'This is Us' Season 4 Episode 2: Jennifer Morrison's Cassidy will be a huge part in Kevin and Nicky's lives
After a long wait, NBC's 'This is Us' premiered Tuesday, September 24, and made us care about a bunch of new characters. From Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Toby's (Chris Sullivan) adult son Jack (Blake Stadnik) to Deja's (Lyric Ross) potential love interest Malik (Asante Blackk), there are many characters whose lives we are already invested in. But the one character that stands out is Jennifer Morrison's Cassidy and that is mainly because of her pain and yearning to change.
Cassidy is a war veteran who is trying to re-acclimate to civilian life, but she is struggling because of PTSD and alcoholism. When we see her, she is ridden with guilt about not being there for her family and simultaneously about not being able to do enough to protect the people she wants to protect. Even at home, she is unable to reconcile with the fact that the cost of human life in war zone, and the price of a water heater in the US is the same.
She is struggling to cope with everything and refusing to let her husband in, and in dazed anger hits her child in the face. She lands in the same veterans facility that Nicky (Griffin Dunne) is in, hoping to get help to cope with her issues. It is at the end of the episode when the show reveals the connection each of these characters has to the Big Three that we see Nicky throwing a chair at the window in the room where Cassidy and the others are sharing their experiences.
Kevin (Justin Hartley) gets called in to post bail for his uncle and we know that he is going to have some sort of interaction with Cassidy along the way. Last we saw him, he had just broken up with Zoe (Melanie Liburd) because he wanted to be a father, and she did not want children. He is clearly lost in his personal life, and hopefully being around Cass and Nicky may just be the perfect thing for him.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Dan Fogelman said, "She's going to play a big part, clearly, in Kevin's story moving forward and obviously Nicky's. Where that goes is many, many episodes ahead but it's a very interesting and it's very unusual and deep and a very important relationship for Kevin moving forward, and obviously for Nicky as well."
Needless to say, we are excited. To find out how Cass and Kevin's story would evolve, you will need to watch 'This is Us' which would air Season 4 Episode 2, titled 'The Pool: Part Two' on Tuesday, October 1.
