After being off for a week, This Is Us returned with its third episode, called "Kyle," and we quickly learn who Kyle is and get some insight into William, among other things. Here's your recap for This Is Us 1x03 "Kyle."
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Flash to the present where Rebecca and Miguel (called grandma and grandpa at the end of the last episode) have dropped by unannounced to Randall and Beth's house. Randall asks to speak to Rebecca privately so he can tell her about William, and after learning the few details Randall knows about him, Rebecca wants to meet him.
Toby wakes up on the couch at Kate's and hears her singing as she just got out of the shower. He goes to stand in the doorway of the bathroom and startles Kate when she opens the door, and she punches him in the face. They then have a healthy breakfast together where Toby compliments Kate on her singing and implores her to sing for him. In the midst of this, Kevin walks in and starts talking about their move to New York City and how he wants to do drama, tasking Kate with assistant-y duties to help him.
Back to the hospital where Jack and Rebecca are leaving with their baby crew in tow. Jack goes to get their car, leaving Rebecca holding Randall/Kyle and two nurses holding Kevin and Kate. While at the curb waiting in a wheelchair, Rebecca sees William standing across the street looking at her and Randall/Kyle and tries to talk to him but he walks away and gets on the bus just before Jack pulls up.
Rebecca walks in to Annie's room, where William's been staying and introduces herself to William, shaking his hand, before asking Randall to let her and William have a moment to chat. Once Randall leaves, William tells Rebecca that she looks well -- seeming to imply that they've met before. Interesting...
In 1979, Jack and Rebecca have their hands full with the three babies now that they're home, and Rebecca seems to be having the most trouble with Kyle, who she feels isn't the same as Kevin and Kate and who won't nurse from her. Rebecca tries to tell Jack about seeing William while leaving the hospital but Jack cuts in, thinking she was worried about bringing Kyle home and tries to reassure her.
Beth and Randall wonder what William and Rebecca are talking about privately. William tells Rebecca that Randall found him and brought him to his home, but Rebecca interjects that William is the one who stayed, and that they had a deal. William assures Rebecca that he won't tell Randall -- and Rebecca tells him that Randall finding out that he could've known William will break him. Seems like the deal Rebecca and William made was that William wouldn't be in Randall's life, which William tells her was the right decision for everyone. Rebecca then tells William that he'd better be worth it because Randall will put William before his job, marriage, and kids, since that's the kind of person he is.
Rebecca and Miguel then get ready to leave to go into the city, and when Randall goes to get William from Annie's room to take him to his doctor's appointment, William's gone. Randall jumps in his car and finds William a ways down the street with a duffel bag, where the argue about William just taking off without a goodbye and trying to blow off his appointment, and William gets into Randall's car.
Kate is making calls on behalf of Kevin while Toby sits nearby and it's clear Toby isn't happy with Kate playing assistant. So he hatches up a plan, laying out a red carpet outside of Kate's house and dressing up like a driver while holding a camera like a paparazzi and shouting questions at Kate as she leaves the house. Toby asks Kate to give him one day where she gets to be the star. Kevin starts to pack up his stuff but doesn't get very far into the process before pouring himself a drink and calling Kate, who he's already called multiple times, and leaves a message asking her if they can hire a company to pack up their stuff for them. Meanwhile, Kate's excited about her star-day with Toby, until she finds out he's taking her to her "first big gig" since her voice is too good to not be shared. Toby takes her to an old age home where she'll be singing in front of the residents and convinces her they're the perfect audience to sing for.
Jack's taken the babies back to their doctor for a check-up, without Rebecca, which the doctor notices and asks about. Jack then divulges to the doctor that Rebecca's not totally herself and isn't bonding with the babies, especially Kyle, and that the babies have broken his wife and he hoped the doctor would tell him how to fix her. The doctor tells Jack that he needs to give her some space to deal with the grief of losing the third baby in her own way and that she'll come around. While Jack's at the doctor's with the kids, Rebecca is sitting in a bus shelter nearby, waiting for a bus. When one pulls up, she gets on to ask the doctor about William, describing him to the driver, and the driver identifies William as "Shakespeare," before telling Rebecca to get in.
Toby introduces Kate at the old age home and Kate nervously stands in front of the seniors and starts to sing "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper. While Kate sings, we see Rebecca in 1979 riding the bus to find William and in present day, William and Randall arriving to his doctor's appointment. Rebecca gets off the bus and waits, soon spotting William getting off a different bus and starts to follow him, tailing him to his apartment.
Randall sits in the waiting room while William is examined and has blood drawn. As Kate sings, she gains confidence, until she's belting out the song as Toby looks on proudly. Toby and Kate then make out in a supply closet until Kevin calls and interrupts them. Kevin has locked himself in his closet since he called "Insane Elaine," had sex with her, then told her he was moving to New York, and she's now trashing his apartment, and demands Kate come over. Kate tells Toby she has to go, her twin needs her, blah blah blah, and Toby tells her that he really likes her but can't play second fiddle to her brother, to which Kate replies that he has to, that everyone has to, before leaving him in the closet, much to Toby's shock and disappointment.
The doctor meets with Randall and William and tells them the cancer has metastasized and that at this point, there's really nothing that can be done. Back in 1979, Rebecca knocks on William's apartment door, and he lets her in. William tells Rebecca that the baby came from love, and asks what they named the baby. Rebecca tells William they named the baby Kyle and explains that she and Jack were having triplets and decided to name them Kevin, Kate, and Kyle, but that she lost one of the babies during delivery and when his baby showed up at the hospital the same morning, it felt like destiny. As Rebecca gets ready to go, William asks if he'd be able to check on Kyle from time to time, and Rebecca tells him no, and that she has to know William won't come back for him so she can move forward -- and that's the deal, which William agrees to. On her way to the door, Rebecca admits to William that she's not bonding with the baby -- and William advises her to give him his own name. Rebecca asks what the name of his favorite poet is and William hands her the book of poetry by his favorite author, telling Rebecca maybe she'll see fit to give it to him someday. The name of the author? Dudley Randall. Rebecca thanks William and takes the book with her as she leaves.
We see that same book of poetry, among others, by Dudley Randall on a shelf alongside a picture of Randall, Kate, and Kevin as adults in Randall's home, so it seems Rebecca either gave him the book or he discovered the poet on his own, connecting him to his biological father in some way. Randall tells Beth what the doctor said about William and laments that he didn't try to find William sooner, saying the girls could've had a grandfather all this time. Does that mean Jack is dead and wasn't around to be the girls' grandfather? Where is present day Jack?! Beth reminds Randall that he doesn't know any more about William than he did when he first came to live with them a week ago, and that Randall doesn't have a whole lot of time to find out more since William's prognosis is bleak, and Randall silently sheds a few tears.
Kate lets herself into Kevin's, who's still in his closet, though Insane Elaine is gone. Kate shares with Kevin her day with Toby and Kevin is impressed and happy for her until Kate tells him that she answered Kevin's call and it interrupted her and Toby. It dawns on Kevin that Kate is always putting him first so he fires her as his personal assistant, telling her they should try going it alone for a while so they can both grow up a bit. Kate then calls Toby, who shows up at her house, and she apologizes, tells him she's not moving to New York, before holding up a condom and says she got him something. Toby accepts Kate's apology and comes into the house when her phone starts ringing but this time, Kate doesn't answer. Kevin is calling from the back of a cab since he booked himself a red-eye to New York and is leaving.
Going back to 1979, Rebecca comes home from meeting William, and Jack and the three babies have already been back from the doctor's for hours. Rebecca tells Jack how she can't stop thinking about the baby that they lost and Jack tells her he feels the same way before Rebecca says she thinks they need to give him a new name. Rebecca hands Jack the book of poetry William gave her (though she doesn't tell him the backstory of it) and Jack nods after looking at the cover.
Randall knocks on William's bedroom door and tells him that he's going to look into other bigwig oncologists and that he'd also like to tell the girls who William is, and William agrees. Rather than leaving, Randall comes into the room and closes the door and then asks William how he met his mother. William goes on to tell him how he met his biological mom on the bus, and so begins Randall learning about his biological family.
The episode ends with Rebecca picking up baby Randall, and calling him Randall, and he finally nurses from Rebecca.
Hopefully next week's episode will see Kevin and Randall together in New York, as well as provide some insight into how Rebecca and Miguel ended up together and where Jack is in the present!
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