History TearJerker / OrphanBlack

* Alison's grief and guilt over [[spoiler: Aynsely's death]] lead her to drinking more and more. [[spoiler: Then she learns that Donnie is her real monitor and that Felix and Sarah are skipping town, leaving her alone.]]

* The ending of ''Governed As It Were By Chance''. [[spoiler: Sarah is knocked out by Daniel and wakes up zip-tied to a shower. He pulls out a razor and starts cutting her behind her ear...when a noise interrupts him. He leaves the bathroom and is attacked, managing only to stumble back into Sarah's view bloody and near death. Helena appears like a ghost in a BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, prompting Sarah to scream even more than when she was being attacked. Helena slowly inches toward her ''sestra'' begging for help and gently embraces the crying, terrified Sarah.]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Helena]]:''' You make me cry [[spoiler: sestra]].

* Rachel [[spoiler: reunited with her thought-to-be-dead father and learns the truth about her mother's death -- that the man who raised her was responsible. Despite making arrangements with Marian Bowles to eliminate him, she warns Leekie because she does still care for him. Leekie looks genuinely heartbroken when he hears all this.]]

** Her first words when she's forced to call Sarah are a desperate [[spoiler:"Is Kira all right? ...''It was an accident!''" She would ''never'' hurt that little girl, and everyone is convinced she would. And when Sarah shows up, Helena swears she will never try to see her 'angel' again.]] What happened to [[spoiler:Kira]] wasn't her fault, but she feels like it was...

* [[spoiler: Aynesley's death and everything that lead up to it. She was completely innocent in everything and had no idea what was going on - all she knew was that her once best friend kept finding new ways to betray her for no discernible reason, culminating with her death by Alison's negligence. Made even worse by the fact that Alison let her die for ''no reason at all'' (as far as the viewer is concerned). Aynesley was ''moving away''. Even if she ''was'' Alison's monitor, Alison would never have seen her again anyway.]]

* Everything about poor Yanis: [[spoiler: As a boy, P.T. Westmoreland picked him up from an orphanage and started experimenting on him, causing his a great deal of pain and many health problems, until he became a savage beast-man. He lived chained up in a cage in Westmoreland's baseman before he was able to escape and roam the island, free but cut off from the rest of mankind. Mud was only person who ever truly care for him]].

** Helena [[spoiler: trying to kill herself so her babies won't be experiments.]]

** Helena [[spoiler: killing herself so her babies won't be experiments.]]

** [[spoiler: Poor Mark being put to sleep. He talks of his future plans with Gracie, who wants to be a Dental Hygienist and he wants to be a teacher. The real kicker, as he slips away he tells Coady "Goodnight Mum".]]

* [[spoiler: Poor Mark being put to sleep. He talks of his future plans with Gracie, who wants to be a Dental Hygienist and he wants to be a teacher. The real kicker, as he slips away he tells Coady "Goodnight Mum".]]

** In 5.05, [[spoiler: Westmoreland tries to get Cosima to shoot him, while poor Yanis is cowering in a corner, but she sets the gun down and declares that he can't take her humanity. She crouches down to Yanis's level and attempts to connect with him...only for Westmoreland to kill him instead]].

* The video of [[spoiler: [=BrightBorn=] doctors euthanizing a baby.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Felix:''' Adele, you are so beautifully unsullied by all this shit, and I'm not gonna be the person who ruins that for you.]]

* 4x07 has everyone [[HeroicBSOD struggling to cope]] with what just happened. Even [[spoiler: ''Susan Duncan'']] gets close to being a [[TheWoobie woobie]]. The worst is when Allison breaks down into a [[CryCute sobbing mess]] while writing a sympathy card.

** And in the following episode, everyone [[HeroicBSOD struggling to cope]] with what just happened. Even [[spoiler: ''Susan Duncan'']] gets close to being a woobie.

* Basically all of 4x06, but especially the flashback revealing why Beth committed suicide, as well as the ending.

* Helena saying that she doesn't want her babies to have to grow up the way she did.

* M.K.'s desperate attempt to [[spoiler:keep Beth from leaving her]] in the second episode flashback, and the highly visible guilt she displays in the present-day scenes. [[spoiler:Beth's goodbye to her is quite heartbreaking as well]], especially since we know what follows.

* Beth's horror when she [[spoiler:accidentally shot Maggie Chen]]. She ran to M.K. for help because she couldn't tell anyone else why she did it: [[spoiler: after seeing a group of Neolutionists performing a bizarre surgery on one of their own, she fled down an alley and was so afraid of getting caught that she fired at the first person she saw. Worse, one of those Neolutionists had infiltrated the police department, and Beth felt more trapped than ever]].

* Watching [[spoiler:Beth]]'s slow breakdown in the première is heartbreaking, especially since we know as a ForegoneConclusion that she is eventually [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]].

* During Alison's dinner party, Sarah raises a toast to Beth.

* When Mrs. S. finds her old friend Terry dying and with his last words, he tells her that the prisoner she's looking to kill [[spoiler: is actually her own mother.]]

* [[spoiler: The reveal that Krystal, one of the most endearing characters on the show, was kidnapped, placed in a medically-induced coma, and used as a body double for Rachel. Just earlier in the episode, Sarah tried to kept her out of the conspiracy out of compassion, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but it's partially Sarah's fault that she's in this situation]].]]

** Sarah telling him about the [[spoiler: the other clones, Alison and Cosima, that Cosima is sick, and practically demanding his help because she just feels so overwhelmed by the conspiracy and all that has happened to her.]]

* Mrs. S and Felix are hiding the fact that [[spoiler: Sarah's missing]] so Kira won't worry. She was afraid that [[spoiler: her mom wouldn't talk to her because she was angry]], but Mrs. S and Felix swear its nothing serious.

* Several of Sarah's hallucinations, liking chasing after Kira. But the most heartbreaking of all: Beth. Sarah has an imaginary conversation with the woman whose life she stole so long ago, wherein Beth discusses her life and death, obviously bitter about the terrible hand she'd been dealt.]]

-->'''Helena''': My sestra. She tears my heart.

* Tt seems as if Sarah and Helena will escape from the Castor base together. However, Helena's blames being given to the military on Sarah and abandons her in her cell, escaping the base by herself. Sarah's face when she realizes that she's being left behind by Helena is heartbreaking. Later, as she's escaping the base, Helena admits to Pupok that she feels conflicted at the thought of leaving Sarah behind.

* The sight of [[spoiler: Abel Johanssen's bones after Sarah digs up his grave. He was just a baby...]]

** This makes re-watching the pilot episode very painful. [[spoiler: Art was the last person Beth spoke to right before she killed herself. Just minutes later he called back, but she was already dead. He wouldn't know that the woman he loved had died until weeks later]].

* Art confesses that he feels responsible for Beth's death because he didn't pick up on the signs that she was suicidal. [[spoiler: And that he was in love with her]].