“William, you tricky duck.”
following the Revolutionary War on a new episode of PBS seriesFinding Your Roots.
See the dramatic, deeply personal moment in the exclusive clip below.

Kristen Bell on ‘Finding Your Roots’.Credit:PBS
To this, the actress quipped, “William, you tricky duck.”
TheNobody Wants Thisactress has been open about her immediate family over the years.
Their father is a recovering addict, and he drank non-alcoholic beer when they were little.

‘Finding Your Roots’ digs into Kristen Bell’s ancestry.Amanda Edwards/Getty
So I think it feels to her like something special, something daddy, something family."
Bell and Shepard will both appear inFinding Your Rootson Tuesday , Feb. 18, at 8 p.m.