Russian roulette
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Russian Roulette is a game of chance in which a revolver is loaded with a certain number of bullets, never full and almost always one bullet. A player spins the cylinder, puts the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. This goes back and forth until someone gets shot.
During Day 3, Jack Bauer, a prison guard named Buchanan and Ramon Salazar were forced to play Russian Roulette by Peel. Buchanan shot himself in the head. Then Jack was to play against Salazar. However, in a twist of events, during one of the turns where Jack was supposed to pull the trigger against himself, he instead suddenly turned the gun on Peel, shooting him instead, and causing enough of a distraction to allow him and Ramon to escape.
[edit] Background information and notes
- At the end of the episode Day 3 5:00pm-6:00pm where Jack Bauer and Ramon Salazar play Russian roulette, Kiefer Sutherland made a public service announcement about gun safety.
- It appears that Jack can tell if a gun is loaded or not, because he shoots Peel at the right moment (although he could also tell Chase's team was ready with the explosives). Also, several hours later Jack is forced to shoot Chase, but the gun is empty. Even so, both of these events could be purely coincidental.
- Buchanan's death was written as the first gunshot to invert the common filmmaking practice of the first chamber always being empty.
