‘This Is Us’ Reveals Kate’s Fate: EPs Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger On Flash-Forward Heavy ‘Katoby’ Episode

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SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 100 of This Is Us, ‘Katoby.”After Kate and Toby hit a breaking point at the end of last week’s episode with the couple’s worst fight ever following Jack Jr.’s escape to the park, we pretty much knew what was in store for tonight’s episode, titled “Katoby,” and promoted by NBC as “the final moments of Kate and Toby”.

Starting immediately after the incident with Jack, which left the scar on his forehead we had seen in flash-forwards, “Katoby” chronicles the dissolution of Kate and Toby’s marriage as well as Kate and Phillip’s courtship.There are many flash-forwards in “Katoby” but it is one brief one at the very end that solves one of This Is Us’ biggest ongoing mysteries — what happens to Kate in the future?

In the show’s main 2032 flash-forward that it has been building towards, which features Rebecca on her deathbed at the new house by the cabin, we have seen Kevin, Randall, Toby, Beth, Nicky, many of the Pearson children — but not Kate, leading to fan speculation that she may have died sometime between her 2026 wedding and the events at the house.At the end of “Katoby” grownup Jack Damon, joined by his wife Lucy, is performing at a bar, with his proud parents, older Kate and Toby, watching on, joined by their significant others, Phillip and Laura, a woman Toby meets after his divorce from Kate in tonight’s episode.

The scene, set around 2043, revealed that Kate is very much alive in the future and that, following the meet-cute encounter in the coffee shop, in which Toby and Laura exchange parfait cracks, they become a couple that lasts.At the time of Kate’s engagement to Phillip, Kevin is living the bachelor life, dating one model after another but, in what could