Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 3, Episode 6 - Longshot - full transcript

(hoofbeats)

(indistinct voice
on P.A. system)

Hundred on
Buckey's Folly to win.

Hundred? Seems like you're
on some streak, huh, Danny?

Sorry?

Just keep picking winners.

Yeah.

Just, uh,

tweaked my system a little.

♪ ...Your hairdo, yeah ♪

♪ I'm glad you like my 'do ♪



♪ See we're lookin'
pretty cool, getcha ♪

♪ Wait ♪

♪ Who's that guy ♪

♪ Just hangin' at your pad? ♪

♪ He's lookin' kinda blah ♪

♪ Yeah, you broke
up, that's too bad ♪

♪ I guess it's fair ♪

♪ If he always pays the
rent and he doesn't get bent ♪

♪ About sleepin' on the
couch when I'm there ♪

♪ 'Cause I like you... ♪

(fanfare plays)

ANNOUNCER: The
horses are on the track.

♪ And I'm feelin' so
bohemian, like you ♪

♪ Yeah, I like you,
yeah, I like you ♪



♪ And I feel... ♪

(starter bell rings)

ANNOUNCER: And away they go!

(cheering, indistinct
voice over intercom)

ANNOUNCER:
around the first turn.

Buckey's Folly settles
in against the rail.

♪ I'm getting wise ♪

♪ And I feel so
bohemian like you ♪

♪ It's you that I want ♪

♪ So please ♪

♪ Just a casual,
casual, easy thing ♪

♪ It isn't? It is for me ♪

ANNOUNCER: At the wire,
it's Buckey's Folly by a nose!

♪ And I feel whoo! ♪

♪ Whoo-hoo, hoo ♪

♪ Whoo-hoo, hoo ♪

♪ Whoo-hoo, hoo,
whoo-hoo, hoo. ♪

(a taiko drum
pounding rhythmically)

Why are you doing
that right now?

Did you know that
primitive societies

believed in using percussion

as a means of
communicating with the dead?

Are you drumming for
someone in particular?

Yes.

I'm drumming for the
corpse of my inspiration.

And banging bongos worked
for Richard Feynman, so...

Well, Feynman
delighted in making music.

I never percuss for pleasure.

Actually, I may have

before me a problem that
cannot be drummed away.

Larry, why don't you
take a relaxing soak

in the Jacuzzi?

No.

When it comes to
matters of the heart,

even Archimedes
preferred a cold shower.

Megan?

She's...

She's exciting,
and she's beautiful.

And this thing that
is between us...

It's beginning to
affect my work.

Well, what is going
on between you two?

I... have not...

the slightest idea.

(two drumbeats)

Well, you never work well
with emotional uncertainty.

Do you think that's
it? Do you think

that emotional uncertainty
lies at the heart of all this?

Really, I'm not as familiar
with that side of you.

No, nor it seems, am I.

COLBY: No real witnesses.

Broad daylight here,
and no one saw a thing?

Excuse us, folks.

Excuse me. Hey, Chuck.

How you doing, buddy? Hi, Don.

Well, apparently, the long shot
was winning in a photo finish,

and everybody was focused

on the race. Uh-huh.

Found this on the body.

Something for Charlie,
I guess. Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Looks like a
pretty complicated

betting scheme, and
there's race references

in the margins.
Why'd they call us?

COLBY: Call came from inside.

There's an agent
from O-C already has

an investigation
underway. Right.

Apparently, the track
ownership had ties

to an organized crime group.

Agent Eppes.

Hey, nice to see you.

Yeah. What, uh...?

Liz.

Yeah. Liz Warner, right?

You guys know each other, huh?

Don was my Tactical Training
Instructor up at Quantico.

What, now, you're
heading your own O-C unit?

Uh, see what a good teacher

I am, Colby.

Agent-in-charge took
a leave of absence,

so I was asked to keep the
investigation up and running.

All right, Agent-In-Charge,
come here. What have you got?

Owner of the racetrack,

Maurice Connors,
likes to gamble.

Uh-huh. Isn't very good at it.

So, Ivan Tabakian
bought up his markers.

Oh, yeah? Ivan Tabakian? Mm-hmm.

He's a major player. His
crew's into credit card scams,

insurance fraud, and extortion.

Right. No, I know who he is.

What-What have
they got going on here?

Well, it's a gambling scam,

but we haven't put
our finger on it yet.

What, you think
this kid's connected?

We found that
notebook with the body.

From the looks of it,

seems like this
kid, Danny Roberts,

may be helping Tabakian.

I don't know. Sounds
a little thin to me.

We also found some
betting slips on the body.

Past ten days, 90 races.

This kid Danny Roberts
made more than 30 bets.

Yeah. So?

And won every single time.

Explain to me why the
drum has to be in my office.

Because I had to clear my floor.

They're steaming the carpets
in the Physics Department.

Hey. CHARLIE: Perfect. Hey.

You-You guys hungry?
Let's go grab so dinner.

I can't get any dinner, but I
need you to look at this for me.

Would you? Just take
a second? Okay, sure.

Speaking of dinner...

I know. I-I'm sorry.

I-I just... I've been so
bogged down with...

Work?

(slight groan)

Lawrence?

Come take a gander at this.

It's a category-based

approach to... I
don't know what,

but it's a forecasting
system, right?

It's very sophisticated.

LARRY: Oh, no, no, no.

This is more than sophisticated.

You know what
this reminds me of?

A topos approach
to Bach's music.

I said "very sophisticated."

Yes, you did.

Where did this come from?

It's from a-a guy who was
murdered at a racetrack.

A racetrack? Yeah, and
we think he was using it

to pick horses.

Yeah, but if so,

this whole approach
is counterintuitive.

Well, how so?

CHARLIE: Well, if you're
trying to forecast a horse race,

you're usually trying to
pick the winner, but, uh...?

What?

But these equations
aren't designed that way.

How are they designed?

They're designed
to ignore the winner.

Because he wasn't
picking the winner.

He was picking the
second place horse.

Hey, why design a system
to pick second place?

How does that system

let you pick 30 straight
winners in a row?

Doesn't make sense. (sighs)

You know, if you're
gonna fix horse races

on a regular basis,

you have to pick horses
that are at least contenders.

Right, because if the long
shot wins too many times,

then, I mean, it's
gonna look strange.

Right. So, you have to
pick a horse that could win.

Second. And then
Tabakian would have to

make sure that horse had help.

COLBY: Looks like
somebody beat us

to Danny Roberts' apartment.

Landlord just called
LAPD with a break-in.

I'll go.

I heard about what
happened, so I let myself in.

When's the last
time you were here?

I dropped off the
mail yesterday.

Can you tell if
anything's missing?

I don't think so,
but I can't tell really.

MEGAN: And you live downstairs?

WOMAN: Mm-hmm.

Any chance you might have
heard something last night?

I took an Ambien
before I went to bed.

I'm not much help, am I?

You have any idea who this is?

Oh, Danny's girlfriend.

She did something
with computers, I think.

Danny was crazy about her.

Any idea where we might
find her? Well, they spent

most of their time

at her place down in San Pedro.

You had any lunch yet?

Hmm?

Is that a yes or a hmm?

I'm sorry. What?

I said, do you want lunch?

What are you looking at?

It's a forecasting system.

It's extremely complex.

I just can't seem to crack

the logic of this
enabling argument.

All right, so take
a break. I'll just...

I'll make myself a nice
turkey sandwich later.

You sure? Mm-hmm.

These raspberries
look delicious.

I bought two boxes of them.

Ever since that big thing on
the news about antioxidants,

you can't find a blueberry,
but these raspberries...

They're so cheap.

What did you say?

I said the raspberries...
They're so cheap.

'Cause everyone
wants blueberries?

And I thought you
weren't interested.

Um...

I got to go check on something.

I got to go find Don,

so I'm gonna be
home later for dinner.

Okay.

But I'm going out for dinner.

So I, uh, did a
tour in Washington.

Good for the resume.

Oh, yeah? What?
You miss kicking ass?

(laughs)

Oh, you only think that
because you taught me how.

Hey, you were a wild girl.

I mean, if I recall,

you had a bit of an issue
with adrenaline, right?

I like to think it's more
of a hobby than an issue.

Uh-huh. Now, how'd you
stumble onto this case?

Well, we were
running a surveillance

on a a midlevel supplier linked
to a Salvadorian drug cartel.

He liked coming to the
track, so we came with him.

What? That's where
you found Tabakian?

Yeah, we're thinking the drugs
and him can't be a coincidence,

but so far, we've never
seen any product at the track.

Now, just tell me if this
owner guy... Is he cooperating?

Maurice Connors? No. Oh?

Track's a cash
cow, so, long as it is,

he figures Tabakian's just
gonna keep him around.

Hey.

You know, we could shake
things up for him with Tabakian.

You know?

Risky game you like to play.

I like to think of it
more as a hobby.

So that's him.

How you wanna play this?

Uh, well, you lead.

I'll shake.

WARNER: Mr. Connors. FBI.

We'd like to talk to you about
what happened yesterday.

I don't know anything about it.

You don't know anything about
a murder at your racetrack?

Well, I'm aware
of what happened,

but I didn't know the kid.

Really? 'Cause according
to some of your tellers,

he was a regular.

We have a lot of regulars.

Yeah, how many of them
are stabbed during the races?

You're suggesting his death

had something to
do with my racetrack?

I don't know, maybe with
the track's new management?

New management?

Yeah, Ivan Tabakian.

You know anything about him?

I don't think I should
answer any more questions.

You haven't answered any yet.

(phone rings)

Eppes.

Yeah, all right,
we're on our way.

Hey, Liz, we gotta go.

You know, doesn't really matter
if you answer our questions.

'Cause all Tabakian's gonna hear

is that you were
talking to the FBI.

DON: Thanks for all
your help, Mr. Connors.

We'll be seeing you.

Got the dump on
Danny Roberts's phone.

Anything good?

Yeah, past month, he's only
called two numbers regularly...

One is a San Pedro
exchange, probably his girlfriend.

Yeah? Did you get her name?

And an address.

Plug that in to your fancy
little nav system in your Acura.

Oh, don't play...

What about the other one?

It's an off-track betting place.

Palomar OTB.

That sounds good.
What'd they say?

I didn't call them.

Didn't really seem important.

(laughs): That was
almost funny, Granger.

Come on, what did they say?

Transferred me
over to legal affairs.

They said they're
happy to cooperate.

Soon as I produce a subpoena.

(groans): Let's go
see the girlfriend.

So I think I know
why Danny Roberts

was focused on picking
second place finishers.

He designed a system

that identifies
arbitrage opportunities.

What does that mean?

It means he was
looking for bargains.

Bargains?

Racetracks use
pari-mutuel betting systems

where market forces
determine the odds.

It was actually invented

by a French perfume
maker, uh, in the 1800s...

All right, Charlie, just...

Okay.

In pari-mutuel betting,
the odds fluctuate

according to how much
is wagered on a horse.

So it's like kind
of like an auction

where the more people there
are that want to buy something,

the more expensive
it becomes. And sold!

In horse racing, more expensive
translates to lower odds.

So, the lower the odds,

the smaller the
return on the bet.

So the favorite is just a horse

with the most
amount of money bet?

That's exactly it.

And so many people are
focused on picking the winner,

there's an active
exchange of information

going on about the favorite.

But we're dealing
with a horse here

that no one's really
paying attention to, so...

And it can also be a
highly inefficient market.

That inefficiency
creates a situation

where the potential for
reward outweighs the risk.

Those are the opportunities
that Roberts was betting on.

But that still doesn't explain

how Roberts won
30 straight bets, right?

No, you're right, it doesn't.

I mean, something
must've changed,

you know, whether
it was in his system,

or at the track.

Right, enough to get him killed.

And in order to determine
that, I need data on those races

so I can compare his system
to the most recent results.

How recent?

Just, like, you know,
the races in the past year.

Yeah, welcome to my world.

(taps rhythmically)

WOMAN: I write software
for an IT company.

It's freelance, so I
mostly work out of home.

Danny always used to
stop by after the races, and,

when he didn't show up...

Can you think of anybody who
might've wanted to hurt him?

No.

I'm sorry.

How about if I give the
whole "just us girls" thing a try?

All right.

I'll call the office,

check on the status of
the subpoena for the OTB.

Good luck. Thanks.

(phone pad beeping)

Had you guys set a date yet?

Next spring.

(chuckles)

We were kind of an odd pair.

Danny was outgoing,
and I was more the geek.

Hmm.

I got something
similar going on myself.

I just don't understand how
this could have happened.

Do you know if Danny
had an argument

with someone at the track?

He didn't even talk to
anybody at the track.

He was too focused
on working his system.

Do you think he could have
been involved in fixing horse races?

Agent Reeves, most months
I had to pay Danny's rent.

If he was cheating,
wouldn't he be winning?

He was winning.

30 bets this week.

So maybe this Danny Roberts kid

was keeping the
girlfriend in the dark.

She was totally surprised
about the winnings.

WARNER: I don't know.
Wouldn't be the first time

a guy tried to hide
money from his girl.

I'm with you,

but the way the landlady
spoke about them,

young couple in love,
it's not really adding up.

This thing isn't
adding up in a big way.

Turns out he was hiding
more than just 30 bets from her.

That's the results
of the subpoena

from Danny Roberts's
account at the Palomar OTB.

He set up the account a couple
weeks ago and he placed one bet.

What, Pick Six? Yeah.

What is a Pick Six?

You have to pick the
winner in six straight races.

It's basically like
winning the lottery,

and he just did
it five days ago.

Yeah, what did
he get? Half a mil.

Oh, well, there's a lot
of motive for someone.

Or not. I just talked to them.

They told me that he
never cashed the ticket.

So you know Don
pretty well, huh?

You know what Quantico's like.

Yeah, I bet he was a
pretty tough instructor, huh?

He was just back from the field.

Fugitive hunting?

Yeah.

And still getting used to
being back in civilization.

Any reason you're asking?

I just screwed something
up a while back.

Well, I can tell you this much.

Fact you're still here,
means something.

But I wouldn't count
on being forgiven twice.

So Danny Roberts
picks six winners

for half a million dollars,
but doesn't cash the ticket?

Just doesn't make any sense.

His girlfriend said he
was borrowing rent money.

Sounds like he was hiding
the winnings from someone.

That bet, too, maybe.

What do you mean?

Roberts is down at the
track every day, right?

So why place a bet
through an online OTB

when you could do it in person?

Because he couldn't.

The tellers all knew him.

So maybe he wasn't
working for Tabakian?

Which might explain
why he's dead right now.

CHARLIE: Six winners.

Six consecutive winners.

A streak of 30 wins.

All from a system designed
to pick a second place horse?

Does it make sense?

No. In theory, it should
never have happened.

Hey, you guys.

What are you two up to now?

We have been dealt a
paradox of theory versus praxis.

Is that bad?

We're attempting to
decipher a betting system

that's achieved something
that it just wasn't designed to do.

And currently, we
stand at the abyss,

having reached the
limits of our knowledge

of the sport of Kings.

Oh, racetrack. Huh?

Do you know about horse racing?

Well, before I met your mother,

I used to hang out
at the track, uh, a lot.

Really? I would never have
pegged you for a railbird.

(laughs): Yeah, well, I...

I got hooked when I was a kid.

I-I knew nothing about this.

Like I said, it was
before I met your mother.

I take it Margaret was
not a fan of the horses.

Uh, no, she was a big
fan of college funds.

Hey, by the way, if
we leave right now,

we can make it to the track
for, uh, morning workouts.

Yeah, great. Larry?

No. Count me out.

Horses going around a track,

it all puts me in mind of
an acute childhood trauma.

Really? What
happened? I was nine.

I was with my parents
at a county fair,

and I saw a man get crushed.

Wow.

By a horse?

Horses, actually.

Yeah, it was a merry-go-round.

Let's go, Dad.

Yeah, coming.

Hey. Hey.

Want some coffee?

Yeah, sure.

So, we may be right
about Danny Roberts

not working for Tabakian,
but so far, I got nothing.

Roberts bounced a
check here and there,

but there's no reason for him
to hide money from a creditor.

Let's see what
Charlie comes up with.

Back at Quantico,

you never really talked
about your brother.

No?

As I recall, you never really
talked about yourself with anyone.

Thanks.

Well...

I wasn't in a really
good way back then.

Well, I hear you may
be mellowing with age.

(laughs): Well,
let's hope so, right?

I've just heard some
things about you

and a certain
federal prosecutor.

Oh, yeah, did you?

Don Eppes with the same
woman for more than a week.

I don't know, some
might call it progress.

Yeah, I mean, I guess it
depends who you ask, right?

So, this kid, Danny Roberts,

he's got no debt, he's
not working for Tabakian...

why does he get whacked?

You know, we had
a witness, a trainer.

He'd been doping horses.

Injecting an antidiuretic

so a horse would
retain water, Uh-huh.

Carry excess weight.

He was all set to
testify for the grand jury.

But what, Tabakian found out?

He had the guy's
hands nailed to a stall,

brought a horse in and
had the guy kicked to death.

Pff. Nice.

CHARLIE: So Danny
Roberts's system

was designed to pick the
second place horse. Why?

Because there's a bias in
the betting on second place.

If you know what you're
doing, you can exploit that.

Now how do you know?

Railbird, remember?

It took me half a day to
work that out mathematically.

Well, you should've
come to me sooner.

Yeah. So, handicapping.

We're trying to predict
how a horse will run

at the distance of
the current race.

Exactly. But you have to
consider past performances,

type of horse, track conditions,
the experience of the jockey.

See, I'd even take
it a few steps further.

I would. I'd factor an average
race speed, interval pace,

wind speed, time of day,
assigned weights, Oh, Charlie.

Gate slot, sun
position... Charlie...

Charlie, you can't
account for everything.

You can, if you can
think of everything.

Ah. But this is what's
confusing here. Look.

It's a probability adjustment

describing a dynamic
system with hidden states.

Charlie. Railbird. Railbird.

It's just something
that's not readily apparent

to other bettors.

In my experience, handicappers
know practically everything.

That is, unless you want to
take cheating into consideration.

Well, that's just it, isn't it?

What?

Cheating is the behavior

that Roberts designed
this algorithm for.

(clears throat)

Who are you calling?

Your brother. Next
thing you'll know,

you're going to tell
me you gotta call Don.

Thanks.

Oh, hey, Megan.

May I come in?

Uh, yeah, yeah, uh... um...

Just, um...

(chuckles)

It's a little unexpected.

I know. I'm sorry.

I really should
have, um, called.

I just wasn't really
sure I was coming here

until I was already, um...

here.

I-It's... Yeah, that's fine.

And... Don said

that Charlie and
Alan went to the track.

You didn't go with?

No, no, no, no.
Gambling on animals.

That's a messy business.

No, no, I much prefer cards.

There you have an
appreciable structure, you know,

played out in a graded
tensor product space, so...

Sounds like structure

is pretty important to you.

I'm sensing a-a more
than casual inquiry.

Well, I think what's
been going on between us

is pretty unstructured.

(laughing): Yeah.

Look, we make
baryogenesis look tidy.

(laughing): I don't
know what that means.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I-It's an asymmetry between
matter and anti-matter,

which emerged shortly
after the Big Bang.

It's... Yeah, it's baryogenesis.

I think I'm finding

that, that things between us
are maybe just, I don't know, um...

just kind of a trifle free-form.

I'm guessing that's why
you haven't called in a while.

Well,

you see, Megan, I-I'm just
finding this whole journey

from I to us...

It's just a little more

distracting than I
originally anticipated.

(chuckles)

And I would have guessed

that a guy that lives in his car

wouldn't need
that much structure.

There's few things better
organized than a 1931 Ford.

(laughs): Listen,

I'm not, um,

making any demands.

No, and I'm not
suggesting that you are.

But if you need a
little more structure,

I'm not necessarily
opposed to that.

You're not?

Uh-uh, and if you can
get past the distraction,

there's a Truffaut
retrospective this weekend.

Okay.

Yeah, let me just
check my planner.

(giggles)

(whispering): I'll see
you this weekend.

Yeah, it looks...
it looks clear.

So originally, Roberts
designed his system

to pick second place finishers,
and then something changed.

Yeah, cheating.

My idea. Mm-hmm.

Right, a-and suddenly,

the horses that should be
winning stopped winning,

and that screws up his
ability to pick the runner-up.

So then he makes an
adjustment because, well,

he realizes that the outcomes
are consistently falling

outside the range of
realistic probabilities.

It's like a weather report

where the forecast
calls for a heat wave,

and instead there's
a freak snowstorm.

You know, once or
twice, that's anomalous.

You can't predict
anything perfectly,

but if that pattern
is persistent,

you've got to assume

that there are unknown
factors to consider.

Unknown factors like cheating.

CHARLIE: See, Roberts
retooled his system

to account for those
fixed races, and presto.

30 straight winners.

So it proves it was a scam.

Maybe it was the cheating
that got the guy killed.

Yeah, he may be right.
I loaded all the race data

onto my laptop,

so I was able to run
every Pick Six winner

for the past six months
through Roberts' algorithm. And?

A snowstorm in July. Right, at
least for the past few months.

I mean, five winners.

Each of them won the Pick
Six when the races were fixed.

That's just not a coincidence.

Granger.

Hey, we got
something from Charlie.

Tried to give you a call.

Yeah, I got your message.

I was at Cal Sci.

Ah, Larry.

You're dying to ask, aren't you?

No.

(chuckles)

I think it's the
unpredictability.

I didn't ask. All right,

you didn't ask.

I do think, uh, you're a
little bit of an odd pair, but...

Exactly.

What do you see?

Celia Martine" bank account.

She's one of the
Pick Six winners

Charlie linked to the cheating.

Yeah.

The last transaction
is to an Estate Trust.

I think Celia Martinez is dead.

What are you doing?
Just checking something.

Social Security numbers

of the other Pick Six winners.

Yeah.

Wharton is dead?

Look at this. They're all dead.

So, you got two overdoses,
a fatal hit-and-run...

And the other two deaths were
caused by drowning and a fall.

So all five deaths were accidental?
What are the odds of that?

DON: About the same as
all five winning the Pick Six.

All right, so let's look
at 'em as homicides.

Right? All right,
I'll get into it

with the Medical Examiner.

Tabakian's got
to be behind this.

Well, then, we just connect him

to the money.

Or we just go pick him up.

Last time we were this close,

he killed my witness.

We tip our hand early, we
only add to the body count.

Thanks again for the
use of the tub, Alan.

I'd say anytime, but
you might think I meant it.

No, no, I promise I
won't make it a habit.

I was kidding, Larry.

You know you're always welcome.

Anytime. Thanks.

By the way, if you get tired of
that nomadic lifestyle of yours,

I, um, I do happen to have some,

uh, brochures of a
condo development.

They're really great properties.

While back, I was thinking
of taking one myself.

It's so funny you're
even mentioning this.

Oh, really. How so?

Because lately, I
have been rethinking

some of my earlier
assumptions with regards to,

you know, pure
intellectual endeavor.

Ah.

Oh, you figured out that
grown women won't make out

in the backseats of cars, huh?

I don't know, I just think
I may have lost touch

with certain important
aspects of life in the real world.

Plus...

my car.

No backseat.

Let me get you one
of those brochures.

All five victims cleared
out their accounts

with a cashier's check.

The checks were
cashed at banks overseas

in Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Ugh, so I'm guessing the
accounts went nowhere?

Ah, the money is a dead end.

We have five victims

from five different
neighborhoods

and five different ethnicities.

There's no common denominator.

Except Tabakian.

He found them; we
just got to figure out how.

Maybe...

it's an employment
thing, a work connection.

Raymond Wharton
didn't even have a job.

Neither did Celia Martinez.

That's it, the
unemployment office.

It's two blocks away.

It's quicker to walk.

(knocks)

Hey, so Don asked me if I
could connect the Pick Six winners

to Tabakian, but so far,
we don't have enough data,

and any data-mining algorithm

may require way more information

than we already
have, so it's like...

Larry.

Yeah.

How much did you
hear of what I just said?

You don't have enough data

to connect the people
to your mob boss.

Exactly.

So concentrate on the data you
do have and maybe there's a way

to connect them
through their bets.

Larry, that's... brilliant.

What is it with
me and structure?

Do you find me
overly structured?

I don't kn... Why
are you asking me?

Just humor me here,
just answer this question.

Well,

on the one hand, you
don't have a home;

and on the other,

you eat monochromatically.

Look, do you remember when I was

an undergraduate in your
quantum physics class?

Yes, how could I ever forget?

That class was the first place

that I learned
about the paradoxes

between quantum mechanics
and general relativity.

Yeah, and we're still
in search of a theory

to unify the two in a single
explanation of gravity.

But w-where were
you headed with this?

There's no unifying
theory for Larry Fleinhardt.

And I think Megan

could very well be...
your own private gravity.

I have records
for all five of them,

but they all went to
different job centers.

MEGAN: Can you
access that information

from here? Sure.

Everything's linked.

I can pull up a list of
companies that each of them

interviewed with.

Wait, can you scroll
back up for a second?

Do you see something?

Yeah.

Take a look at this.

They all interviewed

at the racetrack?

Can you see who
they talked to there?

Uh, that sort of thing would
only be in the original files.

So, let's look at
the original files.

It takes five business
days to process a request.

Hey, all right, so...
Where you been?

Hold on, hold on, we got
here as fast as we could.

Just relax. What's going on?

Look, there wasn't enough data.

Larry said, "Try to use other
data." I said, "Use other data?"

I-I reworked the
algorithm, you know. Shh.

Just slow down, just slow
down I made improvements

to Roberts' algorithm.

I took a look at all
the racing results

for the past two
years, and you know,

not just the Pick Six. I
looked at all the betting.

And? They were fixing races

way before they
fixed the Pick Six.

What do you mean? They started

by fixing races,
like, once a month.

Then twice a month,
then more frequently.

Look, there is a
regular progression

to this pattern. Charlie, we
already know they were fixing races.

Right, but now,

now we know when
they were doing it.

I mean, Don, don't you see?

If, if they killed those
five Pick Six winners

right after they got their
money, then what's to stop them

from killing all
the other winners

of all the other fixed races?

That would be... 18...

other murders.

Charlie, that's a lot of bodies.

I mean, look, we'd know

if these guys killed
that many people.

Well, not if they staged
the deaths as accidents.

So look at this.
Here's another one.

Not deceased.

I'm starting to think we're
not looking at more bodies.

All right, so what is it?

I mean, first of all,

we're not looking at
18 different people.

We're looking at six
guys who won a lot of bets

over the course of the 18
dates that Charlie gave us.

Six guys. And they all
have to be connected

to Tabakian.

All right, look, why don't
you just start checking

into their backgrounds?

All right.

Give up on the water cure?

Yeah, it wasn't really working.

Plus, I ran out
of hot water. Oh.

Here I am, once again
monopolizing your bathtub.

I apologize.

You take as much
time as you need.

Thank you.

You all right? Yeah, it's just

the efforts I've made
to simplify my life

have started to complicate it.

You know, not
long ago, I was, um,

I was worried about
Charlie, you know.

About him having a normal life.

That's a bit of a challenge,

given the circumstances
of his genius.

Yeah, that's what I realized.

So I thought maybe, uh,

normal for him
was not on target.

And perhaps for you,

simple is off the
mark. (chuckles)

I've never known
life to be simple.

CHARLIE: Larry?

Yeah, in here.

Hey, I need you to
look at something.

Why are you both in here?

Okay, what is it I'm looking at?

That's my question.
Look closely.

If you didn't know
that this was evidence

in an FBI investigation,

what would you say that it was?

I'm sorry, what
is it you're asking?

Ignore the context of the
murder, you know what,

and imagine the
page a little bigger,

what does it look like?

Uh... it looks like a blue book

that one of my teaching
assistants has graded.

That's exactly what I thought.

Oh, yeah, one of those things

you guys give your students
to do exams in, right?

I think someone was
helping Danny Roberts.

I think someone was checking

and improving his work.

So he had an accomplice.

Who was talented at math.

WARNER: So,
according to Charlie,

Roberts was getting
help on his system.

COLBY: Yeah, now,
if Danny Roberts

had an accomplice, that
means somebody else knows

about the cheating at the track.

Which means we still
have a witness out there.

Now, his girlfriend told Megan

that he worked
at the track alone.

So maybe whoever helped
him wasn't at the track.

The girlfriend was into
computers, she writes software.

BOYD: Maurice, just
calm down, all right?

CONNORS: Well, how
long is it gonna take?

About 45 minutes.

We got the full records
from Unemployment.

Maurice Connors' name is
all over their interview cards.

So, wait, what happened
to the five business days?

I let her hold my gun.

That's a subpoena.

Every single one of
the Pick Six victims,

they went into the
track looking for work,

Connors must have directed
them straight to Tabakian.

Wow, that's accessory to murder.

Yeah, to say the least.

All right, good.

Hey, did you get anything

on the guys who won
the bets on fixed races?

Yeah, three of them had
sheets, mostly drug related.

Ooh. Mind if I have a look?

Yeah, I'll show you the
files. They're on my desk.

I got to run, but you
can look at them.

I want it noted for the record

that my client is
here voluntarily.

Yeah, well, if it means
I didn't have to go out

and drag him in
here, consider it noted.

You have no cause
to arrest my client.

DON: You know
these people, right?

Go ahead, take a good look now.

Don't answer that.

You interviewed them for jobs.

I interview a lot of people.

How many get murdered
after winning the Pick Six?

Maurice,

I'm ordering you not to respond.

You're ordering him?

Who's the client here?

Look, I got your name signed

on the interview cards.

All right? That's one,
two, three, four, five.

I had nothing to do with this.

Mr. Connors, it's
gonna take a jury

about ten minutes
to decide otherwise.

Maurice, you need to keep quiet.

No, you need to keep quiet.

Let's go.

We're done here.

Walk out that door, I'm telling
you they're gonna kill you.

They will kill you.

You have no right to interfere

with the representation
of my client.

Your client. Who's paying
your bills, counselor?

Go ahead, ask him
who's paying his bills?

Boyd?

Maurice, don't make a mistake.

I didn't kill anybody.

BOYD: I'm afraid

I can no longer represent you.

One guess who his
first call's gonna be.

Tabakian told me
to keep an eye out

for single people,

no families.

People who could work
the late shift at his club.

Why?

He told me he was

expanding his business
into drug trafficking.

He figured out a way
to clean their money.

(knocking)

All right. Mr. Connors.

Just hang tight for two minutes.

(sighs)

You remember how I told you

I followed a drug
supplier to the track?

Yeah, the Salvadorians.

Yeah. Turns out
the supplier's name

was on Colby's list of people

who won money

on the fixed races.

Looks like Tabakian
was paying for drugs

by fixing races and laundering
money at the same time.

Okay, what, they bet with the
dirty money, then he washes it.

They even paid their taxes.

Danny Roberts must
have just stumbled into this.

Yeah, along with the girlfriend.

Megan and Colby are
on their way to San Pedro

and bringing her in right now.

All right, good.

Sharrlyn?

It's Agent Reeves.

It's clear.

Granger.

Look at this.

That's blood spatter.

Looks like Tabakian
got here before us.

So the locals are running
a neighborhood canvas,

but so far, nothing.

What? They carried a girl's
body out of here in broad daylight.

Yeah, we're trying to track
down deliveries or mailmen,

anybody who might
have seen something.

Sharrlyn Smith

has a master's degree in Math

from Stanford University.

So she was definitely
Danny Roberts' accomplice.

Great. Which means I
just lost another witness.

(cell phone ringing)

Yeah?

All right. We got to go.

The techs monitoring Danny
Roberts' account at the OTB,

they just got a hit. A hit?

That half-million dollar ticket,

it just got cashed.

MEGAN: Someone
transferred all the money

to an off-shore account.

Our techs traced it to an
IP address inside this hotel.

Tabakian's crew probably
found the log-in IDs

when they tossed the
girlfriend's apartment.

So they killed our only witness,

and they cashed the ticket.

Why leave a half
mil on the table

if you don't have to?

(whispering): Let
me get those keys.

FBI! FBI!

You're supposed to be dead.

(panting)

Danny asked if I'd
look at his system.

It just...

it wasn't working anymore.

And that's how you realized
they were fixing the races?

The only way to explain
the results was cheating.

So I wrote an algorithm
that included a proviso for it.

That's how Danny

picked 30 winners in a row.

I didn't know that
he was doing that.

You had the Pick Six ticket.

We were afraid the
tellers would notice

if he was winning all the time.

But the Pick Six ticket...

it would be enough for
us to start a life together.

If I'd never worked on his
system, Danny wouldn't be dead.

Why did you fake your death?

They came to my house.

I hid in my car.

I waited all day
for them to leave.

And when I saw what they did,

I panicked.

I figured if everybody
thought I was dead...

Sharrlyn...

your algorithm gives us

a wedge into a
major narcotics ring.

But Tabakian and his guys are
not gonna stop looking for you

until they... know

you're not a threat to them.

So what am I supposed to do?

You help us, and we protect you.

Agent Reeves, they killed Danny

in broad daylight, in
front of a crowd of people.

I know. And I'm not gonna
let that happen to you.

But you have to help me.

(tires screeching)

Back at Quantico, it was
all about the rush for me.

But now... What? You're
mellowing with age?

Don't get me wrong,

I still like kicking down doors.

Yeah, I know, it
can wear thin, right?

(talking indistinctly)

Ivan Tabakian, FBI.

I've got a warrant
for your arrest.

Let's go, get up.

Let's go! Get up.

I'm eating my fish.

(laughter)

A nice sea bass.

Perhaps this can wait?

Hey!

DON: Was I talking
to you?! Huh?!

Wasn't talking to you, either.

Get up!

All right.

I know the drill.

Uh-huh.

This time, we got a
witness you can't touch.

(handcuffs snap) Let's go.

(jazz music playing)

MEGAN: Maybe it's just
my own history speaking,

but I'd like to think that
Antoine grows up to be a cop.

What? A cop?

Did you and I just
see the same movie?

Well, you never know
how things turn out.

Well, I guess for some
people, that's part of the fun.

And for you?

(laughing): Clearly,
I'm not some people.

(laughs)

So go over the schedule
with me one more time.

Okay, dinner and a
movie every other Friday,

lunch on Thursdays.

No, Wednesdays.

And I get a wild
card once a month.

That's it, that's it. To use
at your own discretion.

And what do we call this?

Oh... how about
structured complexity?

(laughs)

You know, I'm thinking
of using my wildcard.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Maybe for
breakfast tomorrow.

♪ There's no easy way... ♪

Okay.

♪ To say good-bye. ♪