Episode list for
"Numb3rs" (2005)

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Episode Count: 102
Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Year: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | unknown

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 0: Unaired Pilot

Original Air Date: ????

Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date: 23 January 2005
When a rapist proves a little too difficult to find for the FBI, Agent Eppes and Agent Lake utilize Agent Eppes' genius mathematician brother, Charlie, to discover the rapist's point of origin.

Season 1, Episode 2: Uncertainty Principle

Original Air Date: 28 January 2005
A pair of bank robbers are quietly taking LA by storm but Charlie delivers an equation that may predict their next location. But these bank robbers aren't as respectful as the bank videos reveal.

Season 1, Episode 3: Vector

Original Air Date: 4 February 2005
A deadly virus is spreading through LA and only Charlie's equations can determine how far and where the disease is spreading.

Season 1, Episode 4: Structural Corruption

Original Air Date: 11 February 2005
The mysterious suicide of a brilliant but unfocused CalSci engineering major leads Eppes and Charlie to the site of an iconic building.

Season 1, Episode 5: Prime Suspect

Original Air Date: 18 February 2005
A genius' (Harris) daughter is captured by two men looking to use his possible solution to a 150 year old math equation for heists.

Season 1, Episode 6: Sabotage

Original Air Date: 25 February 2005
An unknown terrorist is mimicking horrible train accidents and leaving a number code at the scene.

Season 1, Episode 7: Counterfeit Reality

Original Air Date: 11 March 2005
When FBI agent Don Eppes finds several murders are linked to counterfeiting, his mathematically genial brother Charlie uses his skills to do what other investigating methods -as used by Agent Kim Hall, Don's colleague and ex in his Albuquerque days, a blank chapter in his past for Charlie- failed to, locate the forging and identify who did the graphical artwork required for his old-fashioned, relatively hard to detect fakes with real printing presses and watermark, not computer printing: it's a missing artist, who must be kidnapped and will probably by murdered as a liability for the counterfeiters...

Season 1, Episode 8: Identity Crisis

Original Air Date: 1 April 2005
When Riley, who practiced an ingenious pyramid method of skinning numerous bank accounts for over half a million dollars, is strangled, exactly the same way -not revealed to the press- as Lisa Bayle, for whose murder Don Eppes' investigation once put Cliff Howard in jail after a plea bargain-confession, Don now fears the wrong man was arrested. Charlie helps him quantify the unlikeliness of a coincidence and seriously doubt the forensic evidence. Electrician Jose Salazar, whom Don suspects, still turns out to be innocent of Lisa's murder, but Charlie realizes that's not the point: what if a third person committed both murders, linked rather by the victims?

Season 1, Episode 9: Sniper Zero

Original Air Date: 15 April 2005
Sniper attacks are occurring across LA but are all the attacks the result of one inexperienced marksmen or is a fad of sniper killings infecting LA?

Season 1, Episode 10: Dirty Bomb

Original Air Date: 22 April 2005
A truck of nuclear materials is stolen by terrorists who intend to use the materials to make a bomb which would then be used on the city of LA. Only Charlie and Charlie's father Larry can save the city from a small nuclear blast.

Season 1, Episode 11: Sacrifice

Original Air Date: 29 April 2005
Dr. Larry Fleinhardt's former college days friend Jonas Hoke, the Senior computer-science researcher, who develops for Robert Oliver's firm Lorman group with gifted college drop-out Scott Reynolds a classified program to evaluate government projects, is murdered in his Hollywood Hills home; data were stolen from his computer, which only contains a coded program for analysis of baseball statistics. Hoke's financial divorce complications seem irrelevant, although his wife had a relationship with their security system installer Lucas Grant. However Charlie finds that Hoke actually used the same kind of advanced statistic analysis and performance prediction on other data, cleverly masked under meaningless baseball numbers: Hoke applied this method cutting-edge to calculate human performance prospects in real life, based on various governmental and other data, potentially far more valuable...

Season 1, Episode 12: Noisy Edge

Original Air Date: 6 May 2005
A UFO is briefly seen flying through Los Angeles with no clear indication on what it is, but Agent Eppes discovers it was heading for the Staples Center and starts an investigation into the possibility of mass terrorism.

Season 1, Episode 13: Man Hunt

Original Air Date: 13 May 2005
A prison transport bus crashes after maneuvers by two other vehicles, several inmates escape, including the dangerous McDowd. Charlie gets on well with CHP Officer Morris on the scene and works out mathematically it was no accident, both other drivers probably were in the game. Dad is worried Don might be returning to the period he regularly worked in fugitive retrieval, especially now a former colleague, burly federal marshal Cooper, is on the same case. After finding a lesser fugitive, Charlie's mathematical probabilities approach helps reconstructing the remarkable movements of McDowd in LA, which leads to a worrisome motive relating to a DEA case and likely further accomplices...

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Judgment Call

Original Air Date: 23 September 2005

Season 2, Episode 2: Bettor or Worse

Original Air Date: 30 September 2005
The team investigates a jewelry store theft where the robbers kidnapped the owner's wife and daughter.

Season 2, Episode 3: Obsession

Original Air Date: 7 October 2005

Season 2, Episode 4: Calculated Risk

Original Air Date: 14 October 2005
Don takes under his wing the son of a murdered executive as the team and Charlie try to narrow down who's responsible out of a pool of six thousand or more.

Season 2, Episode 5: Assassin

Original Air Date: 21 October 2005

Season 2, Episode 6: Soft Target

Original Air Date: 4 November 2005
When a death results from an anti-terrorism exercise Don and his team are called in, but the end up butting heads with the leader of the unit who refuses to halt further training exercises. Back at home, Alan has volunteered the house for the wedding of a girl both Charlie and Don had a crush on in high school.

Season 2, Episode 7: Convergence

Original Air Date: 11 November 2005
A series of home invasions become increasingly violent. Charlie's most famous work, The Eppes Convergence, is scrutinized by a former rival.

Season 2, Episode 8: In Plain Sight

Original Air Date: 18 November 2005
Data from a meth lab explosion reveals a photograph that triggers memories for Charlie and put him at loggerheads with Don who's focused on tracking down the drug dealer who set off the explosion that killed one of his agents.

Season 2, Episode 9: Toxin

Original Air Date: 25 November 2005

Season 2, Episode 10: Bones of Contention

Original Air Date: 9 December 2005
The murder of a young museum researcher sends the team on a search for a killer and a missing Native American skull.

Season 2, Episode 11: Scorched

Original Air Date: 16 December 2005
Charlie seeks out an engineering professor to help him recreate a fire scenario to solve an arson case.

Season 2, Episode 12: The OG

Original Air Date: 6 January 2006
Charlie uses math to determine the killer of an undercover FBI agent.

Season 2, Episode 13: Double Down

Original Air Date: 13 January 2006
Charlie and the team investigate a murder at a casino.

Season 2, Episode 14: Harvest

Original Air Date: 27 January 2006
A crime scene drenched in blood leads the team to a form of human trafficking, and Amita to her past.

Season 2, Episode 15: The Running Man

Original Air Date: 3 February 2006
When a DNA synthesizer with terrorist possibilities is stolen from a university lab, Charlie and the team must find it before it leaves the country.

Season 2, Episode 16: Protest

Original Air Date: 3 March 2006
The bombing of a recruitment office puts Don and his father at odds, and brings an agent out of retirement.

Season 2, Episode 17: Mind Games

Original Air Date: 10 March 2006
A psychic helps to find a burial site of numerous illegal immigrants just across the California-Mexico border. Charlie and he battle to see who will come up with the location of another female migrant before she joins the other victims in the morgue.

Season 2, Episode 18: All's Fair

Original Air Date: 31 March 2006
After an Iraqi woman - in the US to film an interview on atrocities against women back home - is murdered, clues lead to an American military suspect and the team must determine their truth before another killing occurs.

Season 2, Episode 19: Dark Matter

Original Air Date: 7 April 2006
Charlie helps the team solve how many shooters there were in a school massacre.

Season 2, Episode 20: Guns and Roses

Original Air Date: 21 April 2006
An ATF agent is found in her home, an apparent victim of suicide. Don, having been involved with her, asks Charlie to run algorithms to determine if she was likely suicidal, or she was murdered.

Season 2, Episode 21: Rampage

Original Air Date: 28 April 2006
After an assailant opens fire in the FBI offices, Charlie does not want to return.

Season 2, Episode 22: Backscatter

Original Air Date: 5 May 2006
The Russian mob threatens Don and his family, however Charlie refuses to give up working the case.

Season 2, Episode 23: Undercurrents

Original Air Date: 12 May 2006
The bodies of young Asian girls wash up on the beach, including one with bird flu. Amita gets a job offer.

Season 2, Episode 24: Hot Shot

Original Air Date: 19 May 2006
Don's team investigates a rapist who's converted to a serial killer, as Charlie struggles with memories of his mother.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Spree

Original Air Date: 22 September 2006
Charlie and the team track a couple who are spree killers, but their actions seem to defy profiling.

Season 3, Episode 2: Two Daughters

Original Air Date: 29 September 2006
The team is in a race against time to rescue fellow agent Megan from the clutches of Crystal Hoyle.

Season 3, Episode 3: Provenance

Original Air Date: 6 October 2006
The robbery of a painting that unexpectedly turned to murder, has the team exploring a disputed provenance and possible insurance fraud.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Mole

Original Air Date: 13 October 2006
The hit-and-run death of an interpreter may compromise a team member, and Charlie must deal with not being consulted for a paper.

Season 3, Episode 5: Traffic

Original Air Date: 20 October 2006
Charlie and the team grapple with the concept of 'randomness' while trying to find a killer targeting drivers on the freeway.

Season 3, Episode 6: Longshot

Original Air Date: 26 October 2006
Don and the team investigate a suspicious death at a horse track. When Charlie starts looking into the crime, he uncovers something that will send the investigation into an entirely different direction.

Season 3, Episode 7: Blackout

Original Air Date: 3 November 2006
Blackouts all over Los Angeles leave the city in the dark. Don works with his team to figure out if the power outages are an accident or the work of terrorists.

Season 3, Episode 8: Hardball

Original Air Date: 10 November 2006
The death of a minor league player leads to a math prodigy and stirs old feelings for Don.

Season 3, Episode 9: Waste Not

Original Air Date: 17 November 2006
Charlie's investigation of a company's toxic paving material is impeded by a new school administrator who wants him to focus primarily on his pure academic work instead.

Season 3, Episode 10: Brutus

Original Air Date: 24 November 2006
The assassination of a California senator leads the team to questionable experimentation on prisoners, the CIA, and a man bent on revenge. Elsewhere, Larry makes an announcement that shakes Charlie.

Season 3, Episode 11: Killer Chat

Original Air Date: 15 December 2006
The team tries to track the person murdering men in homes that are for sale, and Larry's dream of space may is in jeopardy.

Season 3, Episode 12: Nine Wives

Original Air Date: 5 January 2007
The search for a pedophile polygamist takes an interesting genealogical turn when a quilt is found.

Season 3, Episode 13: Finders Keepers

Original Air Date: 12 January 2007
The search for a yacht ends up splitting Charlie's loyalties when two agencies ask for his help.

Season 3, Episode 14: Take Out

Original Air Date: 2 February 2007
Multiple robberies at upscale restaurants bring Don's team in once it escalates to murder. Elsewhere, both Charlie and Don must do some soul searching as one tackles a psychiatric review and another questions the ethics of a pharmaceutical company that wants to use his name.

Season 3, Episode 15: End of Watch

Original Air Date: 9 February 2007
The discovery of a presumed dead police officer's badge brings the LAPD and Don's team together to solve the mystery of what happened 17 years ago. Elsewhere, Alan is served in a lawsuit, and he has to determine if his calculations were wrong when he consulted for a golf course.

Season 3, Episode 16: Contenders

Original Air Date: 16 February 2007
One of David's childhood friends is accused of murder while sparring in preparation for an All-Out Fighting bout, and Charlie has a contest of his own trying to defend Larry's chair in a Texas Hold 'em qualifier.

Season 3, Episode 17: One Hour

Original Air Date: 16 February 2007
The son of a multi-millionaire Latino hip-hop-Song producer is kidnapped. The kidnapper demands $3.2 million for the boy's release, but Granger and his crew only have one hour.

Season 3, Episode 18: Democracy

Original Air Date: 9 March 2007
An old colleague of Charlie's asks for help because of the untimely deaths of some coworkers, but when she also turns up dead Don and Charlie are started on a trail that may threaten the very democracy they've vowed to protect.

Season 3, Episode 19: Pandora's Box

Original Air Date: 30 March 2007
Charlie splits his genius between solving a plane crash and the burglary at his home.

Season 3, Episode 20: Burn Rate

Original Air Date: 6 April 2007
As letter bombs begin targeting people surrounding a previous serial bomber investigation, Don and Charlie must sift through a number of false leads to find the real killer.

Season 3, Episode 21: The Art of Reckoning

Original Air Date: 27 April 2007
Don finds himself negotiating with a hit man to find an assemblyman's son, and Larry has difficulty adjusting to terra firma.

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Season 3, Episode 22: Under Pressure

Original Air Date: 4 May 2007
The threat of a terrorist attack in L.A. puts everyone on high-alert as Don leads a special task force, and butts heads with Charlie and Alan.

Season 3, Episode 23: Money for Nothing

Original Air Date: 11 May 2007
A shipment of medicine and cash bound for Zambia is hijacked, and Don and his team find themselves working against a banker focused on retrieving his money at the cost of the people being held for the code to access the safe.

Season 3, Episode 24: The Janus List

Original Air Date: 18 May 2007
When Charlie and Don are specifically asked for by a bomber who's rigged a bridge, it puts them on a trail of espionage in- and outside the states, and a devastating betrayal.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Trust Metric

Original Air Date: 28 September 2007
Peter MacNicol returns as a regular cast member. Colby is being interrogated by a man named Agent Kirkland, who passes him a handcuff key and gives him escape instructions. Don and his team get information about and from Colby and must figure out if that information is reliable then realizes that everything about Colby being a double agent may not be what it seems.

Season 4, Episode 2: Hollywood Homicide

Original Air Date: 5 October 2007
The death of a Hollywood wannabe leaves leads to a famous actor, his friends, and a possible double. At the office, David has difficulty dealing with Colby's return.

Season 4, Episode 3: Velocity

Original Air Date: 12 October 2007
A car crash into a building has ties to street racing and possibly a cold case.

Season 4, Episode 4: Thirteen

Original Air Date: 19 October 2007
Charlie is uncomfortable when the team has to use a numerologist to solve the current case, that has religious overtones.

Season 4, Episode 5: Robin Hood

Original Air Date: 26 October 2007
The perfect bank heist almost stumps the team when the profits are donated or returned to their rightful owners, and Don struggles with management issues.

Season 4, Episode 6: In Security

Original Air Date: 2 November 2007
Don is devastated when he thinks he led a killer to a secured witness, and Charlie sets out to prove he wasn't responsible.

Season 4, Episode 7: Primacy

Original Air Date: 9 November 2007
Amita's life is put in danger when she consults on a case involving an on-line role-playing game.

Season 4, Episode 8: Tabu

Original Air Date: 16 November 2007
A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped, and Megan is astounded by his behavior while the team tries to rescue her.

Season 4, Episode 9: Graphic

Original Air Date: 23 November 2007
In this episode, it is discovered that someone has stolen, recreated and sold several copies of an extremely rare comic book. Christopher Lloyd plays the original creator of the comic book, who no longer benefits from his past creations. Having thought that his comics wouldn't be worth much in the future, he either lost or sold his entire collection and regrets it now that he and his wife live on very little. His young friend and fellow comics artist, played by Ben Feldman, publicly humiliates the rich man who owned the original before it was stolen.

Season 4, Episode 10: Chinese Box

Original Air Date: 14 December 2007

Season 4, Episode 11: Breaking Point

Original Air Date: 11 January 2008
Charlie's life is put in danger after he gives an interview about the case he and Don are working on together, attracting the attention of the kidnappers of an investigative reporter.

Season 4, Episode 12: Power

Original Air Date: 18 January 2008
Don's team tracks a serial rapist who uses his position as a cop to entrap his victims.

Season 4, Episode 13: Black Swan

Original Air Date: 4 April 2008
A meth lab bust yields a surprise arrest that stymies the team when they can't figure out why he was in the area, and Megan disagrees with what Don chooses to do to get his answers.

Season 4, Episode 14: Checkmate

Original Air Date: 11 April 2008
A.U.S.A. Robin Brooks is back in town, and her involvement in Don's case brings back memories as they try to keep witnesses alive. Meanwhile, David attempts to bond with a young man who's in the chief suspect's thrall.

Season 4, Episode 15: End Game

Original Air Date: 25 April 2008
Clay Porter returns to the U.S. when his father and sister are taken hostage, and Don embarks on a deadly cat-and-mouse game to try to catch Porter and rescue his family.

Season 4, Episode 16: Atomic No. 33

Original Air Date: 2 May 2008
Larry finds himself fighting his own bigotry when he assists Don and Charlie's investigation into the poisoning of cult members.

Season 4, Episode 17: Pay to Play

Original Air Date: 9 May 2008
The murder of a rapper puts Charlie to work analyzing the mathematics of the music business in the same week that Amita's parents come to town, and Megan has asked for a week off without discussing it with Don.

Season 4, Episode 18: When Worlds Collide

Original Air Date: 16 May 2008
When one of Charlie's friends, a scientist at the university, is arrested for terrorist activities, it puts him at philosophical odds with Don. And as he works to prove the man's innocence, his beliefs may jeopardize his career.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Episode #5.1

Original Air Date: 3 October 2008

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