Yahoo Lifestyle Everything We Know About ‘The Night Agent’ Season 3 So Far
The Night Agent will be back for another season, and this was known before Season 2 even came out.
The action-packed series saw its 10-episode second season arrive Jan. 23 on Netflix after getting pushed to the new year from an originally planned late 2024 launch.
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For everything we know about The Night Agent Season 3, read on.
When does The Night Agent Season 3 come out?
A specific release date has not yet been revealed, but Season 3 is expected to premiere in 2026. The writers room for the new installment was commissioned by Netflix ahead of Season 2’s launch with a production unit in Istanbul at the end of 2024 and shooting set to begin in New York on Feb. 3, 2025.
Has The Night Agent Season 3 started production?
Yes, Netflix, Sony Pictures TV and Basso shared a behind-the-scenes look at the start of production and a reverse 180 stunt about to be shot.
Creator Shawn Ryan had previously confirmed the Season 3 production start date to Deadline, but the series was not fully finished in terms of writing when he said this mid-January.
“We’re still writing the last couple of episodes, we’ll have them done before we start shooting the New York portion of our filming, which begins February 3,” he said in a post mortem interview after Season 2 launched on Netflix.
Who will be in The Night Agent Season 3?
Star Gabriel Basso will return as Peter Sutherland, the titular character of the show.
Also expected to return is Amanda Warren who joined Season 2 as a series regular, playing Peter’s Night Action boss Catherine Weaver.
Ward Horton and Albert Jones, who were in introduced in Season 2, have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming third season of Netflix‘s The Night Agent, as exclusively reported by Deadline. Horton plays Governor Richard Hagan who is poised to become the next U.S. President, and Jones as Deputy Director Aiden Mosely.
Season 3 of the show will be introducing its highest-profile new cast to date, with three new series regulars who have led their own shows, David Lyons, Jennifer Morrison and Stephen Moyer. Lyons will play a former spy lured out of retirement, Morrison will play the First Lady, and Moyer will play a top hitman
They join fellow new series regulars Genesis Rodriguez (Lioness), whose pending casting was revealed in November, and child actor Callum Vinson (Chucky). Additionally, Suraj Sharma (How I Met Your Father) has been tapped as recurring. Rodriguez will play a reporter.
Will Chelsea be back for The Night Agent Season 3?
Series creator Shawn Ryan also teased to Deadline in January that Chelsea’s (Fola Evans-Akingbola) cameo in the finale will lead to a bigger return for the character. Evans-Akingbola was subsequently upped to a series regular for the upcoming third season after she skipped Season 2. Evans-Akingbola’s Chelsea Arrington is a secret service agent.
Will Rose be back in The Night Agent Season 3?
Ryan couldn’t say too much about the return of Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), but he did hint that what happened with Chelsea could happen for Rose.
“What I will say is that I don’t view this the way that I guess a lot of TV shows operate in that I think characters come and go and then come back to the show, depending on what the storyline for that season is. An example I would give you is that we really love the character of Chelsea in Season 1, who was played by Fola Evans-Akingbola,” he told Deadline. “It really pained me to have to call her between seasons one and two, and say, hey, the writers had been working for a few weeks, and we’re gravitating towards stories that I don’t think we have a role for you in. The story has just taken us here, and I’m so sorry, but we love you, and if there’s a chance to get you back on the show at some point, I would love to do it.”
Peter and Rose’s relationship grew out of the fact that in Season 1, Peter saved Rose’s life on his first assignment. In Season 2, Rose went undercover to an Iranian embassy reception to copy classified documents, helped resarch with Night Action and assisted in the construction of a chemical weapon by a professor before turning around to help Peter deactivate it and save many lives.
“As it relates to Rose, we’re still figuring all of that out. What I would say is that we don’t want to artificially create a situation where characters have to be part of a specific season on a regular basis. We want to tell the story that feels true in that moment,” Ryan said. “I am very aware that one of the big strengths of Season 1 — and what I think is a big strength in Season 2 — are Peter and Rose together. I think the relationship is really strong.”
Rose also emerged as the moral compass in Season 2 in addition to representing a positive way of dealing with mental health struggles.
“In terms of the mental health journey, I wanted to explore what her psychological journey was throughout the season, and ultimately, her goal is to move on and to become the person she used to be before all these awful things happened to her,” Buchanan told Deadline. “She has to be confronted with some painful truths to get to that point. So, yeah, I just wanted to make sure it was realistic, and she felt like a real person trying to get back to that, and hopefully she finds out a way to get there.”
Buchanan also couldn’t say much about her potential return for Season 3.
“I have no idea, and I can’t spoil anything. I wish I could tell you, but Peter does say ‘No, don’t come looking for me,’ and I don’t think Rose takes well to direction; she does whatever she wants,” she told Deadline. “So you never, never know.”
The New Zealand actress shared her thoughts on how Rose’s relationship with Peter worked out in the end of Season 2 when they parted ways: “I think it’s quite a realistic ending, for sure. I think the show is called The Night Agent, and as long as Peter is employed, he’s going to pick that, which is painful. But I also think Rose wouldn’t want to get in the way of what he wants to do. That’s what makes it so fun to play, the what are they, what aren’t they? And they are the worst communicators; they can’t express how they feel. They just stare at each other and are frustrated. So we’ll see.”
Star Gabriel Basso spoke to Peter and Rose’s relationship as a delicate balance of trusting her with certain information.
“I’m not sure he trusts … I mean, he trusts Rose, but it’s also, what can he entrust to her? I think he’s walking that line, if he might have trust for her, but she’s not read in on a lot of this stuff, and he doesn’t want to put her at risk,” Basso told Deadline. “So even though he could tell her the truth, should he tell her the truth? And that responsibility weighs on him.”
As for that twist in Season 2 that caused Peter to go rogue in order to save Rose, Basso gave insight into his character’s headspace and justification of his actions.
“That’s the sort of moral quandary he’s in of, can you do the right thing of saving a life, but in the wrong way? He obviously loves Rose, he feels responsible for her, and I think it’s his sense of responsibility, and not his love for her, that motivates him to make that decision where he is okay with her staying, he signed off on her stay, and he said, I’m responsible for you. And now that’s in conflict with what Catherine has told him to do,” he told Deadline. “But I don’t think he’s thinking, oh man, I love Rose so much, I have to save her. I think he says in his head, at least, his justification is, I’m responsible for her. I told her that I would protect her, and now I’m not doing that. And so I think in order for himself to sleep at night, he’s willing to do that.”
Basso also commented on the one rare kiss between Rose and Peter as well as their romantic relationship arc in Season 2.
“You can have love for someone without physically expressing it. I think that’s, I don’t want to say trope, but a lazy way of showing that two people care about each other is having them hook up. Sacrificing your life for someone or putting your life at risk to save someone, I think, is a bigger testament of love than giving them a kiss or something like that. The relationship is important to both of them, and you see that through their commitment to one another and keeping one another alive, regardless if that means they’re going to be together, at least they’ll have done what they can to protect the other.”
As for how that Season 2 ending — in which Peter was sprung out of jail by his boss Catherine with the offer to become a double agent charged with preventing sensitive White House information from falling into the wrong hands — factors into Season 3, Ryan could only say so much.
“What I will say is that Peter, because he is a good, decent person at the end of Season 2, he realizes that, while he got the desired result of saving Rose, stopping the attack on the UN, that the actions that he took to achieve that had some unintended consequences that could be even bigger, perhaps, than the things he stopped,” the series creator told Deadline. “That will be a part of Season 3, him trying to emotionally and logistically deal with the unintended consequences of his actions in season 2.”
What is The Night Agent about?
The Sony Pictures Television-produced The Night Agent centers on a low level FBI Agent, Basso’s Sutherland, whose efforts to save the President of the United States in Season 1 earn him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in Season 2. But working in the secretive organization of Night Action propels Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.
With first season based on novel by Matthew Quirk, the story was set in and around Washington D.C., it was filmed in Vancouver. Subsequent seasons whose filming locations don’t have source material, but they were given upgrades following the first installment’s success, becoming Netflix’s most watched series in 2023 (by views) and reaching #1 in 87 countries. Within a month of release, the first season had cracked the Top 10 Netflix shows.
Who else is behind The Night Agent Season 3?
Ryan serves as creator, executive producer and showrunner of The Night Agent. He has an overall deal at Netflix.
Marney Hochman executive produces via MiddKid Productions alongside Paul Bernard, Munis Rashid, Guy Ferland, Exhibit A Films’ Seth Gordon and Julia Gunn, Sunset Lane Media’s David Beaubaire as well as Project X Entertainment’s Paul Neinstein, William Sherak, Nicole Tossou and James Vanderbilt.
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