The Old Man Season 1 Recap | Everything You Need To Know Before Season 2 Explained

Intro welcome to the old man recap retired CIA Season 1 agent Dan Chase has been in hiding for a while living with his two dogs he is haunted by his deceased wife sensing his danger he manages to kill the Assassin sent after him reporting to break in under his Alias Dan Chase he moves to a different house reaffirming his safety to his daughter Emily they live separately with occasional phone calls to communicate sitting down at a diner he receives a call from his ex-colleague FBI's assistant director Harold Harper who was pulled out of retirement to assist on the hunt of Dan Chase knowing Dan He advises him on two options one run and never turn back leaving Emily behind and keeping all their secrets in the past hidden or two kill the agents that are pursuing him and unearth all their crimes he decides to follow the path and disappear until he crashes into the agents killing all of them back on the Run he relocates and starts renting out a guest house his new Alias is Peter Codwell his landlord is new divor Zoe realizing Peter has dogs she swiftly kicks him out as the listing didn't mention any dogs but before he leaves he cooks her a home-cooked meal eggs on toast she explains that every time things went wrong in her house her mother would stop everything and start cooking scrambled eggs thanking Dan for the meal she agrees to let him stay days passed with little to no progress from Harper and his assistant agent Angela talking about his problems to Morgan boat he agrees to help fix the problem with Dan Chase giving him a number this number leads to a highly skilled assassin in the CIA Julian is advised about killing Dan Chase in the meantime Zoe ask Peter out on a date conversing about life she explains that her husband left her and she wanted to be happy leaving her job and changing too many portions of her life until it all became too much and he found a younger woman after a couple glasses of wine they are stopped for a routine check and she accidentally says that he is her husband they spend the night together in the morning he comes to his senses and quickly tries to rush off realizing the body cam would have caught his face admitting his political treason even Emily tries to convince her to leave with Peter but she ultimately decides to stay hearing bullets ring off she notices Peter fighting a Pur setting the dogs free he manages to shoot the puru and for her safety he forces her into the trunk driving away as the SWAT almost arrive on the location he shoots down the FBI drone and juliia manages to make it out before swum arrive and live Julian is always prepared for every single variable in his assassination Mike his partner in crime is suspicious of boat for not telling him or not knowing that Peter was packing to leave running this through the chain of command he suspects that Harper has a mole in his operation Morgan confirms this because he placed a mole inside of it Julian informs harer about the mole and he starts to get suspicious of Angela the issue of Dan Chase runs decades long in the past when forz hamzad a warlord fought against the invasion of the Russians in Afghanistan at the time Dan Chase was brought in as a CIA informant to give hamard weapons to defeat the Russians and getting unboarded by hamad's wife after a long fought battle at night and barely escaping the Russians torture chambers where children were slaughtered in front of their parents they retaliate by killing Russian soldiers and taking pavlovich the commander of the Russian Force in the nearing Village torturing information out of him they rest up for the night hamad's wife meets up with Dan for help she explains her dire situation that she was spying and feeding Russians the wrong Intel and if pavlovich reveals this during interrogation hamard might look at this the wrong way and she might be killed also that she found zandu a mind full of riches that could instantly make hamsar the king of Afghanistan and win the war she worries that he isn't strong enough to not corrupt himself with all this power and become a monster so she doesn't want him to harness those riches they secretly released pavlovich warning him to flee and never return Come Morning Hamza knows that his wife and Dan had something to do with pavo's Escape but he wonders why interrogating them she reveals the spying which he had already known but also that she wouldn't reveal where zandu is he gives her the night to think over this for their safety Dan reaches out to Harper for him to book them two tickets to America he promised to kill hamard so nothing could trace back to them if anything ever got out but he never did now hamard is a powerful warlord with influence all over the US government they needed to deliver Dan or Harper's Secrets would be revealed trying to appease hamard he meets with his attorney Nina krugger explaining that he needs to know what hamard wants so he can help him out even exposing hamad's wife's name bour d far their compromise is that if Hopper is on the plane when it takes off he won't expose all his secrets with no choice he and Angela Bard the plane he confronts her realizing that she is Emily the only reason Peter was able to escape Julia but he still loves her like his own because she has been his family's caretaker for decades the test falls short as he admits the purchasing only two tickets for the plane trip to America back in America Zoe is advised to call her son and tell him that she has been kidnapped so when the ordal is over she won't become an accessory after the fact he doesn't pick up defeated she joins him in the car they're going to change aliases to Henry and Marcia Dixon a married business couple starting their new life in an upscale apartment Marsha starts to get acquainted by practicing her signature and feeding the dogs Henry fails to get an investment returning home he is shocked to find that Martian now with the signature wants half of everything he owns so she can be respected and so that she can feel security for whenever he tries to hurt her initially frustrated he agrees because he only cares for Emily everything after that is additional preparing to kill Haman he gives Mara a chance to try and persuade the investor and she successfully does it Henry now drops off his dogs and they go with their last resort visiting a person that could kill hamard and end this nightmare arriving on his Island he meets with pavlovic to ask for a favor to kill hamard he reveals that hamard had already contacted him if Dan was able to contact him he would be placed into hamad's good graces if he handed him over outside in the party zo is contacted by Nina she advises her to leave with her and she will be safe from The Fallout after all this blows over in the meeting Dan kills all the security guards and sparing pavlovich for a second time he rushes out to rescue Zoe and the head off by boat back to shore after the test Harper is given a choice of making everything fall on Emily and leaving leaving her behind all ruining his reputation he takes the chance and leaves with Emily they decide to reconvene with Dan to try and solve this haride issue together as they leave the station he realizes agent Waters is waiting for him outside turning back he figures out that Emily has been kidnapped boat has decided to end all of this without a wave to retrieve Emily he meets up with Dan and together they decide that Dan is going to sacrifice himself and meet hamard and in return boat will release Emily thanking Zoe for being there and Advising her to return to a normal life he and Harper head off to the plane Harper questioning why hamard was testing him on the two tickets at the safe house Mike noticed the soldiers advancing on them they swiftly wake Emily up and prepare to move even sending a pin for Harper to help Julian manages to kill the soldiers stationed opposite their building freeing them as the van drives off with Emily however they are stopped by a random elderly lady changing directions Harper hands him a gun Dan shoots down the three pursuing vehicles and they speed off to the scene of the crime they arrive late to find the deceased members of the van with Emily missing Dan reveals that they didn't only fly two people out and they debated asking him for a third ticket but they needed to keep it hidden they had taken hamad's daughter Emily he didn't want to kill hamard because he couldn't bear for his daughter to watch her father's death Emily is returned home to hamard this is Ending where the story ends make sure to subscribe and for more watch this [Music]