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Season 1: The Executioner
- Brenda telling Sarah how Tom Winston killed the latter's parents, breaking in tears as she does. For all Brenda's faults, she clearly loved her daughter and is terrified at the idea that Sarah could meet a similar fate.
- Brenda's death, something that has a long term effect on Sarah throughout the season. Of all the deaths in the season, it is by far the least bloody but also the most somber. Not helped by the fact that Brenda had already been feeling long term guilt for causing the suffering of her friend Ada.
- What happened to the Petersons after Ariel's disappearance: her father was targeted by the press thanks to Allison's scheme which drove him to suicide and his wife Heather's to a mental breakdown.
- Tom Winston's death. Yes, the death of the Serial Killer is depressing, considering Tom began to show regret for what he did to Sarah's parents and how he never had a connected life with his daughter. His begging to the Executioner to spare Sarah's life is heartbreaking.
- Alan Henry's death watching how heartbroken he is confronting his son for his crimes its hard to not feel bad for him as he is then strangled to death by his own son as the Executioners final victim.
- The final confrontation with the Executioner is less the violent but cathartic mess you would expect from something like Scream and more a tragic reminder of how much Sarah has suffered because of the killer's actions.
Season 2: Guilty Party
- Even after everything Talvinder did to the counselors, it's still hard to not pity her when she starts crying helplessly and begging for her life after their Deadly Prank goes wrong, with each of them taking turns finishing her off without a shred of remorse (except Peter).
- In the final episode, Peter's death. While he was in his own way guilty as well, he was the only one among the counselors who felt bad about it from day one and actually was willing to pay his actions, as well as the only one who was actually a decent person. Not only that, but he chose to willingly give his life so Kiera can survive.
Season 3: Solstice
- Saadia having her hijab ripped off by Cassidy in front of her classmates.
- Amy's death, which leads to multiple flashbacks of her having to witness the death of her parents in a car accident. The episode focusing on her even ends with her walking away from the car wreckage, crying...
- Angel beating the snot out of Dan, finally lashing out of anger and frustration over his constant slur insults (along with flashbacks of when he was beaten with a belt by a bunch of cruel teens over being gay).
- Conner and Jen's life and what made them take on the personas of The Druid a year later: Because of their mother Justine posting a rather insensitive post about Kit's death and justifying it as "Reap what you sow", they were made into pariahs in their apartment complex, leading to Justine committing suicide by self-immolation and not helped by Violet recording the video and causing them more mockery. The result lead to the two becoming The Druid and killing those who wronged them and justifying it as no justice for what happened to them.
- Connor's murder of Detective Roberta is this as well as Nightmare Fuel: Instead of it coming off as a sociopath killing another human being, it's played off as a broken kid releasing the pent up frustration of losing his mother and nobody coming to help them.
- Angel's death. Dan, who witnessed Angel die after he killed Conner, only silently closes his eyes and gives a quiet "You did good...".
- Jen learning that Saadia was the one who caused Justine's post to blow up, therefore being the one who kicked off the plot of the season...her face just screams Et Tu, Brute?. And it's not helped with a Call-Back where Saadia looks at her phone as it rings up the alarm she set for the next day...and it showing a photo of her and Jen.
- Despite how unlikable Dan (At this point) and daughter Cassidy are, him identifying her body and flashing back to when he was teaching her to ride a bike when she was a little girl is fairly heart wrenching..
Season 4: Flesh and Blood
- Spencer is a cruel abuser but he seems to have truly loved his first wife Annette, who died of cancer before the events of the series. Since she was the Morality Chain of the family, her death made things worse for everyone and to add insult to injury, she was actually recovering from cancer, only to be poisoned by Grace so that the latter could marry into the family fortune. To think that the death of the most innocent member of the family was the catalyst for the other murders is heartrending.
