by Bryce Olin for ShowSnob
The Diplomat season 2 finale is a game-changing episode for the series! I truly can’t believe everything that happened in this episode, and now, I can’t wait to see what creator Debora Cahn and the team have planned in The Diplomat season 3.
The Diplomat season 2 episode 6, “Dreadnought,” begins with Kate and Hal Wyler (Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell) discussing the big revelation at the end of episode 5. Vice President Grace Penn (Allison Janney) and the Americans are actually responsible for the attack on the HMS Courageous and for killing the Scottish independence movement.
Hal also reveals that the President doesn’t know what Grace did. Hal tries to slow down Kate. She wants to blow this up and make it a big deal, but Hal doesn’t want her to.
Kate tells Stuart that he wants to be Vice President
Kate comes to the revelation that she needs to make sure that she, and not Grace, should be Vice President.
At breakfast the next morning, Kate informs Stuart Heyford (Eto Assandoh) that she wants to be Vice President. If the White House offers the job, she’ll accept. She tells Stuart to do whatever he can to make it happen, and that includes a new wardrobe for Kate, new hair, and more.
Grace tells Kate that she appreciates her support to continue as Vice President. Grace obviously knows that Kate is trying to look a little more Vice Presidential.
Stuart tries to get back together with Eidra
After breakfast with Kate, Stuart, feeling himself a little bit, goes to Eidra Park (Ali Ahn) to fill her in on Kate’s decision to try to become Vice President. Eidra is excited at first, but then Stuart uses the news to try to get back together.
Eidra gets upset by this and leaves. When Stuart follows, she asks him to stop doing this at work. There’s still a lot of baggage here. Will they get back together again? We’ll have to see.
Dennison tells Trowbridge to resign
Back with the Brits, Austin Dennison (David Gyasi) is called into Trowbridge’s office. Trowbridge’s wife is trying to get him to resign, but Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) doesn’t want to.
Trowbridge wants Dennison’s advice, although Dennison doesn’t want to give it. After a lot of teeth-pulling, Dennison says that Trowbridge should resign. Trowbridge doesn’t want to do it. He’s dragging his feet.
Later, he drags his feet a little further with another MP. Trowbridge still can’t speak about what actually happened because he doesn’t want to deal with the consequences. Dennison demands that Trowbridge tell him when he’s going to do it, but Trowbridge tells him it isn’t the right time.
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