Ashes to Ashes/Tear Jerker

Tear Jerkers in  include:


 * It helps to be a shipper, but
 * In 1x05, Alex has gotten to a Gayngster by going through his naive young boyfriend. Along the way, she's befriended the scared, screwed-up young man with the bad luck to be gay and coming of age in 1981. By the end of the episode, she's reunited him with his parents, and apparently seen him well on his way to a happier life. Then she hugs him, and sees a dark lesion on his neck, which he dismisses as "just a rash". What we know, and Alex knows, is that it's Kaposi's sarcoma, and that he will be dead within months: one of the first victims of AIDS. And somehow she manages to keep smiling until he can't see her face...
 * In 1x08, Alex struggles to tell her mother about her own daughter, Molly -- the granddaughter Caroline will never meet. Alex knows that Caroline thinks Alex is crazy, knows that she can't say anything that will make Caroline believe her, knows that she's babbling, but she just can't stop herself from trying.
 * Alex realizing how much her mother did love her.
 * The scene in 2x07 where Chris comes walking into CID after Gene has
 * Gene ripping Sam's obituary off his bulletin board in 3.02.
 * Ray's monologue about his father in 3.03. Which gets exponentially worse after the finale.
 * Ray and Shaz singing "Danny Boy."
 * 3x06 has the scene where Chris and Ray, undercover in Fenchurch Prison, discover that


 * In the final episode,
 * Special mention should go to
 * Shaz's childlike crying as the reality of her situation sinks in is especially heartwrenching.
 * Alex realizing that
 * "You are, and always will be, the Guv." "We weren't bad, though, were we?" Oh god....
 * Alex tearfully begging Gene to