The Old Man

Oh, wait. Wait, Zoe.

-What happened? -She's been poisoned.

- What? - I have to assume I'm hot.

There's an antidote, but they've got it.

My only chance is to let 'em take me.

The deal is off.

Someone has moved against me.

I have not the time to determine

whether you are part of it.

So I will assume it and proceed accordingly.

Zoe?

Harold Harper sent me to make sure you're okay.

Are you coming?

Hello, Marion.

I know about the cartel.

I know about the Meshbahar Deposit.

Faraz Hamzad would not entertain any of our offers.

To exploit the Meshbahar Deposit for years, decades,

and to keep it stable, you need another kind of partner.

I was helping you rescue Parwana Hamzad,

because I wanted you to introduce me to Parwana Hamzad.

Dad?

Yeah.

Can you take me off speaker?

Yeah. I'm... I'm here.

I need you to do something for me.

What is it?

I need you to accept this.

Why this is happening.

Why it happened.

I found something here.

This family is important to me.

That much is true.

And this is not a rejection of you or of Mom.

That much is also true.

Promise me that you're gonna find a way to accept this.

I need to know that you're not gonna spend

the rest of your life resenting this.

Or resenting me for this.

Or resenting this family for this.

I'm asking you to accept that this is something that I wanted.

Can you do that for me?

- Can you do that for me, please?

Shit. Shit.

No, wait!

I'm the only Hamzad.

I'm the only Hamzad!

I'm the only Hamzad!

I'm the only Hamzad. I'm the only Hamzad.

I'm the only Hamzad.

Faraz Hamzad is dead.

I am his daughter.

Who are they?

No one who matters to you.

He had a sister,

but you just killed her.

So I am the only one left who knew his business.

Leave them alone,

and I will help you.

Help me?

How?

I will tell you everything you want to know

about this place.

How it works, where things are hidden.

The things you will need to know

that will take you forever to find out.

I will tell you.

I have orders to separate the family.

To eliminate them.

No one will know you're here.

If you lie,

no one will see you again.

Write what you know.

How can I be sure the others are safe?

The Russians.

They lost the mine.

- Yes. - To who?

It's unclear.

Well, maybe. But that's not what they just said to you.

Not all of it.

Who took the mine?

A particularly determined group of local fighters

seems to have eliminated the Russians at the site.

Yeah. And?

There are rumors

that they were led by a woman.

An American woman.

Angela.

Angela's alive.

Yes, but maybe not for long.

Pavlovich is summoning reserves from as far as Central Africa.

Every man in his army to take the area back.

Well, you-you can stop that happening.

And why would I want to do that?

Because you know it was a mistake

to involve him in the first place.

You know that Angela would be

a better partner for you in the long run.

You told me that she would never side with me.

You told me that you would never even permit me to try.

Her life is at stake.

I think Johnny's life might be at stake.

There might not be any limit to what I would do now.

You know, you really have got sharper, Harold.

I'm sure that isn't true, but just for a moment,

I actually found myself believing you.

Help me end this.

We can fight about what happens after that.

After that.

End it how?

Do you think he's dead?

It's impossible to know.

I know.

I'm asking if you think he's dead.

What difference does it make what I think if I don't know?

Because one way you might help me find him and save him.

And the other way you just pretend to help me

for as long as you need me to help you kill Pavlovich.

I gave you my word.

I may be new at this,

but I know enough to know what that's worth.

The Old Man did that thing with you, didn't he?

What thing?

His bullshit about a knife in one hand

that's like your empathy and in the other...

It's something in the other.

Ruthlessness.

Yes. That.

You're saying it isn't true?

For him? Too true.

I knew I couldn't trust a word that came out of his mouth.

Or maybe it took a lot of practice

to know which words to trust.

Either way, that's the role the game asked him to play.

Fucking serpent.

And there was no one better.

But the Old Man knew any word

that came out of my mouth was written in stone.

That's my role in the game.

Help me get to Pavlovich,

I'll help you find Dan Chase.

Yeah.

Copy that.

We're ten minutes out.

Whatever you're gonna do, do it quickly.

He's closing in on the target.

What do you wanna do?

I'm not asking you

to do anything you don't want done already.

Even if Pavlovich can get himself out of this mess,

how long before the next mess

ends up being something impossible for you to clean up?

Impossible to unwind?

Impossible.

For a man like you, that word should be so hard to find,

and yet it's always been so available to you.

To cultivate Angela Adams is impossible.

To do clandestine work and raise a family is impossible.

I'm impossible to understand, to please, to trust.

What an ambitious young thing she is.

How could I ever?

Your default to absolutes was always the part of you

I found hardest to understand.

Your aversion to them was mine.

Some things should be absolute.

What things?

The things we owe people we love.

They should be constant. They should be inviolable.

And the sacrifices that you would make for Angela's sake.

Those are inviolable to you too?

Yes.

No matter what it's about to cost you?

You could have been a great man, Harold...

were you not so frightened of disappointing anyone.

Fuck you.

We're moving.

I'll have instructions for you shortly

how to approach the target.

Conference guest.

Are you on-site?

We're here.

There's a lot of guys with guns here.

This goes bad, it's gonna go real bad, real fast.

Stand by.

Something's happening here.

What happened?

The security detail of the Chinese delegation

has asked all the other delegates to ask their details

to pretend that you don't exist for the next 15 minutes.

Pavlovich is in cabana 14 with his detail.

That's seven men. They're unaware of your arrival.

Do it and get out.

Copy that. Stand by.

What can I do?

Nothing.

I'll locate the target and I'll give you the heads-up.

-What can I do? -Nothing.

I'll keep one alive.

I'll do what I can to get Chase's location from him,

but there isn't much time to get him that antidote.