This Is Us 1x05 "The Game Plan"

In This Is Us 1x05, we learn more about how Jack and Rebecca's family came about, the Pearsons' love of the Steelers, and where Jack is in present day. Here's your recap for "The Game Plan."

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Jack and Rebecca are sitting in a bar where Jack's glued to the TV since a football game is on. This reminds Rebecca of her childhood, where her mom used to cater to her father as he watched football and not wanting to end up like her mom, she asks Jack to teach her about the game. Rebecca then turns into a big fan of football.

At Randall and Beth's, they've got a full house as Kevin's slept there along with Tess, Annie, and William. Kevin realizes that William is sick but that the girls don't know and asks Beth and Randall about it, and they turn the conversation to when is Kevin leaving. After complaining about how his big, fancy hotel suite is lonely, Beth and Randall tell Kevin they'll take the hotel room for the night as William and Kevin can watch the girls and they later leave for the suite.

After Kate makes Toby breakfast in bed, he tries to make plans with her for after their weight group meeting, but Kate tells him she has Sunday Night Football since the Steelers are on and watching them is something she does alone. At their weight support group, Toby has some of the members pass a note along to Kate, inviting her to come to his house for a Steelers party. Kate goes to Toby's house, where he's invited his friend Shooter, who loves sports, to watch with them. During the game, Shooter is more interested in the type of TV they're watching on and Toby pauses the game so he and Shooter can tell Kate about the time they accidentally went to an Ashlee Simpson concert, and Kate gets fed up with not being able to watch the Steelers game as she likes to and tells Toby she's not feeling well so she can leave.

Pre-kids, Jack and Rebecca are meeting Miguel and his wife, Shelly, who already have two kids, at a bar to watch the Super Bowl, where Rebecca was asked to sing before the show. (So Mandy Moore gets a chance to show her pipes on This Is Us.) After hearing about why Shelly and Miguel were late, that being that their baby projectile vomited on their older sibling, Rebecca makes Jack promise that they're never having kids -- which Jack doesn't do -- before heading to the bar. While sitting with Miguel and Shelley, Jack confronts Rebecca about her comments about not wanting kids since they've never really talked about it before and Jack does want kids. They then have it out in the bar, with Jack saying that he's changed his mind since they first got together and recently decided he wants kids but Rebecca tells him she's only 29 -- almost 30, Jack helpfully adds -- and she's not "there" yet with the whole wanting kids thing. One of the guys in the bar, who's been razzing on them for a little while, tells Jack and Rebecca to take their drama somewhere else before telling Jack to control his woman after Rebecca tells him to shut up and mind his own business. The guy and Jack then start towards each other, and even though Rebecca begs Jack to sit down, Jack punches the guy in the face, causing Rebecca to get up from their table to leave, but not before telling Jack that "yeah, they should really be having kids."

While watching the kids, Tess and Annie want Kevin to be a celebrity judge during their Barbie fashion show but Kevin is busy learning the lines of the play for rehearsal the next day as he wants to be off-book. He instead drafts Annie, Tess, and William to help him learn his lines. As they go through their lines, the girls question Kevin about what's happening in the play, which apparently is about a girl who comes back as a ghost, and they then ask about what happens when you die as they know that William takes pills because he's sick and want to know if William is going to die. After Kevin tells them that everyone is going to die, and digs himself a hole, he tells the girls that it's bedtime and sends them off. William puts the girls to sleep and comes back to the kitchen to talk with Kevin, telling him that Kevin doubts himself a lot and William really liked him on "The Manny." Kevin tells William he never should have left that show and come to New York, prompting William to tell him he's doubting himself again.

At the hotel, Randall excitedly starts to plan what he and Beth will do for the night, starting with sex of course, but Beth doesn't seem as thrilled with the suite, interjecting that she's a week and a half late and feels like crap but hasn't been able to force herself to get a pregnancy test. Randall is now the one who seems a bit lackluster. Beth and Randall head to a drugstore, where Randall asks Beth how this could've happened, before they get into it about how a baby could mess up their plans. Randall reveals he wanted Beth and Randall to retire early to Charleston in 10 years once the girls are in college. Beth shoots back that her plans were a bit more important as she was planning to finally go back to work full-time and now will have to split her time between changing diapers and having a home office to work from. Back at the hotel, Beth and Randall sit in the suite bathroom with the test, and start to come around to the idea of having another kid.

In the bar, Jack asks Miguel about when he and Shelly knew they wanted kids. After answering, Miguel asks Jack if Rebecca not wanting kids is a deal-breaker. Before Jack can answer, the Steelers score a touchdown and win the Superbowl so Miguel goes off to find Shelly, leaving Jack alone at the bar, as Rebecca sits outside on a bench listening to the bar cheering. Jack finds Rebecca outside and tells her that if he has to choose between her and having kids, she'd win every time. Rebecca tells Jack that while she's not as far career-wise as she'd hoped as she still sings at the bar, when she pictures the future, she sees them with kids. Jack reassures her that it's fine, he just wants her, and he doesn't want to change anything about their life right now either.

Toby shows up at Kate's house later to ask her about leaving, and Kate tells him about how growing up, she'd watch the Steelers with her dad every Sunday until she moved out to LA but started up again in 2006 when the Steelers played the Broncos and then they won the Superbowl and now she watches the Steelers every day with her dad. I DON'T LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING, PEOPLE! Toby tells her that Jack sounds like a cool guy and he'd like to meet him sometime, and Kate says okay, before heading to her fireplace mantle where there's an urn. NO, NO, NO! Kate tells Toby that she knows it's kind of weird, but football is a big part of her family, and that she wouldn't be here if not for football as she was actually conceived in a bathroom during the Superbowl. Flash to Rebecca and Jack making out in a bathroom at the bar, where apparently, Kate (and Kevin) was conceived.

Kevin goes to the girls' bedroom to apologize for his earlier comments and to get them to forgive him, he tells them a secret: he paints when he gets a script for the first time. He shows them what he painted when he first got the play's script and tells them he's sorry for scaring them before by talking about ghosts and death. He goes on to explain the painting - which is actually pretty cool -- and how it's about life, and life is infinite, and everyone is in the painting before and after they die, and the colors just keep being added until they all mesh into one thing, one painting. Kevin tells the girls that even though his dad (Jack) isn't with them anymore, that he's not alive, he's still with them. As Kevin talks, we see Kate and Toby watching the game with Jack's urn. Then Randall and Beth in the hotel bathroom finally look at the pregnancy test, which says Not Pregnant, and they're happy about it. Kevin goes on to say that people in our lives, people they love will die, and we see Randall folding a sweater of William's and putting it in a box before sitting with William's hat and crying. This is seemingly in the future and not at that moment as Kevin is talking. Kevin finishes by saying that even when people die, it doesn't mean they're not still in the painting and that this sloppy and colorful painting, with no beginning or end, he thinks is us.

While Kevin closed this emotional episode with a great speech about living and dying, it doesn't change the fact that Jack is dead. So how did he die? When did he die? How long did it take for Rebecca to move on with Miguel? What happened to Shelly and how do Miguel's kids feel about him being with Rebecca? When does William die? We may have finally gotten the answer about Jack's fate in present day, but there are still many more questions to be answered.