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‘The Diplomat’ Star Keri Russell and Creator Debora Cahn Break Down Season 2 Ending, From That Major Death to Whether [SPOILER] Is a Villain and More


'The Diplomat' star Keri Russell and creator Debora Cahn on that shocking finale death, Allison Janney's VP character Grace Penn and Hal's motivations.

Cahn, whose mother was in the Holocaust and rescued by American soldiers in Europe when she was 8 years old, started thinking about a show like “The Diplomat” after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, and Donald Trump began his disastrous term. So it would have been enough to end Season 2 of “The Diplomat” in the last moments of the penultimate episode where Hal is pinning Kate to their bed, doggy-style, in his boxers so that she literally can’t get to the phone to call Washington and tell them she doesn’t want the job as vice president of the United States, because she wants Grace Penn to have it. There’s a scene in the finale in which Grace Penn picks up a slab of cold burnt wood from the fireplace at the prime minister’s home and, under duress, lays out for Kate on a big map why she ordered the hit on the British ship: If Britain hadn’t come together over a national tragedy like that, and Scotland had gained its independence — which was in the works — then the British base that houses the only nuclear submarines preventing Russia from easily nuking the United States by sea would have been shut down, and all of our lives, and the lives of the people we love, would have been in grave danger.

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