Line #6 TearJerker/Dallas


1	* In ''The Early Years'', Jock goes to visit his mentally-unstable wife, Amanda, after Ellie asks him to marry her. He tearfully tells Amanda that while he still loves her, he'll have to get a divorce because he has to marry someone else. Amanda is blissfully unaware of what is happening, and simply stares out at the sky as he tells her that he'll always support her no matter what.
2	* J.R. going through his emotional turmoil after confirming [[spoiler:Jock Ewing]]'s death.
3	* [[spoiler:Bobby Ewing]]'s death, even if it did [[TropeCodifier codify]] [[spoiler:AllJustADream]].
4	** While everyone else had the usual emotions, J.R.'s expressions were priceless, and solidly in the "this can't be happening" range.
5	-->'''J.R.:''' Don't do this to me, [[spoiler:Bobby]]. Don't leave me.
6	** And him that night taking it out on Sue Ellen, who was out and about during [[spoiler:Bobby]]'s death and didn't find out until right then. [[MenDontCry J.R. spends the entirety of the Season 8/9 premiere trying not to break down]], [[ManlyTears only letting go when he's alone]] with [[spoiler:Bobby]]'s coffin right after his funeral.
7	** Also Pam blaming herself afterward.
8	* In 2012's "Revelations", J.R. to an unconscious and critically ill Bobby:
9	-->'''J.R.:''' Come on, wake up, you hear me? Wake up and you get better. And you keep fighting. You keep fighting me! Now I'm gonna tell you something you never heard me say before: I love you Bobby, and I don't know who I'd be without you.
10	* Bobby breaking down and crying after [[spoiler:J.R.]]'s funeral.
11	** Just [[spoiler:J.R.]]'s funeral in general.
12	* Pambecca miscarrying her twins. Cliff's move of ordering the explosion on the rig, even after finding out she was on there, definitely means he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon
13	* Six words: "I shot your father, John Ross."
14	* Cally, in the Season 14 (and original series) finale "Condundrum." In the alternate reality (resulting from J.R. never being born and thus, never having met Cally), she remained in Haleyville, Alabama. Because of her illiterate background, she is forced into a sham marriage with a drunken mill worker named Jeb, who savagely abuses her at every turn, and forces her to do chores on their ramshackle farm. That's bad enough, but the real clincher: One night, while on a drunken rant after being warned by his boss to either stop showing up drunk or risk losing his job, he beats Cally (for not having supper ready). When the kids start crying, Jeb threatens to beat the life out of them. Cally has enough and, grabbing the shotgun, tells him he'd better not or he'll really regret it ... but Jeb begins advancing on her with his belt, until she shoots him dead. J.R. -- who had been watching the whole scene with his "angel," Adam -- is horrified, but then Adam reminds him that in their remote community, women are still considered property and have less than zero legal rights ... and unable to afford even an incompetent attorney, she is quickly convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
15	* This, for John Ross, after Sue Ellen wrongly suspects him of sleeping with his secretary Candice, and later lashes out at him [[spoiler:,while drunk, no less]].
16	---> '''Sue Ellen''': Once a cheater, always a cheater. I should have learned that lesson the first time around.
17	---> '''John Ross''': You don’t know what you’re talking about, Mama. Yeah, yeah, Candace was in my office and the crazy bitch was all over me. And I turned her down!
18	---> '''Sue Ellen''': BULLSHIT! I know what I saw!
19	---> '''John Ross''': You don’t know, because you’re drunk! I am telling you the truth!
20	---> '''Sue Ellen''': Even drunk, I know the sound of a lie, and you are an expert at it, just like your father.
21	---> '''John Ross''': I AM NOT MY FATHER!!! Are you so hell-bent on punishing J.R. for his sins that you’re willing to destroy the relationship with your only son? Damn it, I need you Mom, and you sided with them. I’m your son. You remember that? Or are you too damn addled to remember who I am? [Reaches for the bottle, holds it up] Why are you doing this to yourself again, huh?
22	---> '''Sue Ellen''': [Sobbing] Don’t you get it? You did this to me. You and your father.

Context TearJerker / Dallas