- Whenever the family talks about Margaret Eppes, who died of cancer before the start of the series.
- Making it even worse, Charlie wasn't even there when she died due to him being unable to deal with the whole situation and worked on N vs. NP, causing his relationship with Don to be strained in the process for a while before they started working together.
- The episode Running Man, where they find out about Margaret's music, which none of them realized she was even working on.
- The end of the episode shows Don playing her music, which causes Alan and Charlie to pause to listen while they are in the garage as they remember her. note
- The season 3 episode "Provenance", where character Erica Hellerman has to keep reliving traumatic memories of the Holocaust while trying to regain possession of the painting that was once owned by her family before the Nazis took them away. Luckily, she was able to get it back by the end of the episode.
- When Charlie was so lost that he couldn't do his usual math when Amita is in danger in Angels and Devils.
- Even before that, his reaction to when Don is stabbed in The Fifth Man.
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