The Zookeeper (The Night Agent)

The Zookeper is the third episode of the first season of the Netflix series The Night Agent.

Synopsis
Peter teams up with Rose for a risky mission at the White House. Elsewhere, a notable agent joins the security detail for the vice president's daughter.

Plot
1 year ago, Diane Farr and Peter Sutherland meet at a zoo. He remembers visiting when he was younger and wanting to a bear because he was being bullied at the time.

Diane offers Peter a job - to answer the phone for night agents in distress. She tells him that the phone never rings unless a night agent is in trouble.

Peter feels that she is asking him to be a glorified 9-1-1 operator, but Diane adds that this job will help him advance his career and open up new opportunities for him. Given his dad's reputation, it will be hard for him to get a better offer. Before Peter can answer, Diane tells him that in a zoo, you should always want to be the decision-maker, the one with all the keys, therefore the zookeeper.

In the present, Peter tells Diane that he and Rose will arrive at the White House in an hour. After hanging up, Peter wonders why Hawkins would throw away his 30 years of service and become a traitor. However, Rose seems unconcerned with Jamie's death and is more worried about Peter's intention to follow orders and go to the White House within an hour.

Peter explains that the White House has the tools to decrypt the hard drive, but Rose is worried about providing evidence to the culprit at the White House.

Peter says he is too low-level to go against an order from above. He trusts Diane to protect them. She was the only person who gave him a chance, despite his father's reputation.

Peter informs Diane that Rose is reluctant to enter the White House and would need some time. She gives them until the next morning at 10 a.m. She tells Peter they are looking into Jamie Hawkins' death and that the President would be briefed in an hour.

President Michelle Travers is told during the brief that there is little evidence and no suspects or witnesses. They can only be certain that he was murdered elsewhere, and his corpse was dumped on the farm. The President asks to be informed when she can share her condolences. Ashley Redfield, who previously spoke to the assassins, is seen among those in the brief.

Diane asks Michelle for information about Campbell's assignment, and Michelle agrees.

Peter and Rose are in the woods, observing the house from a distance. They are trying to test if Diane can be trusted because she is the only one who can trace their location. Soon, Ellen and Dale arrive and search the cabin.

Rose and Peter manage to get away. Peter records Ellen and Dale's license plate information. He asks his police friend Cisco Jenkins to run a BOLO on the vehicle. Rose takes this as a sign that Diane can't be trusted, but Peter is reluctant to believe this.

At the White House, Ben questions Diane about the whereabouts of Peter and Rose. Diane replies that she doesn't trust him and questions how he didn’t know that the Secret Service agents were pulled from the hotel.

Ben leaves to take a call from one of the Secret Service agents, Chelsea Arrington, who is the security detail of Vice President Ashley Redfield's daughter, Maddie.

Maddie attends Georgetown University and is taking a course on Art and Activism. Ben tells Arrington that he is withdrawing her and sending Erik Monks as her replacement.

Cast

 * Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland
 * Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin
 * Hong Chau as Diane Farr
 * Fola Evans-Akingbola as Chelsea Arrington
 * D.B. Woodside as Erik Monks
 * Sarah Desjardins as Maddie Redfield
 * Eve Harlow as Ellen
 * Phoenix Raei as Dale
 * Enrique Murciano as Ben Almora