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Based on this photo, it looks like William is still alive in the present. There was some concern that he died already because of how "The Game Plan" ended. In a post-show Entertainment Weekly interview, creator Dan Fogelman said that the scene showing Randall grieving after William's death was an "almost metaphysical glimpse at a hypothetical future." Fogelman said that Jones is in "Career Days," adding, "But we have this ominous thing looming in some kind of distant or near-distant future." So it looks like This Is Us teased us with a third time period, a future in which William is dead. (Ron Batzdorff/NBC)