The Old Man (TV Series)

IV (2022)

Amy Brenneman: Zoe McDonald

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• Dan Chase : [Chase and Zoe sit down to supper, Zoe pushes a folded piece of paper across the table to Chase, looks suspiciously at Zoe]  What's that?

  Zoe : It's a letter from Marcia Dixon. It's addressed to the... board of Corsair Finance.

  [clears throat] 

  Zoe : It gives notice of her intent to enter into divorce proceedings against her husband.

  Dan Chase : What are you doing?

  Zoe : It doesn't sound like you've ever been through a divorce before.

  [chuckles softly] 

  Zoe : I learned a lot from mine. I kept thinking that if I understood the rules better, I could protect myself. Turns out that's not what the rules are for.

  [Chase shifts uncomfortably in his chair] 

  Zoe : But I think Marcia has a little bit more leverage than I did. If I understand the situation, this letter would cause a real mess at your company. Audits, discovery. The fear of what I might ask for in a divorce. The fear of what I might get. So you'd just kind of be "that guy"

  [chuckles] 

  Zoe : to them for a while. The guy they keep at arm's length unless they want to end up in depositions, so... it would make it almost impossible for you to accomplish anything there...

  [interrupted] 

  Dan Chase : What the fuck are you doing?

  [high-pitched] 

  Zoe : I didn't send it yet. I set it to send in two hours, but I can log in and stop it.

  [inhales deeply] 

  Zoe : Maybe you're right, and I would be dead if I hadn't come with you. Or maybe you're wrong, and this is nothing more than a kidnapping. Maybe it's both. Either way, I'm here. And from here, I see two ways forward. One...

  [exhales] 

  Zoe : I stay. And I help you through this. Chase chuckles

  [contemptuously] 

  Zoe : You're gonna help me?

  Zoe : Yeah, I am. I think you need it. Once upon a time, I looked into the mirror and I didn't know who I was. I think you know what I felt. I think you can't remember what life felt like before that feeling. And I believe your daughter. I believe the guy she talked about is in there somewhere, and I would like to help him. I never had anybody help me when I was going through my experience, and it nearly killed me, and that was w... without having to do it while running for my life.

  Dan Chase : Zoe... Zoe, listen to me, I'm gonna be fine. This whole thing is traumatizing...

  [interrupted] 

  Zoe : But... but if I do that for you, then you need to acknowledge that we're in this together. You need to make a gesture to prove it.

  Dan Chase : [pleasantly]  What kind of gesture do you have in mind?

  Zoe : Half of everything you own. Transferred to my name. Before 10:17, or the email goes out.

  Dan Chase : [shocked, forced grin creases his face]  What's two?

  Zoe : Two? Well, two is that you give me a reasonable amount of money for the train wreck that you've turned my life into, and I stay silent in this apartment until it's safe for me to leave...

  [interrupted] 

  Dan Chase : Wh... Whoa.

  Zoe : ...and then I will.

  Dan Chase : Theft. fucking extortion? What's this gonna cost me, huh?

  Zoe : Half of everything you own.

  Dan Chase : So it's not about money until you choose...

  Zoe : No, no...

  Dan Chase : ...to make it about money.

  Zoe : ...I said that money is not just money. What it always is is a measure of discomfort. H... How badly do I want this? How badly do I want to avoid that? How much power do I have to make it so? In this moment, I want to amount to more than just a complication in your story. I want to know that the next time we disagree, I have the resources to make you think twice before threatening me or throwing me in the trunk of a car or looking at me the wrong way to shut me up. I want to be accounted for. I have the resources to make it so, so you will account for me.

  Dan Chase : [rises from his seat menacingly knocking plates and flatware] 

  [controlled] 

  Dan Chase : Do you have any idea the danger that you're putting yourself in? The danger that you're putting me in? My kid?

  Zoe : You will account for me.

  [Chase steps back, Zoe remains seated] 

• Zoe : [sitting at the bar, Dave, panting, saunters in, looks at Zoe and whines]  What?

  Zoe : [Dave barks]  What? What do you want from me?

  Zoe : [Dave, drooling, looks at the kitchen] 

  [epiphanic flash] 

  Zoe : Oh. Shit.

  [chuckles softly] 

  Zoe : Sorry.

  Zoe : [fills both bowls with food]  Why am I apologizing to you? I was kidnapped, and now I am apologizing to you for not doing a better job of seeing to your needs... out loud.

  Zoe : [spots wine]  *Fuck this.*