Kate and Toby admit defeat but Kate still gets a happily ever after romance.

Meanwhile, Kevin womanizes and Randall campaigns.

It’s an unpleasant way to begin the home stretch of this final season.

(Ship name Killip?

Or Phate, since it feels like they arefated).

Kate welcomes the offer and suggests couple’s therapy.

Toby agrees, wanting to do anything to save their family.

During a therapy session six months in, Kate is late, bickering erupts, and Toby storms out.

Indeed, they are both brutally problematic.

He says Kate would have married Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) if he hadn’t died.

Even if Kate didn’t intend to put that pressure on Toby, he felt it.

Is Toby insecure, or does Kate have impossible standards?

Toddler Jack interjects, faking a crisis to urge them to stop yelling.

In intermittent scenes, Toby moves out and they begin divorce mediation.

One night, Toby brings the kids home, asleep.

Jack wakes and joyfully says, “you’re both here.”

Toby then suggests he and Kate stop the divorce.

Their dynamic has improved, and he’ll try harder in therapy.

But Kate says everyone is better because they’re apart.

Toby desperately confesses he is terrified.

He kisses Kate, but she rebuffs him, so he leaves, crushed.

Flashforward to signing their divorce papers.

She insists Toby will understand someday, but he coldly disagrees.

Together, they sing “Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down).”

Soon after, they have a first date.

When a mariachi band approaches them, Phillip panics over the public attention.

Kate grabs his hand in support, but upon recognition of the embrace, Kate excuses herself, sullenly.

Phillip pursues her and asks what’s wrong.

Phillip rejects her claim and tells a story to prove Kate wrong.

His first wife wasn’t perfect, but he still thought her beautiful.

They had trouble conceiving, through three rounds of costly IVF.

In anger, his wife got in a cab to head to her mother’s.

Five minutes down the road, she was killed by a drunk driver.

Phillip says he’s trying to be happy again and Kate makes him happy.

Then, he kisses her.

Toby confesses he thought he and Kate would reunite, but clearly that dream is dead.

Again, Jack looms large in Kate’s life, even without her realizing.

Then, there’s an engagement party.

Kate makes Phillip join her in singing “Tubthumping,” to honor the day things changed for them.

Next comes their wedding day.

As Kate finishes getting ready for the ceremony, Toby calls.

Then there’s Toby meeting a woman in a coffee shop.

Flash-forward again to Kate on her wedding day.

Kate smiles, as if that comment is the final step for their post-marriage peace.

Katoby the lovers are dead, but remaining is Katoby the co-parents who changed one another’s lives.

Kevin and Randall

With this episode, it seems Kate has reached her happy ending.

However, there’s still plenty unfinished with the Pearson boys.

Perhaps they are set to get their own two-episode happy ending arcs next.

Everyone keeps calling him out for cycling through commercial actresses, and he reluctantly acknowledges his philandering.

At the engagement party, while his latest flame chats with Phillip, Kevin spots Sophie and her husband.

Could Sophiestillbe in Kevin’s future?

Meanwhile, Randall gets a call from Jae-won about donations for his senator campaign.

We can bet he’ll win, but what will it mean for his family?

Here’s to finding out in the final six episodes of this twisty family drama.