History TearJerker / AnneWithAnE

* [[spoiler: The death of Gilbert's father, John.]]
** [[spoiler: Gilbert looks absolutely devastated. Having seen how close he and his father were, and that this makes him the SoleSurvivor of his now dead family, this is understandable]]
** [[spoiler: During the funeral, Matthew can sense Marilla's anguish. He reaches out to her, and they hold hands for a moment of sibling comfort. It is clear they have both been reminded of their brother's untimely passing.]]
** [[spoiler: Furthermore, it is revealed John had been courting Marilla in their youth. Despite the relationship appearing to have ended long ago, Marilla's flashback serves to show how happy the two were together, and emphasize Marilla's look of regret once she snaps out of it.]]
* Marilla reading letters she saved [[spoiler: from her courtship with John]]. Her sobbing as she reads one makes the scene even more sad to watch.

** [[spoiler: This turns out to be why Marilla's and John's courtship ended. As recollected to Gilbert, John asked Marilla to join him in his travels. But then Michael died, so Marilla decided to stay and help her family.]]

** It's also the last scene we see her in, implying that she never made it out of that school. This makes all the happy scenes with Anne and the girls going off to Queens college and Anne and Gilbert agreeing to be pen pals even more heartbreaking to watch, as Ka'Kwet will never get to experience any of that.

-->'''Anne:''' ''(sobbing) How can you call it a good night when you know this must be the worst night I ever had?''

* Ka'Kwet looking out the window at the bleary shape of her parents camped out, waiting for her, on the hill next to the residential school. They're so close to each other, but you know there's no chance of a reunion

'''Marilla:''' I...[[NotSoDifferent I believe I understood]].

* When Marilla becomes bedridden, she and Matthew relive how their mother shut down after Michael's death and Marilla was forced to assume her maternal role. While Marilla is forgiving of their mother's SanitySlippage in the wake of Michael's death, Mathew is bitter because their mother's inability to cope with her grief meant ''they'' had to sacrifice their futures in order to care for her. Understandably, he's quite bitter that her unintended selfishness essentially took away their ''own'' lives.

** Anne sees that one of her old bullies has become a maid. The girl makes rude remarks to Anne, but the compassionate Anne simply says how sorry she genuinely is that she's still trapped there. As Anne and Cole leave, the girl tries to insist she isn't trapped as she's now making wages, but her escaping sobs prove otherwise as she soon breaks down in tears to herself.

* Bash's grief for Mary throughout the episode. He goes to Elijah and invite him to Mary funeral, but Elijah brushes him off. Enraged by Elijah's lack of respect, Bash attacks him.

* After spending the whole episode determined to get his daughter back, Aluk finally breaks down in tears after realising that they're not going to be allowed to take Ka'Kwet home, and if they continue to try, the priest is going to hurt her.

* Any scene showing Anne slipping in her fantasies to cope.

** [[spoiler: Gilbert looks absolutely devastated. Having seen how close he and his father were, this is understandable]]
** [[spoiler: During the funeral, Matthew can sense Marilla's anguish. He reaches out to her, and they hold hands for a moment of sibling comfort. It is clear they have both been reminded of their brother's untimely passing]]

* When Marilla becomes bedridden, she and Matthew relive how their mother shut down after Michael's death and Marilla was forced to assume her role.

* Billy and his gang destroying Anne's clubhouse and Cole's sculptures, not because of who they belong to, but because they can. The loss all but shatters Cole.

** They witness two young siblings being dropped off by their widowed father. When the matron asks the father whether to tell the little ones if he's coming back or he died, the father requests the "died" option, while his children ''can hear him''.

** Anne sees that one of her old bullies has become a maid. She insists that, as a worker making wages, she's not still trapped in the orphanage, but the escaping sobs prove otherwise.

* A cut on Mary's hand has contracted sepsis, and now she is slowly dying.

*** Mary died because she couldn't give up on her son. If she'd listened to Bash and others and just let Elijah go, she'd be alive.

** The fact that Mary had to write that letter at all: she only resorted to it when Gilbert was unable to track down Elijah and bring him home as she wished. At least she got all she wished to say on paper, but still. She never got to know before her death that her firstborn son knew how much she loved him.

* Anne and Diana get into a serious argument, which ends with them both in floods of tears and Diana removing her matching locket.