Noah Centineo is meandering through the International Spy Museum on Tuesday afternoon in D.C. when he eyes the tools of the espionage trade on display — a lipstick pistol, a poison dart umbrella, a fountain pen camera — with personal intrigue and professional indifference.

“Some of this is f—ing dope,” the 26-year-old actor marvels while examining a deck of cards that doubled as an escape map for Allied prisoners during World War II. Yet as Centineo discusses his starring role in the Netflix series “The Recruit” — a peppy spy thriller about a fledging CIA lawyer — he concedes such contraptions never had a place in the show’s more bureaucratic trappings.