'The Night Agent' Season 3: Everything We Know

Netflix found one of its biggest hits in the action-thriller series The Night Agent. Based on Matthew Quirk’s mystery-thriller novel of the same name, it's what an extremely watchable series is made of. The thriller series follows former FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) as he becomes a Night Action agent thrown into a world of espionage, political chicanery, and evil dictators looking for world domination. You know, normal stuff!

Before season 2 even dropped in January 2025, Netflix had already given the thumbs up to a third season. Beyond that, fans can get even more excited because filming began in 2024—and it’s supposed to be more intense than ever. Basso called the third installment “insane” in an interview with GamesRadar, revealing that he executed stunts that he “can't believe Netflix signed off on.”

“If I'm ranking the three seasons in their openings, this is our strongest opening of all seasons,” Basso told the outlet, upping the ante for the forthcoming episodes. With that high bar in mind, here’s everything we know about season 3 of The Night Agent.

Is 'The Night Agent' renewed for season 3?

As Netflix has done for a few of its biggest hits, the streamer greenlit a third season before the second even debuted. After the news was announced back in October 2024, creator Shawn Ryan told Tudum, “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.”

When will 'The Night Agent' season 3 come out?

Peter Sutherland's next mission is a go! In early December, Netflix announced season 3 of The Night Agent will premiere on Thursday, February 19.

The streamer revealed the news with a date-announcement teaser trailer to get fans excited. In the clip, Peter approaches a man in a stadium to tell him that men are on his tail and he needs to do what he tells him to stay safe. Inevitably, what follows includes several high-speed car chases, shoot-outs, and fighting on the back of a moving van. "Who are you?" a man asks Peter, to which he dramatically (and aptly) replies, "I'm a night agent." February can't come soon enough!

Who is in the 'The Night Agent' season 3 cast?

Gabriel Basso will continue as the series lead. It's also confirmed that Amanda Warren as Catherine Weaver, Louis Herthum as Jacob Monroe, Fola Evans-Akingbola as Chelsea, Albert Jones as Aiden Mosley, and Ward Horton as Governor (and likely soon-to-be President) Hagan will return.

Deadline reported that David Lyons, Jennifer Morrison, Stephen Moyer, Genesis Rodriguez, and Callum Vinson will join the Netflix drama as series regulars, while Suraj Sharma will appear in a recurring role. As of now, the streamer has its lips sealed about major character details, but Deadline reported that Lyons is said to “play a former spy lured out of retirement, Morrison will play the First Lady, Moyer will play a top hitman, and Rodriguez will play a reporter.”

Luciane Buchanan's character, Rose, won't return for season 3, given how her story wrapped up at the end of season 3. However, creator Ryan has teased that Buchanan could reprise her role in the future. Although he was "reluctant" to give a surefire answer while speaking to Deadline in a January 2025 interview, he said he likes to think characters can come and go in the series, like Rose. "As it relates to Rose, we’re still figuring all of that out," he told the outlet. "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. 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."

"Their shared trauma from these first two seasons has built this incredible bond. But is it enough to overcome the difference in their lives and their lifestyles is something that we spend a lot of time talking about," he continued, noting that while Rose is now in Silicon Valley, they're "creatively looking into all that."

How did 'The Night Agent' season 2 end?

The sophomore season calls Peter up to the big leagues, where he’s tasked with his first big Night Action mission. His goal is to stop dictator Viktor Bala (Dikran Tulaine), who is peddling dangerous chemical weapons. However, his romantic ties to Rose (Luciane Buchanan) immediately test his loyalties, and he releases a witness and steals top-secret information in exchange for her safety. Unfortunately, the mission also results in the death of his new mentor, Alice (Brittany Snow).

Bala’s son Tomás (Rob Heaps) takes the reins on his father’s plan while Viktor is in prison, but has a change of heart after hearing about the adverse effects of the chemicals. His cousin Markus (Michael Malarkey) is hellbent on carrying out the mission and tries to kill Tomás, but Peter interferes at the last minute to save the day. Markus’s next hit is the HVAC system at the UN Building, but Peter and Rose alert the FBI just in time and save everyone after a shootout with Markus.

Rose also befriends Noor (Arienne Mandi), an Iranian woman hoping to use her connections and intelligence to secure her family’s safety. She isn’t able to save her mother, but they’re both granted asylum. By the season’s end, Noor relocates to Illinois, where she works in a library. She and Rose remain in touch, while Rose returns to California, remaining effectively broken up with Peter, given the sensitivities and dangerous fallout from his job.

As for Peter, his manager, Catherine (Amanda Warren), reveals that the intelligence he stole effectively swung a presidential election, as it turns out that one of the candidates is associated with Foxglove, Bala’s chemical weapons program. Instead of firing him, she offers Peter the chance to be a double agent for the Night Action program—a fate his father also received.

What will 'The Night Agent' season 3 be about?

When Netflix confirmed the season 3 release date, it also released an official synopsis: "Peter Sutherland is called in to track down a young Treasury Agent who fled to Istanbul with sensitive government intel after killing his boss. This kicks off a sequence of events where Peter investigates a dark money network while avoiding its paid assassins, while putting him on a collision course with a relentless journalist. Working together, they uncover buried secrets and old grudges that threaten to bring the government to its knees—and get them both killed in the process.”

As fans may recall, season 3 ends as Peter steps into being a double agent and is tasked with uncovering the sordid details of Monroe and Hagan’s relationship. “Gain his trust. Uncover every snake on his payroll and then expose. Destroy,” Catherine directs Peter, essentially setting up the cat-and-mouse game for season 3. When the series creator posted on social media, noting that season 3 had wrapped filming, he teased that they shot episodes in locations around the world, including in New York, Washington, D.C., Turkey, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. So, it seems that the mission will take Peter all across the globe.

Basso also confirmed to GamesRadar that the tense election will become a greater focal point, even joking that the “writers are The Simpsons people,” as the show’s storylines often mirror current events.

But he’s not precious about his character’s mortality, and show Ryan admitted that he expects Basso to turn in his badge before the show’s run eventually ends. “It would be doing the audience a disservice if every season, he was fine,” Basso told Variety. “No one wants to see someone who’s untouchable.”

Ryan gave a bit more insight into where the series is going while speaking with Deadline. He said, "At the end of season 2, [Peter] 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. 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."