I suddenly realized I can do this, he tells Beth.
My dad was in construction.
Its in my blood.
Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson on ‘This Is Us’.Credit: Ron Batzdorff/NBC
And hes mostly successful.
Of course, things dont go according to plan.
Randall goes to get him, and its only here that the story line really connects.
Im almost 40 years old and Im starting a new career, Randall confesses to Kevin.
Feel like Im already running out of time.
He then adds: Its hard to picture myself outliving Dad.
Kate struggles with this in a different way.
(More on that in a minute.)
But in Thatll Be the Day we see Kate take a stab at push past that pain.
Kate is smitten immediately upon making eye contact with him.
Weve since seen how he was adopted and brought into the fold.
And theyve already drifted.
In other words, this is it.
You see where the Pearsons Number One gets it from.
Its subtle, the way Kevin carries the heaviest burden of tragedy in this episode.
But you feel it increasingly with every scene he appears in adult or teen.
But she asks him, simply, to let her go.
You really want to make amends?
Just leave me with the past.
Let me remember you at 10 or 17 or 20.
Just let me remember you when it was good.
He tries apologizing once more, and she forgives him but only asks that he go.
And indeed, another wave of pain comes right after.
Kevin returns to Rebeccas and finds a package waiting for him at the front door.
He takes out his list of those whose forgiveness hed sought.
He checks off Sophie.
He checks off Charlotte.
And hes left, only, with Dad.
With Kevins dream of a football scholarship shattered, its yet another blow.
The damn slow cooker!
Its an innocuous scene that takes on a foreboding new context later in the episode.
Jack and Rebecca make an offer on a house after Rebecca sees it listed in the newspaper.
(Jack also tells Rebecca to partner with him, which she accepts.)
Last week came the reveal that Rebecca and Jack forgot to buy batteries to keep the smoke alarm powered.
And this week we see the (presumed) consequences.
He says goodnight to Randall, who returns home giddy over hisTitanicdate.
And he turns off the Crock-Pot or so he thinks.
And answersarecoming next week.
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