The Night Agent

Episode Reviews

Feb. 19, 2026—S3, E1: “Call Waiting”

With the newly elected U.S. president launching a series of clandestine investigations, the Night Action agency is increasing capacity and training new agents. There’s plenty of work for more experienced operatives, too, and Peter is sent to Istanbul to track down Jay Batra, a financial analyst for the Treasury Department’s investigative unit FinCEN. Why? It sure looks like Jay murdered his boss and may be trying to ship information to ne’er-do-wells. But when Peter tracks down Jay—not to mention journalist Isabel De Leon, Jay’s primary contact in Istanbul—he discovers the situation is more complex than he imagined.

A missile strikes a passenger plane mid-flight, turning the aircraft into a flaming, falling collection of rubble. The president mentions that 157 Americans lost their lives as a result. Motorcycle-riding villains pursue a car driven by Peter. They shoot at the car repeatedly, but all three motorcyclists eventually crash. (One hits an oncoming vehicle, sending the cyclist flying. Another is hit with a Molotov cocktail. A third gets buried under collapsing scaffolding. We don’t know the extent of injury to any of these riders.)

People fight and scuffle with one another; one man is kicked in the face and knocked out. Characters shoot and are shot at. Someone’s threatened with a gun. We see a dead body, blood staining the white shirt he’s wearing.

Peter drinks a beer at a bar and makes several slightly suggestive passes at a woman there. (The woman rejects his advances.) He breaks into someone’s hotel room to look for information. A woman accuses someone of stealing her wallet (but only, she believes, to protect someone else). Characters lie. A couple sells state secrets to Peter, who quickly turns them in. Someone steals a car. Characters crawl through Istanbul’s sewers. Characters say the s-word a half-dozen times, and also use such words as “a–” and “h—.”

In flashback, we see a very young Peter with a woman (apparently his mother) on the day she learns that her cancer is terminal. When Peter asks why she’s crying, she lies and then exacts a promise from him: “Promise you’ll always do the right thing,” she says, “even when it’s hard.” (Peter promises.)

Jan. 23, 2024 – S2, E1: “Call Tracking”

After his cover is blown, Peter secretly returns to the United States to avenge his partner and to recover stolen intel. When Rose gets wind, she unknowingly leads his enemies straight to him.

Peter and his partner, Alice, are attacked. Many gunshots are fired as they’re chased through the streets. Someone tosses a grenade at Peter. He’s able to leap out of the way, but we later learn he was injured. Unfortunately, Alice is shot and killed. Other people are chased and shot at elsewhere. Peter gets into a fistfight with a man, unable to fire his weapon since Peter needs the man alive.

A neon sign outside a strip club depicts a cartoonish woman in lingerie. Two people flirt and otherwise act couple-y, but it’s part of their cover. The woman tells a story about how she got a tattoo on her back.

Secret agents tail several people, hoping to recover stolen information, but they fail. People lie. Rose changes the coding on her company’s software (without permission) to search for Peter. Peter uses a kid, pretending to mentor the boy, to gain access to the youngster’s dad.

Rose is in therapy for the trauma she experienced in Season One, and we hear some earnest conversations about her recovery and prolonged anxiety struggles. Peter’s handler says that Peter may also be experiencing some mental health problems following the events of Season One.

A woman says she does yoga to reduce stress. Rose is a bit obstinate toward trained government officials, claiming to know better than them despite being a civilian. A shelter gives Rose information about Peter in spite of its privacy policies.

We hear two uses of the f-word and three of the s-word, as well as “p–ck.” Someone says, “Doing God knows what for God knows who.”

Mar. 23, 2023 – S1, E1: “The Call”

After people attack their home, Rose’s aunt and uncle instruct her to call a mysterious number for help. The man who answers identifies himself as Peter. And pretty soon, the pair are involved in a huge conspiracy.

Several people are attacked and killed by assassins (two are garroted and one is shot). In other scenes, Peter and other FBI agents fight these killers in hand-to-hand combat. During a car chase, characters exchange gunfire. Peter purposely crashes his vehicle into his pursuers to stop the chase. Someone plants a bomb on a subway train. (The train is evacuated and only one person is killed when the bomb goes off, though several people are seriously injured). Two men attack Peter with batons, but he disarms them and has them arrested. A man is hit by a car while chasing an assailant. A woman is cut by shattering glass. We see a large scar on the back of a man’s neck. We hear about a fatal car accident and some people speculate if the driver purposely took his own life.

We see a man without his shirt on. There’s a joke about Viagra. We learn Peter used to live with his ex-fiancée. People joke about drinking. Some folks have wine with dinner. We hear a company was the victim of ransomware (where hackers hold digital data hostage in exchange for money). A terrified woman hides from an assassin. Rose mistakenly believes that Peter is robbing someone. People break into Peter’s house but don’t steal anything. We hear about a kidnapping and later see the child abandoned by her kidnappers. People lie.

We hear five uses each of the f-word and s-word. God’s name is abused twice, once paired with “d–n.” We also hear uses of “a–,” “a–hole,” “h—” and “p-ss.”

A man offers his seat to a woman and her child on a packed train.