Parenthood tends to driveThis Is Us in theme as well as plot.
Its where the show powers its dramatic engine.
Shes thrilled by the idea.
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Jack, meanwhile, drives away from Rebeccas house after seeing Alan and heads home.
(I dont want to show up empty-handed, she tells him.)
But this is the stuffThis Is Usis made of.
And so Rebecca and Jack meet-cute, again, and talk about their dreams before parting ways, again.
Though one has the sense that this time, theyll find their way back to each other more organically.
She says Alan is her past, not her future.
Something special is clearly here.
Its not that roles are reversed, though.
She gets up and starts washing with him.
Theyre in it together.
Then they make a plan to go for a drive to Los Angeles.
In the present-day, the episode starts wherethe last ended, at the movie premiere.
The screening ends and results in rousing applause, with Kevins family all in tears.
on NPR, which Zoe comes along for.
Its weird, I wouldnt ask him any questions at all, he tells Zoe.
Zoe indicates shell be by his side.
Also lurking in set-up-ville are Beth and Randall.
He promises Chichi hell do something.
This is that time.
Indeed, he gets home ready to pitch Beth his new idealistic venture running against Brown for City Council.
But she stops him and tells him the bad news.
A range of emotions registers across his face.
Theyre headed into uncharted territory.
There is no way in hell you should have a baby, she says.
You seriously think you’re able to do it?
Its that nagging self-doubt weve seen Kate vie to overcome since the series beginnings.
Then theyre suddenly in Kates childhood home, and her third, youngest version appears too.
Jack then walks in left to embrace his Katie Girls.
Within the dream shes reluctant to wake up at all to leave her father again.
Stay here, teen Kate says.
She tells her teenage self that things will get better.
And she wakes up to the miraculous news that out of the procedure they got eight eggs.
She may just be a mom yet.
