Dan Scott is still one of the most fascinating characters I’ve ever watched onscreen, even after all these years. Knowing that someone tried to kill him in the dealership fire, he goes to a priest—not to confess but to promise revenge and preemptively ask for forgiveness for a murder he absolutely intends to commit.
Then the suspects flash through his mind: Both his sons, both those sons’ mothers, his brother, his daughter-in-law, and his former basketball coach. Literally his entire familial and social circle, because let’s face it, the man never had any true friends. And somehow he still doesn’t draw the connection that he is the common denominator and might be the problem. I can’t think of anyone other than Paul Johansson could have delivered such a menacing performance
