This Is Us
Tuesdays 9:00 PM on NBCThis Is Us Season 5 Episode 11: "One Small Step" Quotes
I jotted down some things for you. No great words of wisdom but when you're an old man and you're looking out the plane window, you think about all the mistakes you make in life. I lived alone, every day same routine for 50 years. But then I got an invitation to meet you two, and you know what it got me thinking about? It got me thinking about the moon and July 20, 1969. I watched a man walk on the moon. One day, we'd never been to the moon. It was impossible to fathom even walking on it. And the next day we're walking on it. The impossible became possible just like that. For 50 years, I lived in a trailer, a trailer that went nowhere. Whatever the opposite is of an astronaut, that's what I became. And then I got that invitation in the mail for a Zoom, whatever the hell that is, but an invitation to meet my great-nephew and my great-niece. My big brother's grandchildren. I went a really long time, and I've been stuck. Anything good that would ever happen to me, it just seemed impossible. But here I am. I made it. You two are my moon.
Nicky
Nicky. You have hated yourself for so long and now you have all this love coming at you and it's weird and it makes you want to go AWOL.
Cassidy
I can't believe I was your age sitting her listening to the radio with my old man when Roosevelt came on and said Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Things change. Now I'm the old man sitting with my son watching three men come back from the moon.
Nicky's father
Jack: Sir, I want to ask your advice about something. There's this girl I want to propose to.
Lt. Sheenan: You're afraid she's gonna say no? You're not that ugly, Pearson.
Nicky: You want to pack up and move to California for good?
Sally: What does that mean, for good? My grandma Pearl used to say, 'sweetie, you can do whatever you want with your life or you can do nothing.'
Girl lights a fire in you. I'm happy for you, little brother.
Jack
Nicky: THese are great photographs.
Sally: Pearl and I have been everywhere.
Nicky: I see a little bit of you in each one. It's like a glimpse into how you see the world.
Sally: Jack. You have a very determined energy. Cancer?
Jack: No, I'm fine, thanks.
Nick, there is a guy walking on the moon right now. Come on. Ask Sally out. If he can do it, you can do it?
Jack
Kevin: Uncle Nicky, what are you doing here?
Nicky: I came to see my namesake. And the girl.
