History TearJerker / GromARoughChildhood

** The roll of money Alexey paid Igor for the footage of the Anubis cult is still there, [[WasItReallyWorthIt unspent, tucked in the scrapbook with a clothespin]]. One can hardly blame him for not wanting to use it.

--->[[IronicEcho "Let's go to Disneyland."]]

* The ending of the film. [[spoiler: Konstantin Grom is killed in the line of duty, thanks in part to Igor removing a bullet from his firearm. Igor goes back to their apartment alone and washes the blood off his hands, with [[ThousandYardStare a tearful, dead-eyed stare]].]]

** We finally get some context for why Igor's apartment is so run-down: [[spoiler:he never changed or updated anything, because he wanted to keep everything as it was when he lived there with his father]].
** When Yulia wakes up, she finds Igor lying on the apartment floor, looking through his old scrapbook [[spoiler:...including the tickets to Disneyland and the Polaroid he took of his father on the day he died]]. As Yulia puts her arms around him, he [[ManlyTears begins silently weeping]].

*** This is the first time [[BadAss Police Major Igor Grom]] has cried. The man has seen the system he devoted his life to fail time and time again, the suffering of countless disenfranchised people, an orphan girl killed in a drunken hit and run, looked into the eyes of her brother as [[NouveauRiche the]] [[JerkAss man]] responsible walked away scot free, glimpsed the bodies of people who were burned alive for the sins of their families, been framed and punished for heinous crimes, and watched a SerialKiller remotely destroy the building he believed held his [[ParentalSubstitute mentor]] in a massive conflagration. And this is the ''first time'' he's shed tears on screen.

* The ending of the film. [[spoiler: Constantine Grom is killed in the line of duty, thanks in part to Igor removing a bullet from his firearm. Igor goes back to their apartment alone and washes the blood off his hands, with [[ThousandYardStare a tearful, dead-eyed stare]].]]

** We finally get some context for why Igor's apartment is so run-down: [[spoiler:he never changed or upgraded anything, because he wanted to keep everything as it was when he lived there with his father]].
** When Yulia wakes up, she finds Igor lying on the apartment floor, looking through his old scrapbook...[[spoiler:including the Polaroid he took of his father on the day he died.]]
** The roll of money Alexey paid him for the footage of the Anubis cult is still there, [[WasItReallyWorthIt unspent, tucked in the scrapbook with a clothespin]].

** This is immediately followed by a TimePassesMontage, as we watch Igor go through life [[spoiler: without his father]]: his expression going from grieving and broken, to blank and dead-eyed, to hardened and angry -- and ending with him donning his signature flat cap as a Police Major Grom.

* "Let's go to Disneyland."

* [[IronicEcho "Want to go to Disneyland?"]]

-->'''Igor''': Dad... Please don't go.

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* The ending of the film. [[spoiler: Constantine Grom is killed in the line of duty, thanks in part to Igor removing a bullet from his firearm. Igor goes back to their apartment alone and washes the blood off his hands, with [[ThousandYardStare a tearful, dead-eyed stare]].]]
** This is immediately followed by a TimePassesMontage, as we watch Igor go through life without his father; his expression going from grieving and broken, to blank and dead-eyed, to hardened and angry -- concluding with him donning his father's signature flat cap as a Police Major Grom.

* The ending of the film. [[spoiler: Constantine Grom is killed in the line of duty, thanks in part to Igor removing a bullet from his firearm. Igor goes back to their apartment alone and washes the blood off his hands, with [[ThousandYardStare a tearful, dead-eyed stare]].