A new trailer for Netflix series The Recruit gives a glimpse inside the action-packed Season 2, set to premiere on January 30. This time around, CIA lawyer-turned de facto field agent Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) is headed to South Korea, where he has “48 hours to stop an all-out war.”
With the tagline “Spy Meets Seoul,” the second season of The Recruit sees Hendricks back in the field in the South Korean capital, despite his boss, Walter Nyland (Vondie Curtis-Hall), reminding him: “You’re a lawyer.” Suffice it to say that Hendricks is eager to get back in the action. “But what if we involved operations without involving operations?” He says in the trailer.
How does he get back in the game? “He is cunning and charming. He is absolutely ruthless.” However, Hendricks needs help, as stated in the new footage, “Saving the world takes a pair.” Enter Hendricks’ unlikely partner in Seoul, Jang Kyun Kim (Teo Yoo) for, as Deadline noted, “some Rush Hour-style buddy action sequences.”
“Rhythm and chemistry are tough phenomenons to have control over,” Centineo told Netflix’s Tudum on his working relationship with Yoo, who handles the dazzling martial arts. “But, thankfully, I was very fortunate to have a partner in Teo for Season 2.” As the second season of The Recruit jumps right into where Season 1 left off, Centineo also spoke about the precarious situation Hendricks finds himself in.

“Owen’s headspace is complete chaos. He has just witnessed Max — the former CIA asset whom he almost died multiple times trying to protect — get shot by her daughter Nichka. Owen is wondering how in the hell he is going to survive the next few seconds of his life.”

The second season of The Recruit starts off with a bang, and the ball doesn’t stop rolling from there. “Owen rolls into this season basically screwed,” creator and showrunner Alexi Hawley added. “Owen knows that if he does not walk away with a win this season, his career is going to be over. He might go to prison.”

New & Returning Cast of ‘The Recruit’ Season 2

As a spy thriller, there’s plenty of intrigue and subterfuge in The Recruit, not-so-subtly explained by CIA Director Alton West (Nathan Fillion) when he says in the new trailer, “they are going to spill every secret we busted our nuts to keep secret.”
Season 2 also sees the return of Season 1 characters Aarti Mann as Violet Ebner, Colton Dunn as Lester Kitchens, Angel Parker as Dawn Gilbane, Maddie Hasson as Nichka Lashin, Fivel Stewart as Hannah Copeland, Kristian Bruun as Janus Ferber, Kaylah Zander as Amelia Salazar, Daniel Quincy Annoh as Terence, and Jesse Collin as Dodge.

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New recruits include Shin Do-hyun as Yoo Jin Lee, “a free-spirited young woman with a childhood connection to Owen,” Young-Ah Kim as Grace, “a savvy senior intelligence officer and single mother who’s under increasing pressure to discover what the CIA is up to in South Korea,” and Alana Hawley Purvis as “Amanda Fern, a stern and by-the-book CIA station chief in Seoul who’s resistant to taking any instructions from a CIA operative.”

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The Recruit

Genres

Thriller, Action

Network

Netflix

Cast

Vondie Curtis Hall, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Aarti Mann, Kaylah Zander, Fivel Stewart, Laura Haddock, Angel Parker, Colton Dunn, Noah Centineo, Byron Mann