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  • Henry mentions that his immortality has been discovered at several points during his life and that fearful people did things like burn him at the stake for witchcraft or vivisect him to try and discover his secret. To make things worse, he remembers every death.
    • When Henry tried to tell his first wife about his immortality, she had him committed because she thought he was insane. The doctor at the asylum decided to try and treat Henry with hydrotherapy, known to modern audiences as waterboarding. The only way for Henry to escape the endless torture was to hang himself with the assistance of a Catholic priest.
  • When Henry is stabbed by the killer in "The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths" and he quietly tells him he's pierced Henry's lung and vena cava and Henry is going to bleed to death, and Henry already knows he has about eight minutes. Then he twists the knife and tells Henry, "Make that four." He leaves Henry lying on the steps, knowing he's going back inside to kill the Frenchman, with the knife still in Henry's back, too far around to be able to pull it out, feeling it with every breath, every movement. The killer knows exactly what he's doing, the helplessness and despair Henry would be feeling, and clearly enjoys it.
  • Adam has also suffered due to his immortality. During World War II, he was imprisoned at Auschwitz, and when his secret was discovered, Josef Mengele experimented on Adam repeatedly. The flashbacks aren't pretty.
  • A man so dedicated to wiping out an entire family bloodline because of the Sins of Our Fathers, he was ready to shoot an infant.
  • How Henry finally decides to deal with Adam: he injects him with a syringe full of air, giving him an embolism that leads to locked-in syndrome and leaving him fully conscious and aware of his surroundings, but unable to move a muscle.

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