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[[caption-width-right:350:''"ELIZABETH!"'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:"ELIZABETH!"]]

** '''Booker:''' [[spoiler:GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER!]]

* When you get to Emporia for the first time, the residents are attempting to flee the area in fear of the Vox Populi. You pass a barge attempting to escort people away and a hear a husband trying to convince his wife to jump so she doesn't get left behind. The wife is crying hysterically that she's too terrified to jumpThe voice acting of the distraught woman will rip your heart out. The moment loses some of its gravitas when you look back to see the barge leaving and no one is left on the ledge (implying that she and the others there made it after all) but it's still heart wrenching to see.

* Out of all the tragedies in this list, absolutely none compare to the flying city itself. Columbia, the ultimate embodiment of mankind's hopes and dreams, the epitome of ingenuity, the bastion of progress and the potential epoch of a glorious future, is utterly twisted and deformed into an absolute nightmare filled with racism, unethical experimentation, false salvation, slavery, unstable timelines, mechanical monstrosities and broken dreams. Seeing something so beautiful become twisted by the same forces that helped build is absolutely depressing for any player. [[spoiler:When Booker and Elizabeth change the timeline so that the city never existed, it's like Travis forcing himself to shoot his beloved Old Yeller who has become rabid to put it out of it's misery.]]

** [[spoiler:One thing people tend to miss is when Elizabeth asks the projection of Booker to "just humor her", it did not. It just keeps reminding her regretfully that is not booker.

* The fact that, given that Irrational is downsizing and being restructured into a smaller company, this may be the last ''BioShock'' game that the studio may make.

* When you get to Emporia for the first time, the residents are attempting to flee the area in fear of the Vox Populi. You pass a barge attempting to escort people away and a hear a husband trying to convince his wife to jump so she doesn't get left behind. The wife is crying hysterically that she's too terrified to jump and the barge has to leave her behind. The voice acting of the distraught woman will rip your heart out.

* When the Songbird [[http://youtu.be/attvYJb6xn8?t=2m54s first searches for Elizabeth]], Elizabeth tearfully asks Booker to promise something for her. Booker promises he'll deal with the Songbird, but that's not what Elizabeth wants. In a heartbreaking moment, she puts Booker's hand around her throat and ''begs'' him to promise to kill her before the Songbird can have her. Booker flatly states that it'll never come to that. [[spoiler: If you've played the game before and know Elizabeth's real relationship with Booker, it becomes even more horrifying.]]

** The sound of Booker's voice when he realizes [[spoiler: that Elizabeth is his daughter]] is especially heartbreaking.
** And after that realization dawns, three words are enough. [[spoiler: ''"I sold you... I. Sold you..."'']].
** There's also his desperate voice during that scene: [[spoiler: ''Anna!" "ANNA!"]]
* [[spoiler: The Songbird's death should count. Being drowned at the bottom of the sea, whilst Elizabeth looks on, sadly telling it to let go, while it screams in agony and tries to reach her. Sure, it was built to be an abusive partner, but it obviously loved her in its own twisted way, and she cared for it too.]]
** [[spoiler: The Songbird's eyes finally switch to green just before dying, indicating it's in a peaceful mood, having decided to FaceDeathWithDignity.]]
** [[spoiler: Oh, and did you notice the Little Sister crying over a dead Big Daddy in the background, just after Songbird's death? That's how Elizabeth could've been.]]
** [[spoiler: Arguably made just a litle bit sadder, once you've played the Burial DLC, and see just what Songbird went through, and how it pair bonded with Elizabeth in the first place.]]
* [[spoiler: Elizabeth turns out to be right that she'll be killing Comstock. And it's a HeroicSacrifice, since killing her father ''wipes herself from existence'', as each version of her vanishes.]]
* The entire sorry state of affairs, the building of Columbia and all its ills, Elizabeth's [[spoiler: dimensional kidnapping, lifelong imprisonment, and later emotional and physical torture]] ALL of it traces back to the fact that [[spoiler: Rosalind Lutece managed to contact her male alternate dimensional counterpart, fell in love with him, and made a deal with the devil (Comstock) to fund building a gate to reach him.]] Without her Comstock would just be another crazy small time cult leader.

** [[spoiler: Towards the end of the game, all Booker wants to do ''is'' to forget about the deal and take her to Paris. The strain in his voice makes everything sadder.]]

* Right before Booker and Elizabeth enter the universe where [[spoiler: Booker becomes Comstock after his baptism]], she asks him if this is really what he wants, but you can tell how heartbroken she is in her voice. Even though she knows that this is the only way to stop Comstock, she's still heartbroken by what she has to do.

* Hearing Elizabeth [[spoiler: be tortured through the tears in the Asylum, begging for mercy and desperately saying she'll be "Comstock's Daughter"]] is just gutwrenching. Worse is the obvious panic in Booker's voice every time he says anything during that portion of the game.

* Even Booker's office is a bit sad when you look around it enough. There's bottles and decks of cards strewn about, showing his addiction to gambling and drink. But there's a bed in the corner, and the other only room is [[spoiler: Anna's room.]] This makes you stop and think: That possibly Booker had enough debt to the point that he had to sell his house!

* After the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICZlnUObkw ending]] of the first episode, [[spoiler: you might actually feel sorry for this version of Comstock.]]

** [[spoiler: Made even worse if you assume this entire ordeal was a SecretTestOfCharacter on Elizabeth's part to see if he had [[LastSecondChance truly redeemed]]. This would certainly explains her FlatWhat when Comstock ''agrees'' with her suggestion to turn on the thermostat to lure Sally out, implying she didn't think he'd ''actually'' go through with it. Her anger is likely because this proved he'd not changed at all, putting his own desire for his "daughter" ahead of her safety]].
** The scene when [[spoiler: Elizabeth and the Luteces are desperately persuading Comstock to not take Booker's beloved daughter, who is the only thing that makes him happy, away. It makes it even worse when you realize that [[FridgeHorror Booker might have gone mad with grief.]]]]
*** Think about that scene even longer, if you can stomach it. [[spoiler: The portal closes on Anna with her head on Comstock's side. Which means Booker was left holding the headless corpse of his child, who wouldn't have been in that situation if not for his own lapse of judgement.]]

* TheReveal that [[spoiler: this may be the last ''BioShock'' game Irrational is going to make.]]
* Elizabeth's increasingly DeathSeeker attitude throughout Episode 2, [[spoiler: particularly evident during her near-lobotomy at Atlas' hands, as well as when she knowingly walks to her own death, but not before jeering at Atlas simply to [[DefiantToTheEnd get on with it]]]].

* Sally singing to Elizabeth [[spoiler: as she dies.]]
* [[spoiler: It's heartbreaking to see Daisy realize that she's never going to see the revolution succeed if Elizabeth has to kill her. However, she agrees, knowing that Booker and Elizabeth will kill Comstock at the price of her dying for her cause.]]
* Elizabeth is ''absolutely terrified'' when [[spoiler: Atlas is about to perform a trans-orbital lobotomy on her,]] but what's heartbreaking is her voice when Booker leaves her there.

* Booker's appearance in Episode 2 as a whole counts. When you realize who he is, his somber tone and calm voice even with Elizabeth's tougher moments hammer home how much Elizabeth really misses [[spoiler: her father]]. And the almost apologetic tone he uses every time he has to remind her [[spoiler: "I'm not Booker"]] takes the cake.

** YMMV on whether it was actually fitting at all, though.

* When the Songbird [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=attvYJb6xn8&feature=player_embedded first searches for Elizabeth]], Elizabeth tearfully asks Booker to promise something for her. Booker promises he'll deal with the Songbird, but that's not what Elizabeth wants. In a heartbreaking moment, she puts Booker's hand around her throat and ''begs'' him to promise to kill her before the Songbird can have her. Booker flatly states that it'll never come to that. [[spoiler: If you've played the game before and know Elizabeth's real relationship with Booker, it becomes even more horrifying.]]

* The ending of Episode 2. So terrible, so bittersweet, so very, very fitting.