“I mean, it’s the whole fucking definition of my life’s work.” “I feel like the stand-up thing to do is to give a relationship every possible chance, right?” she says. She’s livid, and once again decides their marriage must end.ĭemanding that Hal cancel the meeting (and refusing to further help her husband oust Ganon as secretary of state), Kate leans instead on Dennison, who provides comfort and counsel as they speed-walk along the Seine. It’s exactly this overreach that clues Kate into Hal’s ulterior motives. Such a move is an enormous overreach, given that Hal is not currently an acting U.S. Although Hal tries to politely decline, he offers to connect Merritt instead to Billie Appiah (Nana Mensah), the White House Chief of Staff. At Chatham House, Hal meets a British MP named Merritt Grove, who urges they meet for dinner that evening. In other words, he’s campaigning-and not subtly-for the role of secretary of state, a job that Hal’s former colleague revealed might be, uh, vacated imminently.Įven from afar, Kate knows her husband well enough to recognize when he’s manipulating relationships behind her back. Hal wants to be seen, heard, and spread widely. He waives the so-called “Chatham House Rule,” which designates that speeches can be cited broadly but not credited to a specific orator. The speech, like so much of Hal’s schmoozing, is a roaring success. Since Kate will be abroad, he’ll deliver a speech in her stead at the international relations think tank Chatham House.
In her own act of marital diplomacy, Kate has offered for him to join her in Paris he turns her down, accepting another olive branch in place of the trip. But she has some issues at home: Her husband, Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), is scheming behind the scenes.
There, Kate is expected to ask the French minister of the interior, Brielle Fournier (Micky Sébastian), for permission to use British Special Forces in the Lenkov arrest. Secretary of State Miguel Ganon (Miguel Sandoval), British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi), Deputy Chief of Mission Stuart Heyford (Ato Essandoh) and Kate fly to Paris. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Trowbridge, who previously thought the plan cowardly, is suddenly its biggest fan. The new plan is one Trowbridge suddenly supports the next day: British Special Forces will arrest leader Roman Lenkov himself in France, where he’s visiting his secret family in Cap d’Antibes. Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) is furious over her inability to sway President Rayburn (Michael McKean) into supporting the so-called “Libya plan,” in which the Brits would attack the Russian Lenkov Group in Libya as retaliation for the (supposedly) Russian-backed bombing of the British airplane carrier HMS Courageous. The episode opens with Kate Wyler (Russell) staring into the distance, fretting over the ways she believes she’s failed as a U.S. Which is, of course, the perfect formula for a cliffhanger. By the time Cahn’s name flashes onto the screen of episode 8, “The James Bond Clause,” the stakes feel both baffling and real. Showrunner Debora Cahn has crafted that elusive not-prestige-but-not- not-prestige political thriller, one that marries the addicting silliness Netflix has staked its claim upon with the sobriety of those other streamers-that-shall-not-be-named. Keri Russell’s eyes say it all: The ending of the first season of Netflix’s The Diplomat is outrageous, and also the ideal argument for the series’ continuing existence. Spoilers below for season 1 of The Diplomat.
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