In an interview with Deadline, showrunner Shawn Ryan (S.W.A.T., Timeless, Beverly Hills Cop) is confronted about his spy show, The Night Agent, and its possibility of returning for a second season. The show follows Gabriel Basso (The Super 8, The Middle, Hillbilly Elegy) as FBI agent Peter Sutherland based off of the original novel written by Mathew Quirk (The 500, The Directive, Dead Man Switch).
“Listen, until there is a season 2 picked up, the writers and I aren’t getting paid to figure that out until it becomes official in some way. I certainly have some ideas.” Ryan said via Deadline, “I probably want to keep those to myself until the time comes. What I will tell you is that the initial pitch for this show that we sold to Netflix was that each season would tell its own, mostly self-enclosed, a beginning, middle and end story, and any future seasons would include a few but not most of the characters that we saw in the previous season.”
“That was the original plan; I think it’s still a pretty solid plan. To me it was important. I don’t want to tell this specific story over five seasons, I want to tell this specific story in one season and give some satisfaction to the audience that they see how things turn out. They learn what the truth is about Peter’s father, they learn what the conspiracy was. You can feel a sense of completion. If we are successful enough that Netflix wants more seasons, I think there’d be a whole new world in which you would see a limited number of characters from this current season going into that. But that’s something that I’d have to sit down with the writers and have it all figured out.”
“I really love the questions that we need answered on: What does it mean that Peter would be a night agent? Where is he going? Now that Rose is going back to California to try to restart her tech career, where does that leave Peter and Rose? I think these are all questions that we almost certainly would love to answer in a potential Season 2, and I certainly hope we get the opportunity to do that.”
There is no confirmation of a second season yet, just speculations from creators and writers. The first season of The Night Agent is currently available on Netflix consisting of 10 total episodes each forty-five minutes long in duration.