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The two episodes feel like a pair.
Maybe we all need to have gross dive-bar wine with our moms.
So how do these two end up on a road trip post-Thanksgiving?
Deja flies the coop.
You know thats hitting this guy hard.
Tess and Annie are your daughters.
Im just some girl you took from her mom, she yells at him.
The next morning, they learn Deja took off for Boston in the middle of the night.
Randall is ready to drive up there so quickly he basically has a trail of cartoon dust behind him.
It is so mean!
Rebecca decides she isnt letting Randall go by himself shes tagging along.
The first half of this trip sees Rebecca trying to temper Randall a little bit.
This guy is about to pop off.
Rebecca even wants a picture of them hanging out.
When the waitress asks if theyre celebrating something, Rebecca says no, just a day with my son.
Give Deja the night.
And this boy listens to his mom.
They drink bad wine and play darts, and, yes, Rebecca wants more pictures with her son.
Interspersed throughout this whole trip are glimpses of Rebecca and Randall doing similar things when Randall was little.
Its all very time is a circle, the world spins madly on kind of stuff.
When Rebecca looks at Randall, she sees all of him.
I guess he couldnt hear it over his single tear; such is the life Randall leads.
The next morning, she wants a sit-down with him by the motels closed-down pool.
This is why she could never ask him to be the executor of her care.
She knows he would drop everything to help her and be consumed by it.
I mean, I wouldnt say that to Kate, but okay.
The scene ends with Randall confiding to his mother that he knows hell win if he runs for Senate.
He knows it in his bones.
I can take almost everyThis Is Ustwist, but that?
I dont know if I can handle that.
I thought this was just supposed to be an emotional family drama with Milo Ventimiglias butt in it!!
I didnt know it would be the prequel to aWest Wingreboot!!
On to Boston they go!
Randall has already gotten word from Deja, and its not good.
I mean, its not good for her its great for Randall.
She and Malik ended things, and she wants to come home.
Randall cant even speak when he pulls up outside Maliks apartment building and walks over to get Deja.
Randall still cannot bring himself to speak to Deja, though.
Youre the only one I ever had, she says.
Rebecca sits there watching her son looking back at his daughter, and she is moved by it all.
And by all, I mean life and the passage of time.
It is a very deep road trip!
And Randall calls Jae-won to tell him he wants to move forward with the Senate stuff.
They are each following their moms orders and forging ahead in ways big and small.
Randall has gotten some special one-on-ones with his people!
He wants to bring them in for trespassing and underage drinking (could you just be cool, Kev?
The cop lets them go!!
Randall really is a hero.
I love seeing the older teen Big Three having fun at the diner.
Still, hes the one who ends up getting all the Pearsons in the pool together to play.
Nope, still not tired of hearing Jack and Rebecca yell Swim goggles!
Shes preparing for what comes next.
Were all doing JUST FINE HERE.
