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- As the film climaxes, the British government and the refugees begin a full-scale war, but the fighting briefly comes to a halt when the fighting refugees and soldiers, for the first time in eighteen years, hear the sound of a crying baby. Full stop. All the soldiers and Fishes stop fighting. Total silence in the warzone as soldiers part to let the baby through, several of them dropping to their knees and making the sign of the cross. Once they're free of the building, someone fires a shot and fighting resumes in a viscerally realistic way.
- Also earlier in front of the same apartment building; the army shooting a group of civilians walking out with a white flag.
- Jasper's death. While he does sacrifice himself to save Theo and Kee, it’s distressing to watch such a likeable character repeatedly get shot and threatened into giving away their location, with Jasper being fatally wounded each time he refuses, until Luke finally loses his temper at him and finally kills him.
- Julian's death and funeral.
- While she’s a Scrappy, Miriam getting abruptly pulled off the bus to be executed in Bexhill can invoke pity, as she’s attacked, pulled by her hair outside, and can only tearfully comply with the guards as they put a black bag over her head as they prepare to kill her.
- The whole entry into Bexhill scene can be this bluring into High Octane Nightmare Fuel, especially if you know your modern history.
- Luke holed up in the shelter facing off with British soldiers. His confession to Theo about how he remembered his beautiful baby sister. Said in a tone like he wondered how he ended up a Knight Templar with multiple bodycounts.
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- And at the end, fighter planes flying overhead, with fireballs over Bexhill...
- Jasper's poor wife, who is in a catatonic state because MI5 tortured her.
- Marishka leaving Theo and Kee in the boat to distract the soldiers, only for everything to explode from the bombing moments later.