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Tear Jerker: The Gathering
Seth's failed suicide attempt, and the group hugging afterwards.
Danny's story of the police brutality that turned him into a "wild boy", and the time he spent in a Sanatorium.
The shockingly brutal killing of theTod by the Gathering.
Ana Galway's story of how the previous chain agreed to allow one of them, and the boy she loved, to go down for the murder of a caretaker who actually killed himself, because they knew nobody would ever believe them if they said it wasn't them. That poor, bitter old woman who lost everything she ever cared about and died alone in a home after three suicide attempts... she never got to see things made right.
Worst still is the retrospective knowledge that his sacrifice, which was intended to save them all, is what broke the original chain in the first place, thus dooming the whole process to return to darkness.
