Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 2, Episode 1 - Judgment Call - full transcript

♪

♪ Game that I hate to lose ♪

♪ Now I'm feeling the strain ♪

♪ Ain't it a shame ♪

♪ Oh, give me the beat,
boys, and free my soul ♪

♪ I wanna get lost
in your rock and roll ♪

♪ And drift away ♪

♪ Oh, give me the beat,
boys, and free my soul ♪

♪ I wanna get lost in your
rock and roll ♪ Good morning.

♪ And drift away ♪

♪ Beginning to think
that I'm wasting time ♪



♪ I don't understand
the things I do ♪

♪ The world outside
looks so unkind ♪

♪ And I'm counting on you ♪

♪ To carry me through ♪

♪ Oh, give me the beat,
boys, and free my soul ♪

♪ I wanna get lost
in your rock and roll ♪

♪ And drift away ♪

Appreciate it.

The victim's husband,
Judge Franklin Trelane,

Central Division.

When did he get here?

The Marshals drove him
over about half an hour ago.

He was right in
the middle of a trial.

What's the trial about?



Asian gang-bangers,

death penalty case.

We've already
started running down

the defendant's
known associates.

Her car was in the shop.

She borrowed his.

You know, you take the
oath, they give us a gun,

we go into public service
with our eyes open,

but nobody tells us our
families are fair game.

They're not.

Spray pattern would
suggest that, um,

the guy waited
for her to pull in,

for the garage door to
close and he opened fire.

Probably waiting on this side,

and he could've rubbed
up against any of this stuff,

so let's check this. - Yes, sir.

If the suspect's
breaking into the garage,

the victim comes in
and surprises him...

Twelve gauge isn't a
burglar's tool, though.

Yeah, four shots point
blank ain't a surprise.

That's premeditation.

So murder was the object.

I'm just wondering
who the target was.

The wife or the judge?

We all use math every day.

To predict
weather, to tell time,

to handle money.

Math is more than
formulas and equations.

It's logic.

Math is more than
formulas and equations.

It's rationality.

It's using your mind

to solve the biggest
mysteries we know.

We searched the criminal
histories and the psych profiles

that might have a
tilt towards retaliation

and the inclination
to act on it.

Now, are you assuming
that Alison Trelane's killer

is someone that the
husband put in jail?

Yeah.

Well, we're thinking the judge
was the intended target, not the wife.

Right, no, yeah. I... I
understand, but, uh,

your suspects aren't limited

only to people who were
convicted by the judge, right?

That's right. There's
also family members,

friends, co-conspirators.

The possibilities
are exponential.

Um, exponential would
mean that the growth rate

is proportionate
to its size, so, yeah,

the mathematically
correct term would be

"more."

Well, call it whatever you
want, Charlie, but, I mean...

I mean, this is going
to take a lot of time.

Not necessarily.

We can create a Bayesian filter.

I could,

if I had any idea
what that meant.

Do you ever get any
junk e-mail or spam?

Yeah.

Well, that's why they
create spam filters,

to filter out junk e-mail
from regular e-mail.

And spam filters
are Bayesian filters,

and what they do is they
calculate the probabilities

that an e-mail is spam,

given that it has
certain words like, uh,

"refinance," "stocks," "Viagra."

And you can do something similar

to narrow down
the list of suspects?

I can create a filter
that uses your criteria

to reduce the list of suspects

to people most likely
to kill a judge's wife.

Judge Franklin Trelane's
been on the bench 18 years.

12 before that as a
federal prosecutor.

I figured I'd start generating
threat assessments.

Threat assessments?

Yeah, Granger.

Behavioral analyses
based on documentation,

court transcripts,
death threats,

pre-sentencing psych evals.

Right. In other
words, profiling.

You make it sound
like a bad word.

No, just never thought coulda,
woulda, shoulda figured very well

into a homicide investigation.

What? What's she gonna tell us?

The guy we're looking
for had a bad childhood?

You know, not all sociopaths
have the bad childhoods.

As a matter of fact, some
law enforcement personnel

exhibit the same
characteristics.

Yeah, well, not this one.

If it quacks like a Duc.

Defendant facing the death
penalty in front of Trelane.

Sort of fits the
profile of a guy

who might want to
whack his judge, huh?

Yeah.

I'm sorry for the timing.

Don't be, Agent.

We both have our work to get to.

Can you think of anyone
who might have a motive

for killing your wife?

Someone who objected to her work

for the American
Heart Association

or a fellow member
of her horticulture club?

This murder was an
attack on me, on the bench.

We both know that.

And the case you're trying now.

Duc Lu Phan.

He's a leader of a
local street gang.

Facing you for
the death penalty.

I realize that,

but if I talk to you
any more about him,

I'll have to walk
away from the case.

All right, well, we're going to
try to run it down another way,

but you should be
prepared for that.

I'm sure his lawyer will make a
motion to have me step aside,

but I'd rather make
that decision on my own.

Yes, I... I understand.

Violence and tragedy,

they walk through my
courtroom five days a week,

and I assign them values.

Your grief is worth five
years, hers is worth 20.

One of those
decisions killed Alison.

What is my grief worth?

So, what's "JFM," Duc?

Name's Danny.

Danny.

What's "JFM," Danny?

It stands for "Just For Money."

It's an LA-based
Vietnamese street gang.

Community support organization.

Their community support
includes the kidnapping and murder

of Asian immigrants.

Yeah, okay. I
got that right here.

Wow, I see you
were just convicted

on multiple kidnapping
and murder charges.

Look at this.

Presiding judge
is Franklin Trelane.

Why am I not surprised?

A judge's wife gets killed,

you blame it on the guy
you can find the fastest.

You know, the fact is

you are the name
on everyone's lips.

And, yeah,

I wouldn't want to be you in
Franklin Trelane's courtroom.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

I've got no motive
to put a hit out on her.

What about someone who's
trying to do you a favor?

What kind of favor
would that be?

That's exactly what I'm saying.

Raymond.

You mean Raymond
Hmong, your number two man?

We've had a few beefs
since I been locked up, but...

But you get the needle,

Raymond moves up
to number one, right?

It's my favorite G-man.

Nadine. You know, I was
just thinking about you.

Yeah? Yeah.

What was I wearing?

Well, actually, I
didn't get that far, but...

Well, that sounds familiar.

What are you doing down here?

Uh, Judge Trelane.

Oh, you're investigating
his wife's murder.

Yeah, that's right. Actually,
you're in front of him

for Duc Lu Phan, aren't you?

Yeah. I didn't think he'd be able
to get back to work so quickly.

I guess he just
wants to do his job.

I mean, what do
you make of all this?

Could it have been
Phan who ordered the hit?

Yeah. Well, he's
certainly violent enough.

But I really hope it wasn't him.

Well, I didn't expect to
hear that from someone

who's trying to get
him the death penalty.

Well, if Trelane thinks that Phan's
responsible for his wife's death,

he's going to have
to recuse himself.

If he can't render a decision,

it's going to
lead to a mistrial.

And a waste of about
seven months of my life.

Not that I've actually had

much of a life the
past seven months.

Tell me about it. I
know what you mean.

So I heard Terry Lake
transferred to Washington.

Uh, yes, actually,

I guess she wants to give
her marriage a second shot.

Have you had lunch yet?

No, I haven't.

But, uh... Hey.

Perfect timing.

Hi. What are you doing here?

I... Well, what do you think?

I'm here looking for you, right?

Can you give me a ride home?

Yeah. I... I'm sorry.

Nadine Hodges, this
is my brother Charlie.

Oh, hey.

Uh, I was at the DMV. They gave
me my learner's permit back again.

Uh-oh. Again?

Yeah, I may have, uh, mishandled
my learner's permit the first time around.

Although I still take issue
with the methodology

utilized in radar speed
detection. It is, uh...

Did you get through
Trelane's files?

He's working with you on this?

Yeah. I think I'm
on to something.

All right. I... I got
to deal with this.

How about a rain check, okay?

Sure. All right? I'm sorry.

Boy, I, uh, I could've just
taken the bus back to CalSci

and then went home.

Yeah, well, you're about 15
seconds too late with that thought.

Sorry.

What kind of biker gang
doesn't ride Harleys?

The urban kind.

Besides, only investment bankers

can afford Harleys anymore.

Why am I going to
kill the judge's wife?

Well, even in jail, Danny
still calls the shots, right?

The only way for you to
sit in the big chair over there

is for Danny to go out
of the picture, right?

This is a family. We don't
do each other like that.

It's a family, huh?

You know what,
bro? We're done here.

No, no, no, you got it
backwards, Raymond.

This conversation's over
when we walk out of here.

Tell you what, man.

Why don't we run some
of those serial numbers

against the hot sheets?
This ain't right, yo!

FBI!

FBI!

Back down or
everybody gets arrested!

Federal agents! FBI!

Let this go any
further, Raymond,

and everybody in here is
going to end up with bullet holes.

Now, I know I have better places
to be tonight than the hospital.

You got no warrant. You
come in here on my treaty,

and you want to
step to me like that?

And we'll leave the same
way if you give us a choice!

Anybody shows his gun,

we do not have a choice.

♪

Let him go.

We good?

Danny thinks you
did it, Raymond.

He pointed us in your direction

to send you a clear message.

The message is

cooperate.

Understand?

Cooperate.

Look, David, I get that
you're senior agent, okay?

But you could've
backed my play in there.

Man, it was a bad play.

You can't sell wolf tickets
to hard-core bangers.

Wolf tickets?

Granger, a badge isn't
a magic wand, okay?

You try to arrest
people without cause,

you back them into
a corner, guess what?

They're gonna fight you.

You say, uh, her name is Hodges?

Yeah. Nadine.

She seemed pretty
interested in him, too,

although I'm not really good at
reading those kinds of signals.

No, you're not.

You know that
term, "dark matter,"

it has always perplexed me.

It fallaciously implies

that the 95% of our universe

that can't be observed

is some amorphous,

eventless, just, uh, emptiness.

I'm sorry?

I suppose it's all too human.

Instead of just admitting to the
present limits of our knowledge,

we simply declare
things to be unknowable.

This somehow relates to dating?

I'm sorry, to
reading signals. Oh.

And, of course, to
Rhonda Pickford.

I'm not familiar with her work.

She had a crush
on me in fifth grade.

Oh.

And, of course,
girls in fifth grade

suddenly became 95% unknowable.

Isn't that the truth.

I'm not following.

Oh, well, you see, I
labeled her to be dark matter,

and I just moved on to
more accessible pursuits.

Like, uh,

Space Invaders, actually.

So what happened
to this, um, Rhonda?

Oh. She became a
professional cheerleader.

Really? She did.

Yes, she did.

Well, I doubt that
Don actually, uh,

views women as dark matter.

Well, she's a prosecutor.

I'm sure he'll see her again.

Actually, Don thinks there's a
chance that the man she's prosecuting

may be behind the
murder of the judge's wife.

You know something?
Under that reasoning,

wouldn't that make
this prosecutor

just as likely a target?

Raymond Hmong has the motive.

He's the number two, but I
don't think he has the nerve.

Yeah, well, Danny Phan's
got the nerve for sure,

but no motive.

Problem is Colby.

He really pushed Raymond's
buttons out there, you know?

Okay, so?

Look, just keep
an eye on the JFM.

If we pick up that Hmong's making
a move, then we hit them, okay?

No problem.

But this Colby, I mean,
I think he's running hot.

Yeah, well, before
you say anything more,

he was just in here
bitching about you, so...

And what are wolf tickets?

It's a bad bluff, you know?
It's the boy who cried wolf.

Don, I'm just... I'm
just trying to say

Colby has this Army mentality.

You know, he thinks everybody's
a private who has to follow orders.

Don, he goes in too hard,
he throws his weight around...

You know, David, you
were the new guy last year

and you were too laid-back.

Took you too long
to take initiative.

And you got better,
you improved.

Yeah, I just thought... Guys.

Hey, I was just
coming to get you.

Don wants us to check
out some gang intel.

Yeah, well, might not have to.

I just ran Trelane's address
through the LAPD dispatch database,

see if there were any
prowler reports or anything.

And? Look at this.

Between May 2001 and June 2003,

LAPD responded to five
domestic disturbance calls

at Trelane's residence.

Apparently, they had
some knockdown, drag-outs.

No criminal reports filed?

Yeah, well, the guy's a
federal judge. No surprise there.

No, but, look.

On two occasions, Trelane was
instructed to vacate the premises.

All right. We've been
assuming the shooter was

after the judge and
got the wife by mistake.

Yeah. We might be
looking at this all wrong.

Thing is, you
neglected to mention

your history of
domestic disputes.

Because that's
what it was. History.

You ever been unhappy
with your job, Agent Eppes?

Yes, I have, sir.

I'm talking about a kind
of unhappy that takes

an hour of silence and three
drinks to come down from.

Sitting in judgment does not
come naturally to a reasonable man.

The drinking got
worse, and so did I.

Well, we're talking
about violence here.

I was never arrested.

You're a federal judge.

Even at my lowest point, I
never laid a hand on Alison.

I was angry with
myself, not with her.

She called the police.

Yes. And she left me.

But that was my wake-up call.
I've been in the program ever since.

When did she come back?

Last August.

Our last year together was
the happiest of our marriage.

Look,

knowing that she'd
probably still be alive,

that coming back to me and
my work is what killed her...

Do your job.

Check my alibi, my bank
accounts, whatever you need

and then find the
bastard that killed my wife.

So Bayes' theorem
states that uncertainty,

degrees of belief, can be
measured as probabilities.

Charlie, do you realize

I spent two days putting
these files in order?

Yeah, right. Uh,
newest to oldest.

Why did you do that?

Because a criminal is much
more likely to act on his or her rage

right around the
time of conviction.

You know, while the
focus is still sharp?

Couldn't the opposite hold true?

A grudge festering over time,

new developments aggravating it?

It would depend upon the
personality and the situation.

So if time functions
differently on different people,

then a chronological approach
would be no more effective

than choosing a
folder at random.

Okay, yeah, but you
have to start somewhere.

No. You have to
start everywhere.

These are report cards, okay?

But we're not looking for the
newest students or the oldest.

We're looking for the one with
the highest grade point average.

With the grades being
for quantifiable behavior,

such as the nature of the crime,

the severity of the sentence,
the potential for gain.

Yeah, but this isn't just a
handful of A's and B's, Charlie.

These are really raw
human motivations,

like rage and revenge.

Origami.

In origami,

there are six basic folds.

Mountain,

valley, diagonal,

fold and unfold,

reverse and turnover.

Each fold is a simple, finite,
imminently quantifiable action.

But the infinite
number of combinations

creates the possibility for
an infinite number of forms.

Decision theory contends

that we should use
the same basic criteria

with every action we take.

Risk,

reward,

consequence

and certainty.

Human behavior
is not that rational.

Well, that's why my system

is not meant to be a
replacement for your skills.

It's simply a tool

to help you use them

much more efficiently.

That's good.

Reeves.

Megan, it's David. We just
heard from an informant.

The JFM might take
another shot at the judge.

Does Don know?

He's at the
courthouse right now.

What's up? Hey.

We just got a tip that JFM
are looking for payback.

That could be Raymond Hmong
just talking big for his gang members.

Yeah, well, given the timing,
we're taking the threat seriously.

The Marshals are going
to put on additional men.

We're gonna have a second
metal detector out there.

Does Trelane
know about it? Yeah.

He's a brave man. He
didn't let on in court today.

Well, he wants everything
as discreet as possible,

so I'm going to
supervise, all right?

So we're going to be seeing
a lot more of each other.

Yeah.

The Marshals will give
you 24-hour protection.

Just make sure they have a
copy of your schedule, okay?

You hear me?

Sure. I'll get right on that.

Get down!

Get down! Get down! You!

Get down! Get down!

Don't do it, don't
do it! Don't move!

Don't move! I'll put two
bullets right in your back!

Put your hands behind
your back, Raymond.

So?

Well, suddenly, Raymond
here doesn't have much to say.

You understand what
you're facing here, Raymond?

Murder, attempted murder.

I didn't murder no one.

Come on, you
killed Alison Trelane.

What, you probably didn't
realize that she was borrowing

her husband's
car that day, right?

Then you went back to finish

what Danny Phan sent
you to do in the first place.

I told you to cooperate,
remember that?

I want to know how Phan
arranged for all this, you hear me?

You testify against him,

and I'll see what I can
do about the wife's murder.

I didn't kill nobody.

Self-defense.

Self defense?

Trying to gun down
an unarmed judge?

Is that what a JFM soldier
calls self-defense these days?

I wasn't aiming at no judge.

That bullet was for Danny.

That bro gave me
up to you, right?

Ain't no way he
gonna do me like that.

Not with him in there
and me out here.

I'm gonna have my respect
now, you know what I'm saying?

So Raymond Hmong
figures Danny Phan's

trying to put the
murder off on him.

Well, I mean, you know,
Hmong's DNA tested negative

for the Trelane crime scene, so,

that's the thing.
He's not our guy.

Well, on the bright side,
Trelane's free to sentence Phan

without having
to recuse himself.

Yeah, so you get your case back

and I'm at square one
with the wife's murder.

So I guess we're not going to be
seeing much of each other, after all.

You know,

I had you written off earlier.

And then what do you do?
You go and you save my life.

Aw, don't write me off.

I just get focused on
the work. You know.

I don't know, Don.

We always got along.

Timing never seemed right.

I just thought...

Anyway, good luck with the case.

Nadine, I hope you
realize it's not about you.

Oh, I know that.

Good.

Thank you for today.

And if you figure out the rest,

you could take your chances.

Okay.

Okay.

You know what?

It's fun to be doing a
little combinatorics again.

Combina what?

Combinatorics.

It's a branch of
computer science.

Mmm. Amita's not satisfied

with just one measly PhD.

She's now moved
on to astrophysics.

Well,

a girl's got to have skills.

And yet, somehow, we
still get stuck with the typing.

Well, you're familiar
with the program.

I'm not... I'm not
familiar with the program.

Oh, well, this is where
all the fun is, huh?

Professor Fleinhardt. Hi, Larry.

This is Megan Reeves.
She's working with Don.

Uh, hi. Hi. Hi.

I hope you don't mind, I'm...

Oh, no, not at all.

You realize all
your food is white?

Mmm, yes. I prefer white food.

Why is that?

Supersymmetry.

It's a theory that describes
the nature of connectivity

in complex
multidimensional space.

You know, symmetry is also

a term we use in
behavioral science

to explain obsessive behavior.

Oh, well, is it now?

I have a two-year-old
nephew who won't eat

anything but pasta with butter.

We're a little
worried he might be

a budding scientist.

Larry has a tendency

to live out his theories.

Oh.

Amita, are you ready to show us

a 3-D scatterplot distribution
of all the relevant cases?

Sure.

It looks like a random
buckshot of points.

Except for a small
number of cases

that stand out.

Wow. That's a lot less files
than I originally gave you.

Yeah, and we're
not even done yet.

Amita, do you think

you can filter the rest

through something

like this?

It looks kind of
like decision theory.

It's reverse decision
theory, actually.

In decision theory, options are
evaluated by risk and reward.

Corporations use it to
weigh business plans,

what products to develop,

what companies
to do business with.

Like a hunter
searching for food.

He's constantly
evaluating his terrain,

his available prey
and rival predators.

Weighing them
against his own appetite,

his own strength, his needs,

until he makes what he
considers an optimal decision.

However, with reverse
decision theory...

You take the optimal goal,
and you reverse the process.

In other words, you start
with the final decision?

The murder of Alison Trelane.

That's right.

And then determine which
predator is most likely,

by inclination, by opportunity,

to have made that decision.

Charlie's work distilled
our suspects down to two.

My lawyer didn't give me
adequate representation.

I got stuck with an incompetent,
underpaid public defender.

I'm completely innocent
of these charges.

Number one is Orson
Hardee. However,

if I were to meet the
guy who killed that cop,

I'd buy him a beer
for a job well done.

All right, so
Hardee's a cop-killer.

He shot Detective Josh
Kalen in a drug deal in 1994.

Trelane was the judge. The jury
came back in less than an hour.

Since his conviction, he's
become a jailhouse attorney.

He's filed 16 appeals,
all of them denied.

Now he's gunning for a
new trial in front of Trelane,

and Trelane's not buying it.

So what, kill Trelane, he gets
a chance at another judge?

Perhaps. Number
two is Lance Dolan,

currently wanted on a
bench warrant for assault.

LAPD believes
he's still in the area.

Well, I don't see
Trelane's name here.

'Cause Lance Dolan has never
been to court with Judge Trelane.

However,

what's significant is Lance
Dolan was the only name

that entered the data pool
through a Crimestopper tip.

Oh, so you're saying
an informant says

this guy killed Alison Trelane.

Yes. And we're
running down that angle,

but his psych profiles are
in line with this kind of act.

But the only thing that
connects them is the tip?

There are only two cases

that spiked extremely
high values in my analysis.

Orson Hardee, Lance Dolan.

Well, I mean, I
don't see a motive.

Yeah, but, Don, what
if you had no motive,

but you had, like,
a partial fingerprint?

Follow the evidence.

So what's the difference between
my math and a partial fingerprint?

And at this point, the
Asian gang is a dead end.

All right, well,

we'll see what David and
Colby come up with about the tip,

but, meanwhile, we should
be looking at this guy.

Hard.

It was a drug
deal that went bad.

Only when this animal,
Hardee, realized Josh was a cop,

he just shot him.

Just shot Josh in cold blood.

Have a seat. Thanks.

Well, I'm very sorry.

Have you heard from
anyone connected to Hardee?

Phone calls, threatening
letters, anything like that?

You think he's
coming after me now?

No. He's not going anywhere,

but you've been very vocal
about keeping him in prison,

and we just would
like to take precautions.

Right. I understand.

It never stops.

Even with my husband's pension,

I had to work two
jobs to keep this house.

My daughter ran away
the day she turned 17.

My son would be in jail if some of Josh's
friends on the force hadn't stepped in.

People need to see
all of Hardee's crime,

not just Josh's murder,
but what it cost his family.

And you've been at
all the court dates, huh?

Every hearing, every appeal,

but each time, it
gets a little harder.

People don't want to
remember. They want to forget.

Forget about what
this man did to Josh.

But I won't let them.

So Charlie tells me you
were shot at this afternoon.

Huh? Again?

Oh, yeah? Well, what
Charlie should've said was,

it was more like

I was in the vicinity of
shooting. Let's put it that way.

He saved this prosecutor,

and yet, he still won't ask
her out for some reason.

Really? What's the problem?

Yeah, she's hot,
man. She's perfect.

She's not perfect.
She's interested in you.

You said she was
perfect. No, I didn't.

So now you date only women who,
uh, have something wrong with them?

I'm not dating anyone.

So I noticed. Yeah,
what's that about?

Look, you know,

with what I do,

relationships are... They're...

They're just not easy, okay?
Would you just trust me?

Come on, Don,

just because something might go wrong
doesn't mean that you don't take a shot.

You don't know what
you're talking about, okay?

It's more complicated than that.

I mean, among other things, I
don't want to put anyone at risk.

I don't want to be
a risk for someone.

You understand? ALAN: I see.

Which means that police and lawyers
and judges shouldn't get married?

Yeah, well, look
at Judge Trelane.

Think I want to go
through that? No, sir.

Waitresses work on tips, Hector.

You are Hector Machado, right?

Maybe.

We want to talk
about Lance Dolan

and the Alison Trelane murder.

How'd you find me?

Actually, we know quite
a bit about you, Hector.

Like how the LAPD
says you have a knack

for getting thrown in
jail and hearing things.

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Come on.

So how about a phone call you
made to a Crimestopper tip line?

I thought that was
supposed to be confidential.

From the public, Hector,

not from the FBI.

You can't trust nobody no more.

The name you gave, Lance Dolan,

what can you tell us?

Where's my 25 G's?

Where's Lance Dolan?

Figures.

All right.

I met the guy in a bar.

He had that look,

like someone who
has something to say,

so I got him drunk.

Out of the kindness
of your heart, huh?

Story comes on the TV
about the judge's wife,

Dolan laughs,

then he tells me there aren't
gonna be any arrests made

as long as he gets
some cash together,

gets out of town.

Being the good citizen that I am

I called the Crimestoppers line.

Right.

Guys, I just got back from
the LAPD warrant squad.

Turns out Lance
Dolan's got a girlfriend.

Stacy Manning. Arrests
for burglary, stolen property,

twice as his codefendant.

Oh, yeah? Where's she at?

Venice.

We have her under
surveillance, in case Dolan shows.

See, that's the thing.
We're basing all of this

on the word of a
career informant.

Well, no, it's not
just based on the tip.

It's also based on my analysis.

Charlie, at some point,
I'm gonna have to explain

why I got four agents
chasing down Lance Dolan.

And you know, as far as I
can tell, from this equation...

Expression, Don.

What, expression,
equation, you know.

I don't understand why
Dolan gets such a high number.

Well, there's the
tip itself, of course,

and there's also his
record and the psych profile.

Sure, uh, but, um,
there's also, um...

What?

Sometimes math finds
something that we can't explain.

And why Dolan is showing
up as part of this case,

I can't fully
explain. It's, uh...

It's pi.

Pi?

The ratio of circumference
to the diameter of a circle.

Yeah, I know what pi is.

Okay, but did you know that

if you randomly drop needles
onto a sheet of lined paper,

the probability that a
needle will cross a line

relates directly to pi?

It's called Buffon's Needle.

And pi appears in
quantum mechanics,

relativity theory
and number theory.

But do you know
why pi would show up

in all of these seemingly
unrelated places?

Actually, I don't have a clue.

Neither do I. No one does yet.

But although we
can't fully explain pi,

it keeps working.

It keeps turning up.

So, you're saying that pi is
like something that connects

Dolan to Trelane, but we
just can't figure it out yet.

Lance Dolan's bench warrant.

Guess who he's wanted
for stabbing last year?

Hector Machado. Oh, yeah.

Well, that could explain why
Hector's so willing to snitch on Dolan.

Or set him up.

All righty. Well...

Pi.

When you gave up Lance
Dolan for Alison Trelane's murder,

you left out a
detail or two, man.

Yeah, like the fact that
he assaulted you last year.

Lance and I did some
business together.

There was a falling
out. Falling out?

The dude stabbed you, Hector.

Hector,

how long did you think it was
gonna take us to figure that out?

I wasn't really sure.

Look, there's no
love lost between us,

but one thing ain't got
nothing to do with the other.

And you can check
the court records.

Lance got busted for stabbing me

based on other witness
accounts, not mine.

I never said word
one against him.

Until now.

Well, now, he's worth $25,000.

Hector could just be
trying to get revenge

against the guy who stabbed him.

Or he could be
telling the truth.

Hey, Megan, where are
we on Orson Hardee?

I was just going
over this with Charlie.

Hardee is a sociopath who brags about
killing a cop, and then won't admit it.

He files legal documents
to prove his legal acumen...

And if he put together the
hit on Trelane from prison...

His intent would
be to let us know.

Which brings us to Dolan.

I mean, if we believe Hector,

but, I mean, as far as I can
see, Dolan's got no motive.

Even though Dolan has
no apparent motivation,

my analysis still
says he's a suspect.

Still no sign of Dolan at
the girlfriend's house, either.

Look, we got to
find this guy already.

Did you see if Hector
could help us on that?

We'll find out. Let's do it.

And, Charlie, will you
just go over this with me?

Certainly.

Hey, Larry, what
brings you here?

Oh, I had some work
to go over with Charlie,

but he couldn't
get away from here,

so the mountain comes,
yet again, to Mohammed.

Oh, yeah? So, it's not
the coffee then, huh?

Oh, oh, it is bitter.

Splenda. Oh.

Hey, Don,

are you... Are you
familiar with, um,

quantum entanglement?

Uh, I don't think
so. I'm not sure.

Okay, it's a theory that holds
that photons come in pairs

and they're separated
by space and time

but always

in... in instantaneous,
inexplicable communication.

Einstein calls it, uh,
spooky action at a distance.

But, you know, I find it...

I find the notion
fairly romantic.

How so?

Well, uh, I mean,
we affect each other.

Even when we don't mean
to, even when we don't want to,

uh, we're connected, you see,
even when we try to be unaffected.

Why do I get the feeling
you're talking about my love life?

Don, the universe is
accelerating at such a rate

that, some day,
eventually, it will all fly apart,

and all matter
will just drift alone

and become disconnected.

And how sad that would be

if... if human beings were to
behave in a similar fashion.

And after considerable
inner debate,

I find that the risks

of human contact

are... are more than
compensated for

by the rewards.

I'll keep that in mind. Yeah.

That was not clear.

Now you know this guy,
right? So this should be easy.

When she answers, ask
for him. Nothing fancy.

Yeah? HECTOR: Is this Stacy?

Who is this?

Hector. I'm a friend of
Lance's. I need to talk to him.

He's not here.

Tell him I heard the
Feds are looking for him.

I don't know when I'll see him.

Whatever. Just
tell him I called.

Think I did pretty good.

She's making the call.

What? The Feds are coming.

I think that guy
Hector gave you up.

Now, why she
gotta assume... Shh!

Leave right now,
come pick me up. Okay.

That's it.

Hurry up. Come on.

Put your hands on the
dashboard! You hear me?

Get 'em out, right now!

Don't move.

Don't move an inch.

Get out of there.

Bring your hands behind
your back, thumbs up.

Well, looks like we found the
gun that killed Alison Trelane.

Really. Go figure. Let's go.

Who?

Alison Trelane.

We have DNA.

We have your shotgun.

And what kind of
deal do you have?

Look, we don't
need a deal, Lance.

You killed a judge's wife.

Can you think of a
defense attorney in town

who's gonna want to wear
that bull's-eye on his back?

I didn't know who she was.

Mrs. Trelane?

I figured it was just some guy
who wanted to get rid of his wife.

You're saying Judge
Trelane's involved?

I should have known better.

Lance, what are we
talking about here?

It was a straight contract,

$5,000 down, $5,000 after.

I just thought it was
some guy's wife.

Yeah, Charlie, I
can't talk, all right?

We just picked up Lance Dolan.

Oh, good, because I've
reevaluated my analysis,

and what's significant is

the algorithm wasn't
indicating Dolan or Hardee.

My math was
connecting the two cases.

That's why Dolan
spiked in the first place.

Don, these results
clearly indicate

that there's a
common denominator.

Something connects
Dolan to Hardee.

Yeah, we know, Charlie.

I'm looking at him
right now, okay?

I'm gonna call you back.

They have Lance
Dolan talking next door.

That's right.

And the first name that came
out of his mouth was yours.

Yeah, well, we
do have a history.

Yeah, you do. Alison Trelane.

Contract killing
that you set up.

I'm gonna give you five
seconds to give me a name.

Otherwise, I'm gonna go grab
Lance Dolan and put him in here

and let the two of you
guys figure it out yourselves.

You think I'm selling
wolf tickets, man?

Try me.

You got nothing on me.

I made an
introduction. That's all.

You made an
introduction to who, man?

I don't owe anything
to Lance Dolan.

I did to Josh Kalen.

Josh Kalen?

You mean Detective Josh Kalen?

The cop that Orson
Hardee murdered?

Kalen took care of
me for a lot of years.

Treated me like a real person.

So you kill Trelane's wife

after he sent his
murderer to jail?

I told you, I introduced them.

Anything happens after,
that's got nothing to do with me.

Conspiracy law. You
could look that up.

What the hell are you
talking about, Hector?

I did everything I can.

Kept out of this
as long as I could.

Who?

Agent Eppes? Mrs. Kalen, you're
gonna have to come with me.

Bring your hands behind
your back, thumbs up, please.

I don't suppose you could
let me put these away first.

Hands behind your
back. I'm sorry, no.

Ten years of trials and appeals.

Parole hearings.
My stomach in knots.

Always wondering if this was the
time Orson Hardee would go free.

Judge Trelane put the
guy in prison, ma'am.

Trelane kept the man who
slaughtered my husband alive.

The jury recommended the
death penalty, did you know that?

Only, Trelane overruled them.

With that one decision,
he destroyed my family.

Hardee killed your husband.

But it was the judge's decision
that forced us to relive it.

With every appeal, my children
had to relive their father's murder.

And now Hardee
wants a new trial?

I just... I couldn't put
them through that again.

Why the judge's wife?

So Trelane would know
what it's like to lose someone.

So maybe he'd think twice about
the next killer he goes easy on.

Watch your head, please.

"Goes easy on"?

I tortured myself
over that decision.

I wanted to help her.

Give her closure.

Yeah, it's just that Hector Machado
was one of her husband's informants.

I mean, I think she got his name
out of one of his old snitch books.

I had a responsibility
to the law.

I hope you know her
death is not your fault.

Eventually, I
might believe that.

I don't think I could
ever stop blaming myself

for all the time I wasted

being drunk, angry,

busy, when I really wasn't.

In spite of everything, I...

I still love my job.

I just should have
loved my life a little more.

Okay, Don, it's time to eat.

Hey. You eat dinner yet?

Lobster at the Oceanfront.
Charlie's buying.

Let's go. I'm driving.

Yeah, well, that's
not an incentive.

Which is why I need a witness.

Insurance purposes, you know?

Nadine, this is my
father Alan, and, uh,

Charlie you know, right?

Charlie, good to see you
again. How you doing?

I need to grab
something out of my car.

Can I just meet you out there?

I'll be two seconds. All right.

Nice to meet you. You, too.

Good seeing you again.

Wow, she is one
hot-looking prosecutor.

All right, easy there, Pop.

I know I'm your father, but she's
still one hot-looking prosecutor.

We're trying to figure out what
to do about Hector Machado.

I mean, this guy might end
up collecting reward money

for reporting a crime
that he probably arranged,

so it's a working dinner.

Which explains the professional
working dinner cologne.

I never ruled
out the possibility

of some kind of
quantum entanglement.

Hmm? That's not one of mine.

Hmm.

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