Jack Nukes The Fridge
24: Redemption, 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Whatever you do, don’t take travel tips from Jack Bauer. If you get caught in a slum-based gun fight with African war-lords, don’t pop open a handy nearby fridge and use it as a bullet-proof shield.
It might look preposterously cool at the time, but you will get shot in the stomach.
Still, at least Jack didn’t use it to protect himself from a nuclear blast. Only an idiot would do that.
Farewell Chappelle...
Season 3, 6am-7am
If Jack doesn't shoot his boss, Ryan Chappelle, through the head, then former British agent Saunders is going to poison LA with a lethal virus. “God forgive me,” whispers Jack as he pulls the trigger. Chappelle's body crumbles to the floor. The 24 clock ticks out silently in tribute.
Nina Kills Teri
Season 1, 11PM-12PM
"I was just doing my job," Nina Myers whimpers as Jack holds a gun to her face. “How many people who trusted you lost their lives today because you were doing your job?” Jack snarls back. More than he thinks... as he'll realise when he finds his wife dead. A shock ending so harsh the producers almost bottled it, filming an unused kittens and candyfloss finish where Teri lived.
He Has Ways Of Making You Talk...
Season 1, 10am-11am
The first and best of Jack's many interrogation scenes. “You probably don't think I could force this towel down your throat, but trust me, I can. All the way. Except that I'd hold onto this little bit at the end. When your stomach starts to digest the towel, I pull it out. Taking your stomach lining with it. Most people probably take about a week to die. It's very painful.” Ouch.
Alas, Poor Edgar...
Season 5, 6PM-7PM
With a deadly nerve gas flooding through CTU's air-con system, the staff cluster in the airtight situation room. Chubby programmer Edgar doesn't make it, though. Despite moving at top waddling speed, he falls gasping to the floor in full view of everyone, mouthing Chloe's name as he pegs it. For only the second time, the 24 clock ticks out in silent tribute.
Blondes Have More Gun...
Season 2, 5PM-6PM
You never know who to trust. All season long, simpering blonde bride-to-be Marie has been little more than a wimpy annoyance. Who'd have thought she'd turn out to be a gun-toting terrorist bad-girl, turning the pistol on her own fiancé? “You really are very sweet...” Bang!
A Big Hand For Chase
Season 3, 12pm-1pm
So there's a ticking bomb crammed full of a killer virus. Jack needs to get it into an airtight vault in the next two minutes. Trouble is, it's chained to Chase's wrist. The two CTU agents both look at the fi re axe hanging from the wall. “Do it,” says Chase. Chop! Aaargh! Jack saves the day but one-handed Chase will never play piano again...
Nina Finally Runs Out Of Time
Season 3, 2am-3am
“You don't have any more useful information, do you, Nina?” whispers Jack, as he corners her in the same room where she killed his wife two seasons earlier. “I do,” Nina gasps desperately. “No, you don't,” deadpans Jack. Bam! Bam! Bam! The wicked witch is dead...
Die, Die, Die!
Season 1, 11PM-12PM
Thinking the Drazen mob have killed daughter Kim, Jack drives a van through the front of their warehouse and guns down everything that moves.
The icing on the cake is his animalistic execution of an unarmed Victor Drazen (Dennis Hopper, no less!), pumping bullets into him and carrying on firing long after the gun clicks empty.
George And The Bomb
Season 2, 10pm-11pm
Someone has to crash-land a plane containing a ticking nuclear bomb into the middle of the desert. Jack wants to do it, but George Mason persuades him to let him do it instead.
“You still have a life, Jack. You wanna be a real hero, here's what you do. You get back down there and you put the pieces together. You find a way to forgive yourself for what happened to your wife. You make things right with your daughter, and you go on serving your country. That'd take some real guts.” Sniff...
The Shit Hits The Fan
Season 3, 3am - 4am
A deadly vial of airborne toxin attached to a timer is sitting next to the air-con fan of a packed hotel. CTU agent Gael Ortega reaches out carefully to grab it, but... Noooooo!... it goes off, showering him in the lethal virus and condemning almost everyone in the hotel to death.
Jack's Mental Beard
Season 6, 6AM - 7AM
At the end of Season Five Jack was handed over to the Chinese to be tortured on a big boat. 20 months later, he was handed back, complete with massive bonkers beard / dead eyed stare.
Seeing our normally clean-cut hero - he even shaved when he was a junkie - with such unkempt face-fuzz was disturbing. And great.
