The Night Agent Season 2 was released on Netflix on January 23, 2025, and ever since then, it has been buzzing among fans on social media. Created by Shawn Ryan, The Night Agent Season 2 is already on the top of most watched series of the week in multiple countries including India. The Night Agent Season 2 is a 10-episode espionage thriller that marks the return of Peter Sutherland and Rose Larkin (character name). The Night Agent Season 2 revolves around Peter Sutherland now a Night Action agent in pursuit of stopping a possible chemical attack on the United States planned by the Bala family including Victor, Markus, and Tomas Bala (character name).
One name that keeps on popping up is Project Foxglove. Under the project foxglove, the Bala brother kidnaps a chemistry professor and his family along with Rose and force him to make chemical K.X. Now the question arises what is project foxglove and what is chemical K.X. shown in The Night Agent Season 2? Below is all you need to know about The Night Agent Chemical K.X. and The Night Agent 2 Project Foxglove-
What is Project Foxglove?
Catherine Weaver while talking to Peter in an underground basement revealed what was Project Foxglove. In episode 4 of the series, Catherine reveals, "I had an illuminating dinner conversation last night, the details of which are still incoming...Clandestine R&D program, theoretical chemists. The idea was to conceive of new synthetic weapons the US, could get ahead of, then create antidotes, and solvents, to counter their effects. The only problem with that was, they had to manufacture the chemicals to know how to stop them. The CIA, in conjunction with the US military, secretly developed nine novel chemical agents in a mobile lab, which as of Friday, has gone missing."
To make long things short, Foxglove was the CIA's secret program under which top chemical scientists were developing chemical weapons and thereafter their anecdotes so that the US can counter any chemical weapon attack in the future. However, the project was shut down.
Notably, after the discovery of foxglove, Rose finds out that a Chemistry professor at Columbia Dr. Wilfred Cole was part of the CIA's program in the past.
What is Chemical K.X. and its impact on the body?
Dr. Wilfred Cole during the captive tells Rose, "This compound K.X. when exposed to air will rapidly oxidize and expand as it vaporizes. It's what makes exposure to even a few millimeters so lethal. Stabilizer will slow oxidation as we work with it in the lab. K.X. It's just too unstable without it. This mitigates reactions like a fail-safe."
"If the stabilizer works with the ration I have calculated the fully mixed K.X. should take on a purple hue. Red Phosphorus in the stabilizer and the hydrogen cyanide remnants left over in the cyanogen, once condensed into a liquid form, should turn purple. That is if the bonding was successful."
Revealing K.X.'s impact being released in the air, Dr. Wilfred Cole further said, "This compound you asked me to build, do you even know how it works? In application, it's like any other binary chemical munition. But, in the case of K.X., the secondary element is oxygen. When exposed to air, we are talking about an exponential increase in molarity. Drop that in a room full of people (small bottle), it will expand so rapidly, that they will be breathing it in before they know it hit the floor."
"The lucky ones will suffocate. What's more likely to happen is that will feel the blistering effects as the air inside them reacts to exposure and it expands in their lungs. It burns you from the inside as breathe it in, and from the outside as the vapor comes in contact with your skin. The more you inhale, the more oxygen you suk in as you struggle to breathe from the pain, the more it burns, the faster it expands. You pray to suffocate," added Doctor Cole.