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The Diplomat Recap: She Did What?


The Vice President enters the chat, and the wait for Allison Janney finally ends.

In the wee hours, poor Stuart takes the call announcing the VP’s arrival and is very diligently trying to glean from Billie and Eidra any details that might help him identify moments to pull Kate out of one of her meetings with Penn, but keeps hearing things that stun and trouble him. Kate shifts into staff-in-the-room mode, sitting quietly and saying little as she observes the woman whose shoes she’s meant to fill smooth Trowbridge’s feathers, assert and lay claim to a support role he didn’t understand that he needed, then plant the seed of simply not making public any details of the Lenkof affair and wait to watch it flourish. • Blink and you’ll miss Trowbridge refer to bomb-setter Leonard Stendig as “a toad in a Brioni,” a perfect insult that also immediately conjures a mental image of the Italian menswear brand’s most famous current customer.

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