TV series

Numb3rs

Name: Numb3rs
Released: 2005
Cast: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard, Navi Rawat

2005–2010· 6 seasons· 45 min episodesTV-14★ 7.0Canceled

On CBS — From The Barry Schindel Company · Post 109 Productions

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Synopsis

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

Themes

fbi mathematician genius los angeles, california crime investigation

Episodes

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E1 PilotNext upJan 23, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
Synopsis
To help capture a serial rapist-turned-killer, FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his genius brother Charlie, who uses a mathematical equation to identify the killer's point of origin by working back from the crime scene locations.
Guest stars: Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan), Kate Norby (Karen Silber), Brian Ruppert (FBI Surveillance Agent #1 (uncredited)), Gibby Brand (Medical Examiner), Anthony Heald (Walt Merrick), William O'Leary (Roland Haldane), Amanda Carlin (Forensic Technician), John Lacy (Police Detective)
E2 Uncertainty PrincipleJan 28, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
Synopsis
Charlie accurately predicts where a band of bank robbers will strike next. But when Don and his team confront them, a massive shoot-out occurs leaving four people, including an officer, dead. The outcome disturbs Charlie and he retreats into the family garage to work out an unsolvable math problem that he also plunged into after his mother became ill a year earlier. But Don needs his brother's help and tries to get Charlie to return to the case.
Guest stars: Susan Beaubian (FBI Tech Stendhauser), David Carrera (Adler), Matthew Yang King (Tech), Robinne Lee (Agent Harrill), Alan Davidson (Robert Skidmore), Andrew Caple-Shaw (Agent McKnight), Kenneth Meseroll (Captain Joe MacNevish), Ajay Mehta ('Y' DS Manager)
E3 VectorFeb 4, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 7.7
Synopsis
Various people in the L.A. area with seemingly nothing in common start to become extremely sick and die on the same day. Don fears bioterrorists may have released a deadly virus into the environment. While he tries to discover whether anyone is behind the outbreak, Charlie tries to locate the point of origin.
Guest stars: CCH Pounder (Lieutenant Lee Havercamp), Rainn Wilson (Martin Grolsch), Elizabeth Connors (Claudia Kramer), Marita Geraghty (Jessica Avery), Anjul Nigam (Dr. Renfro), J.K. Simmons (Dr. Clarence Weaver), Dean Shelton (Joshua Kramer), Tanner Richie (David Kramer)
E4 Structural CorruptionFeb 11, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 7.8
Synopsis
After an engineering student at CalSci is found dead from an apparent suicide, Charlie convinces Don to launch an investigation after he reads the student's thesis that asserted that the architecturally magnificent Cole Center in Los Angeles is structurally unstable. Although reluctant at first, Don and his FBI agents discover that the student's findings were correct and uncover a dangerous and surprising conspiracy. Meanwhile, Alan prepares for a first date and convinces Don and Terry to join them, hoping they might rekindle their old romance.
Guest stars: Gibby Brand (Michael Sabello), David Hunt (Elliot Cole), Alyson Reed (Eva Salton), Douglas Sills (Gaar Haybridge), Annika Peterson (Rachel), Michael Bryan French (Finn's Dad), James Immekus (Finn Montgomery), Devon Michaels (Brian Malone)
E5 Prime SuspectFeb 18, 2005 · 41 min · ★ 7.3
Synopsis
When a five-year-old girl is kidnapped from her birthday party, Don and Terry lead the investigation, but must rely on Charlie's help because the girl's father, Ethan, is also a mathematician. Charlie realizes the kidnapper's motive when Ethan reveals he is close to solving Riemann's Hypothesis, a difficult math problem. If solved, the solution could not only earn him $1 million, but could break the code for internet security and unlock the world's biggest financial secret.
Guest stars: Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan), Neil Patrick Harris (Ethan Burdick), Susan Beaubian (FBI Tech Stendhauser), Matthew Yang King (Tech), Susan Egan (Becky Burdick), Tom Irwin (Dr. Stephen Atwood), Ian Barford (Mikey), Jamie McShane (Paul Ballard)
E6 SabotageFeb 25, 2005 · 40 min · ★ 8.2
Synopsis
While consulting with the NTSB at the scene of the wreck, Don learns that this tragedy is one of a series of recreated accidents involving railroad negligence. As is the pattern with the previous train wrecks, an undecipherable numerical code is left at the site, which Don recruits Charlie to solve. By breaking the code, Charlie is able to establish that this accident was a recreation of a deadly wreck that left only one survivor several years ago. Don's investigation leads him and his team to a dangerous standoff with their suspect, who has surprising ties to the railway system.
Guest stars: Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan), Benjamin Salisbury (Docent), Bobby Preston (Jim), Jeffrey D. Sams (Mark Sutter), Keith Szarabajka (Cricket / Frank Milton), Colette Kilroy (Jim's Mother), Rubén Garfias (Brakeman), Randy Kovitz (Engineer)
E7 Counterfeit RealityMar 11, 2005 · 41 min · ★ 8.2
Synopsis
Don learns that counterfeiters are at work producing small-denomination bills, and that they have taken an artist hostage to draw the images for the fake money. If the missing woman isn't located soon, Don fears that she will be killed when her work is finished on the phony cash. The counterfeiters have already murdered at least five people, two of whom stole money from them. The case is made more difficult for Don when his former lover, now a Secret Service agent, is assigned to it.
Guest stars: Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan), Sarah Wayne Callies (Agent Kim Hall), Marcus Chait (Jordan Hughes), Victor Raider-Wexler (Eddie), Michole Briana White (Agent Ramos), Geoffrey Rivas (Det. Reynolds), Mel Winkler (Vincent), Dale Dickey (Karen)
E8 Identity CrisisApr 1, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
A man wanted for stock fraud is found garroted in his apartment, and the crime is eerily similar to a murder committed a year earlier, a case in which Don closed when an ex-con confessed. Now, Don must re-investigate the old case to determine if he put an innocent man in jail. He asks Charlie to go over the evidence to see if he missed anything the first time around.
Guest stars: Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan), Vanita Harbour (Velma Howard), Luis Antonio Ramos (Jose Salazar), Chris Butler (Cliff Howard), Marek Probosz (Mark Andric), Dominic Fumusa (Jonas Bayle), Molly Hagan (Fingerprint Technician), Angela Paton (Eyewitness)
E9 Sniper ZeroApr 15, 2005 · 41 min · ★ 8.0
Synopsis
The city is in a panic as a sniper goes on a shooting spree and randomly kills several people, including a postal worker. The investigation reveals that more than one shooter is at work. As Charlie works the case, he's frustrated by a sniper expert Don brings in to help out.
Guest stars: Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan), Lou Diamond Phillips (Agent Ian Edgerton), Jayne Taini (Marion Crane), Don Fischer (Walter), Franc Ross (Wayne Osborne), Arabella Field (Susan Meyers), Heather Lee (Big Mama), Nathanael Johnson (Nathan Crane)
E10 Dirty BombApr 22, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
Synopsis
A truck carrying radioactive material is stolen, and the thieves threaten to set off a dirty bomb in L.A. in 12 hours if they aren't paid $20 million. While Don attempts to track down the truck, Charlie tries to come up with the most likely location where the bomb may be detonated to inflict the most damage to the population.
Guest stars: Matthew Yang King (Tech), David Marshall Grant (Brent Hauser), Reynaldo Rosales (Darryl Gerth), Ron Dean (Peter Watson), Carrie Preston (Vicky Sites), Roxanne Hart (Cris Carlyle), Michael Shamus Wiles (Carl Baker), Susan Merson (Brenda Aronson)
E11 SacrificeApr 29, 2005 · 40 min · ★ 7.7
Synopsis
A senior computer-science researcher working on a classified government project is found murdered in his Hollywood Hills home and data has been stolen from his computer. The investigation reveals the victim was going through a bitter divorce and was trying to keep his wife from getting his money. Charlie also learns the project on which the man was working might have involved baseball.
Guest stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Scott Reynolds), Corey Stoll (Agent Reacher), Stacy Edwards (Gail Hoke), Ross Gibby (Lucas Grant), Elizabeth Dennehy (Ms. Ford), Bruce Davison (Robert Oliver), Susan Beaubian (FBI Tech Stendhauser), James Sie (FBI Tech)
E12 Noisy EdgeMay 6, 2005 · 41 min · ★ 7.3
Synopsis
Don and Agent Weston of the NTSB investigate eyewitness accounts of a mysterious unidentified object flying dangerously close to downtown Los Angeles that has raised concern of a terrorist attack. After Charlie is recruited to help with the investigation, it is discovered that the flying object is part of a new technology that could revolutionize air travel. But the investigation takes a turn when they learn that the lead engineer is found murdered.
Guest stars: Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan), Ben Davis (Air Force Captain), Bill Smitrovich (David Croft), Rod McLachlan (Bill McClelland), Castulo Guerra (Paul Ridenhauer), Dwayne L. Barnes (Mr. Johnson), Ethan Embry (Blake Gosnell), Gloria Reuben (Erica Quimby)
E13 Man HuntMay 13, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
A dangerous felon escapes when a prison bus crashes and the FBI has reason to fear he's intent on revenge against the witness whose testimony put him in jail. However, finding the elusive killer proves to be a complicated challenge. Don teams up with Agent Billy Cooper, his former partner from the FBI's Fugitive Recovery Division, and Alan worries that Don's going to return to a more dark and obsessive time in his career.
Guest stars: Max Martini (Agent Billy Cooper), Anthony DeSando (Detective Reed), Jennifer Westfeldt (Dr. Karen Fisher), Chad L. Coleman (Williams), Christina Cox (CHP Officer Morris), Eddie Velez (Raynor), Kevin Fry-Bowers (McDowd), John Del Regno (Foreman)