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** Generally a lot of Suzanne's scenes this season, especially the flashbacks of her as a kid, being isolated.

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** Generally a lot of Suzanne's scenes this season, especially the flashbacks of her as a kid, being isolated.isolated.
* Black Cindy of all people has one when her flashbacks show that she rarely visits her sister and when she does, she gives her a stolen iPad. And when she gets called out [[spoiler: it's revealed that her sister is actually her daughter and she wants to take her back but it's clear she wouldn't be able to handle it.]] It makes you look at the usually upbeat woman in a different life.
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* It is sad to see as the season goes along that [[spoiler: Vee really doesn't genuinely care for Crazy Eyes]] and that she's only using her for for own advantage.

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* It is sad to see as the season goes along that [[spoiler: Vee really doesn't genuinely care for Crazy Eyes]] and that she's only using her for for own advantage.advantage.
** The scene of Suzanne sitting on her bed clutching the pack of Uno cards, crying her eyes out with no one comforting her. Its obvious she's just come to the realisation that [[spoiler: Vee, her only 'friend', was using her]]
** Generally a lot of Suzanne's scenes this season, especially the flashbacks of her as a kid, being isolated.
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* On a more subtle level, Taystee as a character. As the first season hinted at and the second season further explores, she's very smart and charismatic but spent her life trapped by her racial and class background, with [[TheCorrupter Vee]] the only person who gave her a chance.

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* On a more subtle level, Taystee as a character. As the first season hinted at and the second season further explores, she's very smart and charismatic but spent her life trapped by her racial and class background, with [[TheCorrupter Vee]] the only person who gave her a chance.chance.
* It is sad to see as the season goes along that [[spoiler: Vee really doesn't genuinely care for Crazy Eyes]] and that she's only using her for for own advantage.
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* One for Fig of all people, [[spoiler: when she walks in on her husband and his staffer kissing.]] Even though she's a total jerkass, it was sad to see her like that.

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* One for Fig of all people, [[spoiler: when she walks in on her husband and his staffer kissing.]] Even though she's a total jerkass, it was sad to see her like that.that.
* On a more subtle level, Taystee as a character. As the first season hinted at and the second season further explores, she's very smart and charismatic but spent her life trapped by her racial and class background, with [[TheCorrupter Vee]] the only person who gave her a chance.
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* Susanna weeping during Larry's radio show and earlier that episode, when she asked Piper why everyone called her Crazy eyes.

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* Susanna Suzanne weeping during Larry's radio show and earlier that episode, when she asked Piper why everyone called her Crazy eyes.Eyes.
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**This becomes more tragic when [[spoiler:he comes to visit her in prison, loudly announcing to everyone there exactly what she did.]]
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* Soso being forced to take a shower. Sure, she's naive and irritating, but the utter look of defeat on her face is genuinely heartbreaking.

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* Soso being forced to take a shower. Sure, she's naive and irritating, but the utter look of defeat on her face is genuinely heartbreaking.heartbreaking.
* For Pete, being told that his wife is leaving him for his close friend.
* One for Fig of all people, [[spoiler: when she walks in on her husband and his staffer kissing.]] Even though she's a total jerkass, it was sad to see her like that.
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* [[spoiler: When Taystee confronts Poussey and pushes her down after Vee throws her out of the group. The expression on Poussey's face and Taystee's subsequent reaction is both tearjerking and heartwarming.]]

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* [[spoiler: When Taystee confronts Poussey and pushes her down after Vee throws her out of the group. The expression on Poussey's face and Taystee's subsequent reaction is both tearjerking and heartwarming.]]]]
* Soso being forced to take a shower. Sure, she's naive and irritating, but the utter look of defeat on her face is genuinely heartbreaking.
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* [[spoiler: When Taystee confronts Poussey and pushes her down. The expression on Poussey's face and Taystee's subsequent reaction is both tearjerking and heartwarming.]]

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* [[spoiler: When Taystee confronts Poussey and pushes her down.down after Vee throws her out of the group. The expression on Poussey's face and Taystee's subsequent reaction is both tearjerking and heartwarming.]]
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* Rosa's backstory when [[spoiler: both men that she falls in love with end up dying. She thinks that she's actually cursed, and panics when the boy she's formed a friendship with through their chemotherapy sessions appears to get bad news about his cancer. She even states that all of the men in her life end up dying, and seems genuinely upset until she learns it's ''good'' news; the boy has gone into remission. The scene becomes a tearjerker for an entirely different reason then.]]

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* Rosa's backstory when [[spoiler: both men that she falls in love with end up dying. She thinks that she's actually cursed, and panics when the boy she's formed a friendship with through their chemotherapy sessions appears to get bad news about his cancer. She even states that all of the men in her life end up dying, and seems genuinely upset until she learns it's ''good'' news; the boy has gone into remission. The scene becomes a tearjerker for an entirely different reason then.]]
*[[spoiler: When Taystee confronts Poussey and pushes her down. The expression on Poussey's face and Taystee's subsequent reaction is both tearjerking and heartwarming.
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* [[spoiler:When Jimmy (the elderly senile woman) is taken away after breaking her arm for a "compassionate release" and she cries for help from "Roberta" (what she calls Piper)]]

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* [[spoiler:When Jimmy (the elderly senile woman) is taken away after breaking her arm for a "compassionate release" and she cries for help from "Roberta" (what she calls Piper)]] Piper). Compassionate release meaning being thrown out onto the streets and left homeless to avoid having to pay the costs of caring for a senile woman]]

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* [[spoiler:When Piper looks the other way when Lolli is beaten by the other women.]]

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** Piper's entire relationship with Jimmy is both tearjerking ''and'' heartwarming; she starts looking after her, cutting up her food for her, and listening to her stories about Jack. [[spoiler: It's most likely because Piper has learned that her grandmother is dying. Jimmy's senility is very sad in itself, especially since she isn't getting help for it; the other inmates are the ones taking care of her.]]
* [[spoiler:When Piper looks the other way when Lolli is beaten by the other women.]]
* Rosa's backstory when [[spoiler: both men that she falls in love with end up dying. She thinks that she's actually cursed, and panics when the boy she's formed a friendship with through their chemotherapy sessions appears to get bad news about his cancer. She even states that all of the men in her life end up dying, and seems genuinely upset until she learns it's ''good'' news; the boy has gone into remission. The scene becomes a tearjerker for an entirely different reason then.
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* The truth about Morello's backstory - [[spoiler:she and Christopher were never actually engaged, and he never loved her. They only went on one date and she basically stalked him prior to her incarceration. Yet she still deludes herself into thinking the opposite.]]

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* The truth about Morello's backstory - [[spoiler:she and Christopher were never actually engaged, and he never loved her. They only went on one date and she basically stalked him prior to her incarceration. Yet she still deludes herself into thinking the opposite.]]
*[[spoiler:When Jimmy (the elderly senile woman) is taken away after breaking her arm for a "compassionate release" and she cries for help from "Roberta" (what she calls Piper)]]
*[[spoiler:When Piper looks the other way when Lolli is beaten by the other women.
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!!Season One:



* Everyone believed that Flores is insane, talking to herself in the one stall with a door on it. [[spoiler:It turns out she was just talking to her boyfriend via a hidden cell phone. She's overjoyed when she gets a visit from him and it's a cute moment... Until Piper has to turn in the cell phone to Healy in order to try and get the track open. Flores is so upset when she realizes that her connection to her boyfriend is gone that she breaks the bathroom door and is taken away, crying. And then we see her later in Psych...]]

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* Everyone believed that Flores is insane, talking to herself in the one stall with a door on it. [[spoiler:It turns out she was just talking to her boyfriend via a hidden cell phone. She's overjoyed when she gets a visit from him and it's a cute moment... Until Piper has to turn in the cell phone to Healy in order to try and get the track open. Flores is so upset when she realizes that her connection to her boyfriend is gone that she breaks the bathroom door and is taken away, crying. And then we see her later in Psych...]]

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* The truth about Morello's backstory - [[spoiler:she and Christopher were never actually engaged, and he never loved her. They only went on one date and she basically stalked him prior to her incarceration. Yet she still deludes herself into thinking the opposite.
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* Larry's reaction when he discovers that [[spoiler: it was Piper who came on to Alex, not the other way around.]] The look on his face is ''heartbreaking''.

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* Larry's reaction when he discovers that [[spoiler: it was Piper who came on to Alex, not the other way around.]] The look on his face is ''heartbreaking''.''heartbreaking''.
** [[spoiler:The way his voice breaks when he asks, "Do you love her?"]]
* Even though Pennsatucky is the BigBad, the sight of her panicking and crying out when [[spoiler:she ends up strapped to her bed in Psych]] is devastating. [[spoiler:And even though she didn't become religious until after she got a Christian lawyer, her anger towards God for believing that He abandoned her during a time when she ''genuinely believed'' she was helping people was pretty harsh, too, considering religion was clearly just as much of a comfort for her as it was a tool.]]
* Everyone believed that Flores is insane, talking to herself in the one stall with a door on it. [[spoiler:It turns out she was just talking to her boyfriend via a hidden cell phone. She's overjoyed when she gets a visit from him and it's a cute moment... Until Piper has to turn in the cell phone to Healy in order to try and get the track open. Flores is so upset when she realizes that her connection to her boyfriend is gone that she breaks the bathroom door and is taken away, crying. And then we see her later in Psych...]]
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* Yoga Jones' crime: [[spoiler: She was drunk, standing in her marijuana field at night with a shotgun hoping to kill any deer that might try to eat her crop. She shot at something moving in the dark...only to learn that it was ''[[AccidentalMurder child]]''. The boy had tried to run away from home because his father took away his videos games. And he lived nearby, so its possible that she knew him.]] No wonder Yoga Jones is so haunted by it.

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* Yoga Jones' crime: [[spoiler: She was drunk, standing in her marijuana field at night with a shotgun hoping to kill any deer that might try to eat her crop. She shot at something moving in the dark...only to learn that it was ''[[AccidentalMurder child]]''. The boy had tried to run away from home because his father took away his videos games. And he lived nearby, so its possible that she knew him.]] No wonder Yoga Jones is so haunted by it.it.
* Larry's reaction when he discovers that [[spoiler: it was Piper who came on to Alex, not the other way around.]] The look on his face is ''heartbreaking''.

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* The reason Janae is in prison.

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* The reason Janae is in prison. [[spoiler: She was a promising athlete who fell in with a bad crowd. She ended up robbing a store with her boyfriend, who managed to escape in the chaos, leaving her behind.]]
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* The reason Janae is in prison.
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* Yoga Jones' crime.

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* Yoga Jones' crime.crime: [[spoiler: She was drunk, standing in her marijuana field at night with a shotgun hoping to kill any deer that might try to eat her crop. She shot at something moving in the dark...only to learn that it was ''[[AccidentalMurder child]]''. The boy had tried to run away from home because his father took away his videos games. And he lived nearby, so its possible that she knew him.]] No wonder Yoga Jones is so haunted by it.
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* Maria is so excited to meet her baby that [[spoiler:she doesn't realize it'll be taken from her shortly after its birth.]]

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* Maria is so excited to meet her baby that [[spoiler:she doesn't realize it'll be taken from her shortly after its birth.]]]]
* Yoga Jones' crime.
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** Maria is so excited to meet her baby that [[spoiler:she doesn't realize it'll be taken from her shortly after its birth.]]

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** * Maria is so excited to meet her baby that [[spoiler:she doesn't realize it'll be taken from her shortly after its birth.]]
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* [[spoiler: "Why do people call me Crazy Eyes?"]]

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* [[spoiler: "Why do people call me Crazy Eyes?"]]Eyes?"]]
** Maria is so excited to meet her baby that [[spoiler:she doesn't realize it'll be taken from her shortly after its birth.]]
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* [[spoiler: Miss Claudette losing her appeal after excitedly dreaming of the things she'd do after gaining freedom. She flies into such a rage that she starts choking the guard Susan. The inmates comment that as soon as you lay your hands on a guard, you're moved to maximum security, and you never get out.]]

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* [[spoiler: Miss Claudette losing her appeal after excitedly dreaming of the things she'd do after gaining freedom. She flies into such a rage that she starts choking the guard Susan. The inmates comment that as soon as you lay your hands on a guard, you're moved to maximum security, and you never get out.]]]]
* "Your tits are better than mine." The whole scene, but Sophia's wife's comments, dear God.
* [[spoiler: "Why do people call me Crazy Eyes?"]]
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* [[spoiler: Chapman's breakdown in solitary during the 'Fucksgiving' episode. She may or may not have been hearing voices.]]

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* [[spoiler: Chapman's breakdown in solitary during the 'Fucksgiving' episode. She may or may not have been hearing voices.]]
* [[spoiler: Miss Claudette losing her appeal after excitedly dreaming of the things she'd do after gaining freedom. She flies into such a rage that she starts choking the guard Susan. The inmates comment that as soon as you lay your hands on a guard, you're moved to maximum security, and you never get out.
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** The reactions from Claudette and Piper herself are also brutal.
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* Pornstache inadvertently confessing [[spoiler:his loneliness and self-loathing to Bennett.]]

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* Pornstache inadvertently confessing [[spoiler:his loneliness and self-loathing to Bennett.]]
* [[spoiler: Chapman's breakdown in solitary during the 'Fucksgiving' episode. She may or may not have been hearing voices.
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* Susanna weeping during Larry's radio show and earlier that episode, when she asked Piper why everyone called her Crazy eyes.

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* Susanna weeping during Larry's radio show and earlier that episode, when she asked Piper why everyone called her Crazy eyes.eyes.
* Pornstache inadvertently confessing [[spoiler:his loneliness and self-loathing to Bennett.]]
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* Taystee's confession to Poussey about why she [[spoiler: couldn't handle it on the outside.]]

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* Taystee's confession to Poussey about why she [[spoiler: couldn't handle it on the outside.]]]]
* Susanna weeping during Larry's radio show and earlier that episode, when she asked Piper why everyone called her Crazy eyes.
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* [[spoiler: Tricia's death]], and the subsequent ways that the inmates deal with their grief.
* Taystee's confession to Poussey about why she [[spoiler: couldn't handle it on the outside.]]

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