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• The 40th Floor. It starts with a Regent being tortured to death by an artifact that graphically burns the victim alive. Then, while its effect isn't all that graphic in execution, one artifact featured was from Unit 731. Finally, we've got the sight of a man spraying the inside of his mouth with a corrosive spray paint artifact, complete with convulsions, anguished gurgling and on-screen disintegration. If there last one wasn't bad enough, we get to see two more victims meet a similar end.
• Claudia's scream/ Big No when she sees Steve's dead body. Crosses over big-time with Tear Jerker.
• Ms. Fredrick dying. She rapidly desiccates in front us, pretty much being reduced to a mummy.
• The three young archeologist's death in the first part of the season 2 finale. They end up being mummified alive one by one.
• The young woman we see getting turned into a glass statue.
• "Don't Hate the Player" is, all in all, a very lighthearted episode with lots of nerd humour in it. You can imagine the Mood Whiplash, then, when the game starts exploiting the players' fears via its neural interface and we're suddenly "treated" to the sight of Claudia strapped to an asylum hospital bed, shrieking in abject terror as a doctor is about to apply a giant set of rusty electrodes to her head. The subsequent "Myka to the rescue" moment was sorely needed and could've happened a bit sooner. Allison Scagliotti is truly a gifted actress as, while Claudia's previous breakdowns were heartrending in their subtlety and understatedness (see S2 finale, scene near the end with Artie bandaged up), pulling out all the stops isn't a problem for her either - no Narm to be had here, just an all-too-believable portrayal of someone's worst fear putting them through the wringer. It doesn't help that the other fears were either played for laughs, introduced In Medias Res, or applied to one-off guest characters who didn't have much involvement. This one they showed in its entirety, and they lingered on it a bit too long for comfort.