‘Night Agent’ Boss Shawn Ryan Explains Season 3 Deaths, Shares Who May Return and His Hopes for Netflix Show’s Future After Finale

The writers are "actively working" on season four as they await an official pick up of the Gabriel Basso-starring secret agent series. Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in 'The Night Agent' season three. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026 Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains major spoilers from the season three finale of The Night Agent.] Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) may now be taking a leave of absence from being the titular Night Agent. But naturally, he will not be able to resist being away from the action for very long. In the third season of Netflix’s hit spy action thriller, after making a deal with the devil, intelligence broker Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum), to thwart a terrorist attack on the UN at the end of season two, Peter found himself investigating a wider conspiracy involving the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a terrorist organization — and even the White House. Related Stories TV Gabriel Basso, Netflix's Not-So-Secret 'Agent' Man TV 'The Night Agent' Returns With Action-Packed, Globe-Spanning Season 3 Trailer While grappling with the guilt of his past choices, Peter hunts down Jay Batra (Suraj Sharma), a junior FinCEN analyst accused of murdering his supervisor and stealing classified intelligence. After tracking Batra down in Istanbul, Peter discovers that the analyst is actually a whistleblower who uncovered a massive financial conspiracy involving Suspicious Activity Reports. These documents revealed that American shell companies, managed by Monroe, were used to launder money for the LFS terrorist organization responsible for downing a civilian airliner. As Peter shifts into a more protective role, he teams up with financial journalist Isabel De Leon (Genesis Rodriguez) — who is later revealed to be Monroe’s estranged daughter, born from a tragic CIA operation in the 1990s. The conspiracy reaches the highest levels of government, specifically involving President Richard Hagan (Ward Horton) and First Lady Jenny Hagan (Jennifer Morrison). To secure her husband’s election, the future first lady struck a deal with Monroe to exchange laundered campaign funds for classified access to presidential daily briefs. When a White House butler involved in the scheme attempted to back out, he was killed in a confrontation orchestrated by Jenny to look like an assassination attempt. This web of corruption is finally exposed through Monroe’s secret hard drive, which was encrypted with a personal code known only to Isabel. Although the Hagans ultimately use a presidential pardon to escape legal consequences, their crimes are broadcast to the world by a corrupt banker, Freya Myers (Michaela Watkins). In the aftermath of the scandal, Peter chooses to temporarily step away from Night Action to find the personal balance he has lacked since the series began. But at the end of the finale, FBI Deputy Director Aiden Mosley (Albert Jones) informs Peter that a potential new partner has already been selected for his next mission, leaving the door open for Peter to stage a return sooner rather than later. In the wide-ranging chat below, creator and showrunner Shawn Ryan answers all of THR’s burning questions after the season three finale. He explains his controversial decision to not bring back Luciane Buchanan’s Rose Larkin, why he never saw Peter’s new connection with Isabel as anything more than platonic, how he decided which characters would live and which ones would die, and whether he thinks this show can survive without his male lead Basso: “There’s a lot of evolution for Peter that I’d want to explore before exploring the world without him.” *** When we spoke last year, you mentioned that Peter found season one “logistically difficult but morally easy.” For season two, you wanted to maintain those same logistical challenges while making things more “morally difficult.” What intrigued you most about how Peter is continuing to wrestle with the morality of being a Night Agent in season three? One of the things we discussed was the challenge of growing into leadership. The idea that he’s growing into the responsibility of that job; that he’s understanding the drawbacks and sacrifices that come with it. He’s still having difficulty balancing all the various aspects of his life, and that’s something in the writers room of season four that we’re currently working on and talking about. But as it relates to season three, he’s a little less naïve. If you look at Breaking Bad, very famously, they talked about [Walter White] going from science teacher to Scarface over the arc of that show. [With Night Agent] we talk about a guy who begins the show answering the phone in the basement who gains more and more responsibility and has to live with the consequences