Pete

Pete is an elderly man Nick gets to know while doing volunteer work at a care home, a quietly sharp presence among the residents. He's not looking for fuss or sympathy — he observes more than he talks, and when he does speak it tends to land. Dry, patient, unimpressed by nonsense.

Derek Jacobi brings decades of stage authority to a small, gentle role and refuses to let it feel like a guest-star cameo. The writing trusts an old man's plainspokenness to cut through a teenager's anxiety without ever turning him into a lesson-dispensing prop, and Jacobi's stillness makes every line he's given feel earned rather than sentimental.