But this ones got a particularly unique vibe: a different score, a whole new bench of characters.
They arrive at Carols house and find her immediately resistant to any take-it-easy nonsense, as she puts it.
They enter the house and Zoe says, Shes still scary as hell.
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This beingThis Is Us, a single timeline wont suffice.
You will have to be the best.
Shes looking so closely its clear something in that child version of herself is speaking to her core.
In both timelines, things begin to unravel.
Shes resistant, in general, to showing any emotion over her husbands pending death.
As an adult, meanwhile, tension builds between Zoe and Carol.
Beth takes the heat off her cousin by revealing she was laid off months ago.
No point in delaying action goes Carols reasoning.
Beth needs to keep pushing.
I work hard, but it just comes easier to her I could tell.
Her father responds by reminding her of who she is a dancer.
Never forget, baby girl, he tells her.
These words haunt Beth in the present, in the episodes most beautiful juxtaposition of the two timelines.
Beth imagines telling him whats happened to her like shes a teenager again.
Im going to forget that part of me, Dad, she says.
I want you to know that Ill be happy.
Ill find great love with a man who reminds me so much of you, its scary.
I cant be me without you.
How could I be?
I remember feeling so free when I was a little girl, Beth says.
Do you remember that?
I was always doodling and dancing.
You didnt have to take it from me.
Its the next morning, and Carol finally unburdens herself, in a monologue gorgeously delivered by Rashad.
She says shes sorry.
Finally, she finishes, out of breath, smiling widely a triumphant moment.
The episodes arc feels complete here, finished without words.
The woman who runs the studio approaches Beth, assuming shes a protective student.
Beth, still out of breath, corrects her: I have something else in mind.
I want to teach.
