Tom Hiddleston (Jonathan Pine) in 'Night Manager' season two finale. Prime Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season two finale of The Night Manager.] When he finally decided to revisit his Emmy-winning adaptation of the late John le Carré's novel The Night Manager, writer David Farr knew he wanted two more seasons to craft a trilogy centered around the high-stakes game of cat and mouse between Tom Hiddleston's weary soldier-turned-hotel-manager Jonathan Pine and Hugh Laurie's morally corrupt arms dealer Richard Roper. A decade after The Night Manager debuted as one of the most expensive limited series to be produced in the U.K., the spy thriller returned with an intricate plot that largely takes place in Colombia. Having successfully sabotaged Roper's massive arms deal and turned him into Egyptian authorities at the end of season one, Pine has been living for years as Alex Goodwin, a low-level MI6 officer running a quiet surveillance unit called the "Night Owls" in London. Pine's quiet, sleepy life is upended when he spots Jaco Brouwer, a mercenary formerly associated with Roper. Related Stories THR India Tom Hiddleston on Jonathan Pine's Return for 'The Night Manager' Season 2: "His Soul Is on Fire" TV 'The Night Manager' Review: Tom Hiddleston's Brooding Spy Moves to Amazon for a Second Season That Sizzles After a Sluggish Start Despite orders from his superior, Rex Mayhew, to stand down, Pine begins an unsanctioned investigation through which he discovers the existence of a new arms operation led by Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva). Pine quickly discovers that Teddy isn't just a random player in the arms dealing market - he has been mentored by someone who, as one character put it, "learned from the best." Just as Mayhew prepares to show Pine evidence of a high-level leak within MI6, he is found dead in his home, staged as a suicide. This forces Pine "off-book" to infiltrate Teddy's operation in Colombia. In Colombia, Pine crosses paths again with Roxana Bolaños (Camila Morrone), the woman he had tracked down and questioned in the wake of Mayhew's death. Roxana, as it turns out, is a Miami-based shipping broker whose company, Barquero, is owned by Teddy. After noticing that something felt wrong about the cargo she was brokering for the company, Roxana approached Mayhew to report a series of suspicious shipments involving machine tools for oil pipelines being sent to Colombia from the U.K. Despite the fact that they could both blow each other's cover, Pine uses Roxana to get close to the center of Teddy's operation, which involves using illegally smuggled weapons to train a private guerrilla army. At the end of episode three, Pine is quite literally confronted by the ghosts of his past. Despite being told by his former boss, Angela Burr (Olivia Colman), that Roper had been executed in Egypt years ago, Pine discovers that his nemesis is actually alive and has been operating in the shadows under the name "Gilberto Hanson" in Colombia. Coming face-to-face with Pine for the first time in nearly a decade, Roper reveals to Pine that he survived by bribing his captors and has been building a "disciple" in Teddy, who is his biological son. Once his alias is revealed, Pine manages to get an irate Teddy alone and plays him secret recordings of Roper revealing his true intentions. He proves to Teddy that Roper never intended to acknowledge him as a true heir or to make him a key part of his future empire; Roper's only loyalty has always remained with his other son, Danny (Noah Jupe), who is safe at a boarding school in England. In the high-octane season finale, Teddy agrees to secretly team up with Pine to redirect the final shipment of weapons to an address where government authorities would be waiting to inspect the shipment themselves. But Teddy's betrayal of his father comes at a great personal cost. After being tipped off by Roxana, who, in order to save herself, subtly suggests that Teddy has been working with Pine, Roper hatches a plan to use two different planes, sending the empty plane to the authorities and the real plane to the militants in the jungle. Just when Pine, Teddy and Burr finally seem to have the evidence to put Roper away for good for his crimes, Roper, with the help of corrupt MI6 official Mayra Cavendish (Indira Varma), manages to outsmart them all. Roper fulfills his side of the agreement with the army and, in a final act of cruelty, shoots Teddy in the head for betraying him - all while Pine, who had his hands tied to maintain the illusion that he and Teddy had not been colluding with each other, watches helplessly. Following a dramatic shootout, Pine manages to escape with his life, but he is last seen collapsing in the mi