Heartwarming / Wolf 359

• Hera remembering Eiffel's birthday in "Deep Breaths."
• Eiffel making Minkowski laugh for the first time in "The Kumbaya Approach."
  • Similarly, Eiffel making Minkowski laugh in "Desperate Times," followed by them making up after months of a strained relationship.
• Basically all of "Bach to the Future."
• Eiffel and Hera's conversation at the end of "Let's Kill Hilbert."
• Minkowski and Eiffel's hug in Securite.
• Many of the moments between Jacobi and Maxwell, but especially at the end of "Fire and Brimstone."
• Hera rebooting at the end of "Mayday," spurred on by memories of encouragement given to her by Eiffel and Minkowski.
• "A Matter of Perspective" - the one-year anniversary of Hilbert attempting to murder the entire crew. But this time, the crew remembers Eiffel's birthday.
• Minkowski discovers at the end of "Minkowksi Commanding" that the reason the plant monster was stealing tools and supplies from the ship was because it was making itself a little lamp. It was afraid of the dark. It's enough to convince her to leave it alone.
• In Episode 30, "Mayday", Eiffel, drifting alone in a stricken spacecraft, has hallucinations of the other crewmembers, who each coach him through the crisis in their own styles.
  • Minkowski gets him to calm down and focus on his training,
  Eiffel: [Long anguished scream]
  Minkowski: Okay. You needed that. But now you have to concentrate.
  • Lovelace cracks down on him for wallowing in self-pity instead of trying to solve his problems,
  Eiffel: Time. Time's the problem. Everything takes too much time. Which means I'm going to -
  Lovelace: [SLAP] Cut that out! That's dead-boy talk!
  • Hilbert points out the critical detail that Eiffel is missing,
  Eiffel: I'll just put myself under the ice for the duration.
  Hilbert: And how long do you think that will be?
  Eiffel: I don't know. We're doing... what? Seventeen thousand miles per hour? That should get us there in something like...
  Hilbert: Six thousand years. Time is the problem.
  • Finally, Hera's theme plays as she appears to just reassure him that things will be better.
  Hera: Eiffel. Listen to me.
  Eiffel: Go away, Hera.
  Hera: It's important. There's something you-
  Eiffel: Please stop talking.
  Hera: You're not going to die here. There's too much you still have to do. You don't get to go away just yet.
• In "Shut Up and Listen", Eiffel learned how much of a jerk he could be to the rest of the crew because he never thought about how his actions affected others. The following episode, "Constructive Criticism" has the reveal that he has immersed himself into his work to a level that has his crewmates concerned about his well-being, because he feels he needs to make it up to them, leading to an intervention. Even Jacobi points out when Eiffel fails to make a relevant pop-culture reference.
  • The takeaway from the intervention is that Eiffel is still part of the crew, and they care about him, even despite how much of a jerk he'd been in the past.
  • A few episodes later, in "The Watchtower", Eiffel slips up again mispronouncing Minkowski's name while talking to the Dear Listeners and corrects himself even though she isn't even present to hear it.
• In the Mission Mishaps minisode "No Complaints", Kepler and Jacobi are on a stake-out, and Jacobi is in a bad mood because he feels Kepler has forgotten something important about what day it is. Not only does Kepler recall that it is the anniversary of the day he recruited Jacobi, but he also brought a duffel bag full of fireworks for them to set off to celebrate.
• In spite of being horrible people to everyone else, Cutter and Pryce seem to have a genuine bond, to the point that Cutter refuses to consider the possibility of completing the mission without her and later says to her face that he was worried about her.
  Cutter: Friends?
  Pryce: Partners.