The Old Man (TV Series)

VI (2022)

Alia Shawkat: Angela Adams

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Quotes 

• Harold Harper : You know, there's a pretty good chance that he's not terribly happy to see me. This is gonna be a lot less Three Musketeers than you're hoping for.

  Angela Adams : You are underestimating him.

  [pause] 

  Angela Adams : *Again*.

  Harold Harper : So whose idea was the reserve comms with the bank account?

  Angela Adams : His.

  Harold Harper : It's clever. Is that the only way you speak to each other?

  Angela Adams : No.

  Harold Harper : How else?

  [no response] 

  Harold Harper : This isn't an interrogation.

  Angela Adams : Yes, it is.

  Harold Harper : Okay. Maybe it is, but not that way. You tell me I only half know you. I'm trying.

  Angela Adams : [clears throat]  We speak on the phone.

  Harold Harper : Burner phones?

  Angela Adams : Yes.

  Harold Harper : Where?

  Angela Adams : Depends on the time of day, on my way to work. There's a garage on 10th and F. And at night, a playground in my neighborhood.

  Harold Harper : What about travel?

  Angela Adams : What about it?

  Harold Harper : When was the last time you saw him?

  Angela Adams : Fall, 2012.

  Harold Harper : [concernedly]  What about your mother's funeral?

  Angela Adams : I didn't go. We both felt it was too dangerous. I wrote down what I felt I needed to say and I asked him to put it in the casket with her.

  Harold Harper : So, all that time... all you've been to him are sounds on the phone. A voice without a body.

  Angela Adams : [contemptuously]  Don't do that.

  Harold Harper : Do what?

  Angela Adams : Diminish it. He's made sacrifices for me. I've made sacrifices for them. That's what it took to protect each other. Doesn't make him any less of a father.

  Harold Harper : What's left when all there is is sacrifice?

  Angela Adams : Clarity. Because I know there is nothing he wouldn't give up for me. Or me for him.

  [looks away as eyes well up] 

  Angela Adams : That's what love is.

• Harold Harper : In that part of the world, with his resources, Faraz Hamzad is a ghost. He cannot be approached. He cannot be touched. He cannot be killed, no matter what your dad says.

  [Adams smiles knowingly] 

  Harold Harper : Okay, I'm underestimating him.

  Angela Adams : Again.

  [smiles and nods her head] 

  Angela Adams : I think we both know that this has to happen. Your story gets a happy ending. I'm still not even sure what mine is really about. I have to go figure that out. No matter where it takes me.

  [Harper offers his hand to shake] 

  Angela Adams : [Adams and Harper embrace as both tear-up, Harper turns and exits]