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There’s been quite a lot of talk on this site lately about past and present exciting scenes on 24. So as part of the hopefully ongoing revival of the Top 24 Lists feature, I have taken a shot at compiling the most heart stopping, adrenaline pumping moments in the show’s history. Put away your clippers and have a defibrillator at the ready, because it’s time to reexamine…
The Top 24 Nail-Biting Scenes of 24! (As of Season 7, Episode 8)
24. Jack and Ramone play a totally gratuitous game of Russian Roulette. (Season 3, Episode 5)
So you’re a prisoner in the middle of a jailbreak. Your escape attempt fails, and you wind up in a room with a mix of fellow prisoners, guards, screaming government agents, and eyebrow-less drug lords. SWAT teams have got your hiding place surrounded. There’s a massive viral threat bigger than anything you could imagine happening in your city, and the two men key to stopping it are here in the room with you. Well shucks, who’s up for some Russian Roulette?
The circumstances are a bit silly, but how better to generate nail biting tension than by forcing these characters, the two characters who absolutely cannot die right now, to put a gun to their own head? Luckily, the genius who arranges the whole thing forgets that it’s a really bad idea to give your enemy a loaded pistol under any circumstances. My only regret is that his show of bravado at the top of the scene didn’t backfire. “See, now it’s only one in fi-” *BANG* X_X
