In episode 5 of The Night Manager Season 2, Teddy, Roper, and Juan had a heated discussion about who Pine truly was. Teddy told Roper that everything was going to go according to plan despite Pine’s meddling, because Alejandro was dead and he had been replaced by a prosecutor who’d cleared the shipment at Cartagena Port. But Roper knew that as long as Pine was alive, he’d find a way to throw a wrench into their operation. In the meantime, Pine, Octavio, and Roxy took shelter in Roxy’s ancestral home, where Pine came clean to her about not being able to deliver on all the promises he had made to get her to betray Teddy. He told her to stay put while he went out and met Roper in order to convince him to surrender himself. Roper made Pine a counteroffer, where he’d get a huge amount of money if he let the coup happen uninterrupted. Since they were at an impasse, they parted ways for the time being, in the hopes of reconnecting when either of them was feeling a bit malleable.
Pine then went to Teddy and told him the truth about Roper and how he was planning to abandon Teddy after the coup had been pulled off successfully. That got Teddy to turn against Roper, and he revealed the details of the plane that was supposed to deliver the EMP to Cabrera. Because they believed that if Cabrera’s coup failed, Roper wouldn’t get the money he needed to pay off Omar and Kouyami from Mayra, and he’d either be killed or imprisoned. Speaking of Mayra, she had Basil killed, but Basil managed to transfer his laptop to Angela so that she could communicate with Sally, who was in charge of coordinating with Consuelo to deal with the army’s involvement in this coup. In addition to all that, during the closing moments of the penultimate episode, Roxy joined hands with Roper to betray Pine and have Roper ship her back to Miami in one piece. What happened in the finale of The Night Manager Season 2? Let’s find out.
Spoiler Alert
Roper Sets the Wheels in Motion
At Roper’s residence, the boss man is seen having breakfast with Juan and Frisky, discussing details of their plan. When Teddy joins them, Roper simply tells him to go to Cabrera’s camp and inform them that the delivery is happening at night. Juan will go with him, while Roper will join them later. Teddy, under the pretext of calling Cabrera, calls up Pine to subtly tell him that Roper hasn’t suspected anything, and that the plan to deliver the EMP to Cabrera is still on. After hanging up on Teddy, Pine has a conversation with Sally about the abandoned firing range in San Marco that Consuelo has discovered, which can be used to land the EMP-carrying plane once it has been diverted from its original destination. Pine rings Roper as he is bidding adieu to Teddy to talk about the offers that they had made to each other. To nobody’s surprise, Roper is still unwilling to surrender, and Pine still won’t take that $50 million. But Pine promises Roper that he’ll be meeting him soon. Roper says that he is eager to come face to face with him again, especially because he adores Pine’s smile. Pine knew that Roper wouldn’t yield, which is why this call wasn’t about seeing if he had changed his mind; it was to get that sound bite of Roper saying he wants to meet Pine again. For what purpose? We’ll come back to that later.
Teddy Learns About Roxy’s Trap
Pine tells Sally to reconnect with Basil—who is dead, by the way—and keep him up to date regarding everything that they’re intending to do with that plane and the EMP that’s on it. Pine and Martin then head out to the location where he’s supposed to meet Teddy. That’s when he gets a distress call from Roxy, telling him that she has escaped from her house because Roper or Teddy’s men had found out about it. She claims that Octavio has run away, and currently, she is headed to Zabaleta in a bus. It’s obviously a trap that’s been set by Roper, and Roxy is helping him, but Pine doesn’t have any reason to not trust her, which is why he tells Martin to turn the car towards Zabaleta instead of the location they were headed to to meet Teddy. Speaking of Teddy, he asks Juan about the private matter that he was discussing with Roper. Juan doesn’t give Teddy a straight answer; he just says that they were talking about how to deal with Pine. Teddy presses on, and that’s when Juan reveals that Roper is using Roxy to trap Pine. Teddy stops the car where he is supposed to meet Cabrera and again calls Pine, whilst claiming that he is talking to Cabrera, to subtly warn him about Roxy’s trap.
Pine Learns About Roxy’s Betrayal
Teddy’s warning comes a little too late, because Pine and Martin have already reached the rendezvous point in Zabaleta to pick up Roxy. Pine doesn’t want to believe that Roxy can backstab him, but he chooses to trust Teddy and directs her to an empty car. As soon as he says that, gunmen descend on that vehicle like hawks. Roper, who is watching all this unfold from afar through CCTV cameras and bodycams, notices that Pine isn’t in there, which means that he has fooled Roxy. Pine and Martin take off from the parking lot before they are discovered, and Roxy is understandably shocked after realizing that Pine has duped her. News of Pine getting away reaches Juan, and when he notices that Cabrera and his crew haven’t arrived at the meeting spot, even though Teddy supposedly gave them a call, he correctly assumes that Teddy is the one who tipped off Pine to save him. Teddy feigns ignorance for a while, but then gets into a physical altercation with Juan, which ends with Juan getting shot to death. Going back to Martin and Pine, they make a pit stop to pick up some documents that Sally has left for Pine. Martin tells Pine to take the car and go meet Teddy, and he assures Pine that he’ll find his way to Cabrera’s camp.
Pine Reunites With Teddy
Mayra calls up Roper to tell him to postpone the whole operation, because they’ve been exposed. Roper says that no such thing is going to happen, and he is going to see to it that the courier reaches Cabrera and the coup commences, by hook or by crook. Mayra doesn’t appreciate the tone in which Roper is talking to her, and she responds to him in a threatening way. Roper straight-up says that, at this stage of their mission, if Mayra chooses to betray him, he’s going to expose Mayra’s hand in Mayhew’s death before he goes down. Which means that Mayra has no choice but to comply. So, she hangs up and lets things play out the way Roper wants them to. Pine catches up with Teddy and helps him dispose of Juan’s body. Then he hands over the pictures of Roper’s meeting with him to Teddy, because that’s going to play an important part in turning Cabrera against Roper, thereby allowing Pine to bring his villainous saga to an end. Teddy wonders what’s going to happen to his dad once the coup is stopped. Pine senses that Teddy is still of two minds regarding betraying Roper, which is why he reminds Teddy of his tendency to cause himself physical pain whenever he fails his father, and tells him that he doesn’t need to do that for the rest of his life. If Roper is gone for good, Teddy will be free as well.
Teddy and Pine Deceive Cabrera
Roper figures out Teddy’s true allegiance after one conversation with Roxy. He tells Frisky to hold Roxy captive in his villa while he figures out a way to deal with his backstabbing son. Teddy reaches Cabrera’s camp whilst holding Pine captive. Cabrera is understandably confused, and Teddy begins spinning this tale of Roper working with Pine to take down Cabrera. We briefly see Sally extracting Consuelo so that they can go to San Marco to capture the payload before the focus of the episode returns to Cabrera’s camp, where Teddy and Cabrera actually torture Pine. Once Pine is sure that Cabrera is convinced that Teddy is not in cahoots with him, he tells Cabrera that he’s there to do business with Roper. That’s when Teddy whips out the doctored audio file (which is where that sound bite from earlier in the episode comes into play), where it sounds like Roper and Pine have been planning to make Cabrera launch this coup so that they can trap him and his crew and exterminate them for trying to destabilize Colombia. Pine claims that the latest airdrop won’t contain his precious EMP; instead, the plane will deliver 50 paratroopers who’ll kill every last person in that camp. As Cabrera processes this information, Sally and Consuelo reach San Marco, and Sally sends a message to Basil regarding this development. That’s when she learns that Basil is dead and Angela is overseeing things in London.
Mayra’s Jig Is Up
Angela corners Langbourne and brings him up to speed regarding how much she knows about the work he is doing with Roper and Mayra. She makes Langbourne an offer: give her hard evidence on Roper’s connection with Mayra and Cabrera, and he’ll be allowed to walk away from this mess without a spot on his designer clothes. Langbourne gives Angela a picture of him having dinner with Roper and Mayra, which Angela forwards to Mayra to get her to meet her at the library. Mayra has no choice; hence, she heads to the aforementioned location immediately. Roper, after a brief chat with Roxy about sentimentality and shedding skins, takes off to meet Cabrera at his camp. Pine has a private chat with Teddy, where he tells him that, while he did an excellent job convincing Cabrera that he was being betrayed by Roper, he has to go truly above and beyond to continue this ruse once Roper gets there. Because Cabrera might be an idiot, but Roper isn’t, and he’ll catch on to Teddy’s lies before their plan gets to its final stages. Teddy says that he’ll try his best, and Pine tells him to have faith in himself more than anyone else. While waiting for Roper to arrive, Teddy tells Cabrera to divert the plane to San Marco when the pilot asks for the coordinates, which’ll obviously prevent the hypothetical paratroopers from killing him and his crew. Cabrera thinks that he’s one step ahead of Roper, which is why he tells Teddy to pretend like their plan hasn’t changed at all when Roper arrives.
Roper Arrives at Cabrera’s Camp
Cabrera and Teddy welcome Roper, who is slightly concerned by Juan’s absence, but that’s overshadowed by the fact that he’s playing such an important role in reshaping the future of Colombia. Sally and Consuelo welcome the press so that they can take photographs and videos of the British weapon on Colombian soil. The ladies even rejoice a little after seeing that Cabrera has successfully given the pilot the “wrong coordinates” to the plane so that it lands in San Marco instead of the Cabreras’ camp. Cabrera leads everyone, including Pine, to the spot where the plane is supposed to land, so that he can get Roper to confess to his “betrayal” and then probably kill him. In the meantime, Angela gives Mayra the lowdown on how she’s going to put her behind bars for working with Roper to destroy Colombia. Mayra says that same old thing that every self-proclaimed nationalist says: she has done what she has done for the good of her country. Angela tells her that kind of nonsense isn’t going to fly anymore, because injecting money into your country’s economy, which’ll probably be inaccessible to the masses and enjoyed by only a select few people, by destroying and then mining the hell out of another country for copper, oil, and lithium is criminal.
Roper Fools Pine Again
At this moment, it seems like the heroes have won. Sally calls up Angela so that Consuelo can tell her that she has eyes on the prize. And at the Cabreras’ camp, there’s no sign of any plane, and Teddy and Pine are tag-teaming to make it seem like Roper is there to set a bunch of paratroopers on Cabrera and his people. However, that’s when Roper gets a call from Frisky, and we learn that there’s another plane, which is headed to Cabrera’s camp. No, it doesn’t have paratroopers in it; it has the EMP. What does the decoy plane airdrop? Just a rose attached to a chain. Yeah, the man has done it again. In episode 5 of Season 1 of The Night Manager, Roper had sent out two convoys: one that had the weapons, and the other that had agricultural produce. He had only highlighted the decoy convoy in front of Pine so that he could unintentionally misguide Angela, thereby giving the actual convoy a free pass. In Season 2, he made sure that Teddy knew about the decoy plane only so that if he chose to turn against him, he’d give the wrong details to Pine. Hence, the decoy plane reaches San Marco, while the plane carrying the EMP reaches Cabrera. He even makes a reference to the magic trick he used to perform on Danny, where he’d tell the kid to watch the cups so that he could correctly figure out which one of them had the ball under it. Danny would always fail to guess correctly, and it seems like Pine has failed at this game as well—twice!
Teddy Is Dead
Sally and Consuelo are shocked, since their whole plan to expose this attempt at a coup has been destroyed. Mayra walks out on Angela, because her whole case against her has crumbled. As for Roper, in the ending of The Night Manager Season 2, episode 6, after having delivered what was promised to Cabrera, he turns to his son and shoots him in the head. Yes, Teddy is dead. He then turns to Pine to put a bullet in his skull too, but he is stopped in his tracks by Cabrera, because he wants to get even with Pine for misguiding him so much. However, Martin kills Cabrera via a brilliant headshot, which allows Pine to run into the woods. Roper shoots at Pine and is only able to graze his left arm. Before any more harm can befall him, Octavio helps Pine get to Martin’s car, and they proceed to get away from the camp. That said, after reaching a certain distance, Martin tells Octavio and Pine to get out, because he knows that he’ll be caught by Cabrera’s crew eventually. When that happens, he doesn’t want Pine and Octavio to die with him. Therefore, Martin sacrifices himself so that Pine and Octavio can get away; they helplessly hear Martin being riddled with bullets by the Cabreras. When they take a pause in an undisclosed part of the forest, Pine looks at an eagle in the sky—which probably symbolizes Roper’s freedom and his own failure—and then collapses.
Angela Is Dead
Roxy reaches the airport; we don’t see her boarding a plane to Miami, but it’s heavily insinuated that she has left Colombia for good this time. Angela is back in her cottage in France, collating all the information she has gathered on Roper and Mayra. She is heard talking to someone or recording an audio file about an individual or group probably controlling Roper. Pine saw an eagle, which might be a hint that this mastermind is from the USA and is part of the “bigger game” that Angela mentioned. A few moments later, Angela’s little daughter discovers her body, which means that she has been killed by either Roper or Mayra. Before cutting to the credits, Roper picks up Danny to show him his new digs in Oxfordshire, which basically confirms the fact that everything that he had planned has gone off basically without a hitch. Colombia is in shambles, and it’s possible that someone from the Cabreras or the army is about to form the new government. The British government is going to head to Colombia for mining purposes. Roper has clearly paid off Omar and Kouyami. And now, he fully intends to turn Danny into his new attack dog (the dogs that Roper talks about getting are a metaphor). I mean, just because Roper has earned his freedom, is he going to leave the life of crime in the rearview mirror and focus on building a healthy relationship with Danny so that the kid never has to resort to the means that he had to in order to make a living? No, he is definitely going to find another mission that’ll involve death and destruction while playing “Masters of War” by Bob Dylan on the radio. He’ll need a sidekick, and, yeah, I think that role will be played by Danny.
Season 3 Theories
Season 3 of The Night Manager hasn’t been announced yet, but if it happens, we are going to get a final showdown between Pine and Roper, and this time, the good guys will hopefully win because, as they say, third time’s the charm. In that jungle, Roper told Pine that he always goes after Roper’s loved ones to hurt him. In the first season it was Jed, in the second it was Teddy, and if this theme continues, in the third season, it’ll be Danny. It’d make sense, because the dynamic between Danny, Roper, and Pine is complex. When Danny was a child, Roper used to be pretty rough with him. Pine was more of a father figure to him than Roper. Over the years, though, Danny has grown to resent Pine and idolize Roper. However, there’s a good chance that Danny still has some feelings for Pine. Pine only has to use that to his advantage, thereby bringing Roper to his knees and preventing Danny from going to the Dark Side. Before that, Pine has to heal physically and mentally. This defeat is going to haunt him for years. With Angela gone and Sally supposedly stranded in Colombia with Consuelo, Pine only has Octavio to rely on. Whether or not they’ll be able to find their bearings before Roper puts another one of his diabolical plans into motion is something that remains to be seen. Well, those are just my thoughts on the finale. If you have any opinions on the same, feel free to let me know in the comments section below.
