Spoiler alert: This interview contains spoilers for "Buyer's Remorse," the Season 2 finale of "Night Agent," now streaming on Netflix.

In its final moments, Season 2 of "Nightman" elegantly sets up Season 3.

Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), the show's titleholder's foreign government agent has received a new assignment. Given that Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum) was an information broker whose tactical information leaks swept the presidential election, he believed that Peter was in his thrall, that Peter would play a role in gathering information like this , please collect information on Louis to bring back to the government. "He still believes he has you," Peter's supervisor Catherine (Amanda Warren) tells him. "So we're going to let him."

"We want Season 2 to feel satisfying," said series creator Shawn Ryan. "We don't want to end on a complete cliffhanger. Consequences is the launch pad for Season 3."

Season 3 is filming now; Basso said, based on its script, "This is my favorite season." He said the question it raises is "How do you have objective morality in a subjective situation? When good is subjective Sometimes, it’s hard to do that in the name of kindness.”

Throughout the season, Peter has had to sift through conflicting information. He's also responsible for spreading some misinformation, and in a key scene in episode 5, he lies to Noelle (Arienne Mandi) about keeping her brother safe in order to maintain her trust. (“That was really subtle, a great performance, and if we asked (Basso) to do it in Season 1, he could Yes, but we Know In Season 2, he can. " Ryan said.

Basso welcomes this moral complication. "In Season 1, the path was clear - stop the president from being murdered. Those were simple decisions. Season 2, the goal may be similar, but the path is less clear, and that's when he starts to deviate, hitting dead ends and proving things The right time."

"One of our Iranian actors talked about how they felt," Ryan said. "Some of the appeal of the show is - there's a lot of chaos in the world, a lot of confusing things to sort out. There's a lot of distrust in the people who have an impact on our lives . A character like Peter who is struggling to understand a verifiable truth is really fascinating."

That being said, Peter's pursuit of truth can take a psychological toll. "He foiled an attack on the United Nations and on a hotel that contained many delegates, but his actions to stop that attack involved taking information from the United Nations and handing it over (to Monroe)," Ryan said. "That information had the power to sway the president. The unintended consequences of the election will weigh heavily on Peter's shoulders."

The show's first season was a global phenomenon on Netflix, and its second season may succeed in matching that. How long can "Night Agent" run? "I think there's a lot of really, really great streaming shows out there whose ideas are more like movie ideas, so they don't have as long of a shelf life," Ryan said. "It's more popular than our show, but that's squidgy It's not a surprise to me that Season 3 of The Game will be its last, is it? It's an amazing concept and execution, but it doesn't feel like a lasting show."

In contrast, Ryan noted, "We're essentially creating a new world and new problems and a whole new set of characters every season and introducing Peter to that world." The only limiting factor may be It was Basso who was willing to continue the series - who discussed his ambivalence about his acting career and desire to walk away type Profile - But Ryan is optimistic. "It's in the DNA of this show that it has the ability to be there for as long as Netflix, Sony and I want, and Gabriel can be a part of it for as long as he wants to be a part of it."