Numb3rs end-of-season eppesodes, only a month late...

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• I think perhaps the writers were counting too much on the fact that Bloom is the Fonz to make him likeable. To me, Nikki's right: he's the guy who stole 10 million dollars. He did give it back, but he kept it for two years in the meantime.



• I liked Nikki's psychic moment in the bank, and her producing the corpse of the bank robber like a rabbit from a hat. Although, hello, Betancourt, gloves? That's evidence you're putting your sticky fingers all over.



• David and Colby call her 'Nik'. Hee!



• Colby is not acting entirely sensibly here. I suppose he's seeing a combination of his father's situation and his own after the Janus List thing. I thought that Colby's family were all soldiers though? Perhaps it's on his mother's side.



• I loved Don interrogating Bloom, and Bloom throwing all his plays back at him. Don's really giving it all he's got with that 'let us help you' offer (and I think it's a genuine offer), and Bloom gets him with that zinger 'What wouldn't you do for your brother?' Be a short list, I think.



• Charlie and his police scanner. Someone is getting a little OCD, I think. The subplot with Amita and the letters was sweet. Amita kind of doesn't get why he won't write the letter, she thinks it's just his usual procrastination that he does sometimes. And it's almost obligatory for someone to misunderstand a 'will you still love me if' question, at least until the end of the eppesode. I don't think Amita really thought that he would need to ask that question, but he's a bit insecure in general at the minute *hugs angsty!Charlie*



• Oooh, shootout. I don;t think we've had a full-blown one for a bit. Nikki's pretty unfazed by killing that bank robber.



• Angry Don! I loved when he yanked his shades down so that he could glare at Bloom. Is it just me, or does Rob Morrow lose his Don accent or something when he's acting angry?



• I loved Liz: 'Teddy, in the Federal Reserve, with the nerve gas'. Snarkiness for the win. I've loved her so much this season.



• That conversation with Colby along the lines of 'I wish you were my son' was sort of awkward, until Nikki came up and saved the day with her cheekiness. I love the team dynamic on this programme.



• Charlie's new office is very snazzy, thanks to Amita, but...where is all his mess? His little toys, and his six blackboards full of whatever he's working on at the minute? Charlie is not naturally this tidy. I did like trying to make out the photos the props people had put on the bookcase though. There was one of him and Amita, and one that looked like him and Don, and I think one of a woman that wasn't Amita. Perhaps a young Margaret?



• Oh dear, I don't like it when Charlie talks about leaving academia. I don't think he'd be happy doing nothing but work for the FBI either. (And realistically, how much full-time maths can they need?)



• Listen to Don and his new-found contentment, Charlie. Big brother knows best, and he doesn't believe in this destiny business. I love Don all relaxed and giving advice. Liked his little interaction with Amita too--does he pat her arm or something? I have a thing for them acting sibling-like.



• And Amita has caught on and is answering Charlie's question. Awww. Oh noes! Kidnapping!






• Of course Charlie's going to yell for Don. He's back at the FBI very quickly; does he have a time machine? Pencil in the mouth, of course. Heh.



• I love how Don very calmly and collectedly turns out the entire law enforcement population of Los Angeles, and then runs straight for Charlie.



• I loved the whole opener with the helicopters and the chase, cumulating in the explosion, and Don and David having to wrestle Charlie down.



• Charlie crying! Don hugging Charlie! Aw, boys. *hugs them both*



• It's ME Riddenhour again, yay. I loved Liz's reaction to '3 months pregnant', the little lift of the eyebrows. I knew they wouldn't kill Amita off, though.



• I didn't like the implication that they didn't know what to do without maths from Charlie. The FBI didn't start working on kidnappings in 2005. Okay, so when David says it, it's specifically in relation to the fake credit card charges, which isn't so bad, although, really? An IP address is not an obscure mathematical problem; I think David was over-complicating it, expecting it to be something more specific to Charmita.



• I suppose you could say that Don is wanting to give Charlie something--anything--to do that's maths, because otherwise he'll have Charlie coming to bits on his hands. And if Charlie does come up with something that helps them find Amita, that's good for Charlie and good for Don. Not to mention Amita.



• Edgerton! I love his silent appearances and the way he just joins in the conversation. And they lampshade it when he's on the fire escape. Tracking skid marks through downtown Los Angeles, Ian? Really? Also, Nikki fancies you.



• Mason and his 'tribe' were creepy as anything. I was really scared for Amita. The worst bits were when he kissed her (I really hope that nothing else along those lines happened offscreen), and when he feed her the rice. I loved that she's still fighting enough to spit it back at him.



• Amita rocks. I love that even though she was so frightened, she managed to trick Mason into thinking that she's bringing down Farmer's American (they're having a bad week; they were the bank that got robbed in the previous eppesode), as well as stick up for herself that it isn't as easy as it sounds. I'm not surprised that she couldn't really bring down the bank; financial institutions tend to have their data distributed across assorted legacy systems, running on ancient mainframes, written in COBOL...with inside knowledge and a production id, you could maybe bring down 5% of the total before someone noticed, and Blackberries started buzzing across the company. And that's started from inside. The thing that surprised me was that she could get as far as breaking in to put those fake charges on Charlie's account. I suppose that indicates what Amita was doing as a teenager, and that she has as good a memory for account numbers as Cahrlie has. Nitpick: she wouldn't call it hacking. It's cracking when you're breaking into something. Journalists and script kiddies would talk about hacking a bank, not hackers.



• Geek snob moment over, I am highly impressed that Amita managed to essentially create a front end that looked like it could be a Farmer's American interface, in less than two days, presumably without being able to preview it. *looks sadly at estimates spreadsheet*
  Moreover, she found time to comment her code! See those lines starting with //? Now that's dedication to good coding practice :p.



• I loved Don watched the footage of Mason over and over, and the fact that it was Colby who commented, because he did the same thing with Colby's interrogation footage after the Janus list.



• I loved loved Don's little talk to Charlie, and telling him that he was putting himself in Charlie's shoes every minute, but he was keeping a cool head for Amita and Charlie, and that Charlie didn't have to work it all out. Don is the best big brother in the world ever.



• I can;t work out what was more disturbing, Piper's behaviour in the interrogation, or Don's. Don was totally right about the shortcut into her head. He didn't seem like our Don at all. the moral of that is: do not touch Don Eppes's family, or he will go Totally Scary on your ass. Oh, I liked Colby's comment: 'Yeah, you said that in the car..and in processing...and in the elevator.'



• Aw, Larry. You haven't been around much for a little. It's good to see you.



• The tension was really ramping up in the standoff at the end. I just wanted Mason to move so that Edgerton could shoot him. Charlie's AMITA DUCK was adorable, if ill-advised (did Mason move when he saw it, was that why the shot didn't kill him? Don't know why Edgerton didn't go for a headshot.)



• Still, that gave us Amita's last furious defiance: 'My book will be called "Two Days with the Computer Illiterate"!' Oh, Amita, I do so love you <3



• And it was all a giant ego trip in the end. Amita is not impressed.



• I loved the slow-motion scene of Don picking Amita up and brushing her hair back and calling her 'sweetie' (I love how consistently he does that, and that Margaret did it too and he likely gets it from her), and looking like he could kiss her himself. And then his brotherly ew face when Charlie and Amita are kissing outside.



• Liked the team relaxing and being silly because they're so tired. And Nikki and Edgerton, heh, and Liz teasing Colby.



• No, that's not the Talmud, it's Gary Cooper. Aw, Don. I really like what they've done this season with Don, both finding Judaism and some equilibrium, and in the shallow end, growing out his hair. Eppes curls FTW!



• Aw aw aw aw! Charlie and Amita are so sweeet together! How long has Charlie had that ring? It had to be before the kidnapping, perhaps even before Don-got-stabbed-and-Charlie-went-obsessive. His sense of timing is as stellar as ever, though.



• Come on, Amita, say yes! Look at his big eyes and his wee hopeful smile! Still, it's a nice gentle cliffhanger for the summer.

Comments

[exor674]

Haha, the only thing that kinda ticked me was that she was writing in nonsense Objective C >_

[owl]

Heeeee.

And you know what amused me? That she was commenting her code. I suppose it might have been in aid of fooling Mason (//this method wipes all the money data. TOTALLY TRUE.), but I LOL'd anyway.

I didn't know you watched Numb3rs. I really like Amita because, hey, a girl computer scientist! But it's so nice to have a range of nerd characters to identify with :)

[exor674]

and she's hot too -- that's a plus >_

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*uses another hot!Amita icon*

[azurelunatic]

I want to see a better shot of the ring. :D

[owl]

Heh, me too. Preferably on Amita's finger :D

[lark_ascends]

This was fun for me to read, to remember what happened. ;-) I loved those two episodes.

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I'm glad you liked it! I've been so busy lately I haven't had time to be fannish...