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* In "The Foot in the Foreclosure" Booth's grandfather, [[BadassGrandpa Hank]], is introduced. He's a constant source of snarky remarks and awesomeness. Also, he [[spoiler: accidentally burns down Booth's kitchen while making dinner]]. His speech to Booth after [[spoiler: the firefighters leave]] is really emotional. You can hear in his voice that he ''knows'' that now the roles have switched and his ''grandson'' will have to take care of ''him''. This hits a little too close to home for those who have seen their grandparents needing help to do previously mundane things.
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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]]. Brennan's reaction and struggle to tell Wendell is also more of a Tear Jerker when you think about what happened to Zack and Vincent, two other interns Brennan valued the most. Another Tear Jerker (which triples up as it is both a Crowing Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) is when Wendell says he [[spoiler: doesn't think he wants to seek treatment]] until Booth tells him that he still has a life ahead of him with a wife and kids.

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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]]. Brennan's reaction and struggle to tell Wendell is also more of a Tear Jerker when you think about what happened to Zack and Vincent, two other interns Brennan valued the most. Another Tear Jerker (which triples up as it is both a Crowing Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) is when Wendell says he [[spoiler: doesn't think he wants to seek treatment]] until Booth tells him that he still has a life ahead of him with a wife and kids.
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* Hodgins learns about [[spoiler:his estranged brother, hidden away in a full-time psychiatric care facility by his parents before he was born.]] He goes to visit him and they're having a nice conversation, when Jeffrey has a psychotic break and starts ranting about his delusions. The look on Hodgins's face is ...

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* In 9x15, "The Heiress in the Hil", Hodgins learns about [[spoiler:his estranged brother, hidden away in a full-time psychiatric care facility by his parents before he was born.]] He goes to visit him and they're having a nice conversation, when Jeffrey has a psychotic break and starts ranting about his delusions. The look on Hodgins's face is ...
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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]]. Brennan's reaction and struggle to tell Wendell is also more of a Tear Jerker when you think about what happened to Zack and Vincent, two other interns Brennan valued the most. Another Tear Jerker (which triples up as it is both a Crowing Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) is when Wendell says he [[spoiler: doesn't think he wants to seek treatment]] until Booth tells him that he still has a life ahead of him with a wife and kids.

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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]]. Brennan's reaction and struggle to tell Wendell is also more of a Tear Jerker when you think about what happened to Zack and Vincent, two other interns Brennan valued the most. Another Tear Jerker (which triples up as it is both a Crowing Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) is when Wendell says he [[spoiler: doesn't think he wants to seek treatment]] until Booth tells him that he still has a life ahead of him with a wife and kids.kids.
* Hodgins learns about [[spoiler:his estranged brother, hidden away in a full-time psychiatric care facility by his parents before he was born.]] He goes to visit him and they're having a nice conversation, when Jeffrey has a psychotic break and starts ranting about his delusions. The look on Hodgins's face is ...
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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]]. Brennan's reaction and struggle to tell Wendell is also more of a Tear Jerker when you think about what happened to Zack and Vincent, two other interns Brennan valued the most. Another Tear Jerker (which triples up as it is both a Crowing Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) is when Wendell says he [[spoiler doesn't think he wants to seek treatment]] until Booth tells him that he still has a life ahead of him with a wife and kids.

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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]]. Brennan's reaction and struggle to tell Wendell is also more of a Tear Jerker when you think about what happened to Zack and Vincent, two other interns Brennan valued the most. Another Tear Jerker (which triples up as it is both a Crowing Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) is when Wendell says he [[spoiler [[spoiler: doesn't think he wants to seek treatment]] until Booth tells him that he still has a life ahead of him with a wife and kids.

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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing's_sarcoma Ewing's sarcoma]].]]
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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing's_sarcoma Ewing's sarcoma]].]]
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sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]]. Brennan's reaction and struggle to tell Wendell is also more of a Tear Jerker when you think about what happened to Zack and Vincent, two other interns Brennan valued the most. Another Tear Jerker (which triples up as it is both a Crowing Moment of Awesome and a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming) is when Wendell says he [[spoiler doesn't think he wants to seek treatment]] until Booth tells him that he still has a life ahead of him with a wife and kids.
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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we found out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma.]]

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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we found find out that [[spoiler:Wendell has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewing's_sarcoma Ewing's sarcoma.sarcoma]].]]
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* Season 9 episode "Big in the Phillipines," where we found out that [[spoiler:Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma.]]
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* Season 9's episode "The Spark in the Park". The victim's father is the physics-professor version of Dr. Brennan, extremely intelligent but with few apparent social graces. At the end, Brennan comes back to check on him, and he is writing vector calculus equations, each one representing a different phase of his daughter's life, starting with "At rest in her crib", going through crawling, walking, somersaults, ice skating, her gymnastics career... and finally again, at rest.

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* Season 9's episode "The Spark in the Park". The victim's father is the physics-professor version of Dr. Brennan, extremely intelligent but with few apparent social graces. At the end, Brennan comes back to check on him, and he is writing vector calculus equations, equations. Bones realizes and the professor explains that each one representing represents a different phase of his daughter's life, starting with "At rest in her crib", going through crawling, walking, somersaults, ice skating, her gymnastics career... and finally again, at rest. Bones tearfully remarks that this is "the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...more beautiful than a speech, more beautiful than a photograph"...
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* Season 9's episode "The Spark in the Park". The victim's father is the physics-professor version of Dr. Brennan, extremely intelligent but with few apparent social graces. At the end, Brennan comes back to check on him, and he is writing vector calculus equations, each one representing a different phase of his daughter's life, starting with "At rest in her crib", going through crawling, walking, somersaults, ice skating, her gymnastics career... and finally again, at rest.
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* The part in "The Archeologist in the Cocoon" where the team demonstrates the fate of the Neanderthal/Homo sapien remains from 25,000 years ago: [[spoiler:It was a family murder scene - a homo sapien mother, a neanderthal father, and a hybrid daughter were killed by a homo sapien interloper. The mother and father both died killing the interloper, while the 3 year old daughter was left to starve to death because neither species would adopt her. Their only comfort was that the father crawled to and cradled the mother while he bled to death and she suffocated, and the daughter curled up with them at the end, so that they could all be together.]]
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* From the season 8 finale, "The Secret in the Siege". [[spoiler:Booth, who originally accepted Bones' marriage proposal, had to call it off due to Pelant threatening to kill innocent people if he didn't (or if he told Bones about it). Bones' reaction (once she gets out of Booth's view) is ''heartbreaking''.]]

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** Also from "Aliens in a Spaceship" is when they realize that [[spoiler:one of the brothers had killed himself in hopes of giving the other brother enough air to survive.]]

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** Also from * From "Aliens in a Spaceship" is when they realize that [[spoiler:one of the twin brothers had killed himself in hopes of giving the other brother enough air to survive.]]]]
* "Aliens in a Spaceship": 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 downright TERRIFYING.



* The entirety of "The Ghost in the Machine". It's told from the point of view from the victim - A fourteen-year-old boy. Just his age itself is sad, but when you hear what everyone has to say to him (Or his skull, rather) and realize that he hears it too...
** Hell, Brennan even cries for him. And she '''never''' cries over victims.

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* The entirety of "The Ghost in the Machine". It's told from the point of view from the victim - A fourteen-year-old boy. Just his age itself is sad, but when you hear what everyone has to say to him (Or his skull, rather) and realize that he hears it too...
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too... Hell, Brennan even cries for him. And she '''never''' cries over victims.



** In a sad but also heartwarming way, the fact that he tells her she's doing great. Coming from [[spoiler:Sweets]] who knows what it's like to be adopted, that's probably the highest praise he could give her, and she doesn't even know or understand.
* "The Man in the Fallout Shelter": The team's brief visits with their families, separated by a glass wall, while they're quarantined in the Jeffersonian during Christmas, set to "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Tori Amos.

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** * In a sad but also heartwarming way, the fact that he tells her she's doing great. Coming from [[spoiler:Sweets]] who knows what it's like to be adopted, that's probably the highest praise he could give her, and she doesn't even know or understand.
* "The Man in the Fallout Shelter": The team's brief visits with their families, separated by a glass wall, while they're quarantined in the Jeffersonian during Christmas, set to "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Tori Amos.Music/ToriAmos.
* 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.
* "The Man in the Fallout Shelter": Towards the end, with Bones and the present.
* "The Man in the Fallout Shelter": "Don't you wish someone had told ''you'' that your parents were dead -- just so you can finally stop wondering?" --- "Yes."



** Just how many times can [[spoiler: Series/{{Angel}} lose his kid?]]
*** Cam breaking down in tears while telling Hodgins that the hair recovered from [[spoiler:Dr. Brennan's]] trunk matches the victim's.

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** Just how many times can [[spoiler: Series/{{Angel}} lose his kid?]]
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* Cam breaking down in tears while telling Hodgins that the hair recovered from [[spoiler:Dr. Brennan's]] trunk matches the victim's.



** Finn, Colin, Fisher, Arastoo & Wendell telling each other their memories of the day, and when they first learnt of the attacks.
*** A conversation that probably led every viewer [[http://xkcd.com/647/ old enough to remember]] to recall what they were doing when they heard. But what got this troper was the part where Finn said that he was nine. This troper was about the same age when 9/11 happened, and Finn's comment drove home the fact that the little kids back then are now adults [[FridgeHorror who barely remember an America at peace.]]
* The episode where the spirit of the dead 14 year old boy who just wanted to impress his crush is very Tear Jerky to anyone. The spiritual element, the "kid" element, the future he could have had, everything. It's written to make you cry.

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** * Finn, Colin, Fisher, Arastoo & Wendell telling each other their memories of the day, and when they first learnt of the attacks.
*** A conversation that probably led every viewer [[http://xkcd.com/647/ old enough to remember]] to recall what they were doing when they heard. But what got this troper was the part where Finn said that he was nine. This troper was about the same age when
9/11 happened, and Finn's comment drove home the fact that the little kids back then are now adults [[FridgeHorror who barely remember an America at peace.]]
attacks.
* The episode where the spirit of the dead 14 year old boy who just wanted to impress his crush is very Tear Jerky to anyone. The spiritual element, the "kid" element, the future he could have had, everything. It's written to make you cry.cry.
* "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]]. His words were so touching, you'd have to be inhuman to not tear up at that.
--> [[spoiler: "These will be the final words I broadcast. And I hope they're the words you remember the best. Peace on Earth."]]
* 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 AdultFear 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..."
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** Finn, Colin, Fisher, Arastoo & Wendell telling each other their memories of the day, and when they first learnt of the attacks.
*** What got this troper was the part where Finn said that he was nine. This troper was about the same age when 9/11 happened, and Finn's comment drove home the fact that the little kids back then are now adults [[FridgeHorror who barely remember an America at peace.]]

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*** What A conversation that probably led every viewer [[http://xkcd.com/647/ old enough to remember]] to recall what they were doing when they heard. But what got this troper was the part where Finn said that he was nine. This troper was about the same age when 9/11 happened, and Finn's comment drove home the fact that the little kids back then are now adults [[FridgeHorror who barely remember an America at peace.]]
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*** What got this troper was the part where Finn said that he was nine. This troper was about the same age when 9/11 happened, and Finn's comment drove home the fact that the little kids back then are now adults [[FridgeHorror who barely remember an America at peace.]]
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** Finn, Colin, Fisher, Arastoo & Wendell telling each other their memories of the day, and when they first learnt of the attacks.
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* Booth's eulogy for a homeless veteran [[spoiler:who died rescuing three people from the Pentagon on 9/11]].

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* Booth's eulogy for a homeless veteran [[spoiler:who died rescuing three people from the Pentagon on 9/11]].9/11]].
* The episode where the spirit of the dead 14 year old boy who just wanted to impress his crush is very Tear Jerky to anyone. The spiritual element, the "kid" element, the future he could have had, everything. It's written to make you cry.
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* The entirety of "The Ghost in the Machine". It's told from the point of view from the victim - A fourteen-year-old boy. Just his age itself is sad, but when you hear what everyone has to say to him (Or his skull, rather) and realize that he hears it too...
** Hell, Brennan even cries for him. And she '''never''' cries over victims.
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** Just how many times can [[spoiler: {{Angel}} lose his kid?]]

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** Cam breaking down in tears while telling Hodgins that the hair recovered from [[spoiler:Dr. Brennan's]] trunk matches the victim's.

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** Just how many times can [[spoiler: {{Angel}} lose his kid?]]
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** Cam breaking down in tears while telling Hodgins that the hair recovered from [[spoiler:Dr. Brennan's]] trunk matches the victim's.victim's.
* Booth's eulogy for a homeless veteran [[spoiler:who died rescuing three people from the Pentagon on 9/11]].
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* [[spoiler: Cam talking to Sweets about Michelle in "The Babe In The Bar". She asks him why she should be going to him for advice about her adopted daughter when he doesn't even take care of a pet. Come "Mayhem on a Cross", we find out that he was adopted by a loving couple when he was a child, and that he knows better than anyone why she should listen to him.]]
** In a sad but also heartwarming way, the fact that he tells her she's doing great. Coming from [[spoiler:Sweets]] who knows what it's like to be adopted, that's probably the highest praise he could give her, and she doesn't even know or understand.
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* In the season seven finale, Brennan [[spoiler:takes Christine and goes on the run after being framed for a murder]]. Booth manages to just catch the car driving off and says in the most heartbreaking little voice [[spoiler:"That's my family..."]]

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* In the season seven finale, Brennan [[spoiler:takes Christine and goes on the run after being framed for a murder]]. Booth manages to just catch the car driving off and says in the most heartbreaking little voice [[spoiler:"That's my family..."]]"]]
** Cam breaking down in tears while telling Hodgins that the hair recovered from [[spoiler:Dr. Brennan's]] trunk matches the victim's.
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* In the season seven finale,, Brennan [[spoiler:takes Christine and goes on the run after being framed for a murder]]. Booth manages to just catch the car driving off and says in the most heartbreaking little voice [[spoiler:"That's my family..."]]

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* In the season seven finale,, finale, Brennan [[spoiler:takes Christine and goes on the run after being framed for a murder]]. Booth manages to just catch the car driving off and says in the most heartbreaking little voice [[spoiler:"That's my family..."]]
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* Cam reading out the names of the slaves who died in the sinking of the Amalia Rose as their portraits light up one by one behind her is incredibly moving, especially when she chokes up on reaching the one with her great-grandmother's name.

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* Cam reading out the names of the slaves who died in the sinking of the Amalia Rose as their portraits light up one by one behind her is incredibly moving, especially when she chokes up on reaching the one with her great-grandmother's name.name.
* In the season seven finale,, Brennan [[spoiler:takes Christine and goes on the run after being framed for a murder]]. Booth manages to just catch the car driving off and says in the most heartbreaking little voice [[spoiler:"That's my family..."]]
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** Also from "Aliens in a Spaceship" is when they realize that [[spoiler:one of the brothers had killed himself in hopes of giving the other brother enough air to survive.]]
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* "The Man in the Fallout Shelter": The team's brief visits with their families, separated by a glass wall, while they're quarantined in the Jeffersonian during Christmas, set to "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Tori Amos.

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* "The Man in the Fallout Shelter": The team's brief visits with their families, separated by a glass wall, while they're quarantined in the Jeffersonian during Christmas, set to "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Tori Amos.Amos.
* Cam reading out the names of the slaves who died in the sinking of the Amalia Rose as their portraits light up one by one behind her is incredibly moving, especially when she chokes up on reaching the one with her great-grandmother's name.
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* The episode The Plain in the Prodigy made this troper cry so hard it has never been rewatched since it's initial viewing and it still makes me choke up just thinking about it.

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* The episode The Plain in the Prodigy made this troper cry so hard it has never been rewatched since it's initial viewing and it still makes me choke up just thinking about it.it.
* "The Man in the Fallout Shelter": The team's brief visits with their families, separated by a glass wall, while they're quarantined in the Jeffersonian during Christmas, set to "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" sung by Tori Amos.
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** Brennan going through the logical process that led Zack to do what he did... [[spoiler: and then pointing out that he risked everything so that he wouldn't hurt Hodgins.]]
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** That is the ''only'' episode this troper has ever seen (it was for work) and she was getting misty as well. Geez.

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** That is the ''only'' episode this troper has ever seen (it was for work) and she was getting misty as well. Geez.Geez.
* The episode The Plain in the Prodigy made this troper cry so hard it has never been rewatched since it's initial viewing and it still makes me choke up just thinking about it.

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