History Heartwarming / Justified

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* The end scene of "The Life Inside" when after all the horrible events with the pregnant fugitive, Raylan rests his hand on Winona's stomach and says nothing. This troper can't even do it justice. It must be seen to be truly appreciated.
* The second season finale, "Bloody Harlan," when Raylan talks down the enraged and emotionally damaged Loretta despite having been shot only moments earlier. His unwavering devotion to the girl makes this troper want to bawl like a baby.

* In season 3 Raylan and Winnona are making a real effort to make their relationship work. Raylan wants to buy a house so they have more room [[spoiler: for the baby]]. Winona in turn is more understanding about Raylan's work. They look very much in love.
** Then it turns out she was leading him on for weeks, constantly leaving to live with her sister, but didn't have the gut to tell him. Art, Rachel and Tim knew.

* Markham [[spoiler:giving Boyd 10 million dollars to ransom Katherine.]] Mind you, he already knows by then that [[spoiler:Hale]] is not to be trusted, but it doesn't matter to him.

* Mike protecting Duffy [[spoiler:when Katherine tries to execute him. Mind you, it was Mike who gave Duffy to Hale, being disgusted with his boss being a rat. However, the "protect your partner" part of Mike's "code" was more important than "snitches get stitches."]]
** Duffy, for his part [[spoiler:crying out in distress after Mike gets shot and comforting him as he's dying. He really did care, even if he didn't show it often enough.]]
* When Ava tells Markham that his money is with Zachariah, she lies that he wasn't involved in stealing it in an effort to keep Markham from killing Zachariah. [[spoiler:Markham plans to kill him despite that claim, and Zachariah is already dead in a HeroicSuicide, but it's a nice effort.]]

** [[spoiler:Raylan and Winona might not be together, but they're AmicableExes.]]
** [[spoiler:The goodbyes from Art, Tim and Rachel aren't overly sentimental, but they make it clear with very few words how much they care for Raylan.]]
** [[spoiler:Raylan deciding not to take Ava in when he sees her son.]]
*** Ava's son also provides some other heartwarming moments. She shows more concern for what will happen to him than to herself when she thinks Raylan is taking her in. She named him after Zachariah, whom she describes as "he only man in my life who never wanted anything from me." Finally, his very existence allows some part of Boyd to get a better, happier life after Boyd himself crossed the MoralEventHorizon and ended up in prison, implicitly for the rest of his life.
* While it's more of an Awesome moment, the fact that [[spoiler:Loretta's last scene in the series is saving Rylan's life.]]
** [[spoiler:Raylan and Boyd's final conversation between a two-way glass. After finding Ava, Raylan goes to tell Boyd that she was dead. After a little bit of increasingly awkward banter, Boyd asks Raylan why he felt the need to make the long drive to tell Boyd in person. Raylan tells Boyd that if he allows himself to be sentimental, there's one reason he keeps coming back to:]]
-->'''Boyd:''' [[spoiler:We dug coal together.]]\\
'''Raylan:''' [[spoiler:That's right.]]

** The book [[spoiler: Raylan gives to Tim as a parting gift]] is ''The Friends of Eddie Coyle'' - Leonard considered it the best crime novel ever written and reading it inspired him to stop writing westerns and try the crime genre.
** Leonard was famously very specific about Raylan's hat - he said that the show was the closest to what it should be, but it still wasn't there. [[spoiler: The hat Raylan takes from Boon is much closer to his intention.]]