The Old Man (TV Series)

VII (2022)

John Lithgow: Harold Harper

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• Harold Harper : [to Chase]  That was Morgan Bote's man. Bote's been wanting this whole thing to go away from the moment it started. Now he's stepping in to end it himself, and using Adams... Emily... To guarantee that it happens. Bote told Hamzad to have a plane ready at an airfield nearby. If you're on it... he lets Emily go. If you're not, he delivers her to Hamzad instead. I don't know what happens then, but nothing good.

• Dan Chase : We had two tickets on Azur Maroc flight 31. The two tickets that you left for us. The two that I asked you for. Abbey and I, we debated whether we should ask you for a third. It was such a long flight. But... we decided it was too dangerous for you to know. No one could ever know. Hamzad, he was trying to find out if you knew that you bought two tickets for three passengers. If you knew that Abbey and I had somebody else with us on that flight.

  Harold Harper : Someone was with you? Who else was with you?

  Dan Chase : I never told you what happened that night. I'm not sure I would have known how. Been so easy to end it all. It would have been so easy just to kill him like I told you I would. So much simpler that way. But in that moment, I... I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill him in front of his daughter.

• Harold Harper : I used to spend a day with each graduating class at the Academy. I'd lurk in the background, looking for the ones that stood out. One year, I'm watching this instructor really give it to a young woman in his class. Kept calling her "Freckles." She was shorter than the others. I'd barely noticed her all day. Until I heard this instructor call her Freckles one too many times, and she walked right up to him, stared him dead in the eye...

  [chuckles] 

  Harold Harper : and knocked him flat on his ass.

  [Chase chuckles] 

  Harold Harper : That was the day I took an interest in Angela Adams. I've always treasured that moment, the same way I did... the birth of my son. But in the last few days, that moment has been haunting me. Raising questions.

• Harold Harper : Hey, my career, my whole professional life is over because of this.

  Harold Harper : My actual life is about to be over because of it. Pretty sure I win.

• Harold Harper : You wanna control how she remembers you? What are the fucking chances of that? It's the rememberers who get to decide when they're satisfied, not the remembered.