Hagan, the sequence makes fairly clear, is a douchebag and a racist whose red-hat sporting supporters share his unenlightened America-first views (see the rally scene wherein Noor cleverly weaponizes their bigotry towards Muslim males like Javad with a view to escape him). To Monroe, Hagan bemoans the Asian surname on the brand new constructing and is coldly reminded that the philanthropist it belongs to is American born and bred.
Jacob Monroe subsequently, isn’t a racist asshole. Neither, it seems, is he a nasty boss. When his fixer Solomon requested for a ten% elevate and haplessly negotiated that down to three%, Monroe fortunately gave him 15% and a promotion. Sadly for them, Night time Motion’s Catherine Weaver negated the excellent news when she killed Vega – information that Monroe was visibly upset by listening to.
So, Jacob Monroe is able to equity, affection and has the identical distaste for soon-to-be US president Richard Hagan shared by each different right-thinking particular person in The Night time Agent. All of that is value establishing as a result of every part else we learn about Monroe tells us that he’s mainly the satan.
President Hagan
During the last eight years, Monroe has mounted three elections for Hagan, smoothing his path to the Oval Workplace. Most not too long ago, he leaked paperwork that incriminated Hagan’s opponent Knox and compelled him to drop out of the presidential race.
If Monroe hates Hagan, then why? As a result of having the president of the US in his management will make him extra highly effective. Monroe’s enterprise is intelligence brokering. He sources nationwide secrets and techniques and sells them on, whatever the threat to life and nationwide safety this will likely trigger. As Catherine Weaver explains to Peter within the season two finale, Hagan’s isolationist insurance policies will actively assist Monroe’s enterprise. When worldwide cooperation breaks down, the demand for intelligence sky-rockets. With entry to each labeled file that passes by means of the president’s desk, Hagan would be the strongest man on the earth.
What drives him? At this stage, it’s laborious to say. Monroe appears to be an excessive pragmatist who’s in a position to compartmentalise emotions of guilt or empathy with a view to proceed accruing leverage, cash and energy. He offered the data leaked by the CIA’s Warren Stocker in regards to the Foxglove chemical weapons mission to a USA-hating terrorist hell-bent on getting revenge on America for a previous incorrect. He offered an inventory of the names and addresses of Iranians who’d escaped Iran’s oppressive Revolutionary Guard and had been residing beneath asylum in Europe straight again to the IRGC. He had apparently no misgivings about permitting a fearsome chemical agent be launched in Manhattan or the various deaths he ordered Solomon and his goons to commit.
