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** After Lucy's death, a letter arrives which reveals that she was matched to the hospital and would have become a psych resident.
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* After everything that Lucy did to make sure that Valerie lived long enough to receive a heart transplant, she has a stroke and ends up in a persistent vegitative state during the surgery. Lucy is devastated and blames herself, while even Romano tells her not to blame herself.
** One of Lucy's early conversations with Valerie has them talking about how Valerie would be graduating soon if she had stayed at university and how Lucy is. Neither of them survive until then, with Valerie dying in her next episode, and Lucy being stabbed to death in the February.
** One of Lucy's early conversations with Valerie has them talking about how Valerie would be graduating soon if she had stayed at university and how Lucy is. Neither of them survive until then, with Valerie dying in her next episode, and Lucy being stabbed to death in the February.
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** Weaver crying in that scene, particularly as she said earlier in the episode that she thinks of him as not only her mentor, but her father.
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* The ending of "The Storm, Part 2"2". Carol tearfully begs Doug not to leave, telling him "I don't want to wake up alone tomorrow." Nearly in tears himself, Doug plants a BigDamnKiss on her, makes an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and walks away, leaving her sobbing in the hallway.
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* The stillbirth of Carter's son. He staggers out of the delivery room, only to hear his father call his name and hold his arms out to him, at which point he collapses in tears.
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* The stillbirth of Carter's son. He staggers out of the delivery room, only to hear his father call his name and hold name. He turns, sees him holding his arms out to him, at which point he collapses and staggers over to him, collapsing in tears.
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* On the November 13, 2008 episode, The actor gave out a speech on remembering Michael Crichton, the writer of the show after his death.
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* On the November 13, 2008 episode, The actor episode "Heal Thyself", Eriq La Salle gave out a speech on before the episode's cold open remembering Michael Crichton, who helped create the writer of show. Made all the show after his death.more saddening because the episode it prefaced was the one that featured the return of Mark Greene via flashback.
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* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her--"Every day, I thank God for bringing you into my life"--then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a Bland Perfection DisposableFiance that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her--"Every day, I thank God for bringing you into my life"--then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a Bland Perfection DisposableFiance that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.about.
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* On the November 13, 2008 episode, The actor gave out a speech on remembering Michael Crichton, the writer of the show after his death.
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* On the November 13, 2008 episode, The actor gave out a speech on remembering Michael Crichton, the writer of the show after his death.
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**Later in the episode, Carter and Kem grieving together.
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**The episode ramps it UpToEleven when the son coldly rebukes the father over speakerphone; the staff in the room are shocked to silence as the father quietly weeps.
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* In one episode, Carter accidentally resuscitates an old woman who had a do-not-resuscitate order. At the end of the episode, he observes the woman as she dies. Lucy comes in and notes what treatment they normally would give at each stage as the patient's ECG degrades to asystole. While he handles it professionally, it's clear he's near tears.
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* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her--"Every day, I thank God for bringing you into my life"--then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a DisposableFiance that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her--"Every day, I thank God for bringing you into my life"--then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a Bland Perfection DisposableFiance that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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* Benton flat-out begging his ex Carla not to take Reese away from him, telling her that he means more to him than anything--"I'd lay down in front of a train for him. ''THAT'S'' how much I love him."
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* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her, then her--"Every day, I thank God for bringing you into my life"--then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a DisposableFiance that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her, then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a RomanticFalseLead that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her, then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a RomanticFalseLead DisposableFiance that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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* Maggie (Abby's mum) getting put in restraints. It's quite heartwrenching, especially if you know someone who's suffered from bipolar themselves.
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* Maggie (Abby's mum) getting put in restraints. It's quite heartwrenching, especially if you know someone who's suffered from bipolar themselves.themselves.
* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her, then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a RomanticFalseLead that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
* Carol's fiance's speech to her on their wedding day when he describes how much he loves her, then asks if she feels the same way, thus forcing her to admit that she doesn't. It really says something for the show's quality that it could make you feel sorry for a RomanticFalseLead that the viewer isn't supposed to care about.
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** What's more, after the adoption denial, she goes running not to her fiance, but to ex-lover Doug, essentially revealing that she's still in love with him despite how he broke her heart, and he has to struggle not to take advantage of the situation as he's clearly still in love with her.
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* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears at the end of "Such Sweet Sorrow" when Carol and Doug reunited.
* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears at the end of "Such Sweet Sorrow" when Carol and Doug reunited.
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** Frank's reaction when the military cops show up looking for Neela. With just one look (no doubt gleaned from his own experiences in the military), he knows why they're there and what they're going to tell her.
** Also, after Pratt dies. As he's being wheeled to the elevator (so that his organs may be taken for donation), Frank rushes ahead and presses the elevator button. A menial task he would otherwise have complained about, but clearly felt obligated to do for Pratt's sake.
** Also, after Pratt dies. As he's being wheeled to the elevator (so that his organs may be taken for donation), Frank rushes ahead and presses the elevator button. A menial task he would otherwise have complained about, but clearly felt obligated to do for Pratt's sake.
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* The stillbirth of Carter's son. He staggers out of the delivery room, only to hear his father call his name and hold his arms out to him, at which point he collapses in tears.
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* The stillbirth of Carter's son. He staggers out of the delivery room, only to hear his father call his name and hold his arms out to him, at which point he collapses in tears.tears.
* Maggie (Abby's mum) getting put in restraints. It's quite heartwrenching, especially if you know someone who's suffered from bipolar themselves.
* Maggie (Abby's mum) getting put in restraints. It's quite heartwrenching, especially if you know someone who's suffered from bipolar themselves.
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* A little girl who had recently been adopted from an Eastern European orphanage is abandoned in the ER by her mother because she's HIV positive. Carol wants to adopt her, and meets all the criteria, but is turned down because she tried to commit suicide last year. She's devastated and, to make matters worse, the adoption was so close to being approved that she'd asked Tatiana, the little girl, if she'd like to come and stay with her.
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* The transvestite patient jumping off the roof in season 1.
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** The desperate way that he reacts when she's gone, trying to go for another cycle, anything to have a chance. Corday's quiet acceptance of Lucy's death is heartbreaking, but who thought they'd see Romano trashing the room because he couldn't have a colleague? He genuinely liked her, because she was smart, gutsy, and stood up to him.
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* When Benton's mother dies. Throughout the entire season, we've come to know him as a very stern, stiff, gruff character who's only weak spot is his love for his mother and his complete denial about how ill and frail she's becoming. Towards the start of the episode, we've heard him give a patient's relative a very standard, "I'm sorry" speech. Then he's paged about his mother, rushes to her nursing home, only to get nearly the exact same speech from ''her'' doctor. When her physical therapist comes to comfort him, he finally breaks down and cries in her arms.
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** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
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** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death it was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
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* [[TsukasaElkKite I]] cried buckets during the episode when [[spoiler:Dr. Pratt dies]] and also during the series finale.
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* Neela watching [[spoiler:the video Gallant left her]] and finally breaking down.
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* Neela watching [[spoiler:the video Gallant left her]] and finally breaking down.down.
* The stillbirth of Carter's son. He staggers out of the delivery room, only to hear his father call his name and hold his arms out to him, at which point he collapses in tears.
* The stillbirth of Carter's son. He staggers out of the delivery room, only to hear his father call his name and hold his arms out to him, at which point he collapses in tears.
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** Dr Burke, who successfully removed his first tumour, gives Mark the death sentence and says 'You should have been dead a year ago, Mark. You got married, you saw your daughter be born. I'd say that was time well spent'.
** Worst of all is how he dies knowing full well that he can never be there for his daughters. To add insult to injury, Ella's first word is 'Dada'.
** Worst of all is how he dies knowing full well that he can never be there for his daughters. To add insult to injury, Ella's first word is 'Dada'.
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** Yes. And when Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help.
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* When Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help. The worst part is that at one point it looked hopeful, before things took a turn for the worse.
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* The episode where Peter's nephew Jesse gets shot. Peter does absolutely everything he can to save the boy. Finally he starts to fall apart and says 'Come on Jesse. Come on, man. Don't give up on me. Don't give up on me'. Jesse finally dies from his injuries.
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* Mark's father dying at the end of season 6. At this point he has end stage Lung Cancer and is finding it very difficult to breathe. Mark gives him a sponge bath and his father tells him that he used to bathe Mark as a baby. He then says 'I love you, Mark' in the saddest way possible, to which Mark responds 'I love you too, Dad'. Mark then takes a nap and when he wakes up his father is dead.
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* Reese Benton being born, so weak and frail and near the edge of death.
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* When Mark runs to Union Station to catch Susan and tell her that he loves her, only to have her reject him.
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** Adrian's death. His heart isn't beating, but CPR is allowing oxygen to get to his brain. They manage to keep him alive long enough for his family to get there, before he asks them to stop. It's the single tear that does it.
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** Adrian's death. His heart isn't beating, but CPR is allowing oxygen to get to his brain. They manage to keep him alive long enough for his family to get there, before he asks them to stop. It's the single tear that does it.it.
* The season 15 episode The Book of Abby. Specifically, Haleh's hidden wall with the nameplates from departed staff.
* Neela watching [[spoiler:the video Gallant left her]] and finally breaking down.
* The season 15 episode The Book of Abby. Specifically, Haleh's hidden wall with the nameplates from departed staff.
* Neela watching [[spoiler:the video Gallant left her]] and finally breaking down.
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* The flashbacks to the death of Luka's family. His son is already dead when he gets there, and his daughter stops breathing. Luka spends hours performing CPR on his daughter, hoping that help will come, and only stops because he's exhausted. Then he checks his wife's pulse and discovers that she's died while he's been trying to save his daughter.
** That episode makes the ending of 21 Guns even worse. As well as the AdultFear of something happening to your pregnant partner, for all Luka knows, he's watching his wife and child die again.
** That episode makes the ending of 21 Guns even worse. As well as the AdultFear of something happening to your pregnant partner, for all Luka knows, he's watching his wife and child die again.
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** A kindly old man Neela was talking to before she ran into a burning building was wanting to find his dog. When Neela gets back, she sees the dog beside him and happily tries to talk to him about him having found it--only to be told that the man died. Shocked, Neela can only say that she was talking to him a minute ago.
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** A kindly old man Neela was talking to before she ran into a burning building was wanting to find his dog. When Neela gets back, she sees the dog beside him and happily tries to talk to him about him having found it--only to be told that the man died. Shocked, Neela can only say that she was talking to him a minute ago.ago.
** Adrian's death. His heart isn't beating, but CPR is allowing oxygen to get to his brain. They manage to keep him alive long enough for his family to get there, before he asks them to stop. It's the single tear that does it.
** Adrian's death. His heart isn't beating, but CPR is allowing oxygen to get to his brain. They manage to keep him alive long enough for his family to get there, before he asks them to stop. It's the single tear that does it.
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* Admit it, you cried [[spoiler:when Mark Greene died]] on ''{{ER}}''.
** Yes. And when Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help.
** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
** The look on Carter's face after he finishes reading Mark's letter to the staff still gives me chills, as well as his near-breakdown as he reads Corday's
* "Time of Death", with guest star Ray Liotta as a dying alcoholic ex-con. The whole episode is in real-time, and goes back and forth between his subconscious and scenes in the hospital. He ends up refusing surgery that might save his life, and Pratt (who never knew his father) takes his final request to get in touch with his estranged son.
* The death of paramedic/firefighter Raul in season 2.
* "Love's Labors Lost," Season 1. That is all.
* Kerry telling a deaf patient about her miscarriage through sign language.
* [[spoiler:Sandy's death]] in season 10 was played for mass quantities of {{Narm}}, but largely saved by Laura Innes' performance. Kerry's quiet desperation as she pleads with the surgical team to let her into the OR ("You have to let me see her... that's my wife in there") is devastating, especially for a character who's spent her career being as abrasive and unlikable as possible. Especially at the very end of the OR scene, where blood begins running up Sandy's endotracheal tube(that's it in a surgical situation), Kerry's face freezes in position and she quietly tells Corday and Anspaugh: "You can stop. She's gone."
* [[TsukasaElkKite I]] cried buckets during the episode when [[spoiler:Dr. Pratt dies]] and also during the series finale.
* The Season 6 arc involving Weaver's beloved mentor Dr. Lawrence, who's developed Alzheimer's - specifically, his discussion with Weaver during his final appearance:
--->'''Lawrence''': I saw a woman this morning - dementia. She had no idea where she was, who she was. In ten years that'll be me. Bedridden...in diapers. Locked away in some home, nobody coming to see me.
--->'''Weaver''': I'll come and see you.
--->'''Lawrence''': But I won't know who you are.
* The ending of "The Storm, Part 2"
* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears when Carol and Doug reunited.
* Two Ships, in season 12, when two planes crash in mid-flight above Chicago.
** A kindly old man Neela was talking to before she ran into a burning building was wanting to find his dog. When Neela gets back, she sees the dog beside him and happily tries to talk to him about him having found it--only to be told that the man died. Shocked, Neela can only say that she was talking to him a minute ago.
** Yes. And when Lucy died, because even that bastard of a doctor Romano refused to give up on her when she was clearly beyond help.
** Perhaps the worst of Mark Greene's death was Corday's reaction. No screaming or wailing - just quiet, wordless, complete devastation. Bravo, Alex Kingston... bravo.
** The look on Carter's face after he finishes reading Mark's letter to the staff still gives me chills, as well as his near-breakdown as he reads Corday's
* "Time of Death", with guest star Ray Liotta as a dying alcoholic ex-con. The whole episode is in real-time, and goes back and forth between his subconscious and scenes in the hospital. He ends up refusing surgery that might save his life, and Pratt (who never knew his father) takes his final request to get in touch with his estranged son.
* The death of paramedic/firefighter Raul in season 2.
* "Love's Labors Lost," Season 1. That is all.
* Kerry telling a deaf patient about her miscarriage through sign language.
* [[spoiler:Sandy's death]] in season 10 was played for mass quantities of {{Narm}}, but largely saved by Laura Innes' performance. Kerry's quiet desperation as she pleads with the surgical team to let her into the OR ("You have to let me see her... that's my wife in there") is devastating, especially for a character who's spent her career being as abrasive and unlikable as possible. Especially at the very end of the OR scene, where blood begins running up Sandy's endotracheal tube(that's it in a surgical situation), Kerry's face freezes in position and she quietly tells Corday and Anspaugh: "You can stop. She's gone."
* [[TsukasaElkKite I]] cried buckets during the episode when [[spoiler:Dr. Pratt dies]] and also during the series finale.
* The Season 6 arc involving Weaver's beloved mentor Dr. Lawrence, who's developed Alzheimer's - specifically, his discussion with Weaver during his final appearance:
--->'''Lawrence''': I saw a woman this morning - dementia. She had no idea where she was, who she was. In ten years that'll be me. Bedridden...in diapers. Locked away in some home, nobody coming to see me.
--->'''Weaver''': I'll come and see you.
--->'''Lawrence''': But I won't know who you are.
* The ending of "The Storm, Part 2"
* Luckily, it's eclipsed by the happy tears when Carol and Doug reunited.
* Two Ships, in season 12, when two planes crash in mid-flight above Chicago.
** A kindly old man Neela was talking to before she ran into a burning building was wanting to find his dog. When Neela gets back, she sees the dog beside him and happily tries to talk to him about him having found it--only to be told that the man died. Shocked, Neela can only say that she was talking to him a minute ago.
