Tear Jerker / The Suffering

• The evil ending, in which Torque discovers that he murdered his wife and children; following this, he transforms into his insanity form for good, destroys the boat sent to rescue him, and charges off into the wilderness of Carnate Island in search of prey. As he vanishes into the forest, we see the photograph of his family (now stained with blood and dirt) and read the message on it that Torque couldn't bear to read: "This is us, T. Us without you. The only way we can really be happy. Goodbye forever- Carmen."
• The good ending hits pretty hard, too. Despite Torque's family's spirits forgiving them, the fact remains that they're dead. Blackmore's men leave Torque alive to suffer without the people he loves with some bitter words.
  Thug: "He said to leave you alive. Only you. Enjoy your new life."
  • Carmen's note nails in that a good man's family was torn to pieces.
    Note: Someone's missing from this picture, T. I don't want us to ever be apart again. Love always, Carmen.
  • If you start the second game with a good ending from the first game and continue the second with a good playthrough, not even Blackmore is happy with this happening. He's enraged at the news, and his reminiscence on it in the second game sounds somber. Perhaps a sign that Torque is part of him as much as he is a part of Blackmore.
    Blackmore: "I never said to do THAT!... Now they're gone!!"
    "I don't think I could have ever done it. But it was the wrong kind we associated with. Untrustworthy, unprofessional. The kind who kills someone just cause they get off on it."
• The neutral ending, where Torque's family dies to simple domestic abuse. Torque tried to do good, but one argument pushed him too far, and seeing his mother die sent Corey over the edge to kill his brother and himself in a spiteful Murder-Suicide.
• The sad tale of Horace Gage, an inmate who murdered his wife on a conjugal visit because he believed it was the only way he could keep her safe. After being executed, his spirit remains trapped on Carnate in perpetual agony, at the beck and call of the electric chair he died in. After a lengthly boss battle, Torque manages to put him out of his misery, though not before Horace says this:
  I think we got somethin' in common. We know what love is, we know what it is to love a woman. You'd do anything for her, am I right? And somethin' else we got. We know what it is to lose it, lose it all. To not be in control...
• Just about any conversation with the ghost of Torque's son, Cory: the worst one was probably during the second game, in which he contacts Torque while apparently high on heroin, whispering "It helps me forget all about you..."

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