‘The Diplomat’ Star Rufus Sewell Talks Redacted Scripts and Season 2’s Shocking Final Scene: ‘The Hairs on the Back of Your Neck Stand Up’

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers about the Season 2 finale of “The Diplomat.” “The Diplomat” stars Kerry Russell and Rufus Sewell already knew how Season 2 was going to end when they arrived for the table read of the sixth and final episode. “The rest of the cast didn’t know,” Sewell tells me over Zoom from his Los Angeles-area home. “The scripts they were given were redacted.

The very end of Episode 6 was blacked out, and only at the read through did they get the actual scripts.” The last minutes of the episode find Hal (Sewell) frantically trying to get to Kate on the phone after he is seen speaking to Pres.

Rayburn (Michael McKean). Kate is on the lawn to Vice Pres. Grace Penn (Allison Janney) she wants her job when deputy chief of mission Stuart Hayford (Ato Essandoh) hands her the phone.

Hal tells Kate that he had just told president that Grace was the one who ordered the fatal false flag bombing of the British naval ship.