History Awesome / TwentyFour

* Kate and Jack [[spoiler:seemlessly work together to get Navarro to tell them how to find the MacGuffin of the day by making him think Kate's gone over the edge from his betrayal and Jack is the only one who can stop her from summarily executing him (and this is only about half an hour after she learned about Navarro and was naturally frothing at the mouth over it). Then Kate tells him with utter calmness that she's going to be watching his execution.]]

->'''Jack''': [[spoiler: [[ShutUpHannibal The only death on my hands tonight]]...[[PreMortemOneLiner is yours.]] ''(Throws Margot out the same window to her death.)'']]

** Another plus of only having half a season: [[spoiler:Navarro]] tries to escape CIA headquarters after being found out by telling a security guard to lock the building down. Normally this would be the setup for him escaping to be the new BigBad, but with only three episodes left, Jack is barely slowed down and soon catches up to him.

* -->'''Jack''': "The only death on my hands tonight.... is yours" [[spoiler: (Throws Margot out a window five stories off the ground, she dies)]]

* Sherry herself [[spoiler: getting shot dead (finally!)]] after again underestimating Julia Milliken and leaving her to fend for herself with the police.

* Dina Araz's speech telling Jack she's only helping him because CTU has her son and if it weren't for that she'd do everything she could against him.

* Jack captures Henderson, only for him to ramp the smugness up to ten and gets Secretary Heller on the phone. Heller, who's driving on a mountain road, sees that a sniper is aiming at him from a helicopter. Henderson starts to smug some more that Heller will be killed unless Jack lets him go. Heller takes things into his own hands, declaring that he won't be used like this before '''driving his car off the mountain''', leaving Jack free to go to town on Henderson. The best part? Heller is such a monumental example of AuthorityEqualsAsskicking that he ''survives.''

-->"I'm done talking with you, you understand me? You've read my file. The first thing I'm going to do is take out your right eye, and then I�m gonna move over and take out your left, and then I�m going to cut you. I'm gonna keep cutting you until you give me the information that I need. Do you understand me?"

* Martha Logan needed someone's key card to get into the archives room so she started ripping her clothes and threatened to accuse him of attempted rape. The calm voice she uses makes one wonder if she's done this before.
-->''On the count of 3, I'm gonna scream louder than any woman you've ever heard. One, two''...
* In the season finale, there's Logan discovering that he incriminated himself by threatening Martha while wearing a transmitter Jack had planted on him. The best part is, he suspects Martha is wired, it just doesn't occur to him that Jack wired ''him'' [[spoiler: that that was, in fact, the whole point of Jack's earlier publicly broadcast interrogation of Logan]]:

-->''[Logan is taken away then spots Martha and Mike Novic who each have the smuggest smiles possible]''

* During the first six hours, Wayne has really been screwing up pretty badly and making some pretty poor judgement calls. The kicker is when it seems like he's actually going to agree with an extreme policy that will get thousands of Muslim-Americans stripped of their rights and herded into detention camps until after Fayed is caught. But after some careful consideration he soon calls a meeting and flat out states that he rejects the policy, since doing so would go against everything the country stands for. Finally, he begins living up to the family name.

* Renee gives her all to save Marika from the burning car, pulling her gun on Jack when he tries to get her away and telling him to help her or leave. Later Jack says if she points a gun at him again she should be prepared to use it. Walker replies, "I was."

* The assault on the White House is a moment for everyone. For Dubaku for getting in and having the firepower, For Jack and Bill for getting the president to the panic room and to Aaron for hiding out with the Presidents daughter. He may have got caught but he took his attacker out.
* Bill Buchanan, saving the lives of everyone else in the White House while being held hostage by taking a gun from one of the guards, running into a room filled with natural gas, and firing the gun. This allowed Jack and the rest of the FBI/Secret Service to get into the White House which ended with Juma being killed, and the President being rescued.
* The BigBad of Season 7, Jonas Hodges has had some awesome moments so far. But in the latest episode where he killed someone who has been his friend for 20 years by hitting him with a bottle of scotch, then throwing him off of a balcony. After that, he just nonchalantly washed the blood off of his shirt and walked away, he outdid almost everything he has done this season.
* While the President's daughter Olivia has proven herself to be an [[MagnificentBastard unrepentant bitch]], you almost felt bad for her when she gets suckered into sleeping with a reporter who then goes back on his word to run a story. I say "almost felt bad" not because she got what she deserved, but because it turns out ''she turns the tables'' on him by revealing she taped their sex and threatening to show everyone including his wife unless he packed up and left Washington immediately. You hate the bitch but you ADORE her gangsta. That, my friends, is what TVTropes calls a [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]]!

** Also, give it up for Jibraan's kid brother Hamid. After being chloroformed, having guns pulled on him, and suffering the trauma of his brother telling him he's a terrorist, the kid '''''still''''' has enough balls and reflex that with a split-second distraction he busts a mirror, grabs a piece, and stabs the punk terrorist guarding right in the throat. If [=CTU=] is ever back up and running they should seriously hire him.

* From the same episode: Once again [[ReplacementScrappy Janice]] starts complaining when the FBI starts looking for all Muslims in Washington, as she feels it's racial profiling. Jack Bauer, who already served her once, [[TakeThat gets back in her face]]. But this time... Jack calmly tells her that he's just as pained as she that they have to racially profile all Muslims, but he's trying to save lives and he'll gladly do it another way if there is one. Janice backs down without another peep. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Jack is so BadAss, he doesn't have to kick your ass to kick your ass.
* Everyone groans as Kim is put in danger to blackmail Jack yet again. However, this time she stabs one of her captors (with a '''''[[ImprobableWeaponUser pen]]''''') just in time to get away from the shots the other one fires, then follows the man and lets the cavalry know his location. After his car flips over, she goes into the burning vehicle to get a key piece of evidence and manages to fight off his last desperate attack, severely burning her arm but getting away with the bad guys' location. She's officially {{The Kimberly}} no more.

* Although it in itself is a bittersweet moment, Renee's final scene in the Season 7 finale is her Crowning Moment of Awesome. Having captured the mastermind behind the tragedies in the day, Renee, having undergone twenty-four hours of BreakTheCutie, [[{{Angst}} spaces out angrily]] and alone as she looks at the captured Alan Wilson. Janis comes in to inform Renee that Alan's to be transferred out, but Renee, having come to a decision, tells Janis to get out. When Janis, knowing Renee probably wants revenge, refuses, Renee destroys the lock mechanism on the door and forces Janis to handcuff herself to a pole so no one can interfere, then walks calmly and silently into the interrogation room where Alan awaits. It isn't shown on screen, but it's heavily implied Renee decides that she's going to torture Alan to force him to give up information on the conspiracy. Although it's supposed to be a tragic moment - Renee's heart-wrenching and inevitable descent from LawfulGood to ChaoticGood - the fact that she's going along the exact same route as Jack's IDidWhatIHadToDo mentality gives fans a lot to look forward to.

* Tarin killing the NYPD team, pretending to be one of them and giving a false report to Jack who didn't belived him.

* On the way up to Novakovich's hotel room, Jack suffers his second knife wound to the gut of the day. A few minutes later Logan calls, and the phone is answered by the one surviving guard who crawls past the bodies of all his comrades, plus Novakovich, who Jack took out with a fireplace poker.

* The 2-4 PM ending. Everyone thought Jack would try to kill Suvarov at the press conference. Instead he uses Logan to lure Suvarov into his office so he can kill them both. His SlasherSmile at the end was icing to the cake.

* The cold opener of the show. A heavily armed CIA strike team surround where they believe Jack Bauer is and seemingly have him dead to rights [[spoiler: when they storm into the warehouse he's been tracked down to, he leads them on a merry chase across a portion of South London, slowly picking off members of the team who out gun him through a judicious use of hand to hand combat and only being captured when cornered on the banks of the Thames with reinforcements on a Zodiac moving in along with the final agent on the team coming in from behind]]

** The escape from the CIA black site also shows that Jack hasn't missed a beat since we last saw him [[spoiler: while being led down to the torture chamber by the JerkAss Agent Rittler, Jack first activates a pre-planted beacon in his wrist. He then chokes the arrogant, younger operative with his handcuffs, breaks loose and before another agent can get to him, Jack is already sticking a Glock 17 in the mans face while delivering his first BadAssBoast of the season. He then finds Chloe, revives her and with Agent Kate Morgan bearing down on them, uses his gun to set off a colossal explosion which guts a significant portion of the building. Meanwhile, Jack's associate who's been notified by the beacon, destroys a portion of the sidewalk with a grenade launcher, deploys a ladder down the newly created opening and before any of the CIA personnel have realized how badly Jack has outwitted them, their prisoners are long gone.]]

* Jack Bauer is in need for information which can only be found in the American Embassy. [[spoiler: When Chloe's new employer Adrian Cross screws him over, and with Kate Morgan once again breathing down his neck, he neutralities a Armed Metropolitan police officers, takes said officers gun and using his jacket to cover the weapon, begins delivering knee caps to a group of protesters outside the embassy gates while inciting a riot, forcing the Embassy to deploy their security which opens the gate and allows Jack to waltz in.]]

** Similarly, Jack's attempt to locate Margot by putting a virus on her arms dealer's computer system is interrupted literally at the last second by [=MI5=] agents...but Jack is still able to take time out from the ensuing firefight to finish uploading it. Having half the episodes really does light a fire under these people to get shit done.

* Another meta-example, double as CrowningMomentOfFunny. President Heller tells his people exactly ''what everyone who watches this show wants to hear:''
-->'''Heller''': Jack wants her, Jack needs her, '' '''Jack gets her''' ''.
* Jack tries to get [[spoiler: Simone Al-Hizari to come with him as her mother has sent a hitman to kill her]]. Unfortunately, she's still under the impression that [[spoiler: her mother wouldn't hurt her]]. So Jack unceremoniously drops her in a hospital corridor and begins to walk away [[spoiler: finally convincing Simone that she's in imminent danger]]
* Jack manages to escape Margot's hijacked drone in a massive car chase across a London suburb narrowly avoiding multiple hellfire missiles. He manages to buy time to get out of the kill zone by[[spoiler: driving under a bridge, stealing another car to switch vehicles, and jury-rigging the previous car so it goes off and looks like it's still being driven, causing Margot to waste her remaining missiles blowing the empty thing up, realizing what's happened only after it's too late.]]

* Jack tries to get [[spoiler: Simone Al-Hizari to come with him as her mother has sent a hitman to kill her]]. Unfortunately, she's still under the impression that [[spoiler: her mother wouldn't hurt her]]. So Jack unceremoniously drops her in a hospital corridor and begins to walk away [[finally convincing Simone that she's in imminent danger]]

-->'''Heller''': Jack wants her, Jack needs her, '' '''Jack gets her''' ''.

* Jack manages to escape Margot's hijacked drone by [[spoiler: driving under a bridge, stealing another car to switch vehicles, and jury-rigging the previous car so it goes off and looks like it's still being driven, causing Margot to waste her remaining missiles blowing the empty thing up, realizing what's happened only after it's too late.]]

-->'''Heller''': Jack wants her Jack needs her '''Jack gets her''' .

* Kate goes MurderousThighs on a man torturing her, ''after'' ten minutes of [[UnwillingSuspension strapado]] and [[Electric Torture electrical]] torture, before stabbing him to death.

* Jack Bauer is in need for information which can only be found in the American Embassy. [[spoiler: When Chloe's new employer Adrian Cross screws him over, and with Kate Morgan once again breathing down his neck, he neutralities a Armed Metropolitan police officers, takes said officers gun and using his jacket to cover the weapon, begins delivering KneeCaps to a group of protesters outside the embassy gates while inciting a riot, forcing the Embassy to deploy their security which opens the gate and allows Jack to waltz in.]]

* Kate killing one of her torturers after being electrocuted, and strung up in a very painful position for about ten minutes.

-->'''Heller''': Jack wants it Jack needs it Jack '''gets''' it.

** Similarly, Jack's attempt to locate Margot by putting a virus on her arms dealer's computer system is interrupted literally at the last second by MI5 agents...but Jack is still able to take time out from the ensuing firefight to finish uploading it. Having half the episodes really does light a fire under these people to get shit done.

* "11:00 a.m. � 12:00 p.m."
** Jack allows himself to be caught by agents of a CIA black site. His internal reasoning? [[spoiler:[[TrojanPrisoner To save Chloe, who had been captured days before]].]]

-->'''Jack''': You probably think I'm at a disadvantage. I promise you I'm not.

-->"I'm done talking with you, you understand me? You've read my file. The first thing I'm going to do is take out your right eye, and then I’m gonna move over and take out your left, and then I’m going to cut you. I'm gonna keep cutting you until you give me the information that I need. Do you understand me?"

* "11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m."