History Heartwarming / ColdCase

** Both the victim's mother and his potential love interest.
*** While the love interest who was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident was obviously unhappy about her state, unlike everyone else around her, she ''never'' blamed him for what happened and was able to live a happy, productive life as an elementary school teacher who genuinely loved her work and her students as if they were her own children. Even after finding out that her husband, the firefighter who "rescued" her but in actually was the one who caused her injury due to his inexperience, was his killer, she cried out, "No, not that sweet kid!"
*** The mother was able to convince the skeptical detectives to reopen her son's case, never believing a serial killer did him in, regardless of the little evidence available, and even said that it would be good karma to solve the case. Her ending has her being able to move out of the house they shared and hugging Lilly for solving her son's murder. Lilly even smiles and hugs her back.
** The ending montage counts too because it has the victim's ghost avoiding being in the accident that kicked off the events of the episode, which also hints that his possible love interest may have started seeing him in a new light if he had managed to do so. There is also an ImagineSpot of Jeffries saving his wife from her own accident.
** Vicky's father talks about being able to forgive Angus for the accident that paralyzed her, saying it was just an accident and encouraging Will to forgive the driver who killed his wife.

* The end of "Committed" showed that Carmen painted a portrait of Bettie in the hopes that Otis would get to see it one day.

* The ending to "Fireflies", in which the victim turns out to be still alive and she is reunited with her family and best friend.

* In "One Small Step", we have the victim's older sister. Although she used to find her brother annoying when he was alive, she's [[TookALevelInKindness matured to be a loving mother for her own family]], and she feels bad about how she wasn't always the nicest to her late brother.

** It's a minor moment, but right before Nash is murdered, he's preparing to go return the expensive camera that he borrowed from his girlfriend Vonda and that she initially thought he seduced her to steal after his disappearance.
** Grady keeps a video of his archrival Nash mastering the trick that Grady became famous for after he spent month studying the video following Nash's dissapearence. When the cops ask him why he kept the video, Grady replies watching Nash do the trick was too beautiful a sight to destroy it.
** The epilogue shows the skatebaords with Nash's personal logo finally being produced and sold.

* The victim's fiancé in "The Crossing" finding out after so many years that Darcy had intended to marry him, and then getting to see her in what would have been her wedding dress.
* In "Bombers," there's the scene of the homeless sewer dwellers admiring the mural that Carlos paints in the sewers, with one of them (who now runs a soup kitchen and later shows the mural to the detectives) saying that he still visits it as a reminder about how far he's come in the past decades.

** The ending. After the killer is arrested, the victim's daughter sees her mother's ghost. The latter gives an approving nod, because her daughter turned out "[[MeaningfulEcho headstrong]]" enough to do the right thing and help stop a bad guy.

* While the ultimate resolution of StarCrossedLovers romance in "The Letters" is a base-breaking DownerEnding, few first-time viewers of the episode aren't moved by the earlier moments of it where Sadie and Jonesy exchange covert love letters in milk bottles and then the team is shown reading the eloquent contents of those letters.

* Likewise, "Schadenfreude's" ending montage shows the falsely accused being released after spending 23 years for a crime someone else committed.