Dollhouse/Tear Jerker

"Speaks-through-November: I have a message for you from inside the Dollhouse.
 * Joel Mynor and his wife Rebecca (imprinted into Echo) on Dollhouse in "Man on the Street" (1x06), especially the end of that episode, when he gets to welcome his "wife" to the new house she never got to see (the real Rebecca died in a car crash on her way there). He's a creep, but he's a sweet creep.
 * What resonated with this troper was Echo, in her supposedly inactive persona, choosing to be sent back to Joel to complete the engagement. Brings a whole new dimension to her joy in the final scene.
 * In "Needs", the scene that shows The latter not so much sad tears, but more from the beauty of the scene.
 * Paul's, straight after he and Echo fell in love with each other. Not fair!
 * The scene in "A Spy in the House of Love" (1x09) Mellie/November, in Manchurian Agent mode, tells Paul she's an active.
 * The scene in "A Spy in the House of Love" (1x09) Mellie/November, in Manchurian Agent mode, tells Paul she's an active.

Paul: This isn't funny...

Speaks-through-November: My name is November.

Paul: Mellie. Your name is Mellie.

Speaks-through-November: I knew this would be hard for you to hear.

Paul: I'f you're pissed I'm still investigating the Dollhouse-

Speaks-through-November: This body belongs to a doll.

Paul: -just tell me. Don't do this.

Speaks-through-November: I'm sorry we had to deliver the news to you like this. In this body. The Dollhouse is likely to discover we've been placing messages in their imprints; this is the only way we could talk to you.

Paul: [shaking his head] They did this to you...

Speaks-through-November: They did this long before you knew me. They've been using this body to spy on you for months. The only reason Mellie exists is because of you.

Paul: Aren't I special?"

The scene goes on and it's all so sad and you can feel Paul's heart breaking. Poor thing. "Adele: "Loneliness leads to nothing good. Only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people who are least capable of it. In any case, it only happens once a year.""
 * And when she goes back to normal... Ouch. "Then why aren't you kissing me?"
 * "A Spy in the House of Love" fucked my tear ducts up. And my sense of right and wrong. Every time I watch the episode I want Adelle to be able to keep Roger so badly. No fair making me root for a rapist show.
 * The end of "Haunted" (1x10), when Margaret-in-Echo prepares to have her imprint erased. She asks if she will see her whole life flash before her eyes, and Adelle has to watch her friend die for the second time - and starts to cry as the wipe begins.
 * I was more affected by her friend's husband. Poor dear...
 * This is a more subtle tearjerker, but we also should note that during that episode, Margaret was literally within arm's reach of her beloved husband Jack - but, poignantly, could never tell him so because she couldn't blow her cover. (Though she slipped once - )
 * Claire confronting Topher about, toward the end of "Omega" (1x12): "I don't see why it was so important for me to hate you." Not to mention, Topher sounds on the brink of tears for the whole of the ending montage.
 * In the episode "Haunted", when Topher borrows Sierra for a "diagnostic check." He implants in her the personality of a fellow geek. But it's at the end of the episode when it's revealed he did so to have someone to celebrate his birthday with...
 * And at the end it turns out that Adelle knows he's doing this, but lets him anyway, essentially to keep him sane.
 * Her voiceover at the reveal is heartbreaking.
 * Her voiceover at the reveal is heartbreaking.

"Priya: "This secret we have... can you keep it?"
 * This troper got teary-eyed at future!Topher's breakdown in "Epitaph One", as Adelle hugs him and tells him it's all right. "I know what I know, I know what I know, I know what I know..."
 * This troper was caught a few seconds earlier on the "Promise me you won't answer the phone!" line.
 * What brings makes my eyes sting, is when Whiskey says she has to wait there, and we remember Boyd telling her he would be back for her after their tearful parting.  Damn you, Whedon.
 * This troper spent most of that flashback in tears. Adelle is so broken and yet still Adelle, and it is only because she is so broken that she can finally be the mother figure to Topher that she always could be. That entire flashback is so heartrendingly beautiful.
 * Whiskey: "Was I my best?" Caroline-in-Iris: "Better."
 * What makes this so sad is that it follows directly after the episode where  found out she was actually an imprinted Whiskey. In that episode, her refusal to freak out or start doubting herself was nothing less than a Crowning Moment of Awesome, so seeing Whiskey back in that blank Doll state is crushing.
 * Hell, "Epitaph One" was basically a tearjerker from when Caroline until the end. Her getting all excited to see  and finding out it's  instead. "Was I my best?" That gorgeous song played over the last few minutes.  Caroline's summation of the apocalypse: "Kids playing with matches. And they burned the house down." The Remembrance Wall and the pictures of . And finally, Caroline and the surviving rebels climbing the ladder and hoping it will lead them to Safe Haven, and that it still is a safe haven.
 * Vows. If you get through Claire's incredible amounts of bitterness and pain in her scene with Boyd, then don't worry, there's still her and Topher having near-simultaneous, award-worthy complete breakdowns from guilt and self-hatred...
 * "Belonging". Pretty much everything about the Sierra/Priya storyline. And Topher was heartbreaking too.

Topher: "I can keep it. But I don't know if I can live with it."

Priya: "I know I can't. But I don't have to.""


 * Not to mention Sierra, after being wiped again, smiling innocently - with Priya's last tear still on her face.
 * the very beginning of "Belonging"--Topher crying and saying something along the lines of "I only wanted to help her!"
 * Echo seeing Victor, who had told Sierra he'd 'wait right here' for her until she got back, sitting in the same location - not realizing that Sierra
 * "Getting Closer":
 * His subsequent conversation with Ivy, especially considering their relationship thus far and the fact that we don't know what happens to Ivy after this, is part this and part Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.


 * The revelation that
 * "The Hollow Men": Even Caroline was crying when she.
 * Please, everyone, don't forget
 * Especially her
 * The end of "Epitaph Two: Return," particularly
 * Five words: "Your job is way harder."
 * And for some happy tears, try
 * This troper burst into tears watching Topher take notes from Bennett's instuctional video, then pause it, put his finger over her mouth and thank her. This probably had something to do with watching the last three episodes in one go.
 * This Troper was literally speechless after (Not to mention, Topher was this troper's absolute favorite character.)
 * hit me so hard that I still haven't been able to watch the last two episodes of the show.
 * Rossum and Senator Perrin betraying Madeleine at the end of "The Left Hand" by "proving" that she was mentally unstable and that her memories of the Dollhouse were actually the result of brainwashing, and that instead she was in a psychiatric hospital for three years.