At long last, This Is Us will reveal how Jack dies in a special post-Super Bowl episode.
This Is Us fans, they gave you all the clues and now’s the time for us to find out what it all means.
We’ve known since the first episode of the second season that Jack’s death was fire-related and we learned in last week’s episode “That’ll Be the Day” that the fire started because of a broken slow cooker. (Heartbreakingly, Jack was the one to turn the knob that ultimately set it off and started the blaze. In other heartbreaking news, we know that Jack and Kevin never reconcile, Kevin never sees his note.)
All that’s left to find out is the exact chronology of the night. We know for sure that the other Pearsons in the house (Rebecca, Randall, Kate) get out alive, but what happens to Jack? Does he go back into the house? Does he get stuck and never make it out in the first place?
We’ve seen Rebecca driving by the burnt-down house with Jack’s belongings, which suggests he makes it to a hospital and that they recover the body, but the specifics are wildly unclear. And we still need to know why Kate blames herself. And what about Kevin and his model planes? There’s so much we still don’t know. (Luckily, Mandy Moore promises closure and “a lot of answers” from the “Super Bowl Sunday” episode.)
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So does Jack die in the fire? Yes, with significant confidence, we can guess Jack dies in the fire. (How, of course, is still up in the air.) It seems extremely unlikely that the show would introduce a major twist and kill him in some other way. At it’s heart, This Is Us is not a “twist” show and they’ve invested more time in building the audience’s emotional attachment to the character — they know, we know, everyone knows we’re going to cry — that to pull a cheap twist and have him get like, run over by a bus.
Yes, there’s likely more to the story than what we suspect right now. But Jack also, yes, Jack dies in the fire.