Numbers 5.01: High Exposure

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Edgerton! I loved him giving the fans' response to the new agent. And snarking.

Cute Eppes boys. :) Don's hair is adorable. The two of them have practically the same hair now. And Don's dressed more casually than Charlie, how bizarre. I kind of missed the old geek-scruffy Charlie.

I loved Charlie saying all he needed to work was a notebook and a pencil, and Alan correcting "And lots of chalkboards. I know."

Colby's turn to check for a corpse. LOL.

I liked Amita and Larry working together (both on cosmology and the case), and Larry making paper planes when they were talking about the plane crash.

I liked the hark back to Noisy Edge. Aw, I'm all nostalgic for s1 now!

Robin! Yay! I liked her determined to get Charlie's clearance back for Don's sake, and that she talked to Amita. Even though they were having a conversation about, sigh, their boyfriends. Ever heard of the Bechdel test? I suppose Robin and Amita have only just met and what they mostly have in common are the Eppes. But, come on, they're two intelligent women with interesting careers, or if that's too much for the writers/network to swallow in one gulp, they could start from "How do you get your hair to look so fab?" and work up from there. I hope we get more scenes with them that do pass. Now we have two women in the same line of work we have a better chance as well. If they ever bother putting Liz and Nikki in the same scene the episode has a high chance, if talking about suspects doesn't count as men. And I'd be willing to see the rule broken for Liz to go, "If Don and Robin break up again...don't go there. Really don't go there, take it from me."
I was kind of facepalming at the line about Don and sex (yeah, we all know it, but I'm sure Amita doesn't want to hear it), and Amita's followup. I was like, "They didn't just imply that their main character isn't getting any, did they? Arrgh." (Amita,you're a programmer! Never heard of a priority interrupt?) And it kind of blurred the excellent point about the different reasons Don and Charlie are workaholics: Charlie because he doesn't want to stop working, and Don because he can't.

I loved how Don knew straight away how Edgerton had found him. And the "<significant pause while he got his nerve up>Thank you very much. Now get out of there before you get us both into trouble."

Larry, you sneaky little physicist, you! "He tried to steal my parking space!" Oh, Charlie. Always with the appeal to the ego. Larry can play you like a violin. Although, if Larry understood the problem well enough to be able to recast it into something he could plausibly be working on that was unrelated to the case, how come he still couldn't solve it?

Nikki was pretty much Jane Random FBI Agent until the scene where she was flirting with Edgerton. I loved Edgerton's "Yeah, I'm pretty damn great."

So Don tells Charlie he should try to get his clearance back and Charlie's like, Okay, then. And the look he gives Don. Aw. And Don saying "they can't mess with us." Don's really more appreciative of Charlie right now.

Edgerton playing pool with Larry and Alan was hilarious. Larry calling the ball the "Fleinhart boson"! And the others having to take the shot from behind the dryer. Very funny story about Charlie not wanting the paediatrician to look into his ears in case he saw what he was thinking. And why am I not surprised that he was only beaten in the "most stubborn kid ever" stakes by Donnie?

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How can Amita and Robin trade hair tips, when they aren't allowed to have hair better than either of their boyfriends? =)

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I dunno, Amita's looking pretty good right now. :)