In season one (read our recap here), Rose was put beneath FBI agent Peter’s safety. As a witness in her aunt and uncle’s murders, higher-ups in a White House conspiracy needed her useless. Peter efficiently stored Rose alive, and a few instances she did the identical for him. Despite being informed to run for her life or keep within the automotive (“Get out of here, Rose” is Peter’s catchphrase when a state of affairs goes south), Rose got here by way of for Peter on a number of events. She dealt some useful driftwood blows to the pinnacle of employed killer Dale, and pushed Dale’s sniper confederate Ellen to her demise earlier than she might shoot the entire gang throughout the rescue of the VP’s daughter.
Though she doesn’t shy from a combat, tech is Rose’s specialism. She’s a coder who, by restoring comms to Camp David, proved instrumental in averting season one’s try on the president’s life. Not solely can she hack, however in season two, she tailored the advert software program she’d coded to show it into a robust monitoring system and used it to search out Peter when even Night Action couldn’t.
Rose has additionally proved her undercover abilities on a number of events, posing as fictional IDs, manipulating folks to entry data and pondering quick on her toes. In season two, she not solely charmed a file out of an official and infiltrated a UN mission get together, but in addition satisfied Viktor Bala’s goons that she was a post-doc chemistry scholar so properly that they pressured her to assist produce a cargo of chemical weapons that might take out midtown Manhattan. She simply gained the belief of Iranian asset Noor, mendacity to her convincingly sufficient that she handed over her intel, however then staying buddies along with her afterwards. She’s nice with folks, is the purpose – intelligent, fast, resourceful and naturally reliable however with a core of metal when she wants one.
All of which is to say that Rose would make an glorious Night Agent, and that’s certainly the place this entire present is heading. No, she’s not FBI or CIA-trained, however there’s room within the programme for the niece of “Gazelle” and “Sidewinder”.
Night Action veteran Catherine Weaver clearly thinks so. In season two, Weaver informed Rose that she had numerous her aunt in her, and pressed for her assist in the mission to cease the Foxglove assault. Since Alice was killed in motion in Bangkok, Weaver is an agent down, keep in mind, and with the suitable coaching, as a younger American lady, Rose might slot in simply to her undercover work.
But right here’s the crux: will she need to?
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