The Old Man has just concluded its second season, before a huge finale week on Disney+ next week.
Based on the 2017 novel The Old Man by Thomas Perry, you can actually stream the first season now free in Australia on SBS On Demand.
The second season, premiered last month, concluding Friday evening. So a recap the the first season, Dan Chase is a former CIA operative and Vietnam veteran living off-the-grid in Vermont for thirty years. After killing an intruder who breaks into his home, Chase goes into hiding. He rents a room from Zoe McDonald, who becomes his forced partner while on the run.
FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper is called to apprehend Chase because of their complicated past during the Soviet–Afghan War. Working alongside Harper are his protégé, FBI agent Angela Adams, CIA officer Raymond Waters, and Julian Carson, a hit-man hired by Harper to kill Chase.
If you haven't watch the finale yet, look out SPOILERS AHEAD!
Chase is in dire need of an antidote after being poisoned, while Harper just discovered that Marion wants to convert Emily into a Chinese asset. Also news flash! Emily is alive after all. We see her side of her phone call with Chase when he thought she died, with Russian mercenaries storming in and shooting Hamzad’s sister dead.
Emily offers to give them what they want on Hamzad, and they stick her in a cell, ordering her to write down everything she knows. Her intel checks out, and a guard rewards her with a bottle of vodka, which she uses to clock the guard over the head and escape.
Marion reports to Harper that local fighters have seized control of the mine from the Russians, led by an American woman.
Harper realizes Emily is alive, & she’s now a target. He tells Marion he’ll do anything to save her, but Marion isn’t sure she can trust him.
Meanwhile, Zoe and Julian are in a car together when he offers her a deal: If she helps him kill Pavlovich, he’ll help her find Chase. As they approach a heavily guarded compound, Julian gets instructions from Harper: With Marion’s help, the Chinese delegates have ordered all security details to stand down, allowing Julian to slip in undetected.
With Zoe in the car listening along via earpiece, Julian heads into the compound, taking out two Russians on his way to Pavlovich. Zoe warns him that two more Russians are heading his way, & they left their car unattended.
Julian mows through Pavlovich’s bodyguards with ruthless efficiency, finally making it to Pavlovich himself. He then turns to helping Zoe, but she’s way ahead of him: She jumps into the Russians’ unattended car and heads for the last location keyed into the car’s GPS, convinced that must be where Chase is. And Marion informs Harper that the job is done, before having two large men escort him out.
Zoe rushes to the GPS location and finds Chase lying there dying. She gets instructions from Julian on how to administer the antidote, and she does, but it doesn’t seem to work. She gives him CPR, too, but there’s no sign of life. We cut to a wounded Chase waking up in bed, though, with Zoe assuring him they’re at a safe house where no one can find them. They enjoy a peaceful existence there, reading books and taking walks, and Zoe uses a local library’s computer to contact her son and let him know she’s OK.
It all seems perfect… a little too perfect, Chase thinks. One day, he sees a delivery truck pull up and leave a package at his mailbox. He approaches the package with great caution, but he opens it to find a burner phone and a slip of paper with a phone number on it, which he dials.
He and Zoe head to a greasy spoon diner, where they meet, Emily. Chase gives her a warm hug as he tears up, introducing her to Zoe.
Emily promises to tell him all about what happened to her. She needs his help. He hasn’t been seen since he went to see Marion, and Emily reports that Marion is using him to barter for control of the mine. Who controls the mine now. Chase asks?
He’s told Zoe about some of the violent things he used to do. He doesn’t want to go into Lou Barlow mode, but Emily insists it’s the only way to get Harper back. They owe it to him, too, because he sacrificed his life to save them. Emily thinks that Chase may not want Zoe to see what he’s capable of, as cars pull up to whisk them away. Oh, and Emily tapped Zoe’s phone to find out where they were hiding.
In the USA, FX has not officially renewed the show yet, however the finale of season two, setup us up for yet another season. My odds are on for a third season of this series that streams locally on Disney+ or SBS streams season one. I also just noticed SBS On Demand will stream the second season of Tokyo Vice which I am very excited about!
Until next week's big finale week, happy Sunday!
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