Season 1 - Episode 1 - Pilot
Air Date: Jan 23, 2005
Description: In the premiere episode, Don races to capture a serial rapist who has begun to murder his victims. Charlie is recruited by Don to help track the killer. He creates a mathematical equation to identify the killer, 's point of origin by working back from the crime scene locations. Charlie, 's obsession with the case leads him to seek the insight of his colleague, physici ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Uncertainty Principle
Air Date: Jan 28, 2005
Description: After a series of bank robberies, Don recruits Charlie to help chart the next robbery location, only to overlook the thieves, ' true motive.
When Don and his team attempt to catch a pair of repeat bank robbers in Los Angeles, Charlie devises an equation using probability and statistical analysis to pinpoint the location of their next robbery. Although his predictio ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Vector
Air Date: Feb 4, 2005
Description: Don relies on Charlie's mathematical insight to help stop a virus that has been killing innocent people in Los Angeles.
When people start mysteriously dying in Los Angeles, Don and his FBI team are called in by the Public Health Service to determine if it is an act of bio-terrorism. Using Charlie's knowledge of the mathematics of diseases, they attempt to track the ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Structural Corruption
Air Date: Feb 11, 2005
Description: Charlie convinces Don to investigate a student, 's suicide in order to make sure that it was not murder.
After an engineering student at CalSci is found dead from an apparent suicide, Charlie convinces Don to launch an investigation after he reads the student, 's thesis that asserted that the architecturally magnificent Cole Center in Los Angeles is structurally un ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Prime Suspect
Air Date: Feb 18, 2005
Description: Don needs Charlie's help to find out why the daughter of a mathematician is kidnapped.
When a 5-year-old girl is kidnapped from her birthday party, Don and Terry lead the investigation but must rely on Charlie's help, as the girl's father, Ethan, is also a mathematician. Charlie realizes the kidnapper's motive when Ethan reveals that he is close to solving Riemann' ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Sabotage
Air Date: Feb 25, 2005
Description: While investigating a deadly freight train accident, Don and Charlie discover a shocking culprit who is on a mission to diminish public confidence in the railroad system.
While consulting with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) at the scene of the wreck, Don learns that this tragedy is one of a series of recreated accidents involving railroad negligenc ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Counterfeit Reality
Air Date: Mar 11, 2005
Description: After two teens are found murdered, the investigation leads Don and his team to uncover a dangerous counterfeit money ring.
Charlie is called in to use his mathematical expertise to pinpoint the location of the counterfeiters by analyzing the dispersion of the bogus money. In addition, he also discovers a surprising connection to the disappearance of a local artist ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Identity Crisis
Air Date: Apr 1, 2005
Description: When new information on an old case comes to light, Don thinks he may have sent the wrong person to jail.
When a recent murder bears a strong resemblance to a murder case he closed a year ago, Don questions whether he sent the wrong man to jail. As a favor to Don, Charlie examines the old case and finds flaws in the fingerprint and eyewitness systems that put their ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Sniper Zero
Air Date: Apr 15, 2005
Description: Don and his team must stop a sniper who goes on a killing spree in Los Angeles.
Pressed for time to find the sniper, Don calls in a senior Sniper Instructor from Quantico (guest star Lou Diamond Phillips) to assist on the case, causing Charlie to feel insecure about his role as special consultant to the FBI. Feeling animosity towards Agent Edgerton at first, Charli ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Dirty Bomb
Air Date: Apr 22, 2005
Description: Don must find the hijackers of a truck carrying nuclear waste before they detonate a dirty bomb in Los Angeles.
Don and his team are called when it is discovered that a truck driver and his big rig carrying radioactive material have been hijacked and are now missing. They are pressed for time to find the truck when the hijackers threaten to detonate a dirty bomb in ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Sacrifice.
Air Date: Apr 29, 2005
Description: Don and his FBI team are called in to solve the murder of a computer researcher and are surprised with what they find.
After an independent computer researcher with a contract with the Defense Department is found murdered, Don and his team are called in to find out who is responsible. After Don recruits Charlie to decode the murder victim's cryptic computer data, C ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Noisy Edge
Air Date: May 6, 2005
Description: When a UFO is spotted dangerously close to Los Angeles, Don recruits Charlie to help locate the mysterious aircraft's point of origin and is surprised when it turns into a murder investigation.
Don and Agent Quimby of the NTSB investigate eyewitness accounts of a mysterious unidentified object flying dangerously close to downtown Los Angeles that has raised concern ... Read More
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Manhunt.
Air Date: May 13, 2005
Description: Don must find two violent felons who escape after their prison bus is in a car accident, on the first season finale of NUMB3RS.
As Don investigates the prison bus crash, Charlie uses of probability analysis to conclude that the bus crash was not an accident, but part of a conspiracy to free a dangerous killer. Now, Don and Charlie must discover the killer's lethal ... Read More