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Tear Jerker / Manchester by the Sea

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  • Lee coming home to find his house burning, and his children dead. Randi's screams and eventual breakdown, Lee's lost expression when looking at the flames, and then in the morning, the body bags being carried out... The funeral scene for them as well.
  • Lee's breakdown at the police station and Bungled Suicide, especially the way he begs them to let him kill himself. The way he subtly tries to get himself arrested by mentioning that he had been using cocaine, and when that fails, his shocked confusion when he's told that he can go are utterly tragic.
  • "I can't beat it. I can't beat it. I'm sorry."
  • Lee and Randi's final conversation, where Randi tells him that her heart will always be broken, but that she knows his is broken, too. He tells her he can't feel anything. And after everything that happened, and though she's remarried with a new child, she tearfully tells him that she still loves him.
  • Lee's dream, where he sees his daughters and they tell him they're burning, is absolutely heartbreaking. And his reaction implies that dreams like that are nothing new for him.

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