Here's How PJ Factors Into the 'Million Little Things' Plot — and Where You've Seen Him Before

Mar. 25 2021, Updated 4:19 p.m. ET

A Million Little Things dropped a large number of bombshells right through the primary season, revealing it is advisable fill a library with all of the secrets Jon (Ron Livingston) used to be retaining from the folks closest to him. Toward the end of the remaining season, the gang was attempting to determine who Barbara Morgan is, the mysterious lady integrated in Jon's will. 

It became out Jon felt survivor's guilt because he was once supposed to have been on the aircraft with Barbara's husband, Dave, on Sept. 11. But the video message he left for Barbara — which her son PJ saw — has additionally raised some questions on Jon and Barbara's courting. 

So who is PJ with regards to Jon on Million Little Things?

It's clear that Barbara (whose ultimate title is Nelson now) and her husband, Mitch, raised PJ to assume Mitch used to be his dad, and seeing Jon's video has helped the teen understand that is not so. What's less clear is whether he thinks his actual dad used to be Jon or Dave. Frankly, we have that query, too. 

It's possible Jon's feelings of guilt and shame are purely over forsaking a chum in want — a widowed new mom, besides. That would honestly be sufficient, but it's simply as simple to consider Jon was the "Eddie" in every other love triangle, this time with his faculty absolute best friends, Barbara and Dave.

It would give an explanation for why he wasn't more angry about Eddie and Delilah's affair, since he would most probably see it as karma. Whether PJ — or "Patrick," as Rome and PJ's new therapist Maggie know him — is Jon's son or no longer, his seek for solutions will most probably deliver him into the tale more this season.

Here's the place you might have noticed PJ earlier than on the small display.

Another reason why to consider we will be seeing a lot more of PJ is the truth they solid Chandler Riggs within the role. The actor spent eight years playing Carl Grimes on The Walking Dead, and it kind of feels a waste to solid such an accomplished actor in a job that won't have much significance to the tale. 

The proven fact that he's established a dating with Maggie and Rome also indicators that his storyline would possibly not get sewn up neatly any time quickly. This is a kid clearly on the lookout for solutions about who he is and the place he comes from. He's already committed B&E on Delilah's house to get extra information about Jon's courting to his mom.

The show's author, DJ Nash, tells TVGuide, "the purpose of PJ in Season 2 is to serve as a cautionary tale. He is a young man who doesn't know who his father is. As Delilah and Eddie watch this young man make choices that are probably not correct and struggle with the fact that his [paternity] was kept from him, [that] will inform their decision of what to do with their child."

So that is a method we can be expecting Jon's storyline with Barbara to parallel with Eddie and Delilah's. It remains to be seen, alternatively, just how difficult Eddie's paternity in reality is.

A Million Little Things airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

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