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1!!Season 1
2[[AC:5 - A Glitch in the System]]
3* Everything about the episode counts, but especially the nanites, which have been designed to torture its victims and then heal them [[AndIMustScream so they can be tortured again and again, forever]]. Lone survivor Hogan was tortured repeatedly until the machine simply [[LogicBomb gave up and accepted he didn't know anything]], but the process turned him insane. [[AffablyEvil He relates this whole account in a warm, friendly voice, calling D'av "son" the whole time.]]
4
5[[AC:6 - One Blood]]
6* The Company has developed a weapon that is capable of wiping out entire bloodlines with the push of a button. Now imagine seeing this genetic bomb in action as it wipes out your whole family, leaving you alive because you weren't related to them by blood.
7* The way Khlyen [[NoSell no sells]] getting stabbed five times is pretty chilling. What makes the scene even more chilling is the gentle way Khlyen apologises to Dutch after he's just choked her in a fit of anger.
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9!!Season 2
10[[AC:2 - Wild, Wild Westerley]]
11* Jelco is disturbingly calm about murdering a fellow officer in front of Pawter.
12-->"I know these last few days have been hard. I apologize, [[BlatantLies but you're safe now.]] We'll take good care of you."
13
14[[AC:3 - Shaft]]
15* The mossipedes are terrifying.
16
17[[AC:7 - Heart Shaped Box]]
18* Level Sixes are subjected to what amounts to MindRape that destroys their capacity for empathy and emotion - all the better to turn them into killing machines. Further, Dutch's training by Khlyen was intended to prepare her for this transition.
19* While breaking into Jelco's office, Johnny finds a terrified Senbek bound to a chair and bleeding from the mouth. Whatever Jelco did to her was bad enough that she warned him about the break-in.
20** Based on the fact Senbek was already in hot water with the Company for asking too many questions, whatever happens to her after Johnny gets caught can’t be anything good.
21
22[[AC:8 - Full Metal Monk]]
23* Think about how the containment fence works. You're fully conscious and aware of what's happening around you, but you can't feel anything except what it's making you feel. Someone close to you could be killed right in front of you, and you wouldn't bat an eye. You could be eating poisoned food that’s slowly killing you and not even know it.
24[[AC:9 - Johnny Be Good]]
25* Dutch is tortured with something called micro-leeches, which are designed to feed off of the natural enzymes secreted when a person lies and attack their organs in response.
26
27!!Season 3
28[[AC:6 - Necropolis Now]]
29* Just imagine; there is a tiny robot moth inside you and it's tearing at your insides trying to get out. And by the time it does, all that's left of your insides is bloody soup. Have fun sleeping!
30
31[[AC:8 - Heist, Heist Baby]]
32* Aneela practically slaughters all the Hullen soldiers around her after Kendry is taken. Later, she asks Brynn, her handmaiden and a non-slave Hullen, why she's helping her. A visibly frightened Brynn admits that it's because Aneela scares her more than Gander does.
33* The interrogation of Gander. Aneela isn't just waterboarding him, she's been drowning him ''several hundred times'' "if [her] math is right".
34-->'''Gander:''' Very good, Commander, finally come for a chat?
35-->'''Aneela:''' No, Gander. I have come to break you.
36* In another interrogation, Gander tells Aneela her voice is dulcet. This is after Aneela slashed his lungs twice, blinded him five times, and had his guts for garters.
37* Gander spends the whole episode getting tortured and laughing it off, but when Kendry is finally freed, she knows the best punishment for him: removing his free will, making him another slave Hullen drone. Upon learning of this fate, Gander finally starts screaming and struggling.
38
39[[AC:9 – Reckoning Ball]]
40* Johnny and Zeph scan what exactly is growing in Kendry's womb, and there is a moment where they wonder if something is a hand, leg, or claw. they realize that despite Kendry only being pregnant for three weeks, the baby is already at five or six months. Then the baby moves, and even with her Hullen durability, Kendry can barely survive the pain.
41** Since the baby's existence is proof that Hullen can survive without hosts, Johnny knows it might as well be humanity's extinction.
42* Pippin is alone in the cargo hold when Hullen prisoner Lucian Kitaan comes to, and tells him that the knife keeping her still has slipped out.
43
44[[AC:10 - Wargasm]]
45* Hundreds of flesh-eating spiders emerging from the Plasma is this for anyone with arachnophobia.
46
47!!Season 4
48[[AC:1 - The Warrior Princess Bride]]
49* Although it's meant to help her, Khlyen was able to essentially rewrite Dutch's memories.
50* When Johnny is slowly dying in front of her, Dutch is forced to torture and interrogate an assassin for an antidote.
51* Dutch basically sums up her life at this point: Hello, stranger, thank you for rescuing me from my tortured life and being my only friend. Did I mention that I'm a mass murderer?
52
53[[AC:2 - Johnny Dangerously]]
54* After guarding and putting him on watch, D'avin wakes up to find his little brother's hands around his throat. Johnny then goes around threatening the locals, and there is little D'avin can do except constantly talk him down.
55* Hullen-Johnny realizes that for a 'farming collective', they haven't seen a single farm since arriving on the planet. After slaughtering the men holding weapons against them, he threatens a female local, who reveals that the ''people'' are the farms: organ harvest. The planet is an unsupervised debtor colony where doctors take the debtors' organs, dose them with organ regrowth meds, and start the process all over again. Even worse, debt is constantly added for rent and food, so none of the locals can ever leave.
56* A spider crawls out of a Hullen soldier's mouth. Though it happens offscreen, it crawls into Pip's mouth after.
57
58[[AC:3 - Bro-d Trip]]
59* Lucy, the beloved ship of the series, has been offline since last season. Pree, Zeph, and Pip are forced to wander the ship in darkness and keep stepping into puddles of blood. Without the correct authorization, the ship traps them all and starts a countdown for an oxygen purge.
60
61[[AC:4 - What to Expect When You're Expecting...an Alien Parasite]]
62* Johnny is forced to repeatedly smash his head against the wall due to pressure caused by the Hullen parasite.
63* After getting updates from Zeph and Lucy:
64-->'''D’avin:''' So you're saying we are trapped out here with my sick brother, the first ever Human-Hullen birth, and our only chance at rescue just...disappeared.
65* Due to Kendry's rapid healing speeding up her recovery rate and the baby's growth hormones at the same time, Zeph is unable to make any incisions, and the baby is getting bigger and bigger with no way to get it out.
66
67[[AC:5 - Greening Pains]]
68* Adult fear: children suddenly disappearing. To witnesses, the kidnappers are humanoids with red eyes.
69* Turin and his pet Hullen soldier are walking alone in the armada. The soldier has limited speaking capacity, but repeatedly tells Turin that "something is wrong". They are surrounded by Hullen dolls, and Turin realizes that the dolls have been moved.
70* Pippin, someone that everyone on the ship trusts, abducts the baby they were keeping safe. Even worse, Pippin isn’t actually in control of himself and is just as alarmed as they are when he comes to his senses.
71
72[[AC:6 - Baby, Face Killer]]
73* All the injuries Aneela is suffering in the green show up on Dutch’s body.
74* Mano is a shady but relatively harmless memory retriever, but because he lent his computer to a client, an assassin shows up at his door and kills him.
75* Zeph discovers a 'giant green spider' in Pip's brain, and he does not take it well. Made even worse when they start speculating how it got in there.
76* Dutch is about to torture an assassin, and decides D'avin's child needs to stay and watch. Not only is D'avin furious, but the child re-enters the cargo hold alone and finds the bloody, dead prisoner while D'avin is arguing with Dutch.
77* Pree comes to in a place with dim lighting, bloody bodies, and sinister guards. He realizes he's in the Hullen-occupied RAC.
78
79[[AC:7 - O Mother, Where Art Thou?]]
80* Gared is surprised that Pree was able to find him within minutes of his arrival in the prison, only for Pree to tell him that it's actually been five days. They both know the Hullen are doing experiments, but they don't know what's been done to Gared for him to lose all that time.
81* Johnny and Dutch are far away when they realize that their transmission to D’avin has been picked up by Black Root ships, still in pursuit of Aneela’s child.
82
83[[AC:8 - It Takes a Pillage]]
84* The planet Telen has Silica storms, with sands that could strip skin from bones.
85-->'''Johnny:''' Hullen and supercharged silica, no place like home.
86* Despite his issues with him, D'avin is forced to choose between his father or his son.
87* Not only does a childhood friend betray them, she wants the Hullen to make the Jaqobis family's deaths look like an accident so people won't need to look for an explanation. The Hullen even tell her that her former friends will just be another storm casualty to add to her ledger.
88
89[[AC:9 - The Kids Are Alright]]
90* With the RAC systems going though a hard reboot, the Hullen finally have access to the heavy cannon. The armada and all ships the Killjoys are on just became perfect targets for the enemy, and they won't be able to escape.
91* No one can do anything as Dutch suffers another seizure, only this time she doesn't get up – Aneela does.
92
93[[AC:10 - Sporemageddon]]
94* D'avin is forced back into the memory of when he tried to kill Dutch while brainwashed, and Johnny replays the moment Pawter is killed. Later, Dutch faces off against Banyon, the woman she helped kill when she mistook her for a Hullen.
95* There is an unknown plague spreading across Westerley. The source of the virus are the very kids the Killjoys rescued and returned to their homes.
96* Turin is told by Seyon Faresh that the Nine intend to quarantine and bomb the infected populace.
97--> "I am sure you have some sentimental attachment to this dirtball, but I can assure you Qresh does not."

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