That 70s Show Season 4 Episode 10

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That 70s Show Season 4 Episode 10

The producers of This Is Us hinted awhile back that we'd be spending a lot of time with Jack in Vietnam this season, and tonight's grueling episode certainly fabricated good on that hope. Spotlighting Milo Ventimiglia and set entirely in the past, "Vietnam" finally begins to make full in some gaps when it comes to Jack's military machine service, and his relationship with his brother Nicky. There was a lot to process, so here are 6 key things you might take missed.

1. The soldier who loses his foot was the man Kevin emailed at the end of concluding calendar week's episode.

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Kevin contacted a man named "Mr. Robinson" terminal week, asking for data nigh Jack. Tonight, we met the young Don Robinson (Mo McRae), a soldier who served alongside Jack in Vietnam and shared a rapport with him alongside some good-natured rivalry. Every bit presently equally Don started talking virtually his post-Vietnam dreams of playing major league baseball, you had to know something awful was coming and we're not sure nosotros'll ever recover from the sight of Jack handing Don his own severed foot.

ii. The wounded soldier Jack was holding in the season premiere wasn't Nicky.

When Rebecca asks Jack almost the war on their showtime date and he downplays how awful it was by telling her he was 'just a mechanic," we saw a quick glimpse of a bloodied Jack holding someone in his arms. Since the shot came right earlier he mentioned Nicky, a lot of viewers assumed we were seeing a glimpse of the brother'southward expiry scene. Simply this episode includes the full version of that moment, which sees Jack cradling Don afterwards he loses his foot. Meaning we have no idea at all how Nicky volition dice, or whether Jack will be there with him when he does, or fifty-fifty whether he's actually dead. If there's one thing This Is United states of america has taught us, information technology'southward to question everything!

3. It was Don who taught Jack how to breathe.

One of the almost touching recurring motifs throughout the show has been Jack pedagogy Randall how to breathe through his panic attacks—retrieve the gut-wrenching scene when Randall did the aforementioned for William in his dying moments? Unsurprisingly, Jack did non learn that technique from his own male parent. Instead, he learned it from Don, who (despite having just lost a limb) takes a moment to condolement Jack equally he'due south well-nigh to exist medically evacuated.

"You're scared, Pearson," Don tells Jack, asking if he ever gets tired of acting like he's not. "I've been pretending my whole life," Jack admits. In response, Don puts a hand on the side of Jack's confront and tells him to breathe, telling him "sometimes we're and so scared that we're gonna dice, we forget to practice the thing that keeps us alive." Jack clearly carried this with him, and years later he taught it to his son. This was and then emotional!

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iv. Jack was not drafted, but voluntarily enlisted to be with Nicky.

Did not see this coming! Jack had a medical exemption that meant he avoided the draft (more than on that in a second), just Nicky's number came upward. Jack has always been incredibly protective of his picayune brother—Nicky merely half-ironically refers to himself as "Lois Lane" to Jack'due south Superman—and then immediately comes up with a plan to get Nicky to Canada to avert going to war. But en route, Nicky slips out of their cabin room in the eye of the night, leaving a note that explains he's not going to flee the draft. "It'southward my turn to save the solar day," he writes.

Only Nicky does nevertheless demand saving, at least as far as Jack'due south concerned. A letter arrives from Nicky indicating that he'southward not doing well in Vietnam—he's been disciplined, and writes worrying phrases like "I know I'm not getting out of this identify alive"—and and so Jack has to go and discover him. "I just need to be where he is, even if I can't get to him," he tells his doctor. "Even if I tin can't do anything for him, I just demand to exist there. He'southward my lilliputian brother. It's my job to have care of him."

5. Jack had a long history of heart bug before his sudden decease.

Equally we all know painfully well by at present, it wasn't the business firm fire that directly killed Jack, but a heart assault caused by smoke inhalation. And every bit it turns out, in that location were warning signs. Jack has had tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart rate) ever since his childhood, and it was severe plenty to exempt him from the typhoon. Jack downplays the status as "harmless" when he decides to enlist, just his doctor is conspicuously concerned.

six. Jack'due south father wasn't e'er a monster.

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This was a pleasant surprise, considering Stanley Pearson has been a pretty one-note villain throughout most of the show. On the i hand, this episode offered a lot more painful details of just how abusive hie was to his wife and children, making information technology clear that his violence is a big part of why Jack is so protective of Nicky. There's also a brutal scene in which Marilyn, Jack and Nicky's mom, greeted the mailman with a very visible bruise over her eye.

"He wasn't always like this," Marilyn tells her sons, later they both arbitrate to physically protect her from Stanley. And it'south truthful: In a flashback to the day Nicky was built-in, Stanley is sweet and supportive, offering fatherly advice to Jack in the waiting room. The appearance of Stanley's own begetter, flask in hand, does hint at some of his demons—withal, you have to wonder what on earth happened over the next ii decades to transform him into such an awful human being. Gauge we'll have to await to notice out!