Best scenes of 24

The minute I saw this thread that's the scene I thought of. Jack doesn't even fllinch. WGN did a 24 marathon this weekend and I got my mom to start watching it last night with that episode and I think she's hooked on it now (she watched 2 more episodes after that and one today and she asked if she could borrow my dvds.

Another personal favorite is the great "I'm gonna need a hacksaw" scene in season 2's premiere.

Jack shooting the dog that same season was also great. And whatever episode it was that he cut his own head.

I think my all time favorite is during the second season after Jack and Nina's plane was shot down. They survive the crash but are being hunted by a squad of rogue soldiers. What made it stand out from some of the other awesome sequences was when Jack shot one of the guys at point blank with a flare gun. I'd seen stuff like that in film but it was a real accomplishment for a TV show.

I give credit to HypnoToad for getting this online, but one of my new favorites is from just last week:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a8ba4VA0Qds

Yup, it's not just that he shot the guy in the face with a flare gun point blank, but he did this cool diving/screaming thing as he did it.

The most memorable scene for me, is Season Two around ten o' clock, when Jack has to explain to Kim that he isn't coming back. Tears every time.

A couple of scenes come to mind obviously, but the one that always seems to stick with me is from season 2 or 3. i'm thinking 2. I don't even remember the reason he had to do it, but Jack has been ordered to deliever Chappelle's body to the terrorists, and after spending the episode for an alternative, Jack shoots him execution style in an alley. Just a very powerful image

Yeah, that was season 3. I remember because having to execute Chappelle "for the sake of national security" is one of the things that led to Jack briefly breaking down and sobbing at the end of the season's final episode. That last scene always gets to me when I watch it. After the crisis is over, he allows himself to think about what he had to do that day and he loses it just for a moment. Then he receives a call and pulls himself together and gets back to work. That one scene sums up Jack's character more than an entire episode ever could.

^That was my choice. Chappelle's death was the crowning point of 24 IMHO.

I don't remember for sure what season it was, two, I think, but they are in this football stadium, Jack and this henchman type guy are side by side, and I think jack is handcuffed. He puts his arms around the guys neck, runs up the side of the wall, and breaks the guys neck. A very nice, brutal scene, that I thought of instantly when I saw this thread.

Oh yeah, he's in the stadium in the last episode of Season 2, protecting Sherry Palmer. He gets in a fist fight with one of the baddies, and ends up having him in a headlock. The guy tries to push him off, so Jack jumps his feet on the wall and as he swings around the guys neck snaps. I jumped off my couch cheering that was so brutal.

Yea the off the wall neckbreaker was always a favorite scene of mine.

To me the best thing 24 did was the whole episode involving jack flying the plane with an armed nuke into the desert, only to have a dying mason come out of the back of the plane and take over. It perfectly captured the absurdity and actual high quality the show can achieve when its working.

My favorite has to be the season one finale, when he thinks the terrorists have killed Kim. He goes in there, two-handed, guns blazing, running over terrorists in his van. He ends up face to face with Dennis Hopper, who pleads, "You wouldn't shoot an unarmed man" and then pumps a whole clip into him.

"You don't have any more useful information, do you?"
"Yes, I do!"
"....no you don't."
*BOOM*

This far and not one mention of George "The Man" Mason. The final ten minutes of that episode where he talks Jack into letting him fly the NUCLEAR PLANE OF DEATH is the best ten minutes of the show up until this point.

EDIT: Oops, missed Fazer's post. Silly me! The point stands: George Mason owns this thread.

Chloe with a machine gun. That's all I have to say. One of my favorite moments of any television show.

Her reaction in the next episode was also a classic. "I hope I'm not turning into some kind of psychopath..."

Every time I see Jack do some kind of badass torture scene, I still flash back to season one where he was interrogating the "limo driver" in the back seat and he pulls out a towel and puts some water on it and tells him in extreme detail just what exactly it is that he's going to do to him. It's even better when you see it because you can tell just by the look in his eyes that he will do it. That was the first time I remember thinking "Dead God, this has to be one of the sickest badasses on TV in a long while."

Doesn't he tell him he'll make him swallow it and when it's being digested he'll pull it out, taking his stomach lining with it.

That's pretty hardcore.

That and how it's one of the slowest and most painful deaths known. I think this moment is the birth of the phrase "Jack Bauer Power Hour"

buncha good ones from the early seasons mentioned already. so to mix it up, a few season 4 bits that I love...

-when Bauer diverts the medic away from saving Paul's life, to instead save the life of Token Guy With Vital Information. this is Season 4's version of the previously mentioned Chappelle sacrifice, another one of those incredible Bauer moments where he does what is necessary, but it tears him apart doing it and his soul is bloodstained forever because of it and he WILL make those who forced him to do it suffer. which leads nicely into...

-when Bauer finally catches Murwaan near the end of season 4: he gets that manic joyful glee in his eyes, and starts caressing Murwaan all over with his gun. it's like Bauer has never felt such love, like he doesn't understand why God has been so kind to him. he wants to sob with pure joy, but not before hurting Murwaan in a thousand different ways.

-end of season 4: the slow theme music plays as Jack Bauer, dead to the world, puts on his aviator raybans and his stoniest expression, and walks across the train tracks towards a blazing sunrise. so very Punisher, and the perfect capper to a perfect season.

plus one from the current season- after Palmer's killer tells Bauer everything, and then asks Bauer to take him to a hospital like he promised. Bauer, desperately trying to stifle his laughter, responds with a hopeless "yeahhh..." and it is hilarious.

been a while since I saw that episode, but if I remember correctly it goes more like:

"you NEED me."

"No. I don't"

BLAM

ooh, one more classic 24 moment I just thought of!

season 2, when Bauer has to give Kim technical assistance via phone on how to shoot her psycho stalker in the face:

"good, good! now I want you to do it again, Kim."

Besides all the great ones that have already been mentioned, including the seminal moments of 24 (Chappelle, Nina's and Mason's deaths), I have the following:

- Chase and Jack's eyes meet when they realize the virus is hooked to Chase's arm and they won't be able to disarm it in time. Chase uses his teeth to tie the belt around his arm is serious badass material.

- Jack about to walk Saunders' daughter into the infected building right in front of Saunders, leading my favorite hidden Jack Bayer Speech o' Badness: "You can look the other way once, and it's no big deal, except it makes it easier for you to compromise the next time, and pretty soon that's all your doing; compromising, because that's the way you think things are done. You know those guys I busted? You think they were the bad guys? Because they weren't, they weren't bad guys, they were just like you and me. Except they compromised... Once."

- Jack pulling the trigger at Chase's head to prove his loyalty to Salazar.

- Sherry Palmer getting sucker-punched by Fox (bonus points besides Fox was also the rapist Boggs in Shawshank), leading to his gleefully shit-eating expression matched only by my own:



- Of course, Jack as Last Man Standing and firing what seemed like a billion shots into the water at Victor Drazen.

One's not mentioned:

Season 4: Jack pulls on a balaclava and robs a store at gunpoint just to delay a terrorist long enough for a satellite to cover his ass. (I think?)

Season 3: Jack incites a prison riot to break out a druglord and plays russian roulette with him in the process.

it's got to be Curtis booshing Mandy in the face in season 4.

one of the best single moments of life in 2005. His fist is bigger than her entire head.

BANG.