The end is near. The penultimate episode of This Is Us brought back fan favorite characters as Rebecca’s family prepared for her death.

1. The end is near. The penultimate episode of This Is Us brought back fan favorite characters as
Rebecca’s family prepared for her death.
Tearful Sendoff! 'This Is Us' Cast Gets Emotional About Saying Goodbye
Rebecca (Mandy Moore) is on a vintage train, reflecting on train rides with her father. She looks
beautiful in her red dress, and she has aged down to her 30s. “I’m waiting for someone,” she says
while staring out a window.
She’s talking to William (Ron Cephas Jones), Randall’s biological dad, who offers Rebecca an
escort to the bar car. She insists she’s waiting for someone, but William says it’s fine for her to
go for a drink.
At the house, Phillip (Chris Geere) brings Jack and Hailey, who are pre-teens, but Kate (Chrissy
Metz) is boarding a plane from London. She’s still 12 hours away when Rebecca’s aide reveals
that the family matriarch going to pass soon, likely before the night ends.
The Goodbyes
Tearful Sendoff! 'This Is Us' Cast Gets Emotional About Saying Goodbye

2. Rebecca (Mandy Moore) is on a vintage train, reflecting on train rides with her father. She looks
beautiful in her red dress, and she has aged down to her 30s. “I’m waiting for someone,” she says
while staring out a window.
She’s talking to William (Ron Cephas Jones), Randall’s biological dad, who offers Rebecca an
escort to the bar car. She insists she’s waiting for someone, but William says it’s fine for her to
go for a drink.
At the house, Phillip (Chris Geere) brings Jack and Hailey, who are pre-teens, but Kate (Chrissy
Metz) is boarding a plane from London. She’s still 12 hours away when Rebecca’s aide reveals
that the family matriarch going to pass soon, likely before the night ends.
Rebecca thanks him for being her doctor — even if it was just hat one time — and moves
through to the next car.
In the house, Kevin puts on a Joni Mitchell record. The family talks about how Rebecca and Jack
(Milo Ventimiglia) went on a cross-country road trip on their third date as Sophie (Alexandra
Breckenridge) goes in to say goodbye.
“You two really had a once in a lifetime love story, just like me and Kevin,” Sophie says.
“Minus all the turbulence and psychotherapy, obviously.”
Toby (Chris Sullivan), meanwhile, says that he hopes that he lived up to Rebecca’s expectations
as a dad. Annie says goodbye to her grandmother, recalling that Rebecca told her, “Quiet was
OK as long as I wasn’t afraid to be loud.” Eventually, everyone heads to bed having said their
final words, and it’s just Kevin and Randall left. They decide not to leave their mother’s side
until her passing.
The Big Three and Rebecca
They remember their childhood, from Kate’s appendicitis surgery one Christmas to their dad’s
trips to the dojo with Randall. They joke that Jack was “strangely ripped for a dad in the ’90s,”
and Randall wonders if anything they’re saying is getting through to their unconscious mother.
While on the locomotive, Rebecca passes their memories of baseball cards and Jack’s dojo
pushups as the men discuss them, but it’s Miguel (Jon Huertas) who she’s heading toward. She
sees her recently departed husband, who says she’s still his “favorite person.” Their reunion is
brief, though. William leads Rebecca to the caboose, but the singer insists that she’s waiting for
someone.
At the house, Rebecca makes it through the night and Kate arrives. “Hey Mom, it’s me, Bug. I’m
here. I’m here. I love you, Mom. I love you so much,” Kate says.
On the train, Rebecca can hear Kate’s voice, and she tells Randall she’s ready to enter the last car
now. Inside is a bedroom with young Kate with a jar of fireflies.
“I want to say the perfect thing to you, Mom, but I’m not sure what that is,” Randall says. “I
don’t even know if you can hear me, but I love you Mom. We’re good now. You made us good.

3. So, thanks for all the meals. Thank you for always making us feel loved. Thank you for that one
time you beat down David Adams for hitting me in the head with a baseball bat.”
Kevin adds, “I love you, Mom.”
On the train, Rebecca turns to William and asks, “This is quite sad, isn’t it? The end?”
The poet doesn’t think so. “The way I see it, if something makes you sad when it ends, it must
have been pretty wonderful while it was happening,” he says.
He tells her that if she steps back to look at the whole picture, the end isn’t so sad. “It’s just the
start of the next incredibly beautiful thing,” William says.
At the house, the Big Three know the end is near. “You tell him, ‘Hey,'” Randall says after he
kisses Rebecca’s forehead. She squeezes his hand.
Rebecca says goodbye to William and lays down in bed. “Hey,” she says. Jack is laying in bed
with her. “Hey,” he responds.
Deja’s Pregnancy
While Rebecca’s family was saying goodbye, audiences got a glimpse of that “big picture” that
William mentioned. The episode starts with a family of five getting into a car crash right as one
of the children had taken their seatbelt off to retrieve a toy. This boy, viewers learn, is Marcus
Brooks.
At Rebecca’s house, Deja tells Randall she’s pregnant, and he is overjoyed. Deja, on the other
hand, is stressed. “We’re not even married yet,” she says. “I just started my medical residency.
He’s working all the time. You know how he is about work.”
She reveals that the father doesn’t even know yet. He’s working late — and This Is Us cuts to
Marcus Brooks, a lab worker hoping to cure cancer. He walks with a cane after the accident as a
young boy. He’s down on his luck after hearing that his project lost funding, so he won’t be able
to continue his research.
Meanwhile, Randall tells Beth he has a secret, but she already knows about Deja’s pregnancy.
“I’m that girl’s mother, Randall. I knew she was pregnant before she did,” Beth says.
As Beth reveals that Rebecca talked her into marrying Randall when she wasn’t sure and the two
engage in some PDA, Deja doesn’t seem as grossed out as her sisters. Instead, she texts her
fiancé a photo of her positive pregnancy test.
Later, an adult Malik sneaks into Deja’s room and wakes her up. This Is Us used Marcus as a red
herring. After all Malik and Deja went through as teens, they’re still together, and he is the father
of her baby. “I’ve loved you since I was 16. I want to marry you. I want to have this baby with
you,” he says.
The Real Big Picture

4. Marcus, meanwhile, is being consoled by his family. His brother and sister tell him that he
shouldn’t be too bummed about not curing cancer in his first attempt. After learning that he isn’t
the father, however, viewers are wondering why Marcus is important. That goes back to the night
of his childhood accident.
In the hospital after the car crash, Marcus’ father meets Jack at the coffee machine. The accident
took place in 1998, the same night the Pearson family home burned down.
Jack recalls Dr. K’s advice after his children were born. “I’d like to think that maybe one day
you’ll be an old man like me, talking a younger man’s ear off, explaining to him how you took
the sourest lemon that life has to offer and turned it into something resembling lemonade,” the
OB said as Jack contemplated adopting Randall. “You can do that and you will still be taking
three babies home from this hospital — just maybe not the way you planned.”
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In the future, Marcus and his siblings laugh about “something resembling lemonade” becoming
their family motto. They don’t realize that the saying came from Jack’s final encouraging speech.
Jack and Marcus had the same doctor that day. Dr. Spencer was saving Marcus as he was coding,
so he rushed off since Jack wasn’t presenting any symptoms of a heart attack. While Jack went
into cardiac arrest, the doctor saved Marcus.
When William tells Rebecca — who spent the last years of her life battling Alzheimer’s and
dementia — to look at the big picture, the audience sees Marcus accept an award for developing
Alzheimer’s treatments.
This Is Us airs on NBC Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET. The series finale will air on May 24.
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