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Line 2: {{Cleanup\|MOD: All of these entries belong on the existing Tear Jerker subpages for their works, and should be moved to those pages. Once that is done, this page can be deleted.}} == A-D == === [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)/Tear Jerker]] === * The first episode of the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' - "33" - has a tear jerking scene right after the opening credits {{spoiler\|when ALL of the grief-stricken, sleep-deprived Galactica pilots take a moment to touch the picture of a fellow soldier who was watching the destruction of his home world. If you listen very carefully, you can hear most of the pilots say something along the lines of "Never forget".}} Later on, President Laura Roslin breaks down after learning that a baby was born during the chaos of the multiple jumps through space, and updates the running survivor count accordingly. The scene in "Maelstrom" {{spoiler\|where Kara "dies", her ship blows up, Saul frackin' Tigh, of all people, cries over her, and then Bill Adama breaks down in his quarters and smashes his model ship.}} Doubly so because {{spoiler\|that was genuine anger on the part of Edward James Olmos, who plays Adama, and who had not been told that Starbuck would return. That model ship he smashed? That was an improvisation - the ship wasn't a prop, it was ''a museum piece'' being loaned to the production team...}} * {{spoiler\|Adama looking through some of his effects. He finds an old birthday card from Kara in which she confesses that she always thought of him as a father, and includes a photo of herself on which she's drawn a moustache like he used to have, asking if he sees the resemblance. A moment both hilarious, and yet shockingly sad.}} {{spoiler\|Callie's death scene.}} The fact that its at the very end of an episode where she's become an emotional wreck and has just discovered {{spoiler\|her husband Galen is a Cylon}} and she's broken down and shattered into a million mental pieces just makes it all the worse. * Consider the fact that she just trusted {{spoiler\|Tory, one of the secret Cylons along with Galen}} and got backhanded for it. It's more than likely that she died thinking her husband was complicit in it. Let's face it, [[Tear Jerker]] moments are a [[Once an Episode]] deal with ''Battlestar Galactica''. The start of season 2 when Chief Tyrol is shocked at the loss of a life during a short mission he was leading {{quote\|'''Callie:''' Talk to me you mother-frakker! '''Chief:''' Mother-frakker? ''(they both laugh and Callie breaks down)'' }} * The term "frak" has often been a source of [[Narm]] in the show. To be able to go from narm, to comic relief to heartbreaking in the space of a few seconds as Callie just gets overwhelmed by the shock of her situation... it makes me well up just thinking about it. It's brilliant writing. Whenever Edward James Olmos sheds tears,. Especially in Resurrection Ship 1, during the "I can't see you as a blonde." conversation. When he turns around after Roslin calls after him, subtly wiping his eyes... Then "Notion", at the start of season 4.5, has has {{spoiler\|Dualla's sudden, shocking suicide, and the fallout resulting from it.}} * Agreed on this one. From the beginning of the episode it looked like she was in trouble but her date with {{spoiler\|Lee}} had the appearance of walking her back from the brink. Made the eventual {{spoiler\|suicide, especially the matter of fact way she did it}},seem much more heartbreaking. * And earlier in that episode, when {{spoiler\|Roslin gets out of the Raptor, looks at the anticipatory faces of the people in the bay, and she's too heartbroken to even ''speak''.}} {{spoiler\|Peggy! [[Big No\|Nooooo!!]] Way to go, Lee, you fat moron.}} * For [[Alliterator\|me]], it was Gaeta's Lament from "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?" Gaeta had to have his {{spoiler\|leg amputated}} and so, whenever he feels pain and can't take it, he starts to sing. Here's the song (sung like an opera) {{quote\|''Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man'' ''With my three wishes clutched in her hand.'' ''The first that she be spared the pain'' ''That comes from a dark and laughing rain.'' ''When she finds love may it always stay true'' ''This I beg for the second wish I made too.'' ''But wish no more'' ''My life you can take'' ''To have her please just one day wake'' ''To have her please just one day wake'' }} ** Part of the reason that song was so damned effective was that [https://web.archive.org/web/20080531153348/http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=349 it was performed live on the set], as part of the acting. (Apparently it had people trying not to cry on-set.) Alessandro Juliani is really singing it there, as you see him. Also, the version on the Season 4 soundtrack is gorgeous, presented first a cappella, then with strings and drums--it's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3gY48pxjA worth a listen by itself]. * In something usually missed by many fans of the show, in the episode The Oath {{spoiler\|Laird, the deck chief's death. Let's put this in perspective, Peter Laird was on a tiny freighter with his family when the Cylons destroyed the Twelve Colonies. He survives on the ship until they meet up with Battlestar Pegasus who then conscripts him and kills his entire family, he serves on Pegasus until its destruction at New Caprica, then becomes deck chief on Galactica. When the mutiny begins, he is beaten to death by Tom Zarek so he can escape to Colonial One, nobody even mourning or remembering him afterwards.}} * What about this Tearjerker/Nightmare Fuel: Razor Flashbacks Episode 3, when the Columbia is destroyed. The last dying screams of the crew... * In the series finale (Daybreak Part 2), when {{spoiler\|Bill Adama and Laura Roslin are in a Raptor flying over their new home, talking about their plans, Roslin quietly, peacefully passes away in the passenger seat right next to him, leaving Bill all alone.}} * When {{spoiler\|Adama is carrying the dying Roslin to a Raptor, and continued during Adama's farewell to his son, Lee and Kara's farewell to Roslin through the Raptor window, Starbuck's disapperance, and finally Roslin's death.}} In the season finale, {{spoiler\|Galactica being flown into the sun, while a faint and mournful version of the original series theme tune was playing over the top..}} * The entire series finale is a Tear Jerker, especially the second part from {{spoiler\|Anders send off}} to Adama's {{spoiler\|"it was heavenly, it reminded me of you."}} * {{spoiler\|Anders' goodbye to Kara: "I'll see you on the other side."}} accompanied by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1S81JN7rLk&feature=related this] Crowning Music of Awesome reprised. ** Even if you don't much like Baltar, the moment where {{spoiler\|he and Caprica-Six are going off to start their lives anew together on Earth, he says he saw a field he'd like to cultivate and farm. Baltar was from a farming planet and culture, which he spent most of his life trying to get away from and prove his worth as a scientist. Now, so many years later, he's going to be a farmer. His life has come full circle. He breaks down crying, not really understanding why, and Six comforts him, saying "I know."}} * How about in Exodus: Part 1, where the Adamas say goodbye in Galactica's hangar deck? Sure, the Old Man always comes through, but ''they'' don't know that. Seeing them both get choked up is too much for me. * Half-way through the episode Scar, Apollo says he's worried he'll forget the faces of their dead pilots. Starbuck's response is a half-humorous: "I don't even remember their names." Then at the end of the episode she proposes a toast, and lists the dead pilots, one by one. By the end she's in tears. She's not alone. * And, going back to ''33'' -- the first sight of the wall. * {{spoiler\|Kat's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} in "Passage", especially the scene at the end where {{spoiler\|she's made honorary CAG then Starbuck adds her photo to the wall.}} * No mention of ''Unfinished Business''? Oh, god. Not even counting the heartbreaking Tigh flashback, this episode is emotionally crippling to any Kara/Lee shippers as well as probably anyone who's ever been {{spoiler\|in love and rejected for someone else}}. Let's see, first up you have the boxing tournament framing device {{spoiler\|that hints at some MAJOR [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] between Apollo and Starbuck}}. Then the flashbacks start. {{spoiler\|Apollo's longing stares at Starbuck at the Founders' Day party. Their drunken hooking up. Their shouting their love on the rooftops (or, well, in the middle of the forest)}}. And we're not even at "heartbreaking" yet - that would be {{spoiler\|Apollo waking up alone and confused, walking back to the village and discovering that ''Starbuck just got married that very morning''.}} If you watch it in slow-motion, you can see the exact moment where his heart breaks. Then there's {{spoiler\|Apollo bitterly settling for Dualla, who it turns out has ''absolutely no illusions about being a silver medal''}}. Meanwhile, back in the present, {{spoiler\|Apollo and Starbuck go from viciously pounding on each other to collapsing in each other's arms, tearfully admitting that they missed each other}}. Every single second of this episode is a [[Tear Jerker]], doubly so on repeat viewings when you already know what happened. * The conversation between Baltar and Gaeta before {{spoiler\|Gaeta gets executed.}} * In "Faith", when Roslin starts chatting with a dying cancer patient, you know it's going to end tear-jerkingly. But the dream scene where {{spoiler\|the patient, Emily, runs across a meadow towards her welcoming, also-dead family...}} And what makes it all the worse is Roslin watching the scene, in the dream, and just knowing that when she {{spoiler\|dies too (much later)}}, there will be no crowd waiting for her. That was rough. * The last conversation between Lee and Starbuck where she tells him she needs to go but doesn't know where and asks him what he plans to do. He looks away for a second and when he looks back, she's disappeared. [[Together in Death\|Kara has earned her rest with Anders.]] {{quote\|'''Lee''': [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming\|Goodbye Kara, you won't be forgotten.]]}} === [[Being Human (UK)/Tear Jerker]] === * The season three finale. Very nearly all of it. {{spoiler\|1=McNair's}} final letter to {{spoiler\|Tom,}} written before Herrick killed him. "Don't avenge me." Even sadder because he doesn't listen. George's ''scream'' when he {{spoiler\|thinks Nina is dead.}} Words cannot describe it. Lia's realization that her revenge on Mitchell will have the same effect on George as her death had on her family. The build-up to {{spoiler\|George staking Mitchell. First Mitchell's attempts to convince George to do it by telling him that their entire friendship was a sham, and that George is pathetic. The fact that George knows he's lying is a [[Tear Jerker]] by itself. Then, when Mitchell doesn't have the heart to keep that up, he breaks down and begs George to do it because he ''knows'' he'll kill again. Finally George agrees. Mitchell says he's finally doing the decent thing, and Nina says this is what they'll remember him by. He tells Annie that she's the love his life. When Wyndham interrupts them, we think that this is a reprise (albeit not a particularly good one). Wyndham informs Mitchell he'll have to be an "attack dog" for the Old Ones, or else he'll "crucify" George and Nina. George picks up the stake, apparently to kill Wyndham, then turns around and rams it into Mitchell's heart.}} {{quote\|{{spoiler\|'''George''': I'm dong this because I love you.}} {{spoiler\|'''Mitchell''': I know.}} }} * Believe it or not, it gets worse in Series 4. Nina {{spoiler\|was killed by the vampires shortly after giving birth, after George encouraged her to go outside.}} George {{spoiler\|is killed}} in the first episode. {{spoiler\|His last words are to name the baby Eve. And then he becomes a ghost, standing behind his own dead body, in front of his door.}} {{quote\|{{spoiler\|'''George''': I have to be with my Nina.}}}} *** Oh, and the reason he {{spoiler\|dies.}}? He {{spoiler\|forced his body to begin changing into a werewolf to save his daughter, but was unable to heal himself.}} * Kirby tricking Tom into thinking that he was going to get his very first birthday party, complete with cake. The look on Tom's face when he realises that no one even knows that it's his birthday. Annie falls for Kirby... who then begins to insult her until she fades away. Kirby messes up Hal's bedroom and it looks like he can almost cope with that... Then he drops Hal's photo of Leo on the floor and Hal looks completely devastated. === [[Bones/Tear Jerker]] === * "Aliens in a Spaceship". Finding out that {{spoiler\|one of the twins killed himself to give his brother the rest of the oxygen}} was bad enough since they obviously didn't make it, but Zack's inability to understand ''why he should tell the twins' father'' made it 50 times worse. The concept is heartbreaking for everyone -- but for many real-life twins, it's [[Nightmare Fuel\|downright TERRIFYING]]. * The end of "The Man in the Fallout Shelter", where Bones is able to tell the fiancée of a man murdered in 1959 what really happened to him, and that he'd never abandoned her. Towards the end, with Bones and the present. "Don't you wish someone had told ''you'' that your parents were dead--just so you can finally stop wondering?" "Yes." * "The Finger in the Nest," in which Brennan decides to adopt Ripley, the fighting dog at the center of the case. However, since the dog has killed a person, the judge in the case orders it put down - which she doesn't find out until after she's already purchased toys, bedding and a personalized collar tag. Brennan's expression at the news, and then her halting attempt to say something over Ripley's grave, is heart-wrenching. * The comparing scars scene in "Mayhem on a Cross" where Bones reveals that her foster parents locked her in a car for two days * "The Pain in the Heart". Everything involving {{spoiler\|Zack}}. * The Christmas episode of 2009. The scene near the end where the radio broadcaster {{spoiler\|gives his final show about how it's really his fault that the man died, because of all the hate he's spreading}}. {{quote\|{{spoiler\|"These will be the final words I broadcast. And I hope they're the words you remember the best. Peace on Earth."}}}} Yes! His words were so touching, you'd have to be inhuman to not tear up at that. Bones says she finds the idea of a woman burying her son "heart breaking." Booth tells her “You are the one who always says that the heart can’t break because it’s a muscle. It has to be crushed,” she replies “Well, isn’t it heart crushing?” * The Boy in the Shroud. The entire episode, but especially the end when 'Bring on the Wonder' plays. * "The Superhero in the Alley." The ending, when Angela completes the final page of the murder victim's semi-autobiographical comic book? Yeah. * "The Graft in the Girl". Amy, the teen daughter of Booth's boss, has cancer, which it turns out was caused by a bone graft from a bone with cancer. After further investigation it turns out there are more people with cancer from the same donor (whose bones were illegally harvested). In the end the murder is solved and, but Amy is still going to die. * The 100th episode. The Parts in the Sum of the Whole. That final scene when {{spoiler\|they were SO CLOSE to getting together but Bones couldn't do it and she pushed him away.....}} ** Their goodbye in the final episode of season 5 caused some tearing up as well, for sure. * "The Doctor in the Photo" in season six. The car scene when Brennan tells Booth about the epiphany she's had {{spoiler\|(that she "doesn't want to die with regrets" and "made a mistake" in rejecting him)}}, and then breaks down and SOBS at his response. Their subsequent conversation and watching her slowly pull herself back together just made it worse. * "The Singing in the Silence" - a deaf mute runaway girl is found covered in blood. It turns out {{spoiler\|she had to kill a man who tried to kidnap her and take her back to her violently abusive parents, who it turns out in fact kidnapped her from her real parents when she was a toddler. It is an incredible [[Adult Fear]] episode for any parent, to imagine their defenceless three-year-old being taken and used so horrifically that she's unable to trust anyone, and her only happy memory is of a stuffed rabbit... sniff...}} * {{spoiler\|Vincent's death. "Please don't make me leave, I love being here..."}} === [[Castle (TV series)/Tear Jerker]] === * Given that it deals with murder, for [[Castle]] to deal with Tear Jerkers frequently would cause it to descend quickly into [[Narm]], but it can be effective. Season 2, episode 5 {{spoiler\|involves a baby swap. At the end of the episode, the ex-husband of the deceased meets with the (ex?)wife of the killer. They bond over the living child (his, raised by her) and the dead child (hers, raised by him).}} * After [[The Ghost\|Chet]] proposes to Martha, she mulls it over for a day, then goes back to say no...only to find that he'd died overnight. Susan Sullivan does a great job bringing out all the emotion, and lets us feel real emotion for a character that was never on screen. * Near the end of the episode "Sucker Punch", when Beckett realises that that man who may have killed her mother (or at least knows why she was murdered) has been right under their noses the whole time. Then, she's forced to shoot him dead, knowing that now, she may never know why her mother died. === [[Community/Tear Jerker]] === * All of ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S1/E21 Contemporary American Poultry\|Contemporary American Poultry]]" once you realize that everything Abed has done in the episode is because he's desperate to try and connect with people for once. === [[Criminal Minds/Tear Jerker]] === * Adam/{{spoiler\|Amanda}} in Conflicted. Abused by his step-father until he developed DID. The second personality, Amanda, regards it as her job to protect him and takes over when she realises that, if he can be found competant, he'll go to jail for the crimes she committed. Reid's desperate 'Adam?' and Morgan replying 'He's gone' is heartbreaking. * In one of the few episodes of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' where the unsub isn't evil, Frankie Muniz (of ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'') plays a comic book artist who {{spoiler\|gets caught by a gang and forced to watch as they kill his fiancee, which causes him to have a psychotic break and run around systematically butchering the perps}}. The final scene has him sitting in a padded cell, calling {{spoiler\|his dead fiancee's cell phone}} over and over, just so he could listen to the away message. {{spoiler\|''Hey, this is Vicky! I can't come to the phone right now because I'm out living my life.}} He thought up the away message for her. There's also the episode "Distress" in which a veteran with PTSD believes himself to be in a war zone. When the cops find him {{spoiler\|he sees a young boy and, believing that there is shooting going on, he runs toward the child and is shot when his action is misconstrued. As he dies he can only ask if the boy is all right}}. * Considering that this is one of the episodes where Reid really starts to struggle with the aftermath of his own abduction in a pretty classic PTSD way, this blink-and-you'll-miss-it exchange between him and Hotch takes on a whole new light, too: {{quote\|Reid: He's definitely suffering from PTSD. Hotch: He's trapped in his own head, reliving the worst moment of his life over and over again. He must be terrified. Reid: Y-yeah. }} What about the episode when Reid befriends a young man struggling with his own violent fantasies. At the end {{spoiler\|the boy attempts suicide and a witness sees Reid's card and calls him. He desperately struggles to keep the boy alive, shouting for paramedics, and when he succeeds can only wonder if he's just condemned the boy's future victims}}. Two words: "Profiler, Profiled." Oh God. The pair of scenes where Morgan -- big, cool, invulnerable, tough-guy Morgan -- finally {{spoiler\|1=breaks down and acknowledges that he was sexually abused as a child by this week's UnSub, and that he's been living with both the shame of that and the guilt of not having stopped him sooner for his entire adult life}}, with about half his ''team'' overhearing the second one, and then his visit to the grave of the unnamed first murder victim... Jesus. * The scene where Derek finally confronts his mentor, and after exposing him for what he is, telling him to go to hell while the man can only be dragged away begging for help from his victim. In a way it was sort of cathartic. "Riding the Lightning." The scenes near the end where Gideon's forced to stand by and watch as {{spoiler\|a woman allows herself to be sent to the electrical chair for the murder of her young son, which she ''didn't commit''}}... it doesn't hurt either that Mandy Patinkin is a scary genius when it comes to looking utterly crushed by despair. Any time Reid is in pain or distress, which {{spoiler\|happens way too often. "Revelations" is agonizing to watch.}} * "Revelations" also adds on a side of [[Alas, Poor Villain]]. Poor Tobias could have been a really likeable guy if it weren't for his whole homicidal [[Split Personality]] deal. Morgan and Garcia have several excellent tearjerker moments. Most recently in "Mayhem", when we (and Garcia) think he's {{spoiler\|been killed by the bomb in the ambulance}}, and definitely in "Penelope" when {{spoiler\|Morgan tells Garcia he loves her.}} "P911". The breaking point is the end, when {{spoiler\|the woman sees her kidnapped son for the first time since he was one year old. He introduces her to his action figure, named Jack, and (badly) holding back tears, she says, "Hello, Jack. My name is Jackie."}} "Mayhem" covers up some questionable plot elements with sheer emotional trauma, especially {{spoiler\|Hotch sitting in the middle of the road screaming for help that isn't going to come.}} And if that doesn't shove you over the edge, there's {{spoiler\|Morgan quoting Semper Fi at the ex-Marine who's keeping people out of the area. (Yeah, he lets Morgan through.)}} * Morgan {{spoiler\|stuck in the ambulance with a bomb that's about to go off, Garcia pleading with him over the phone to get out}}. In "Amplification", Reid, {{spoiler\|having been infected with a new and thus incurable strain of anthrax}}, calls Garcia to have her record a message from him so that his mother will be able to hear his voice in the event that he does not survive his ordeal. Both Garcia and Reid tear up, but are then forced to get back to work almost immediately. {{quote\|'''Reid:''' "Hi mom, this is Spencer. I just, uh, really want you to know that I love you and I need you to know that I spend every day of my life proud to be your son."}} If {{spoiler\|Hayley and Jack having to be taken into protective custody and allowed no contact with Hotch}} in "Nameless, Faceless" didn't invoke tears, the scene in "Reckoner" where Hotch is {{spoiler\|watching his son on the swings through ''a webcam on a car parked ten feet away''}} will. When {{spoiler\|Garcia choked back tears as Hotch says "Happy birthday, buddy", to Jack on the camera}}. The ending of "The Big Wheel" where the killer (who is incapable of controlling his severe OCD and wants to stop killing, but can't) takes his friend, a little blind boy, to a ferris wheel, the boy's greatest desire being to ride one. As he is describing the view the killer {{spoiler\|slowly dies from a gunshot wound he had sustained earlier, telling the boy that years earlier he had killed the kid's mother and that he is sorry, also telling the kid (who a few scenes ago had admitted to wishing he was dead) to never think like that again and that he's special}}. The ending of "Damaged" when Rossi says goodbye to the Galen siblings, having finally caught the man who murdered their parents twenty years earlier. "100". All of it. Especially {{spoiler\|THAT phone call, where Hotch listens to Foyet torturing his ex-wife and son, and as Foyet kills Haley}}. If you weren't crying then, you sure were when {{spoiler\|Hotch gets to the house, finds Haley's body, and [[Despair Event Horizon\|beats Foyet to death with his own hands]], then sobs over Haley's body while Morgan holds him back}}. The entire episode seems to delight in ripping your heart out through your chest. And continuing the heartbreak, "Slave of Duty", especially {{spoiler\|the funeral, Hotch's eulogy and quoting from "Pirates of Penzance", the team having to leave the funeral to work a case, and Jack watching the home movies of himself and Haley, so he doesn't forget her.}} The 2nd half of "Uncanny Valley," where {{spoiler\|the unsub is a childlike, severely disturbed young woman whose [[Complete Monster\|psychiatrist father]] raped her and subjected her to electroshock treatment as a child; when he took away her treasured doll collection, she started kidnapping real live replacements, dressing them up and keeping them paralyzed with drugs. When Reid comes for her, carrying her original collection and promising that no matter where she goes, no one will ''ever'' take them away again, she ''breaks the fuck down'', and so does everyone watching.}} * "Don't leave me." The end "Mosley Lane" when the parents of Steven, {{spoiler\|-who was abducted as an eight year old, seven years prior to the episode- discover that he had been alive right up until ''the day before'' the BAU cracked the case and found the missing children. Stevens parents (understandably) break down.}} As does the audience. The end of "Normal" is gut-wrenching at least. The unsub {{spoiler\|was going nuts after his youngest daughter died after being hit by a car and was convinced everyone blamed him. The climax of the episode has him forcing his family to get into his car to run away where his motive is revealed, and he snaps and crashes his car at high speed after his wife screams at him for killing their little girl. He's caught when he gets out of the wreck and tells the police his family are still inside... and he realizes they were [[Dead All Along]], he'd already killed them}}. He [[My God, What Have I Done?\|completely breaks down]] when he remembers and is arrested screaming "I'm sorry, I'm sorry". * ''Exit Wound'' has not only one of the ''[[Woobie]]st'' Unsubs ever {{spoiler\|who kills people who leave town because of SEVERE abandonment issues}} and has a home life that redefines 'terrible' but some really sad scenes as Garcia staying with a severely wounded victim of said killer as he dies, and then at the end explains that she did it because when she was shot she thought the last face she was ever going to see was her murderer's, and it was such a horrible feeling nobody deserves to feel. Also, when suspect Josh is told that while he had been locked up, the serial killer struck again, which means it's not him. Unfortunately, the victim {{spoiler\|was his mother, his lone surviving relative}}. Kudos to [[Generation Kill\|Eric]] [[The Killing\|Ladin]] (Josh). * "Elephant's Memory". It's bad enough that the killer, a brilliant but severely learning-disabled teenage boy intent on systematically wiping out the people who've made his life a living hell, is going to hit a nerve with anyone who ever had a bad day in high school; the real kicker, though, is the scenes of him and his girlfriend -- the only reason in the world he has to stay alive -- hiding out on a neighbor's property and talking about how one day they're going to have a house just like this... * Depending on where the turns of events in the second half of "Open Season" leave you, the episode can be downright agonizing to watch. In particular, a tip of the hat to Gideon, [[You Are Not Alone\|thank you for that, sir]]. * Coakley realising that {{spoiler\|he was responsible for his wife's death, resulting in him driving off the cliff. As he goes over the edge, he thinks he's holding his wife's hand again.}} * While not the most extreme of tearjerkers, the woman in the beginning of ''Ashes and Dust'' has her own depressingly optimistic moment. She has suffered burns so severe across her body that Hotch tells Prentiss that they should lie about the death of her family, because she will not survive to find out otherwise. Prentiss is barely able to keep up the lie without crying, and the woman passes her final few moments of life believing that she and her family will live [[Happily Ever After]]. * The soldier in "Outfoxed" coming home from the war to discover that his whole family has been murdered while he as away. ~~== Lists that need to be integrated into existing Tear Jerker pages ==~~ === [[Dead Like Me/Tear Jerker]] === * ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' was full of them. Line 40 ⟶ 168: ** The {{spoiler\|euthanasia scene in season 3}}. == E-H == === [[EastEnders/Tear Jerker]] === * ''[[Eastenders]]'' has had its moments too. Zoe calling Kat 'Mum' for the first time when they said their goodbyes just before Zoe caught her train out of the series. Line 225 ⟶ 354: * In 'Symphony of Illumination' {{spoiler\|Robin is narrating the episode to her and Barney's future kids. Until she finds out she can't ever have children. "So I can't have kids. Big deal. This way, there's no one to hold me back in life. No one to keep me from travelling where I wanna travel, no one getting in the way of my career. If you wanna know the truth of it, I'm glad you guys aren't real." And the kids fade away.}} == I-R == === [[Inspector Lynley/Tear Jerker]] === * When {{spoiler\|Barbara Havers is shot in the abdomen, throwing herself in front of a bullet to save someone else}}. Even though [[Like You Would Really Do It\|you know they wouldn't really do it]], ''Lynley'' doesn't know, and his reaction is absolutely heartbreaking. Line 284 ⟶ 414: * In the final scene of the Season 4 premiere, Connor wakes up to find Abby already up. He correctly deduces that she's still used to keeping watch {{spoiler\|from when they were stuck in the Cretaceous}}. That fact just hammers home the absolute ''hell'' those two went through. == S-Z == === [[Scrubs/Tear Jerker]] === * The ''[[Scrubs]]'' episodes "My Old Lady" and "My Screw Up" are generally the most tear-jerking of the series. Line 530 ⟶ 661: ---- <div style="font-size:smaller;"> ~~<small>~~ :Back to [[:{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] :Back to [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] </~~small~~div> {{reflist}} [[Category:{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]