And probably in a lot of different kinds of ways.
He envisions different kinds of scenes with the Jones-era William, some as dream-like, others in flashback form.
There might be a conversation that a character might have with him, imagining hes there, says Fogelman.

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But hes not only going to exist as a ghost.
I have all the scenarios that all the fans have, or you might imagine.
It could go so many different ways.
Theres a chunk of his life that we havent explored.
Theres those moments where Randall [Sterling K. Brown] has dreams.
There are moments where they just do raw flashbacks to build story.