‘The Night Agent’ star Jennifer Morrison breaks down first lady’s secret, Monroe conspiracy

This article comprises spoilers for The Night Agent season 3.

Jennifer Morrison joined The Night Agent for season 3 — and located herself smack in the midst of the brand new season’s main conspiracy.

In season 3 of the Netflix motion thriller, titular evening agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) groups up with journalist Isabel De Leon (Genesis Rodriguez) to take down intelligence dealer Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum) for good. Fola Evans-Akingbola returns as season 1 fan-favorite character Chelsea Arrington, who’s now on the first lady’s Secret Service element within the White House. Here’s the place Morrison is available in.

The Once Upon a Time actress performs Jenny Hagan, spouse to President Richard Hagan (Ward Horton), who we discovered in season 2 has historical past with Monroe. But season 3 reveals that it is Jenny who has been working with Monroe: In alternate for thousands and thousands of {dollars} to fund Hagan’s marketing campaign, Jenny has been offering Monroe with entry to her husband’s each day presidential briefings.

Morrison, a fan of the first two seasons, was excited to hitch the collection. “I was really interested in playing a character that kind of touched the political world in some way, because it’s just something I haven’t had a chance to do before,” the actress tells Entertainment Weeklyincluding with amusing, “And who doesn’t want the first lady’s clothes?”

While she “had hints” that Jenny “was maybe more complicated than she appeared” throughout her audition course of, Morrison did not initially understand how concerned her character can be.

Jenny’s entanglement with Monroe “was coming from a good place,” Morrison says, as a result of she believes that her husband as president would make the world a greater place. “She thinks she’s doing it for a good cause and doesn’t really understand the deal with the devil that she’s just made,” Morrison says. Once she realizes that Monroe may be related to terrorist teams, she’s in too deep to get out.

This complexity drew Morrison to the character much more. “I was happy to find that yes, she did make active decisions to get there, but they were so justified in her mind, and that once she got into deep, that she was just constantly scrambling to get herself out,” she says.

“I thought that was very human and relatable and interesting, and that’s kind of fun to apply to a person in that position,” she continues. “It’s very easy to look at someone in a political realm and feel like they’re not relatable or they’re not human in a certain way. And so I felt like it really humanized her in a way that was interesting to me.”

Morrison calls an episode 3 second Jenny’s “point of no return.” The first girl has been working with a White House butler, Henry Mott (Steven Robertson), to take photos of the presidential briefs — she’s paying Mott for his assist, and he solely agrees as a result of he is determined for cash to pay for his kid’s most cancers therapies. Jenny and Mott get into an argument over the papers, and when Chelsea enters the room unexpectedly, Jenny accuses Mott of getting a gun. Chelsea fatally shoots Mott to guard the first girl — unknown to her on the time, Mott was unarmed.

“[Jenny] gets caught in that moment, and her instinct is to survive by saying he has a gun,” Morrison explains. “I don’t think she planned on saying that. I think she’s shocked that that came out of her mouth. And then she’s got to figure out how she’s going to walk everything out from that point on.”

Morrison provides, “She’s not like a criminal mastermind to have a plan for that. She’s just now way too deep and has to deal with it.”

By episode 9, Jenny comes clear to her husband in a second that Morrison factors out is oddly touching: “He could have in that moment been like, ‘I’m done with you,’ and he could go to the press and say, ‘I had no idea. My wife did this. I’m divorcing her. She needs to be put in jail for perjury.’ [But] In that moment, his love for her and her love for him wins over saving himself, do you know? And so in a weird way it’s very romantic.”

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“All of the shady decisions that they make after that are coming from a place of him choosing her over the presidency, truly,” she provides.

Peter, Isabel, and Chelsea uncover Jenny and Hagan’s involvement with Monroe, and their scheme is finally uncovered (after plenty of high-stakes chasesafter all). But earlier than they’ll face justice, Hagan pardons himself and his spouse, and the pair exit the White House and take a “media deal” to save lots of their careers.

“When it all goes south and they’re not able to cover their tracks and they’re ultimately going to be held responsible for their crimes in some way, they kind of own it, do you know?” Morrison says of the Hagans’ finish. “I mean, they own it in a really brazen way, too, by pardoning themselves.”

While Morrison does not assume there is a plan in place to convey the Hagans again in a possible season 4, she additionally does not think about Jenny slowing down, quipping, “We could do Jenny Hagan’s spinoff cooking show.”

The Night Agent season 3 is now streaming on Netflix.