As one of the most watched Netflix series ever, The Night Agent continues to amass quite a following. The first season premiered in March 2023 and immediately shot to the top of the platform’s viewing charts. When its second season arrived in January 2025, it once again dominated Netflix’s Top Ten list. The series follows a low-level FBI agent named Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) who initially begins the show answering a phone in the basement of the White House. Strictly designated for the highly classified counterintelligence program in the FBI known as Night Action, the phone never rings. At least, it never has the entire time Peter has manned the phone. All that changes in Season 1. What follows ultimately thrusts Peter even deeper into the world of Night Action as he unravels a massive conspiracy involving the vice president and the president’s chief of staff.
By the end of it all, Peter becomes an actual night agent working in the field, which directly sets him up for the events that unfold throughout Season 2. As he begins his work in Thailand, Peter quickly finds himself in the middle of another conspiracy involving the White House and possibly even the Night Action program. As he makes his way to New York City, the web of those involved begins to tangle. One particular bystander is Noor Taheri (Arienne Mandi), who works at the Iranian Mission at the United Nations in New York as a junior aide. On her own accord, she seeks out the FBI in an effort to exchange sensitive information from the Iranian Mission in exchange for asylum, a grave offense if she were ever caught. A vital character in The Night Agent’s latest season, her fate isn’t as cut and dry as viewers might have hoped it would be.
How Does Noor Become Involved in Peter’s Investigation?
And Why Does She Want Asylum?
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Given her position at the Mission, Noor takes it upon herself to contact the FBI and offer information in exchange for asylum for herself and her family. With a mother and teenage brother still living in Iran, Noor hopes to save them from the same dangers that so many others have encountered. Her brother’s army conscription is also on the horizon, and she doesn’t want him succumbing to the same fate as her father, who she believes died needlessly in the military.
However, she isn’t able to provide anything to the Bureau that they don’t already know. She only becomes a vital asset when she accidentally captures her boss meeting with a man named Solomon Vega (Berto Colon), the same mystery man that Peter has been trying to find. Having followed a bunch of dead leads, the only positive identification Night Action has managed to snag has been because of Noor. As a result, she’s brought into the fold and subsequently tasked with figuring out what information Solomon sold to her boss at the Iranian Mission.
Is Noor Successful in Helping With Peter’s Investigation?
And Are Noor and Her Family Reunited in New York?
While the information Solomon sold to the Iran Mission doesn’t actually pertain to Peter’s investigation directly, Solomon and his dealings do. Solomon leads Peter and the others to Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum), the illegal intelligence dealer who’s actually pulling all the strings. Without Noor, Night Action never would have pieced that together and the biochemical attack would likely have succeeded. Because of her efforts, she was able to assist with saving countless lives across the city. Unfortunately, it cost her deeply.
In exchange for finding the information Solomon sold to Noor’s boss, Night Action arranges for her family to escape Iran. As such, Night Agent Sami Saidi (Marwan Kenzari) is sent to Iran. However, the mission doesn’t unfold as planned. While Noor was able to tell her mother about the plan in advance, the message was not relayed to her brother, who has no desire to leave the country. After a bit of chaos at their home develops, Sami is able to leave with Noor’s mother and brother. Unfortunately, when they’re pulled over by the police, everything goes downhill.
Upon speaking to the police, Sami is forced to kill the officers. When Noor’s brother then picks up one of the guns and declares that he’s not leaving, Sami reluctantly shoots the boy in self-defense. As a result, Sami leaves Iran with only Noor’s mother. Noor doesn’t learn the truth until her mother is in New York and is certainly angry about how everything played out. However, she and her mother are ultimately granted asylum. Now considered a traitor in the eyes of Iran, she obviously no longer works in politics. Instead, she has a job in a local library and lives her life in peace, despite the hole the death of her brother has left inside her and her mother.
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