Cold Case/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

* ''Boy Crazy'': An early-1960s teenage girl looks, dresses, and acts like a boy but still likes boys, so her classmates ridicule her and her only friend, another boy, shuns her when she reveals her feelings for him. After she gets expelled from school, her widower father puts her in an asylum. She rebels against the doctors' attempts to make her a "lady," so a guilt-ridden nightshift nurse (who was also the high school's nurse) lets her friend into the hospital to help her get out. {{spoiler|He finds that they've given her enough electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) to brainwash her and leave her half dead in a red dress. He then smothers her with her pillow and drops her body in the lake to fulfill the pact they made there to "never let them change us--be free or die trying."}} It's an absolutely heartbreaking look at the fluidity of gender and sexuality and the pain that comes when it's met with harsh intolerance.

* In ''Sandhogs'', a 1947 miner tries to start up a union because one of his freinds died with the boss/company taking absolutely no accountability. His friend and his friend's widow (Alice) are black, and he is white, which starts up some tension right there. By the end, Alice and the (married)miner are head over heels in love with eachother, but due to some friendly backstabbing by another miner, the boss is onto his union idea and goons are hired. The miner tells Alice that he doesnt love her after all and that she should go off somewhere in an attempt to protect her from the bad guys. He is, of course, murdered and she spent all those years thinking that he really didn't love her, and had refused to listen to their song that had been played throughout the episode. The ending sequence has her youngerself and the specter of the miner dancing together to the song. Tears were jerked. Hard.

* Oh, boy... ''Daniela''. One of the only cases {{spoiler|that turned out to be something other than murder (suicide, in this case)}}, it tugged on my heartstrings painfully hard. All the title character wanted was to be loved for who she was, not what she was. But after her boyfriend lied about his activities with her out of shame in front of his dad, she kicks him out. And he returns. {{spoiler|Just in time to hear the gunshot that she fired into her own head.}} No live action show has made me come closer to crying than this episode. Hell, I'm tearing up just typing this.

* ''Time To Crime'' is sad first of all because it's about a 6 year old girl who is killed in a drive by shooting in 1987. [[It Gets Worse]]. It made me cry for two reasons: one is when the killer is revealed and it's {{spoiler|the then 12 year old brother}} because {{spoiler|he was trying to kill the guy that mom was cheating on dad with and mistakenly killed his sister instead}} and the second is in the [[Medley Exit]] where the closing song is {{spoiler|Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror"}} the girl's ghost looks as if she is really sad and lonely on the other side. It's like she's saying {{spoiler|"Damn, my brother killed me?"}} and it just makes me tear up. It also didn't help matters that TNT broadcasted this episode the day {{spoiler|Michael Jackson died}}.