Pilot (23 Jan. 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.

Director:

Mick Jackson

Writers:

Cheryl Heuton (creator), Nicolas Falacci (creator),

Stars:

Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Rob Morrow	...	Don Eppes
David Krumholtz	...	Charlie Eppes
Judd Hirsch	...	Alan Eppes
Alimi Ballard	...	David Sinclair
Sabrina Lloyd	...	Terry Lake
Peter MacNicol	...	Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
Navi Rawat	...	Amita Ramanujan
Kate Norby	...	Karen Silber
Anthony Heald	...	Walt Merrick
William O'Leary	...	Roland Haldane
Gibby Brand	...	Medical Examiner
Karl Calhoun	...	Asst. Medical Examiner
Amanda Carlin	...	Forensic Technician
John Lacy	...	Police Detective
Kristen Ariza	...	Nurse

Storyline

A serial rapist who marked his victims by branding continued his escalating gravity by committing is presumably first murder. FBI Special Agent Don Eppes is in charge, under Agent Walt Merrick, of a massive investigation. Don's brother, professor Charles 'Charlie' Edward, a mathematical genius, takes a single peek at the map of the thirteen crime locations at their dad Alan's -and still Charlie's- home and claims he can roughly calculate the common point of origin: the rapist-killer's home. Charlie analyzes and applies such variables as the safety zone and the spontaneous non-randomizing of human 'arbitrary' choices, and achieves a 4/5 probability, as tested on earlier serial killers. Charlie's academic friend Dr. Larry Fleinhardt suggests he should concentrate on true mathematical challenges rather than 'trivial' real-life distractions. Charlie's prediction shows 87% chance for a zone with only 75 men, but no judge will grant a search order based on Charlie's work, so DNA is taken ...

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Plot Keywords:

murder | branding | grab knife blade | shot multiple times | baseball | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 January 2005 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television, Barry Schindel Company, The, Scott Free Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

[This appears on the beginning of the episode] 06:00 Time 594-E4 Map Grid 772-04 Case # 1st murder

User Reviews

First episode of Numbers!

In this first episode of 'Numbers', we are introduced to the FBI special agent Don Eppes, and his younger brother Charlie, who is a brilliant mathematician.

Don is trying to capture a serial rapist and having difficulties with his charge, until Charlie helps him to identify the killer's point of origin using mathematical equations.

I liked the first episode very much, specially because we can see without too much expectation Charlie's great skills with math.

I am not an expert in mathematics,physics or chemistry, but the idea of using math to solve problems for FBI missions was very interesting in my opinion, even though sometimes they overreact in it's (math) use.