Awesome / Black Jack Justice

Season One

Justice for Some

• Jack and Trixie are staking out a party to protect their client's wife's diamond necklace from theft by unsavory guests. When the lights go out and the necklace inevitably goes missing, Jack takes command of the situation, marshals the guests into waiting rooms without them even realizing what happened and clears the room of everyone but the client and the three suspects within minutes. Even Trixie admits to being impressed by his handling, with the usual caveat of "and I'd shoot anyone who told him so."
• For that matter, Jack and Trixie seeing through their client's set up within minutes and arranging it so that no one, including the client's wife, ever realizes what really happened.

Justice and the Deluge

• Jack and Trixie are tasked with finding a girl about whom they know only the name she might be going by, that she's probably working as a waitress and that she arrived by train not too long ago. From this they work out her location by conjecturing her most likely route based on her being a stranger in town in need of a job and shelter and not having much money. They not only find the girl but also determine that their client is actually a stalker and devise a plan to throw him off the trail. For 35 dollars a day (plus expenses), that's not bad deduction work.

Justice in Love and War

• Jack and Trixie cross the feared gangster Rocky Angel and live to tell about it. Granted this, is primarily because he doesn't know they crossed him and because they choose not to tell about it, but it's still impressive. Especially as "Justice and the Happy Ending" reveals that there were rumors of their involvement later.

Justice and the Happy Ending

• Jack and Trixie discover that their client, who hired them to find evidence of his wife's infidelity, is in fact having an affair himself. They realize the man wants use the wife's cheating as an excuse to swap over to his mistress, will likely want evidence to be made up when he's informed that she is not, in fact, cheating, and that even if Jack and Trixie won't do it, their client won't have much difficulty finding someone who will. When Jack gets caught up reminiscing with his old partner Tom Fellows, Trixie takes matters into her own hands. She writes a note and has it delivered to the client, which sends him running straight to his mistress. When things soon get physical, Trixie is in place to get photos, which she arranges to be delivered to the client's wife. The ending narration notes the man got his divorce, but not his lover, as he was shacking up alone in a room above a shop after his wife learned what he was up to. As she explains all this, Trixie wonders if the wife would see the note she wrote, the four words that set the client up for his fall: "I know your secret."

Season Two

The Palookaville Express

• Jack and Trixie are helping another client on the wrong side Rocky Angel. Rocky wants the client, an up and coming boxer, to throw a fight which would ruin his career. Jack convinces Rocky to lay off the client by showing him how can make even more money by playing straight.
• The circumstances of Jack's meeting with Rocky Angel. An enforcer of Rocky's comes to forcibly invite Jack and Trixie for a chat, then gets gunned down by a rival gang. Jack decides that the best way to convince Rocky that he and Trixie aren't responsible for his enforcer's death is to keep the appointment anyway, in other words, voluntarily walk into the lair of a gangster who could have you shot with a word.

Season Four

Sabien's Law

• Jack narrowing down the background of the thief and using that to determine where he must have holed up based solely on the picture of the glass cutter is a pretty neat piece of detective work.
• Trixie and Sabien retracing Jack's steps based solely on the fact that Jack made his sure-fire bet after looking at the only page of the story with a picture on it is also a neat piece of deduction.

Season Five

Stormy Weather

• Jack beating up their client's stalker bully of an ex-boyfriend is probably not legal, but it is immensely satisfying. Bonus points for Jack and Trixie correctly predicting that the jerk will be too arrogant to walk away and catching him in the act of threatening to murder their client for daring to hire help when saying "no" wasn't enough.

The Stopped Clock

• While quite unkind to Nelson, Jack and Trixie weaseling their way into the crime scene after Sabien expressly told Nelson not to let them in under any circumstances is a rather masterful balance of lies and half-truths and implications.

Journey's End

• Dot, despite being a civilian with no apparent experience in danger and derring-do, takes out not one, not two, but three corrupt cops who planned to kill her, Trixie and Jack.

Season Six

Hush Money

• When an apparently straightforward blackmail pay off turns out to be a cover for the murder of an ex-mistress and offspring, Button-Down Theo is quick-thinking enough to figure out what's really going on and calmly provide a distraction for Trixie to take out the would-be killers. Hard as nails as Jack and Trixie, he may not be, but he came through when it counted.

Season Eight

The Late Mr. Justice

• Crossing over with Heartwarming, an old enemy of Jack's, Rick Morales, is released from prison and almost immediately launches a plan to kill Jack. To do so, Morales kidnaps Jack's girlfriend, Dorothy, and promises to kill her unless Jack lets Morales kill him. However, Morales makes the mistake of giving Jack time to make a plan and he uses it to get every friend and ally he can get. The encounter ends on a shootout between Morales' gang and Jack, Trixie, Sabien, Nelson, "Button-Down" Theo, and hotel detective Alf McKinney while Freddy the Finger sneaks Dorothy free and out of the line of fire.
  Dorothy: Thank you all. You... you killed... Wow, look at how many people you killed...
  Trixie: Only because there weren't more.

Season Nine

The Learner's Permit

• Sabien manages to get the episode's murderer to fess up by bringing him to the room, showing him that Jack and Trixie were on the job and had a camera set up watching the room he committed the deed in. He accomplishes this despite knowing that the camera had no film in it (since Trixie didn't want to buy real film for their client's pretend stake-out), there are no witnesses (Jack and Trixie weren't watching and the client's glasses fogged up because of the steaminess that was going on before the murder) and even manages an Exact Words on the perp, promising him on his honor that no one will see the (nonexistent) photos if he confesses without a fight. It's so awesome that the client, an author writing a detective story, changes gears completely and makes the star of his book a Comanche police officer based on Sabien.

Dead Men Run

• Jack being able to evade a highly-publicized, city-wide manhunt for days while he works out how to track down the real killer.
• When Jack finally comes to the end of the line and finds himself trapped in a factory with no way out, he holes up in a room and wedges a chair under the doorknob. Then he unloads his gun and puts the clip in one corner and the gun in the other, not because he thinks it will save him from being shot out of hand but because he is determined that he will not become a cop-killer in truth. Then he stoically waits for the cops to find and kill him. Lucky for him Sabien and Trixie had a plan.