2. Will Gets Committed

Complete story — includes the ending

Philip and Vivian organize a cleanup effort in the riot-torn remains of their old LA neighborhood. Philip is mad at how Vivian calls him predictable and then refuses to talk to him. Will befriends a neighborhood kid named Noah ( Shavar Ross ) while Carlton tries to woo a girl named Simone (Rose Jackson). Noah gets mad at Will when the latter refuses to blow off his weekend plans to come back and help again. While looking around a ruined apartment, Will is ambushed by a man armed with a baseball bat, who turns out to be Phil and Vivian's friend Hector (Gregory Sierra), whose grocery store they lived above. Realizing the apartment they are in was their old one, the family flashes back to the late 1970s when they used to live in this old neighborhood before Ashley was born. Also detailed is how Philip joined the Beverly Hills law firm of Firth, Wynn & Meyer, enabling him to move his family to Bel-Air. Vivian announces that she is pregnant. Note: The episode aired shortly before "young Will Smith" guest star Floyd Roger Myers Jr.'s appearance in The Jacksons: An American Dream as the young Marlon Jackson. Myers died in October 2025.