The Old Man (2022) s02e03 Episode Script

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Welcome to Afghanistan.
My name is Angela Adams.
I'm a Special Agent with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Your father is Faraz Hamzad.
Your name is Parwana.
[HARPER] We were told
that causing Hamzad trouble
wouldn't be a problem for you.
What kind of trouble
will this cause him?
The devastating kind.
The Meshbahar Deposit.
Faraz Hamzad found it.
He has plans to exploit it.
I am looking at it as we speak.
Everything is stopped.
There are Talib soldiers here.
[SPEAKING DARI]
[HAMZAD] It's not safe
for you here anymore.
Where are we going?
A cave that I once told your mother of.
[HARPER] What is this?
[CHASE] A place she could hide.
Disappear.
[GRUNTS]
[ANGELA] What?
- [GUNSHOT]
- [GASPS]


[CLICKS]
[GUNSHOT]
[HAMZAD GROANING]
[STRAINING, GRUNTING]
[KIT RATTLING]
[PANTING]
[GROANS]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

[HAMZAD GROANS SOFTLY]
[ANGELA PANTING]
[HAMZAD GROANS]
[KIT DRAGS ON GROUND]
[GROANING SOFTLY]
[PANTING]
[PAINED GROANS]
[ANGELA SOBS]
[SOBBING]
[BOTH SOBBING]
Angela, just
- be careful with him.
- [ANGELA SNIFFLES]
What happened?
It wasn't easy getting this far.
How'd you even get here?
Marion.
She got us in.
She'll get us out.
The chopper is just a phone call away.
[ANGELA PANTING]
It's time to go home now.
[HAMZAD GROANS]
[HAMZAD GRUNTS]
[HAMZAD GRUNTS, PANTS]
If we leave him here, he'll die.
[SIGHS]
Maybe.
Well, we're not going to do that.
[HAMZAD GROANS]
[HARPER] Okay, listen
We have a lot to talk about,
but we have to get him home.
They need him there, and
he's not going to make it alone.
I'm needed home, too. Because of him.
Because of what he did.
I know you know that.
Ah.
I told you not to come.
What?!
[ANGELA] I told you to look after
Cheryl and Henry, and not me.
[CHASE] Em
Em, he came here
only because he loves you.
And what happened just now,
that was to protect me.
Does he know?
What-what do you mean?
Did you tell him
what I am?
I did, yeah.
Well, then, this shouldn't be hard
for either of you to understand.
I can't leave him here to die,
and I'm asking you to help me.
[HAMZAD] It's time.
It's time for you to go.
We both know that.
No, not like this.
Not with you like this.
You have to go.
There's government soldiers
in his house.
They've come for him,
but they're there because of me.
They're looking for me.
The family, everyone there,
they're in danger.
They need him.
And I'm going to get him back there.
Are you going to help me?
Yes.
- [WIND WHISTLING]
- [BIRDS SINGING]
Excuse me, but what the fuck?
- What?
- We're taking him home?
Isn't that awfully nice of us?
Maybe we didn't hear
the same thing just now.
Something happened between them.
I don't know what it is
or what it means,
but I'm telling you
what I heard, that if we were
to leave him up there to die,
we'll have lost her forever.
Lost her forever?
Are you being serious right now?
Harold, I'm telling you,
that is what I heard,
and I'm not willing to risk it.
So yes, we're taking him home.
Jesus
You're terrified of her.
You were so sure she was dead.
Was it because the alternative
- is even scarier?
- No.
- [DOG BARKING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SPEAKING DARI]
[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]


[BABY CRYING IN DISTANCE]
[DOG BARKING]
Français?
Ah.
English, then.
You're an intelligence officer.
You speak something
your men won't understand, no?
Who are you?
I'm very glad you asked.
It means you have no idea
what you just stumbled into.
No idea how important Faraz
Hamzad's commerce is to Kabul.
No idea the role I play in it.
No idea how much trouble you are in.
Come here. The Ministry was concerned
because our last transfer was delayed.
The sanctions you are under
are complicated.
We're doing the best we can
to stay ahead of them,
but we stumbled.
The Ministry allowed you
to come up here to harass us
because of it, but this
will assure them there is
nothing to be concerned about.
They used you to send a message to us.
This money is my reply
and the matter is closed.
Anything more you do from here,
you will answer for.
I promise.
Leave.
[MEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
- Where did you get this money?
- [EXHALES]
You don't want to know.
Mother, we have bigger problems
than that right now.
What could be bigger problems than this?
Have you ever heard of a man
named Morgan Bote?
He is the one who was behind the deal
to deliver Dan Chase.
And it would seem
he is the one who is so angry
we took Parwana instead,
he's frozen all our assets
and means to see us ruined over it.
[DISTANT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[CHATTER, LAUGHTER]
[MEN LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING DARI]
Hmm?
[FARUZA] Farouk! Farouk!
[PANTING]
Farouk
Farouk.

- [OMAR GRUNTS]
- [SHOUTING IN DARI]
Farouk!
[SCREAMING]
Farouk! Farouk!
[GASPS]
- [GASPS]
- [PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[PANTING]
[WHIMPERS]
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
Probably could have parked
someplace a little less public.
[PANTING]
Ask me what you want to ask me.
What did you say to her?
[CHUCKLES]
You had a lifetime
to tell her your story.
And now you're concerned
I might have had the nerve
to tell her mine?
[CHUCKLES]
What did you say to her?
You can stay concerned.
- I'm gonna head down.
- No. No, no, no, no.
I'm fine, I'll handle it.
- I don't think that's such a good idea.
- I'd feel better
if you stayed back here.
[HORSE SNORTS]
[PANTING SOFTLY]
[CHASE] All right, listen
No.
You don't even know what I'm gonna say.
I know that if it starts with "listen,"
- I can't deal with it right now.
- [SIGHS]
Okay? I know what's going on
in your head, we're way too
W-What? We're way too what?
I was gonna say we're way too alike.
Look, I don't know what's
happening to me right now, okay?
- I need you to understand that.
- I do.
- No, you don't.
- I do.
No, you can't.
But getting him home,
that's important to me.
And I need it to be important
to you right now.
[WHISPERS] All right.
Stay behind me.
- I know what I'm doing.
- Of course you do.
I want you to stay behind me anyway.
That's important to me right now.
A Special Forces chopper?
[MARION OVER PHONE] I have an associate
who has influence with Tashkent.
They will enter Afghan airspace,
proceed to a location
you designate
to collect three passengers
and return back
across the border.
I can't imagine how much that cost you
with your associate.
More than what it will
cost you with me.
I told you, I'm in no position
to offer you anything you would want.
Not anymore.
Dinner is what you'll owe me.
Yeah, okay.
Listen, whatever it actually is
you imagine
I'm into you for for this,
I assure you, you can forget it.
The chopper will not want
to be inside Afghan airspace
any longer than necessary,
and they will not want
to be noticed at all.
Try not to cause an
international incident, please.
[CALL ENDS]

[SIGHS]
[SPEAKING DARI OVER LOUDSPEAKER]
[DEVICE CRACKLES]
What if we were to call
the minister directly?
We fired on his soldiers.
I fear we are past phone calls.
And even if we hadn't,
this man, Morgan Bote,
he has somehow managed
to freeze everything.
The U.S. accounts,
the offshore accounts.
Our money, and the promise of more of it
once the Meshbahar deposit
is fully operational,
were what held the Taliban at bay.
But without it, we are defenseless.
There had to have been a better way.
If you would have asked me, I
would have helped to find a better way.
I promise, if one
of the two of us should be angry
about how this was mishandled,
it isn't you.

I get it.
I do.
But the cost of that
we're only beginning to know
what it'll be.
[MAN SPEAKING DARI]
[SOFT RUSTLING]
[STIFLED GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[CHOKING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[CHOKING]

[RADIO CRACKLES, BEEPS]
[SPEAKING DARI]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[HAMZAD ON RADIO]
[SPEAKING DARI]
[RADIO CRACKLES, BEEPS OFF]
- We must go.
- To Kabul?
- Yeah
- That can't be safe for you.
Safe? It's not important
what happens to me.
What matters is that
our people are safe.
- We must go.
- She's right.
If you go back there like this,
he's gonna kill you,
and then he's gonna take
whatever he wants anyway.
Who are you?
Who are you to have an opinion
about what is best for me
and the people I lead?
Who are you
that I should account for it?
Since you're asking,
I'm the guy who's going out of his way
to make sure
you don't fall off your horse
and die on your way home.
[HAMZAD] If you think that
earns you a position with me,
that services a debt
you imagine might be repaid,
you are terribly mistaken.
- What if I went with you?
- What [GROANS]
[ANGELA] All the way into the village,
with you.
Why on earth would you do that?
So I can defuse all of this.
How on earth would you do that?
- With the truth.
- Emily
That man on the radio
wants to know
why you kidnapped an FBI agent,
but there is no FBI agent here.
There is no Angela Adams anymore.
I mean, how could there be,
after all of this?
The truth is, I was born here,
and I was taken away.
This is a family story,
nothing that could possibly
be compromising to you.
[SIGHS]
No.
[ANGELA] Why not?
The Taliban secret police
are not exactly known
for their readiness to listen to reason.
[ANGELA] Well,
I don't care if he likes it,
he just needs to worry that
that he has a weaker hand than the one
he thought he was holding.
He'd kill you.
[HAMZAD] I did this.
I opened this door.
And the danger that has resulted
it will not fall upon you.
I will not permit it.

[HARPER] You warned me.
What's that?
There's no Angela Adams anymore.
You warned me
that if I wasn't careful
with her in that moment,
that she'd disappear on me.
I didn't imagine it would happen
the same morning.
[CHASE] Oh,
I don't think she meant it that way.
I don't think that was about you.
Oh, it was a little about me.
I just came halfway around the world
to save a person who doesn't
want to exist anymore.
Would you have done anything
different if you'd known that?
[SCOFFS] You're such
an asshole. Of course not.
But I'm not thrilled about how it feels.
[SIGHS]
And I'm trying to talk to you about
[CHASE] Jesus, fine. Okay.
You should have listened to me
when I warned you.
Better?
[CHUCKLES]
It's not like
she had a say in the matter.
It's not like Angela Adams
is gonna show up again
for work on Monday after this.
I guess I thought there
might be a way [SIGHS]
that we would f-fight
to save the name, somehow.
Since it was so important to both of us.
I suppose I should be angry,
but that kid
She came halfway around
the world to find answers
that no one else would give her,
so she could stare the truth
in the eyes.
And in the moment
when I tried to pull rank
and make her feel guilty about it,
she stared me dead in the eyes
and told me to go fuck myself.
How could you not be at least
a little proud of her?
He can say what he wants about you.
You raised a hell of a kid.

The entrance is sealed.
There's no way in the front door.
You're gonna have to go in
No. I will not steal into my own home
through secret doors.
I will face them where they are.
Please don't.
I'm sorry it was this way.
But I'm not sorry
that now you have seen this place.
And it has seen you.
They're gonna kill him, aren't they?
[HARPER] Our ride is gonna
be getting here awful soon.
If we're gonna get out of here,
I got to let them know
where we're gonna meet.
Yeah. You should call them.
[LABORED BREATHING]
[SPEAKING DARI]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
They won't set down here.
Not with all the activity.
We'll hump over the ridge here.
How much time we have?
Well, not much.
They won't wait long.
Emily! Emily!
Emily, no!
Yeah, change of plans.
We need to redirect.
Now.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[HORSE WHINNIES IN DISTANCE]
[HOOFBEATS APPROACHING]
[HORSE SPUTTERS]
[MEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[CHATTERING QUIETS]

Hello there.
[HAMZAD GROANING]
Would you like to tell me who you are?
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
Don't worry about them.
In a few moments,
he will be coming with me.
He won't get everyone killed
to prevent this.
So at this point
this is just for the sake
of my own curiosity.
You are the abducted American,
the one who started all of this mess.
Yes?

You're an agent with the FBI.
This is also true?
If you tell me, it might help.
I might be willing to make this
just a little easier
on everyone
if I didn't have to end the day
still wondering what it is I'm missing.
You don't belong here.
This doesn't need to be your fight.
Just tell me.
Who are you?
[EXCITED CHATTERING]
My name
is Parwana Hamzad.
[GRUNTING]
- [GUNFIRE]
- [MEN GRUNTING]
[MAN CRIES OUT]
[PANTING]
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
On whose authority?! On my authority!
Yeah, but you can't evac us
if we're dead.
I'm on the hook for this.
Just do it, you understand?!
[PHONE CLICKS]
Hello?
[GUNFIRE CONTINUES IN DISTANCE]

[MUFFLED SHOUTING]
[CRIES OUT]
[YELLS]
[EXPLOSION]
[YELLS]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[ANGELA CRIES OUT]
[YELLS]
[GRUNTS]
[YELLING]
[WIND BLOWING]
[HELICOPTER DEPARTING]
[PANTING]
[PANTING]
[GROANING, GASPING]
[GASPING]
[OMAR WHIMPERING]
[GUN CLICKING]
[OMAR CONTINUES WHIMPERING]
[OMAR GRUNTS, WHIMPERING STOPS]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[GASPING]
[EXHALES HEAVILY]



[ROOSTER CROWING]
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