Everything We Know About ‘The Night Agent’ Season 3 So Far

The Night Agent will be back for another season, and this was known before Season 2 even came out.

The action-packed series saw its 10-episode second season arrive Jan. 23 on Netflix after getting pushed to the new year from an originally planned late 2024 launch.

For everything we know about The Night Agent Season 3, read on.

When does The Night Agent Season 3 come out?

Season 3 has been set to arrive Feb. 19, 2026. This marks yet another big Netflix project coming back next year following Bridgerton.

Who will be in The Night Agent Season 3?

Star Gabriel Basso will return as Peter Sutherland, the titular character of the show.

Also expected to return is Amanda Warren who joined Season 2 as a series regular, playing Peter’s Night Action boss Catherine Weaver.

Ward Horton and Albert Jones, who were in introduced in Season 2, have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming third season of Netflix‘s The Night Agent, as exclusively reported by Deadline. Horton plays Governor Richard Hagan who is poised to become the next U.S. President, and Jones as Deputy Director Aiden Mosely.

Season 3 of the show will be introducing its highest-profile new cast to date, with three new series regulars who have led their own shows, David Lyons, Jennifer Morrison and Stephen Moyer. Lyons will play a former spy lured out of retirement, Morrison will play the First Lady, and Moyer will play a top hitman.

They join fellow new series regulars Genesis Rodriguez (Lioness), whose pending casting was revealed in November, and child actor Callum Vinson (Chucky). Additionally, Suraj Sharma (How I Met Your Father) has been tapped for a recurring role as a Treasury Agent fled from Instanbul with sensitive government intel after killing his boss. Rodriguez will play a journalist who collides with Peter while he investigates a dark money network. Discovering long-buried secrets together could put their lives at risk.

Will Chelsea be back for The Night Agent Season 3?

Series creator Shawn Ryan also teased to Deadline in January that Chelsea’s (Fola Evans-Akingbola) cameo in the finale will lead to a bigger return for the character. Evans-Akingbola was subsequently upped to a series regular for the upcoming third season after she skipped Season 2. Evans-Akingbola’s Chelsea Arrington is a secret service agent.

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Will Rose be back in The Night Agent Season 3?

Ryan immediately couldn’t say too much about the return of Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), but Deadline broke the news that she would not be returning for Season 3 in Sept. 2025.

“I won’t be returning to Season 3 of The Night Agent,” Buchanan told Deadline in an exclusive interview tied to her new series, Apple TV+’s Chief of War. “As much as that show has been so amazing, especially for my career — being a lead on a U.S. show from little New Zealand was such a whirlwind — the writers decided that they wanted to follow Peter and his journey based on what happened at the end of Season 2. And so, we don’t get to see what happens to Rose, but I think it’s a really exciting time for the show, and who knows, it’s not a goodbye forever.”

Ryan compared what is happening with Rose to what happened with Fola Evans-Akingbola’s Chelsea.

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“What I will say is that I don’t view this the way that I guess a lot of TV shows operate in that I think characters come and go and then come back to the show, depending on what the storyline for that season is. An example I would give you is that we really love the character of Chelsea in Season 1, who was played by Fola Evans-Akingbola,” he told Deadline. “It really pained me to have to call her between seasons one and two, and say, hey, the writers had been working for a few weeks, and we’re gravitating towards stories that I don’t think we have a role for you in. The story has just taken us here, and I’m so sorry, but we love you, and if there’s a chance to get you back on the show at some point, I would love to do it.”

Peter and Rose’s relationship grew out of the fact that in Season 1, Peter saved Rose’s life on his first assignment. In Season 2, Rose went undercover to an Iranian embassy reception to copy classified documents, helped resarch with Night Action and assisted in the construction of a chemical weapon by a professor before turning around to help Peter deactivate it and save many lives.

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“In terms of the mental health journey, I wanted to explore what her psychological journey was throughout the season, and ultimately, her goal is to move on and to become the person she used to be before all these awful things happened to her,” Buchanan told Deadline. “She has to be confronted with some painful truths to get to that point. So, yeah, I just wanted to make sure it was realistic, and she felt like a real person trying to get back to that, and hopefully she finds out a way to get there.”

Buchanan revealed that she knew this was coming.

“They called me not so long after Season 2, and they were like, we’ve been trying to find a way to bring her in, but we want to do her character justice and not make her a sub-character,” she said. “I totally respected that decision and agreed. I was like, if it makes sense to a story, I’ll do that. If it doesn’t, let’s not force that.”

Ryan told Deadline that Season 3 “didn’t have a satisfying place” for Rose.

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Star Gabriel Basso spoke to Peter and Rose’s relationship as a delicate balance of trusting her with certain information.

“I’m not sure he trusts … I mean, he trusts Rose, but it’s also, what can he entrust to her? I think he’s walking that line, if he might have trust for her, but she’s not read in on a lot of this stuff, and he doesn’t want to put her at risk,” Basso told Deadline. “So even though he could tell her the truth, should he tell her the truth? And that responsibility weighs on him.”

As for that twist in Season 2 that caused Peter to go rogue in order to save Rose, Basso gave insight into his character’s headspace and justification of his actions.

“That’s the sort of moral quandary he’s in of, can you do the right thing of saving a life, but in the wrong way? He obviously loves Rose, he feels responsible for her, and I think it’s his sense of responsibility, and not his love for her, that motivates him to make that decision where he is okay with her staying, he signed off on her stay, and he said, I’m responsible for you. And now that’s in conflict with what Catherine has told him to do,” he told Deadline. “But I don’t think he’s thinking, oh man, I love Rose so much, I have to save her. I think he says in his head, at least, his justification is, I’m responsible for her. I told her that I would protect her, and now I’m not doing that. And so I think in order for himself to sleep at night, he’s willing to do that.”

Basso also commented on the one rare kiss between Rose and Peter as well as their romantic relationship arc in Season 2.

“You can have love for someone without physically expressing it. I think that’s, I don’t want to say trope, but a lazy way of showing that two people care about each other is having them hook up. Sacrificing your life for someone or putting your life at risk to save someone, I think, is a bigger testament of love than giving them a kiss or something like that. The relationship is important to both of them, and you see that through their commitment to one another and keeping one another alive, regardless if that means they’re going to be together, at least they’ll have done what they can to protect the other.”

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“What I will say is that Peter, because he is a good, decent person at the end of Season 2, he 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,” the series creator told Deadline. “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.”

What is The Night Agent about?

The Sony Pictures Television-produced The Night Agent centers on a low level FBI Agent, Basso’s Sutherland, whose efforts to save the President of the United States in Season 1 earn him an opportunity to become a Night Agent in Season 2. But working in the secretive organization of Night Action propels Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.

With first season based on novel by Matthew Quirk, the story was set in and around Washington D.C., it was filmed in Vancouver. Subsequent seasons whose filming locations don’t have source material, but they were given upgrades following the first installment’s success, becoming Netflix’s most watched series in 2023 (by views) and reaching #1 in 87 countries. Within a month of release, the first season had cracked the Top 10 Netflix shows.

Who else is behind The Night Agent Season 3?

Ryan serves as creator, executive producer and showrunner of The Night Agent. He has an overall deal at Netflix.

Marney Hochman executive produces via MiddKid Productions alongside Paul Bernard, Munis Rashid, Seth Fisher, Guy Ferland, Exhibit A Films’ Seth Gordon and Julia Gunn, Sunset Lane Media’s David Beaubaire as well as Project X Entertainment’s Paul Neinstein, William Sherak, Nicole Tossou and James Vanderbilt.

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