Tearjerker / Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

• Harry tries in vain to convince Scrooge to attend his family's Christmas party, pointing out that his mother (Scrooge's sister) would be heartbroken to see the two of them spending the holidays apart. This hits a nerve in Scrooge, who fires back with a purely acidic shut down.
  Scrooge: (growls angrily) Harry, life is full of disappointments. One such disappointment came on the "glorious Christmas Day" that you stumbled into this world. The very same Christmas Day that your mother, my beloved sister, left it. I will not be joining you for Christmas dinner, nor for any other celebration of this wretched season. Now, please leave before I say something you will regret.
• Scrooge's childhood, which shows just why he became so obsessed with becoming financially stable. His father ended up in debtor's prison, seemingly because of his own foolish decisions, forcing a young Scrooge to work on Christmas in a shoe polish workshop to make sure his mother and sick sister wouldn't starve.
• Scrooge's flashback to when he and Marley foreclosed on a poor family's bakery due to the father failing to pay his debts. As the family is dragged away, Scrooge catches a glimpse of the baby of the family, a baby with distinctive heterochromatic eyes: Bob Cratchit. Scrooge is understandably horrified at this revelation, as it directly implies that he's partly responsible for the Cratchit family's current state of poverty.
• "Later Never Comes", where Isabel pleads with young Scrooge to stop telling her "later" and prove his love for her, but ultimately realizing that he won't. As this scene unfolds, Scrooge is shown to be in visible agony from his past decisions and screams at his younger self for letting her go, slamming his fists into the desk in heartbreak and regret.
  Scrooge: NO! There is no "later"!
  • Isabel leaving her ring behind in Scrooge's office, having come to the painful realization that the man she fell in love with is gone.
    Isabel: Goodbye Ebenezer...
• Harry toasting his late mother Jen at his Christmas party, tears slipping down his face as he raises his glass.
  Harry: As I entered the world, you departed. Here's to the Christmases we never shared, and the sad, short one we did.
• Cratchit's broken despair at Tiny Tim's death. Seeing a man who was once so joyful being reduced to pitiful sobs is gut-wrenching to watch. Particularly when he dusts the snow off Tim's cross and starts clutching the wood, as if desparately trying to hold on to some remnant of his little boy.
  Cratchit: Until tomorrow, then. Sleep well, my love. Sweet dreams...
• Scrooge breaking down in tears when he sees Cratchit and Kathy mourning Tim's death, falling to his knees in sorrow in front of the young boy's grave.
  Scrooge: I could have done more! I could have done something!
• Scrooge's funeral in the Bad Future, if you can even call it that. The only people present are the priest, the gravediggers, and Prudence, with Jenkins and his companion being openly contemptuous of the old man and unceremoniously dumping his coffin into the grave.
  Jenkins: I wouldn't hang about for any mourners, mate. Nobody's sorry to see this one go. Nobody who doesn't walk on all fours, anyway.
• Scrooge's reaction to seeing his name on the tombstone, and his horrified pleadings for the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come to spare him so he can still help Tiny Tim, particularly this line:
  Scrooge: Tell me I may yet strike the writing from the boy's cross! Tell me I may yet break this chain! PLEASE, PLEASE, TELL ME!
  • Just as in the original book, the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come begins to struggle with remaining silent as it did before as Scrooge is begging to spare him. In a blink and you'll miss it moment, as Scrooge pleads to remove Tiny Tim's name off the cross, you'll notice Yet to Come's stiff hands slowly curling into fists. Almost as if the spirit WANTS to tell Scrooge he came to the right conclusion but can't.