With as much violence and darkness the Heroes experience, there are plenty of TearJerkers to go around.

* The destruction of the first tower. Most of the tower was turned to dust and it is so radioactive that they still cannot return for nostalgia purposes for many years to come.

* Ray's reaction to seeing a brothel. Any semblance of stoicism went through the window very quickly, leaving him a broken, screaming mess, as two years worth of repressed memories about [[spoiler:Ninian's slow descent into drugs and prostitution]] resurfaced.