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The Old Man Season 1 Episode 2 Recap “II”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of The Old Man Season 1 Episode 2 “II.” Chase finds a temporary hideout, but Harold Harper and the authorities are still after him. Here’s what you missed!

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Previously on The Old Man Season 1 Episode 1 Premiere, Dan Chase’s past catches up to him, he must flee the town he’s called home for three decades.

Warning… Spoilers below!

On The Old Man Season 1 Episode 2, in the desert, a young Harold stands in front of a parked jeep. A rider on a brown mount with his head and face wrapped approaches him. Dismounting, it’s revealed to be a young Chase. Harold hasn’t brought “Johnny” (Chase) the guns he asked for, since Harold doesn’t want him to fight a war his country told him not to fight.

The Past is Back

Johnny, aka Chase, tells Harold he knows he’s right, despite what Langley thinks. The leader Chase is supporting wants his people to be able to survive without getting raped and murdered by Russian teenagers, and Chase wants to help him no matter what.

Harold isn’t convinced. He doesn’t believe that the United States government and its allies can be wrong about someone, and Chase can be right. He agrees to bring Chase the rifles he wants but warns him that they’ll send him after Chase when someone finds out about what he’s doing.

In the present day, agents search the site of Chase’s murders from the night before. Agent Waters asks Harold why Chase wouldn’t just take off. He’s convinced Harold is too close to the case, but Harold is determined to find Chase. Chase heads to an old garage, where he gets a car and bag.

Need to Heal Up

Still suffering from his fight from the night before, Chase leaves a voicemail for Emily telling her he’s letting go of Dan Chase and everything that ties him to the name. He tells her he needs a while to figure some things out, heal and remember what it takes to be someone new.

Hearing someone outside the door, Chase introduces himself as Peter Caldwell to his neighbor Zoe (Amy Brenneman). He thought the owner wouldn’t be onsite, and dodges her questions about his banged-up face. She tells him to leave when she finds out he has two dogs since the listing said no pets.

Elsewhere, Harold deplanes and heads to go see a friend and tell him about Faraz Hamzad. His friend is Morgan Bote, who tells him that when Johnny (Chase, Peter) betrayed him, Hamzad dedicated himself to leveraging his power to seek revenge.

Bote reminds Harold that he warned both him and Johnny about the consequences of their actions in the past. He gives Harold a phone number and tells him to protect his legacy, no matter the cost. Harold is afraid to take the number, but also afraid of Chase’s story coming out.

Family Ties

While “Peter’s” (Chase’s) car is broken down and he waits for the tow truck he cooks Zoe a meal, although she claims it won’t make her change her mind about the rental. When the tow truck arrives, she tells him he can stay if he’ll cook and pay two months’ rent.

Back in the guesthouse, Peter lays down next to the dogs, nursing his injured ribs. At the FBI, Harold interrupts a birthday party to settle into his temporary office. Angela Adams, (Alia Shawkat) wonders why he’s back at the office so soon after losing his son and daughter-in-law.

In a meeting with her and Joe (Kenneth Mitchell), another agent, Harold enlists them to look for Chase’s daughter. Meanwhile, days later, Peter is interrupted by Zoe, who asks him out to dinner. On the phone with Emily, he tells her he agreed to go so that she doesn’t get suspicious.

Zoe asks Peter (Dan) to dinner on The Old Man Season 1 Episode 2

Zoe asks Peter (Dan) to dinner on The Old Man Season 1 Episode 2

At dinner, Zoe and Peter compare medications and vitamins before ordering. Peter tells Zoe that his wife died of Huntington’s after six years of severe dementia after they were married for 21 years. Zoe has been divorced for five years after her husband left her for a younger woman.

Seek and Find

At the FBI, Agent Waters, the CIA agent who was worried Harold might be too close to the case, tries to get between Angela and Harold. He tells Angela about Faraz Hamzad, informing her he was a formidable warlord in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion.

What made Faraz Hamzad so formidable was that he had an unbeatable, ghost-like man in his camp who could kill dozens of Russian targets and disappear unharmed. The Afghani people called him the beast who ate everything, and Waters heard that the man was Dan Chase.

When Angela asks what this has to do with Harold, Waters informs her that Harold was the Chief of Station overseeing CIA support in the area at the time. He wonders what Harold might have known and asks Angela how far she thinks Harold will go to keep it from coming out.

Angela asks Waters if this is what they teach him at Langley and laughs at his attempt to turn her against Howard. He claims that what they taught him at Langely is the person who promises they’ll never turn is usually the one who turns first.

Close Call

On the way home from their date, Peter watches out the window while Zoe drives. Her son calls while they’re driving to talk to her about money for his tuition. When they come upon a police roadblock on the way home, Peter tries to disguise himself and Zoe pretends he’s her husband.

The cops ask them both to step out of the vehicle, and Peter has a knife hidden behind his leg. When the cops look like they might recognize him, Peter slits the throat of one and shoots another in front of Zoe. She tells him she sees him, and he shoots her in the head too.

Shaking himself out of a stupor, Peter hides the knife back in his pocket as the cop gives him and Zoe the okay to head home, as long as he drives. Back at the house, Peter tries to deny Zoe’s invitation for coffee inside, but she takes his hand and leads him in any way.

In the FBI office that night, Harold tells Angela she needs to get out of the office and at least pretend she wants a real life. She’s found Chase’s daughter Emily, but all records claim that she’s dead, along with Chase, by suicide in 2003.

Secrets and Lies

Opening up to Harold, Angela tells him she heard from agent Waters about Faraz Hamzad and his potential involvement. Harold tells her what’s happening now is the end of a very long story, one that no one knows the real answers to.

In the middle of the night, Chase dreams of his wife Abbey again. She tells him her death was tormented with fear for him, fear that he would die alone and unhappy without another partner. She asks if she can be there when Chase tells Zoe the truth and wonders if she should tell her herself.

Chase immediately begins to pack, talking to the dogs about not wanting to hurt Zoe if he stays here any longer. He hears a bottle break in the kitchen while packing, and runs into Zoe’s house. She’s upset that her tuition check for her son bounced, and he couldn’t take his exam.

Zoe’s ex-husband has been shorting his alimony payments, so she can’t afford everything she needs, but she doesn’t tell her son that. Peter offers to pay, but she turns him down and he cleans up the glass on her floor. Then he begins to make her a meal, without her asking him to.

In a parking lot in the middle of the night, Harold Harper calls the man who Morgan Bote recommended to him, Julian. He sends him after Chase at Zoe’s house, with a warning that Chase has no limits and will do any amount of damage to protect himself…

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Air Date: June 16, 2022

The Old Man Cast

  • Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase
  • John Lithgow as Harold Harper
  • Amy Brenneman as Zoe McDonald
  • Alia Shawkat as Angela Adams
  • Gbenga Akinnagbe as Julian Carson
  • E.J. Bonilla as Raymond Waters
  • Bill Heck as Young Dan Chase

Guest Starring

  • Bill Heck as Young Dan Chase
  • Christopher Redman as Young Harold Harper
  • Joel Grey as Morgan Bote

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The Old Man Season 1 Episode Guide

Season Episode Title Air Date
1 7 VII” The Old Man Season 1 Finale July 21, 2022
1 6 VI July 14, 2022
1 5 V July 7, 2022
1 4 IV June 30, 2022
1 3 III June 23, 2022
1 2 II June 16, 2022
1 1 I” The Old Man Season 1 Premiere June 16, 2022

Photo credit: FX

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One comment on “The Old Man Season 1 Episode 2 Recap “II”

  1. Mike Scofield says:

    How has no one picked up the Lawrence of Arabia reference in the opening scene ? I was half expecting the guy on horseback to peel back his face covering to reveal Omar Sharif 😀

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