The Old Man (TV Series)

IV (2022)

Jeff Bridges: Dan Chase

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• Dan Chase : Emily, please tell me you aren't planning to be on that plane with him.

  Angela Adams : I don't think I have a choice.

  Dan Chase : You absolutely have a choice.

  Angela Adams : No, I don't. He's starting to get suspicious about me.

  Dan Chase : Suspicious? Wh... What do you mean? Oh, shit. Em, why didn't you say anything about this before?

  Angela Adams : And if I abandon him now, at this moment, with everything that's at stake, he's going to know that something's off because that's just not something that I would do.

  Dan Chase : Not something who would do?

  [Angela sighs] 

  Dan Chase : You? Or Angela?

  Angela Adams : I don't know. I'm starting to forget what the difference is. I think I'm coming apart here, Dad.

• 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] 

• Dan Chase : [enters the car]  I got you some stuff. Toothbrush, comb... Thought you might need some clothes. I just guessed on those. I'm Henry Dixon. Henry Dixon, he was an early investor in an investment fund called Corsair Finance, which has done quite well over the years. You...

  [shows passport] 

  Dan Chase : you're Marcia Dixon. Henry's wife. We can change the picture once we get there. The signature, that's what's important. I want you to learn it.

  [sighs] 

  Dan Chase : And once you get it down, I'm gonna transfer some money to you using this name. I'm going to compensate you. Compensate you and then some. A half a million dollars.

  [Zoe ignores Chase] 

  Dan Chase : Zoe?

  [Zoe grabs Marcia Dixon's passport and looks away again] 

• Dan Chase : [on the phone with Emily]  This isn't some kind of mystery, Em. The truth is, at one point in his life, Faraz Hamzad thought Mom belonged to him. He's got a grudge with me for helping her do something about that. Everything else is a distraction.

• Dan Chase : I'd like you to call your son. The FBI is gonna knock on his door. They're gonna ask him some questions. He's gonna do fine, but he's... you know, he's gonna be concerned. Now is the best time to, oh, set the record straight. This'll be the last time you make a call on your phone, to keep from tracking us, but at least, you know, he'll know it's you calling.

  [grunts] 

  Dan Chase : When... you know, just tell him the truth. That you're unhurt, and you're being held against your will, but you're safe and that you'll contact him again soon. Yeah. You use those words, that'll prevent you from being considered an accessory to anything.