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11	Jack Bauer and CTU have prevented many imminent terrorist threats, racking up so many SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments in the process that it's hard to believe they could fit them all into just nine days.
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13	!!As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff as per policy]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
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18	[[folder:Day 1]]
19	%%[[Recap/TwentyFourS1E01TwelveAmToOneAm 12:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.]]
20	* George Mason introduces himself by being an extremely annoying ObstructiveBureaucrat, refusing to tell Jack the source of some important information on the Palmer assassination attempt because he's "not authorised". Jack simply grabs a tranquilizer gun, knocks Mason out, then digs up evidence that Mason stole money from a drug dealer he arrested and uses this to blackmail Mason into giving him the information he needs.
21	%%[[Recap/TwentyFourS1E02OneAmToTwoAm 1:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.]]
22	* Jack and Walsh's shootout with the terrorists at the parking garage. We expect Jack to be a badass, but the much older Walsh also manages to hold his own reasonably well. When Jack needs to get a fingerprint to ID one of the dead shooters, he obviously can't drag the man's body out of the building... so he just cuts his finger off instead.
23	* Jack's "towel" speech, where he threatens to stick a towel down a man's throat, let it digest, then rip it out..
24	* Teri gets one when she shoots the man who's trying to strangle Kim... remember, this is before we know Kim's going to [[DamselScrappy make a habit of getting into these situations at complete random while having no relevance to the overall story]]... and then she ''shoots him again,'' calmly telling Kim that the man's boss was expecting to hear two shots.
25	* David Palmer facing down the hoodlums in the parking garage, not only by catching a swung baseball bat (not something one expects of a politician) but by speaking directly into their poverty after they recognize him. The pen is mightier, indeed.
26	* The moment right before when Kevin/Alan Not!York gets into the limo before realizing that Jack's behind the wheel. "Hello, Alan." Jack unblinkingly watches Kevin unload his entire pistol into the bulletproof window between the two of them.
27	* David Palmer walking into CTU [[MemeticMutation LIKE A BOSS]] [[note]](as in, he really ''does'' own the place)[[/note]], without any kind of foreshadowing beforehand.
28	* Although he's mentioned very little, President David Palmer's son, Keith Palmer gets a huge [=CMoA=] when he [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame turns the tables on the people blackmailing his father]] and winds up effortlessly getting the fools to '''[[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat record a confession on tape]]'''. The professional espionage agents on the shows have strained to do better.
29	* Dan's brother Frank getting arrested.
30	-->'''Krugman''': Hey, Frankie.
31	-->'''Frank''': What, homey?
32	-->'''Krugman''': [[WhamLine You have the right to remain silent]]... (cops crash the house)
33	* [[BigDamnHeroes Tony]] showing up to save Teri.
34	* David's reaction after learning that Sherry once again defied him, leaking his survival to the press, putting Kim's life as collateral. He has to be physically restrained by Mike, as Sherry is visibly shaken and backed into a wall by her husbands violent outburst to her endangering the life of a young girl, let alone the daughter of the man who had saved him twice in the past 24 hours, to the point he shatters a vase.
35	-->'''David''': Damn you if that ''Child'' dies!
36	* David calmly walking out on Sherry after calling her out, leaving her.
37	* The Entirety of the Season Finale 11:00PM-12:00AM, is one straight hour of a rollercoaster ride of kick ass. There's a reason TV Guide ranked it amongst the 10 greatest television episodes of all time!
38	** In particular the final shootout: the bad guys have their mole, Nina, tell him that Kim has been killed. "He'll be here," [[TemptingFate one says]]. He immediately busts in, GunsAkimbo, and just starts emptying magazines. This place is ''filled'' with the dudes behind the ''real'' conspiracy that was behind what we ''thought'' was the conspiracy, and they'd been downright scary {{Out Gambit}}ting badasses who'd driven the tensest, most suspenseful action series you'd ever seen, holding all the cards ever since they were revealed. Then PapaBear lost his Kimmy, or so he thinks. The result is him going through like a machine, making every terrorist and {{Mook}} eat lead. Five minutes of ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' action later, a completely one-sided fight in which Jack mechanically, wordlessly kills whatever moves no matter what they try against him ends with him as the only living human being on the compound. All year, these guys were so unstoppable, so scary, so in control of the entire chessboard. Then one day they screwed with PapaWolf. Then they died. Special mention should go to the way he dealt with Andre and Victor Drazen. He engages them simultaneously in a gunfight, and Andre (despite arguably being the DragonInChief), is unceremoniously hit and killed with little fanfare. Victor almost beats Jack but runs out of bullets and surrenders. Jack then shoots him quite literally off the pier, ''shoots him in midair as he's falling, and finally shoots him some more once his by now dead body hits the water emptying the magazine.
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41	[[folder:Day 2]]
42	* Jack is interviewing witness Marshall Goren, a complete HateSink guilty of kidnapping minors, child pornography and murder, and Goren smugly informs Jack that he's made a deal to testify against militia terrorist Joe Wald, who is connected to the day's threat, which will get Goren off scot free. Jack calmly takes out his gun and shoots Goren dead while a horrified George Mason watches on, and then demands a hacksaw, which he uses to cut off Goren's head and present it to Wald's men to gain their trust.
43	-->'''Jack:''' You wanna find this bomb? This is what it's gonna take.\
44	'''Mason:''' Killing a witness?\
45	'''Jack:''' That's the problem with people like you, George. You want results but you never wanna get your hands dirty. I'd start rolling up your sleeves. I'm gonna need a hacksaw.
46	* In season 2, Jack killing a renegade soldier with a ''flare gun''.
47	* David Palmer's response to Mike Novick telling him that you don't call the President by his first name.
48	* Final episode of season 2, where Jack uses a sniper rifle to take down multiple Mooks AND kill a man with a 360 degree neckbreaker.
49	** Note that he was in the middle of [[GameBreakingInjury HAVING A HEART ATTACK]] while doing this, due to having briefly died during torture a few hours earlier.
50	* Jack is forcing Nina to talk to the terrorists she is working with about the nuke they are going to detonate. Keep in mind that Jack is still hurting over Nina murdering his wife, and he had drugged guards, shot at her head and nearly beat her to death, so he is not messing around. Nina is decomposed and terrified of Jack but still says she's a dead woman by going in, which leads to this exchange.
51	-->'''Nina:''' "He is going to put a bullet in my head before I can say hello and then turn the gun on himself."
52	-->'''Jack:''' [{{Beat}}] "We'll make sure he doesn't turn the gun on himself."
53	* The scene where Jack had captured Syed Ali, and in order to make him reveal were the nuke was hidden, made him watch a live video of his family rounded up by special forces in his home country. When Ali refuses to break, Jack has the special forces troopers ''shoot Ali's son'', all the while shouting '''"WHERE IS THE BOMB?!"'' Doubly so because Jack had staged it rather than truly had his son executed; even Jack Bauer has limits.
54	* George Mason's HeroicSacrifice was his personal SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
55	* Nina has gotten a pre-emptive presidential pardon for the murder of Jack Bauer, and she's very smug about it. Jack isn't cowed.
56	-->'''Nina:''' "This isn't how you thought it would end, is it Jack?"
57	-->'''Jack:''' "This isn't over yet."
58	* Jack baiting Nina in Episode 10 while she has a machine gun trained on him. He essentially gets her to follow him out into the open so that a CTU sniper can land a clean shot on her, incapacitating her and saving Jack's life.
59	* Miguel beating up Gary in a fight as the latter attempted to stop him, Kim and Megan from leaving the hospital.
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62	[[folder:Day 3]]
63	* Jack finally killing Nina Myers, and doing so in the very same room she killed Teri four years ago.
64	--> '''Jack:''' "You don't have any more useful information, do you?"
65	--> '''Nina:''' "I...I doooo..."
66	--> '''Jack''' ''(upon seeing Nina reach for a gun nearby):'' [[OhCrap "No you don't."]]
67	--> ''''''BANG BANG BANG'''''
68	* Jack shooting a man ''through a wall'' in the [=MI6=] L.A. bureau building.
69	* Jack cutting off his partner's hand to safely transport a lethal virus to a contained area.
70	* Jack's breakdown at the end of the season finale.
71	* After being totally kidnapped by the baddies, Michelle [[WoundedGazelleGambit fakes a nose bleed]] so that she can try to escape and call CTU, by tricking her guard into thinking she has the Cordilla Virus. The plan itself was a fail, but the mere idea of it is awesome.
72	* Chase Edmunds cauterizing his own gunshot wound with a red-hot poker.
73	* Despite being a bit part, Bruce Foxton became a legend among fans for his brief appearance in Season 3. Assisting Wayne with the break-in to [[ManipulativeBastard Sherry Palmer's]] house, they were caught red-handed in their plan. Upon being questioned, Foxton promptly intervened by [[MegatonPunch punching her out cold]].
74	* In a rare evil CMOA, Michael Amador luring a Delta team to an ambush.
75	* The MidSeasonTwist in Episode 7 orchestrated by Jack, Tony and Gael. The look on Chappele's face says it all.
76	* Sherry Palmer gives Alan Milliken a heart attack by talking to him because she is ''[[Funny/DragonballAbridged such a bitch!]]''
77	* Sherry herself getting shot dead (finally!) after again underestimating Julia Milliken and leaving her to fend for herself with the police.
78	* Chloe gets her first real awesome moment midway through the season when she realizes the trick behind Nina's data worm and successfully expunges it before it could breach the cover of every single agent in the system.
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81	[[folder:Day 4]]
82	* Jack's one-man assault on a terrorist base to free the Secretary of Defense and his daughter.
83	* 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.
84	* [[BadassBookworm Chloe]] gunning down terrorist assassins with an M-16.
85	* Curtis' coldcock punch to the assassin Mandy in the season finale.
86	* Tony's entrance in season 4, shooting terrorists and saving Jack and Audrey.
87	* Secretary Heller's utter lack of respect or fear regarding his terrorist kidnappers. It's actually kind of hilarious how indignant he is toward him. Also, similar to Michelle in Season 3, [[WoundedGazelleGambit he fakes a heart attack in an attempt to trick his guards into checking up on him]], giving him and Audrey a chance to escape the compound. Like Michelle's gambit, it doesn't quite pay off, but it goes a long way to proving his determination.
88	** Later, when Jack breaks in to rescue them, James Heller [[BackToBackBadasses takes up a gun and helps Jack fight off his captors]].
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90
91	[[folder:Day 5]]
92	* Curtis Manning's run with the nerve gas bomb.
93	* Chloe relieving Miles Papazian of his ID badge. Before now we'd only seen Jack perform that sort of sleight-of-hand.
94	* Jack: "Let's get something straight, kid. The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you."
95	* Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce, after being kidnapped by crooked President Logan and asked to forget about the incriminating recording: "There is nothing that you have said or done that is acceptable to me in the least. You are a traitor to this country and a disgrace to your office. And it is my duty to see that you're brought to justice for what you've done. Is there anything else, ''Charles?''"
96	** SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for Glenn Morshower as well: he nailed the scene ''in a single take''.
97	* Jack captures Henderson, only for him to ramp the smugness up to ten and get 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 RankScalesWithAsskicking that he ''survives.''
98	* The way Curtis Manning relieves Lynn [=McGill=] of duty. Not only was it legal by way of CTU protocol, but Curtis even threatened to pull a gun out in front of ARMED guards. And the best part? The guards surrounding them totally agreed with Curtis and took the guy into custody. Epic way to get rid of the annoying, incompetent leader.
99	* Jack interrogates the Chief of Staff, Walt Cummings, in front of a protesting President Charles Logan. Aaron Pierce added more Awesome. Also when they first come into the room is a BigDamnHeroes Moment.
100	-->"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?"
101	* Pierce saving the Suvarovs and Martha Logan from terrorists. Certified badass.
102	* 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.
103	-->''On the count of 3, I'm gonna scream louder than any woman you've ever heard. One, two...''
104	* 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'' that that was, in fact, the whole point of Jack's earlier publicly broadcast interrogation of Logan:
105	-->'''Logan''': Agent Clarke, arrest these men, and get them the hell out of here.
106	-->'''Clarke''': I'm sorry Mr. President, we have our orders.
107	-->'''Logan''': You take...! You take your orders from me.
108	-->'''Clarke''': Not anymore. After you, sir.
109	-->''[Logan is taken away then spots, Martha and Mike Novick, who each have the smuggest smiles possible]''
110	* Before it became clear how much of an ObstructiveBureaucrat he would become, Lynn [=McGill=] actually accomplishes one during the airport hostage crisis. Jack has been held under duress by the terrorists and is forced to lead on Curtis' team that it's okay to start their assault, even though doing so would lead to an ambush. However, Jack specifically tells Curtis that he is in a "flank two" position. Lynn, curious, decides to run through the transcript of their call, something that annoys Bill and Chloe, who see it as redundant and a waste of resources. However, with less than 60 seconds before Curtis' ill-fated assault could begin, [=McGill=] runs in and informs Bill that "flank two" was an outdated duress code from back when Jack used to work at CTU, something that no one was able to realize up to that point because they ran the code through CTU's ''current'' protocol filter. Thanks to this, Curtis is able to abort the assault and redeploy the men so that they utterly ''[[CurbStompBattle trounce]]'' the terrorist faction, suffering no casualties on their part.
111	* In the penultimate episode, Jack and Christopher Henderson work together and assault the submarine Vladimir Bierko has taken over. While Henderson disables the missiles, Jack slaughters Bierko's men including killing one man by shoving his face into burning hot steam and breaking Bierko's neck with his ''legs''. Henderson, aware that Jack will now kill him in revenge, ambushes Jack...only to learn that Jack took the bullets out of his gun fully anticipating this. Henderson's [[GracefulLoser proud grin]] at Jack at and their final exchange is one the of best parts of the season:
112	-->'''Henderson:''' Good for you Jack.
113	-->'''Jack:''' You are responsible for the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler. They were friends of mine.
114	-->'''Henderson:''' That's the way it works.
115	-->'''Jack:''' ''(shoots him)''
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118	[[folder:Day 6]]
119	* Jack escapes from captivity by a cell of terrorists by ''[[Film/TheLostBoys biting out a guard's throat.]]''
120	* His final battle with Fayed and about 6 terrorists with machine guns (while Jack himself had only a pistol), scored with perhaps the most operatic music the show has ever used. Jack ends up shooting to death all mooks and wrapping Fayed up in industrial strength chains, and tells him "Say hello to your brother" (who Jack had killed years before) before going to the controls and raising the chains into the ceiling, hanging him. When other agents finally arrive on the scene, all their leader can say is "''Damn'', Jack."
121	* Jack reducing Logan to tears... by [[DeathGlare staring at him]].
122	* Wayne Palmer's BatmanGambit that gets Fayed's country to reveal information regarding him so they can get one step closer to stopping the nuke threat.
123	* 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.
124	* After some rogue government employees nearly get Wayne killed, Tom Lennox, who knew about the conspiracy and was being held hostage as a result, has apparently just been bought off by them in exchange for keeping his silence. Mere seconds after that, Lennox then just casually walks over to a secret service agent and confesses everything to him, immediately getting the two crooked workers arrested. And that's how Tom Lennox went from being [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap one of biggest pains on the show to one of the coolest characters.]]
125	[[/folder]]
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127	[[folder:Redemption]]
128	* Within the two short hours that made up ''24: Redemption'', Benton gets to have his SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. He saves a wandering child from stepping on a landmine, but ends up stepping on it himself. If he lifts his foot off of it, it will explode. Benton tells Jack and the kids to leave him behind because it would take Jack too long to defuse the landmine. When the pursuing enemy soldiers come near Benton's position, he flags them down to get their attention, takes a few shots from their guns, draws them closer by pretending that he's trying to tell them Jack's location but is too hurt to speak loudly, and then says [[TakingYouWithMe "Go to Hell" and lets the mine blow up]].
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131	[[folder:Day 7]]
132	* After looking like a milquetoast wimp for the first quarter of season seven, Henry Taylor manages to throttle his turncoat bodyguard to death while almost completely paralyzed. The looks on both their faces were priceless.
133	* The chemical plant manager shown in the 2:00-3:00 episode, gets his when he unhesitatingly [[HeroicSacrifice vents insecticide into the same room he is in]] to save the rest of the people in his plant, as well as the nearby city of 30,000.
134	* Jack's escape from FBI's Washington Branch...by driving off the second floor of a parking garage...while ''under'' the steering wheel.
135	--> "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments This is so gonna hurt.]] AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!"
136	* TheDragon's unwitting girlfriend Marika gets one in the car on the way to the airfield to take her and Dubaku out of the country. Having found out about what "Samuel" has been up to (butchering Sangalans, crashing planes, corrupting a good-sized portion of the United States Government, putting Henry Taylor in the hospital, etc), she grabs the wheel from the driver, completely flipping the car over a parked vehicle in the middle of a high-speed car chase [[HeroicSacrifice and dies in the process]], allowing Bauer and Walker to capture a critically injured Dubaku and essentially conclude the first [[StoryArc arc]] of the season.
137	* 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."
138	** Agent Walker should also get one for, in the same scene, [[WhatTheHellHero questioning Jack's humanity]], as well as for bitch slapping him '''twice'''.
139	* 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 President's daughter. He may have got caught, but he took his attacker out.
140	* 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.
141	* The BigBad of Season 7, Jonas Hodges has several awesome moments. But his evil CMOA comes when he kills 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 washes the blood off of his shirt and walks away.
142	* Tony's accomplice in the bioweapon theft has turned on him and has a gun trained dead center on his chest. Tony tells him he really doesn't want to do this. A moment later, Tony knocks the gun out of the man's hand with a duffel bag, wrestles him into a nearby bathroom, tears down the shower curtain, and strangles him to death with it ''while'' interrogating him.
143	* Everyone give it up for Mutadhi Gohar, Jibraan's imam! He starts out unconditionally defending the man against Jack's accusations, no matter how scary and unhinged Jack gets, then when Jack finds out Jibraan was framed, he doesn't give what would have been a quite justified "I told you so," but takes the high road and tells him God is always available to him.
144	** 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.
145	** And, of course, Jibraan himself. A scared, innocent Muslim being set up as the patsy for the terrorists, he's told to retrieve a package and plant it somewhere that it will detonate, spreading a viral weapon everywhere. He searches for it, finds it, and then seeks frantically for a way to smuggle it to safety, knowing that, as a Middle-Eastern man acting suspiciously, the guards must be on to him. His response? "[[BavarianFireDrill I am a terrorist!]] [[RefugeInAudacity I have a bomb!]]" The crowds flee, the guards back off, the audience both [[GallowsHumor laughs]] and cheers, and he saves the day.
146	* 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.
147	* 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 DamselScrappy no more.
148	** Points should also go to the security personnel at the airport. When Kim alerts the airport's security personnel to the male captor's location, the captor retaliates by shooting at Kim and the guards from his car. While one of the guards falls instantly the other fires back and, despite getting shot, keeps firing at the male captor ''[[TheDeterminator one-handed]]'' and [[ImprobableAimingSkills nails him repeatedly as the shots pierce the windshield]]. And the guard survives, too!
149	* President Allison Taylor demonstrates that even though she cares about her family, she is the President of The United States, and her duty comes first.
150	* 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 to moral ambiguity-- the fact that she's going along the exact same route as Jack's IDidWhatIHadToDo mentality gives fans a lot to look forward to.
151	* Jack Bauer is finally at rest, but asks to see one last person. But it's not Kim. It's the Imam from earlier. More like SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming\|Moments}}, but it can work here as well.
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154	[[folder:Day 8]]
155	* Jack quickly runs out of bullets while running from two hitmen with automatic weapons. His response: take them both out with a fire ax.
156	* Held at gunpoint by a Russian hitman, Cole refuses to comply with his demands to get him out safely and [[ExactWords gives their position away]]. And this wasn't part of any plan; he was fully prepared to die to help the other CTU agents catch the hitman, and would have if [[BigDamnHeroes Jack]] hadn't shown up.
157	* Renee Walker displays she's taken a turn towards craziness since the previous season by slicing a suspect's thumb off to remove his parole bracelet.
158	* Cole takes "TakingTheBullet" to the next level by [[CarFu blocking a bomb blast with his car]].
159	* Seconds after getting a '''completely''' unexpected knife in his gut, Jack pulls it out and throws it with perfect accuracy into a {{Mook}}'s trachea. Then he guns down the remaining bad guys through the wall, like he's already forgotten that he's seriously injured. And as if that's not enough, he then comforts the BrokenBird who stabbed him.
160	* CTU Director Brian Hastings proves that he has transcended his StupidBoss origins by facing down President Taylor's ''Chief of Staff''. "Get the hell out of my way."
161	* Farhad Hassan's efforts to screw over his colleagues who betrayed him are impressive. Granted, he calls CTU out of self-preservation as much as a desire for revenge, but then when he is shot, he agrees with one of his last remaining breaths to help CTU. He doesn't request morphine, nor does he demand immunity on the off chance that he pulls through.
162	* After the mother of a would-be suicide bomber fails to talk him out of it, Jack goes from [[GoodCopBadCop good cop to bad cop]] in [[MoralEventHorizon record time]], promising the bomber that if he doesn't turn himself in, Jack will personally see to it that his mother is at the blast site when the BigBad's nuclear bomb goes off. But first, he will make the bomber's mother clean up his exploded remains.
163	* Tarin killing the NYPD team, pretending to be one of them and giving a false report to Jack (who didn't believe him).
164	* [[BadassBookworm Chloe]] rebooting a fried CTU at gunpoint after no one lets her do it the easy way.
165	* Renee [[BigDamnHeroes rescuing]] Jack and Cole after the two have been pinned down by terrorists, by walking around and one-shotting everyone in her way.
166	* The evacuation of President Hassan. Even though they took casualties, for once, the Secret Service detail actually dished out the same punishment they received on their attackers.
167	* After getting dangerously close to {{Jumping Off The Slippery Slope}}, Hassan comes back from the brink and saves Jack's life with the handgun he insisted on being given, making a very long one-handed shot right into the attacker's head.
168	* Hassan really went out as a hero. Turning himself in to the terrorists and saving New York with seven seconds to spare, followed by refusing to say he was wrong to seek peace with America throughout ever more horrific torture until finally the terrorists are forced to just kill him.
169	* Charles Logan's brunch meeting with the Russian delegates, where he quickly drops all pretense and just blackmails them into going along with the peace treaty. "I'm not insinuating. I'm saying. Elements inside your government were behind the death of President Hassan. First on the list: you."
170	* Jack killing the leader of Logan's torture squad who's holding Dana hostage, as the man is right in the middle of saying he knows Jack won't risk taking the shot.
171	* Later in that same episode, Cole Ortiz becomes probably the only person besides James Heller to ever knock Jack Bauer on his ass and live.
172	* 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.
173	* Earlier that same episode, Jack Bauer marches down a tunnel full of cars in New York City, armed with an assault rifle and a full body suit (with a blast shield face mask and kevlar). Bauer unleashes suppressing fire on the cars, forcing every vehicle to stop, including the motorcade Charles Logan is inside. Logan, after hearing what happened to the guy Bauer tortured in the previous episode, gets completely scared and screams for his men to save him. Of course, this doesn't work; after nonchalantly shrugging off several gunshots and dispatching all opposition, Jack gets on the hood of Logan's limo, fires a few shots at the bulletproof windshield to crack it, kicks a hole in it, and puts a tear gas grenade in the hole, forcing Logan out of the car. Jack drags Logan into a different area and interrogates him, frightening a crucial confession out of Logan in seconds, making their previous stare down in the season five finale look tame in comparison. What makes all this even better is that it PALES in comparison to the off-screen massacre Jack does to the Russians twenty minutes later. AND throughout the whole thing, Jack only shot to wound, whereas Logan's men were shooting to kill. '''AND''', Jack placed a listening device on Logan's collar to acquire even more information from him later in the episode. This entire sequence is EPIC in its badassery.
174	** Note that Logan's freak-out in the tunnel basically sums up the entire series:
175	--->"Did you hear what I said? '''[[OhCrap THAT'S JACK BAUER]]'''!!"
176	* In the series finale, Chloe goes alone to try to talk down a dangerously unhinged Jack. Despite initially getting surprised and cuffed to a pipe, she's able to give him a {{What The Hell Hero}} speech that breaks through his {{Roaring Rampage Of Revenge}} and gets him to realize that getting his revenge this way will do far more harm than good. And finally, having convinced Jack to do things her way, she shoots him to ward off questions of how she handled the situation long enough to leak the info that will bring down the day's big conspiracy.
177	* After pulling out of the peace agreement and essentially giving the Russians the finger, Allison Taylor calls up Logan's hired thugs and orders them to release Jack and wait for the FBI. If they don't, a drone overhead has two AGM-114 Hellfire missiles pointed right at them.
178	* After Taylor goes to Dalia Hassan and confesses the entire scheme, Hassan demands (rightly) to pull out of the peace accords. Taylor ''bitch-slaps her down'' with a thunderous speech about how America has the power, and Taylor has no qualms about using it. Moving even further over the MoralEventHorizon? Yeah, probably. Doing it in exceptionally awesome manner? '''Yes'''.
179	* 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.
180	* In the finale, when Jack is wounded and being taken in, Pillar begins to figure out the truth that he let Chloe intentionally shoot him and is currently working to reveal the truth behind Logan and Taylor's actions. Realizing what he's up to, Jack lures Pillar over... and proceeds to bite a good chunk of one of his ears off! Moral of the story: Even when wounded, Jack is still someone you really have to be wary of.
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184	* "11AM-12PM"
185	* 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 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 outgun him through a judicious use of hand to hand combat. He is only captured when he gets 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.
186	* Jack is reintroduced after four years of being on the run by pulling off a perfect BatmanGambit on the CIA, deliberately getting himself captured so that he can break Chloe out of the same building. What makes this particularly effective is the fact that Jack doesn't say a word until three-quarters of the way through the episode, instead calmly letting events play out, safe in the knowledge that he's completely in control of the situation, until he's ready to put his plan into action. At this point, he activates a beacon in his wrist, signalling Belchek to cause a distraction, effortlessly takes down Erik Ritter ''with his hands cuffed behind his back'' and points a gun in the face of the TortureTechnician who's been interrogating Chloe.
187	-->'''Jack:''' Take me to her now.
188	* Next, Jack 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.
189	* Mark Bodreau looking up Jack's file and finding a list of ''every'' kill he made over eight seasons. A very impressive sight and one hell of a FreezeFrameBonus.
190	* Jack singlehandedly dispatches a heroin dealer and his hired thugs without even breaking a sweat. And the prior conversation where you can tell that Jack just ''knows'' that those scumbags don't stand a chance against him.
191	-->'''Jack''': You probably think I'm at a disadvantage. I promise you I'm not.
192	* Jack Bauer is in need for information which can only be found in the American Embassy. When Chloe's new employer, Adrian Cross, screws him over, and with Kate Morgan once again breathing down his neck, he neutralizes an Armed Metropolitan police officer, takes said officer's 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.
193	* Kate goes MurderousThighs on a man torturing her, ''after'' ten minutes of [[UnwillingSuspension strapado]] and [[ElectricTorture electrical]] torture, before stabbing him to death.
194	** Bonus points for stabbing a man in front of her despite [[WithMyHandsTied her hands being bound]] ''behind her''.
195	* Jack tries to get 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 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.
196	* 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 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.
197	* The fake-out "death" of President Heller, while a bait-and-switch TearJerker, is also a would-be DyingMomentOfAwesome. He deduces that by turning himself in to Margot, no matter what she does, he will win. If she is true to her word and won't kill anyone else, then he has saved hundreds or even thousands of lives by sacrificing his own. If she lied and goes ahead with the drone strike anyway, then she will be seen for the liar she really is. It also helps that he was suffering the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and thus he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory [[DyingAsYourself with his memory still intact]] in order to protect innocent civilians, rather than slowly lose his mind, to the point where he may not remember his loved ones, until he eventually succumbed to the illness. He outwitted Margot simply by doing exactly what she said to do, and by doing the last thing she expected, simultaneously.
198	** And in the next episode, he's now two for two in surviving a HeroicSacrifice he had every intention of being permanent.
199	* How Jack kills Margot and Ian Al-Harazi. The two have just figured out that Heller is still alive and use their remaining drone to take out a tube station. Ian wants to bail before they're found but Margot forces him to stay. Sure enough, Morgan and Ritter arrive with some other CIA ops and begin to storm the apartment complex where they're hiding. While they shoot it out with Margot's henchmen, Jack reppels down the side of the building and draws Ian's attention to the window of the apartment. Ian walks over to the window, where ''Jack grabs him and throws him out to his death!'' Jack then shoots Margot to wound her, and manages to redirect the final missile to harmlessly impact the water. Margot sneers at Jack that every death that occurred this day was on the hands of him and Heller. Jack's response?
200	-->'''Jack''': [[ShutUpHannibal The only death on my hands tonight]]...[[PreMortemOneLiner is yours.]] ''(Throws Margot out the same window to her death.)''
201	* Another plus of only having half a season: 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.
202	* After Navarro has been exposed as a traitor and arrested. He (naturally) says he will only pass on the vital information he has in exchange for full immunity. Jack's response?
203	-->'''Jack:''' Well, I can assure you full immunity is not on the table. But your hand is. ''(starts smashing his hand)''.
204	* Kate and Jack seamlessly work together to get Navarro to tell them how to find the MacGuffin of the day before his immunity deal can be signed, 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.
205	* Cheng Zhi proves that he's still CrazyPrepared by assassinating the daughter of the Chinese consul and holding Audrey hostage to ensure that China and the US go to war.
206	* Jack, Kate, and even [[TheScrappy Mark Boudreau]] get one when they infiltrate Stolnavich's manor. Mark brides his way in, wearing a hidden camera. Once in, the CIA tech destroys the feed as Kate and Jack bust in, [[CurbStompBattle making quick work]] of his security detail. As this is happening, Mark fights off Stolnavich, who is trying to murder him. He's eventually able to take the diplomat down by sending the man crashing through a glass pane.
207	* Chloe O'Brian in a lorry with Cheng Zhi and his men suddenly grabs a pipe, takes out most of the guards and leaps from a moving vehicle! Up there with the M16 bit from Season 4.
208	* Jack decapitating Cheng Zhi with a katana. As cheesy as it may have been, it was incredibly gratifying.
209	** But before that, Kate reveals to Jack that Audrey has been shot. [[TearJerker At first, he falls into depression and pulls out a hand pistol]] [[DrivenToSuicide considering suicide]]. However, instead of ending it all, he puts the pistol away and goes into an UnstoppableRage and murders all of Cheng Zhi's minions and then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat Cheng Zhi himself to near-death]].
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