History TearJerker / ReservationDogs

* In “What About Your Dad” when Bear realizes his dad is just making excuses to not visit him. After Punkin fails to say “I love you” back to Bear when he says it, Bear starts tearing up until Rita talks to him. She tells Bear that any relationship he has with his father will never be on his terms, which is a harsh reality he sadly needed to know.

* “California Dreamin’” reveals what happened to Daniel - after a night out with Elora where he comes up with the idea to leave the rez and go to California, she goes by his house the next day and finds that he didn’t come home. At Bear’s suggestion, she checks Rob and Cleo’s (the building where the teens made a shrine for Daniel), and Elora discovers Daniel hung himself over night. She can only grab onto his legs while wailing hysterically.
** "California Dreamin'" also reveals what happened to Elora's mother, Cookie. She and her boyfriend, Rodney, were drinking with Brownie and Bobson. Rodney insisted on driving home. Brownie tried to stop them, even getting into a fight with Rodney, but they went anyway and were in an accident. It is presented very much like Cookie's death affected Coach Bobson the way Daniel's death did Elora.
--> '''Bobson:''' There's before they died, and after. Ripples in between.
* From “Satvrday”:
** Willie Jack’s speech about why she doesn’t want to leave for California - it’s her parents’ anniversary, and like her, they’ve felt the sting of Daniel’s death for the past year. She wants to stay with them because she doesn’t know how much more time she’ll have with them.
** Bear and Elora’s argument, where she compares him to his dad for mooching off of her, and he hits back that she has to stop acting like she isn’t just going to California for Daniel’s sake and like the others don’t miss him terribly as much as she does.

* "Roofing" has William Knifeman dispense some actual good advice about grief and loss, due to Bear working with Daniel's father and still trying to come to terms with his suicide.

* "Mabel" has the Rez Dogs reunite after Elora's return because her grandmother is dying. After she passes, Elora runs outside to cry, only to find Mabel appearing to her as a spirit who encourages her to keep moving forward.

* In “I Still Believe” when Cheese gives a speech addressed to Daniel, expressing how his death has deeply affected him and his friends, with Cheese saying he was mad at him for leaving.

* Bear gives William Knifeman a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. William is so hurt that he stops seeing Bear even when Bear asks for his help.

* Rita is visited by Cookie's spirit. Cookie cries about how she is unable to communicate with Elora but also unable to move on to the afterlife.

** Bear and Daniel Sr. also have a moment where the latter reveals that his wife left him and he hasn't touched a drink since. He also assures Bear that Daniel's suicide wasn't his fault and that the adults in his life should have been the ones to notice he was suffering. After their talk, they suddenly see a rainbow-ish orb floating off in the distance (heavily implied to be Danielle's spirit).

* "Roofing"

* Uncle Brownie telling Elora how much he misses her mom (who wasn't his biological sister but still called him "brother").

** Bear and Elora’s argument, where she compares him to his dad for mooching off of her, and he hits back that she has to stop acting like she isn’t just going to California for Daniel’s sake and like the others don’t miss him terribly as much as she does.

--> '''Bobson:''' There's before they died, and after. Ripples in between.

* “California Dreamin’” reveals what happened to Daniel - after a night out with Elora where he comes up with the idea to leave the rez and go to California, she goes by his house the next day and finds that he didn’t come home. At Bear’s suggestion, she checks Rob and Cleo’s (the building where the teens made a shrine for Daniel), and Elora discovers Daniel hung himself over night. She can only grab onto his legs while wailing hysterically.

* Willie Jack and her dad, Leon, breaking down over Daniel's death while out hunting. Leon confesses that he's taken his nephew's death especially hard and had a rough year.

The anniversary of Daniel's death. The kids [[ShrineToTheFallen keep some of his photos and give offerings to him]] in the abandoned building they hang out with, smudge themselves with sage, and do a GroupHug before chorusing that they all miss him.
** In “What About Your Dad” when Bear realizes his dad is just making excuses to not visit him. After Punkin fails to say “I love you” back to Bear when he says it, Bear starts tearing up until Rita talks to him. She tells Bear that any relationship he has with his father will never be on his terms, which is a harsh reality he sadly needed to know.
** Uncle Brownie telling Elora how much he misses her mom (who wasn't his biological sister but still called him "brother").
** Willie Jack and her dad, Leon, breaking down over Daniel's death while out hunting. Leon confesses that he's taken his nephew's death especially hard and had a rough year.