I Tried Watching Numb3rs Again.

by Little Miss Attila on June 1, 2010

Because there’s something intrinsically comforting about balls-to-the-wall fake math.

Unfortunately, all of their plots are so outrageously far-fetched and contrived that instead of settling in for the evening and switching over to I-might-just-be-able-to-sleep mode, I find myself worried that someone spiked my ambien with LSD, and it makes me start upright in my easy chair.

If only they had Cold Case on DVD, or more of the episodes were available on bootleg TV.

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Hayabusa Gurl June 2, 2010 at 1:15 am

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

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Darrell June 2, 2010 at 2:52 am

CHARLIE: Let’s see…I know nothing and the data that I would need would take months to collect..but let me write out an algorithm on the back of this napkin. If you look at a lawn sprinkler and study it closely enough, you will realize that there isn’t an equal probability of any point on the lawn being hit–the pattern isn’t random at all. So of the millions of spots in the greater LA area that our terrorist could be hiding, I can generate a list of locations to look that would be far more likely than a random guess. Of course the random guess has a probability of, say, 1 in 50,000,000…so if my guess gets that down to 1 in a million it’ll be 50 times more precise. Of course you won’t find him in the place I tell you to look 999,999 times out of a million, but…I’m sure all those FBI SUVs get better gas mileage than it would first appear.

DON: Get the fuck out of here, Charlie! We’ll just look at his family, friiends, and known associates..likely targets and all that.

CHARLIE: But with those likely targets…I can write an algorithm…

DON: (Withdrawing pistol from holster) Bang!

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