Night Agent Season 3 finale ties dark-money scheme to a White House exit

The night agent returns with a finale that shows how a shadow bank helped topple a president: Season 3’s closing episode, “Razzmatazz, ” reveals Walcott Capital’s role financing a terrorist group and laundering Jacob Monroe’s illicit donation into a winning campaign, a campaign finance transgression that spurred a senate conviction and a disgraced White House exit for President Hagan.

Night Agent returns for Season 3 for another deadly mission

Season 3 opens with Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) pushed out of the desk and into global danger after a commercial flight is taken down by a missile strike, an event that detonates a wider conspiracy and sends him chasing Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum). The season follows Peter as he teams with Isabel (Genesis Rodriguez), a dogged financial reporter, and races to trace dark money while a hired assassin and a suspicious White House-assigned handler complicate the hunt.

Finale “Razzmatazz” uncovers Walcott Capital and a campaign laundering trail

In the finale, Peter and Isabel expose Walcott Capital in a live interview, revealing the firm helped bankroll the terrorist organization and served as a financial back channel for the President and First Lady’s campaign. The exposure shows how Jacob’s donation was laundered into clean cash to win an election, triggering the senate conviction that forces President Hagan from office.

How Season 2’s bargain set Season 3 in motion

Season 2 left Peter having crossed an ethical line: to stop a chemical attack at the United Nations he cut a deal with Jacob, stealing classified documents that allowed Monroe to manipulate an election and help install Governor Richard Hagan into the Oval Office. Peter avoided prison only by agreeing to work with the FBI as a covert mole inside Monroe’s operation, a setup that directly propels the plot of Season 3.

Showrunner Shawn Ryan said they liked the idea that Jacob was unaccounted for and "he's still out there in the world, " and that there was "a lot more to explore in terms of who he was, " a thread that the season follows as Peter learns Jacob may be a symptom of something larger. That line of inquiry ties to a subplot in which a young Treasury agent uncovers a trail linking American companies to a crypto wallet used by the terrorist group, sending Peter and Isabel down a financial trail.

Characters who move the action include Adam (David Lyons), the partner President Hagan assigned to watch Peter, who Hagan enlists to eliminate everyone with knowledge of the White House’s criminal activity. That campaign began with Jacob’s death and escalated to two hired guns sent to the condo of Freya (Michaela Watkins), where Isabel had been pressing for an interview after obtaining a damning client list.

Chelsea Arrington (Fola Evans-Akingbola) also figures in the closing sequence: Adam betrays both Peter and Chelsea as they drive to New York City, though Peter and Chelsea manage to slip away. The season makes the connection between underground finance and political power explicit, and it ties named players—Walcott Capital, Jacob Monroe, President Hagan—directly to the downfall shown in "Razzmatazz. "

Season 3 is scheduled to release on Netflix on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 3 a. m. ET. The showrunner has also teased a small detail about Season 4, which is currently being written, leaving a new waypoint for viewers who followed Peter’s arc from mole to man on the run.