When the senior MI6 official Jim, played with twinkly-eyed ferocity by Hugh Bonneville, tells Martian (Michael Fassbender), “Nobody is you, not even you,” he reveals the one true thing about the CIA agent. Martian has been undercover so long, assuming so many identities so completely that he has lost his sense of who he is. The people around him, including his daughter Poppy (India Fowler), his lover, anthropology professor Samia (Jodie Turner-Smith), his mentor and boss Henry (Jeffrey Wright), his handler Naomi (Katherine Waterston), and his psychologist Blake (Harriet Sansom Harris), are not sure of his intentions or loyalty. “Martian casts no shadow; he should have been in the Cold War,” Naomi says of Martian.The Agency Season 2 (English)Creators: Jez Butterworth & John-Henry ButterworthCast: Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Richard Gere, Katherine Waterston, Harriet Sansom Harris, John Magaro, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, India FowlerEpisodes: 10Runtime: 44–60 minutesStoryline: While the Martian plays a dangerous double game to free Samia, there is a new threat on the horizon“I have got too good at hiding stuff,” Martian tells Poppy ruefully. Is he an alien, like his codename suggests? Is he a matchstick man, like the matchsticks he uses to visualise three moves ahead in the grand intelligence chess game? Is Martian a pawn in the hands of the CIA’s London Station Chief Bosko (Richard Gere), like the figurine of the little drummer boy he breaks in two when he decides not to save an operative?There are those who look up to Martian as well, including Danny (Saura Lightfoot-Leon), a newly minted agent undercover in Tehran looking to unearth Iran’s nuclear secrets, and case officer Blair (Ambreen Razia) who tries on Martian’s “face”, much to her colleague, Owen’s (John Magaro) horror.At the end of Season 1, Martian agrees to become a double agent for the British in return for Samia’s freedom, and Danny has entered Iran as a geophysics graduate on an exchange programme. Season 2 opens two months later, with a botched attempt at Samia’s rescue by the British. At a party, Danny meets the hot-headed playboy Hassan (Keanush Tafreshi), the son of a powerful government official, and his girlfriend, Darya (Medalion Rahimi).