Awesome / Due South

• "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.
• Near the end of The Deal, Ray goes, without his badge or gun, to Zuko to convince him to let the Shoemaker go. They end up having a conversation about a kid that Zuko beat the crap out of in school, while Ray stood idly by. Then Ray proceeds to go into a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Zuko, telling him that if he doesn't let the Shoemaker go, Ray will tell every person he sees on his way home about how he kicked Zuko's ass. And it won't matter if they believe him when he tells them, they'll believe it when they see Zuko's battered face.
  • Another one later, we hear Fraser reading from his father's diary about a man he put away threatening to come find him and seek revenge one day, and talking about how fear affects a man and the way he lives his life. As the narration continues, we see Ray sitting on his bed, pistol in hand. Then Ray unloads the pistol and locks it up, having decided not to let fear of Zuko's reprisal affect him.
  • From the same episode, Fraser managing to give one of the most polite examples of "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Zuko:
  Fraser: Although it's been my experience that many people live their lives thinking that they're respected, only to discover that they've been merely feared. And fears can be overcome.
• Fraser doesn't use his gun because he's not licensed for it in the US. However, he is an expert marksman, though it's easy to forget this given that he rarely gets to use guns. In Mountie On The Bountie, Ray and Fraser (and a whole shipload of mounties) are fighting the bad guys for control of a freighter drifting across one of the Great Lakes. The bad guy gloats that soon he will be in the carribean enjoying the money he made from piracy...
  Fraser: But right now, my friend, you're in the Dominion of Canada.
  • Ray tosses Fraser his gun, and Fraser proceeds to shoot all the scuba gear's masks so he can't use them, followed by blowing a detonator remote right out of the bad guy's hand.
• 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 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 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 Awesome Music. "THIRTY-TWO DOWN ON THE ROBERT MCKENZIE!"
  • Ray Vecchio on the same series got one in the first season; Frank Zuko, a mob boss with whom he had grown up, started terrorizing the city and had Benton beaten. 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 Vecchio 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.