Warning! SPOILERS about The Night Agent season 1 ahead.The Night Agent included plenty of surprising twists that broadened the pool of possible White House traitors, but one shocking reveal was particularly sneaky in the way the Netflix political spy-thriller delivered it. The nature of the 10-episode TV show made it clear that anybody could have been secretly working against Peter and Rose and the truth they wanted to uncover. However, The Night Agent’s big twist proved particularly shocking because the involvement of Peter’s mentor was initially disproved by Peter and Rose, making Diane Farr’s betrayal sting harder, especially considering everything Diane’s choices put the two through.
Despite not taking part in the plot to kill President Travers just to stop her from meeting and backing Omar Zadar in the next election, Diane Farr had little qualms about killing those who threatened the Travers istration with the truth. Farr’s commitment to Travers made her treason more curious, but given that Redfield and Wick had ed her to devise a plan to hide the truth right after the DC metro bombing was thwarted, it made sense that she’d protect the istration with whatever she got. Still, her relationship with Peter seemed genuine, thus making her betrayal hurt in The Night Agent season 1.
6 Farr Picked Peter For His History In The Night Agent Season 1
The Night Agent season 1, episode 3’s flashback showed Peter Sutherland Jr. and Diane Farr’s first meeting after Peter’s recovery following the DC metro bombing. Their first meeting proved insightful for the acumen Farr displayed and shared with Peter, but it was Farr’s positive inclination toward Peter and her willingness to offer him a job answering both to her as the Chief of Staff and the FBI’s deputy director that particularly stood out. Indeed, considering Peter’s father’s history as a traitor that supposedly leaked classified material and the conspiracy theorists viewing Peter as the DC metro bombings attacker, Farr trusting Peter and offering such a position was implausible at best.
Farr choosing Peter in that climate would have made him particularly loyal to her precisely because she offered him a second chance when the world considered him dangerous because of his late father’s history and presence at the wrong place and the wrong time when the DC metro bombing happened. That made Peter Farr’s perfect pick because she knew he saw the attacker, and she could have controlled what he shared. Given that whatever Peter said wouldn’t have been taken seriously because of his history, choosing him made it unlikely for the truth to surface because nobody would have ever believed the son of a presumed traitor.
5 The Night Agent's Peter & Rose Were Right To Believe Farr Sent The Killers
Despite Peter refusing to believe Farr as The Night Agent’s traitor, Rose’s outside perspective proved useful when she pushed to view all those close to President Travers as possible traitors. Indeed, Farr had the perfect excuse saying that they found spyware on her phone after Peter and Rose accused her of sending the assassins after them, but she was also the one in control as Peter and Rose couldn’t have verified what she shared with them, being on the run. Farr could have as easily told Wick to send the killers after Rose and Peter following his call from the burner phone and kept her cover intact.
After all, Farr knew Peter would have trusted her if she had given them even the slightest proof she wasn’t in on the traitors’ actions. Confronting Peter’s betrayal only to follow him to the motel to meet Rose and try to reassure her that it wasn’t her meant that Farr could have exploited her connection to Peter and Rose without employing the assassins until it was time to finish it all. Indeed, taking herself out of the equation by pointing the finger at others was smart because offering Peter and Rose more room to do their investigation made them trust Farr.
4 The Night Agent's Traitor Caused Lorna's Death Because Peter & Rose Met Her
The Night Agent season 1, episode 4 never clarified how the assassins knew where to find Lorna, but only that they received Wick’s call and went to take care of her. However, it was Farr that had just won back Peter and Rose’s trust that must have told Wick about their findings as Lorna lived assuming she was constantly being followed, and the killers couldn’t have known the position of Lorna’s house unless Farr shared with Wick Peter and Rose’s whereabouts. If Peter and Rose hadn’t investigated the Campbells’ hard drive and found her house, Lorna would have still been alive because the killers couldn’t have gotten to her.
3 Peter & Rose Believing Farr Gave The Assassins Their Position
Peter giving Farr the benefit of the doubt in The Night Agent season 1, episode 4, and continuing to include her in his and Rose’s investigation essentially gave the assassins their position. Indeed, after that, assassins Ellen and Dale were often able to track Peter and Rose no matter how many times they lost them. The assassins being able to track them was soon highlighted in The Night Agent season 1, episode 5, making Farr the only one that got close enough to place a tracker under their car and make Rose and Peter somewhat manageable by knowing where they could have been until it was time to neutralize them.
2 Farr Was Behind The Killers' Nanny Cam Retrieval In Episode 2
Ellen and Dale’s performance as new parents in The Night Agent season 1, episode 1 established how dangerous they were, given that to retrieve a bag, they had stolen a baby and killed the owner of the house. While Ellen learning that what they’d stolen was a plushy containing a hidden nanny cam surprised her, Farr giving the same camera to Redfield in The Night Agent season 1, episode 7 unveiled her involvement. Considering that the nanny cam recorded an incriminating video that would have ended Redfield’s career, it was clear Farr had it retrieved to protect the istration, but it still meant that Farr backed the assassins’ brutal plan.
1 Peter Wouldn't Have Uncovered Farr Without The "Trooper" Reveal
Despite the assassins following Peter and Rose closely, the two had stopped considering Farr a possible traitor. However, if Farr hadn’t offhandedly told Peter to have his “trooper friend drop her at the loading dock" in The Night Agent season 1, episode 6, despite never telling her who Rose was with, Peter would have never understood she was covering the traitors’ tracks. In the end, Farr proved The Night Agent’s most adept traitor, and if it wasn’t for that slip-up in episode 6, Peter would have never uncovered her, nor escaped the White House, or saved Rose at the pier.
