Tear Jerker / Severance (2022)

• The very beginning of the first episode, where Helly is asked to tell, "to the best of her memory", what is her mother eyes' colour, and she is left speechless, understanding that she has no memory of her family or anything.
• Mark's first onscreen appearance is his sobbing in his car. When he comes into work and becomes his innie self, as he makes the trip down the endless hallways to MDR, he keeps sniffling and has no idea why.
  • Later, Petey tells Outie Mark that Innie Mark would often arrive at the office with red eyes, and that he and Innie Petey would joke about him having an "elevator allergy". Petey sadly tells Outie Mark that Innie Mark does not forget the pain of losing their wife, he just doesn't know why he feels so sad.
• Helly's second resignation attempt, and her slow realization that her outie doesn't even view her as a person, let alone someone whose needs and feelings ought to be taken into consideration. The blunt, uncaring tone of the video from her outie detailing this fact only makes the whole thing worse, and Helly runs from the room in tears as soon as the video is done.
  • And at the end of the episode, her suicide attempt by hanging herself in the elevator as she leaves the office that day. Though she survives it, the next episode pulls no punches in showing just how absolutely traumatizing the event was for both versions of Helly and innie Mark, who was the one who found her.
    • Because the elevator actually managed to go up during the attempt, Helly's outie self comes back to awareness right in the middle of it, left to struggle and kick uselessly in the elevator until Mark calls it back down so he can leave himself. Even though she was legitimately cruel to innie Helly, no one deserves that.
    • Mark's reaction. He brings the elevator down to leave for the day, and discovers Helly's hanging body inside of it. He's left to hold her up and desperately try to keep her from suffocating as he screams for help, and is forced to leave for the day without knowing if she's even alive.
    • And finally, innie Helly herself, who was so terrified at the idea of never having an existence outside of the severed floor or ever being able to be free of it that she viewed death as a better alternative.
• Mark and Helly's arrivals on the severed floor in the immediate aftermath of Helly's suicide attempt are both utterly horrific, all the more so in that for them, this is happening immediately after her attempt.
  • Helly comes back gasping frantically for air and clawing at her throat, mind still trying to catch up with the fact that she's no longer suffocating.
  • Mark comes back on the verge of a panic attack, breath audibly starting to stutter in anxiety the moment he shifts over, having absolutely no clue as to whether or not Helly is even still alive.
• Irving's heartbreak at the "surprise" that Burt is retiring, effectively killing the man that he'd fallen in love with.
• Dylan, who has spent the entire series being motivated by shallow perks, yells at Milchick that he wants to remember his child being born.
• In the final episode when Irving discovers that Burt's outie is in a relationship, and that it appears to be a happy one. He is stuck sitting outside, realising that outie Burt isn't going to love him the way innie Burt did. This makes his decision to try and tell Burt about life on the severed floors all the more courageous.

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