Low-key and memorable aren't mutually exclusive. You know what my favorite date ever was? Pepperoni pizza in a Laundromat.
Yes. Which explains the conspicuous absence of grandchildren.
S1 E4Structural Corruption
SGSecurity Guard
Excuse me, what are you doing?
A simple experiment. It's a pendulum.
SGSecurity Guard
Sir, you and the pendulum need to leave.
Okay ... it drew an ellipse.
SGSecurity Guard
Now.
TLTerry Lake
Some guys like women who can handcuff 'em.
Can't blame 'em for that.
Mr. Haybridge, please don't make me follow you to your office and question you about fraud and possible murder in front of your clients.
S1 E5Prime Suspect
EBEthan Burdick
You're here to talk your brother in the door, and in case you haven't realized it, I don't have time to waste.
Look, I think you'd be better off letting him do his job, because he's actually pretty good at it.
What do you think we should do now?
The same thing when I was in school and I didn't know the answer – fake it.
S1 E6Sabotage
It's not a code. It's a story told in numbers.
I'm sorry, but does that ever work? Just coming out and being so ... obvious?
Well, if it's the right guy, sure.
Is that Amita sitting in the car out front?
Yeah. We just stopped by for a minute, so I can check this text on encryption and codebreaking.
And you left Amita waiting in the car? No ... no. This is not the way we treat people, Charlie. You bring her inside, you at least offer her something to drink. You know, like an adult.
We just stopped by for a second.
You came in 15 minutes ago, Charlie.
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.
TLTerry Lake
He's showing us what he's capable of.
Well, now it's our turn.
[Terry and David refused to leave Don and the guy with the bomb]
Guys, for following orders, not your best moment, but thank you.
I want you to know I don't take for granted what you do.
I never thought you did.
Well, it seems like your new math consultant is working out nicely.
I gotta tell you, dad, I can't think of anyone who could have helped us the way Charlie did in this investigation.
You just remember how Charlie is. Can't seem to quit a problem. He's still working on the same one he's had since grade school.
And what's that?
Trying to impress his big brother.
Math is nature's language: its method of communicating directly with us. Everything is numbers.
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