Dougray Scott: On the run from everyone... Pic: ©Powercorp
Scottish actor Dougray Scott is no stranger to the thriller. In 2001 he cracked the Enigma code and a year earlier Tom Cruise cracked him open in Mission Impossible: 2. This Sunday he’s back in the joint British-Australian two-part TV series The Diplomat, stuck in the centre of an international terrorist plot to kill hundreds of thousands of people with a nuclear bomb.
Scott plays Ian Porter, a British diplomat to the formerly-Soviet Tajikistan, arrested by Scotland Yard for allegedly helping Russian mobsters smuggle drugs into Britain.
Under interrogation by Detective Chief Inspector Julie Hales (Rachael Blake), Porter reveals that he has become close to the notorious heroin trafficker Sergei Krousov and Hales realises she now has the opportunity to bring the gangster in.
In exchange for immunity, Porter agrees to testify against Krousov and is placed with his ex wife in a witness protection scheme in Sydney, Australia, where he is anything but safe.
With MI6 behaving strangely and Porter holding his cards close to his chest, it becomes clear to Hales that he is not just a British ambassador but an MI6 agent working deep cover within Krousov’s terrorist network.
When it becomes apparent that a nuclear bomb built by the Soviet Union is also missing, Hales must discover which side Porter is really on, while the Russian mafia and British Intelligence chase the diplomat themselves.
Intense and intricate, with a cast that combines the best acting talents in the UK and Australia, The Diplomat will grip you right up to it’s explosive conclusion.
See The Diplomat on STV, Sunday September 5, 9pm, or anytime after on the STV Player, for 30 days. Continues September 12.
