Peter Sutherland is about to embark on his final mission as The Night Agent.
Netflix announced Monday that season four of the spy thriller, which is starting production in Los Angeles, will be the last one for the show. Gabriel Basso stars as Sutherland, a formerly low-level FBI agent who has taken on increasingly dangerous assignments as part of a counterintelligence group within the bureau called Night Action.
“Ever since the initial success of The Night Agent, I’ve been obsessed with eventually delivering a proper and thrilling conclusion to the show and to Peter Sutherland’s journey,” series creator and showrunner Shawn Ryan said in a statement. “I’m so grateful to Netflix and Sony Pictures Television for partnering with me on The Night Agent and for giving us the space to deliver a definitive final season to our worldwide legion of fans. We are hard at work to complete our story and to make our final season one our fans will never forget.”
The Night Agent has been a consistently big draw for Netflix. Season three, which premiered in February, spent four weeks on both the streamer’s internal worldwide top 10 chart and in Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings, peaking in its second week. It didn’t reach the heights of the first two seasons, however: Season one spent 17 weeks in Netflix’s global top 10 (under a different metric than what the streamer currently uses) and seven on the Nielsen U.S. charts, and season two had a six-week run worldwide and five in Nielsen’s rankings.
Season three ended with Peter’s boss, FBI deputy director Mosley (Albert Jones), telling Peter he would be getting a partner. Titus Welliver, Trevante Rhodes, Li Jun Ji and Elizabeth Lail are joining the cast for the final season; the season three cast also featured Fola Evans-Akingbola, Louis Herthum, Amanda Warren, Ward Horton, David Lyons, Jennifer Morrison, Stephen Moyer, Genesis Rodriguez and Callum Vinson.
Based on a novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is produced by Sony Pictures TV. Ryan executive produced season three with Marney Hochman of his MiddKid Productions; Seth Gordon and Julia Gunn of Exhibit A; James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and Nicole Tossou of Project X; David Beaubaire of Sunset Lane Media; and Munis Rashid, Paul Bernard, Guy Ferland and Seth Fisher.
