Every shocking death in The Night Agent season 3 (and why they happened)

The Night Agent season 3 might not be the deadliest season of the Netflix original political thriller, but it’s up there! 

There were so many major deaths during the season, and they all have major ramifications for this season’s story and the future.

The season begins with a terrorist attack by Raul Zapata and the LFS on an airplane, Flight Pima 12, that kills everyone on board. There are dozens of soldiers, bodyguards, and LFS members who are also killed this season. Those don’t include the major characters who are killed this season. 

I shared all the major characters who died in The Night Agent season 3, starting with Catherine Weaver. 

Catherine Weaver

As Peter’s superior in Night Action, Catherine (Amanda Warren) isn’t afraid of danger, but it does seem foolish in hindsight that she’s on the mission to pull a fast one on Jacob Monroe the first time he reaches out to Peter (Gabriel Basso) since the events of season 2. 

When Monroe wants to meet Jay Batra (Suraj Sharma) to learn how he found the suspicious accounts related to the attack, he uses a bait-and-switch method to trick Catherine and the tactical team following them to walk into a trap. Monroe uses a driverless car to lure the agents to a secluded location. Catherine rushes the car thinking that Monroe is inside with Peter and Jay. Instead, she finds a car rigged with explosives. When they go off, Catherine dies in the blast with an FBI agent.

Brian Mott

At the White House, Chelsea Arrington (Fola Evans-Akingboa) shoots and kills what she believes to be a White House staffer who was trying to hurt First Lady Jenny Hagan (Jennifer Morrison). 

Jenny claims the man had a gun, but after he’s dead, the other agents don’t find a gun or even anything that looks like a gun, which calls the First Lady’s account into question.  

The shooting doesn’t make sense to Chelsea, and when she looks into it, she finds Mott’s phone in the First Lady’s desk, which reveals pictures of confidential documents that Jenny Hagan was feeding to Mott. 

Mike Fonseca

Mike Fonseca (David Zayas) was Isabel’s editor at The Financial Register who was overseeing the story she was working. As they got closer and closer to cracking the case and pulling in Jacob Monroe, Freya, and other high profile individuals, Mike was killed by the assassin known as The Father in the series. 

The assassin spikes Mike’s drink at the local bar,  and it causes Mike to have a heart attack shortly after. 

Senator Lansing

While at the cabin retreat, Isabel grills Senator Lansing (Timothy Hutton) about how his super PAC was funded by the same accounts linked to Flight Pima 12, which was shot down by the LFS. Senator Lansing tries to avoid the story, but eventually, he realizes that he is a loose end. Unfortunately, it's too late.

Senator Lansing tries to tell Isabel (Genesis Rodriguez) that he doesn't know who these people are that funded the super PAC, and that they are in serious danger the more she proceeds. He tells her that she's going to get both of them killed, and she almost does.

When Lansing pulls his gun on her, Peter arrives just in time to watch Lansing get shot in the head by the assassin the morning after Isabel reveals that she's going to go forward with this story connecting him, basically, to the attack.

Sofia De Leon

While we don’t see her death happen on screen, I felt compelled to add Sofia, Isabel’s mother to the list because she is a casualty of this entire corrupt system. 

Sofia (Daniela Pena) helped Jacob, who was an asset of the CIA while he was on business with Raul Zapata’s company in Mexico City. The US government makes a deal with Zapata, and Sofia gets framed for crimes. Years later, Jacob learns that Sofia died in prison, but she had a daughter, his daughter, and that leads him to connect with Isabel.

Dani

Dani (Kylo Freeman) has been Jacob Monroe's bodyguard and muscle for the last two seasons. Everywhere Jacob has been, Dani has followed. Unfortunately, Dani's time in the show comes to an end when the assassin comes for Jacob Monroe.

When Monroe makes a pit stop to collect his very important Grimm's Fairy Tales book that contains the code to all the dirt he has on everyone he's ever worked with or against, the assassin shows up, kills Dani, and tries to kill Monroe. Luckily, Peter arrives just in time to save him... but only for so long.

Jacob Monroe 

Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum) was not ready to give up until the last second. Even after he was surrounded on all sides by Night Action and the US government, Monroe thought he'd bought his freedom once more. Instead, President Hagan ordered the hit on Monroe that took his life.

Adam tried to pass it off as a suicide, but it only raises another red flag about how much he could be trusted. Obviously, Monroe knew way too much to stay alive. Freya and her people had been trying to kill him since he learned the information about who was behind the LFS attacks and tried to get Freya to call off the people trying to kill his daughter. Little did he know that Freya was actually the person who hired the hit on Isabel in the first place.

Raul Zapata

Speaking of the LFS, I also have to mention Raul Zapata, the leader of the LFS who orchestrated the attack on the plane and who was also planning the other attacks in New York City. After Monroe is able to secure information about Zapata's location and operation, Peter, Chelsea, and Adam are able to stop the LFS, which leads to Zapata's location.

President Hagan orders the airstrikes that take out Zapata and his crew.

Freya Myers

Last but certainly not least, it looks like Freya Myers (Michaela Watkins) will make it out of the season alive. She's been calling in hits all season, but she's able to evade the President's assassins thanks to Isabel and Peter, and Adam, too. He could have killed her in the abandoned train station, as well.

Anyway, Freya is the person who blows this whole story open. She turns on the Hagans on international TV. When their corruption is revealed, it basically forces President Hagan out of office. We thought Freya would be in prison, but it looks like the government appreciated her willingness to flip, which opens the door to many, many more convictions, most likely.

At the very end of the season, Freya, going by the name Nina now, is drinking at a beach bar when a man, the assassin known as The Father, offers to buy her a drink, which she accepts. We see him slip the poison that killed Mike earlier in the season into Freya's drink.

That's the list of major characters killed off in The Night Agent season 3! I have a feeling we're not done with the death and destruction in this series as it moves forward.