A phone that never rings finally does, and a junior FBI agent's quiet basement post turns into the center of a conspiracy in The Night Agent, a 2023 American thriller series created by Shawn Ryan.
What is The Night Agent about?
Peter Sutherland is a low-level FBI agent whose entire job is manning a phone in the White House basement, a line built for emergencies that has stayed silent for as long as he's worked it. The night it finally rings changes everything: Peter is pulled out of the basement and into a conspiracy that reaches all the way up to the Oval Office. The series follows him as he tries to work out who inside the government he can trust while the people around him keep turning out to be more dangerous, or more useful, than they first appear. Each episode runs about 50 minutes, giving the show room to build out its network of suspects and allies at a steady, deliberate pace rather than rushing the mystery.
About the cast
Gabriel Basso stars as Peter Sutherland, with Luciane Buchanan, Hong Chau, D.B. Woodside, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Eve Harlow, Phoenix Raei and Enrique Murciano rounding out the cast of this thriller series created by Shawn Ryan.
Context & significance
The Night Agent belongs to the modern wave of Washington conspiracy thrillers that ground a large political mystery in one low-ranking character's point of view, a structure that lets the show reveal its wider plot at the same pace its lead learns it. Shawn Ryan, credited as creator here, has a background in American television thriller and drama series, and the show's basement-to-Oval-Office premise gives it a clear engine for serialized, season-long storytelling rather than a self-contained case each week.
Watching The Night Agent on Ktime
The Night Agent streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can watch this Washington thriller in their own language or with Farsi captions over the English audio. Anyone can read the show's page without an account; watching the episodes themselves just needs a free K-Time login, part of the platform's Farsi-first streaming built for the Iranian diaspora.