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The Agency’s Jodie Turner-Smith teases "consequences" for Samia and Michael Fassbender’s Martian in season 2

"I think people are going to be really interested to see how much further he is willing to go."

Jodie Turner-Smith as Samia in The Agency, wearing grey rags and sat on the floor in a prison cell, looking up at light coming in from the window.

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Published: Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 8:00 am

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The first season of The Agency ended on a dramatic cliffhanger, with Jodie Turner-Smith's Samia headed back to Sudan and Michael Fassbender's Martian being forced to become a double agent for British intelligence.

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Now, Turner-Smith has spoken with Radio Times exclusively to tease what we can expect in season 2 – and it seems that consequences are on the cards.

"When we left her at the end of the season, she was going back to Sudan, and we were unsure of her fate, but we pretty much knew what maybe would happen," Turner-Smith said of where we pick up with Samia at the start of the season 2.

"And we do find her at the beginning of the season, she is in RSF [Rapid Support Forces] detention, paying for the crime of having fallen in love with the wrong person."

When asked what fans can expect from season 2 and how it will be different to the show's first outing, Turner-Smith said: "I think that we're really going to see the characters live these consequences of the first season. We're just getting like deeper, the web is getting more tangled, and I think that people are going to be really interested and excited to see where we go.

"And also, even myself watching the first season, when you're doing it, it's almost like we're all on different shows in a way. Because I did most of my stuff with Michael Fassbender, and I never go to the agency in season 1, I don't go into the CIA, those guys – Richard [Gere] and Jeffrey [Wright] and Michael – they're all sort of living in a different world.

"And so when I got to watch season 1 and see the way that Martian was operating inside of all of the different spaces he was moving in, I got a sense, I was like, 'Wow, he's really obsessed with this woman and going beyond, going absolutely nuts.' I think people are going to be really interested to see how much further he is willing to go."

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As well as Turner-Smith, Fassbender, Gere and Wright, The Agency stars Katherine Waterston, Harriet Sansom Harris, John Magaro, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Andrew Brooke, India Fowler, Reza Brojerdi and Alex Reznik.

The synopsis for season 2 says that the show "follows Martian (Fassbender), a CIA agent living undercover in his own life".

The synopsis continues: "Samia (Turner-Smith), his lover, is a political prisoner in Sudan, and he will do anything to try to save her, even past the point of treachery. The only way out is deeper in. A knife-edge Martian must walk if he is to save love, life, and his mission."

The Agency season 2 launches on Paramount+ from 21 June.

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James HibbsDrama Writer

James Hibbs is a Drama Writer for Radio Times, covering programmes across both streaming platforms and linear channels. He previously worked in PR, first for a B2B agency and subsequently for international TV production company Fremantle. He possesses a BA in English and Theatre Studies and an NCTJ Level 5 Diploma in Journalism.

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