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The Diplomat Recap: Baby, You’re a Firework


The plan to oust Trowbridge is finally in motion, but he proves to be more slippery than Kate and Dennison anticipated.

Since she’s going over there anyway, having been summoned by Dennison, who she’s sure, on the basis of PM Trowbridge popping onto national television to announce Lenkov’s regrettable and 100 percent accidental death during his attempted arrest by British special forces and French law enforcement, is going to withdraw his recognition of her as U.S. ambassador? No idea, as Trowbridge “fell asleep while she was describing it.” Hal would sooner eat a bag of glass for his midafternoon snack and wash it down with a refreshing serving of sulfuric acid, but turning down Nicol the Folk Hero seems impossible at the moment. • The apple varieties conversation between Stuart and a Tory advisor named Julian (Rupert Vansittart, subverting expectations by playing a perfectly nice guy rather than an insufferable upper-class blowhard as he’s done so well in films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the 1995 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice) is my favorite little moment of the episode.

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