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Conspiracy, lies, high-stakes politics and elaborate action sequences all make upThe Night Agent's season 3 finale.
The Netflix show has seen special agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) stop a presidential assassination and chemical warfare, but season 3 finds him tackle his biggest conspiracy yet. Peter must go through a winding investigation that takes him from a financial conspiracy involving intelligence broker Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum) all the way to the top of the White House.
Specifically, creator Shawn Ryan toldTudumthat season 3 would be "an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride across Istanbul, Mexico City, Washington, New York, and the Dominican Republic."
Without his partner/girlfriend Rose (Luciane Buchanan) around, Peter teams up with multiple people this season including whistleblower Jay Batra (Suraj Sharma), journalist Isabel De Leon (Genesis Rodriguez) and presidential security agent Chelsea Arrington (Fola Evans-Akingbola) — who fans may remember from season 1.
After a presidential money laundering scheme is uncovered, Peter and Chelsea must get Isabel and one of the bankers involved toThe Financial Registerto report it, but can they do it while being hunted?
Here's everything to know about the ending ofThe Night Agentseason 3.
What happened inThe Night Agentseason 3?
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Season 3 ofThe Night Agenttied many loose ends together stemming back toseason 2when Peter needed help from intelligence broker Jacob to stop a terrorist attack. Jacob not only forced Peter to break into the United Nations to steal classified documents to get his help, but told Peter he would be forever indebted to him.
Jacob used these documents to prove that democratic candidate Patrick Knox was behind Fox Glove — a CIA chemical warfare research and development program — which swung the election in favor of Richard Hagan (Ward Horton). It is later revealed that Richard's wife Jenny (Jennifer Morrison) had negotiated with Jacob to get her husband in power.
Jacob would donate millions to Richard's campaign in exchange for him having access to the daily Presidential Briefs, so he could then sell the information. Later, Chelsea helps to reveal that Jenny had been working with Jacob all along and had staged a staffer attack. The staffer was involved in helping Jenny provide information, which made her partially responsible for providing intel that led to terrorist attacks.
Once Chelsea was onto Jenny, the White House was set to put out a story that Chelsea killed the White House staffer out of her own instability as opposed to Jenny's orders. This led to Chelsea seeking Peter's help as they teamed up to go against the president and stop his corruption.
Why did the Hagans want Freya, Chelsea, Jay and Isabel killed?
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Isabel and Jay met with staff atThe Financial Registerto try to convince them of the deceit going on in the White House. Isabel explained to them that "[Jacob] funnelled money through [Jenny's] charity ... and illegally back into the Hagan campaign as leverage or blackmail in exchange for classified intel."
The Financial Registerwants more proof to print the story so Isabel realizes that if she can get an interview with Walcott Capital banker Freya — who helped Jacob launder the money — they'll have their evidence.
This leads to the ensuing final chase, with Peter and Chelsea trying to safely get Freya and Isabel toThe Financial Registerfor a live-streamed interview.
How didThe Night Agentseason 3 end?
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The Night Agent's third season ends with Peter's morality helping to save the day. Shortly after the shocking reveal that Isabel is actually Jacob's daughter, he is killed at the request of Jenny to cover up her money laundering.
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Once Isabel got a hold of Jacob's files, she had what she needed to expose the president and first lady, but the first family was already hot on her trail.
While Chelsea gets Freya toThe Financial Registerafter a struggle in the park — which ended with her stabbing an assailant with a mini lamp post — Peter is in a shootout with the president's henchman Adam. Adam served in the military with President Hagan, was Peter's partner and has a hard time believing that the president is corrupt.
However, when Peter approaches him, despite having been shot, Peter is able to appeal to Adam's conscience. Adam lets them go as Isabel does a livestream interview, outing President Hagan and his wife for their criminal tactics to both win the election and keep their illegal funding under wraps.
What happens to Peter and does he get together with Isabel?
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Peter began the season flirting with Isabel in Istanbul, and ended it thanking her for giving him someone to trust. However, their connection appeared to be platonic as Isabel left Peter with some wise advice, sharing she'd be travelling to Barcelona for both business and pleasure.
As the episode ends, Peter reveals he will be taking some time off from being a night agent to try and find balance, taking Isabel's advice. However, his itch to get back to work shows itself when Mosley tells him he has a new partner in mind and Peter excitedly asks who it is.
After walking away, Peter buys an ice cream and realizes it's a Razzmatazz, the same one his mother bought him as a child. Near the beginning of the episode, Peter told Chelsea that his last memory with his deceased mother is of her getting him this ice cream on a beach that he's been looking for ever since.
Did Theo and Chelsea stay together?
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Chelsea's fiancé, Theo, clearly loves her, but there are serious complications in their relationship as the two work together. Theo is not just enamored with Chelsea, but with the idea of being in the president's inner circle.
After Chelsea shoots the White House staffer to save Jenny's life, Theo and Chelsea are invited to the White House for dinner. Chelsea finds the phone Jenny took, confirming her suspicions that the attack was staged, while Theo feels even more indebted to the White House, straining their relationship.
Eventually, he finds out they're planning to blame Chelsea for the whole ordeal and he begins calling the press to stop the story from coming out. He leaves the White House and reunites with his fiancée.
In the post-credits, the couple are shown planning their wedding together, with their relationship fully intact.
What happens to other characters inThe Night Agent?
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After the world finds out about the Hagans' illegal activities throughThe Financial Registerinterview, a news report flashes on-screen. It implies Richard is no longer president as it reads "Hagan pardons himself and wife ahead of senate conviction, exits White House, signs new media deal."
On the side of the whistleblowers, Jay began the season as a junior analyst fugitive on the run after catching illegal transactions via his company FinTech. As the season ends, he is seen being interviewed on a financial news broadcast diagramming how he figured out the Hagans' plot. He is now a government financial analyst.
On a scarier note, throughout the season, there's a mysterious contract killer named "the father" working for Freya while trying to hide his career from his son. After taking Peter hostage, the night agent helps convince the father that he can change paths and focus on time with his son.
The father tells Freya he is quitting his job and she threatens that he will constantly have to look over his shoulder. For the final cliffhanger ofThe Night Agentseason 3, in the epilogue, the father is seen slipping poison into Freya's drink, hoping to free himself of threats before playing football with his son.
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