History TearJerker / TheWilloughbys

** Made even sadder when you think about it from Tim's perspective. He had just started to trust her until finding a message from his parents telling her that they've sold the house and to get rid of the kids (possibly to give them up to the CPS). Believing that Nanny was still working for his parents, he calls the CPS to report her, but the next day, finds out that not only did she take part in their plan, but decided not to give them up. Tim is relived and hugs her but by then, it's too late; CPS shows up and the above happens.

*** And to top it off, Tim, after running away from his foster families too many times, is apparently is labelled "unplacable" by Orphan Services and is confined to a cell at their headquarters. It's especially sad, considering he now seemingly has no one to give him the love and proper care he has been deprived of for his entire life (having rejected it from both Nanny and his foster families), and on top of that, he is stuck living alone with the overwhelming guilt of having driven away the one adult who had ever truly cared for him and his siblings, and subsequently broken up his family as a result. This is heightened by the numerous bowls of uneaten oatmeal seen in his cell later, indicating his refusal to eat out of his guilt, and possible desire to starve himself to death as comeuppance for what his actions have done.

** Later, when Tim runs away from his newest foster family, he’s found that his childhood home has been [[YouCantGoHomeAgain sold and demolished]].

** Just when it looks like the parents are going to turn their lives around, they cruelly shove their children aside and take the dirigible. That's right, they left their own kids to freeze to death.

** What's more, their ultimatum that the children not be allowed to return home until they got rid of the baby somehow. To top it off, it's [[EverybodyHasStandards the last straw]] for Jane, who had just gotten attached to the infant.

* The parents ordering the kids to get rid of the orphaned baby without any concern for her fate for safety, showing it isn't just their own kids they're apathetic towards.
* Nanny's reaction to the coal bin. It's the first time she starts to realize just how horrible the Willoughby parents are to their children.

** Later, when Tim runs away from his newest foster family, he’s found that his childhood home has been sold and demolished.

* The Barnabys are forced to share a sweater

* The parents ordering the kids to get rid of the orphaned baby without any concern for her fate for safety, showing it isn't shut their own kids their apathetic towards.

** Just when it looks like the parents are going to turn their lives around, [[spoiler: they cruelly shove their children aside and take the dirigible. That's right, they left their own kids to freeze to death.]]

* [[spoiler: The reveal that Tim wrongfully ratted Nanny out to CPS. Tim’s MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction and everyone else’s disappointed looks speak volumes.]]
* [[spoiler: The Willoughbys getting separated into different foster homes.]]
** [[spoiler: Later, when Tim runs away from his newest foster family, he’s found that his childhood home has been sold and demolished.]]
* [[spoiler:The kids huddling together as they embrace before being potentially frozen to death. Thankfully they are found by Nanny, Melanoff and Ruth.]]

* The fact that the children don't have separate rooms

* Based on the tally marks on the wall, Tom has spent a lot of time in the coal cellar as punishment.

* [[spoiler:The kids huddling together as they embrace before being potentially frozen to death. Thankfully they are found by Nanny, Melanoff and Ruth.]]