>>149123826It was one of those episodes which, at the first viewing, feel touching and heartwarming - but fall apart once you look back at it with some emotional distance.
Whenever an average Joe looks back at his life, he will find tons of moments that could have changed his life for the better were he to make a different decision.
Meanwhile Nicole, upon doing the same retrospective, finds out that EVERY. SINGLE. CHOICE she could have made without Richard as her boyfriend/husband/father of her children would have been a choice for the worse, often resulting in her death. Her marriage with Richard has infinite plot armour.