History TearJerker / Fringe

* [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids "It’s all just numbers. And the invaders, as you call them, they’re just better at math than we are."]]

* Peter [[spoiler: removing the tech after Olivia tells him that she loves him and Olivia holding him afterwards.]]

* The scene with Peter and Olivia at the end of 5x07. [[spoiler: Peter starting to go full blown Observer on her and Olivia (who had spent the entire episode worrying about him) walks out of the room.]]

* The BadFuture. The universe is breaking apart. The opening credits now include ''[[OhCrap water]]'' and ''[[ItGotWorse hope]]''. [[spoiler: The other universe, with baby Henry, Henry the cabbie, Marilyn Dunham, Alternate Astrid, Christopher Broyles, Lincoln, Scarlie, Fauxlivia and all the characters we have come to care about, is already gone.]] Walternate [[spoiler: shoots Olivia.]] [[FutureBadass Ella]], who once fixed Walter's story, doesn't believe in happy endings anymore. [[HopeSpot But Walter has a plan.]] A really drastic plan.

* Walter telling Nina that William Bell never loved her and Nina telling him that now she could see the man he used to be in him. [[spoiler:And the scene at the end of the episode where he begs Nina to remove those parts of his brain again.]]

* The scene with Peter and Olivia at the end. [[spoiler: Peter starting to go full blown Observer on her and Olivia (who had spent the entire episode worrying about him) walks out of the room.]]

-->'''Peter:''' I won't, Dad. I promise.

-->'''Peter:''' I won't, Dad.

* Peter going to Etta's house [[spoiler:just so he can listen to a voicemail she left and hear her voice again.]]

** Walter asking for a [[spoiler: bottle of Etta's perfume, so he can remember her, even if his memory is faulty.]]

*** The entire episode, Olivia looks like she's two seconds from snapping. [[spoiler: After she watches the tape,]] she ends up sobbing and calling Peter. Yes, it was worse than "Marionette".

-->[[spoiler: '''Three year old Etta:''' Kiss Mommy!]]

** In 5x05, [[spoiler: Peter holds up a photograph of Etta while Olivia sleeps and looks at how similiar they are.]]

-->'''Olivia:''' I can't.

-->'''Walter:''' *to Olivia* [[spoiler:You're afraid that you will lose each other again.]] I'm trying to tell you that I see what you see. That's why this tape is so important. You must watch it and remember what you both had, what you still are and you must hold on to that. [[spoiler:You must face this pain together. The pain is her legacy to you both. It's proof that she was here. And I have experience with this sort of pain. And you can't escape it by building walls around your heart. Or by breaking a universe. Or by vengeance. You lost each other once but you have another chance.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Peter:''' That's my girl.]]

** [[spoiler: They play a DarkReprise of "Henrietta" in the background.]]

** Every. Scene. [[spoiler:With or about Etta.]] Becomes this. [[spoiler: Olivia and Peter discussing a nursery? Depressing. Olivia telling Peter she's pregnant? Depressing. Reuniting with Etta? Depressing. Anything with the Bullet? Depressing.]]

* [[spoiler:Etta's death.]] Not only is it sad in and of itself, but taken into the fact that both Peter and Olivia had virtually already [[spoiler: lost a child and because of losing that child, they lost each other. They didn't get to see her childhood or see her grow up.]] Then, they get reunited with her, and get to see her in all her glory. [[spoiler: For a matter of days, maybe even a couple of weeks and she's taken from them all over again. Not to mention that Olivia thought she lost Etta for being divided in her goals in the first place. Imagine getting her back and then losing her again ''because'' you're trying to save the world instead of get some place safe.]] Considering the reasons, that Peter and Olivia were no longer together this firmly puts them beyond square one because there is no hope left that [[spoiler: she'll be found because they both watched her die.]]

* [[spoiler:Etta's death.]]

* [[spoiler:Etta's death]]

* The reveal that Olivia didn't return to New York instead of [[spoiler:trying to find Etta in Boston]] because it was the right thing to do or because she was "stronger" than Peter, but because she was convinced that [[spoiler: her daughter]] was dead and couldn't bear the thought of finding her.

* When Olivia realizes that the Observer occupation has turned Etta into a cold woman willing to torture a man and steal decades of his life away as a matter of course, and Olivia wasn't there for her when she was growing up in that world.

-->'''Peter:''' Not even by half.

* The Ending of "Forced Perspective." It helps that Emily found out that her visions COULD help people, and prevented many deaths. Very, very slightly.

** [[spoiler: Nina has gone grey, is in a wheelchair and her mechanical hand no longer works. She's lost her surrogate daughter and has to pretend to hate her granddaughter. We don't ''know'' what's happened to Ella and her little brother. Broyles looks like he's aged a hundred years. Most of the team have spent ''twenty years'' in Amber. Olivia is implied to be dead. September is probably dead. No sign of Lincoln. Olivia and Peter's child grew up without them. Walter went from "can barely remember you" brain damaged to Walternate 2.0 and ''hates'' the man he once considered a close friend. Simon sacrificed himself to get Peter out of the Amber. They have to fight Observers who have already been established has practically unstoppable Badasses.]] The world has, in short, gone to shit. [[BittersweetEnding But they've saved the world once already, implying that the alternate universe is safe. And Etta is reunited with her family.]] [[HopeSpot That's something, right?]]

* Peter [[spoiler: refusing to believe that Amber!Olivia is his Olivia.]] We don't even know if it's ''true'' but she looked so sad.

-->'''Olivia:''' When the day comes, if I don't remember this, I want you to try and build something with me again. Don't give up on me. I love you, Nina.