The Old Man Premiere Recap: He's Still Got Some Fight in Him (Plus, Grade It!)

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‘The Old Man’ Recap: Premiere on FX, Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow | TVLine

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(Plus, he’s having unsettling dreams about a woman crouched in his bathroom.)

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In a phone call, his daughter Emily remembers how “indestructible” she once thought he was, but now she’s worried about him.

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He’s a little worried, too, asking a doctor to run cognitive tests on him since his late wife Abby had problems in that area.

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Dan also notices someone watching him in a local shop, so he sets up a rudimentary alarm system in his home with a string of old tomato cans.

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That night — after a dream where we learn the woman in the bathroom is Abby, agitated and confused — he wakes up to the sound of cans rattling, and he snaps out of bed, gun drawn.

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