Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 5, Episode 1 - High Exposure - full transcript

Previously on Numb3rs:

Practical applications.

Professor Phillip Sanjrani?

Yes. Special Agent
William Fraley.

I'm gonna have to ask
you to come with me.

You work with the
FBI. What's happening?

I don't know.

I-I'll find out.

The guy e-mailed
instructions for a bioweapon

to Pakistan.

They got some FBI
scientist to review my work



and say it's applicable
to human pathogens.

I'll find that report,
and I'll review it.

His work is

in crop development.

It's designed to
create new strains

of food crops resistant
to drought and insects.

Why is Phil Sanjrani
still in custody?

We now know that there
was no terrorist action.

Doesn't matter.
He did what he did.

Yeah, it matters. It matters.

I e-mailed the rest
of Sanjrani's work

to scientists at four
universities in Pakistan.

You lost your
security clearance?

Yeah.



This is my attorney,

and he's negotiated my surrender

to Federal authorities.

Mr. Eppes, I'll need
to handcuff you.

♪ ♪

♪ It has begun ♪

♪ This is the
reason why I live ♪

♪ I give back
everything that I take ♪

♪ I won't leave
until I grow, I grow ♪

♪ It's second nature,
and I know, I know ♪

♪ This is the
reason why I live ♪

♪ I give back
everything that I take ♪

♪ I won't leave
until I grow, I grow ♪

♪ It's second nature,
and I know, I know ♪

Uh, Andy,

I still got all kinds
of slack down here.

Hey!

You pulled me off!

Andy?

Andy's indisposed at the moment.

You have something

that belongs to me.

Send up the pack.

We didn't know.

No. You didn't.

So, we're cool, right?

Yeah.

We're cool.

Call you later.

What are you doing here?

I didn't tell anybody
when the hearing was.

Hey.

I'm a Federal prosecutor.

I know these things. Oh, yeah?

You off the hook? Yeah.

The judge accepted
the government's motion

and dropped all charges.

You are so lucky, Charlie.

So is your friend Sanjrani.
You call three weeks

in Federal detention lucky?

Well, he could've wound
up in jail or deported.

Only if the FBI was intent

on seeing something
that wasn't there.

What about your
security clearance?

It didn't get straightened out.

Even though you
technically did nothing wrong?

Hey, that's not the
way the Bureau sees it.

Mm. Good-bye
to covert satellites.

Well, there's
plenty of other cool

stuff here to work on.

Well, maybe you should think

about getting your
clearance back.

That means a whole new
security investigation, right?

Except this time, they'll be
looking for a reason to say no.

They'll grill me.

They'll grill everybody I know.

They'll be

intrusive and embarrassing.

Well, it sounds like payback.

Oh, that's exactly what it is.

Meanwhile, for
every case I worked,

there's lots of stuff
here that went neglected.

So much math, so little time.

Exactly.

Throw up the rope and
put him in the bigger bag.

We're at the bottom of
the hill making our way up.

Yeah, right there, put a marker.

Andrew Tomkins, 22.

Brian Wright, 24.

Don't know much about them

just yet.

So, Tomkins was
shot at close range.

Wright either fell
or was dropped.

Somebody tore through
their stuff pretty good.

Definitely looking
for something.

We'll need somebody
that knows the mountains.

Boo.

Yeah, maybe we can see
if Ian Edgerton's around.

Hey, man. Don.

What are you doing here?

I caught up with an
escaped convict in Riverside.

Tonight I fly out
of LAX to Oslo.

Fugitive stockbroker.

So you came down here

to taunt us with your lack

of availability? Hey.

What do you say,
Ian? Agent Eppes.

I asked Ian to come give
us a little bit of his wisdom.

I don't know

if you guys need a tracker.

Lot of innocent people up here.

We got kids, families,
hiker, puppies.

So why's the FBI involved?

Simple double-homicide.

Check this out.

It's been processed.

It was in the bag
they use with chalk.

Found it attached
to his harness.

An uncut diamond?

Yeah, 72 carats.

It's worth about half a mil.

Not so simple after all.

Hey, guys, how are we doing
on those two dead climbers?

No records.

Wright was unemployed.

Tomkins had a part-time job.

Neither of these
guys have a residence.

They stayed with friends,
lived out of their cars.

Spent all their
time rock-climbing.

The diamond... it's
still a mystery. I mean,

you're gonna tell me this guy

looks like a
sophisticated jewel thief?

Yeah, I hear you.

But still, I mean, somebody
wanted them dead,

right? What about

the diamond itself?

I'm running the rock
through the Jewelers' Security

Alliance database.

And who the hell are you?

Special Agent Nikki Betancourt.

Nikki's new

around here. If you can qualify

as "new" after four years LAPD.

Where I come from, we spend, uh,

more time working
informants than databases.

Well, it takes more
than street cop attitude

to get an invitation
to Quantico.

I got a law degree.

Oh.

Another overachiever.

Nothing so far

on the diamond. Don't even

know yet if it's stolen.

Well, I mean, the
guy didn't mine it.

There's a science to diamonds,

the way they
authenticate them and all.

Yeah, so let's get
Mr. Math in on this.

Uh,

Charlie has

a problem with his
security clearance.

So?

Charlie's not working

with us anymore, okay?
Can we just leave it at that?

Oh.

Okay, then.

Uh, what about that other guy?

Flintstone,

Fierstein? Fleinhardt.

Yeah, he's worked

on a few cases with us.

Amita, too.

Brian and Andy,
man, they were full on,

always climbing.

They have any enemies?

No, they never
got in any trouble.

Brian was too goofy and
friendly to get anybody mad at him.

And how about
Andy? Andy was a little

more serious than
Brian, but not much.

Who knew them best?

That would be Pete and Skeet.

Pete Fuller, Theresa
Kulhman, the climbers

who found the bodies.
Skeet's real name

is Theresa? Seriously?

So were they just climbing
partners or anything more?

I don't think Pete's even
noticed Skeet's a girl.

We're gonna have to talk
to them again. Oh, well,

check out Stony Point. That's
where they go bouldering.

What's bouldering?

Climbing on smaller rocks

without ropes. My cousin
back home in Boise is a climber.

You're from Idaho?
City of Rocks!

What?

City of Rocks National Reserve

in Idaho.

Sweet granite, radical routes.

Never been there?

♪ ♪

Damn it.

That was close!

Want to give it a run?

It's a fun little problem.

Yeah, I'll spot ya.

Thanks, we have a fun little

problem of our own though.

About Brian and Andy?

Yeah, heard you two
were close with them.

Hung out all the time.

Yeah, we've been on a lot of

climbing trips
together, the four of us.

How'd they support themselves?

Brian worked on and off
for a mountain guide service.

Andy's parents sent
him cash now and then.

Yeah, Andy was their only son.

It's got to be tough on them.

And what about Brian's family?

We've haven't heard from them.

Brian's parents are dead.

Got a cousin back East, I think.

His family was us, you
know, other climbers.

Come on, big guy.
Pull up the skirt.

We're not on Oprah.

They say anything to you guys

about coming into
some extra money

or finding something
valuable, anything like that?

Bri called me the
day before he died

and said there was a chance
he'd have a little money soon.

Did he say where the
money was coming from?

He said he found something
he thought he could sell.

But he didn't know
what it was worth

or if it was even
worth anything.

You have any idea what it was?

He didn't say. What else

did you talk about?
Bri was excited

about a new route he found.

You know, rock climb

nobody'd done before.

Bri said it was

a classic... might even
be as hard as 5.14.

Said he was gonna
name it Wrecked.

Um,

is, uh, is that where
they were killed?

No, no, the new cliff
was someplace else,

only they knew where.

You know, we should try

to find it, do the route.

Name it after Brian and
Andy in their honor, you know?

Yeah, that's what
they would want.

Only, a 5.14 might be a little

over your head, partner.

Oh, like you're gonna go first?

Do you see what just
happened on this wall?

I'm just saying that...
No, it's not right.

Look, I lead. You know that.

Why you gonna try to make me...

That's a heck of a leap, Larry.

Oh, I'm pushing somewhat
ahead of a fully supported thought,

but let's think of this as
a moment of suspension

over a narrow breach.

Just one quick little step

over a small brook
rather than a...

a heck of a leap.

Hey, what's that old saying?

Uh, there's speculation,

speculation squared
and cosmology.

Gentlemen, just in time

to save the magic
and grace of physics

from the harsh logic

of these mathematicians.

What's up, Ian? It's
good to see you, man.

You, too, professor.

I understand you're a threat to
homeland security these days.

Yeah.

So what's up?

Actually, we need
to talk to these two.

Oh.

Oh.

Well,

then I will go get some coffee.

Thanks.

Well, that was awkward.

Charlie.

Oh, hey, Robin.

Uh, Don's in Amita's
office right now.

Actually, I'm
here to talk to you.

I want to help you get
your clearance back.

You do, huh? Why's that?

To earn a Girl Scout
badge, why do you think?

I've won cases

with evidence that
you've found, Charlie.

And us prosecutors,
we love winning.

I'm persona non
grata at the Bureau.

I'm not the only one
who needs your work.

What about Don?

He's not pushing the issue.

He doesn't want the headache.

I'm surprised.

I thought the two of you would
be fighting this a lot harder.

Rough diamonds are tough

to trace.

They're uncut.

There's no laser print on file.

No reports of theft yet.

So it could have been
stolen from anywhere.

Or even stolen many years ago.

You could try

using an optic
crystallographic analysis.

If we had any idea

what that meant.

It's basically shining

a light on the subject.

A diamond is a crystal,

its atoms arranged in
a symmetrical structure.

Optic crystallographic
analysis shines a polarized light

into the crystal structure.

How the light refracts
could reveal impurities...

Nitrogen or sulfur
trapped within the crystal.

And this can tell us where the
diamond was originally found.

Of course the
problem with diamonds

is they don't come from regions,

but from the
center of the earth.

And they're created in
the heat and the pressure

of the earth's mantle.

The very properties

for which diamonds are
valued... The hardness,

the clarity, the purity...

That's what makes it difficult

to identify them as coming
from one place or another.

It's a challenge President
Clinton gave scientists

back in 2001 to combat

this problem of
"conflict diamonds."

Welcome to

our special brand of the FBI.

So you can get an idea of
where the diamond's from,

but not for sure?

Yes.

Now, do we know how these rough
diamonds are even transported?

In plain cases, unmarked cars,

carried by trusted couriers.

Maybe one or two people
know about a shipment.

So the shipments
can't be targeted.

I'm so fascinated by how

this jewel, from
the earth's core,

would up in the chalk
bag of a rock climber.

Yeah, we think he found it.
Didn't know much about diamonds.

I understand tradition holds

that the-the most valuable
of these brings bad luck.

The Hope Diamond,
uh, stolen from an idol,

curses those who touch it.

Ooh.

I didn't think you'd be
upset about the FBI stuff.

Yeah. Well, what I don't like

is they think they can strip
you of your security clearance.

Why? Most of your political
heroes couldn't have even gotten

security clearance.
Look, Charlie,

I'm very proud of the
way you handled things.

I mean, you did the right
thing when it wasn't easy.

I knew I'd have to
face the consequences.

Not all of them, you don't.

There are some people at
the FBI that want to punish you,

and I don't think they
should be able to.

Listen, it doesn't affect
my reputation in my field.

You mean, you don't mind the
federal government imposing

unjust limitations on your work?

Dad, all I need to do my work

is a notebook, pencil...

And lots of chalkboards.

I know.

Just came in.

A report of a missing
diamond shipment.

Oh, yeah? So we got
ourselves a current case?

Very.

Kenneth Bryce, an
L.A. diamond merchant,

was due to deliver 30 stones
to New York yesterday...

Worth about $50 million.

He's missing.

Okay, well, get the boys.

The plate matches Bryce's
car, the diamond merchant.

Yeah, he booked a seat
on a commercial charter,

used a false name
for security purposes.

I guess we'll see how
well that worked out for him.

Service to Reno, Nevada,

your Flight 264
is now boarding...

It's unlocked?

Yep.

It's your turn.

That look like him?

Yeah.

Pretty sure his diamonds
are not with him.

Dead guy is Kenneth Bryce,

a partner with his brother
in Bryce & Sons Jewelers.

Robbed and shot at the airport.

Colby and I will
talk to the brother,

see who knew
about shipment plans.

Cool.

So, what are we thinking?

That transporting diamonds is
possibly a more dangerous job

than Alaskan crab fisherman.

Just two people knew
about the shipments:

me and my brother Kenny.

You think he would
have told anyone?

My brother was a
very careful person.

He flew private charters
under pseudonyms.

He never discussed
shipments with anybody but me.

Maybe you were overheard,

possibly by customers, workmen?

I don't see how.

We planned shipments
before shop hours.

You know, our father
started this business,

and Kenny and I
worked it with him.

Bryce & Sons.

Now it's just me.

Let's assume the rock climber
wasn't involved in the robbery.

So, how'd he get the stone?

All right. The starting point is

a small municipal airport...
Private and chartered aircraft.

So, what do we know
about small planes?

They fly.

And they sometimes...

Crash.

Larry, the murdered
climbers had a secret cliff,

with a route they'd
named "Wrecked."

Because maybe they
had found a wreck nearby?

If a plane flying from
that airport crashed

in that area, it was,
without a doubt, flying north.

Private pilots don't
always file flight plans,

and small planes aren't tracked

by radar over their
complete flights.

Right, right, but the
airport logs show takeoffs

and a general sense
of their destinations.

All right, here's one.

It left El Monte, scheduled
to land in San Jose.

But San Jose
didn't log the arrival.

We think the robbers
hijacked the diamond merchant

in the airport parking lot,

put the diamonds on a small
plane headed for San Jose.

Crashed in the San
Gabriel Mountains,

the climbers found it
and took the diamonds.

All right. So, who killed them?

Well, theory doesn't
encompass that.

And do we know who
the plane registered to?

Rented by a guy,
using a fake ID.

Transponder?

Well, if it had
one, it wasn't on.

And an aerial search could
easily miss a small plane wreck.

Well, one on foot's
gonna take a month.

Not if we can mathematically
narrow down the search area.

I'll give it a whirl.
Charlie would be faster.

No, that's not gonna
happen; D.C. won't let it.

One more possibility:
we find that secret cliff

these dead climbers
were talking about.

All right, let's try both. Fine.

A flight plan doesn't say

where the plane really
was when it crashed.

Aircraft that go down
over these wilderness areas

are sometimes never found.

Did you know,

more small planes
have disappeared

over the continental U.S.

than have vanished in
the Bermuda Triangle?

Really?

So they said on MythBusters.

Stolen diamond, missing plane,

murdered climbers...

Random pieces. And yet,

like asteroids
millions of miles apart,

they all orbit the
same source of gravity.

Well, a big diamond
exerts a lot of pull.

Certainly does.

Pete and Skeet?

Nah, man. They took
off for the mountains.

They say where they were going?

They said they were
headed out to find

Drew and Bri's secret crag.

I thought no one
knows where it is.

Well, that's not gonna
stop anyone from looking.

So, where would they start?

Well, like the rest of us... With
a good old USGS topo map.

That's an interesting approach.

How interesting?

Moderately interesting.

Okay, we're wasting our time.

No, I didn't say that.

I-I mean, this analysis
should garner you

at least half a
dozen target areas.

Eight so far.

Have the FBI send over
some FAA radar data

from the day of the flight.

We tried that; the
signals are too weak

over the mountains
to get an accurate fix.

Have you been looking
for the noisy edge?

The noisy edge of what?

Larry, Squish-Squash, remember?

When Charlie tracked
that UFO for Don.

The visitor from space

who was not a
visitor from space.

Oh, my word, that seems like

a hundred years
ago. Tell me about it.

I still have the algorithms
in the computer lab.

They'll take the faint

radar signals, separate
it from the noise

and give us a
probabilistic flight path.

Charlie,

thank you very much.

I was never here.

I'm just gonna fill
it with water, okay?

All right.

You guys want to canvass
around, see if you get any info?

♪ ♪

Who else got a lead
on that secret cliff?

Visitor Center employee
said Wright and Tomkins

were in right
before the killings.

Tomkins invited
her to go climbing

along the Cougar
Ridge trailhead.

I talked to a ranger
that saw their car

with no Adventure Pass.

Wrote a summons,
gave me the location.

I got a backpacker who says he
ran across a newly marked trail.

All right, why don't you
guys check those out, huh?

What about you?
You got something?

I got some prospector who
said he heard machinery.

Machinery?

Yeah, like a drill.

A drill? In the mountains?

Well, actually climbers will
use them to bolt in anchors.

It's worth checking out.

If just one of
these leads is right,

we find ourselves a secret
cliff and a plane crash.

All right, well,
cells aren't working,

so take the radio
and keep it on.

We'll meet back
here in... two hours?

Hey, Amita. Hey.

How's it going?

Great,

thanks to you. You know, I had

no idea that getting
radar data required

a court order.

No problem.

This has got to be
awkward for Charlie.

Um, he's keeping busy.

He actually gets to spend
time with his students now.

Don likes to keep busy, too.

They're both
workaholics, aren't they?

You know, I kid Don that if
he's not working or having sex,

he's thinking about work...

or sex.

Yeah, with Charlie, he's
having so much fun working

that he can't stop working.

Well, that's a good thing.

Don thinks everything
will fall apart without him.

That's typical oldest kid.

Or the fear of insignificance

in the face of a
little brother genius.

But that's how they've
connected, right? Through work.

Yeah.

And food.

Yeah, food.

They're a little
obsessed about food.

Yes. Well, they get
that from their dad.

Yeah.

♪ ♪

I know why the ranger found

Wright and Tomkins' car here.

They were using
the local bathroom.

And I found the local bar.

So much for this lead.

You two join up with
me at Cougar Ridge.

I'm looking into a
rocky canyon here

with a lot of possibilities.

Copy that.

Copy.

We were climbing, that's all.

Eppes?

All the way out here,
like your friends?

Don, are you reading this?

Please, just tell
us what you want.

We lost something up here.

Your friends found it, but
they didn't have all of it.

Dude, you're the
ones with the guns.

If we knew anything,
we would tell you.

Only need one of you
to tell us where it is.

Eppes?

Shifting to the
northwest after midnight.

Tuesday: Mostly
sunny, highs 87 to 97.

Light winds becoming
less, five to ten miles an hour

in the afternoon.

Forecast for
mountains and foothills:

the rest of today, mostly
sunny, highs 89 to 99.

Southwest winds,
five miles an hour,

shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.

Go, go, go!

Eppes!

We got people headed out

to search the
vicinity of the shots.

That's a possible 12 miles to
the north and ten miles east.

120 square miles?

It'll take us a week to cover.

Call in for aerial recon and get

as many guys out there
as you can; I'll be back.

Where you going? Pasadena.

That's an hour from here.

Eight minutes by chopper.

Nice job, idiot. Let's go.

Gian-Carlo Rota of MIT
said that combinatorics

is like putting different
colored marbles

in different colored boxes

and seeing how many
ways you can divide them.

Eppes... we need you.

I can't work for the FBI.

Forget that. Your
brother's in trouble.

What do you mean? What's wrong?

I'll tell you en route. Come on.

The rest of you...

take an early recess.

What were you guys
doing up here anyway?

Dude, did you see that crag?

It's got, like, a dozen
classic hard lines on it.

That could be the
first 5.15 in California.

We got to find
someplace to hide, I guess.

I always feel safer
above the ground.

I can minimize it further
to account for the idea

that Tomkins and Wright were
two or three miles from a road.

It will take days to finish.

Not with help from JPL.

Don's not gonna like this.

Well, we can argue about
that after we save his ass.

All right, listen:
go to this site.

A friend of mine has
access to classified

National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency imagery.

Got it.

All right, here,
what we're looking at

is a high-definition
image of the San Gabriels

taken off a LandSat

maybe a half hour ago.

What you want to
do is overlay that

with the probable flight path.

Okay.

There. There's
something right there.

To be that big

and reflect that much light,

that would have to be...
- Stone.

And a lot of it.

High-alpine granite?

It fits the parameter
of the secret cliff.

It's in the shadow
of the flight path,

and it's two miles from a road.

Can you pull up the
topo... What's the name

of that canyon?

Icehouse Canyon.

Icehouse?

Wait, that's in the
guidebook here.

Wait, wait, wait.
Back in the 1800s,

there was an ice plant
there, serving the gold miners.

Gold miners?

That's the right one.

Edgerton. Get me
back on the mountain.

Is it broken? I don't know.

Doesn't matter. Let's go.

Let's go. You guys
get a head start.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You sure, man?

Yeah, yeah. There's three of
them. They got bigger guns.

Go, go, go, go, go. Come on.

Agent Granger, this is Edgerton.

Do you copy?

Go ahead.

Get over to Icehouse
Canyon as fast as you can

with as many
people as you've got.

Right. Got it.

Ian's got a location on Don.

Let's go. Come on.

Come on. We got
to keep moving, guys.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Let's go, Pete. Come on.
Come on. Hey, hey, hey.

I know you're hurt.
Get Skeet out of here.

Look, you guys can
move. I can't. No, no, no.

I'll hold them off. Let's go.
How? You're out of ammo, right?

Look, they're not
going to kill me.

They think I know
where the diamonds are.

We're sticking together.

Come on. I can't...

or we're all going to die.

Come here. Pete!

Hey!

Hey! Go, go, go!

I know where the diamonds
are. I know where they are.

So, what are we
gonna do about Pete?

Soon as you're safe,

I'm gonna get a team
and I'm gonna go after him.

You might miss... but I won't.

Finger off the trigger.

Thank you very much.

Hey, how'd you find us?

Well, I could tell you, but
you're not gonna like it.

What? Charlie.

Still, it came down to the wire.

This clown was gonna
pop your brain box.

Yeah. What about the other two?

Where's Pete?

Bumbles here said they
had a jeep on the fire road.

Nikki and Colby found
tracks; the vehicle's gone.

We got a chopper
searching. All right.

Ian? Can you hear me?

Yeah, let me hand
you to your brother.

Hey, Don, you okay?

Yeah, Charlie, I'm fine.

Where you at? I'm at the FBI.

Listen, I think we
found the plane.

The coordinates
are latitude 34.5733,

longitude minus 118.1216.

Okay, got it.

And, Charlie...

thank you very much.

Sure. But get out of there

before the assistant
director sees you.

Otherwise we're both
screwed, you hear me?

Check this out.

Diamonds are long gone, huh?

And they think Pete
knows where they are?

How good a liar is he?

No ID.

And he's not talking.

And the other two
evaded a dragnet

with a hostage.

Body on the plane had a fake ID.

And we have no name
on the live one we got.

But what we do know
is that this robbery crew

was able to learn details about
a secret diamond shipment.

So, maybe they left some
record of how they did that.

There.

That's the dead
guy from the plane.

Other one matches the
description Don gave.

Bet they're not there to
buy an engagement ring.

Mm-mm.

Yep. Got it.

They tried to bug our store?

That's impossible.

The entire store is
electronically shielded.

They knew about the shipment.

They must've figured
a way around that.

To get past the
electronic shield

that was installed in the store,

this device was wired to a
small satellite dish on the roof.

That way, it sends a
signal to the satellite,

which in turn relays it to
the receiver on the ground.

That means that the
robbers could've been

listening in from anywhere.

Well, that's true, but...

we know where the
dish was pointed,

we also know there
are very few satellites

that would even accept
such an anonymous signal,

so we should be able to
identify the satellite involved.

Can we get a
precise date and time

for the conversation overheard?

Yeah, we can do that.

A comprehensive geometrical
analysis should be able

to provide the
probable locations

for such a receiver.

Do it fast. They've
got a hostage.

Larry, this analysis
is pretty deep stuff.

Do you know how to do it?

I know how...

to get it done.

Charlie, listen,

to quote the late Paul
Erdos, "Is your brain open?"

Uh, as long as it has nothing
to do with the FBI case.

I mean, it was one thing
when Don was missing, but...

No, this is purely
particle physics research.

Okay, I have a problem

with the bubble
chamber analysis program

that I've been using
to identify ellipses

in particle track data. Okay.

I ran it past Dr. Tolenson,
who said he didn't understand...

Wait. What do you mean,
you showed it to Dr. Tolenson?

No. No.

Tolenson attacked my
paper on lattice theory.

He tried to get my space
in the faculty parking lot.

I waited five years
for that space.

I didn't know... Let me see it.

Let me see that problem.
I could run this past...

No, let me see
it. Give it to me.

I want to see it.

Maybe you can help
us out with something.

We know that Andy and
Brian found the plane wreck.

But why didn't they report it

instead of going on to another
cliff to climb some more?

Man, you got to
understand climbers.

They probably figured,
hey, the guy's already dead.

There's no rush.

At least they got
their priorities straight.

Bri and Drew

were good guys, but...

they didn't do a lot of
deep thinking, you know?

You think Pete's still alive?

We're working under
that assumption.

Lot of people
trying to find him.

He's a brave guy.

Risked his life to
save Agent Eppes.

And me.

All right.

Now, this should work.

You gonna show this
to Tolenson right now?

'Cause I'd love to be there to
see his face when he sees this.

Well... not at this instant, no.

Larry?

Larry's analysis of the
signals sent to the device

we found at the jewelry
store pinpoints a house

rented under the
name James Meyers.

Interpol lists that as an
alias used by this guy:

Alex Rezar.

Known associate of...

Keith Jackson and Nigel Moore.

All right, well,
since we got Moore,

let's bring in his
friends then, right?

I don't think that kid knows

where the rest of
those diamonds are.

Then it's over.

Can't go back to the wreck site.

The FBI knows about it.

You know, I was wondering...

how'd you know
where the crash was?

I put a tracking
device on the plane.

The pilot... You
didn't trust him?

I trust you.

I trust Moore.

That's it.

What about the kid?

We're done with him.

Hold still.

It'll just take longer
and hurt more.

Screw you.

FBI! Stay where you are!

Hands! I need to see
some hands! Freeze!

Get 'em up. Get
'em up now! Back off!

Federal agents! Hands up!

Get 'em up!

I got it! Clear!

Clear! Nice and easy.

Get your hands on your head.

Keep 'em up there.

Turn around.

Hey, that'll look good on you.

All right, bring 'em out.

You got him?

Roll over.

We'll get you to a
medic. Come on.

Can you stand up? Yeah.

I got ya. Get up.

ME's report on the dead pilot.

Check out the tox screen.

Drugged.

Out cold when he crashed.

You thinking what I'm thinking?

No honor among thieves.

We want lawyers.

Sure.

Right after story time.

The story's about four guys
who bugged a jewelry store

to find out when a shipment
of diamonds was going out.

They killed the owner.

The stash went on a
light plane headed north.

Drugged the pilot.

Plane crashed.

Climbers found the wreck,

but they didn't
find all the stash.

You want to know why?

Because one of you

slipped most of the
diamonds out of the case,

left enough to fool the pilot.

Then maybe offered him a swig

from a flask,
something like that, huh?

They figured the
plane would go down

and nobody would know
those diamonds weren't on it.

Didn't know I'd planted a
tracker on the damn plane.

And all of you went
on a wild-goose chase

through the mountains looking
for the missing diamonds,

but one of you already had 'em.

We could have been
rich and in Europe by now.

Instead of busted in L.A.

Sit down.

You won't be safe in prison.

I promise you.

I thought you were dead!

I guess he's finally
figured out she's a girl.

Yeah.

Wonder if that'll
mess with the climbing.

Right, got it. Thanks.

Diamonds are in
a safe deposit box

registered to our
friend Keith Jackson.

We couldn't have
done it without Charlie.

You have no idea
the flak I'm getting.

Well, you do the job right,

you're going to catch it.

That's life in the Bureau.

I guess.

Hey.

Thanks for the help.

Don't mention it.

I would have signed
up for the FBI sooner

if I knew it'd be like this.

Yeah, I'm pretty
damn great, aren't I?

I meant the case.

So did I.

Uh-huh.

You know, Charlie,

for someone who
can't work for the FBI,

you seem to have
done a lot of work

on this case.

More than you know.

Well, you know, Ian doesn't
give you much choice.

Yeah, he's tough to say no to,

that guy.

Guy can kill a person

from a thousand yards away.

See, this only makes

my argument for me.

I really think you should
appeal the FBI's decision.

Yeah, me, too.

You do?

Yeah, I do.

Look, you're not a threat.

Come on, they know it.

And you don't think

it would make things
more awkward for you?

Ah, whatever, screw it.

They can't mess with us.

There's a tough guy.

The fighting Eppes Brothers.

All right,

I'll do it.

I'll appeal their decision.

You know, the first time

my wife and I took Charlie to
the pediatrician for an earache,

he wouldn't let the
doctor examine his ears

because he thought
the doctor might just see

the thinking going
on in his head.

The doctor declared Charlie

the second most
stubborn kid he'd ever met.

And the first?

Uh...

don't tell me. Don?

You got it.

Particle physicists
like to use pool balls

to describe the actions
of subatomic particles,

but actually, these
massive spheres

behave in a far
more predictable,

even Newtonian manner.

Now, let's say that
this cue ball has

the characteristics of a boson.

He's stalling because
he doesn't have a shot.

No, no, no, no, no.

I shall call this shot...

the Fleinhardt Boson.

The flying what?

Just as I intended.

Let's see either of you take
your shot from behind the dryer.

Uh, well, it's your shot.

Yeah.