In a type of
hypothermic coma, boy, it turns out, is the child of Marla, a type of deadbeat mother who has scammed her way into letting her own mother Crystal (Margo Martindale) take most of the responsibility of the child.
Coincidentally, though they took different routes back from devastating physical afflictions (Weathers from
hypothermic coma, Armstrong from cancer), they ended up in the same place, snug in the arms of their loved ones.