a million little things season 4 episode 8

…Every one of these stories we’re telling about depression, suicide, or cancer or now September 11, there are real people who have experienced these things and a lot of them watch our show and respond and feel heard.

Was the last straw Eddie and Delilah? Was the last straw the buildings? Was the last straw the feeling that he didn’t feel like he deserved to live anymore? We just won’t know that straw. And so that part of it we really wanted to capture and make sure that even though we were telling a story of “This is probably the day he broke,” this wasn’t the last straw. There’s a writer in our room this year who lost her brother, and it may have been to suicide or it may have been an accident, and to this day, she doesn’t know. Talk to me about why it was important to include that discussion. TVLINE | The episode makes a point that there are reasons, plural, behind Jon’s suicide - not one smoking gun of an answer. But I will say Allison and James, there’s no way I was going to do that right from the beginning. There are shows like Game of Thrones, and there’s shows like House of Cards that make you think that even if someone is an important series regular, you may lose them. People just were so sure that was going to pass, and you know what it speaks to? It speaks to the fact that probably every single person lost someone to cancer, and you wish you could rewrite that ending… Maggie is based on my aunt who I did lose, and I got to rewrite that ending. And then they took your article - you should know, it created a s–tstorm. I was talking about Ashley, and I think when we talked, it was before 13 had aired. The conversation you and I had caused an online frenzy. But then I realized you were probably talking about Ashley, who’s already gone to Spain. So I spent this entire episode worried that Maggie was going to die. When you and I spoke after the fall finale, you said that we’d say goodbye to a member of the cast before the end of the season. TVLINE | I have to tell you, I fell for your trickery. Read on for series creator DJ Nash‘s thoughts on the finale and what it means for Season 2. But we have a pretty good feeling the story doesn’t end there. Oh, and one more thing? PJ, t he teen we met at the hospital last episode, is Barbara’s son that Mitch (her angry husband) raised as his own. When Delilah tells her friends what she’s learned, Maggie points out that it was likely the totality of Jon’s issues - including his financial problems and his guilt/grief over Dave - that led him to choose to end his life. Delilah never knew any of this we see a flashback to when she and Jon met, coincidentally at Logan, just moments after he’d yelled at Barbara for moving on too soon. Jon’s survivor’s guilt only grew in the time after the attacks, and he stopped speaking to Barbara after learning that she was pregnant and was planning to wed a firefighter she met after Dave’s death. That flight, of course, was one of two that terrorists used to take down the World Trade Center towers. 11, 2001, but that Jon just missed the flight because he ran to an airport shop for some wine. Between that sad message and a flashback, we learn that Jon and Dave both had tickets for American Airlines Flight 11 leaving Boston’s Logan Airport on Sept. She reveals that she dated Jon’s roommate, Dave, and then shows Delilah the video Jon sent her the day he died. So Delilah returns to the house she and Gary previous visited, and it turns out that the woman who we thought was Barbara actually is Barbara. Earlier in the finale, Delilah is ready to let the whole Barbara Morgan mystery go, but Sophie says the new baby might want answers someday. Later, as she moves into Gary’s place, Maggie notes that his need to take care of everyone parallel’s Jon’s, and then accompanies him to Jon’s grave for the goodbye the two friends never got. Nicholas Alexander Chavez Confirms General Hospital Departure - Read His Message to ‘Sprina’ FansĮlsewhere, Maggie’s doctor tells her that her cancer is gone, news that sparks tears for Gary and a bout of maniacal laughing for Mags.

A million little things season 4 episode 8