In Season 2, Episode 3 of This Is Us, Jack is three weeks into sobriety but struggling to speak openly in AA meetings until Rebecca recreates an early date and coaxes out a buried secret: he borrowed money from his father to buy their house. A teenage flashback shows Randall responding to a fake birth mother at a park, a wound that shapes the man who now stands in front of twelve-year-old foster child Deja, freshly placed after her mother's arrest. On Kevin's war-movie set, Kate tells Sylvester Stallone what his films meant to Jack, and Stallone passes that observation to Kevin moments before a major scene — causing him to freeze on his lines and triggering a sharp fight with Kate about his refusal to grieve. That night a stunt reinjures Kevin's knee. Deja arrives guarded and shuts down immediately; a confrontation over her mother's cigarettes en ...