Null coalescing within an invocation chain

Question

If I have a long list of objects that each has the possibility of returning null within a "Linq where" clause, e.g.

 SomeSource.Where(srcItem=>(srcItem.DataMembers["SomeText"].Connection.ConnectedTo as Type1).Handler.ForceInvocation == true));

the indexer can return null and the "as" operator may return null. It is possible that the object does not have a connection (ie. The property is null). If a null is encountered anywhere, I would like the where clause to return "false" for the item being evaluated. Instead, it aborts with a null reference exception.

It appears to me that this would be contrived to express within a single C# expression. I don't like to create a multi line statement or create a separate func for it. Is there some use of the null coalescing operator that I'm missing?