History TearJerker / TheMentalist

* Lisbon finding a tape of Jane at the end of "Every Rose has its Thorn." It may double as a ShipSinking[[note]]although [[TheyDo it's not permanent]][[/note]].

* Lisbon finding a tape of Jane at the end of "Every Rose has its Thorn." It may double as a ShipSinking.

** Probably not really a ShipSinking, since it's likely that the woman Jane was describing was his late wife (which only makes it that much more of a TearJerker). Especially given [[spoiler:[[TheyDo how things ultimately work out]] for Jane and Lisbon.]]

-->'''Patrick''':[[spoiler:She was.]]
** Probably not really a ShipSinking, since it's likely that Jane was describing his late wife. Especially given [[spoiler:[[TheyDo how things ultimately work out]] for Jane and Lisbon.]]

** Probably not really a ShipSinking, since it's likely that Jane was describing his late wife, especially given that eventually [[spoiler:TheyDo.]]

** Probably not really a ShipSinking, since it's likely that Jane was describing his late wife. (The Season 6 finale ultimately confirms this.

-->'''Patrick''':[[spoiler: She was.]]

* Jane breaking down, saying that he cannot keep up following Red John and telling Lisbon that he might just stop. This is after burning all the information he has on Red John and basically drinking himself to sleep.

** A bit related, but notice how in "Rose-Colored Glasses", when Jane is reeling off instruments he thinks Lisbon might've played, ''he never says piano''. [[spoiler: His daughter was a piano prodigy.]]

* The episode "Ruby Slippers".

* Jane breaking down, saying that he cannot keep up following Red John and telling Lisbon that he might just stop. This is after burning all the information he has on Red John and basically drink himself to sleep.

* When Jane met [[spoiler: an accomplice pretending to be Red John. Especially when he describes to Jane what they smelled like before they died.]]

* Grace Van Pelt talking a suspect out of suicide, and talking about [[spoiler: how her sister killed herself, and how helpless she felt afterwards]]. Van Pelt isn't usually a big character, just quietly competent and the focus of Rigsby's utter adoration, but here she was so ''raw''. You're reminded just how good all of the leads on this show are.

* The look on Lisbon's face when she pleads for Jane to let him help him. Her expression alone is bait for waterworks.

* The death of [[spoiler: The coroner]] in the episode 'Red Mile'. Watching him slip away while Jane focuses his attention on a simple coin trick is heartbreaking.

* In "is Red Right Hand", [[spoiler: Bosco's death. He finally admits that he loves Lisbon, which manages to be heartbreaking even though he's ''married'', and then she tells him that she loves him too while trying not to cry, and failing, despite being the strongest person on television, and then he dies and she's so heartbroken.]]
* Jane in Redline, talking to a victim's boyfriend about the death of his girlfriend. The way Lisbon doesn't even stop him... Well, it just shows how subtle this show can be.

** A bit related, but notice how in Rose-Colored Glasses, when Jane is reeling off instruments he thinks Lisbon might've played, ''he never says piano''. [[spoiler: His daughter was a piano prodigy.]]
* The ending of [[spoiler: The Red Mile. As the coroner slowly passes away from suicide (he was terminally ill), Jane distracts him with a coin disappearance magic trick to keep his mind off of it. It's pretty heartbreaking.]]

* [[spoiler: Bosco's deathbed confession of his love for Lisbon, and her reply. I didn't even ''like'' Bosco, and I was on the verge of tears.]]

* In an extremely rare moment, we see Jane cry in private after a supposed psychic calls him out on the one thing he had been wondering since the murder of his family: Had his daughter been awake when she was killed?

* At the end of "Seeing Red", Jane gets a visit from Kristina Frye, a "clairvoyant" who Jane has consistently said he doesn't believe in. She walks up to him as she's leaving the CBI and tells him [[spoiler: his daughter was asleep when she died, and she didn't feel a thing.]] This was one of the things he'd always wondered about, and he breaks down crying in the interrogation room. That in itself is a Tearjerker, but it gets better when [[spoiler: Van Pelt, who'd argued with him over the existence of an afterlife, closes the door to give him privacy.]]

* So much of Crimson Hat. Jane's [[spoiler: fake meltdown]], culminating in him getting beat up in an alley. Worse, his [[spoiler: fake-killing Lisbon]]. He hugs her, looks close to tears, and says [[spoiler: "Good luck, Theresa. ''[[WhamLine Love you.]'']"]]

* So much of Crimson Hat. Jane's [[spoiler: fake meltdown]], culminating in him getting beat up in an alley. Worse, his [[spoiler: fake-killing Lisbon]]. He hugs her, looks close to tears, and says [[spoiler: "Good luck, Theresa. ''[[WhamLine I love you.]'']"]]

* So much of Crimson Hat. Jane's [[spoiler: fake meltdown]], culminating in him getting beat up in an alley. Worse, his [[spoiler: fake-killing Lisbon]]. He hugs her, looks close to tears, and says [[spoiler: "Good luck, Theresa. [[WhamLine ''I love you.'']]"]]