John Lithgow in The Old Man Season 2 Episode 5
We might have lost two old men last week, but a third comes back into play as the back half of The Old Man Season 2 ups the stakes for Dan Chase , Harold Harper , and their loved ones. With Emily Chase still back in Afghanistan, and Chase and Harper's best hope at getting the Taliban off her back and away from Faraz Hamzad's village lying dead on the floor of his house while Suleyman Pavlovich is out for their heads, things are looking dire all around as we head into Episode 5.
Leaving them on that ominous note, the episode jumps back to the U.S., where Harper suddenly arrives back home to find his wife Cheryl trying to get a plumber to come by and fix a leak. But busted pipes are not even remotely close to Harper's biggest problem right now. He tells her that while he'd always promised not to bring work home with him, that promise is about to get complicated.
Back upstairs, Zoe pokes around the Harper family photos and realizes Emily was functionally a member of their family, even appearing in family photos on the mantle. He explains how their arrangement worked, that he had cut off ties with Harper and all connection with his old life, and once Emily got involved with the family, the two of them agreed on what she could and could not say.
If this episode is making the most of music and lighting to set an unsettling mood, then this phone call with Emily is another bit of brilliant staging that contributes to the overall chilling atmosphere. The fact that we never see her, and rely only on her narration of events to convey the horror, as well as the expressions on Bridges and Lithgow's faces to convey the loss, is a big factor in this. Like the best horror movies, the scariest thing is what you can't see.
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