Due South/Awesome


Awesome Moments in Due South include:

  • The fourth season's "Ladies Man": Fraser reveals that the chief detective on the case is the murderer, whose response is "So what? The three of you can't stop me." Fraser responds with "Three of us? I think you should count again." Cue the entire police department popping up and pointing their guns at him.
  • Following three seasons of hearing about Benton Fraser's skill at marksmanship without any demonstration (as he was unlicensed to use a firearm in the United States), the Mountie hero of Due South gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome at the climax of "Mountie on the Bounty, Part II" when the ship on which he is being held prisoner crosses into Canadian waters.
    • The six minutes or so leading in to this are an extended Crowning Moment of Awesome, as Benton, Ray and a crew of mounties overtake the ship with a small wooden ship, completely taking down the villain's crew. Came complete with Crowning Music of Awesome. "THIRTY-TWO DOWN ON THE ROBERT MCKENZIE!"
  • Ray Vecchio on the same series got one in the first season; a mob boss with whom he had grown-up started terrorizing the city and put Benton into the hospital. So Ray challenged the mob boss to a game of one-on-one... but instead beat the ever-loving sh* t out of him, humiliating him so badly that he couldn't even tell his men to put a hit on Ray, out of sheer embarrassment.
  • Not to be outdone, Ray Kowalski gets one in the third season: after Fraser and his mentor Quinn have been kidnapped by a jewel thief, members of the 2-7 reach the warehouse where they are being held. The thief tells Ray over the phone that if he doesn't get a car and a clear path away in the next thirty seconds, he'll shoot Fraser. Welsh tells Ray to wait for backup from the SWAT team, but rather than risk Fraser's life, Ray commandeers a police motorcycle and drives through a window, disarming the thief and arresting him before Fraser can even move.
  • When Benton and Ray get locked in a bank vault that a heavily armed team of bank robbers is breaking into, Benton sets off the fire sprinklers inside the safe, resulting in a colossal wave once the robbers get it open that disarms all of them.

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