History Tearjerker / Leverage

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* At the end of "The Toy Job", [[spoiler: Nate's story to the team about a trumpet he had as a child. He eventually gave to Sam--who got sick and died before he could learn to play it. Eliot and Sophie both looked like they were about to cry.]]

* The flashback in "The Second David Job" where Nate watches his son die (complete with a particularly harrowing use of the BigNo) certainly qualifies, especially since we as an audience know ''exactly'' what it did to him. The fact that the same flashback is shown several other times doesn't make it any less painful to watch.

* At the end of "The Toy Job", [[spoiler: Nate's story to the team about his son. Eliot and Sophie both looked like they were about to cry.]]

* "The Lost Heir Job" actually gave a tragic backstory to a character who in almost any other episode would have been the VillainOfTheWeek. [[spoiler: CorruptCorporateExecutive falls for the stripper he got pregnant and plans to marry her. His lawyer who cleans up after him doesn't want the scandal and sends her off to Las Vegas, where she has their daughter and dies of cancer two years later. The guy manages to track his now HappilyAdopted daughter down and begins to gradually build up a relationship with her again through her charity. But then his lawyer cuts off contact with anyone and he never gets to explain anything to his daughter. The last time he sees his daughter he mistakes her for her mother who he thought had abandonned him and is thrilled to see her.]]

* "The Lost Heir Job" actually gave a tragic backstory to a character who in almost any other episode would have been the VillainOfTheWeek. [[spoiler: CorruptCorporateExecutive falls for the stripper he got pregnant and plans to marry her. His lawyer who cleans up after him doesn't want the scandal and sends her off to Las Vegas were she has their daughter and dies of cancer two years later. The guy manages to track his now HappilyAdopted daughter down and begins to gradually build up a relationship with her again through her charity. But then his lawyer cuts off contact with anyone and he never gets to explain anything to his daughter. The last time he sees his daughter he mistakes her for her mother who he thought had abandonned him and is thrilled to see her.]]

* "The Lost Heir Job" actually gave a tragic backstory to a character who in almost any other episode would have been the VillainOfTheWeek. [[spoiler: CorruptCorporateExecutive falls for the stripper he got pregnant and plans to marry her. His lawyer who cleans up after him doesn't want the scandal and sends her off to vegas were she has their daughter and dies of cancer two years later. The guy manages to track his now HappilyAdopted daughter down and begins to gradually build up a relationship with her again through her charity. But then his lawyer cuts off contact with anyone and he never gets to explain anything to his daughter. The last time he sees his daughter he mistakes her for her mother who he thought had abandonned him and is thrilled to see her.]]

* "The Lost Heir Job" actually gave a tragic backstory to a character who in almost any other episode would have been TheVillainOfTheWeek. [[spoiler: CorruptCorporateExecutive falls for the stripper he got pregnant and plans to marry her. His lawyer who cleans up after him doesn't want the scandal and sends her off to vegas were she has their daughter and dies of cancer two years later. The guy manages to track his now HappilyAdopted daughter down and begins to gradually build up a relationship with her again through her charity. But then his lawyer cuts off contact with anyone and he never gets to explain anything to his daughter. The last time he sees his daughter he mistakes her for her mother who he thought had abandonned him and is thrilled to see her.]]

** The story of her brothers death gets even worse when you remember she's also an orphan.

* The Lost Heir Job actually gave a tragic backstory to a character who in almost any other episode would have been TheVillainOfTheWeek. [[spoiler: CoruptCorperateExecutive falls for the stipper he got pregnant and plans to marry her. His lawyer who cleans up after him doesn't want the scandal and sends her off to vegas were she has their daughter and dies of cancer two years later. The guy manages to track his now HappilyAdopted daughter down and begins to gradually build up a relationship with her again through her charity. But then his lawyer cuts off contact with anyone and he never gets to explain anything to his daughter. The last time he sees his daughter he mistakes her for her mother who he thought had abandonned him and is thrilled to see her.]]

* Sophie and the crew in the climax of "The San Lorenzo Job" to turn the people of the titular country against corrupt President Ribera.

* Invoked by Sophie and the crew in the climax of "The San Lorenzo Job" to turn the people of the titular country against corrupt President Ribera.

* "The Broken Wing Job", when Parker goes through the voice mail of the doctor who orders Chicken Parmesan every day. The thief thinks she can crack some jokes at the guy for always eating one bite before returning it, [[JerkassRealization hears some unsettling news...]]

* "The Broken Wing Job", when Parker goes through the voice mail of the doctor who orders Chicken Parmesan every day, and Parker, thinking she can crack some jokes at the guy for always eating one bite before returning it, [[JerkassRealization hears some unsettling news...]]

* Dorothy!Parker's face when Charlie!Hardison jumps on the train, leaving her forever, in "The Van Gogh Job."
** Not to mention the fact that Dorothy had already died several years prior, meaning Charlie will never be reunited with her in life.
* Season 4 in general is shaping up to be filled with tearjerkers galore.

* "The Maltese Falcon Job", The season two finale. After spiraling further and further out of control following the loss of Sophie, Nate finds himself at the mercy of his rival Sterling who wants to exchange a gun smuggler he's pursuing and Nate's team in exchange for Nate's freedom--because Nate is not like them. In the end, Nate captures the smuggler, then exchange him for his teammates' freedom. While the team escapes, an FBI mook asks "Who is this guy?" It's Nate, bleeding and exhausted. For the last two years, he prided himself for being above his team. Now, he laughs and says, "I'm a thief."

* "The Grave Danger Job": Parker talking Hardison through [[spoiler: being buried alive]].

* The entire plot of "The D.B. Cooper Job". Over Nate's objections, the team helps [=McSweeten=]'s dying father, an FBI agent, with the one case he could never solve--the RealLife [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper D.B. Cooper skyjacking]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:Cooper was actually Steve Reynolds--the elder [=McSweeten=]'s own partner, whom he himself recruited into the FBI. While [=McSweeten=] never caught "Cooper", he did something even better by turning him into a good person.]] While this plot is heartwarming, it also belongs here because [[spoiler:the elder [=McSweeten=] dies without realizing the truth.]]

* "The Maltese Falcon Job." The season two finale, Nate after spiraling further and further out of control after the loss of Sophie. Finds himself at the mercy of his rival Sterling who wants to exchange a Gun Smuggler his after and Nate's team in exchange for Nate's freedom . Because Nate is not like them. In the end Nate has captured the Gun Smuggler and in a gambit leveraged his way to exchange his capture for his teammates freedom. While the team escapes a FBI mook asks "Who is this guy?" It's Nate, bleeding and exhausted. For the last two years, he prided himself for being above his team. Now, he laughs and says, "I'm a thief."

* The death of [[spoiler: Jimmy Ford]] in "The Radio Job."
-->[[spoiler:'''Jimmy:''']] Tell them stories about me. Tell them...tell them how much [[spoiler:Jimmy Ford loves his son]].
** One of the flashbacks has a particularly harrowing use of the BigNo.

* "The Maltese Falcon Job." The season two finale, Nate after spiraling further and further out of control after the loss of Sophie. Finds himself at the mercy of his rival Sterling who wants to exchange a Gun Smuggler his after and Nate's team in exchange for Nate's freedom . Because Nate is not like them. In the end Nate has captured the Gun Smuggler and in a gambit leveraged his way to exchange his capture for his teammates freedom. While the team escapes a FBI mooks asks "Who is this guy?" Nate, bleeding and exhausted. Who for the last two years prided himself for being above his team laughs and says, "I'm a thief."

* The flashbacks to the death of Nate's son, slowly parceled out throughout the first season.

* The flashback to the death of Nathan's son Sam in "The Second David Job", complete with one of the most harrowing uses of the BigNo ever.

-->[[spoiler:'''Jimmy:''']] Tell them stories about me. Tell them...tell them how much [[spoiler:Jimmy Ford loves his son]].