Tough Stuff<\/h3>\nSeason 5 \u2022 Episode 12<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for A Million Little Things<\/em> Season 5 Episode 12 \u201cTough Stuff.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n If you didn\u2019t sob by means of the penultimate episode of A Million Little Things<\/em><\/a>, together with whereas Gary (James Roday Rodriguez<\/a>) was making jokes all through, you\u2019re made from harder stuff than we’re.<\/p>\n As feared, after coughing up blood throughout Katherine (Grace Park<\/a>) and Greta\u2019s (Cameron Esposito<\/a>) wedding ceremony<\/a>, Gary is dying. His most cancers has unfold to his different lung, and it\u2019s now not responding to remedy. \u201cThis will be a fight,\u201d his physician warns. And struggle Gary tries. He will get chemo. He shaves his head. He will get worse and worse, and shortly, it\u2019s Javi\u2019s first birthday. Javi will get his dad a T-shirt studying \u201cThe Original\u201d to go along with his \u201cThe Remix.\u201d Gary cracks a joke about being all the way down to a medium and shortly needing to raid Theo\u2019s closet. No one laughs. \u201cYou gotta at least let me have my cancer jokes,\u201d Gary tells them. \u201cI\u2019m here all week. We hope.\u201d<\/p>\n His subsequent appointment with the oncologist doesn\u2019t go away them with a lot hope, however Maggie (Allison Miller<\/a>) focuses on persevering with to struggle, refusing to only settle for they\u2019re on the level the place they’ll solely make Gary snug. \u201cWe\u2019re at the point now where any treatment we try may affect his quality of life,\u201d the physician says. But Maggie examine a examine utilizing insulin remedy \u2014 very<\/em> experimental, the physician stresses \u2014 and decides that\u2019s their subsequent step. \u201cThanks for getting me this far, doc,\u201d Gary says on his manner out. \u201cIt means the world.\u201d<\/p>\n In remedy with Jessica (Bresha Webb), Gary admits that whereas Maggie\u2019s scared, he\u2019s not. \u201cI\u2019m just really tired,\u201d he shares. \u201cHaving Dr. Stein tell me I did everything I could was a huge relief.\u201d Someone as soon as informed Jessica that each life has a size and a width, and it\u2019s vital to not sacrifice the latter for the previous. Cue Gary\u2019s \u201cso you\u2019re saying on top of everything else I\u2019m dealing with now size matters?\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s after Gary has sat down with Katherine to go over his will (one thing he needs to maintain between them for now) that Maggie comes residence with the excellent news: He acquired into the examine in Mexico. He tries to protest, however \u201cthe only reason that I am still here is you never let me give up,\u201d she tells him, and to her, it\u2019s not completely different. \u201cYou made me fight, which is what you\u2019re going to do.\u201d She even dares him to go, primarily taking the choice out of his fingers.<\/p>\n ABC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Gary is aware of that is probably not going to go his manner. Yes, there\u2019s a hit story on the web site, he tells Eddie (David Giuntoli<\/a>) and Rome (Romany Malco<\/a>), however his state of affairs is totally completely different. But \u201cend of the day, [Maggie] needs to believe that she did everything she could, so I\u2019m going to give whatever life I have left to making sure she doesn\u2019t spend the rest of hers regretting anything.\u201d<\/p>\n That means the others need to be ready to say \u201cgoodbye goodbye\u201d on the airport. Danny (Chance Hurstfield<\/a>) lies and says his interview for Harvard acquired pushed again; he\u2019s actually at residence. (\u201cEveryone has to deal with this in their own way. He knows I love him. I know he loves me. Danny and I are good,\u201d Gary assures his sister.) Sophie (Lizzy Greene<\/a>) decides to go to Mexico, ostensibly to assist, however, as she later admits, to place off saying goodbye. Rome and Regina (Christina Moses<\/a>) miss an occasion for her marketing campaign. \u201cWe\u2019re saying goodbye to our friend. Nothing else matters,\u201d she says. \u201cI needed a win,\u201d he confesses, emotional.<\/p>\n And the group simply occurs to finish up the place Gary informed Maggie to go to England. \u201cSometimes I wish I could get that time back,\u201d Gary says now. To begin off the farewells, Gary once more jokes: \u201cLook, I know this Mexico trip seems like a complicated way to get fluent in Spanish, but I\u2019m also going to get a legit farmer\u2019s tan, OK? This is a win-win, for everybody.\u201d And then one after the other, they hug him, attempting to faux they know they\u2019ll see him once more whereas Gary says, to every:<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud of you, OK? And not just because you\u2019re aging so gracefully, although that\u2019s most of it.\u201d (Eddie)<\/p>\n \u201cHey, do me a favor: Take care of my best friend Rome while I\u2019m gone, OK?\u201d (Rome, who repeats that again to him)<\/p>\n \u201cI think I\u2019ll miss you most of all, Scarecrow.\u201d (Katherine)<\/p>\n \u201cIt feels like a bit of an overstep for my future city councilwoman, don\u2019t you think? Don\u2019t worry. I mailed in my ballot.\u201d (Regina, after she says she loves him)<\/p>\n \u201cLove you, too.\u201d (Delilah)<\/p>\n Then after an \u201cI love you\u201d to everybody, a wheelchair is introduced out to Gary. \u201cOh, Ed, I get it, I get it,\u201d he quips. It\u2019s as soon as Maggie wheels him inside that she has her realization and brings him again to the others. \u201cHey, bad news, Ed. You\u2019re no longer the most handsome one of us in a wheelchair,\u201d Gary calls out. \u201cGood news, Rome. You are no longer the only one battling male-pattern baldness.\u201d Maggie explains, \u201cI realized that he needs to be here for whatever time he \u2014 he just needs to be here, with all of us.\u201d So what now? \u201cWe go home and you help me unpack and we all get in one bed together,\u201d Gary says.<\/p>\n![\"James](\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/a-million-little-things-507-gary.jpg\")
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