Numb3rs 2x15 The Running Man, Episode Review
Another re-watch at numb3rs_revival
Episode's math: Total 0:42, Don 0:17, Charlie 0:22
This is one of my favorites: Rob playing the piano. And Cheryl Heuton just confirmed to me on twitter, "Yes, Rob was really playing the piano. He practiced in advance with a teacher." How cool is that?
It's a great episode written by Ken Sanzel! Family moments, Larry, and David! Not a lot of Don... but the piano worth it all!
I'll post all caps sooner, at http://lylemaze.tumblr.com/tagged/N215.
Great way to start an episode. Larry: "If he had a similar gift at Mathematics, I think we'd be looking at the next Charles Eppes."
Love David's expression when Ron talks about the gun.
Charlie's jealous: "It's been said that he's the, uh, the next Charlie Eppes." Smart David: "You're saying this thing could make a disease?"
Almost 6 minutes waiting to see my leading man... Love how Don always squints! Megan's always excited about crime. I cannot help but found it weird.
It's a serious threat but it's a funny scene. They all, with exception of maybe David, talk with hands! Love how Don moves around the room and plays with the pen. It gives the scene movement. Everybody is talking, giving ideas and he is thinking in 'action men' mood. I always enjoy that. David's suspicious of Ron. Don gets it, Megan doesn't.
Poor Charlie didn't have a normal childhood. "I was quite quixotic in elementary school." Larry knows him: "Reliving old glories, that can be a dangerous narcotic." Their friendship is solid. "You know that if you were to fall under similar scrutiny, I would go beyond the boundaries of the observable universe to defend you, and you know that." Larry's inestimable found: "I always thought your interests in music were computational, not compositional."
Charlie: "Margaret Mann? That's my mother's maiden name. She was a lawyer."
David's instincts: "Didn't persuade me so much." Good thing that Megan listen to him. David and Colby are hot. "His shoots a lot further than yours."
5 minutes without Don. Not complaining, just counting! ;)
Megan: "Well, his life story would make a hell of a movie." Larry: "Uh, remake of 'The Wrong Man', perhaps?" But David founds the truth: "A young man who isn't real." Poor Larry.
Colby didn't do much in the episode. But this is priceless. Megan: "What were you into sophomore year of college?" Colby: "Cheerleaders." And Megan didn't make a single joke... not like her. Still, they so look like siblings.
Alan: "Your mother, she was a very talented musician." Don: "Oh, that's why all those piano lessons with the nightmare woman..." Charlie: "Petrie dish with the lozenge breath." Don: "Mrs. Petrie." Perfect brothers' moment. Alan: "Well, she had to make a choice between the law and music. And when she made the choice, then music was a closed issue." Charlie: "Except that it wasn't. These compositions are dated through the '80s, through the '90s. I mean, I think she was writing music up until... You know." Poor Alan: "No, I didn't know."
Love how Don and Charlie look at each other. Brothers worried about their father. Scenes like this made the show.
As Tony Scott said at Crunching Numb3rs 1: "It's about these performances. It's a family spirit, in terms of the boys and their father." Love them.
The boys are great together. David is so like Don! Love it.
Larry: "I went to bat for him. I stormed into your brother's office, I put my own name on the line for... I don't even know his name. I made a complete fool of myself." Sweet Amita: "Larry, your heart was in the right place." Larry's hard on himself: "Well-intentioned ignorance is a slender defense at best."
A great Charlie vision: "You saw the waves he created."
Megan's funny: "I'm so hoping you have one of those cute little analogies for this." Charlie: "A person's journey through life is like a stone skipping across water. No matter how briefly it lands in one place, it leaves ripples behind, evidence that it has been there."
Megan: "He's like a chameleon." Charlie: "More like a snake, shedding successive skins." Worried Don's hot. And jeans!
Love bright Don: "What if the thefts weren't an end, but a means?" David: "A means to what?" Don: "You know, like 'Groundhog Day', right? He gets to live the same life over and over again, but each time better." Megan: "Like a junkie stealing just enough to get to his next fix."
Love Pan resemblance! And sincere Charlie, not easy to be a genius. "Well, you know, when I was a 13-year-old freshman, it wasn't much fun, but it was cool. Everything I did was that much more impressive, because of how young I was. And, you know, it was always, 'If he's able to accomplish that now, can you imagine what amazing things he'll accomplish when he's 25?' and... now I'm 30 years old." Larry: "You haven't seen your best years yet."
Charlie's feeling responsible: "But you know, she must have been so disappointed that Don and I didn't like the piano. And I'm thinking that's the reason that she kept her passion for the piano hidden from us." But Alan's guilt is bigger: "No, Charlie, she didn't keep it hidden from you guys. She kept it hidden from me." (...) "She just didn't want me to know what a hard decision it was. That she gave up something that she really loved."
Love Larry's wisdom: "For something she loved more, Alan. You can't lose sight of that."
Don: "So you know that little mistake, that thing you've been worried about doing for the last 15 years? Well, you made it. You sure made it now, buddy." Love the boys in gear.
Charlie: "So, there are 4 states of matter, solid, liquid, gas, and, when you superheat gas, plasma. Actually, you know what? There's 5, if you consider Bose-Einstein condensates." Megan: "Which we really don't need to consider, right?" Charlie playing with plasma thing, love them being brothers!
Amita's so right: "But Charlie, I don't know anyone who challenges himself as relentlessly as you do." Charlie: "LIGO is the well-worn page."
Larry's drama: "No, no, if he's already been in here, I don't even know if I wanna live." Don runs fast!
Great David! "Spend 18 years dodging gangs, working to help support your family, beating every odd out there just to get your high school diploma. You do that. Then you can sit here and talk to me about what's fair."
This scene is just perfection. Charlie kindly finds a way to easy his father heart. "Dad, I don't think she was hiding it. Well, not in the way you mean. You know, I have places that I like to go to be alone. I go hiking. You go fishing." Alan: "Do you think your mother needed to be alone with her music?" Charlie: "It's just part of being human, isn't it? To wanna find someplace solely for yourself. Whether it be outside in the world or deep inside your head."
Then the moment stops and both are touched by the sound of the piano. Margaret's talking through her music... by Don's hands...
I can watch it indefinitely.
All about Numb3rs rewatch. I hope you enjoy!
Episode's math: Total 0:42, Don 0:17, Charlie 0:22
This is one of my favorites: Rob playing the piano. And Cheryl Heuton just confirmed to me on twitter, "Yes, Rob was really playing the piano. He practiced in advance with a teacher." How cool is that?
It's a great episode written by Ken Sanzel! Family moments, Larry, and David! Not a lot of Don... but the piano worth it all!
I'll post all caps sooner, at http://lylemaze.tumblr.com/tagged/N215.
Great way to start an episode. Larry: "If he had a similar gift at Mathematics, I think we'd be looking at the next Charles Eppes."
Love David's expression when Ron talks about the gun.
Charlie's jealous: "It's been said that he's the, uh, the next Charlie Eppes." Smart David: "You're saying this thing could make a disease?"
Almost 6 minutes waiting to see my leading man... Love how Don always squints! Megan's always excited about crime. I cannot help but found it weird.
It's a serious threat but it's a funny scene. They all, with exception of maybe David, talk with hands! Love how Don moves around the room and plays with the pen. It gives the scene movement. Everybody is talking, giving ideas and he is thinking in 'action men' mood. I always enjoy that. David's suspicious of Ron. Don gets it, Megan doesn't.
Poor Charlie didn't have a normal childhood. "I was quite quixotic in elementary school." Larry knows him: "Reliving old glories, that can be a dangerous narcotic." Their friendship is solid. "You know that if you were to fall under similar scrutiny, I would go beyond the boundaries of the observable universe to defend you, and you know that." Larry's inestimable found: "I always thought your interests in music were computational, not compositional."
Charlie: "Margaret Mann? That's my mother's maiden name. She was a lawyer."
David's instincts: "Didn't persuade me so much." Good thing that Megan listen to him. David and Colby are hot. "His shoots a lot further than yours."
5 minutes without Don. Not complaining, just counting! ;)
Megan: "Well, his life story would make a hell of a movie." Larry: "Uh, remake of 'The Wrong Man', perhaps?" But David founds the truth: "A young man who isn't real." Poor Larry.
Colby didn't do much in the episode. But this is priceless. Megan: "What were you into sophomore year of college?" Colby: "Cheerleaders." And Megan didn't make a single joke... not like her. Still, they so look like siblings.
Alan: "Your mother, she was a very talented musician." Don: "Oh, that's why all those piano lessons with the nightmare woman..." Charlie: "Petrie dish with the lozenge breath." Don: "Mrs. Petrie." Perfect brothers' moment. Alan: "Well, she had to make a choice between the law and music. And when she made the choice, then music was a closed issue." Charlie: "Except that it wasn't. These compositions are dated through the '80s, through the '90s. I mean, I think she was writing music up until... You know." Poor Alan: "No, I didn't know."
Love how Don and Charlie look at each other. Brothers worried about their father. Scenes like this made the show.
As Tony Scott said at Crunching Numb3rs 1: "It's about these performances. It's a family spirit, in terms of the boys and their father." Love them.
The boys are great together. David is so like Don! Love it.
Larry: "I went to bat for him. I stormed into your brother's office, I put my own name on the line for... I don't even know his name. I made a complete fool of myself." Sweet Amita: "Larry, your heart was in the right place." Larry's hard on himself: "Well-intentioned ignorance is a slender defense at best."
A great Charlie vision: "You saw the waves he created."
Megan's funny: "I'm so hoping you have one of those cute little analogies for this." Charlie: "A person's journey through life is like a stone skipping across water. No matter how briefly it lands in one place, it leaves ripples behind, evidence that it has been there."
Megan: "He's like a chameleon." Charlie: "More like a snake, shedding successive skins." Worried Don's hot. And jeans!
Love bright Don: "What if the thefts weren't an end, but a means?" David: "A means to what?" Don: "You know, like 'Groundhog Day', right? He gets to live the same life over and over again, but each time better." Megan: "Like a junkie stealing just enough to get to his next fix."
Love Pan resemblance! And sincere Charlie, not easy to be a genius. "Well, you know, when I was a 13-year-old freshman, it wasn't much fun, but it was cool. Everything I did was that much more impressive, because of how young I was. And, you know, it was always, 'If he's able to accomplish that now, can you imagine what amazing things he'll accomplish when he's 25?' and... now I'm 30 years old." Larry: "You haven't seen your best years yet."
Charlie's feeling responsible: "But you know, she must have been so disappointed that Don and I didn't like the piano. And I'm thinking that's the reason that she kept her passion for the piano hidden from us." But Alan's guilt is bigger: "No, Charlie, she didn't keep it hidden from you guys. She kept it hidden from me." (...) "She just didn't want me to know what a hard decision it was. That she gave up something that she really loved."
Love Larry's wisdom: "For something she loved more, Alan. You can't lose sight of that."
Don: "So you know that little mistake, that thing you've been worried about doing for the last 15 years? Well, you made it. You sure made it now, buddy." Love the boys in gear.
Charlie: "So, there are 4 states of matter, solid, liquid, gas, and, when you superheat gas, plasma. Actually, you know what? There's 5, if you consider Bose-Einstein condensates." Megan: "Which we really don't need to consider, right?" Charlie playing with plasma thing, love them being brothers!
Amita's so right: "But Charlie, I don't know anyone who challenges himself as relentlessly as you do." Charlie: "LIGO is the well-worn page."
Larry's drama: "No, no, if he's already been in here, I don't even know if I wanna live." Don runs fast!
Great David! "Spend 18 years dodging gangs, working to help support your family, beating every odd out there just to get your high school diploma. You do that. Then you can sit here and talk to me about what's fair."
This scene is just perfection. Charlie kindly finds a way to easy his father heart. "Dad, I don't think she was hiding it. Well, not in the way you mean. You know, I have places that I like to go to be alone. I go hiking. You go fishing." Alan: "Do you think your mother needed to be alone with her music?" Charlie: "It's just part of being human, isn't it? To wanna find someplace solely for yourself. Whether it be outside in the world or deep inside your head."
Then the moment stops and both are touched by the sound of the piano. Margaret's talking through her music... by Don's hands...
I can watch it indefinitely.
All about Numb3rs rewatch. I hope you enjoy!