In the 1990s flashback, chicken pox sidelines Kevin and Kate while Rebecca's mother Janet arrives uninvited and gets snowed in. Her decades of quiet racial bias toward Randall — the separating language, the basketball assumptions, the oblivious story about a former Black maid — finally force a direct confrontation with Rebecca, who calls her mother racist to her face. Randall overhears. In 2017, Randall's attempt to bond with Deja at a bowling alley backfires when she publicly rejects his parental role; Beth breaks through instead, doing Deja's hair and discovering stress-triggered alopecia beneath. When Randall inadvertently reveals that Beth shared what Deja told her in private, Deja cuts the fresh braids off. Kevin, facing the same knee that ended his football career in high school, takes the painkillers and returns to set. The episode closes  ...