Torchwood/Awesome

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"Owen: ... the ones who have the best chance are the ones who truly believe they can beat death. So watch and learn, Jamie Berman.
 * Practically everyone in "Exit Wounds" gets a crowning moment of awesome.
 * To elaborate:
 * Ianto tasering a guy in the forehead in Meat. "Pray they survive" indeed.
 * In Dead Man Walking, Owen finds himself, Tosh, and a kid named Jamie Berman in a hospital, locked in with the motherfreakin' Grim Reaper, who has killed twelve people and needs one more soul to cement its power and walk the earth forever. Suddenly he realizes how to beat it, and while Tosh is working out how to open the door, he sits Jamie down for a talk about how to beat cancer, ending with:

Jamie: Watch what?

Owen: Watch me. Beat. Death."

"Security Guard: What are you?
 * And then he shoves Jamie and Tosh through the sliding glass door and takes down the Grim Reaper hand-to-hand because there is nothing it can do to him, having died once already. Death is its one trick, and it doesn't work anymore.
 * Owen gets another CMoA in A Day in the Death:

Owen: I'm wrong.

Security Guard: (shaking) What are you!?

Owen: I'm broken. I'm Doctor Owen Harper, and I'm having one hell of a day."

"Cabinet member: You and what army?
 * You kind of have to see it for yourself.
 * Children of Earth: "Day Two", when Gwen  are trapped in the mortuary by armed guards, just when you think they've been caught, a plan the viewer didn't even KNOW existed hits home. Cue the use of heavy construction machinery, an exit that wasn't on the architectural plans, and achieving an objective the viewer didn't think would even be possible,
 * Children of Earth: "Day Four" has one for when, to help Torchwood,
 * The best part is this exchange:



(Cue Oh Crap expressions from Green and Frobrisher)"


 * Children of Earth: Gwen is dragged into an ambulance by two mooks dressed as paramedics, then knocks them both out with a fire extinguisher, steals the ambulance and drives away.
 * Owen as "King of the Weevils".
 * Jack and John kissing in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," the ensuing fight, the post-fight chat and the confrontation with the rest of Torchwood there. "You went to murder rehab?"
 * "Children of Earth: Day Five": Ianto's brother-in-law and the other estate people going against the riot police. And PC Andy eventually joining them. (The fact the rest of the episode is just one huge Tear Jerker probably helps, but still.)
 * Children of Earth: Day Five when PM Green says, Bridget Spears tells him that   When he threatens to arrest her, Denise (the other older woman) says
 * YESSS.
 * Jack driving through a freaking wall and shooting the bad guys in order save his team from cannibals during "Country-cide".
 * In Cyberwoman, Jack
 * In Greeks Bearing Gifts, meek little Tosh.