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Episode Recap: "When Worlds Collide"

Episode Recap by Todd mason

A season finale, a swan song for Diane Farr's Megan Reeves, and not quite a cliffhanger when in comes to David's future involvement with the FBI.Even given this is a show about an FBI unit and the CalTech-style academics who work with them, this series only infrequently runs head-on into political matters, but producers and episode-writers Cheryl Heuton and Nicholas... read full recap

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I have to say I really enjoyed the eposide. However, I am very saddened that meghan is leaving . because larry has no love interest . For me, that was a big reason for watching the... read more
Posted by wkalthoff May 17, 2008 6:50 PM
Grant, thanks...I was thinking "Charlie," but wrote "David" as in Krumholtz, rather than Sinclair. And I'll have to admit to no direct control over what appears on the show's splash... read more
Posted by Todd mason May 17, 2008 6:40 PM
Interesting show and probably all to close to the truth. I think we can be assured of Charlie's being reinstated with his security clearance after all that is the premise of the show... read more
Posted by kraftykat May 17, 2008 5:40 PM

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Numbers, David Krumholtz, Numb3rs courtesy Robert Voets/CBS

Numbers, Val Kilmer, Numb3rs courtesy Robert Voets/CBS

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Numbers, Dylan Bruno, Val Kilmer, Numb3rs courtesy Robert Voets/CBS

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Episode Recap: "When Worlds Collide" | Numbers | 5/17/2008 New
A season finale, a swan song for Diane Farr's Megan Reeves, and not quite a cliffhanger when in comes to David's future involvement with the FBI.Even given this is a show about an FBI unit and the CalTech-style academics who work with them, this series only infrequently runs head-on into political matters, but producers and episode-writers Cheryl Heuton and Nicholas Falacci have something to say about the National Security State and its sometimes blind disruption of scientists' work and sometimes of innocent peoples' lives. And so this scenario...a DC-based FBI counterterrorism expert is called out to the LA offices when two Pakistani-immigrant professionals are kidnapped by unknown assailants. The two are part of a Pakistani charity agency, which is under scrutiny by the FBI as a potential money-launderer for terrorist activity. The two kidnap victims are found, tortured before they were murdered, but not before one of faculty at the CalTech analog, another Pakistani immigrant,... read more
Diane Farr Dishes on Her Numbers Exit | TV Show Previews | 5/15/2008 New
Tonight marks Diane Farr's exit from Numbers after three years playing the spunky but (of late) troubled FBI agent Megan Reeves. We talked to the actress, who walked away from Rescue Me in 2005 to join the brainy CBS action show, about her latest decision, her upcoming twins (she already has a 14-month-old son!) and kissing Peter MacNicol. — Ileane Rudolph TVGuide.com: Congratulations! What were your first words on hearing that you were having twins and would have three babies under two years old?Diane Farr: You couldn't possibly print the words that came out of my mouth. We were at the doctor to do the eight-week ultrasound, and I could clearly see that there were two fetuses on the monitor. So the technician and I sat there in silence for two minutes while I was hoping it was something else.TVGuide.com: So it wasn't fertility pills?Farr: Any person who has a ten-month-old would tell you there's no way on earth they would take fertility drugs. Clearly, if I got pregnant on... read more
Episode Recap: "Pay to Play" | Numbers | 5/12/2008
This was a very solid episode of Numb3rs, for all that it does take for granted a number of things that one might question, such as the gangster-wannabe nature of many rappers going as far as to spray bullets into a rival's house, or the quantifiability of pop-music success, either theoretically or via payola.At a rap-label's promotion party, it's two most successful artists are highlighted, when a self-recording/promoting rapper who resents the label-owner, at least, crashes and demands to be heard. He's rushed offstage, but the most popular artist on the label seems less than thrilled with how things are happening around him...he steps out, gets in his car, and is cut down by gunfire in front of a number of witnesses. Since the FBI was already working a case against the record label for drug distribution, Liz Warner is on-scene, and invites Don's unit in to poke around as well (albeit they seem to have left the corpse in his car an improbably long time at that point). The... read more
Episode Recap: "Atomic No. 33" | Numbers | 5/7/2008
An episode that was more of a straightforward mystery than usual, with multiple suspects in the murders of various members of a Christian-offshoot sect that could very easily be called a cult, and indeed is classified that way by state and Federal authorities. Also, an episode which gave a little space for Don and Robin to be playful with each other, and for Larry to begin to articulate the discontent which is starting to color his life. The title refers to the place in the chemist's Periodic Table of arsenic.In the compound of the sect, which like Christian Science and some other faiths prefers to avoid standard allopathic medicine, a social event is disrupted by what turns out to be poisoned coffee, laced with enough arsenic to sicken the assembled...and just a little too much more. It turns out that the recently installed minister and his son have ulterior motives in their involvement with the church--they are con men, playing, as Megan notes, a "life con" to exploit the... read more
Episode Recap: "End Game" | Numbers | 4/26/2008
A good episode, with a lot of reunions in it, and only one heavily telegraphed goof on the part of our agents. Aya Sumika returns as Liz Warner, Bil Nye as Bill Waldie, Sharif Atkins as fugitive Clay Porter, and the continuing presence of Michelle Nolden as Robin Brooks...and Don is even showing that he might've finally learned something about balancing work and love lives with a partner. We also get to see the still slightly shaggy, more irascible than usual paterfamilias, Alan Eppes, attempting to force some environmentally-friendly but irritating upgrades on the house, only to have Charlie return the favor by counterproposing upgrades that would incovenience Alan, instead. I suspect that this thread, of restless and slightly snappish and unshaven Alan, is likely to make itself more important by season's end.One could also see the groundwork being laid for Larry's eventual departure...he has a slightly underexplicated crisis of faith in his project seeking the Higgs boson, and a... read more

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NUMB3RS: Message Board

Nov 2nd episode
Where was Diane Farr? She wasn't in the episode nor was her name in the credits, is she still part of the cast? read more
Posted by prplrz66 Nov 3, 2007 4:22 AM

Weirdest thing in Numbers
Has anybody notices that in the first 20 minutes of the show tonight(10/12/07) the actor cast as Charlie in Number was quite different from previous shows. It seems David Krumholtz has put... read more
Posted by statisticsMM Oct 13, 2007 3:23 AM

Diane Farr fan?
Diane Farr has a new interview on iyogalife.com. She talks about her yoga practice and her baby and her worklife. Check it out here. She looks so good, post-baby! read more
Posted by yoginigirls Oct 4, 2007 7:58 PM

Where is Larry?
am i the only one who noticed that Larry has been gone for a little too long? i know he went to space, but i think its time for him to come back. Megan is getting lonely. dont you agree? read more
Posted by teelee Feb 5, 2007 2:19 AM

A Baby On The Way???
My husband & I have been watching NUMB3RS since the show began. We've noticed that the actress playing Megan, in some scenes, looks pregnant (like maybe 4-5 months along); has anyone... read more
Posted by red23 Oct 23, 2006 2:47 PM

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Premise: An FBI special agent in Los Angeles teams with his mathematical genius brother to solve crimes. Don, a veteran investigator, relies on hard facts and evidence to catch crooks, while his younger brother Charlie, a brilliant university professor, analyzes mathematical equations and statistics to provide case clues. Sibling film directors Ridley and Tony Scott serve as executive producers.

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