Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 4, Episode 2 - Hollywood Homicide - full transcript
The death of a Hollywood wannabe leads to a famous actor, his friends, and a possible double. At the office, David has difficulty dealing with Colby's return.
♪ How are things
on the West Coast? ♪
♪ I hear you're
movin' real fine... ♪
MAN: You might want to take
the lens cap off there, Spielberg.
All right, I'm
getting it, just a sec.
Camera stuff is lame; let
me just show you the house.
N-N-N-N-N-No! I got it.
Okay, are you ready now?
Yes. Let's go.
Voilà.
Oh, my God.
What? What?
You've got to be kidding me.
The guys back home are
never going to believe this.
Brett, man, this place is sick.
What, you didn't
think I'd make it?
Nah, man, we all knew
you'd make it, but this...!
Dude, you have no idea
the tail that comes
through here, man.
Do they all come here for you?
No, jackass, they
come here for Brett,
but to get to Brett, they
gotta go through me,
you know what I mean?
Brett, we got to roll.
We're gonna be
late for the studio.
(groans)
Studio owns me.
House is yours. Enjoy.
Fair enough.
Let's go check out
my house, shall we?
Okay, here we go.
Check it out,
ladies, here it is...
Brett Chandler's bedroom.
I'm gonna snag these sheets
and I'm gonna sell 'em on eBay.
Let's head down here.
His wardrobe... probably
cost more than my life.
Check this.
Look at that view
from the bathroom.
You can check out the
waves while you unload.
Looks like somebody
left the tub on for me here.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Hey, hey, hey, somebody!
Hey, somebody!
It was delivered anonymously
about two hours ago.
Do we know if it's for
real? He's an actor.
He might have been playing a joke
on his friend. DAVID: No, I checked.
There haven't been any emergency
phone calls from his house.
Data coding
on the tape says it
was shot six days ago
and, I mean,
that's plenty of time
to cover something up.
Well, Brett Chandler's
a pretty big star.
We better know what's up before
we go after someone like him.
And what about the girl?
MEGAN: Charlie's working on it.
He thinks he can pull a
clean image off the tape.
Really? How? Her face
is completely distorted.
CHARLIE: Actually,
it's just being refracted.
It's the same as
when we look at a
pencil through a glass
of water.
It's complicated by
multiple refractions, motion.
Think of a gum ball machine
packed with hundreds
of gum balls.
Imagine striking it
with a sledgehammer.
The resulting chaos
might seem random; it's not.
The path and position of
each and every gum ball
is the result of the
specific forces acting on it...
Gravity, velocity,
momentum, mass.
In fact, it's conceivable that,
were we to measure and
quantify each of these forces,
we could use the end
position of the gum balls
to completely reconstruct
the original gum ball machine
with each gum ball placed
exactly where it started.
And it's the same
with this image here.
See? It's being scattered
by the forces of refraction.
But using Snell's Law,
a dash of Goos-Haenchen shifts
and a motion-tracking
algorithm...
Ooh, that's freaky.
Yeah, the techs
are already running it
through the facial
recognition software.
Look who's back.
Emptied out my whole desk.
Wow, you guys don't waste
any time around here, huh?
I mean, they told us
to send everything
down to Quantico, so...
Yeah, I know. I
could've figured.
How are you feeling?
You look a lot better
than the last time
I saw you. No permanent damage.
At least that I know of.
I guess they just want
me to sit tight here
until I'm reassigned, so...
You going to go say something?
Not sure what there is to say.
(computer blipping)
Hey! We got a match.
That's her.
Andrea Barton.
Oop... Looks like
we've got two matches.
DAVID: That's a Jane Doe.
She's in the morgue.
I guess that answers
the question whether
the video is real or not.
I was wondering why I
haven't seen Andrea in a while.
What a shame.
You have any
information on next of kin?
Someone we might contact?
I'd have to check her lease.
(sighs) It's one of these.
(scraping, then thud)
Does Andrea have a roommate?
No. She lived alone.
Is there a back door?
There's a window.
Stand back.
Hey! You!
Get out of the car!
(tires squealing)
(shouting)
David!
(engine roaring into distance)
That was her driving the car.
What do you mean?
Who? Our dead girl.
Andrea Barton.
That's the girl you
saw driving the car?
EXAMINER: That'd
be quite a trick.
She's been here for three days.
Someone had dumped
her body in Runyon Canyon.
DAVID: Well, maybe
she has a sister.
MEGAN: No, I spoke to
the mother back in Tucson.
Andrea's an only child.
Well, I haven't
done the cut yet...
We're pretty backed up.
But I could give you some
interesting preliminaries.
Uh, C.O.D.
looks like drowning,
but it wasn't accidental.
The bruising on her neck
and shoulders suggests
she was held under.
Struggled.
Her mother said she moved
out here to be an actress.
I'd say she wanted
it pretty badly.
Why do you say that?
She's had work done.
Breast augmentation,
chin work, for sure,
a little bit of liposuction.
Lipo? She's barely 100 pounds.
Yeah, I think it's about time
somebody paid our
movie star a visit.
Thanks for letting
me team up with you
on this one, Liz. Yeah.
Seems like David wants nothing
to do with me right now.
Aw, what do you expect?
Come on, you're
a good guy, Colby,
but you've lied to
him for two years.
Well, I lied to you, too.
Ah, but only for six months.
I'm less invested.
Besides, teaming us
wasn't my idea, it was Don's.
Really. So you can
keep an eye on me?
Look, out in the field,
I'm just like any other
agent, okay? Right.
Except you're
sleeping with the boss.
Granger, I didn't
partner with you
so I could report
on you, you got it?
Sure.
Hey guys, we're
looking for Brett.
Agents Granger and Warner.
You're agents?
What agency you with? ICM, CAA?
FBI.
Oh, cool.
Uh, I-I don't know if you're
signing new clients, but, uh,
I-I got a showcase
tomorrow night.
Yeah, where's
Brett? Is he in here?
Yeah, yeah, he's here.
He's out back.
Wh-What about my showcase?
Ah. Wouldn't miss it.
(medium-tempo pop
music blaring from distance)
(overlapping,
indistinct conversations)
Brett Chandler.
FBI.
Feds? Really?
I'm playing a DEA
agent in my next film.
Maybe I could,
uh, pick your brains.
Why are you here?
Who are you?
Logan Oliver.
I handle Brett's security.
Uh, Logan keeps
me out of trouble.
And this is, uh, Josh Ryan.
He usually gets me into it.
Hey, you know,
if you ever wanna come
up here and hang out...
you'd definitely make the cut.
You all three live here?
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Take a look at this.
Is that...?
That's my bathroom.
What the hell is this?
Well, that's what we were
hoping you could tell us.
It's gotta be a
fake or something.
She's down at the morgue.
Seems pretty real to me.
This is what she looked
like when she was alive.
You guys know her?
Never seen her.
No.
Swear to God.
Lot of people come
and go here, you know?
Got an open door policy.
Is that smart, given
how famous you are?
That's how Brian
would have done it.
Who's Brian?
My brother.
We all moved out here
together from Baltimore.
Flat broke, dreams
of being big stars.
He was killed in a carjacking
six months after we got here.
So this is somehow for him?
Everything's for him.
And this would
have been his way,
you know, share the wealth.
What about Pete? Where's he?
That's his name, right?
The friend of yours
who shot this video?
Pete took that?
Pete is a buddy we grew up with.
He was out visiting
a week or so ago.
Okay, so where is he now?
He split kind of sudden.
I guess now we know why.
Look, I feel awful about this.
I mean, my house, this girl...
Whatever you guys
need, open door policy
applies to you, too.
You don't mind
if I watch a little bit,
see how it's done?
Pick our brains.
It'd be awesome research.
Oh! Hi.
Hi.
Charlie gave me a key,
so that I'm not always
making you get up
to answer the door for me.
I don't mind getting up.
Hey... ALAN: Hi, Charlie.
Hi.
What are you doing?
I'm cleaning the fish tank.
Mmm.
He's also already
trimmed the rose bushes,
straightened the attic and
cleaned out the garage.
If this keeps up,
we're liable to have a new
roof on the house by morning.
Okay, so,
I will ask again...
What are you doing?
(sighs)
You know that old friendship
math paper that I wrote
when I was, uh, when I was 12?
Sure.
“A Mathematical Analysis
of Friendship Dynamics.”
I sent it off to a
couple journals,
to see if there was any interest
in publishing.
There was... Great
interest, in fact.
Well, that's great! Why
aren't you working on it?
In a word... procrastination.
Why? What's wrong?
You know, I sat down
to update it and expand it.
I just... I'd like it to be
a little more relevant...
but, um, it's just kind
of not coming to me.
Well, I mean, I've
read the article, Charlie.
I think it's great.
You just need to sit down
and actually force
yourself to work on it.
You know what?
I think I can tell
Don the exact size
of the killer he's looking for.
How are you gonna do that?
Displacement.
Check it out.
Look what happens
to this water level
when I remove this rock.
Yeah, well, of course, Charlie,
the level drops. By an amount
exactly equal to the
volume of the rock.
See, Don thinks
the killer was in
the tub with the girl
when she was killed.
So when the killer
climbed out, the
water level fell
by a very specific amount.
I don't see any new
clues on the video.
How about the kid
who shot it? I got nothing.
Colby contacted his
parents in Maryland.
I got a list of other friends
he might be staying with.
You put Colby on the case?
Yeah. You know, I mean,
until he's reassigned.
I-I needed another agent.
It must be like another
pretty prime post.
I mean, after what he
did, he's considered a hero.
Have a look at this.
These are photos of
the victim, Andrea Barton.
We gathered them
from her apartment.
Wow, I wouldn't have
even recognized her.
DON: Yeah, yeah, she
completely transformed herself.
The question is why?
Well, she's at an
impressionable age.
Broken home, maybe,
dysfunctional family.
Surgeries could've stemmed
from a desire to change
who she really is.
DAVID: Yeah, maybe.
Maybe she's trying to hide
from something in the past.
What about the surgeon?
Yeah, the guy's name
is, uh, Dr. Jacobsen.
I found his card in her desk.
Check him out. Yeah.
Wow, th-this is... wow.
Yeah, "wow."
Measured against my
recent accommodations,
a space station,
a Zen hermitage...
no, this just... It's
a little excessive.
This is excessive
by any means, Larry,
but it's also quite awesome.
No, it's emptiness itself.
This tempts me not.
Oh, I may have to take back
a portion of what I just said.
Oh, what, the tub?
Nothing like this
at the monastery
and you know how
I love a good soak.
That's right about
where she died.
All right, that's unpleasant.
Come on out of there.
Hey, you guys with the FBI?
Yeah, hi, we're your...
I'm Charles Eppes,
and this is Lawrence
Fleinhardt. Hi.
You guys don't
look like FBI agents.
I'm actually a math professor.
Dr. Fleinhardt is a physicist.
Currently on sabbatical.
Well... It's not important.
So you're not with the FBI?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we are consultants
for the FBI. In a sense, today.
What, solving crimes with math?
No offense, but how is
that suppose to work?
No offense taken.
In this case,
we're trying to
determine the basic
parameters of the
killer's body size, using
a method called
"submerged volume."
See, look,
in this picture, we can see that
the final water level in the tub
is, um, is just right
about... right about here.
Yeah, you see, it's establishing
a high water level, that's where
things really get complicated.
Now, we do know from the video
that the towel was
hanging in just such a way
that its lowest edge was
just below the rim of the tub.
And the towel's edge is wet.
So we have to calculate
for the towel's
absorbency, evaporation,
the bubbles... but we do
know that, at some point,
the minimum level of the
water was just about here.
See, it's high
because someone
else was in this water.
The killer.
Yeah, so if we measure
the volume of the water
between these two
lines, we can calculate
the killer's body size.
Sounds like something
out of a movie.
Only not as cool.
You're asking me the
whys of cosmetic surgery?
Women have a million reasons.
And honestly,
it isn't the whys that
bought my Bentley.
Yeah, well, we
don't want to know
about all your
patients, Doctor, okay?
Just this one right here.
Who is it?
She's your patient and
you don't know who she is?
No, I mean which
one of the twins?
Andrea or Tracy?
Andrea Barton was an only child.
Well, so was Tracy Meade,
but I cut them to be identical.
DON: They look
exactly the same, huh?
Yeah, they were already
similar to begin with,
then after the surgeries...
It turns out,
actually, our victim
is this girl right
here, Tracy Meade.
Well, how'd that happen?
Neither of them have
fingerprints in the system.
And Andrea was the only one
to get a new license
since the surgeries.
So when we ran facial recognition,
hers was the photo to pop.
Oh. Oh, billing records indicate
neither of the girls
paid for their work.
The costs were
covered by a third party,
Ms. Leslie Dennis.
Leslie Dennis, the
Melrose Madam?
Oh, come on, you
guys don't ever browse
the trashy gossip Web sites?
She was investigated
for tax evasion tied to
running an escort service.
So why'd she pay to
have them look alike?
I mean, judging from
how many guys have
fantasies about
being with twins...
I mean, you know, in
that way, it makes sense.
Mm-hmm. All right,
well, talk to 'em.
See if you can connect either
of them to Brett Chandler.
All right.
Thanks. Hey, David.
Hey, man, you, uh...
haven't really given me a
chance yet to, uh, say thanks.
For what?
You saved my life, man.
It goes with the
job. David, come on.
I don't want there to be all
this weirdness, you know?
What do you mean?
Two years not knowing
who your best friend really is?
What's weird about
that? You don't think
I didn't want to tell you that
I was working undercover?
I couldn't tell you, David.
You get that, right?
Yeah, man, I get it.
And I respect it.
I've got get to work.
Have we allowed for evaporation?
Evaporation, check.
Hi, Larry. Hey.
Hello, Charlie. Hey.
I just came to see
how your work...
Don't. Don't say it.
Okay.
If you don't want
me to. I don't.
My, my, what have we here?
My "Friendship Dynamics" work
is going to be published.
If he ever writes it.
Well, I mean, speaking
frankly here, Charles,
I did find some of the
math just a trifle subjective,
your random Apollonian
Networks in particular.
Well, actually, Larry, it goes
deeper than Apollonian Networks.
The numbers aren't transcending.
You know, they're not
finding the humanity.
But you can't always
find transcendency
in human connections.
It's similar to the
bonds between atoms.
I mean, some are
eternal and able
to change the nature
of those atoms they join.
Others are fleeting,
insubstantial,
potentially combustible.
Even catastrophic.
Food for thought.
Yeah... bon appétit.
(whispering)
This is private property, you
have no right to be back here.
Yeah, we rung the
bell, nobody answered,
and, uh, the sign said
"come around back."
I left that for FedEx,
not for the federal
government. Oh, Ms. Dennis,
we're here to see about one
of your girls... Tracy Meade.
You know where she is?
She hasn't been around for days.
She's in the county morgue.
Oh, my God, I've been
worried sick about her,
but I didn't think...
What about Andrea Barton?
WOMAN: What about her?
I got away from
you once already.
Thought I should make
it easier for you this time.
DAVID: That's cute.
Why'd you run before?
I didn't know who you were.
Look, a lot of guys have
twisted fantasies about twins.
What if some freak
has a fantasy about
killing a pair? So you
knew Tracy was dead?
I didn't know. Tracy
never went anywhere
without telling me...
When she disappeared,
I knew something was wrong.
You or Tracy ever find yourself
over at Brett
Chandler's mansion?
Yeah, we were regulars there.
But Tracy started going even
when we weren't requested.
I think she was starstruck.
MEGAN: Really? 'Cause
we showed your photograph
to Brett and all his friends
and none of them
knew who you were.
Then Brett and his friends lied.
(elevator bell dings)
Go ahead, gentlemen.
Welcome to the FBI.
(excited chattering,
whooping, laughing)
Would you like to hang?
Oh, it looks like
the circus is here.
This is great!
Don... Hey.
This is Brett,
Josh, Logan,
Brett's manager, Mark.
Guys, this is Agent
Don Eppes, my boss.
What do you say, guys?
Appreciate you showing
us around the office.
It's gonna be a huge help on
my next role. Are you kidding?
It's our pleasure... we're
all big fans around here.
So what do you think, Colby?
Where should we start all this?
I was thinking
maybe Interrogation.
(laughing, hooting)
Follow me, guys.
Oh, man! This is
what I'm talking about.
Ah, it's so real!
We love it! Ah, man!
This is where you sweat
out the confessions, huh?
Yeah, something like that.
So, listen here.
We know you guys lied to us.
Wait, hold on a minute.
What are you talking about?
The three of you guys all said
that you didn't know this girl.
We happen to know
that that's not true.
Okay, busted.
What, like we're going
to admit to the FBI
we had a bunch of
hookers up at the place?
We got a little bit
freaked out; we're sorry.
Oh, yeah? So that's it, huh?
Hey, Don. Hey, Charlie.
You guys met?
Yeah, math detective.
How're the calculations
going, professor?
Did you find the killer yet?
Well, as a matter of
fact... (clears throat)
my measurements yielded
a net water
displacement of 89.6 liters.
Now, that translates to a killer
who's well above
average in size.
COLBY: What're you, Logan,
like, six-four? 210, 215?
That fits perfectly
within the boundaries
of my results.
Why don't you take
these guys out and let me
have a little chat
with Logan then?
Is this some kind of a joke?
No, we're not going anywhere.
Yeah, you are.
Let's go, guys.
The three of you.
Okay, I was in
that tub with her,
but I didn't have anything
to do with her death.
What happened? What,
she turned you down?
She was hot for Brett
and you got angry and...?
Tracy wasn't into
Brett, all right?
She was into me.
We had a thing;
it was serious, too,
you know, for real and...
She was alive when
I got out of that tub.
So who killed her?
Look, I don't know.
Just... not for sure.
Not for sure?
Don't say another word, Logan.
Wait, what do you
think you're doing?
I just talked to our attorney.
This interview's over.
Hey, listen... So this is how
the FBI works these days?
You dupe these guys into coming
down here, then you ambush them?
Nothing Logan said
in there is admissible.
I don't that's really for
you to decide, now, is it?
My client has a movie
opening in three weeks.
If you ruin his reputation by dragging
him into some sloppy murder investigation,
you could cost a lot of
people a lot of money.
Let me tell you something, I
don't care about that, okay?
I don't care one iota about
that... what I care about
is the dead girl in
your client's house.
Now, if any of them
had anything to do with it,
I'm gonna be coming
after 'em, okay?
Then do it when you have an
arrest warrant, Agent Eppes.
Until then, stay the
hell away from them.
I mean, he definitely knew more,
and he would've
said, too, you know?
LIZ: Yeah, well,
at least we know
we're looking in the
right direction now.
I love that manager guy saying
we're dragging the kid
into a sloppy investigation.
Forget about the manager.
Brett Chandler's his cash cow,
and he'll do anything he can
to keep the money
from being turned off.
So, how was Colby?
He did fine. Yeah?
Focused?
Yeah, I said he did fine.
What? If you want
more, talk to him yourself.
What? Don,
it's hard enough as it is
getting respect out there
when they all know
we're sleeping together.
(groans) You want to play
right into their assumptions?
Thanks. I appreciate the help.
(phone ringing)
(shower running)
Agent Warner.
It's Logan Oliver.
Look, I need to talk to
you, but if I say anything,
everything will come apart.
Okay, Logan, calm down.
What do you mean?
What will come apart?
Okay, listen to me,
I'm coming to the house
right now to get you, okay?
Look, I'm not home...
I-I'm in my car,
at the turnout at Brenner Park.
It's all just gone too far.
You know? Okay, well,
just stay where you are.
I'll be there in a few minutes.
You sure this is
where he said he'd be?
Yes.
He must have had
second thoughts.
You know, maybe he went
home. Whoa-ho, here we go.
Hey.
Is he conscious? No.
He's dead.
COLBY: Single shot, like you
saw, pretty much straight-on,
through-and-through
the left hand.
LIZ: Okay, so he saw
the gun, and probably
raised his hands up as a shield.
Yeah, a lot of good it did, huh?
So, just out of
curiosity, partner,
how come you didn't call
me when Logan called you?
'Cause I was with Don.
Hey, let's find out where
Brett and Josh were tonight.
Yeah, I think that's
going to be tough.
After today, there's no way
their handlers are
going to let us near them.
Wait a second.
Logan lived in
Brett's house, right?
I mean, that was
his legal address.
Now he's the
victim of a homicide.
So, we get a warrant to
search his possessions.
That'll get you in the
house, right? Good thinking.
No way, Agents.
Get the hell out of
here. We got a warrant.
Well, you have no
decency at all, do you?
You got to do this now,
with all we're going through?
All right, this limits you
to Logan's personal areas.
In this house, I'd
say that means
nowhere outside
the guest quarters.
This way.
This is so damn messed up.
I'm sorry for your loss, Brett.
Four years ago, my
brother's killed, now this?
What the hell is going on?
Hey, where were
you last night, Brett?
I know you have to ask.
I was here.
Me and Josh.
Was there someone around
who can corroborate that?
I don't think so.
It was pretty quiet.
Course now, it's a
circus again down there.
I shouldn't even be up here.
Mark would freak out if he knew
I was talking to you guys.
I should get back down.
Was any of that real?
Real good acting.
Liz, why don't you
come take a look at this.
What? Do I really want to see?
Logan had these huge data files
that it looks like
he was e-mailing
to a love-2-love
at Melrose-Madam-dot-com.
Yeah, Love-2-love's
got to be Tracy.
Not too big a leap.
I just want to know what
it was he was sending her.
Hey. LIZ: Hey.
I really appreciate
you taking a look at this.
Hope we're not
ruining breakfast. Hey.
Not a problem. Hey, man.
It's really good
to see you, man.
Yeah, thanks. Hey.
Charlie was really worried
about you for a while.
We all were.
Yeah, but you're back here,
and you're a hero, man,
and it's all good.
Oh, come on, I don't
know about this hero stuff.
Hey, hey, there
you are... that Colby.
Hi. It's so good to
see you, I mean it.
Thank you.
I can't tell you how happy I was
to find out that
you're still one of the,
you know, the good guys.
Welcome back.
Let's see... here
are the data files.
They're MPEG-1 media
files transcoded from MPEG-2.
What's that mean?
CHARLIE: They're
audio-visual files.
It's how they code DVDs.
So, he was e-mailing
his girlfriend a movie?
ALAN: There was a time when
you took a girl out to a movie.
Or you rented a VHS and
stayed home and watched it,
but now you e-mail movies?
Where's the romance in this?
This movie's called
Breaker's Edge.
I've seen ads for
this, but it's not out yet.
ALAN: Well, if it's not,
how did this guy get it?
COLBY: Well, pirated DVDs
are a big industry.
I mean, the FBI has a
whole section devoted to that.
Well, let's see if
it's got a watermark.
Studios sometimes put
a digital tag in the coding.
The idea being that if a pirated
DVD shows up, it can be traced
back to a source.
It was issued to Brett Chandler.
What makes you think
I know anything
about DVD pirating?
I'll bet nothing
goes on in this place
that you don't get
a percentage of.
Brett Chandler got
pre-releases of all the big movies.
That's a perk of being a star.
And Logan was
e-mailing them to Tracy.
What we want to know is
what Tracy was doing with them.
I run a legal dating service.
What the girls do with their
own time is their business.
Ms. Dennis, how deep
do you want us to dig here?
Right now, your dating
service is not our concern, but
we could make it our concern.
MEGAN: Or we could get a
warrant for your Web server.
I'm sure there's a
lot of exciting stuff
at Melrose-Madam-dot-com.
All we want is a name.
It's two names...
Kevin and Bryce Lee.
They run a club in
Hollywood called Bedouin.
Just don't let them
know it came from me.
Oh, we'll be real discreet.
MEGAN: Oh, yeah.
It's hard to believe people
line up to get into this place.
Lots more get lined
up to be turned away.
Don't ever say I don't take
you to the hottest places.
Excuse me.
FBI.
We're looking for
Kevin or Bryce Lee.
Hey, I noticed you still
haven't cleared things up
with Colby yet.
How long you going to
leave him on the hook?
(sighs)
The hours we
logged on stakeouts,
the stuff I told that guy...
I trusted him.
Yeah, but we were
all fooled, David.
He was looking for
a mole in the FBI.
I mean, he was really
investigating all of us.
It hasn't bothered you at all?
Honestly.
A little bit weird, right?
Liquor guy's taking alcohol out
instead of bringing it in.
Hmm.
MAN: Mario says
you want to talk to me?
Hey. Maybe you're the one
who should be talking to us.
Want to put your
hands behind your back?
Gun, David!
(gunshots)
(gunshots)
Think about it...
unless you want to wind
up like your brother out here.
Okay. All right.
Let's go.
Come on!
DAVID: We just
talked to the hospital.
What did they say?
How's my brother?
Now, I think we're going
to ask you a few
questions first.
And maybe afterward,
we'll get around
to talking about your brother.
You know either of them?
You were doing
business with both of them,
and now they're dead.
Whoa, whoa, no, I don't
know nothing about that.
Of course you don't.
Never even seen that guy before.
Yeah? What about her?
DAVID: Come on, you want to know
about your brother or not?
How'd the deal work?
Leslie's girls... They're
always ending up
in the homes of movie stars,
producers, directors, right?
So we had a
standing arrangement.
Any girl who could snag
me an unreleased movie...
There would be five
grand waiting for her.
How many movies
did she get for you?
Uh, ten,
maybe 12 in the last six months.
She was my big earner.
'Cause she was sleeping
with one of the guys?
Because she had leverage.
I don't know, maybe Brett
Chandler was gay or something.
She didn't tell me.
But she had dirt of some
kind, she knew how to use it.
Blackmail. DON: Right.
And Logan said to
Liz that if he talked,
everything would,
quote, come apart.
Whatever Tracy knew,
he knew, as well. Uh-huh.
Yeah, see, what bothers
me, though, is that
Tracy's been apparently
blackmailing Logan
for months, right?
DVDs in exchange
for her silence.
But then, she's
suddenly murdered.
Yeah, you know,
part of game theory
is risk and response analysis.
It's like when a jackal is
circling a lion and her cub.
The jackal presents a risk,
but as long as the jackal
stalks at a distance,
the risk he presents is low,
so the lion's probably
going to tolerate him.
On the other hand, if the
jackal comes too close,
he crosses a line, and
the risk he presents
becomes
unacceptable to the lion.
The lion's response
will probably be lethal.
Tracy demanding DVDs seems
like a low-risk situation to me,
so something must have changed.
All right.
It's basic game theory again.
I could walk you through it.
All right, I'll check
in with you later.
Hey, Don, we got the kid
who shot the video, Pete Sears.
He was at a friend's
house in Van Nuys.
All right, good.
Listen, I swear, I
got out of that house
a few hours after filming that.
Oh, yeah? Why?
Why?
Uh, well, there was a
dead girl in the bathtub.
And Josh and Logan
said that they didn't
want to tell anybody,
not even Brett.
They just wanted to get rid
of her, so no one would know.
What they just let you
leave with the video?
No, um, I pretended to erase it.
You know, I kind of played
along there, you know?
And then, all week,
I'm watching the news,
and nothing's happened,
so I feel like I need
to say something.
I send the tape to you guys.
Listen...
those aren't the same guys
that I grew up with, right?
They've changed.
Just so you know,
it hasn't escaped me
that you're still not
working on your paper.
Nothing gets past you, does it?
Hey, Charlie, how
do we know this killer
is gonna play
according to your rules?
Uh, we don't... not exactly.
But game theory
gives us a model.
Allows us to look at each
player in terms of strategy.
The idea is that each player
works to maximize
their own return.
What's the best way
to exploit the secret?
What's the best
strategy to protect it?
And at what point does it make
more sense for me to kill you,
rather than pay you off.
Hey, Charlie, I'm looking
for this box of sprinkler parts
and I know you moved them.
Put 'em here in the
garage, did you see 'em?
I put 'em over there.
Where?
Oh, they're by the hoses.
ALAN: Charlie
cleaned out the garage.
Now I can't find a damn thing.
Something's bothering you.
Yeah.
This model...
you know, Tracy was killed,
but the threat she posed remains.
What do you mean?
Well, you know that analogy
I gave about the
lioness and the jackal...
Tracy might be dead,
but the model is saying that
the jackal is still out there.
Sounds like a Raymond
Chandler novel, huh?
Murder, blackmail, movie stars.
Even got the evil twins.
Wait a minute, Alan...
I think you just said it.
Said what? What
did I say? The twins.
Charlie, we confused
these girls before, right?
Right. What if we're doing
the same thing right now.
How about you plug
in Andrea Barton
instead of Tracy Meade.
Yeah.
AMITA: That's it.
She's the missing piece.
I was wondering
when you'd be back.
MEGAN: Love-2-love.
That's your e-mail
address, isn't it?
I'm not sure why
you're asking me.
You obviously already know.
We also know that you
were the blackmailer.
Not Tracy.
What is your leverage
on Brett Chandler?
What's your big secret?
What's it worth to you?
Look, you're not really
in a position to deal here.
I'm exactly in a
position to deal.
I can help you catch a killer.
That really depends
on what you know.
How about you tell
us how you found out?
Logan told Tracy
something about Brett...
Pillow talk probably.
Tracy couldn't wait to tell me.
She was really into
the "twins" thing,
thought it made us best friends.
Mm, some friend.
I didn't even know Tracy
before the surgeries.
Okay, we were similar types,
so Leslie put us together.
I saw an opportunity.
And it doesn't bother you
that your “opportunity”
got Tracy killed?
Like I said, it's not like
she was my real sister.
(sighs)
I'm getting bored.
You want the information I have,
guarantee I'm not
charged with the blackmail.
You tell us or I'm gonna
guarantee you're charged
as an accessory to
murder, as well as blackmail.
What good is a secret, if
you can't share it anyway?
You know about
Brett's brother...
Brian.
He was killed shortly
after he arrived here in LA...
A carjacking.
That's the story
Brett told the police.
It isn't the real story.
Guys.
Didn't know you were here.
What? What is it?
Secret's out, Brett.
We know you killed your brother.
Brian was killed in
a botched carjacking.
Check with police.
Well, I checked the LAPD file.
And the funny thing is, the
only witnesses to the shooting
were you, Josh and Logan.
And all three of you guys
gave the same account.
And I don't mean
that your statements
were consistent.
They were identical.
So?
So there's always
some variation between
witness testimony,
unless the witnesses
happen to rehearse
before the police showed up.
Look, you gotta know I never
would've hurt Brian, ever.
I loved him.
Then why don't you start showing
him the respect he deserves.
Tell the truth.
Stop acting.
(sighs)
It was a dumb, drunken accident.
I had just landed my first role.
We were messing
around in the parking lot
after celebrating in a bar.
I was using the
gun as a... a prop,
acting out my part.
It went off.
(sighs)
I'm glad it's out.
I am.
They can't hold it
over me anymore.
Who? My guys.
My “boyz."
Why do you think I let
them live in my house,
drive my cars, and
spend my money?
If I them cut them off, it
wouldn't have been ten minutes
before they sold me
out to the tabloids.
That's what Logan meant
when he said that
everything would come apart.
Well, the thing is, Brett,
the three of you
had the motive to kill.
But with Logan dead, that
leaves just you and Josh.
No. Mark Green knew, too.
And Josh was with me
when Logan was shot, so...
You son of a bitch!
You killed Logan?
Hey, hey, hang on...
I'll try and head him off.
(gunshot)
(people screaming)
Don't come any closer. (screams)
All right, now stay back.
Where do you think
you're gonna go, Mark?
Let go of the girl.
Listen, man, I got
nothing left to lose.
I'll kill her. I swear.
And then what do you
think's gonna happen?
Drop it!
You all right?
COLBY: Yeah. Fine.
DON: Good job, you guys.
LIZ: Thanks.
Kinda doubt it's what
the ADIC had in mind
when he told me to
sit tight, though, huh?
So the manager's not
talking, but we've got his gun,
so ballistics will tie
him to Logan's murder.
Also, U.S. Attorney
hopes to leverage him
for a confession on Tracy, too.
Well, Brett's on the hook
for his brother's death,
but as far as the
blackmail goes,
he didn't know.
Logan and Green
kept it from him, so...
Just to protect their ends, huh?
Look...
this is from the
Director's Office.
I wouldn't be surprised
if you could pick
wherever you want to go next.
DAVID: Colby and
I were pretty tight.
Everything went down,
and he looked dirty.
I believed it.
Is that what's bothering you?
Feel guilty?
Maybe just proves we
weren't that tight to, uh...
to begin with.
Come on.
You don't really believe that.
Okay, if you guys are
ready, let's go now, okay?
Okay.
Hey. Hey! Well, well.
What's going on? Um...
Larry has invited us to
have dinner at the monastery.
Oh, that sounds different.
LARRY: It's our
monthly open house.
I just thought it
might break down
some of the mystique
concerning my residency there.
In other words, he's tired
of our stupid questions.
He figured it would be better
for us to take a look ourselves.
If you're free, you're
welcome to join us.
Yeah. Yeah, uh...
Come on, it sounds like fun.
Tell you, prior to his
complete nervous breakdown,
Brother Michael ran a
very successful restaurant
right here in town.
We'd love to go.
(chuckles) Right?
I guess what she said.
Okay, I'll go see what's
taking Charlie so long.
Charlie, are you ready to go?
Oh.
Are you writing?
The block's gone.
I've got it now.
What changed?
My observation of Brett
Chandler and his friends,
or Colby coming back,
or could've even
been you and Larry.
But I know what I want to say
about friendship now.
I know what goes
along with the math.
Good.
I'm glad to hear it.
on the West Coast? ♪
♪ I hear you're
movin' real fine... ♪
MAN: You might want to take
the lens cap off there, Spielberg.
All right, I'm
getting it, just a sec.
Camera stuff is lame; let
me just show you the house.
N-N-N-N-N-No! I got it.
Okay, are you ready now?
Yes. Let's go.
Voilà.
Oh, my God.
What? What?
You've got to be kidding me.
The guys back home are
never going to believe this.
Brett, man, this place is sick.
What, you didn't
think I'd make it?
Nah, man, we all knew
you'd make it, but this...!
Dude, you have no idea
the tail that comes
through here, man.
Do they all come here for you?
No, jackass, they
come here for Brett,
but to get to Brett, they
gotta go through me,
you know what I mean?
Brett, we got to roll.
We're gonna be
late for the studio.
(groans)
Studio owns me.
House is yours. Enjoy.
Fair enough.
Let's go check out
my house, shall we?
Okay, here we go.
Check it out,
ladies, here it is...
Brett Chandler's bedroom.
I'm gonna snag these sheets
and I'm gonna sell 'em on eBay.
Let's head down here.
His wardrobe... probably
cost more than my life.
Check this.
Look at that view
from the bathroom.
You can check out the
waves while you unload.
Looks like somebody
left the tub on for me here.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Hey, hey, hey, somebody!
Hey, somebody!
It was delivered anonymously
about two hours ago.
Do we know if it's for
real? He's an actor.
He might have been playing a joke
on his friend. DAVID: No, I checked.
There haven't been any emergency
phone calls from his house.
Data coding
on the tape says it
was shot six days ago
and, I mean,
that's plenty of time
to cover something up.
Well, Brett Chandler's
a pretty big star.
We better know what's up before
we go after someone like him.
And what about the girl?
MEGAN: Charlie's working on it.
He thinks he can pull a
clean image off the tape.
Really? How? Her face
is completely distorted.
CHARLIE: Actually,
it's just being refracted.
It's the same as
when we look at a
pencil through a glass
of water.
It's complicated by
multiple refractions, motion.
Think of a gum ball machine
packed with hundreds
of gum balls.
Imagine striking it
with a sledgehammer.
The resulting chaos
might seem random; it's not.
The path and position of
each and every gum ball
is the result of the
specific forces acting on it...
Gravity, velocity,
momentum, mass.
In fact, it's conceivable that,
were we to measure and
quantify each of these forces,
we could use the end
position of the gum balls
to completely reconstruct
the original gum ball machine
with each gum ball placed
exactly where it started.
And it's the same
with this image here.
See? It's being scattered
by the forces of refraction.
But using Snell's Law,
a dash of Goos-Haenchen shifts
and a motion-tracking
algorithm...
Ooh, that's freaky.
Yeah, the techs
are already running it
through the facial
recognition software.
Look who's back.
Emptied out my whole desk.
Wow, you guys don't waste
any time around here, huh?
I mean, they told us
to send everything
down to Quantico, so...
Yeah, I know. I
could've figured.
How are you feeling?
You look a lot better
than the last time
I saw you. No permanent damage.
At least that I know of.
I guess they just want
me to sit tight here
until I'm reassigned, so...
You going to go say something?
Not sure what there is to say.
(computer blipping)
Hey! We got a match.
That's her.
Andrea Barton.
Oop... Looks like
we've got two matches.
DAVID: That's a Jane Doe.
She's in the morgue.
I guess that answers
the question whether
the video is real or not.
I was wondering why I
haven't seen Andrea in a while.
What a shame.
You have any
information on next of kin?
Someone we might contact?
I'd have to check her lease.
(sighs) It's one of these.
(scraping, then thud)
Does Andrea have a roommate?
No. She lived alone.
Is there a back door?
There's a window.
Stand back.
Hey! You!
Get out of the car!
(tires squealing)
(shouting)
David!
(engine roaring into distance)
That was her driving the car.
What do you mean?
Who? Our dead girl.
Andrea Barton.
That's the girl you
saw driving the car?
EXAMINER: That'd
be quite a trick.
She's been here for three days.
Someone had dumped
her body in Runyon Canyon.
DAVID: Well, maybe
she has a sister.
MEGAN: No, I spoke to
the mother back in Tucson.
Andrea's an only child.
Well, I haven't
done the cut yet...
We're pretty backed up.
But I could give you some
interesting preliminaries.
Uh, C.O.D.
looks like drowning,
but it wasn't accidental.
The bruising on her neck
and shoulders suggests
she was held under.
Struggled.
Her mother said she moved
out here to be an actress.
I'd say she wanted
it pretty badly.
Why do you say that?
She's had work done.
Breast augmentation,
chin work, for sure,
a little bit of liposuction.
Lipo? She's barely 100 pounds.
Yeah, I think it's about time
somebody paid our
movie star a visit.
Thanks for letting
me team up with you
on this one, Liz. Yeah.
Seems like David wants nothing
to do with me right now.
Aw, what do you expect?
Come on, you're
a good guy, Colby,
but you've lied to
him for two years.
Well, I lied to you, too.
Ah, but only for six months.
I'm less invested.
Besides, teaming us
wasn't my idea, it was Don's.
Really. So you can
keep an eye on me?
Look, out in the field,
I'm just like any other
agent, okay? Right.
Except you're
sleeping with the boss.
Granger, I didn't
partner with you
so I could report
on you, you got it?
Sure.
Hey guys, we're
looking for Brett.
Agents Granger and Warner.
You're agents?
What agency you with? ICM, CAA?
FBI.
Oh, cool.
Uh, I-I don't know if you're
signing new clients, but, uh,
I-I got a showcase
tomorrow night.
Yeah, where's
Brett? Is he in here?
Yeah, yeah, he's here.
He's out back.
Wh-What about my showcase?
Ah. Wouldn't miss it.
(medium-tempo pop
music blaring from distance)
(overlapping,
indistinct conversations)
Brett Chandler.
FBI.
Feds? Really?
I'm playing a DEA
agent in my next film.
Maybe I could,
uh, pick your brains.
Why are you here?
Who are you?
Logan Oliver.
I handle Brett's security.
Uh, Logan keeps
me out of trouble.
And this is, uh, Josh Ryan.
He usually gets me into it.
Hey, you know,
if you ever wanna come
up here and hang out...
you'd definitely make the cut.
You all three live here?
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Take a look at this.
Is that...?
That's my bathroom.
What the hell is this?
Well, that's what we were
hoping you could tell us.
It's gotta be a
fake or something.
She's down at the morgue.
Seems pretty real to me.
This is what she looked
like when she was alive.
You guys know her?
Never seen her.
No.
Swear to God.
Lot of people come
and go here, you know?
Got an open door policy.
Is that smart, given
how famous you are?
That's how Brian
would have done it.
Who's Brian?
My brother.
We all moved out here
together from Baltimore.
Flat broke, dreams
of being big stars.
He was killed in a carjacking
six months after we got here.
So this is somehow for him?
Everything's for him.
And this would
have been his way,
you know, share the wealth.
What about Pete? Where's he?
That's his name, right?
The friend of yours
who shot this video?
Pete took that?
Pete is a buddy we grew up with.
He was out visiting
a week or so ago.
Okay, so where is he now?
He split kind of sudden.
I guess now we know why.
Look, I feel awful about this.
I mean, my house, this girl...
Whatever you guys
need, open door policy
applies to you, too.
You don't mind
if I watch a little bit,
see how it's done?
Pick our brains.
It'd be awesome research.
Oh! Hi.
Hi.
Charlie gave me a key,
so that I'm not always
making you get up
to answer the door for me.
I don't mind getting up.
Hey... ALAN: Hi, Charlie.
Hi.
What are you doing?
I'm cleaning the fish tank.
Mmm.
He's also already
trimmed the rose bushes,
straightened the attic and
cleaned out the garage.
If this keeps up,
we're liable to have a new
roof on the house by morning.
Okay, so,
I will ask again...
What are you doing?
(sighs)
You know that old friendship
math paper that I wrote
when I was, uh, when I was 12?
Sure.
“A Mathematical Analysis
of Friendship Dynamics.”
I sent it off to a
couple journals,
to see if there was any interest
in publishing.
There was... Great
interest, in fact.
Well, that's great! Why
aren't you working on it?
In a word... procrastination.
Why? What's wrong?
You know, I sat down
to update it and expand it.
I just... I'd like it to be
a little more relevant...
but, um, it's just kind
of not coming to me.
Well, I mean, I've
read the article, Charlie.
I think it's great.
You just need to sit down
and actually force
yourself to work on it.
You know what?
I think I can tell
Don the exact size
of the killer he's looking for.
How are you gonna do that?
Displacement.
Check it out.
Look what happens
to this water level
when I remove this rock.
Yeah, well, of course, Charlie,
the level drops. By an amount
exactly equal to the
volume of the rock.
See, Don thinks
the killer was in
the tub with the girl
when she was killed.
So when the killer
climbed out, the
water level fell
by a very specific amount.
I don't see any new
clues on the video.
How about the kid
who shot it? I got nothing.
Colby contacted his
parents in Maryland.
I got a list of other friends
he might be staying with.
You put Colby on the case?
Yeah. You know, I mean,
until he's reassigned.
I-I needed another agent.
It must be like another
pretty prime post.
I mean, after what he
did, he's considered a hero.
Have a look at this.
These are photos of
the victim, Andrea Barton.
We gathered them
from her apartment.
Wow, I wouldn't have
even recognized her.
DON: Yeah, yeah, she
completely transformed herself.
The question is why?
Well, she's at an
impressionable age.
Broken home, maybe,
dysfunctional family.
Surgeries could've stemmed
from a desire to change
who she really is.
DAVID: Yeah, maybe.
Maybe she's trying to hide
from something in the past.
What about the surgeon?
Yeah, the guy's name
is, uh, Dr. Jacobsen.
I found his card in her desk.
Check him out. Yeah.
Wow, th-this is... wow.
Yeah, "wow."
Measured against my
recent accommodations,
a space station,
a Zen hermitage...
no, this just... It's
a little excessive.
This is excessive
by any means, Larry,
but it's also quite awesome.
No, it's emptiness itself.
This tempts me not.
Oh, I may have to take back
a portion of what I just said.
Oh, what, the tub?
Nothing like this
at the monastery
and you know how
I love a good soak.
That's right about
where she died.
All right, that's unpleasant.
Come on out of there.
Hey, you guys with the FBI?
Yeah, hi, we're your...
I'm Charles Eppes,
and this is Lawrence
Fleinhardt. Hi.
You guys don't
look like FBI agents.
I'm actually a math professor.
Dr. Fleinhardt is a physicist.
Currently on sabbatical.
Well... It's not important.
So you're not with the FBI?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we are consultants
for the FBI. In a sense, today.
What, solving crimes with math?
No offense, but how is
that suppose to work?
No offense taken.
In this case,
we're trying to
determine the basic
parameters of the
killer's body size, using
a method called
"submerged volume."
See, look,
in this picture, we can see that
the final water level in the tub
is, um, is just right
about... right about here.
Yeah, you see, it's establishing
a high water level, that's where
things really get complicated.
Now, we do know from the video
that the towel was
hanging in just such a way
that its lowest edge was
just below the rim of the tub.
And the towel's edge is wet.
So we have to calculate
for the towel's
absorbency, evaporation,
the bubbles... but we do
know that, at some point,
the minimum level of the
water was just about here.
See, it's high
because someone
else was in this water.
The killer.
Yeah, so if we measure
the volume of the water
between these two
lines, we can calculate
the killer's body size.
Sounds like something
out of a movie.
Only not as cool.
You're asking me the
whys of cosmetic surgery?
Women have a million reasons.
And honestly,
it isn't the whys that
bought my Bentley.
Yeah, well, we
don't want to know
about all your
patients, Doctor, okay?
Just this one right here.
Who is it?
She's your patient and
you don't know who she is?
No, I mean which
one of the twins?
Andrea or Tracy?
Andrea Barton was an only child.
Well, so was Tracy Meade,
but I cut them to be identical.
DON: They look
exactly the same, huh?
Yeah, they were already
similar to begin with,
then after the surgeries...
It turns out,
actually, our victim
is this girl right
here, Tracy Meade.
Well, how'd that happen?
Neither of them have
fingerprints in the system.
And Andrea was the only one
to get a new license
since the surgeries.
So when we ran facial recognition,
hers was the photo to pop.
Oh. Oh, billing records indicate
neither of the girls
paid for their work.
The costs were
covered by a third party,
Ms. Leslie Dennis.
Leslie Dennis, the
Melrose Madam?
Oh, come on, you
guys don't ever browse
the trashy gossip Web sites?
She was investigated
for tax evasion tied to
running an escort service.
So why'd she pay to
have them look alike?
I mean, judging from
how many guys have
fantasies about
being with twins...
I mean, you know, in
that way, it makes sense.
Mm-hmm. All right,
well, talk to 'em.
See if you can connect either
of them to Brett Chandler.
All right.
Thanks. Hey, David.
Hey, man, you, uh...
haven't really given me a
chance yet to, uh, say thanks.
For what?
You saved my life, man.
It goes with the
job. David, come on.
I don't want there to be all
this weirdness, you know?
What do you mean?
Two years not knowing
who your best friend really is?
What's weird about
that? You don't think
I didn't want to tell you that
I was working undercover?
I couldn't tell you, David.
You get that, right?
Yeah, man, I get it.
And I respect it.
I've got get to work.
Have we allowed for evaporation?
Evaporation, check.
Hi, Larry. Hey.
Hello, Charlie. Hey.
I just came to see
how your work...
Don't. Don't say it.
Okay.
If you don't want
me to. I don't.
My, my, what have we here?
My "Friendship Dynamics" work
is going to be published.
If he ever writes it.
Well, I mean, speaking
frankly here, Charles,
I did find some of the
math just a trifle subjective,
your random Apollonian
Networks in particular.
Well, actually, Larry, it goes
deeper than Apollonian Networks.
The numbers aren't transcending.
You know, they're not
finding the humanity.
But you can't always
find transcendency
in human connections.
It's similar to the
bonds between atoms.
I mean, some are
eternal and able
to change the nature
of those atoms they join.
Others are fleeting,
insubstantial,
potentially combustible.
Even catastrophic.
Food for thought.
Yeah... bon appétit.
(whispering)
This is private property, you
have no right to be back here.
Yeah, we rung the
bell, nobody answered,
and, uh, the sign said
"come around back."
I left that for FedEx,
not for the federal
government. Oh, Ms. Dennis,
we're here to see about one
of your girls... Tracy Meade.
You know where she is?
She hasn't been around for days.
She's in the county morgue.
Oh, my God, I've been
worried sick about her,
but I didn't think...
What about Andrea Barton?
WOMAN: What about her?
I got away from
you once already.
Thought I should make
it easier for you this time.
DAVID: That's cute.
Why'd you run before?
I didn't know who you were.
Look, a lot of guys have
twisted fantasies about twins.
What if some freak
has a fantasy about
killing a pair? So you
knew Tracy was dead?
I didn't know. Tracy
never went anywhere
without telling me...
When she disappeared,
I knew something was wrong.
You or Tracy ever find yourself
over at Brett
Chandler's mansion?
Yeah, we were regulars there.
But Tracy started going even
when we weren't requested.
I think she was starstruck.
MEGAN: Really? 'Cause
we showed your photograph
to Brett and all his friends
and none of them
knew who you were.
Then Brett and his friends lied.
(elevator bell dings)
Go ahead, gentlemen.
Welcome to the FBI.
(excited chattering,
whooping, laughing)
Would you like to hang?
Oh, it looks like
the circus is here.
This is great!
Don... Hey.
This is Brett,
Josh, Logan,
Brett's manager, Mark.
Guys, this is Agent
Don Eppes, my boss.
What do you say, guys?
Appreciate you showing
us around the office.
It's gonna be a huge help on
my next role. Are you kidding?
It's our pleasure... we're
all big fans around here.
So what do you think, Colby?
Where should we start all this?
I was thinking
maybe Interrogation.
(laughing, hooting)
Follow me, guys.
Oh, man! This is
what I'm talking about.
Ah, it's so real!
We love it! Ah, man!
This is where you sweat
out the confessions, huh?
Yeah, something like that.
So, listen here.
We know you guys lied to us.
Wait, hold on a minute.
What are you talking about?
The three of you guys all said
that you didn't know this girl.
We happen to know
that that's not true.
Okay, busted.
What, like we're going
to admit to the FBI
we had a bunch of
hookers up at the place?
We got a little bit
freaked out; we're sorry.
Oh, yeah? So that's it, huh?
Hey, Don. Hey, Charlie.
You guys met?
Yeah, math detective.
How're the calculations
going, professor?
Did you find the killer yet?
Well, as a matter of
fact... (clears throat)
my measurements yielded
a net water
displacement of 89.6 liters.
Now, that translates to a killer
who's well above
average in size.
COLBY: What're you, Logan,
like, six-four? 210, 215?
That fits perfectly
within the boundaries
of my results.
Why don't you take
these guys out and let me
have a little chat
with Logan then?
Is this some kind of a joke?
No, we're not going anywhere.
Yeah, you are.
Let's go, guys.
The three of you.
Okay, I was in
that tub with her,
but I didn't have anything
to do with her death.
What happened? What,
she turned you down?
She was hot for Brett
and you got angry and...?
Tracy wasn't into
Brett, all right?
She was into me.
We had a thing;
it was serious, too,
you know, for real and...
She was alive when
I got out of that tub.
So who killed her?
Look, I don't know.
Just... not for sure.
Not for sure?
Don't say another word, Logan.
Wait, what do you
think you're doing?
I just talked to our attorney.
This interview's over.
Hey, listen... So this is how
the FBI works these days?
You dupe these guys into coming
down here, then you ambush them?
Nothing Logan said
in there is admissible.
I don't that's really for
you to decide, now, is it?
My client has a movie
opening in three weeks.
If you ruin his reputation by dragging
him into some sloppy murder investigation,
you could cost a lot of
people a lot of money.
Let me tell you something, I
don't care about that, okay?
I don't care one iota about
that... what I care about
is the dead girl in
your client's house.
Now, if any of them
had anything to do with it,
I'm gonna be coming
after 'em, okay?
Then do it when you have an
arrest warrant, Agent Eppes.
Until then, stay the
hell away from them.
I mean, he definitely knew more,
and he would've
said, too, you know?
LIZ: Yeah, well,
at least we know
we're looking in the
right direction now.
I love that manager guy saying
we're dragging the kid
into a sloppy investigation.
Forget about the manager.
Brett Chandler's his cash cow,
and he'll do anything he can
to keep the money
from being turned off.
So, how was Colby?
He did fine. Yeah?
Focused?
Yeah, I said he did fine.
What? If you want
more, talk to him yourself.
What? Don,
it's hard enough as it is
getting respect out there
when they all know
we're sleeping together.
(groans) You want to play
right into their assumptions?
Thanks. I appreciate the help.
(phone ringing)
(shower running)
Agent Warner.
It's Logan Oliver.
Look, I need to talk to
you, but if I say anything,
everything will come apart.
Okay, Logan, calm down.
What do you mean?
What will come apart?
Okay, listen to me,
I'm coming to the house
right now to get you, okay?
Look, I'm not home...
I-I'm in my car,
at the turnout at Brenner Park.
It's all just gone too far.
You know? Okay, well,
just stay where you are.
I'll be there in a few minutes.
You sure this is
where he said he'd be?
Yes.
He must have had
second thoughts.
You know, maybe he went
home. Whoa-ho, here we go.
Hey.
Is he conscious? No.
He's dead.
COLBY: Single shot, like you
saw, pretty much straight-on,
through-and-through
the left hand.
LIZ: Okay, so he saw
the gun, and probably
raised his hands up as a shield.
Yeah, a lot of good it did, huh?
So, just out of
curiosity, partner,
how come you didn't call
me when Logan called you?
'Cause I was with Don.
Hey, let's find out where
Brett and Josh were tonight.
Yeah, I think that's
going to be tough.
After today, there's no way
their handlers are
going to let us near them.
Wait a second.
Logan lived in
Brett's house, right?
I mean, that was
his legal address.
Now he's the
victim of a homicide.
So, we get a warrant to
search his possessions.
That'll get you in the
house, right? Good thinking.
No way, Agents.
Get the hell out of
here. We got a warrant.
Well, you have no
decency at all, do you?
You got to do this now,
with all we're going through?
All right, this limits you
to Logan's personal areas.
In this house, I'd
say that means
nowhere outside
the guest quarters.
This way.
This is so damn messed up.
I'm sorry for your loss, Brett.
Four years ago, my
brother's killed, now this?
What the hell is going on?
Hey, where were
you last night, Brett?
I know you have to ask.
I was here.
Me and Josh.
Was there someone around
who can corroborate that?
I don't think so.
It was pretty quiet.
Course now, it's a
circus again down there.
I shouldn't even be up here.
Mark would freak out if he knew
I was talking to you guys.
I should get back down.
Was any of that real?
Real good acting.
Liz, why don't you
come take a look at this.
What? Do I really want to see?
Logan had these huge data files
that it looks like
he was e-mailing
to a love-2-love
at Melrose-Madam-dot-com.
Yeah, Love-2-love's
got to be Tracy.
Not too big a leap.
I just want to know what
it was he was sending her.
Hey. LIZ: Hey.
I really appreciate
you taking a look at this.
Hope we're not
ruining breakfast. Hey.
Not a problem. Hey, man.
It's really good
to see you, man.
Yeah, thanks. Hey.
Charlie was really worried
about you for a while.
We all were.
Yeah, but you're back here,
and you're a hero, man,
and it's all good.
Oh, come on, I don't
know about this hero stuff.
Hey, hey, there
you are... that Colby.
Hi. It's so good to
see you, I mean it.
Thank you.
I can't tell you how happy I was
to find out that
you're still one of the,
you know, the good guys.
Welcome back.
Let's see... here
are the data files.
They're MPEG-1 media
files transcoded from MPEG-2.
What's that mean?
CHARLIE: They're
audio-visual files.
It's how they code DVDs.
So, he was e-mailing
his girlfriend a movie?
ALAN: There was a time when
you took a girl out to a movie.
Or you rented a VHS and
stayed home and watched it,
but now you e-mail movies?
Where's the romance in this?
This movie's called
Breaker's Edge.
I've seen ads for
this, but it's not out yet.
ALAN: Well, if it's not,
how did this guy get it?
COLBY: Well, pirated DVDs
are a big industry.
I mean, the FBI has a
whole section devoted to that.
Well, let's see if
it's got a watermark.
Studios sometimes put
a digital tag in the coding.
The idea being that if a pirated
DVD shows up, it can be traced
back to a source.
It was issued to Brett Chandler.
What makes you think
I know anything
about DVD pirating?
I'll bet nothing
goes on in this place
that you don't get
a percentage of.
Brett Chandler got
pre-releases of all the big movies.
That's a perk of being a star.
And Logan was
e-mailing them to Tracy.
What we want to know is
what Tracy was doing with them.
I run a legal dating service.
What the girls do with their
own time is their business.
Ms. Dennis, how deep
do you want us to dig here?
Right now, your dating
service is not our concern, but
we could make it our concern.
MEGAN: Or we could get a
warrant for your Web server.
I'm sure there's a
lot of exciting stuff
at Melrose-Madam-dot-com.
All we want is a name.
It's two names...
Kevin and Bryce Lee.
They run a club in
Hollywood called Bedouin.
Just don't let them
know it came from me.
Oh, we'll be real discreet.
MEGAN: Oh, yeah.
It's hard to believe people
line up to get into this place.
Lots more get lined
up to be turned away.
Don't ever say I don't take
you to the hottest places.
Excuse me.
FBI.
We're looking for
Kevin or Bryce Lee.
Hey, I noticed you still
haven't cleared things up
with Colby yet.
How long you going to
leave him on the hook?
(sighs)
The hours we
logged on stakeouts,
the stuff I told that guy...
I trusted him.
Yeah, but we were
all fooled, David.
He was looking for
a mole in the FBI.
I mean, he was really
investigating all of us.
It hasn't bothered you at all?
Honestly.
A little bit weird, right?
Liquor guy's taking alcohol out
instead of bringing it in.
Hmm.
MAN: Mario says
you want to talk to me?
Hey. Maybe you're the one
who should be talking to us.
Want to put your
hands behind your back?
Gun, David!
(gunshots)
(gunshots)
Think about it...
unless you want to wind
up like your brother out here.
Okay. All right.
Let's go.
Come on!
DAVID: We just
talked to the hospital.
What did they say?
How's my brother?
Now, I think we're going
to ask you a few
questions first.
And maybe afterward,
we'll get around
to talking about your brother.
You know either of them?
You were doing
business with both of them,
and now they're dead.
Whoa, whoa, no, I don't
know nothing about that.
Of course you don't.
Never even seen that guy before.
Yeah? What about her?
DAVID: Come on, you want to know
about your brother or not?
How'd the deal work?
Leslie's girls... They're
always ending up
in the homes of movie stars,
producers, directors, right?
So we had a
standing arrangement.
Any girl who could snag
me an unreleased movie...
There would be five
grand waiting for her.
How many movies
did she get for you?
Uh, ten,
maybe 12 in the last six months.
She was my big earner.
'Cause she was sleeping
with one of the guys?
Because she had leverage.
I don't know, maybe Brett
Chandler was gay or something.
She didn't tell me.
But she had dirt of some
kind, she knew how to use it.
Blackmail. DON: Right.
And Logan said to
Liz that if he talked,
everything would,
quote, come apart.
Whatever Tracy knew,
he knew, as well. Uh-huh.
Yeah, see, what bothers
me, though, is that
Tracy's been apparently
blackmailing Logan
for months, right?
DVDs in exchange
for her silence.
But then, she's
suddenly murdered.
Yeah, you know,
part of game theory
is risk and response analysis.
It's like when a jackal is
circling a lion and her cub.
The jackal presents a risk,
but as long as the jackal
stalks at a distance,
the risk he presents is low,
so the lion's probably
going to tolerate him.
On the other hand, if the
jackal comes too close,
he crosses a line, and
the risk he presents
becomes
unacceptable to the lion.
The lion's response
will probably be lethal.
Tracy demanding DVDs seems
like a low-risk situation to me,
so something must have changed.
All right.
It's basic game theory again.
I could walk you through it.
All right, I'll check
in with you later.
Hey, Don, we got the kid
who shot the video, Pete Sears.
He was at a friend's
house in Van Nuys.
All right, good.
Listen, I swear, I
got out of that house
a few hours after filming that.
Oh, yeah? Why?
Why?
Uh, well, there was a
dead girl in the bathtub.
And Josh and Logan
said that they didn't
want to tell anybody,
not even Brett.
They just wanted to get rid
of her, so no one would know.
What they just let you
leave with the video?
No, um, I pretended to erase it.
You know, I kind of played
along there, you know?
And then, all week,
I'm watching the news,
and nothing's happened,
so I feel like I need
to say something.
I send the tape to you guys.
Listen...
those aren't the same guys
that I grew up with, right?
They've changed.
Just so you know,
it hasn't escaped me
that you're still not
working on your paper.
Nothing gets past you, does it?
Hey, Charlie, how
do we know this killer
is gonna play
according to your rules?
Uh, we don't... not exactly.
But game theory
gives us a model.
Allows us to look at each
player in terms of strategy.
The idea is that each player
works to maximize
their own return.
What's the best way
to exploit the secret?
What's the best
strategy to protect it?
And at what point does it make
more sense for me to kill you,
rather than pay you off.
Hey, Charlie, I'm looking
for this box of sprinkler parts
and I know you moved them.
Put 'em here in the
garage, did you see 'em?
I put 'em over there.
Where?
Oh, they're by the hoses.
ALAN: Charlie
cleaned out the garage.
Now I can't find a damn thing.
Something's bothering you.
Yeah.
This model...
you know, Tracy was killed,
but the threat she posed remains.
What do you mean?
Well, you know that analogy
I gave about the
lioness and the jackal...
Tracy might be dead,
but the model is saying that
the jackal is still out there.
Sounds like a Raymond
Chandler novel, huh?
Murder, blackmail, movie stars.
Even got the evil twins.
Wait a minute, Alan...
I think you just said it.
Said what? What
did I say? The twins.
Charlie, we confused
these girls before, right?
Right. What if we're doing
the same thing right now.
How about you plug
in Andrea Barton
instead of Tracy Meade.
Yeah.
AMITA: That's it.
She's the missing piece.
I was wondering
when you'd be back.
MEGAN: Love-2-love.
That's your e-mail
address, isn't it?
I'm not sure why
you're asking me.
You obviously already know.
We also know that you
were the blackmailer.
Not Tracy.
What is your leverage
on Brett Chandler?
What's your big secret?
What's it worth to you?
Look, you're not really
in a position to deal here.
I'm exactly in a
position to deal.
I can help you catch a killer.
That really depends
on what you know.
How about you tell
us how you found out?
Logan told Tracy
something about Brett...
Pillow talk probably.
Tracy couldn't wait to tell me.
She was really into
the "twins" thing,
thought it made us best friends.
Mm, some friend.
I didn't even know Tracy
before the surgeries.
Okay, we were similar types,
so Leslie put us together.
I saw an opportunity.
And it doesn't bother you
that your “opportunity”
got Tracy killed?
Like I said, it's not like
she was my real sister.
(sighs)
I'm getting bored.
You want the information I have,
guarantee I'm not
charged with the blackmail.
You tell us or I'm gonna
guarantee you're charged
as an accessory to
murder, as well as blackmail.
What good is a secret, if
you can't share it anyway?
You know about
Brett's brother...
Brian.
He was killed shortly
after he arrived here in LA...
A carjacking.
That's the story
Brett told the police.
It isn't the real story.
Guys.
Didn't know you were here.
What? What is it?
Secret's out, Brett.
We know you killed your brother.
Brian was killed in
a botched carjacking.
Check with police.
Well, I checked the LAPD file.
And the funny thing is, the
only witnesses to the shooting
were you, Josh and Logan.
And all three of you guys
gave the same account.
And I don't mean
that your statements
were consistent.
They were identical.
So?
So there's always
some variation between
witness testimony,
unless the witnesses
happen to rehearse
before the police showed up.
Look, you gotta know I never
would've hurt Brian, ever.
I loved him.
Then why don't you start showing
him the respect he deserves.
Tell the truth.
Stop acting.
(sighs)
It was a dumb, drunken accident.
I had just landed my first role.
We were messing
around in the parking lot
after celebrating in a bar.
I was using the
gun as a... a prop,
acting out my part.
It went off.
(sighs)
I'm glad it's out.
I am.
They can't hold it
over me anymore.
Who? My guys.
My “boyz."
Why do you think I let
them live in my house,
drive my cars, and
spend my money?
If I them cut them off, it
wouldn't have been ten minutes
before they sold me
out to the tabloids.
That's what Logan meant
when he said that
everything would come apart.
Well, the thing is, Brett,
the three of you
had the motive to kill.
But with Logan dead, that
leaves just you and Josh.
No. Mark Green knew, too.
And Josh was with me
when Logan was shot, so...
You son of a bitch!
You killed Logan?
Hey, hey, hang on...
I'll try and head him off.
(gunshot)
(people screaming)
Don't come any closer. (screams)
All right, now stay back.
Where do you think
you're gonna go, Mark?
Let go of the girl.
Listen, man, I got
nothing left to lose.
I'll kill her. I swear.
And then what do you
think's gonna happen?
Drop it!
You all right?
COLBY: Yeah. Fine.
DON: Good job, you guys.
LIZ: Thanks.
Kinda doubt it's what
the ADIC had in mind
when he told me to
sit tight, though, huh?
So the manager's not
talking, but we've got his gun,
so ballistics will tie
him to Logan's murder.
Also, U.S. Attorney
hopes to leverage him
for a confession on Tracy, too.
Well, Brett's on the hook
for his brother's death,
but as far as the
blackmail goes,
he didn't know.
Logan and Green
kept it from him, so...
Just to protect their ends, huh?
Look...
this is from the
Director's Office.
I wouldn't be surprised
if you could pick
wherever you want to go next.
DAVID: Colby and
I were pretty tight.
Everything went down,
and he looked dirty.
I believed it.
Is that what's bothering you?
Feel guilty?
Maybe just proves we
weren't that tight to, uh...
to begin with.
Come on.
You don't really believe that.
Okay, if you guys are
ready, let's go now, okay?
Okay.
Hey. Hey! Well, well.
What's going on? Um...
Larry has invited us to
have dinner at the monastery.
Oh, that sounds different.
LARRY: It's our
monthly open house.
I just thought it
might break down
some of the mystique
concerning my residency there.
In other words, he's tired
of our stupid questions.
He figured it would be better
for us to take a look ourselves.
If you're free, you're
welcome to join us.
Yeah. Yeah, uh...
Come on, it sounds like fun.
Tell you, prior to his
complete nervous breakdown,
Brother Michael ran a
very successful restaurant
right here in town.
We'd love to go.
(chuckles) Right?
I guess what she said.
Okay, I'll go see what's
taking Charlie so long.
Charlie, are you ready to go?
Oh.
Are you writing?
The block's gone.
I've got it now.
What changed?
My observation of Brett
Chandler and his friends,
or Colby coming back,
or could've even
been you and Larry.
But I know what I want to say
about friendship now.
I know what goes
along with the math.
Good.
I'm glad to hear it.