Protocol (1984) on Netflix

Plot summary

Sunny Davis is thirty-five and has never voted; she has no interest in politics. She waits tables at Lou Fox's Safari Club in Washington, D.C. On her way home she stops to watch the dignitaries leaving a gala dinner, and a man pushes past her. She feels something hard in his coat and asks whether he has a gun. He fires, and she bites his arm; in the struggle she is wounded and the emir is unharmed. News reports call her a heroine. Michael Ransome, a Middle Eastern desk chief at the State Department, helps her through a press conference. The Vice President then offers her a job in the Protocol Department, and she accepts, though she has to look up the word.