The Night Agent: Rose Should Not Be In Season 3

By: Mark T. Wilson

Season 2 of The Night Agent was a high-paced action thriller, to say the least. However, the one drawback was the chemistry between Peter and Rose. While it served as the foundation of Season 1, however for Season 2, it was their downfall.

Rose headed to New York to find Peter when she found out he was in trouble. And from the start, something was off. Yes, Rose was hurt that Peter cut ties but he had no choice. It’s the job. While she understood to a certain extent, you could tell there was still some leftover resentment. But the writers forgot what made them so endearing to the fans in the first season.

As Rose’s therapist said, they went through a traumatic experience together which would bond individuals. But was it more than that? That’s what we were led to believe at the end of Season 1 and what we were hoping for at the beginning of Season 2. But along the way, Rose got in the way.

Peter had a job to do and Rose was too busy being a mental roadblock of sorts. Peter needed to embrace his role as a Night Agent but with Rose in his ear trying to reach the moral side of him, The Night Agent fell short of the greatness it had in Season 1.

For The Night Agent to remain successful, they will have to go the route of Reacher and leave Rose behind. While viewers will pawn for her character and look for a mulligan on a love interest between the two, leaving her out of Season 3 is the best course of action for the show.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Rose. But she didn’t add that “it” factor in her return. Think back, would the show still have been intriguing if Rose never made it to NYC? With a new cast of villains and allies, Rose was not needed. Yes, her tracking device helped out but could they not have found someone in the CIA or a dark web hacker in the city to provide that portion of the storyline?

Peter is now in the palm of Jacob Monroe and Rose is back in California living her best life. What can she add to The Night Agent Season 3 storyline that she has not already offered? As Peter told her, if she stays, people will come for her just to get to him. That’s how he got into the mess he’s in now at the end of Season 2. Rose was a great character for the first installment but she outlived her time on the show. It’s time to move on and in a new direction.

Look at Reacher. While there has been somewhat of a love internet in every season, the writers have mostly left those ties on the cutting room floor as the story progresses. This is the same approach that The Night Agent has to take as they move forward. We loved Rose in the beginning and we tolerated her in the second season. But if she returns in Season 3, viewers will begin to look at her character differently.

Each season should be about growth, and with Rose by his side, Peter’s growth is stunted by her presence. Leave her out for a season, and maybe revisit it in Season 4.