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It Starts On The Page: Read ‘The Diplomat’ Season 2 Finale Script “Dreadnought” With Foreword By Debora Cahn
'The Diplomat' creator Debora Cahn talks about writing Season 2 finale "Dreadnought." Part of a franchise featuring scripts of top Emmy contenders.
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 (Keri Russell) husband Hal (Rufus Sewell) as well as her deputy chief of mission Stuart Hayford (Ato Essandoh) severely injured. But it was the finale, and anything finale-worthy was likely to sound lame in its baldest form, so I found myself saying, “Yes, but we’ll do the not-shitty version,” like that was some sort of literary device I’d learned from a close reading of Pinter. An idea sounds implausible or trite and you spend a lot of time trying to build it out and ground it and support it with a great deal of research and nuance and complexity, but ultimately you have to fall in love with some piece of it, and for me it was that line, describing the cardiac death of a president.
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