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This Is Us Season 3 Premiere: Your Biggest Questions, Answered

Welcome back, This Is Us! Season three kicked off last night with a ton of new storylines. Kate and Toby want a baby, but have fertility issues; Beth and Randall discover Zoey and Kevin are an item; Jack and Rebecca have an awkward first date at a carnival; Deja decides she’s ready to be adopted by the Pearsons. But in true This Is Us fashion it’s what happened in the last few minutes that has everyone talking. (Spoilers ahead.)

In a flash-forward scene, we saw future Randall and Tess hesitant to see the unnamed woman from the season two finale. While there’s still no word on who that is, future Toby made his first appearance—without future Kate. (Uh, can someone find future Kate ASAP?) And just when it looked like Jack and Rebecca’s love story was about to begin, things were complicated by the surprise arrival of a blonde-haired mystery man.

Naturally, all of this put the fan theories in overdrive. So at the show’s premiere event in Hollywood, we asked creator Dan Fogelman and executive producers and co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger our most burning questions. Turns out, you’ll get answers sooner than you think.

What is going on with future Kate?

At the end of last night’s episode, viewers saw an older, more distinguished-looking Toby (Chris Sullivan) lying in bed without Kate at his side. Then older Randall calls Toby from Tess’s social work facility and asks if he’s “coming down.” He says, “She wants you there, Toby.” So it’s gotta be Kate, right?

“I think it’s totally open to interpretation,” Berger says. “Kate could be in the next room [with Toby], or they could not be together, or something could have happened to her. It’s left mysterious on purpose.” OK, but that perfectly-made opposite side of the bed sure did not look like someone was living there with Toby. “He’s very neat in the future,” Aptaker jokes. “But that does not feel like a bedroom where someone, a partner, is sharing it with Toby.”

Whoever the mystery woman is, when will we get an answer?

While Aptaker tells Glamour that “it’s anyone’s guess who ‘her’ is,” he, Fogelman, and the rest of the writers are conscious not to drag it on for too long. That said, you shouldn’t rule “anyone off the list” of who “her” could be. “Throughout this year, we’re going to be giving more and more answers and ruling people out,” Aptaker promises.

How did Kate’s PCOS (Polycistic Ovarian Syndrome) diagnosis come about?

The syndrome, which is a hormonal disorder common among women of reproductive age, was talked about in the writers’ room for quite some time before the start of the season. “We choose to tackle issues that are going on in our lives, of people we know, and what’s something that people are going through that nobody’s talking about,” Berger says. “[PCOS] felt like it organically felt with Kate’s storyline.”

“We have a mostly female staff, and a lot of people in that age are having kids, so when we started talking about what it could be [that Kate would have PCOS] came up a lot,” Aptaker adds. “Once we started to hear that it’s common, then we brought in doctors and said, ‘What does the reality of this look like? And how do we get it right?’ We showed this episode to a fertility doctor, and he was like, ‘Thank you. Nobody is doing this, and it’s so common. I see it everyday.”

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Will Deja’s biological father return for future episodes?

At the moment, no. “In this particular episode, her interactions with him were really about closure,” Berger says. “I don’t think she went there with the intention of striking up a relationship, but she’s young and life is long.” So, don’t rule anything out.

Is Zoey really that bad for Kevin?

According to Beth she is, but Aptaker says it’s more complicated than that: “There’s darkness and drama to her story, and she’s a very complicated woman.” Berger adds, “For Beth to warn Kevin like that, she must know something really complex has taken place [in Zoey’s past].” In the meantime, though, their relationship will grow, as Zoey and Kevin have their upcoming trip to Vietnam. “Kevin is doing really well for the first time in his life and should probably [be focused on other things than love],” Justin Hartley (Kevin) says, “but when it comes to matters of the heart, what are you going to do?”

Beth and Randall aren’t really going to split up, are they?

During the panel, Fogelman said that Randall’s story this season “will go in a surprising direction,” and he’s going to put Beth and Randall “through some stuff.” Um, what kind of stuff? Berger wouldn’t elaborate except to say that “even the strongest of couples go through difficult chapters. We are going to find them in one of those moments where they truly are tested.”

Who’s this new guy that Rebecca is kissing?

It’s Weeds star Hunter Parrish! As for his character, all we know is that he’s a blonde-haired, mustached dude who isn’t Jack. “I don’t want to say how much we’re going to see him,” Aptaker says, “but we’re going to pick right back up where we left off in episode three.”

While Parrish’s character will obviously factor into Jack and Rebecca’s early timeline, Berger says you’ll still see plenty of romance between the future Mr. and Mrs. Pearson. “Their chemistry is so palpable, and you’ll see more of that electricity this season.” In fact, Fogelman teased an upcoming scene that is so “wildly romantic,” it gives off Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore vibes a la Ghost.

What’s going to happen next week?

Get ready for the return of William. “Ron [Cephas Jones] is back, and we see him in a new period of his life that we haven’t spent that much time in,” Aptaker says. He also confirmed that it has something to do with this picture Fogelman tweeted in August:

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All Your Questions About Trump's Executive Order on Family Separation, Answered

In the weeks leading up to summer, it appears as though the entire country has turned its attention to America’s border cities. There, a crisis emerged when the Trump administration ordered a “zero tolerance policy” calling for the prosecution of migrants attempting to enter the country via asylum or otherwise.

The policy change mandated that border agents detain anyone attempting to cross—which is typically treated as a civil misdemeanor offense—and try it as a criminal case. In turn, parents traveling with children were separated at the border and sent to different detention facilities.

Since the practice began, stories have emerged of infants being ripped out of their mother’s arms, fathers who died from suicide after being separated from their families, and the guttural, heartbreaking cries of children begging for their parents.

The pure, unadulterated outrage that followed from the American public, churches and advocacy groups reached a fever pitch before the president signed an executive order that ended the separation of families on Wednesday. However, while signing the order, President Donald Trump made it abundantly clear that his administration’s “zero tolerance policy” toward migrants will remain, which has left followers of this humanitarian and political catastrophe with more questions than answers.

Will families actually stay together?

According to the executive order, which was posted to the White House website, families will remain together “where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources.” However, it additionally noted that children and parents may be separated if the government determines keeping them together “would pose a risk to the child’s welfare,” which gives the government room for interpretation of the law.

Is it actually legal to detain families, even if they are together?

This is where things get very murky. According to a 1997 court ruling known as the “Flores Settlement,” children who are detained at the border with parents must be placed with a family friend or immediate relative “without unnecessary delay,” Vox explained. But, as the ruling states, immigrant children who must remain in custody must be placed in the “least restrictive conditions” possible. Those conditions include food, running water, medical care and separate living quarters from unrelated adults.

The last part—separate living spaces—is what likely will cause major issues in the near future.

In 2014, the Obama administration attempted to keep families together in detention centers following a massive uptick in asylum-seekers from Central America. However, immigration advocates found the practice inhumane. So, a 2015 court set a general standard stating the government could only hold children in custody for up to 20 days, NPR reports. And though the court never specified how long parents could be held, the Obama administration made it practice to release the entire family together, with certain restrictions, such as placing ankle monitoring bracelets on parents to ensure they’d return to court.

There is no word yet if Trump’s administration will do the same, however, he has time and time again ridiculed the practice of releasing the families, often referring to it as “catch and release.” Trump has also instructed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ask the federal court to modify that agreement so there will be no limit on how long children (and thus their families) can remain in detention, NPR explained.

Where will the families be housed?

Again, this is another question in the air (are you sensing a pattern in this crisis?).

As part of Trump’s instruction to Sessions, the president also called on different branches of his administration to find facilities that could be available for detaining families with children, NPR reports. Trump also asked the Defense Department, to build new facilities “if necessary.”

What will happen to the families already separated?

According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), who provided a statement to NPR, it is indeed working side-by-side with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to reunite families. “ICE and ORR will work together to locate separated children, verify the parent/child relationship, and set up regular communication and removal coordination, if necessary.”

“ICE will make every effort to reunite the child with the parent once the parent’s immigration case has been adjudicated,” the spokesperson added. However, according to multiple reports, this just isn’t happening.

According to PRI, the process of unification is difficult because the adults and children fall into different legal paths at the border, and are thus the responsibility of different government agencies. The parents and children are often given different case numbers, so it’s hard to track one another down.

“If they don’t reunite these kids and their parents right away, what can happen is the kids will be stuck in the US for years, guardians will be appointed, and their parents will be down in Honduras or Guatemala with no idea where their child is and no meaningful way to reunite,”John Sandweg, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Obama administration, told MSNBC.

Furthermore, several lawyers and advocates explained to the New Yorker, that the process of finding a child within the system after a parent has been released or deported is nearly impossible. The experts who spoke with the New Yorker explained, in great detail, how the parent is forced to track his or her own child down using a system of non-profits, a 1-800 number set up by ORR, and simply having a bit of luck with finding their loved one.

“I have a master’s degree, and I’m fluent in English,” Emily Kephart, a program coordinator at an immigrant-rights group known as Kids in Need of Defense, told the New Yorker. “And it takes me days to figure one of these cases out.”

Trump’s Executive Order Means He Won’t Separate Families at the Border, but He’s Still Detaining Children

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