Tear Jerker / Charite

• Stine begging Tischendorf to perform an abortion on her cousin Marie. The girl is fourteen at best and terribly frightened to go home to her starving family with another mouth to feed. When she and Stine can't find help, she's soon brought back to the hospital — after attempting to kill herself via jumping out of a window.
  • A bit after surviving the initial attempt and getting her will of life back, Marie dies of complications caused by her injuries.
• The little boy dying of diphtheria on the pediatric ward. Behring asks if one of his students wants to try and perform a tracheotomy. Georg Tischendorf volunteers but bungles, and the boy dies anyway. Even though Georg was the only one to so much as try it, Behring chews him out in the auditorium afterwards, and Ida angrily points out that Behring was quite able to save the child himself — he just didn't care.
• Throughout the entire third episode, the Jerkass midwife is incredibly rude to Doctor Ehrlich, throwing anti-Semite insults at him, his wife, and his unborn baby. "Be glad your wife is taken into a Christian house at all" is one of the more polite things she says, and Ehrlich finally snaps when she sends for someone to perform an emergency baptism. Nurse Edith tries to apologize for that later, and Ehrlich only has a weary smile in reply.
  Ehrlich: It's... just one slight of many.
  • The attempts to save Mrs. Ehrlich and her baby in the difficult childbirth. Her husband rushes to the Medical Congress to get Doctor von Bergmann, the only surgeon he knows who can perform a successful Caesarean without killing the mother-to-be — and when he finds him, von Bergmann is already too drunk to do anything. Ehrlich returns to his wife's bedside, crying and praying. Meanwhile, Ida has run to get Doctor Behring, the only capable surgeon who isn't at the Congress — but he is on withdrawal and has shaky hands, having to deem himself unfit for surgery.
  • In his despair, Behring takes Laudanum again and goes to help Mrs. Ehrlich. However, he comes too late to save the baby. To get the dead child out of Mrs. Ehrlich's womb, he has to perform a fetotomy (dismemberment of the fetus) because he won't dare a Caesarean at this point; afterwards, he and Ida who assisted him are full of blood, disgusted with the entire procedure and deeply glum. Note that this surgery is one of the very few points where the series went for a Gory Discretion Shot.
• After Georg has proposed to Ida, Sister Therese desperately begs her to turn him down and become a deaconess to stay with her. Ida says that she doesn't want to be a deaconess; she wants to be a doctor. Therese kisses her, but then runs away, knowing that her feelings can't go anywhere.
  • Sister Therese's ensuing downwards spiral. First she tries to distance herself from Ida and pray away the gay; then, when that doesn't help, she starts cutting herself. When she gets tuberculosis, she considers it God's punishment for her "unnatural feelings", certain that because of this, she will never reach Heaven.
• When Sister Therese's disease progresses, the matron makes her leave the hospital so as not to die under the other deaconesses' and nurses' eyes because that would discourage them. Both Therese herself and Ida plead with the matron to allow her to stay — to no avail.
• As her affair with Koch becomes public knowledge, Hedwig gets booed on the theatre stage and almost starts crying during the show. After that, she gets fired because her "loose morals" are not acceptable. Note that she genuinely loves Koch, has already come to an agreement with his wife, and has done her very best to keep it discreet — the scandal is still ruining this 18-year-old girl's life while Koch goes largely unaffected by it.
• It becomes increasingly clear that Tuberculin is not a miracle remedy at all, and Ida slowly despairs over losing Therese and having given her false hope. While she talks to her at the hospital bed, Therese peacefully falls asleep, and Ida breaks down crying when she realizes Therese is dead.
• Rajani's fate. She and her family are brought far away from home and presented in a human zoo which is awful enough, but then she also gets smallpox and is brought to a hospital where nobody cares much about her, nobody understands her, and nobody can explain to her what's going on. True, there is one person who still shows her some kindness and talks to her in spite of the language barrier, but even that is only a temporary comfort as Rajani's disease kills her.
• Behring ruining his friendship with Ehrlich and utterly extinguishing all respect that man had for him just for the sake of a bit more personal fame and financial gain.
• Behring has to give his horse Lotte, one of the few beings he treated kindly, to the knacker.
• Despite all of his bad behavior, it's utterly heartwrenching when Behring loses Ida for good — over something that is not even his fault and that he only realized when it was already too late. After all the two of them have been through and all the effort they put into finding a way with each other, it's just bitter to see them broken up by an unbidden third party.