- Randall Pearson: Had a dream last night that dad and William met. I walked into the living room, and, uh, just talking and laughing like old friends. And William was telling dad how I taught him how to drive a car.
- William Hill: [under] ... teach me how to drive.
- Jack Pearson: Whoa, wait, wait.
- Randall Pearson: [voicover] And dad was like...
- Jack Pearson: Really? Randall?
- Randall Pearson: "Really? Randall?"
- Jack Pearson: Did he tell you about the time that I taught him how to drive?
- William Hill: No, no, you've got to tell me this, Jack.
- Jack Pearson: I got all three kids in the driveway there. Randall hops in the car, excited...
- Randall Pearson: [simulatenously, over Jack] "Oh, the kid just threw it in reverse and zoomed straight back like a bat out of hell."
- Kate Pearson: [simultaneously] Bat out of hell.
- [crying]
- Kate Pearson: Dad loved that story.
- Randall Pearson: He did. I'm not the guy to tell you how to handle your feelings. But I've learned that you got to let 'em out. You got to share 'em with the people that love you.
- Kate Pearson: I know.
- Randall Pearson: Do you? 'Cause there's a really sweet, really big guy in my living room right now who might think otherwise.
- Miguel: Jack, you told me to tell you when it was 5:30.
- Jack Pearson: Okay.
- Miguel: [pointing to the clock] It's 5:30.
- Jack Pearson: [checking his watch] Uh, yeah.
- Miguel: Jack?
- Jack Pearson: What?
- [seeing his look]
- Jack Pearson: What? We're... we're celebrating Pench's retirement.
- Miguel: We hate Pench.
- Jack Pearson: You hate Pench.
- Miguel: I do hate Pench.
- Jessie: I told our NA group about his passing, and, uh, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. A young man named Sebastian insisted that I pass along his condolences. He was a young athlete who was addicted to Vicodin when he first came to our meetings and, uh, wanted nothing to do with us. But William feigned an interest in football so the boy would have someone to relate to.
- Randall Pearson: I'd have loved to have seen William pretend to know anything about football.
- Jessie: [getting emotional] It was... it was quite a laugh.
- Annie Pearson: Come on, people.
- Tess Pearson: It's toast time.
- Miguel: [Rebecca hands him a drink] Thank you, my dear. What is this?
- Beth Pearson: It's a Blue Hawaiian.
- Miguel: Oh, is that William's favorite drink?
- Beth Pearson: No. I... I think the girls misunderstood a conversation that we had.
- Miguel: "Blue Hawaii" his favorite movie?
- Beth Pearson: [quietly] It's his favorite strain of weed.
- Rebecca Pearson: So, William seems to have really connected with the girls in a short time.
- Randall Pearson: Yeah. That's what he did. With everyone he met, it seems.
- Rebecca Pearson: You know your father. Jack, I mean. He, um... he taught you a lot about honesty and courage. But the truth is, you came into this world pretty perfect. You always had this, uh... gentleness, this inner kindness to you, from the start, and I think... you got that from William. I really thought I was doing the right thing for you and for our family...
- Randall Pearson: Mom, you don't have to do this.
- Rebecca Pearson: I do. I have to. I haven't said this to you before. I need to, okay?
- [she takes a deep breath]
- Rebecca Pearson: When I first met him, he was so far gone, Randall. And then when I saw him again years later, he was so much better. And you got curious. And I got scared. I always planned on telling you, I did. I would set an age in my mind. I'd say "When he's fifteen. I'm gonna tell him when he's fifteen." And fifteen would come and go, and I'd lose my nerve, and then I would decide on sixteen. Because the truth is, I was so terrified. Because I knew it would devastate you. It was such a big lie. And such a long lie. I knew... I knew that I could lose you over it, and I couldn't lose you, Randall. I couldn't. But that is no excuse. It was... selfish, and it was wrong. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that I am so sorry you didn't have more time together. That it is my fault you didn't have more time with him.
- Randall Pearson: I... I got enough. I got enough. It was enough time to know that I loved him. I loved him. And I know that he loved me.
- Rebecca Pearson: I'm so glad.
- Randall Pearson: I love you, mom.
- Rebecca Pearson: I love you more.
- Randall Pearson: I love you m... no, no, I mean, I meant what I said, but I'm a grown-ass man, and this is gonna cross a very weird line.
- Randall Pearson: Ten years, Tyler. I've worked here for ten years. I brought in 80% of our clients. I grew this company from a six-man operation into a sixty-person machine. I've given you twenty-hour days, man. Like, nights away from my wife and children. My father died, man. And on the day of his memorial, you sent me pears, which... I'm allergic to. And you know this. Because at the lunch where you hired me, we ate roquefort salad and I went into anaphylactic shock.
- Tyler: Randall...
- Randall Pearson: And along with the pears that could have killed me, you sent a card with a one-line Hallmark message and a typed-out signature: "From the team." And for all this, Tyler, I thank you. You see, for days, I've been plagued by this question: how do I honor my father's legacy? Then I realized I honor it by taking what I've learned from how he lived his life and having it shape the way I go on living mine. And so here it is, Tyler. Um... I quit.
- Tyler: Hold on. Hold on.
- Randall Pearson: No hard feelings, man. I walk out of here in triumph. I came, I saw, I conquered. Sanjay, it's all you now, brother. Peace.
- Tyler: [he turns to leave] What are you gonna do?
- Randall Pearson: I don't know. Maybe instead of running in the morning, I'll go for a walk. Slow it down a little. Talk to my mailman. That seems like a good way to start the day.
- Miguel: [at a co-workers retirement party] Staying here is not gonna keep her from leaving.
- Jack Pearson: With her ex-boyfriend.
- Miguel: Jack...
- Jack Pearson: Two weeks, five hotels. Night after night, getting back late.
- Miguel: That is ridiculous. This is Rebecca we're talking about.
- Jack Pearson: Yeah.
- Miguel: Now go.
- Jack Pearson: Yeah.
- 15 Year Old Kate: Are you and mom all right?
- Jack Pearson: Stop it, we're fine.
- 15 Year Old Kate: You don't seem fine.
- Jack Pearson: Look, it's... marriage. Okay? It's just stuff. Honestly, we're fine.
- 15 Year Old Kate: Why didn't you go to her show tonight?
- Jack Pearson: Well, first off, it's two hours away.
- 15 Year Old Kate: Yeah, it's two hours away.
- Jack Pearson: Kate... hey, look, you've got more important things to worry about being a teenager. Boys and... and grades and that band that sounds like they're always kidding... what's their name?
- 15 Year Old Kate: Weezer.
- Jack Pearson: Weezer. Yeah.
- 15 Year Old Kate: Weezer.
- Jack Pearson: Look, your mom and dad, we're the... we're the last thing in the world you need to worry about. Okay?
- 15 Year Old Kate: Okay. Don't sit at home tonight all sad.
- Jack Pearson: How can I be sad when I've got a kid like you?
- Rebecca Pearson: Okay, the kids.
- Jack Pearson: Yeah.
- Rebecca Pearson: They need a ride to Joel's pary tonight. Parents are home, I already checked. And Randall's robotics class, do you see? It's moved to Tuesdays.
- Jack Pearson: I can read, Bec.
- Rebecca Pearson: And please, please do not let Kevin and Sophie be by themselves in the basement. They're all over each other.
- [Jack snickers]
- Rebecca Pearson: What's so funny? It's disturbing.
- Jack Pearson: You know, the other day I came in, she was nibbling on his ear.
- Rebecca Pearson: Mm-mm. Don't use the word "nibbling" in reference to our son.
- Jack Pearson: That is the only way to describe it.
- Rebecca Pearson: Those ears haven't seen Q-tips in years.
- Kevin Pearson: She hung up on me.
- Sophie: What, that theater critic's assistant?
- Kevin Pearson: Well, not "that" theater critic. *The* theater critic. The Times, right? Shows live or die based on what Brandon Novak writes about them, which is why I need him to come to opening night of my play, but he won't come to opening night of my play because he already came to opening night and I wasn't there, so...
- Sophie: Well, can't you just explain what happened?
- Kevin Pearson: No, I'm not... I can't, you know, tell them Randall's business. He's been through enough, so that's that.
- Sophie: Aw. You know, you're... you're kind of sexy when you're loyal.
- Kevin Pearson: Really?
- Sophie: Yup
- Kevin Pearson: Oh. Because I give money to the same charity every year, you know?
- Sophie: You're not sexy when you brag about it.
- Rebecca Pearson: How could you be late today, of all days?
- Jack Pearson: Is Ben here yet?
- Rebecca Pearson: No.
- Jack Pearson: Then I guess I'm not late.
- Rebecca Pearson: Well, you said you would be home at 5:30.
- Jack Pearson: No, I said I would knock off at 5:30.
- Rebecca Pearson: I called your office and you didn't.
- Jack Pearson: So you're checking up on me now?
- Rebecca Pearson: This is just passive-aggressive, Jack.
- Kevin Pearson: What are you doing back here?
- Sophie: I'm sorry, am I destroying your focus?
- Kevin Pearson: No. No, no, no, this is great.
- Sophie: Okay. Just came to give you this.
- Kevin Pearson: [she hands him a crutch] It's what I always wanted.
- Sophie: It's a crutch.
- Kevin Pearson: I know what it is.
- Sophie: For when you break your leg.
- Kevin Pearson: Break a leg, okay. Yeah. Ha.
- Sophie: Well, the ER staff thought it was hysterical.
- Sophie: So... Novak?
- Kevin Pearson: Oh, yeah, Novak was a no-show.
- Sophie: Oh...
- Kevin Pearson: It doesn't matter. You know?
- Sophie: But you've been talking about it for days.
- Kevin Pearson: It's because I thought the play was the only thing that mattered. You know? looked out at that crowd tonight, I saw an empty seat. It made me sad, I'm not gonna lie to you. But then I saw the other seats. You know, I saw my family and... I saw you all the way back there and I realized I didn't come to New York to be in a hit play. I came back to New York to win back my girl. My girl who would drag a crutch all the way across town after a twelve hour shift for a stupid joke.
- Sophie: Fourteen hour shift.
- Kevin Pearson: Okay.
- Sophie: Great joke.
- Kevin Pearson: I'm not messing things up with you again. And however long it takes me to convince you of that, I... I'll just wait. I came here for you, Sophie.