agreeing to work with intelligence broker Jacob Monroe to stop the attack on the UN, Peter feels that he must stay busy and useful.
In the season premiere, Peter says to FBI Deputy Director Aiden Mosley, “Now, every time there’s a political assassination, there’s an intelligence leak, terrorists shoot a plane out of the sky, I’ve got to wonder if I’m responsible.” So, with that weight, he thinks the only way to stop Monroe is by staying useful to him so that he eventually calls.
The third season of The Night Agent sees Peter trying to locate classified Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) intelligence to uncover a larger conspiracy involving FinCEN, a terrorist organisation called the LFS, Jacob Monroe, and possibly even the president of the US. Joining him in the mission this season is a reporter for The Financial Register, Isabel De Leon.
But how does The Night Agent season three end? Let’s find out!
How does The Night Agent season three conclude?
The first episode of The Night Agent’s third season comes with the news that just two days ago, the Capitol Police and the FBI were informed of a gunshot at the DC apartment of Jay Batra, a junior analyst at FinCEN. Batra escaped to Istanbul and has since been suspected of killing his supervisor, Benjamin Wallace, and stealing classified intelligence. However, the deeper Peter delves into the case, the more layers of conspiracy are revealed.
After Isabel and Jay manage to crack the Monroe Drive, the database is revealed to be an archive of financial records, communications, and recordings that entwine Walcott Capital, shell companies, and the first family’s plot. The legal team informs Isabel that in order to go public with the findings, she will have to get Freya go on record. However, Freya isn’t exactly keen on that.
But when she realises that the president has sent his own team of ex-military Night Agents, led by Adam, and that she’s not safe, after Isabel is attacked and forced to flee, Peter finds Freya inside Grand Central Station. President Hagan has ordered the manhunt for Peter and Freya as they head towards the newsroom, culminating in a violent showdown in an abandoned bank.
Peter tries to convince Adam to at least question the orders, and the latter eventually lowers the gun, which clarifies that Adam’s moral compass isn’t fully dead yet. After Peter delivers Freya safely to The Financial Register, she confesses to the public that Hagan leveraged her shadow division within Walcott Capitol to launder funds. Not long after, viewers find Freya sipping on a martini as the headline flies on the TV behind that Hagan pardoned himself and his wife ahead of their Senate conviction.
Does that mean that Hagan and Freya are officially let off? Not really. Remember the anonymous assassin she once hired but never met? After a brief conversation, he offers to buy her a drink, quietly slipping something that resembles poison. “It’s safe to assume Freya did not get out of that bar alive,” Shawn Ryan tells Tudum.