Jonathan Pine returns in The Night Manager Season 2 after nine-year gap

Time reports Jonathan Pine is back in Season 2 of The Night Manager, which begins Sunday, nearly nine years after the AMC series first debuted.

Based on John le Carré’s 1993 novel and adapted by David Farr, the six-episode first season made an immediate splash with a starry cast—Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman all won Golden Globes—and a plot focused on covert maneuvering rather than gunplay. Pine, a former British soldier turned hotel night manager, infiltrates arms dealer Richard Roper’s circle under the alias Andrew Birch as part of “Operation Limpet.” The season culminates with Pine detonating explosives on Roper’s weapon convoy after transferring $300 million out of the Tradepass account, Hamid’s drowning, the apparent abduction of Roper by buyer Barghati, and Pine surviving while Jed returns to America.

For Season 2, Pine has gone undercover again and reunites with investigator Angela Burr as an MI6 operative, drawn into a South American conspiracy involving a Colombian arms dealer and an internal leak. The outlet notes that le Carré never wrote a sequel, but Farr said he later received the author’s blessing before le Carré’s death in 2020, and Hiddleston has said he hoped to return; Season 3 is already confirmed. What remains to be seen is how Pine will escape Roper’s lingering influence this time.

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