‘The Night Agent’ EP Shawn Ryan On Spy Thriller’s Plot Twist & Body Count, A Double Diane Farr, Season 2 Questions & Hopes For Averting A Writers Strike
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: The series includes details about new Netflix series The Night Agent, based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quirk. The Shield creator and S.W.A.T.
showrunner Shawn Ryan is venturing into a new genre territory with The Night Agent, a slick conspiracy thriller that just debuted on Netflix.
Created, executive produced and showrun by Ryan, the 10-episode drama stars Gabriel Basso in a star-making turn as Peter Sutherland, a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a rarely used emergency hotline for American spies.
When a call comes in from a terrified civilian, Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), it sets off a quest by the pair to uncover the truth behind the murder of Rose’s aunt and uncle, taking them to the highest level of power in the government and putting their lives in grave danger as they try to evade two assassins sent out to kill them.
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