The funeral for Faraz Hamzad opens The Old Man season 2 episode 5. Emily (Alia Shawkat) narrates her own feelings about the proceedings. While she doesn't understand the language of the villagers, she can understand what Hamzad meant to them. That is harder for her to quantify, but she wants to say goodbye in her own way. So like she did with her mother, she writes a letter.
In it, she says she is grateful she and her father "passed each other in darkness, even if for just an instance." She asks when he sees her mother to be kind to her, as she was just as fractured as they were and did the best she could. But she wants him to let her know she found her way home. She burns the letter and scatters its ashes at Hamzad's grave.
