The Secret of Kells/Tear Jerker

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  • The Abbot believing Brendan to have been killed in the Viking attack, and seeing just how much it broke him, even years later. "How can I rest, when our greatest treasure is gone?...He was only a boy..."
    • And the entire attack on the Abbey, as it results in the offscreen deaths of almost all townspeople and monks, which is overlaid by gorgeous choral music.
  • Brother Aidan's footprints are washed away on the beach as Pangar Ban and an adult Brendan head home.
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