70sKid

Who knows if the clinical trial would have helped Rebecca or not, but I would have tried my best to get my mother to join the trial too.

It would, Marcus could very well have overseen an early clinical trial of the drug when he was in his early '30s.

I thought it was beautifully done. She heard and felt the love that her family was trying to convey to her in her final hours/minutes, and it gave her the peace to pass on. I was with my dad when he died, and II like to believe that he felt that too, and that just maybe the hand squeeze that I felt was him taking my Nana's hand as she guided him to Heaven. They did spend too much time on Marcus and his family, but I think the point of it was to show the irony that the early clinical trial of Marcus's Alzheimer's drug was probably the one that Randall wanted Rebecca to join and may have helped her.

Rebecca raised 3 kids with Jack and they faced the loss of one of their babies together, I'd say that's a much deeper profound connection than a second marriage that she entered into for companionship years after his death. Miguel was a loving husband and caregiver to her, and she did have a flash of recognition that he was someone special during her final hours, but unfortunately Alzheimer's robbed their marriage connection from her long term memory.

They portrayed the cruel and unfortunate reality of Alzheimer's accurately. Alzheimer's gave Miguel the short end of the stick, not the writers. Rebecca didn't remember Miguel as her husband, she remembered him as Jack's friend, which was who he was to her in her long term memory and why she saw him as he was then. Jack was her husband in her long term memory, so her connection to him would be much stronger even though he had died decades before her.

My take on the connection is that they were actually trying to show that the clinical trial for Marcus's Alzheimer's drug was the one that Randall wanted to Rebecca into and might have helped her.