The Night Agent's Rogue Season 2 Mission Finally Revealed In New Trailer

The Night Agent will be back on duty this winter — specifically, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, when Netflix at long last releases Season 2 of the action thriller.

A new trailer, seen below, offers a first sense of what Season 2 of the Netflix hit will be about: the hunt for a mole who betrayed FBI agent Peter Sutherland during a Night Action mission and nearly got him killed.

The new trailer will be shown during Netflix's inaugural NFL Christmas Gameday coverage, which kicks off at 1 pm ET with Chiefs/Steelers, followed by Ravens/Texas at 4:30 pm. (Let's hope Santa delivered extra bandwith to Netflix last night!)

Based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, Season 1 of The Night Agent followed Gabriel Basso's Peter, a low-level FBI Agent who worked in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rang — until it did. That call, from panicked cybersecurity expert Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), propelled the two into a conspiracy that ultimately led all the way to the Oval Office. All the while, the heroic couple was dogged by not just a team of lovebird assassins, but an inscrutable bunch of White House bigwigs.

Filming on Season 2 began last January, in Thailand and other locations, and wrapped in mid-June.

With a premiere date now in hand, here is everything we know about The Night Agent Season 2:

Season 2 brings back Gabriel Basso as the titular Peter Sutherland and Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin. And they just might be the only encores.

As showrunner Shawn Ryan explained to TVLine, "What I'd always pitched to Netflix from the very beginning is that these will be different stories often times in different places. The stories will be self-contained by season, but that not a lot of characters will port over from one season to another."

And that might even include Hong Chau's mercurial Diane Farr, who did (barely) survive Season 1. "I thought we told a pretty complete Diane Farr story in Season 1," Ryan said back in April 2023. Though, "I never say yes or no to anything. Certainly Hong is going to have all sorts of job opportunities, so I don't really know what her availability would be."

The many new additions include Amanda Warren (East New York, seen above) as Catherine Weaver, a veteran of the Night Action program who trains and oversees agents; Brittany Snow (American Dreams) as Alice, Peter's partner and mentor in his first assignment in Night Action; Teddy Sears (The Flash) as Warren, a high-level intelligence officer who becomes the subject of a Night Action investigation; Arienne Mandi (The L Word: Generation Q) as Noor, a low-level aide in the Iranian mission to the UN in New York; Louis Herthum (The Peripheral) as Jacob Monroe, an international businessman with global connections that he uses to obtain valuable information; and Berto Colon (Power Book II: Ghost) as Solomon, a former Marine turned right-hand man/fixer.

Additionally, Michael Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries' Enzo) will fill the role of Markus, a trained military leader loyal to his dictator uncle who was recently convicted in the Hague of War Crimes, Keon Alexander (The Expanse) plays Javad, the head of security for the Iranian Mission to the United Nations; Navid Negahban (Homeland) plays Abbas, the distinguished and measured Iranian Ambassador to the UN, and Rob Heaps (Imposters) plays Tomas, who is described as "British-educated, rich, entitled but driven" and "desperate to return his family to power after his dictator father's conviction for war crimes."

Season 1 of The Night Agent — which currently ranks as the seventh-most popular series on Netflix of all time — was based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk.

Quirk, however, has no second novel featuring FBI Agent Sutherland on which to base Season 2 of the TV series. "He's written plenty of books, but nothing with these characters in this world," Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan told TVLine.

Previously, Ryan said that Peter becoming a bona fide Night Agent "will be the starting-off point" for Season 2, "to sort of see what he was being sent off to do. But we have some surprises...."

Details on the TV series' second season storyline were oddly scarce until Christmas Day 2024, when a new trailer (to be shown during Netflix's inaugural NFL Christmas Gameday coverage) revealed that Peter and other members of his Night Action team were betrayed by a mole. Not knowing who he can trust, Peter goes AWOL to hunt down the double-crosser himself.

As TVLine told you back in November 2023, Season 2 will be another 10 episodes, just like Season 1.

When TVLine's Inside Line column checked in with Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan in late August, he shared, "we have finished editing all 10 episodes and are just working on sound, music and VFX. We're working hard to have the episodes ready for fans as soon as possible!"

The Night Agent was famously renewed for Season 2 just six days after its March 23, 2023 release, after landing on Netflix's in-house Top 10 list in no fewer than 93 countries. 

In early October of this year, Netflix announced that The Night Agent is already renewed for Season 3. Production will get underway in Istanbul at the end of 2024, before returning to film in New York in the new year.

Regarding the storyline for Season 3, TVLine previously reported that the show is casting a beautiful Latina financial reporter who's chasing a potential explosive story, as well as a twentysomething forensic accountant who turns fugitive after stumbling across information with incredible geopolitical ramifications.

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