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The Night Agent episode 2 recap: Redial

The Night Agent episode 2 takes us back three months before the events of the first episode when Rose was still running a high-profile cybersecurity company. Someone hacks into their system and causes an issue with one of their clients. The hacker demands millions in bitcoin, and Rose is concerned with what’s happening with their hardware. As we know, Rose later goes bankrupt and loses her company. This inciting incident is probably the start of her downfall.

In the present day, Rose lies to Farr and Hawkins about what she saw the night her aunt and uncle were killed. We know she saw the assailant’s face, but she tells them she only saw his “figure.” To Peter, Rose admits she doesn’t trust anyone in the White House right now. If the people who are after her know she can ID them, then that will only make things worse for her. For all she knows, Hawkins and/or Farr are the people Henry and Emma were referring to as untrustworthy.

Peter takes Rose to a hotel room protected by Secret Service. Farr calls him into a debriefing session with Hawkins and several high-level White House workers, like Secret Service handler Ben Almora (Enrique Murciano). Hawkins wants to continue interrogating Rose, which makes Farr and Peter suspicious of his intentions, even more so when Peter starts digging through old case files on the Campbells and learns Hawkins was their former handler in the FBI when they worked in counterintelligence, a little fact he neglected to mention to anyone.

That night, while working the night action desk, Rose calls Peter. They flirt and bond over the phone. Mainly, Rose is bored and lonely, cooped up in her hotel room. She and Peter agree to meet at the hotel for breakfast the following morning.

We catch up with the male and female assailants, Dale (Phoenix Raei) and Ellen (Eve Harlow). After their suburban robbery, they retreat to a motel room. Ellen can’t resist peaking into the bag to see what their boss is after. It’s a nanny cam, but they don’t have the tools to watch whatever footage is on it. Later, Dale and Ellen are having sex when they get a call from their boss advising them to prepare to go after Rose again. Apparently, intimacy has been a point of contention between the couple lately, and this is just the start of their weirdly domestic plotline that carries through the season.

When Peter gets to the hotel the following day, he’s disturbed to find that Rose’s security detail is gone, leaving her defenseless. He quickly goes to her room to check on her just in time for Dale and Ellen to catch up to them, and an intense chase sequence ensues.

Once Peter and Rose are in a safe spot at a local clothing boutique, Peter calls Farr and demands to know what’s happening. Farr questions Ben since keeping tabs on Secret Service is literally his job. Ben claims he doesn’t know how someone managed to pull Rose’s protection detail, but some digging reveals that Hawkins was behind it.

Farr offers to send someone to pick them up, but Rose doesn’t trust her, or anyone from the White House for that matter. Instead, they go to Rose’s aunt and uncle’s old cabin in the woods to stay off the grid and look for the mysterious hard drive she recalls her aunt mentioning the night they were killed.

They find the hard drive at the cabin, but it’s too heavily encrypted for Rose to glean much information from it. However, one thing Peter does notice is that the hard drive contains a file with the number “2781,” which happens to be the number of the metro train Peter was on when he stopped the bombing. What were Emma and Henry Campbell doing investigating that?

Peter contacts Farr again. She’s in the middle of a field somewhere amid an investigation into another death. Someone murdered FBI director Jamie Hawkins.

Written by Maddy Lennon