Noah Centineo Is Trying to be a Hero

Noah Centineo‘s Owen Hendricks goes secretly undercover in South Korea during The Recruit season two trailer, set to Green Day’s “American Idiot” with a Korean twist.

With some help from Past Lives star Teo Yoo, who plays newcomer Jang Kyun, Owen begins a covert operation for the Central Intelligence Agency, despite being a lawyer.

“We’re all either going to be dead or heroes,” Centineo says to which his boss, Vondie Curtis-Hall’s Walter Nyland, responds: “But you’re not a hero.”

The two-and-a-half-minute look at the second season sees Owen in several precarious positions (similar to season one), including getting in a fight at a Korean club in which he seemingly gets captured, getting arrested at another point, being shot at by machine guns, and jumping off a yacht.

“They are going to spill every secret we busted our nuts to keep secret,” Nathan Fillion’s CIA Director Alton West says in the trailer when he finds out about Owen’s covert mission.

According to the logline, season two sees Owen pulled into a life-threatening espionage situation, only to realize the bigger threat may be coming from inside the Agency.

Yoo joined the show for its second season as a Korean intelligence agent, and he and Centineo found a stride while filming.

“Rhythm and chemistry are tough phenomenons to have control over,” the star and executive producer told Tudum. “But, thankfully, I was very fortunate to have a partner in Teo for season two.”

But creator and showrunner Alexi Hawley insists this season is “not a buddy comedy between Owen and Jang Kyun.”

“Somebody who will do anything for love is dangerous,” he also told Tudum. “But Owen and Jang Kyun have great energy together. There’s a push and a pull, which is just sort of organic to them.”

The Recruit season two hits Netflix on Jan. 30.