Who Is Agent Jane And What’s Her Deal In ‘Paradise’ Episode 4?
When Agent Billy Pace told the architect of Paradise that she’d better send “the biggest motherfucker you got” to take him down, there was no way in hell he would have suspected who his assailant would have been.
It was – major spoilers for episode four ahead – one of the people closest to him: his girlfriend and colleague, agent Jane. So what do we know about her, who does she work for and how has she sneaked by practically unnoticed for the first half of this dystopian murder mystery?
Let’s get into it below…
Who is Agent Jane?
We’re first introduced to Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom) in the opening of Paradise, when the president is shot and security agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) waits half an hour before shutting everything down. She’s obviously a junior in the team, as she takes orders from Xavier, and there’s clearly something going on between her and Agent Billy Pace, as they share knowing glances at each other.
Later, when Jane and Billy are questioned about whereabouts on the night of the murder, they admit they regularly turn off the security cameras when on guard duties in the night, so they can… play Wii Tennis, apparently. Sure, Jane.
Jane appears to be rather meek and mild, a woman who gets excited about picking out an outfit to wear to the town’s carnival – but then why does she know to show up in the office, right as carnival’s about to start, to find Xavier trawling through files to dig up information on her boyfriend Billy?
Undercover underground
We now know that she is another one of Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond's (Juliette Nicholson) hired killers, tasked with bumping off whoever Sinatra requests. Heartbreakingly for Billy, it appears that the only woman he’s ever loved – as he, misty-eyed, previously told Presley (Xavier’s daughter) how he’d “shoot his shot” to start their relationship – was all an orchestrated set up, presumably by Sinatra.
In Billy’s final scene, we get a glimpse of Jane’s troubled childhood – “All those years of my parents never showing me affection really worked out for you, huh?” – but it seems like it’s a loving scene. That is, until she offers him food and beer that she’s poisoned. As he keels over on the floor, she sets the scene up with pills to make it look like an overdose. She then leans in and tells her boyfriend: “You told her to send the biggest motherfucker she had. I’m it, baby”.
Although Billy thought he was Sinatra’s right-hand contract killer – he was the one sent to the earth’s surface to kill off the four scientists tasked with seeing if life was hospitable up there yet – it appears that Sinatra had a deadlier assassin in the mix: plain Jane. But what’s Jane’s role in the wider murder story? What’s her end goal, and how many other people are also living spy-cops style undercover? To paraphrase Phil Collins, it’s just another week for you and me in Paradise.
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