(Important to note: Earlier in the episode, we’d seen Kate and Marc having a pretty intense fight over the phone.)Īfter the police have checked out the home and nothing seems to be missing, they advise Randall to install a security system. Rebecca has cancelled the birthday dinner she’d planned because “something’s wrong with Kate,” and they’re on their way to pick him up. He agrees to attend an on-campus grief group with her, but that plan is dashed - and Randall’s emotional well-being suppressed for the good of the family once more - when Kevin calls. She can understand: She had bad dreams after her father passed away, but talking to a therapist helped her feel better. “I just feel so helpless, like I have no control over anything,” he admits. Beth, who is now spending some of her nights in his room, gently prods him to talk. Randall’s sleep problems have a resurgence in college, where he is plagued by nightmares about Rebecca in trouble and Jack still alive. (I mean, he doesn’t say it like that, but you get the gist.) Randall, who even at this early age plays by the rules and does what he’s asked, toddles back to bed and stares, terrified, at the ceiling. But when Randall reappears in the living room a while later, Jack levels with him: “I need you to be brave,” he says, explaining that Kevin and Kate are more high-maintenance, and he needs at least one of his kids to be easy. Papa Pearson dutifully walks his son back to his room and lies on the floor next to his bed for a while. So that means Jack is left to handle things when a scared Randall can’t sleep. Rebecca, who has a cold, conks out shortly after the trio’s bedtime. ‘I NEED YOU TO BE BRAVE’ | This week’s flashbacks kick off on The Big Three’s first night in their big-kid beds. Brown and our preview with co-showrunners Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker.
Read on for the highlights of “Hell of a Week: Part One” - and then make sure to check out our post mortem with Sterling K. Chuny: Abby, boxers or briefs? Abby: Actually, he goes commando.Though the hour focuses on Randall, we also get hints at Kate’s troubling past with Marc and Kevin’s intriguing future (?) with an unseen (and likely unclothed) woman. Jake: Ah, Chuny? Chuny: That would be sexual harassment. Pratt: What are you doing? Pull your pants up! Jake: Sterile gloves. May I call you Susan? Susan: No! Pratt: Hey, man. that's been a family classic for at least 30 years, to which the story goes 'One hippo all alone, Calls two hippos on the phone, Three hippos at the door, Bring along another four, Five hippos come overdressed, Six hippos show up with a guest, Seven hippos arrive in a sack, Eight hippos sneak in the back, Nine hippos come to work, ALL THE HIPPOS GO BERSERK!!!'
Susan Lewis says to him, “Hippos Go Berserk,” by Sandra Boynton.
Neela (Parminder Nagra), Sam (Linda Cardellini), and Dr.
THE STAFF OF COUNTY GENERAL MUST DEAL WITH THE MORAL ISSUES SURROUNDING A HUNGER STRIKE VICTIM: A woman is brought in suffering from the effects of a hunger strike, but she will not accept food or help until she has proof that the INS will grant her son's deportation case a new hearing. Morris spends the entire shift finishing up a report for Susan. To Kerry's delight, Carter donates $150 million to the hospital's new venture in exchange for naming rights. Abby treats two elderly sisters involved in a suspicious mugging. Pratt struggles to find a way to convince a woman with breast cancer to seek treatment. Susan, Sam and Neela treat a woman who has tried to stop her son from being deported by going on a hunger strike.