
Although reluctant at first, Don and his team discover that the student's findings were correct and uncover a dangerous and surprising conspiracy.

Havercamp tries to calculate the point of origin and the most likely spread of the deadly virus that have been released into the environment, as Don and his team investigates further whether the strain was released deliberately.Īfter Finn, 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 unstable. Lee Havercamp with the CDC, joins the investigation and calls in a math expert who, much to Don's surprise, turns out to be Charlie. Various people in the Los Angeles area with seemingly nothing in common start to fall extremely ill, as the first day of infection claims six victims Don fears bioterrorism. But Don needs his brother's help and tries to get Charlie to return to the case. NP, that he also plunged into while his mother, Margaret, was dying of cancer a year earlier. The outcome shakes Charlie up and he retreats into the family garage to work out the unsolvable math problem P vs.

But his brother's FBI team is unimpressed when Charlie's first 'killer-finding algorithm' fails turn up any leads, and a frustrated Charlie is forced to come up with another solution.Ĭharlie accurately predicts where a pair of respectful bank robbers will strike next using what he says are elements of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, yet when Don and his team confront the robbers, a massive shoot-out occurs leaving four people, including an officer, dead.
NUMB3RS SEASON 1 EPISODE 3 SUMMARY SERIAL
When a serial rapist-turned-killer proves a little too difficult to find, FBI Special Agent Don Eppes and Special Agent Terry Lake recruits Don's genius brother Professor Charles Eppes, who uses a mathematical equation to identify the killer's point of origin by working back from the crime scene locations.
