in the season 5 premiere that Laurel, Randall's biological mother whom he believed died from an overdose after his birth, didn't really die in that moment, Tuesday's winter return -- titled «A Long Road Home» — filled in many of the blanks about what actually happened to her.In a twist of fate, the man who knew Laurel long after she was thought to be dead, Hai Lang (played by guest star Vien Hong), reached out to Randall through his website following the councilman's unintentional bout of viral fame (thanks in no small part to his striptease video), revealing that he was close with Randall's birth mother.As Hai shared, Laurel died in May 2015 of breast cancer, decades after William, Randall and all of us were led to believe.
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