10 Greatest ‘I’m Dead And I Know It’ Moments In Movie History

10. Harry Knows He’s Blown It - Speed

Public transport can get a bit hairy at the best of times, but it’s not every day that you hop on the bus home and find out that it has been rigged with a bomb programmed to detonate should the bus drop below 50 miles per hour.

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The rigged up bus will eventually have to drop below 50 if it either runs out of gas or hits an obstacle, putting the LAPD in a race against the clock to find the terrorist responsible for it and keep the bus’s occupants alive.

Officer Harry Temple believes he has tracked down the terrorist’s name, identity and home address. He gathers a squad to raid the house, bursting into the empty home only for Temple to notice at the last moment a small, red blinking light. He knows exactly what it is, and he realises that the house is imminently going to blow and kill everyone inside, himself included.

He doesn’t try to run or shout, just looks straight forward as his lip quivers and his eyes take on a glassy, hopeless sheen. Knowing that the perpetrator was a previous member of the bomb-squad, how did you not see this coming?

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