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[Spoiler Alert: The following contains spoilers from the first two episodes of #TheDiplomat season three. You’ve been warned.]

By the second episode of season three of Netflix‘s The Diplomat, viewers may have thought that the political thriller was on the verge of blowing up its entire premise.

After a series of changes, including Allison Janney’s Grace Penn becoming president after President Rayburn (Michael McKean) dies, Celia Imrie’s Margaret Roylin dying and Penn appointing Rufus Sewell‘s former ambassador Hal Wyler as her vice president instead of his wife Kate Wyler (Keri Russell), who’d been pursuing the position, Kate is ready to leave her post as American ambassador to the U.K., the role she took in the opening minutes of the series’ first episode, and return to the U.S. with Hal with the promise of a newly created special envoy to Europe position alongside her role as second lady. But as she’s about to board the plane, she looks up at Hal from the tarmac and can’t do it. He looks back at her in a knowing moment for the long-married couple and turns around and boards the plane.

For Russell, the moment, which maintains her character’s current diplomatic position, is also an unusual shift for both Kate and many women.

THR caught up with Russell about ‘The Diplomat’s’ “Contemplative” Season 3 Shift. More at the link in bio.

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