Don Eppes quotes from Numb3rs

Don Eppes

I mean, I'm just trying to get my head around the fact that my little brother consulted on an NSA issue that went high enough up for you to call the Assistant Director by his first name.

Don Eppes

Guys, for following orders, not your best moment, but thank you.

Don Eppes

A guy drops 70 bucks in a dive bar. He's either buying rounds for the house or else he's wasted off his ass. Either way, he's gonna stand out.

Don Eppes

What, you didn't think I'd have a back-up plan?

Don Eppes

Until we find dead bodies, this is still a search and rescue.

Don Eppes

[to bodyguards] I'm assuming you all have permits for those bulges in your jackets?

Don Eppes

What's the deal? There are more people here in the middle of the night than at ten in the morning. It's like the FBI.

Don Eppes

It's okay. He's a mathematician. He speaks his own language.

Don Eppes

Charlie, look. If I'm gonna rule her death a homicide, I need more than skating metaphors.

Don Eppes

I'm cool until everything quiets down. Then it's like my head is a bad neighborhood to be in.

Don Eppes

[to Bradford, screaming] I'm their boss. It's not my job to trust them, it's their job to trust me!

Don Eppes

[to suspect] Watch your head.

Don Eppes

[to Nikki] I don't want you doing stuff like that. I want you to be better than me.

Don Eppes

I guess I was inspired by Mr. Heisenberg, just like Charlie here suggested.

Alan Eppes

Heisenberg? What do you mean, the physicist?

Don Eppes

Yeah.

Alan Eppes

Oh. Your brother goes into a dangerous confrontation with heavily armed felons, and you prepare him with a lecture on the movement of subatomic particles.

Charlie Eppes

How do you forgive yourself if you're wrong?

Don Eppes

You don't. We can't be wrong.

Don Eppes

Low-key and memorable aren't mutually exclusive. You know what my favorite date ever was? Pepperoni pizza in a Laundromat.

Alan Eppes

Yes. Which explains the conspicuous absence of grandchildren.