In season one (learn our recap right here), Rose was put below FBI agent Peter’s safety. As a witness in her aunt and uncle’s murders, higher-ups in a White Home conspiracy wished her lifeless. Peter efficiently saved Rose alive, and a few instances she did the identical for him. Regardless of being advised to run for her life or keep within the automotive (“Get out of right here, Rose” is Peter’s catchphrase when a scenario goes south), Rose got here by for Peter on a number of events. She dealt some useful driftwood blows to the top of employed killer Dale, and pushed Dale’s sniper confederate Ellen to her demise earlier than she might shoot the entire gang in the course of the rescue of the VP’s daughter.
Although she doesn’t shy from a struggle, 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 strong monitoring system and used it to search out Peter when even Night time Motion couldn’t.
Rose has additionally proved her undercover expertise on a number of events, posing as fictional IDs, manipulating individuals 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 additionally satisfied Viktor Bala’s goons that she was a post-doc chemistry scholar so properly that they compelled 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 pals together with her afterwards. She’s nice with individuals, 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 wonderful Night time Agent, and that’s absolutely the place this complete 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 time Motion veteran Catherine Weaver clearly thinks so. In season two, Weaver advised Rose that she had a variety of 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 correct coaching, as a younger American girl, Rose might slot in simply to her undercover work.
However right here’s the crux: will she wish to?
