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  • Really, Pete's punching out Cthulhu moment in Séance Time counts as a moment of awesome. He thinks he's being confronted by some sort of demonic monster and his immediate response is not to scream or run but to punch it in the face. It's not his fault it was actually an actor in make-up.
  • In Last Gasp, Tamsin releasing the balloon in defiance of the adults. Especially impressive given that she had to get out of her wheelchair, detach her breathing tube and climb a flight of stairs, which clearly took her a lot of physical effort.
  • Gabriel's plan in Misdirection to frame Neville Griffin for the murder of his grandfather, the magician Willy Wondo. Neville's arrogance is ultimately what leads to his downfall, and it is glorious to watch when he realises just what Gabriel was doing all the time during the interview.
  • Ronnie standing up to his father at the end of Wise Owl.
  • In Mother's Ruin, Edward saves himself and Harry from being sliced up by Reggie by pretending to be possessed by their mother Annie, and boasts that Reggie had been cheating on Frances for years, leading to Frances stabbing Reggie to death.
  • Catherine's revenge on her abusive mother, Margaret, in 3 by 3. The Oakwoods get to the final round of a quiz show through the use of Catherine's psychic powers. During the final round, Catherine and Margaret get the chance to win over £40,000 - all they have to do is give the same answer to the last question, with one of them locked in a Sound Proof Booth. Catherine, who has spent the whole game realising just how much of the world she has missed out on due to her mother's overprotective influence, says she wants to use the money to go travelling to New Zealand. Margaret, however, shoots this down, instead saying the money will be used to build Catherine a basement (or holding cell) where she can study for her master's degree. The host suggests the money could be used for both, but it's clear that it won't be if they win the jackpot. Catherine then realises that if one of them gives a correct answer and the other does not, they will walk away with £1,500 - still enough to buy a one-way plane ticket, but not enough to build the basement room. So, Catherine's final ploy is to give the correct answer to the question - Ice-T - but use her powers to feed her mother a wrong answer: "Fur-Q". When Margaret answers with this, she quickly realises the Stealth Insult as her daughter breaks free of her control. Enraged, Margaret tries to escape the booth, only to find the door held shut by telekinesis. Just as Margaret hatefully tells her she should have been killed at birth, Catherine makes her head explode in a bloody mess as the host and production crew flee in panic. Roll credits.

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