“The Night Agent” star Jennifer Morrison breaks down the first lady's big secret and the president's fate
“The Night Agent” star Jennifer Morrison breaks down the first lady's big secret and the president's fate
Ashley BoucherThu, February 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
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Jennifer Morrison as Jenny Hagan on 'The Night Agent'
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This article contains spoilers for The Night Agent season 3.
Jennifer Morrison joined The Night Agent for season 3 — and found herself smack in the middle of the new season's major conspiracy.
In season 3 of the Netflix action thriller, titular night agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) teams up with journalist Isabel De Leon (Genesis Rodriguez) to take down intelligence broker Jacob Monroe (Louis Herthum) for good. Fola Evans-Akingbola returns as season 1 fan-favorite character Chelsea Arrington, who is now on the first lady's Secret Service detail in the White House. Here's where Morrison comes in.
The Once Upon a Time actress plays Jenny Hagan, wife to President Richard Hagan (Ward Horton), who we learned in season 2 has history with Monroe. But season 3 reveals that it's Jenny who has been working with Monroe: In exchange for millions of dollars to fund Hagan's campaign, Jenny has been providing Monroe with access to her husband's daily presidential briefings.
Jennifer Morrison as Jenny Hagan on 'The Night Agent'
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Morrison, a fan of the first two seasons, was excited to join the series. "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 Weekly, adding with a laugh, "And who doesn't want the first lady's clothes?"
While she "had hints" that Jenny "was maybe more complicated than she appeared" during her audition process, Morrison didn't initially realize how involved her character would be.
Jenny's entanglement with Monroe "was coming from a good place," Morrison says, because she believes that her husband as president would make the world a better 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 might be connected to terrorist groups, she's in too deep to get out.
Jennifer Morrison as Jenny Hagan on 'The Night Agent'
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This complexity drew Morrison to the character even 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 just was constantly scrambling to get herself out," she says.
"I thought that 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 moment Jenny's "point of no return." The first lady has been working with a White House butler, Henry Mott (Steven Robertson), to take pictures of the presidential briefs — she's paying Mott for his help, and he only agrees because he's desperate for money to pay for his child's cancer treatments. Jenny and Mott get into an argument over the papers, and when Chelsea enters the room unexpectedly, Jenny accuses Mott of having a gun. Chelsea fatally shoots Mott to protect the first lady — unknown to her at the time, Mott was unarmed.
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"[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 adds, "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 clean to her husband in a moment that Morrison points 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, you know? And so in a weird way it's very romantic."
Ward Horton and Jennifer Morrison on 'The Night Agent'
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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 adds.
Peter, Isabel, and Chelsea uncover Jenny and Hagan's involvement with Monroe, and their scheme is ultimately exposed (after plenty of high-stakes chases, of course). But before they can face justice, Hagan pardons himself and his wife, and the pair exit the White House and take a "media deal" to save 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, you know?" Morrison says of the Hagans' end. "I mean, they own it in a really brazen way, too, by pardoning themselves."
While Morrison doesn't think there's a plan in place to bring the Hagans back in a potential season 4, she also doesn't imagine Jenny slowing down, quipping, "We could do Jenny Hagan's spinoff cooking show."
The Night Agent season 3 is now streaming on Netflix.
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