That's when the show cuts to a runner we've seen a few times over the course of the season. A little boy sits with his social worker (Iantha Richardson), who tells him that he's going home with a new family. It happens at the very same moment Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) gets a phone call on the landline. (Tess says earlier in the episode that the social worker only calls on the landline, which is why she had been disconnecting it.) At that point, it would be obvious to assume that the little boy will become a part of the Pearson family — except, that's not at all what's going on.