Discovering love at his sister’s marriage ceremony is such a Kevin Pearson factor to do. The Tuesday, April 26, episode of This Is Us was aptly titled “The Evening Earlier than The Wedding ceremony” and gave viewers an inside have a look at what occurred to Kevin (Justin Hartley) the evening earlier than his sister, Kate (Chrissy Metz), walked down the aisle.
The present’s earlier installment centered, partly, on Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) and Madison’s (Caitilin Thompson) detective work to search out out who Kevin had slept with following the rehearsal dinner. The duo discovered a bra, scarf and love letter in his room, and questioned who between Cassidy (Jennifer Morrison), Sophie (Alexandra Brekenridge) or newly launched marriage ceremony singer Arielle (Katie Lowes) was the article of his affection.
Because it turned out, Kevin didn’t sleep with any of the ladies the evening earlier than the marriage.
This week’s episode opened with the marriage weekend from Kevin’s standpoint beginning with him making eyes on the marriage ceremony singer, whom Kate known as the “Pearson kryptonite.” Randall (Sterling Okay. Brown), nonetheless, knew that Kevin was “prepared” Sophie to stroll by the door. Which, in fact, she finally did.
“She’s a married girl Kev, don’t trigger any drama at our sister’s marriage ceremony,” Randall begged his brother.
Following Sophie’s arrival, she realized that her baggage had been misplaced throughout her travels. So, Kevin, already on his means into city, took her with him so she may buy groceries. They reconnect and Sophie dropped a significant bombshell.
“I’m actually joyful Kev, I’m additionally divorced,” she mentioned, noting that her marriage was over for “some time” earlier than she and her ex-husband break up.
After discussing her failed marriage, Kevin confided in Sophie about Rebecca’s (Mandy Moore) worsening sickness.
Again on the resort, Kevin and Sophie went as much as his room collectively the place they began to kiss. After he talked about that her hair nonetheless smells the identical in spite of everything these years, she stopped them from going any additional noting that she had no intentions of going backwards in her life.
“I can’t do that,” Sophie instructed him. “I’m by no means going to have the ability to fast-forward by you. That’s the sort of maintain you could have on me Kevin. That’s how a lot I’ve carried you with me. … It’s an excessive amount of.”
As soon as Sophie went to her personal room — leaving her bra in Kevin’s — he went to the resort bar and chatted briefly with Arielle. Nothing romantic occurred between them. Nevertheless, she gave Kevin track lyrics that she had written about him on a serviette, which was the love letter Beth and Madison had discovered.
On his means again to his room, Kevin instructed Uncle Nicky (Griffin Dunne) that he’s “finished with love.” At that second, Cassidy interrupted them as she wanted assist getting her costume unzipped, which was how her scarf obtained left in his room. Kevin introduced up the potential for them getting collectively romantically, however she shut him down.
“You’re not my individual and I’m not yours and you recognize that,” Cassidy mentioned. He agreed.
Throughout the precise marriage ceremony day, each Kevin and Sophie regarded sullen following the occasions of the earlier night. After a dialog with Randall, he went to speak along with her. This time, Sophie stopped Kevin from giving a dramatic speech and as a substitute delivered considered one of her personal.
“You’re lastly the person that I at all times knew you presumably might be,” she mentioned, noting that they had been lastly “in the appropriate place on the proper time.”
Sophie made it clear that she wanted Kevin to “love me for the girl that I’m now, not the girl that I used to be.” She added, “I wish to fall in love with the person you’ve turn into.”
A flashback scene revealed {that a} younger Kevin wrote Sophie a Valentine’s Day card on her first day at his elementary college. Again within the current, Kevin pulled the cardboard out of his pockets.
“I’ve at all times carried you with me Soph,” he mentioned earlier than they shared a kiss.
This Is Us airs on NBC Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET.