‘The Diplomat’ Creator Debora Cahn Breaks Down Season 2’s Prescient Plot & That Insane Cliffhanger: “It Looks Like We’re Stealing From The Headlines”
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This post contains major plot details from Season 2 of Netflix‘s The Diplomat. Foreign tensions escalate even further in Season 2 of The Diplomat as Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) continues investigating the bombing of a British aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
The breakneck six-episode season picks up right where things left off in Season 1, plunging viewers into the panic that broke out after a car bomb exploded in the heart of London, killing Parliament member Merritt Grove and leaving Kate’s husband Hal (Rufus Sewell) as well as her deputy chief of mission Stuart Hayford (Ato Essandoh) severely injured.
Kate and British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi) had begun to suspect that Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) was behind both attacks, the first in an effort to quell Ireland’s independence movement and the second to silence Grove.
However, as they dig deeper, it turns out to be much more complicated than they ever could have imagined. It turns out that Trowbridge’s former consultant Margaret Roylin (Celia Imrie) was behind the directive for both bombings…at the direction of U.S.
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