The ending of The Night Agent explained
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The Night Agent just dropped on Netflix and viewers are obsessed.
The action series is based on Matthew Quirk’s bestselling book and follows a low-level FBI agent Peter Sunderland (played by Gabriel Basso) who works nights manning a phone in the basement of the White House in case it rings, and one night, it does.
The ten-part series then follows Peter as he tries to uncover a mole, save lives and the country and with tonnes of twists and turns along the way, here is the ending on Netflix’s The Night Agent explained.
What happens at the end of The Night Agent?
Warning, spoilers below!
At the end of The Night Agent, the Vice President’s daughter, Maddie, has been saved from her kidnappers by Secret Service agent, Chelsea Arrington.
But, we come to learn throughout the series that Vice President Redfield is involved in a plan with Peter’s boss and the President’s Chief of Staff, Diane Farr, to kill a foreign leader named Omar Zadar and make it look like a terrorist attack. So, Maddie, Chelsea, Peter and Rose Larkin work together to prevent the attack.
They learn that the attack with be at Camp David, and that Omar isn’t the only target – so is US President Travers. Diane insists she didn’t know about this part of the plan so works with the others and gets them into the location for the attack.
Peter, Rose, and Chelsea (Maddie gets locked in a bomb-proof bunker by her dad) successfully work together to stop the attack and keep the President safe, but before the President can be escorted away on the helicopter, Peter steps in to hold her at gunpoint and forces her agents to check the helicopter for explosives. As he warned them, the helicopter blows up meaning Peter saves the day.
Diane and the Vice President are found out and will stand trial for their parts in the assassination plot, and Peter and Rose ask for their part in foiling the plan to stay secret and President Travers thanks him by offering him the position of the night agent.
Was Peter’s father a traitor in The Night Agent?
At the beginning of The Night Agent, we learn that Peter’s father was arrested years before for selling government secrets and was never able to clear his name, hence why many people are suspicious of Peter.
After Peter saves President Travers, she reveals the truth about his father. He watches a confession tape in which his father reveals he did sell government secrets but he had also agreed to be a double agent. The President tells him his father was then tracked down and killed.
Do Peter and Rose end up together in The Night Agent?
If you were rooting for Peter and Rose throughout the season (we definitely were!), you’ll be happy to know that they finally kiss in episode seven and they end the season in a relationship, with him kissing her goodbye to embark on his new journey as the night agent.
The Night Agent is streaming on Netflix now.
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