

( Carnelian, Inc.), ( Ring Around the Rosie). In college, Lisbon enjoyed listening to jazz, a taste for music she seems to share with Jane. It is implied that Lisbon left her family behind in Chicago to attend college on the West Coast and has not often returned to visit. In Nothing But Blue Skies, Lisbon mentions her grandfather, who gave her a model of a classic car as a graduation gift. In Little Yellow House, Lisbon tells Jane that she has not been in her parents' house since her father's death. Lisbon later apologizes to Greg for "running away" from him the way she did. In So Long, and Thanks for All the Red Snapper, they met again and his wife Lauren says that he was heartbroken after their break-up. When she was younger and still lived in Chicago, Teresa was engaged to a man named Greg Tayback but she broke up with him. Lisbon and Jane help out and Lisbon reconciles with her brothers and they attend the christening of her youngest nephew. Jimmy is wanted as a material witness in a murder investigation and Stan, a housing contractor who is married with five children, owes money to a loan shark who has him beat up for falling behind on his payments. Her brother Tommy becomes a bounty hunter Tommy Lisbon, a single parent, and his 14-year-old daughter Annie appear in the fourth season episode Where in the World is Carmine O'Brien?, Lisbon seems to take a parental role towards Tommy, whom she regards as a bit of a screw-up, and tells Jane "I practically raised that punk and his brothers." Her brothers Jimmy and Stan make their first appearance in Little Yellow House.
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She seems to be at odds with him because she "forgives him for whatever" and wants him to make up with his brothers ( Code Red).
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The first of her three brothers to be seen in the series is Tommy Lisbon (probably derived from Thomas), who is listed under "Town & Country Electrical" in Lisbon's phone book. Jane had previously guessed this and it is confirmed when a clarinet is seen in a box of Teresa's items in her childhood home in Little Yellow House. She played clarinet in the high school band.

She dated a boy named "Woody Squire," whose piercing became infected right before a school dance. Mullins for the damaged window because she was such a "straight arrow." As a teenager, she worked for a local restaurant. When he locked her out, Lisbon threw a brick through his basement window and got into the house that way. Lisbon babysat for a boy named TJ Mullins when she was a teenager. Apparently her father suffered blackouts when he drank. In Red Badge Lisbon mentions that her father used to be violent, as he once beat one of her brothers half to death and didn't remember doing so. It may have been something like another drunken car accident, or simply neglect. Lisbon said that he “damn near killed me and my brothers too,” leaving both possibilities open. It isn't specified whether he did this accidentally or on purpose. Lisbon tells her brother Jimmy that someone in the household had to be responsible because, "You know what Mom and Dad were like." After her mother’s death, her father's drinking either started or worsened and he ended up killing himself. It is implied that her family life was not an easy one even before the death of her mother. In Little Yellow House, Lisbon tells Jane that she had to be the parent to her brothers after the death of her mother. In the episode Red Tide, it is implied that she had to take over her mother’s role and care for her family at a young age.
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Her mother was killed by a drunk driver when she was twelve ( Red Badge). Lisbon and probably her brothers were sent to Catholic schools ( Red Velvet Cupcakes), where Lisbon was a star student ( Little Yellow House). Lisbon says in White Orchids that her mother owned a sewing machine, but "it was always in hock" at the local pawn shop. The crayoned drawing still remains in the home. Young Lisbon drew a picture of her family and pets on the wall in her bedroom closet in crayon. Her parents bought the yellow house in the Chicago neighborhood where she grew up when she was three years old ( Little Yellow House). Her mother was a nurse, and her father a firefighter ( Red Hot).
