This Is Us (TV Series)

A Manny-Splendored Thing (2017)

Mandy Moore: Rebecca Pearson

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• Rebecca Pearson : You kicked this once before, you will kick it again.

  Jack Pearson : It was not easy, Bec, back then.

  Rebecca Pearson : But you stopped. Right?

  Jack Pearson : Yeah.

  Rebecca Pearson : I asked you to stop drinking, and you stopped. You did stop?

  Jack Pearson : It's only been these last few months this time.

  Rebecca Pearson : How did you stop before, Jack?

• Kate Pearson : You overcompensate for me, mom, and you always have. And here I am, a 37 year old woman, and you still make me feel like a stupid... fat little kid.

  Rebecca Pearson : I'm sorry. What have I ever done to make you feel like that?

  Kate Pearson : I'm not gonna do this.

  Rebecca Pearson : Kate. I want to know. What have I ever done?

  Kate Pearson : You existed. It's everything about you, mom. It's not just that you're beautiful or thin. Or that you have perfect pitch even when you talk. It's everything. And you wanted a daughter like you, and I was never gonna be you.

  Rebecca Pearson : No. No. I never wanted you to be like me, Kate.

  Kate Pearson : Oh, no. You wanted me to be the you that you never became.

  [silence] 

  Kate Pearson : Well, you did it, ma. You got me to say terrible, unfair things. Least you could do is say something terrible back.

  Rebecca Pearson : I... I just can't think of anything that would be... quite that terrible, is the thing. You're my entire life, Kate. You know that. You and your brothers are my entire life.

• Rebecca Pearson : Am I crazy, or am I doing what she says I'm doing and making her feel...

  Toby Damon : Okay, okay. B-between you and me, I think that she is super-sensitive around you. And obviously, I don't know the whole history, but as much as I want you to like me...

  Rebecca Pearson : Mm-hmm.

  Toby Damon : ...you need to know that I am Team Kate for life. Like, that's the deal here. So I can't have you putting me in a position where I bring you to a show that she doesn't want you at, and you can't ask me to side with you, okay? Because... Team Kate. Forever. That's how this works.

  Rebecca Pearson : Got it. Okay.

  Toby Damon : Okay. Uh, shall we commence the awkward car ride home?