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Numb3rs (aka: Numbers) The Complete Third Season (2007)
Starring: David Krumholtz, Rob Morrow Director: John Behring Rating: Not Rated
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Like a cross between CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION and Darren Aronofsky's indie feature PI, the CBS television series NUMB3RS blends crime-drama with mathematics for a smart and creepy spin on the police-detective genre. Executive produced by Ridley Scott (ALIEN) and Tony Scott (TRUE ROMANCE), the series centers on a pragmatically minded FBI agent, Don Eppes (NORTHERN EXPOSURE's Rob Morrow), who invites his math-genius younger brother, Charlie (David Krumholz), to help him solve challenging cases using mathematical theories based on equations and probability. Dark and moody with a near-cinematic feel, NUMB3RS has won both fans and acclaim for its innovative approach to the conventional crime-drama formula. This collection presents all 24 episodes from the series' second season, which includes guest appearances by Mary Kay Place, Graham Greene, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Colin Hanks.
Episodes:
301 Spree
Don is on the trail of a criminal couple consisting of a 30 year old teacher and a 17 year student who are committing crimes across the country. Charlie and Amita's relationship changes and Alan decides to move out. The episode ends in a cliffhanger with Crystal Hoyle, the 30-year-old teacher, taking Megan hostage.
Mathematics used: pursuit curves and geodesic sphere
302 Two Daughters
Continued from last episode, Don and his team look for Crystal's old contacts. When Megan is kidnapped, things get personal for the team.
Mathematics used: polar spirals and parametric equations
303 Provenance
A painting worth millions of dollars is stolen from a museum and when a related murder plot surfaces, shocking details begin to arise.
Mathematics used: Linear diophantine equations and Curvelet analysis
304 The Mole
The death of a Chinese interpreter leads Don and his team to investigate a possible mole from within the Department of Justice. Colby covers up information on Don's case for a friend. Charlie is upset when Larry publishes a paper without his help.
Mathematics used: Steady Motion Algorithm, Curtate cycloid, symmetry and combinatorics
305 Traffic
A series of violent highway attacks which appear to be random puzzles Don and his team.
Mathematics used: Randomness, partial differential equations and traffic flow
306 Longshot
The team investigates the death of a man armed with a sophisticated statistical analysis that can identify the winning horse at a race track.
Mathematics used: Probability, Arbitrage betting and Data mining
307 Blackout
After an attack on a power station which left parts of Los Angeles in the dark, the team must find the assailant's real target.
Mathematics used: Center of mass, harmonic series, directed graph, Load flow analysis and Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition
308 Hardball
A minor league baseball player is found dead of steroid abuse, leading the investigators to an unusual chain of suspects.
Mathematics used: Sabermetrics and Shiryaev-Roberts Change-point analysis
309 Waste Not
Mysterious cancer clusters are found around a number of elementary schools whose playgrounds were all paved by the same company. A new CalSci administrator pains Charlie and his colleagues, while Alan dates her.
Mathematics used: Groundwater flow equation and Cancer clusters
310 Brutus
A California State Senator and a psychiatrist--neither have much in common with the other except for one thing...they both turn up dead on Don's watch. While the circumstances of their deaths are different, Don thinks the two murders are related, and tries to prove his hunch right. What he finds may bring to light a deep secret the government has been hiding for years.
Mathematics used: Network flow, network theory, Euclid's Orchard and Target Selection Theory.
311 Killer Chat
Don and Charlie track a killer who has murdered several sex predators. The predators took advantage of teenage girls they met in chat rooms. Meanwhile, Larry is ready to begin an adventure with NASA.
Mathematics used: Statistical Textual Analysis and principal components analysis Trivia: Featured music is Elton John's Rocket Man.
312 Nine Wives
Don, Charlie, and the team search for a polygamist who is on the run. The man is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for rape and murder.
Mathematics used: Lévy flights, Inbreeding coefficients and Kinship chains
313 Finders Keepers
After an extremely expensive yacht sinks in the middle of a race, Charlie is put between a rock and a hard place when Don and the NSA need his help on the case.
Mathematics used: fluid dynamics, Constraint and Optimization
314 Take Out
When two police officers are killed while eating dinner out, Charlie tries to figure out where the killers will strike next. Don's superiors make him see the department shrink.
Mathematics used: Outliers and data mining
315 End of Watch
Don and the team reopen a cold case when a LAPD badge turns up at a construction site. When Charlie joins the investigation, they attempt to track down the owner of the badge, an officer who has been missing 17 years. Meanwhile, Alan is informed that he's being sued.
Mathematics used: Laser Swath Mapping and Quantum Mechanics
316 Contenders
One of David's closest friends is called into question after a man dies while boxing with him. When it turns out this is not the first time such an event has happened, things look even worse. Charlie is busy practicing what little he knows about poker, so he can take Larry's spot in a tournament.
Mathematics used: Kruskal's algorithm, Flow network
317 One Hour
Don talks to his therapist again, and while he's gone, the team races to find an eleven year-old boy being held on a $3 million ransom, and time is running out...
Mathematics used: 'cake-cutting' algorithm, Logic maze, VoIP and State diagram
318 Democracy
Several area murders seem to be tied to voter fraud. Don, Charlie, and the team must find the killers before they strike again.
Mathematics used: Statistics, Probability theory, metadata and Organizational theory
319 Pandora's Box
When a jet crashes in the middle of a forest, Charlie suspects that there is more to the crash than what meets the eye.
Mathematics used: Ito-Stratonovich drift integrals and wavelet deconvolution
320 Burn Rate
Don and Charlie hunt for a serial letter bomber and disagree over whether a key suspect, a physics professor working as a consultant on explosives for the Department of Defense who eluded conviction once before, is responsible for the latest murder.
Mathematics used: explosions, Paradigm shift, coherence and outliers
321 The Art of Reckoning
When a former mob hit man on death row suddenly has a change of heart and agrees to confess to his crimes, Don has an uneasy feeling about the whole affair. Larry returns from his NASA mission.
Mathematics used: probability theory, game theory (tit for tat)
322 Under Pressure
Don, Charlie and the team take on unknown terrorists who may be using nerve gas to undermine the city's water supply.
Mathematics used: Social Network Analysis
323 Money For Nothing Nicolas Falacci, Cheryl Heuton
$50 million dollars in medical relief is up for grabs after the shipment is stolen. But there's a catch--someone other than the FBI wants to recover the shipment. Don and the team find themselves pitted against blackmarketeers in a deadly race for the supplies.
Mathematics used: Greedy algorithm and Dijkstra's algorithm
324 The Janus List
In the wake of a deadly standoff with a mysterious, yet brilliant bomber, Don and Charlie discover that he was poisoned to keep him from exposing a shocking secret that will change the FBI team forever.
Mathematics used: Merkle-Hellman, Wheat and Chessboard Problem, straddling checkerboard, substitution cipher, Bacon's cipher, knapsack problem, Lorentz force |
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Starring:
David Krumholtz | Rob Morrow | Judd Hirsch | Alimi Ballard | Navi Rawat | Peter MacNicol | Diane Farr | Dylan Bruno | ...more
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Directed By:
John Behring | Leslie Libman | J. Miller Tobin | Fred Keller | Dennis Smith | David Von Ancken | Colin Bucksey | Chris Hartwill | Alex Zakrzewski | Michael Watkins | Oz Scott | Scott Lautanen | Stephen Gyllenhaal | Steve Boyum | Frederick K Keller | Julie Hébert
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Genre:
Drama, Television/TV Series, Thriller/Suspense
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DVD Release Date:
September 25, 2007
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
Not Rated
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Year:
2007
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Regional Coding:
R1:
Will only play on North American Region 1 or multi-region DVD players.
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Number of Discs:
6
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Screen Ratio:
Anamorphic (16:9), Widescreen Edition - 1.78:1
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English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
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Running Time:
1020 minutes
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Studio:
Paramount
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UPC/Barcode Number:
097361226842
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Color: Yes
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- Cast and Crew Commentaries on select episodes
- Crunching NUMB3RS Season 3
- Eppes Central
- Blooper Reel
- Set House Tour
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