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  • "Diplomatic Immunity": Indri Raga's story about the Trauma Conga Line of most of her life. She and her sister saw their parents murdered before being kidnapped and sold separately as slaves. Indri ultimately slit her wrists in her desperation to escape from her buyers' house. She got beaten nearly to death by the diplomat responsible when she approached him to buy her sister back. Luckily, by the end of the episode, the FBI can arrest the diplomat, and they tell her they found her sister and will bring her in as soon as possible.
  • "Dirty Bomb": Terrell, one of the FBI's only leads in the case, is dying from radiation poisoning after opening a suitcase containing strontium. In desperation for more information, the FBI brings in his grandmother. He apologizes for not listening to her more, and she's naturally in tears. To make matters worse, Terrell dies before the agents can track down his brother Marcus. They Never Got to Say Goodbye.
  • "The Girl Who Signed Wolf": Worker John Beck gets kidnapped to help a terrorist cell make ricin under threat of them hurting his wife. When the FBI raids the initial lab, they find Mrs. Beck dying of ricin poisoning; the condition kills her before the FBI can locate the terrorists who are currently holding her husband. After Mr. Beck's gag is removed, one of the first things out of his mouth is a question about whether his wife is all right.
  • "The Gambler" is one episode where both the main plot and the subplot go for the tear ducts.
    • Levi has been acting strangely, which the vet attributes to a reaction to his flea medication. Then, thanks to a mixup with Levi's sedative and a door being left open at the wrong time, he runs away. On his own in DC, he gets screamed at and nearly hit by a car and some construction debris. He just looks so lonely and sad, and Sue increasingly breaks down as she goes longer and longer without any sign of her Canine Companion.
    • Bobby has a breakdown of his own. Despite Jack's protest about his past with addiction, he goes undercover as a gambler to catch a longtime criminal. Over the episode, Bobby unravels to the point that he goes through three credit cards, even earning some leniency from the casino owner who knows he can't pay for parking. Seeing the competent, cheerful agent that the viewer is familiar with fall to his addiction is rather painful.
  • "Into Thin Air": The desperation of Katie's mother as she deals with her daughter disappearing out of the blue hurts to watch. At one point, she asks Sue about what she's heard regarding the idea that if a missing person isn't found in 24 hours, one can give up hope on seeing them again.
  • "To Grandmother's House We Go": Lucy's grandmother becomes frantic after losing her keys. When Sue tries to calm her, saying that she loses them sometimes too, Mrs. Dotson points out that it's different at her age. Once people think you're slipping, they start taking everything away from you.

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