An FBI agent working in a lonely secret office in the basement of the White House gets a phone

call.

A woman needs help right away.

That's the beginning of the night agent, a Netflix spy thriller series full of action

and intrigue.

It's created by the shield Sean Ryan and the series follows Peter and Rose, the agent

and the tech expert he's protecting as they try to uncover a conspiracy that goes right

to the heart of the government.

I'm Aisha Harris and I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about the night agent

on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

It's just the two of us today.

Let's get right to it.

The night agent is based on a Matthew Quirk novel and was created by Sean Ryan.

As you may know, he was the showrunner not only of the shield, but also of terriers.

He developed SWAT on CBS.

So he's been making TV for a long time for broadcast and cable and streaming in the

show Gabriel Bassow plays agent Peter Sutherland an FBI agent stationed in the basement of the

White House monitoring a phone that basically never rings until one night it does on the

other end is Rose, a young woman who's a computer security expert.

She's terrified and she needs help and she's afraid someone is after her.

She'll explain it all in time.

Peter befriends Rose and the two of them end up trying to unravel a dangerous conspiracy

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