Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 5, Episode 10 - Frienemies - full transcript

(rock intro plays)

♪ Well, I've got a
secret that I cannot say ♪

♪ Blame all the
movement to give it away ♪

♪ You've got somethin'
that I understand ♪

♪ Holdin' it tightly,
caught on demand ♪

♪ Leap of faith ♪

♪ Do you doubt? ♪

♪ Cut you in, I
just cut you out... ♪

MAN: Get on the
ground, all of you!

Do not move!

Come on! Let's go! Let's go!



Get outta here!

(explosions)

Turn around! Turn around!

♪ Don't tell anyone ♪

♪ Whatever you do ♪

Watch out!

(explosions)

♪ Don't tell anyone ♪

♪ Whatever you do... ♪

MAN 2: Drop the bag!

Get on the floor now!

Hands above your heads!

♪ Don't tell anyone ♪

♪ Whatever you do... ♪



Man, you ain't cops! No.

We're not cops.

What the hell you doing?

Protecting the innocent.

Punishing the guilty.

DAVID: Now this, I
have not seen before.

Say, Nikki,

your boys at LAPD

couldn't handle a little B&E?

B&Es they can handle just fine.

But they do need help tracking
down a group of vigilantes.

DAVID: Vigilantes...

Might explain the
message on the wall.

Yeah, fifth incident

in two months.

Similar situations,

same type of victims.

What, these mooks are victims?

Yeah, got five subjects...

Ages 16 to 19.

White, Latino, black.

No gang affiliations.

They were found with lock picks,

crowbars, cable cutters, and

backpacks full of school
computer equipment.

Wrapped up like
Christmas presents

for the police.

NIKKI: The vigilantes
ambushed them.

High-powered lights.

Improvised flash-bangs.

Plastic restraints.
What about "Vanguard?"

That come up on
any of the databases?

Nada.

So you don't have anything?

No, just got this cell phone.

Found it here on the floor.

Dropped by a vigilante, robbers?

Yeah, or a student.

I mean, it could be anybody.

If they can't tell us anything,

this might.

Someone scraped out
the MIN and the ESN.

Translation. The MIN's

a phone number; the ESN's
the electronic serial number.

So, this wasn't dropped

on the floor by a student.

Well, getting rid of the
phone number is easy.

Getting rid of the ESN is
supposed to be impossible.

You guys know math?

Well, you can add,

right?

Well, add up the
cost of the equipment

you were trying to steal,

and that's grand larceny.

It's first offense.

We won't do time.

Oh, yeah?

Who told you that?

You know, I'm looking
at the two of you,

and I just don't
see masterminds.

But you knew where all the
computers were, and you knew how

to get past an alarm system.

So, I'm thinking
you had some help.

Keep your mouth shut.

Maybe you and I
should have a talk alone.

You know what'll happen.

I don't know nothing.

It's the third round
with these guys.

Never figured the FBI

couldn't get a
bunch of kids to talk.

They're scared to
death of someone.

Well, the lobby's filling up
with parents and lawyers.

We're running out of time.

A "cold-boot attack?"

Yeah, also known as
a "cold ghosting attack,"

an "iceman attack."

Normally, when I
remove the memory chip,

all the data stored
in it will be lost

instantly.

But if I freeze it first...

the data remains
readable, for sometimes

as long as several minutes.

(whirring)

You got it. Wow.

That actually worked.

Of course.

Just match that to a cell

carrier's ESN and...

We get the name and
address, and we go get 'em.

Thank you.

Take care.

Put it down!

Put it down now!

What the hell is going on?

Are you Bai Lan Zhou?

What? No! Bai Lan?

Where is he?

He? You don't know what

you're talking about.
We know Bai Lan

owns this phone.

And it's registered
to this address.

Hey, Grandma.

The FBI has your phone.

No,

I got it.

Bai Lan Zhou?

And that's her phone.

It never leaves her sight.

Texting charges
are through the roof.

Someone must have
cloned her number.

Sorry, uh, for the
inconvenience.

Inconvenience?

If you need

to file a complaint, just, uh...

The truck's stolen.

There was a crew
unloading electronics off of it.

The driver said it
was a bunch of kids.

It's one of these
vigilante kids.

COLBY: Two shotgun
slugs to the chest.

Someone decided to fight back.

Check this out.

Looks like we got
ourselves a feud.

DAVID: Facial recognition
software identified the dead guy

as Peter Hathaway.

22, Grad student at
Mission Hills College.

Thesis candidate in
systems engineering.

Talked to the parents,
said they never heard

of "Vanguard" or
vigilante activity.

We need to find the
rest of these guys

before they get
themselves killed. All right,

friends, students, teachers...

And who is running the crew?

Where are they based?

And how did this war start?

Hey, can I show you something?

Yeah.

The kids we arrested
at the school robbery...

They all live in the same
general neighborhood.

Atwater Village,

just over the 5 Freeway,

aka Toonerville.

Aka what? It's LAPD

nickname, because of this guy...

Vic Tooner.

Suspected in dozens of
crimes, including murder.

LAPD hasn't been able
to get anything on him.

Witnesses, informants...
They all turn up dead.

This guy's got an entire
neighborhood terrified.

Now, he runs his
crew military-style,

you know, organized.

Posts sentries to
watch out for cops

24-7.

He's smart, but he's also crazy.

He once murdered one of his own

lieutenants just for driving
the same kind of car he drives.

And he's got the
kids working for him.

Yeah, he uses kids

because he knows
if they get caught,

they'll be back on the
street in a few weeks.

It's like old Fagin.

Yeah, explains the
murdered vigilante.

Tooner wouldn't tolerate anyone

messing with his operation.

Cell phones can be
cloned using a DDI...

A Digital Data Interpreter.

Yeah, cellular thieves
sit by busy roads

and pick up radio
wave transmissions.

So, serial numbers,

and phone numbers
of people passing by

are captured and
recorded. Great.

Now you tell me.

Can they monitor me if all
I'm doing is playing Tetris?

Can we trace these DDI devices?

Unfortunately, they don't

emit enough of a signal.

All right, so this is a dead
end. Actually, maybe not.

Can I see this?

Yeah, you know, Vanguard
has advanced engineering skills.

So maybe they're getting access

to the robbery crews'
communications...

And if we figure out how,
maybe it'll give the FBI a lead

on where the next
robbery will happen.

Okay, how do you
go about doing that?

That's a... a difficult problem.

Three words:

Deep. Current. Sets.

And the expert on them

is guest lecturer at
CalSci at the moment.

Marshall Penfield?

He's your friend, right?

Friend?

Um, more like a "frienemy."

Oh, yeah.

That's that guy
you're always having

those math fights with.

The guy who calls
Charles "Eppsy."

Well, I mean, he did

help out with that
home invasion case

a couple years
ago. Tangentially.

Well, Charlie, we gotta
get this thing figured out

before anybody
else gets killed, okay?

So... I know.

I know. Professor
Fleinhardt, a word?

You know, actually,
I'm expecting to hear

from a colleague at CERN

and you know how wounded
particle physicists get

when-when their
calls go to voicemails.

Anyway... ciao.

Robert Santos.

I want to talk to you about
your roommate, Peter Hathaway.

Like I told the police,

I didn't know him very well.

And though you shared a
room with him for nearly a year?

We didn't hang out.

What do you know about him?

He was lonely.

You could see it.

Sometimes he tried to talk to me

about classes,
something he was reading.

But, you know, I'm so busy
with classes and tutoring.

Did his behavior
change recently?

Well, he used to
be in every night,

but starting about three
months ago, he went out a lot.

And did he indicate where?

And maybe mention a
group called Vanguard?

No, never said a word.

And I never asked
where he was going, so...

What? What is it?

I don't know. Maybe if I'd
tried to talk to him a little,

invited him to hang out
with me and my friends...

He wouldn't have gotten mixed up

in whatever he was doing...

when he died.

Look, I gotta go.

Peter's parents
are coming today.

And I have no idea what
I'm going to tell them.

From set theory's inception,

some have argued
that it's a game

that includes
elements of fantasy.

Wittgenstein questioned

how Zermelo Fraenkel
set theory handled infinities.

Errett Bishop dismissed
it as "God's mathematics,

which we should
be left for God to do."

Next week's discussion

will be on the spectral theory

of non-Hermitian
random matrices, okay?

You're welcome.

I'll see you next week.

You math geniuses.

Where's the glasses?

Where's the hair?

You know, these CalSci
students really can appreciate

an incisive discussion
from a guest lecturer.

How can they resist
your charms? Yes.

It is impossible, isn't it?

Speaking of which, how is Amita?

Are you two still dating?

Yeah. Really?

Well, good for you, Eppsy.

Marshall. Yes?

I'm going to ask
you something, Okay.

And if it's at all possible

you can manage not to launch

into your smirky world of glee,

it'd be much appreciated.

Moi?

I've been working on a
case, you know, for the FBI,

and, uh, it might
benefit from your work

in deep current set theory.

So Charlie Eppes is
asking for my help...

a second time.

What, too gleeful?

Sure. Be fun.

Yeah, I can't sleep either.

I've got this
ratio-of-green-space problem

for CalSci landscaping I
can't get out of my head.

What is this? Non-FBI math?

Not for long.

"Professor Marshall Penfield?"

He's working on a case with you?

Hey, so, this Saturday,
you want to have

Amita and Don and
Robin over for brunch?

Better make it dinner.

I got golf and Don's
going to temple.

Since when does
Don go to temple?

I don't know. A few
weeks ago, I guess.

COLBY: So, LAPD
responded to an alarm

at an auto sound shop
about five weeks ago.

Found three teenagers in
restraints, like at the school.

Back then, they didn't know
they had an ongoing problem.

So maybe something
got overlooked?

Good thinking, Granger.

They did miss something.

What are you showing
me, the gang signs?

I spent a year on
LAPD gang task force.

I never seen nothing like that.

That mean anything to you?

Uh, not immediately, but
there might be a subset

within the superset.

And for those of us
who don't speak math?

I'm talking about set theory.

Let say this circle represents

objects visible
in the night sky.

And this circle represents
objects that generate light.

Where they overlap is a subset.

Objects visible in the
night sky that generate light,

like a star.

How do you not have
your own show on PBS?

The big question in
this case is, obviously,

how do the vigilantes know
where the robbery crews will strike?

And that's where Marshall's
deep current theory comes in.

It looks for undetected sets.

Think of patterns in crowds.

Crowds move in general
patterns, but relatively minor events

in specific areas can change

the overall patterns
for everyone,

even if most never see
what created the change.

This approach allows
us to deduce information

about the hidden nodes

from the anomalies

in the observed behavior

of the visible network.

Is that an accurate
assessment, Marshall?

Huh? Oh, I'm sorry.
I must've dozed off

during your riveting monologue.

I was stating the problem.

Yeah, your approach
to the problem.

Using your method. Being
as though it's my method,

shouldn't I be the one
leading this inquiry?

Well, this isn't a
seminar, Marshall.

It's a criminal investigation.

So, uh... so then you
have, uh, handcuffs? Hm?

Oh, yeah. That'll get you there.

I like the sound of that.

Well, don't.

Okay. Where'd you find this?

At a business where the
vigilantes caught some thieves.

It's a computer code.

Why would anyone use a few
random computer code symbols?

Unless it isn't random.

Yeah. What about that?

It would take pages of code
to say anything meaningful.

What if it's not a computer
code, but a cipher code?

It could take
months to figure out.

No, they painted it on a wall.

I doubt they made
it hard to crack.

Well, maybe it's a
simple Vigenere cipher.

Well, then match the first
13 letters of the alphabet

to those 13 code symbols.

And what if the
keyword is "vanguard"?

(computer blipping)

(beeping)

Is that a Web site?

I don't know. Let's find out.

Vanguard's Web site.

Those are robberies
the vigilantes stopped.

They even have the exact
times that each robbery

was supposed to happen.

And look at the last one.

Appliance warehouse
downtown. And the date?

That's today.

(beep)

"Vic Tooner." Who's that?

That... is trouble.

Well, he doesn't look friendly.

Daytime robbery.

Tooner is looking to flush out
Vanguard where he can see 'em.

They're taking the stuff.

Yeah, I'm watching.

COLBY: It's just the robbers.

There's no sign of Tooner.

Vanguard isn't showing either.

Ken, you got anything?

AGENT: Negative.
All zones are clear.

COLBY: Done. The
crew's moving out.

We got to move in.

All right. Let's go.

All units, move in. Take 'em.

(tires screeching,
engines roaring)

(sirens whoop, tires screech)

(indistinct shouting)

FEMALE OFFICER: Now! Now! Now!

(officers shouting,
police radios crackling)

None of Tooner's kids
looked armed for a showdown.

Let's check out
these people here.

Let's check out all
these people here.

You want to look at the crowd,

see if anyone's wearing
a Vanguard symbol?

Yeah. That we found.

The east perimeter found
him on the rooftop with this,

filming the robbery.

They kill one of yours,
you show up with a camera?

My mission was
to gather evidence,

not to intervene.

What mission? Who is a
part of this mission with you?

I was there to record
the incident, nothing else.

That against the law?

Prior knowledge of a crime?

Yeah, that's a problem.

Who are you working with?

We don't use names.

We use code names.

If we're captured, we can't
compromise the operation.

You know him?

We call him Bars.

His code name.

Bars?

Yeah, you know,
like on a cell phone?

He's a phreaker.

A phone expert...

Could do stuff with cell phones.

How do you know
which places to rob?

There's a Web site, or
you get a phone call...

or a guy comes to your house.

That's how you get the word...
Where to go, what to steal.

And who gives the word?

Nobody talks about that.

You're gonna
take the full weight

for stuff you didn't
plan or control.

It's worth it to
do what's right.

And what's that?

Doing what needs to be done.

What the cops
haven't been able to do.

Do you know a guy
named Vic Tooner?

Never heard of him.

Not ever.

Tooner seems to have
a deep supply of kids,

all of them too scared to talk.

The guy from Vanguard was
stonewalling us also, but he's not scared.

So what's that about?

Maybe someone inspired him.

He speaks like a
covert op on a mission.

They both have the same methods.

Only one is pure damn evil

and the other one's
trying to play hero.

CHARLIE: You're wrong.

Its structure lacks
originality or integrity.

It's a classic organization,

based on tested
and proven elements.

It's a chain.

It's a chain with irregularities

that come with maintaining
complex matrices.

Oh, so you propose that
a single point mechanism

provides superior output?

Enough.

Surely, two eminent
mathematicians can find ways

to calmly discuss theory.

We're not discussing theory.

No, we're talking hamburgers.

Pie 'n' Burger's the best, man.

There's no question about it.

In-N-Out is far superior.

I remember a day, not long ago,

when you were both
undergrads, working together

on a topology problem.

That's only because you
assigned us to work on it together.

We preferred working alone.

Which is my point.

Neither of you is gifted
at the art of collaboration,

which is most
crucial in science.

Who is this? Is this
one of our students?

No. It's a grad student
at Harvey Mudd College.

FBI arrested him in connection
with this vigilante group.

No one else in his
circle seems connected

to vigilante activities.

But this student is defined
by the same deep current

as the other vigilantes.

So we should look
at the super sets

as they define this student.

Like that the fact
that he is a student.

Precisely. When
there is a finite number

of grad students in the region.

Even fewer with the computing

and telecommunication
skills required.

Yeah, they hide
the organization,

so you need to refine the
search by eliminating people

openly linked to identified
Vanguard members.

So we work up an algorithm
that does that, and...

And just set it loose in
grad school databases.

LARRY: Ah...

the sweet sound
of collaboration.

This will I.D. students
who fit the profile

of Vanguard members.

The results will be
based on probability,

so you can't just arrest
people whose names pop up.

I get it. You don't want
us making life miserable

for innocent grad students.

That's what professors are for.

You guys work with bright kids.

Why do you think these
Vanguard guys would risk their lives

going up against
a violent criminal?

A hazard of being smart.

You figure you can
outthink anybody.

MARSHALL: You look
at life like a chess game.

Make smart moves, you win.

This isn't a game,

or a classroom problem.

Everybody knows our name,
but nobody's glad we came.

I've never seen a
neighborhood this scared.

Hey, these are for you.

Thanks, little guy.

Who sent them over?

Heard you guys
were looking for me.

NIKKI: He used to
pull this with LAPD.

Walk up to officers
on the street,

come in for interviews.

He knows we don't have anything.

I own a tattoo parlor.

Legal, licensed business.

What do you know
about robbery teams

run out of your neighborhood?

Well, I hope the police can
do something about that.

Well, somebody's trying
to do something about that.

Well, I understand
why people do that.

I'm a concerned
citizen, like anybody else.

Oh, I know how difficult

it is to police an urban area

with a gang subculture

and a black market economy.

You'd have to
spend years working

to infiltrate highly
secretive groups

that are paramilitary
in their operation.

So, we got ourselves
a concerned citizen.

I studied police sciences.

I took classes at City College.

Hey, maybe I'll
apply to the academy.

You know, I bet you I could
ace that obstacle course.

(chuckling)

DAVID: What do you know

about a group called Vanguard?

Just what I hear on the street.

DON: And what's that?

Smart guys.

In over their heads.

DAVID: Over their heads?

How so?

Oh, you know... emotionally.

Living in a dream world.

What do you think's
going to happen to them?

What happens to anybody?

Some will quit.

Some will have accidents.

Accidents?

Accidents.

Car accidents, whatever.

Also, depression's a problem

for college kids.

You, uh...

you might find one of them
way in the back of a library,

note pinned to his chest,
hanging from a rafter.

What does it matter?

One by one, sooner or later,

everybody dies.

Where are you going?

This is a noncustodial
interrogation.

I can leave whenever I want.

CHARLIE: You ruined it.

Look at it... You
flattened the tip,

and now it's
completely out of ink.

How was I supposed to know

that you like to use
scented markers

and that your favorite
flavor is strawberry?

Well, listen, you
know, the next time,

do me a favor and just

bring your own markers, okay?

Here's another thing.

Your idea about the
analysis of Vanguard's

previous attacks,
it totally ignores

the cardinality of
the union of sets.

You know, it's funny,

Marshall, it's my idea,

so I think I know how
it's supposed to work.

Oh, who is the expert on
deep current sets here?

Huh? Me.

Why does he always
negate my proposals?

Why are you so dismissive?

Why are you so competitive?

Boys, don't make me
pull the math car over.

This isn't about
math, is it, Eppsy?

Maybe it's about you calling
me Eppsy. AMITA: Anyway...

(clears throat)

I was thinking that if
someone at Vanguard

is that familiar with the
computer source code,

I should probably
take a closer look

at the browser code
on the Web site.

Yes, programmers often use

distinctive
object-oriented symbols,

uh, statements, method calls.

AMITA: Exactly.

My comparative analysis
shows the Vanguard code

is very similar to a code

found at the intrauniversity

astrophysics project.

Note that success results

not from the Eppes
method nor from

the Penfield approach, but
from the Ramanujan scan.

All right, well, Amita,
can you find the name

of the person who
wrote this code?

'Cause that might be
the leader of Vanguard.

(typing)

CHARLIE: Why do I let Marshall

get to me?

LARRY: He's a rival.

Look, everybody
has one, and frankly,

who they are says a
lot about who you are.

Yeah, what does Marshall
hating me say about me?

He doesn't hate you.

What is that word
that Amita uses?

"Frienemy." There you go.

Colleagues as well as rivals.

I think you just remind
each other of a time

in your careers
when you were both

less secure in your reputations.

What about you?

Who sets you off?

Al McNabb.

Guy in my car club.

He absolutely

covets my Ford roadster,

yet he always says the
leather is not restored

to 1931 period standard,

the color's all wrong.

He is just one jealous bastard.

You know who
doesn't have a rival?

Don.

Seriously,

I've never heard him
talk about anyone like that.

Well, Don questions
and challenges himself.

He's like his own
frienemy, so to speak.

You know, maybe that's
why he's going to temple.

What is it

that Rabbi Abraham Heschel said?

"The primary task of
the philosophy of religion

is to discover those questions
to which religion is an answer."

Now, did my dad tell you that?

About Don going to temple?

No, Don did.

He told you?

He didn't tell me.

What's up?

Ah, nothing much.

It's just something
Tooner said about, um,

Vanguard members
having accidents,

you know, a
suicide in a library.

Maybe we should
call the local colleges.

So, what did Nikki
say about Tooner?

Smart, but crazy?

Looks like the crazy part.

DAVID: Mason Spellman, 19.

Physics major.

M.E. thinks he was dead

about ten hours before
his body was found.

In the engineering library,
pretty much like Tooner said,

in general terms.

Robin is gonna definitely
say we need more than this.

Especially since Spellman
had a problem with depression.

No other fingerprints at the
crime scene except for his.

Note's in his own handwriting.

So, we think we
know how Tooner's

been able to locate
those vigilantes.

The deep current
set analysis reveals

that he's found some way

to reverse engineer
their technology.

Right, so we're gonna try
to duplicate Tooner's math.

All right, that sounds good.

None of the dead kids

have a connection to
Tooner that we can find,

but I'm thinking
somebody in Vanguard,

they must have crossed
paths with him somewhere.

Right, hey, see if
you can find out any

of those colleges he
took courses at, you know?

Tooner audited
courses at Occidental

and Whittier, as
well as City College.

And while at City
College, LAPD had him

as a person of interest
in the rape and murder

of a student, Lori Sanchez.

OLIVER: Never met
her, but I heard she died.

How did you hear that?

It was a topic of discussion.

With who?

I told you.

I don't know names,

but a lot of people care
when an innocent person dies.

You really think that
this is all revenge

for one murdered girl?

Let's find out more about her.

Hey. What's up, kid?

On my way to school.

Got to get through
that analysis for you.

You and Marshall really
set each other off, huh?

Yeah, I know.

I know, we're, uh, frienemies.

Where's Dad?

He's around.

Hey, Don. Hey.

So, you started going to temple?

Dad tell you that?

And Larry.

There some reason
you didn't tell me?

I don't know, you know,
it's just like that thing

you're always saying about
not contaminating experiments.

Yeah.

Charlie, I don't know
where I'm going with any of it.

I just... I can't get
into a scientific debate

with you about whether
it's logical or not.

Since when did you
listen to everything I say?

Eh, you can be
pretty intimidating.

To you?

To everybody.

Well, I-I think going to
temple is an interesting choice.

I have nothing negative
to say about that.

Okay, cool.

At least it's not a monastery.

All right, see you
at dinner, all right?

Yeah.

What, you were
standing there listening?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
heard every word, yeah.

Okay, so let's have it.

I think you did a good
job all these years

hiding any sign that
he intimidates you.

(chuckling)

Well, that's what I think.

All right.

So, the vigilante who
wrote the coding...

he was involved in this
astrophysics project?

Yes.

Similar phrases and styles.

NIKKI: Who do you think

killed Lori Sanchez?

That Vic Tooner creep.

But the police said
there was no evidence.

There was no mention in
the file about a boyfriend.

She didn't have one.

Was there anybody special,
some guy that maybe liked her?

There was this guy,
didn't go to school here.

AMITA: Okay, I have it down

to one programmer.

So, that's the person behind
Vanguard's computer network.

He worked as a tutor.

Super smart, had a
huge crush on Lori.

His name was Clayton.

Here's his personal Web site.

NIKKI: And now we think this
is the leader of the vigilantes.

Clayton Caswell,
studying for his master's

in computer engineering,
tutored Lori Sanchez.

COLBY: Been missing
three days, so he's either

hiding out or Tooner got to him,

we just haven't
found his body yet.

No, we'd have found him.

Tooner would make sure of that.

All right, well, run down
every place he can can be.

I'll see if I can
get Charlie on it.

Takes a nerd to
catch a nerd, huh?

COLBY: All right, enough of
the "I don't know names" crap.

I know you know Clayton Caswell.

What does it matter now?

He's gonna die...
That's why it matters...

And the rest of
Vanguard with him

because Tooner has
figured out how to get to them.

Clayton can handle it.

He can't handle it.

He's gonna get a
lot of people killed.

So, where is he?

I don't know, okay?

I wasn't told where they'd
hide if it came to this.

This is all about
a girl who died.

I get why Clayton wants revenge
against Tooner for Lori Sanchez,

but what about the
rest of you guys?

Clayton's the type of guy...

when he wants
you to do something,

he makes you feel like
you can make a difference,

like you're part of something

important and special.

So, you guys want to be heroes?

Yeah.

Don't you?

God, why am I so stupid?

Do you want answers
one through 50,

or 50 through a hundred?

The regional cell matrix.

That's the deep current.

Tooner mines the
regional cell phone matrix

for data on the
movement of merchandise.

Vanguard mines
Tooner's cell matrix subset.

You know, if we
set up derivatives...

What, for all
regional cell calls?

You realize that'll take
days on the supercomputer.

Like you have a better approach?

Yeah, we'll just narrow
down the data set.

It's quite logical. Why
are we fighting about it?

Well, I'm not fighting.

What else would you call this?

I don't know. You started it.

I did not. Yes, you did.

(computer chirps)

What was that?

It's an ongoing
analysis of the robberies

and past possible targets.

That's a computer repair store.

Vanguard's data
said Tooner hit that.

There's no police
report of a break-in,

so that's an anomaly.

Maybe it wasn't reported.

I mean, we need this
information for the data grid.

Maybe Vanguard
left its graffiti symbol.

Want to go on a field trip?

So, where are the Wonder Twins?

Oh, they probably started
arguing, forgot all about food.

Oh, man, I'm starving.

Looks open.

Hello?

Hello? Hello. Is anyone here?

Hi. We're looking for an owner

or maybe a manager.

Just whoever's in charge.

That would be me.

You here about a computer?

Yeah. We, uh... We
were expecting a call

about when to come
pick up our system.

It's a, um,

compact supercomputer.

It's very valuable.

Supercomputer?

MARSHALL: Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uh, eight serial CPUs, uh,

vector processing.

It's got a liquid-cooled
HVAC system.

MARSHALL: It's our baby.

It can even calculate

the path of, uh,
subatomic particles.

Or play 300 versions
of Halo at the same time.

Yeah, I think I
remember that one.

My partner processed
that work order.

I'd have to look for it.

(phone ringing)

Maybe that's him.

Hello?

CHARLIE: Hey,
listen, uh, we can find it

if you don't know
what you're looking for.

TOONER: Oh, feel
free to look around.

After all,

it's your supercomputer.

As they say,

mi casa es su casa.

All right. (laughs)

Guys, I got to get.

Got to be here somewhere. Yeah.

Uh, well, uh, this...

This isn't it.

CHARLIE: Um, I think maybe...

(siren blaring) DON: Hey,
Colby, Charlie's on my cell.

I need you to get a location

and meet me there
with LAPD. You got it?

COLBY: Copy that.
What's goin' on?

I think he might be with Tooner.

MARSHALL: Uh, did you

change, the, uh,
decorative shell?

No.

TOONER: Guys...

sorry I can't wait around
for you to find your computer.

Yeah. No, no, that's
fine. We'll just, uh...

We'll just come back
in the morning. Thanks.

Don't you want to wait around

for your brother,
Professor Eppes?

Here's a math problem for you.

Take the number of people
who've seen me at crime scenes.

Subtract the number
who've testified.

(siren blaring)

He's gone.

He was just here.

In all of his sociopathic glory.

LAPD is running traffic checks.

I don't understand how
you guys ended up here.

Well, we thought it
was an old crime scene,

and it turned out to be
a currently active one.

You okay? MARSHALL: Yeah.

Adrenaline makes my skin itch.

(in deep, resonant voice): In
a world where mathematicians

go mano a mano with a killer...

(in deep voice): This
time, it's personal.

We gotta get this guy.

All right, he made me
itch in front of strangers.

He told me he was gonna kill me,

you know, in so many words.

It's no wonder the
Vanguard kids hate him.

He's quite hate-able.

Yeah, if he killed
one of my friends,

I'd go after him.

Clayton Caswell and
Tooner... They hate each other.

They want a confrontation.

It sounds like they created a
classic game theory scenario,

doesn't it?

Yes, it does, Johnny
Von Neumann.

The old three-man gunfight.

Mathematical gunfight, huh?

MARSHALL: Imagine a duel

between three people, okay?

Now, I'm the worst shot.

I hit the target once
every three tries.

One of my opponents is better.

Hits it twice every three shots.

The third guy is a dead shot.

He never misses.

Come on.

Now each gets one shot.

As the worst, I go first.

Then Charlie, then Colby.

Who do I aim for
for my one shot?

I guess me, 'cause I'm
the biggest danger, right?

I shoot Eppsy first,

but not for the obvious reasons.

Chances are two to
one I'm gonna miss.

CHARLIE: And now it's my turn.

And logic says I shoot Colby.

Right, 'cause if
I'm still standing,

I'm gonna shoot
you, and I don't miss.

Exactly.

As the worst, I use

the two better shooters
against each other.

CHARLIE: Vanguard and Tooner

know their communication skills

better than we do.

We can use that against them.

We insert our info
into their systems,

and make it work for us.

(clicks tongue)

CHARLIE: We created a
target that Tooner can't resist,

and we made sure that
Vanguard knows about it.

A setup? That's not
gonna be obvious?

MARSHALL: Oh, not
the way we're doing it.

They'll both think
that they've got data

that the other side
doesn't know they have.

Well, these guys are
gonna come ready for war,

so we better gear up.

We're using their hate
against each other.

That's kind of ironic.

Hey, I don't hate you.

What?

You hate me?

Only when you call me Eppsy.

Well, I guess it's just a way
of dealing with who you are.

What do you mean,

who I am? Charles Eppes.

The guy everyone talks about.

You know, you're a
pretty intimidating person.

It's the second time
today I've gotten that.

Only the second?

Well, you're fairly challenging
yourself there, Marshall.

No, seriously.

Every time I come up
with something new,

in the back of my
mind I'm thinking,

"Penfield's gonna
tear this apart."

No. You're just
saying this to be nice.

How about a truce?

Is this some game theory trick?

If it was, I would be using

a fourth-level
altruism ploy, right?

It's a truce then.

All right.

How does it look?

(over radio): All clear.

Okay.

(beeping)

2,200 cell phones, 800 iPods.

Like going to a supermarket.

(beeping)

60-inch plasma TVs.

32, to be exact.

Okay, let's get to work.

Get these things open. Come on.

Now.

(electrical crackling)

(electricity pops, buzzes)

Well!

Well, that had to
be disappointing.

What...

you're fighting us with bombs
you cooked up in chem lab?

Well, how did you think
this was going to end?

What, you college boys can do

what the LAPD and
the FBI can't? Huh?

Huh?

(helicopter whirring)

FBI.

Put the detonator down.

(siren blaring)

(officers shouting indistinctly)

Tooner, drop it!
Tooner, drop it right now.

OFFICER (over P.A.): Don't move!
Put your weapon on the ground!

Tooner!

(sighs)

Eat it!

We killed you.

(laughs)

It's-It's done.

(laughs)

We killed you.

You're done!

(helicopter whirring)

AMITA: So, Marshall,

how did you like your
second taste of FBI work?

Oh, it's terrific,
with the exception

of meeting the psychotic
killer face-to-face.

I didn't like that.
That wasn't optimal.

No, it was not.

Well, you two don't seem
to be fighting as much.

Is that on purpose, or
did you just get tired of it?

Oh, no, it's on purpose. I
never tire from an argument.

LARRY: Yes.

Well, that's all too apparent.

Marshall and I have found that
we can actually get along, huh?

Yes. I should have stopped
calling you Eppsy years ago.

That's all right.

I've been called worse.

DON: Hey, everyone.

What do you say, Chuck?

Like that.

Chuck.

Yeah.

I like that.

I can work with that.