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Tear Jerker / SEAL Team

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Pilot

  • Nate's death continues to haunt the team from time to time, but Jason is the one who feels guilty for listening to Nate in checking the cargo ship's upper floor despite the lack of orders to do so.

Other Lives

  • Jason feels guilty for not saving a Syrian child who was exposed to VX.

Pattern of Life

  • The look of utter despair on the Yemeni doctor's face. His house was invaded and ransacked by SEALs, his daughter shot, his family woken up and traumatised - and then if that's not enough, he learns that his wounded daughter is terrorist recruiter. All he can do is watch as the SEALs take her away, knowing he will never see her again.

The Cost of Doing Business

  • Unlike the rest of the team, Sonny has no family or girlfriend, and his only friends are in the military. He comes home to a completely empty apartment, tries watching TV for a bit, but turns it off and just stares in silence at an empty screen.
  • Davis's fears about Danny cheating on her while she was on deployment prove to be unfounded. Unfortunately, the truth is worse: he's relapsed back into his old drug habits and overdosed, landing himself in the ICU at the local VA hospital.
  • Jason has suffered some severe PTSD due to witnessing Chief Matters dying in front of him after the helicopter shoot-down, and combined with the severe concussion, he experiences a major hallucinatory experience at a restaurant in the form of both Matters and the Syrian boy who died from VX exposure.

The Worst of Circumstances

  • The entire episode is just a nonstop tearjerker, starting with Jason learning that Alana died in a car crash.
    • Jason has just done a warm eulogy of his wife and how much his family means to him...and then the phones for all the team members buzz. Jason's daughter launches herself at him, howling "I hate you!" as everyone just stares, torn between duty and helping their friend.

Say Again Your Last

  • Jason making the casualty assistance notification to Adam's family, after his Heroic Sacrifice in Mumbai.
  • Bravo Team's Shower of Angst as they try to process. Sonny drinks and punches the wall in rage, Ray recites Bible verses, and Clay just stands in the shower watching dried blood flow down the drain.

Outside the Wire

  • The conversation Clay has with Sonny suggests that the lack of contact with Stella lately is suggested that he was breaking up with her due to risk of him dying after the two helped Jason in the wake of Alana's death.

Time to Shine

  • When Sonny gets trapped in a torpedo tube that is filling with water, his team is initially unable to rescue him and is forced to listen over the radio as he slowly begins to drown. The scene where they take turns saying their goodbyes is particularly heartbreaking.

Medicate and Isolate

  • Much of the episode is heartbreaking in its portrayal of the human cost of war, culminating in a gut-wrenching final scene: Clay lying on the ground, sobbing and holding the body of Brett Swann, who fatally shot himself, crossing the Despair Event Horizon because he couldn't get treatment for the undiagnosed traumatic brain injury he's suffered with for years. It's punctuated poignantly by this song:
    Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground.
    Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down.

Damage Assessment

  • Clay's death pissed off Sonny and left him in tears.

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