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S1 E6

Numb3rs · Season 1, Episode 6

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, Amita Ramanujan and others in “Sabotage”

I'm avoiding Laurel Wilson.

The professor of philosophy of science?

She's the lady you go hiking with?

For years we've enjoyed this ... I don't know ... delightful wilderness-based friendship, entirely platonic. But last night, she and I just veered ... we veered off into the carnal.

I'm taking it didn't go well.

Actually, it was incredible. It was primal. I mean, in the animal, not the numerical, sense. But what I'm saying, this was a perfect event, and, as such, untwinnable.

So, because the sex was great, the odds are against it ever being great again.

The replication defies the laws of probability.

[dryly] So, why try?

[missing the sarcasm] Yes, yes. That's why I'm here. I mean, it's the perfect refuge.

What do you mean, "the perfect refuge"?

Well, the math department must be the least libidinous place on campus.

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