Percolated Recap: Numb3rs: 7 Men Out (Eppesode 603)

NotASpyAnymore: At bar! Woohoo! Partner should be here! Ladies-a-plenty #Davidwon'ttwitter


Theoriginalspy: Hey look! The Grid is tipsy, again! Time for an intervention!
Pic via fauxtwitpic.

Tokendeaddude: I'm going to die. I'm going to be forced to kill myself. OMG, WTF have I done? #dead


Slumlady: @Tokendeaddude STFU, I've got a corpse in my tenement and you don't see me crying, do you?


Rookiecop: We've got another corpse over here. Maybe I'll get off the beat if I solve the case.


Tokendeaddude: I mean it! I'm going to shoot myself in the head before the title flash! #dead


DetectiveCates: @Rookiecop Inappropriate! We've had 3 bodies in four days, and all shot themselves in the head! I've got to tell the Fedcakes. #Fedcakes


NotASpyAnymore: At scene w my favourite date. Loser won't Twitter. #Davidwon'ttwitter


Theoriginalspy: David is getting the exposition for a change! 7 corpses per city (Miami, Houston, Denver). 3 so far in LA. Pic via fauxtwitpic. NotASpyAnymore: What is this Saw?



DetectiveCates: Someone was watching this corpse kill himself online. Ew.



TokenDeadDude: I'm being filmed while I shoot myself in the head! I warned you I would do it! #dead.


TitleFlash: I flashed, and no, that isn't dirty.

ISupportAll: I'm so very supportive, just not as well lit as usual in this scene at La Maison d'Eppes.

CurlyHaredBlackHole: I miss my fiancee.



KaliStoleYourMojo: @CurlyHaredBlackHole I miss you too! BTW, will send you some stuff to look at later! So excited!


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @KaliStoleYourMojo *gulp*



WhiteSpaceKnight: That lecture was not to my taste anymore.



CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight The Royal Astronomical Society isn't your taste?


WhiteSpaceKnight: @CurlyHaredBlackHole I'm simplifying my tastes. Sticking with raspberries. Besides, the world is ending.


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight In 7.9 billion years. You could try blueberrys too.


PappaEppes: @WhiteSpaceKnight @CurlyHaredBlackHole I may be around then, thanks to my new pills, but my retirement fund won't last 7.9 months. #subplot


Theoriginalspy: @PappaEppes When did you get all meta? Pic via fauxtwitpic. PappaEppes: @Theoriginalspy I am wise. I am even wise enough to be meta. My wisdom, apparently, does not apply to financial planning. #subplot

CurlyHaredBlackHole: @PappaEppes, please tell me those pills aren't blue. If they are, I will need to throw myself, like a pumkin, off of a roof at Cal Sci.

IHOFedcakes: The IHOF is pleased to announce a congregation of Fedcakes. #Fedcakes

AlphaBitch4: Working with Rosencrantz, we learn nothing is tracable. Hell, even the victims don't establish a pattern. Will report this to @ChiefFedcake.


ChiefFedcake: @AlphaBitch4 Anything else?



AlphaBitch4: @ChiefFedcake Well, DS found out the victims were all financially screwed -- and that online classifieds aka hookers, might be involved.

ChiefFedcake: @AlphaBitch4 Why is DS not twittering this himself?


AlphaBitch4: @ChiefFedcake, DS doesn't twitter. #Davidwon'ttwitter.


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @ChiefFedcake, Come to my office, #Dad.



ChiefFedcake: @CurlyHaredBlackHole WTF, I had money with the strip mall guy Dad invested with. Oh yeah, good luck helping our stubborn Dad. #Dad.


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @ChiefFedcake, Grate, now I'm the breadwinner now?



ChiefFedcake:@CurlyHaredBlackHole Enough about all this awkward finance stuff. What about the case?


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @ChiefFedcake, Your case is like @WhiteSpaceKnight's zen garden. I'm raking things over.


WhiteSpaceKnight: Zen garden is Zen.



CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight aren't you leaving?



WhiteSpaceKnight: @CurlyHaredBlackHole I'll leave when my soul is ready to leave. Got to de-clutter everything: mind, space, etc., first.


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight tell me later, have results. @NotASpyAnymore, found a place your three vics may have met -- a strip club!


NotASpyAnymore: @CurlyHaredBlackHole I'm so all over that! Who is with me? @AlphaBitch4?


AlphaBitch4: @NotASpyAnymore, why me? take you're partner.



NotASpyAnymore: @AlphaBitch4 I consider this his punishment because he doesn't tweet. #Davidwon'ttwitter


AlphaBitch4: @NotASpyAnymore, I'm calling him anyway. DS has to come along. This ain't Utah.


NotASpyAnymore: @AlphaBitch4 Like my partner would say, if he tweeted, that's Idaho!



AlphaBitch4: @NotASpyAnymore, isn't that the name of the dancer on the stage, Ida Ho?


NotASpyAnymore: I think the hot hostess just offered me something deep.


Theoriginalspy: Yeah, I think she did too. Pic via fauxtwitpic. AlphaBitch4: How weird is it that I'm the only woman in the VIP lounge at a strip club? Oh wait, illicit gambling. Got a bunch to take back back to the IHOF. #IHOF


NotASpyAnymore: Partner and I learned the dead guys all owed serious money to the strip club hostess. That wasn't what I first thought when she talked about deep.


ChiefFedcake: Dead gamblers don't pay up.



AlphaBitch4: Reason num482 not to have kids -- nanny-cam signals being crossed with live internet Russian Roulette games.


Tokendeaddude: Fedcakes can watch me die! #dead #Fedcakes



NotASpyAnymore: Gross



ChiefFedcake: What a waste.



AlphaBitch4: Ew.



WhiteSpaceKnight: Russian Roulette, allegedly, started as a way for Russian soldiers to work out who would get to eat the remaining scraps of food.


Theoriginalspy: @WhiteSpaceKnight, I can read Wikipedia too!


CurlyHaredBlackHole: It's all a big internet gambling fad, but only clever people, like me, and rogue nanny-cams, can access the site.


AlphaBitch4: RR players are teh stupid. We are not the Russian army.



WhiteSpaceKnight: But the psychology and the math is so interesting if we just look at --



AlphaBitch4: @WhiteSpaceKnight,I'm sticking with my theory that RR players are teh stupid. Plus, with four dead, there are three to go.


CurlyHaredBlackHole: At least we now have acsess because I hacked the site. We can keep track of things.


KaliStoleYourMojo: @CurlyHaredBlackHole And who taught you how to do that so effective. PS: CHECK YOUR E-MAIL!


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @KaliStoleYourMojo I love you too! *eep*


NotASpyAnymore: @ChiefFedcake Taking my partner to go talk to the wife of the guy left alive in the video. He's been missing for a week.


ChiefFedcake: No, I'll go.



MyHubbyIsWhere: My husband lost his job. We lost our health insurance. May lose the house. We are the archetype for trouble in these tough times.


ChiefFedcake: Is sad for this woman, but don't want to appear too weak here.


MyHubbyIsWhere: Let me now tell you some endearing story about my hubby, to make him more real. Plus, he said he'd stop gambling.


ChiefFedcake: Oh, that woman is naive. I feel for her.



AlphaBitch4: Another corpse. The Dominator did not take his name seriously enough. Brain now dominates the floor.


WhiteSpaceKnight: Stuck watching more video of men shooting themselves in the head. And people wonder why I want to escape reality.


AlphaBitch4: @WhiteSpaceKnight, so is this gambling thing I hear about you true?



WhiteSpaceKnight: @AlphaBitch4, sadly so. The thrill and the depths were once a part of my daily existence. It's like that line in The Gambler.


AlphaBitch4: @WhiteSpaceKnight, *sings* Know when to hold 'em..."



WhiteSpaceKnight: @AlphaBitch4, Uh, no. The movie. "What is it all gamblers have in common? They're all looking to lose."


AlphaBitch4: @WhiteSpaceKnight, I can't sing that.



RookerFan: @AlphaBitch Hey, what's up? What am I missing stuck up in San Fran?


AlphaBitch4: @RookerFan People shooting themselves in the head.



RookerFan: @AlphaBitch Well then, I'll let you get back to that. Sorry to have missed it. Wait, no I'm not.


AlphaBitch4: @RookerFan You so owe me a drink, leaving me to converse with WhiteSpaceKnight.



RookerFan: @AlphaBitch We'll go out drinking and dancing when I get back.


Theoriginalspy: With Tweets like that, they'll inspire FemSlash.




RookerFan: @Theoriginalspy, Why not, the boys are doing it!


NotASpyAnymore: Get to interview Strip Club Hostess. Liked her better when I thought our relationship would be "deep."


Allmensvices: The cute Beefcake Fedcake doesn't find me so hot anymore. All I do is fill a need.


NotASpyAnymore: @Allmensvices, shut up. You're so going down for this unless you talk.


Allmensvices: @NotASpyAnymore Whatever, I sold the names of my biggest losers and they got a chance to get them out of debt.


NotASpyAnymore: @Allmensvices, Well, you've got to give me something.



Allmensvices: @NotASpyAnymore If it'll help my chances, I'll give you a face.


Theoriginalspy: Not like that.



CurlyHaredBlackHole: Uh-oh, Dad brought food. He can't afford food.



PappaEppes: If my son seriously thinks I'll take any money from him, he's dreaming in technicolour. #subplot


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @PappaEppes, Dad, you always suported me.



PappaEppes: My youngest son clearly forgot about how he had to surreptitiously buy his own house.


NotASpyAnymore: Second time in the nudie bar. BEST JOB EVER! Get to watch voyeur porn too!


Allmensvices: @NotASpyAnymore Why does the Fedcake Beefcake not seem to be enjoying this.


NotASpyAnymore: I cannot let the hostess know I'm loving all the hot girls' asses.


Theoriginalspy: Like I couldn't tell what Colby was thinking. Pic via fauxtwitpic. Allmensvices: @NotASpyAnymore I know why you love bad girls.



Theoriginalspy: Because it's always good for the plot, and he hasn't met the right good girl yet!


NotASpyAnymore: Dude, I have the worst luck with women. I'm glad finding the guy got us of this topic.


RealityKai: Hey, who filmed me getting a lapdance? Wait a minute. So... not... caring...


ChiefFedcake: @NotASpyAnymore We need to pedaconference. Bring your partner.


NotASpyAnymore: I wouldn't have to tell David things if he tweeted! #Davidwon'ttwitter


ChiefFedcake: @NotASpyAnymore Just tell me what you have!


NotASpyAnymore: @ChiefFedcake Our baddie is Kai Kragen. He used to make reality shows before someone wound up all Vic Morrow on one.


ChiefFedcake: @NotASpyAnymore Hey! I saw that clip on YouTube! So you're telling me this is all a money grab?


RealityKai: I love having pictures of me in my house! It's not my ego, just my good looks.



NotASpyAnymore: My partner would so say this guy is full of crap. #Davidwon'ttwitter


RealityKai: Like I'm going to tell these Fedcakes about my online Russian Roulette series. I deny everything.


NotASpyAnymore: This guy is a douche. No wonder he was so successful in reality TV.



RealityKai: "That's TV. One day you're up. The next day, you're covered in blood holding someone's head." You can quote me.


Theoriginalspy: NPAL^TM alert!



NotASpyAnymore: @RealityKai You're not subtle about the drug use there, buddy, if my partner can wipe it up like dust.


RealityKai: @NotASpyAnymore Shut up, gotta go produce infomercials now. Aiming for Magic Bullet level quality here.


Theoriginalspy: Geez, this guy thinks Russian Roulette on the web is like any reality show. Can we say psycho? Pic via fauxtwitpic.
RealityKai: In the future, I only know one word LAWYER! #lawyer


NotASpyAnymore: D just got a call -- next RR game has started.



ChiefFedcake:@CurlyHaredBlackHole Where is this game streaming from?


TheImmortal8: Not my turn to die, suckers!



CurlyHaredBlackHole: @ChiefFedcake Quit pressuring me. This is KaliStoleYourMojo's area!


WhiteSpaceKnight: I'm not looking! I'm not looking!



CurlyHaredBlackHole: @NotASpyAnymore & @AlphaBitch4 The game's at 1st & Main!



AlphaBitch4: Found it! Satellite dish is a dead give away.



TheZenMaster: Shit. My bullet. #dead



NotASpyAnymore: Crap, another dead guy. #dead



AlphaBitch4: Plenty of people to arrest, plus one dead player. #dead



TheImmortal8: Signed up to potentially die, not get arrested. I'm running for it.



Theoriginalspy: We've seen these tunnels, in "Running Man." I used it in a gag vid once. Pic via fautwitpic.
NotASpyAnymore: Crap! Lost TheImmortal8 because of the old "he shut the door" trick.



AlphaBitch4: Now is not the time for TheZenMaster is not very Zen joke, is it? #dead



IHOFedcakes: The IHOF is pleased to announce the interrogation by Fedcakes has started. #Fedcakes

TheSilencerGlen: I want to live up to my name. Not giving away anything to ChiefFedcake & the guy who won't Twitter.


ChiefFedcake: @TheSilencerGlen What are you, some sicko fan?



TheSilencerGlen: @ChiefFedcake, No Just trying to make up for being a fuck up. Crap, not being silent now.


ChiefFedcake: David's got a good tactic, bringing the guy's wife into the equation.



TheSilencerGlen: Do not want to talk to my wife. I'm doing this for her.



Theoriginalspy: Or because he can't man up to his mistakes in life. Blah, blah, blah, so noble to die, Willy Loman.


TheSilencerGlen: I haven't committed a crime.



Theoriginalspy: Isn't attempted suicide a crime? What about prior knowledge of deaths? Illegal gambling?


WhiteSpaceKnight: This is a whole new level of gambling obsession.



AlphaBitch4: @WhiteSpaceKnight More like a whole new kind of crazy.



NotASpyAnymore: All the game people are saying is lawyer. I think that topic is going to trend. #lawyer


MyHubbyIsWhere: @ChiefFedcake Hey! Why are you letting my hubby go? He'll die!



ChiefFedcake: @MyHubbyisWhere Your husband hasn't committed a crime. He's free to go.


MyHubbyIsWhere: Isn't attempted suicide a crime? What about prior knowledge of deaths? Illegal gambling?


Theoriginalspy: @MyHubbyIsWhere, you took the words out of my tweet.



MyHubbyIsWhere: @TheSilencerGlen HOW DARE YOU, YOU CHICKENSHIT!



ISupportAll: Now I am better lit. I need to be. Both ChiefFedcake & PappaEppes need support.

PappaEppes: Want beer. #beer



ChiefFedcake: Have beer. #beer




PappaEppes: @ChiefFedcake, talk to your Pappa.



ChiefFedcake: @PappaEppes, TheSilencerGlen has a home and a woman who loves him, yet wants to die.



Theoriginalspy: @ChiefFedcake Hey! You have a woman who love you! Where is she!



AwesomeAUSA: Yeah, good question, where am I?



Theoriginalspy: @AwesomeAUSA, please don't leave me Don! Pic via fautwitpic.


PappaEppes: @ChiefFedcake, People who don't want help, can't be helped.



ChiefFedcake: @PappaEppes, Like us? I learned after being stabbed in the chest that help is good.


PappaEppes: @ChiefFedcake, Yes, I know what you're talking about #subplot.



NotASpyAnymore: Stuck on a stake out. Must bug partner about not tweeting. #Davidwon'ttwitter


NotASpyAnymore: If he did tweet, he would've gotten my message at from the bar! #Davidwon'ttwitter


NotASpyAnymore: He wants me to call him. Hello? Drunk dialing? After last week? #Davidwon'ttwitter


NotASpyAnymore: Ack! TheSilencerGlen is getting away. Must chase! #Running



NotASpyAnymore: @ChiefFedcake TheSilencerGlen had a getaway plan. Mysterious car picked him up.


NotASpyAnymore: One advantage of Twitter. I could tweet that last thing, instead of getting the stare of doom in person. #Davidwon'ttwitter


CurlyHaredBlackHole: RR experiments at Cal Si. Cool! Hope my grad students don't fauxtwitpic this!


WhiteSpaceKnight: What do I care, I'm leaving.



CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight yet u r still here.



WhiteSpaceKnight: @CurlyHaredBlackHole yes, but all this is distracting, want to find simplicity.


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight Go play some video games.



WhiteSpaceKnight: @CurlyHaredBlackHole My paving stones are not yet aligned.



Theoriginalspy: WTF? Pic via fautwitpic.

CalSciGradStudent: Hey guys, look at what I got to do today! Pic via fautwitpic.

IHOFedcakes: The IHOF is pleased to announce an important break in the case. #Fedcakes

CurlyHaredBlackHole: The whole thing is rigged.



Theoriginalspy: Gambling on teh internetz rigged? Colour me shocked.



WhiteSpaceKnight: We figured it out from studies with student volunteers playing Russian Roulette!


CurlyHaredBlackHole: No students were harmed in the making of these results.


ChiefFedcake: Watching my brother play with the rigged guns is making me nervous.


WhiteSpaceKnight: TheSilencerGlen knew that it was rigged!



ChiefFedcake: @WhiteSpaceKnight Except David just told me TheSilencerGlen just bet on TheImmortal8.


WhiteSpaceKnight: @ChiefFedcake why wouldn't DS just tweet me himself?



ChiefFedcake: @WhiteSpaceKnight DS doesn't tweet. #Davidwon'ttwitter.



NotASpyAnymore: @ChiefFedcake hey AlphaBitch4 and I need you to pedaconference.



AlphaBitch4: RealityKai is dirty. He's laundering money from the RR games through his infomercial company.


NotASpyAnymore: And on the RR game tapes? Shots from an infomercial on shinto knives. #fail.


ChiefFedcake: @NotASpyAnymore @AlphaBitch4 Go get RealityKai! Take David.



RealityKai: iz ded. #dead



NotASpyAnymore: More open door = corpse luck. #dead



AlphaBitch4: Someone's got some of the thingamajigs to rig the guns.



TheImmortal8: @NotASpyAnymore BANG!



NotASpyAnymore: @TheImmortal8, liked you better when the gun was pointed at your head!


IHOFedcakes: The IHOF is pleased to announce another break in the case, and a lack of a shout out. #Fedcakes #shoutout


AlphaBitch4: TheImmortal8 is a Canuck from canuckland who works in TV, like on RealityKai's shows.


ChiefFedcake: @AlphaBitch4 Anything else?



AlphaBitch4: TheImmortal8 was in on it since the beginning. Now he runs the game.



Theoriginalspy: What is this mention of a Canadian who is not me!? #noshoutout



AlphaBitch4: TheImmortal8 is making the last RR game an in person, invite only event. Got a web address.


ChiefFedcake: @CurlyHaredBlackHole Got a new web addie for you: www.fauxtinyurl/T0S.1012


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @ChiefFedcake. Thanx Bro. @work & want something else to look at than what KaliStoleYourMojo sent.


WhiteSpaceKnight: @CurlyHaredBlackHole You seem freaked out.



CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight OMGWTF CAN'T THINK!



Theoriginalspy: I think I must record these for posterity. Pic via fautwitpic.
CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight We haven't even set a date yet, and you're coming, buddy!


WhiteSpaceKnight: @CurlyHaredBlackHole Err...




CurlyHaredBlackHole: @WhiteSpaceKnight You will be at my weding, or I will hunt you down. WTF is wrong with you!


WhiteSpaceKnight: @CurlyHaredBlackHole Clarity. Need clarity.



Theoriginalspy: @WhiteSpaceKnight May I make a suggestion? How about you visit KravMagaGrrl?


CurlyHaredBlackHole: @ChiefFedcake Found your creepy-ass final game!


Theoriginalspy: This can only make me think of one thing. Pic via fautwitpic.
TheImmortal8: So going to be stinking rich!



TheSilencerGlen: So going to die.



AlphaBitch4: Time for our triumphant arrival!



NotASpyAnymore: I think we have a problem. They have more guns than we do.



Theoriginalspy: I'm confused by what's going on. Pic via fautwitpic.
NotASpyAnymore: My partner's going to try and talk them all down. He's good at that.



AlphaBitch4: Hope DS has a better plan. My hair won't look so goo filled with bullets.



NotASpyAnymore: Hey, DS placed a bet on TheImmortal8 -- as long as that dude goes first.



TheImmortal8: Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Rigged gun to go off on the third shot. If I go first, I'll also be third. Shit!

TheSilencerGlen: Please, I knew I would die. I want to die. I'm a loser.



NotASpyAnymore: @TheSilencerGlen, shut up, this is my partner's moment, so close to Be Kind to David Day!


TheImmortal8: Not going to die. I refuse to shoot
.


NotASpyAnymore: Ha ha. We win. As long as no one shoots us on the way out.



IHOFedcakes: The IHOF is pleased to announce the perp walk of TheImmortal8. #Fedcakes

AlphaBitch4: Hey, look at TheImmortal8. Not smiling now. Sucker.



Allmensvices: @NotASpyAnymore at the #IHOF. Mind if I proposition you?



AlphaBitch4: I think I'm going to vomit.



NotASpyAnymore: My partner can't talk. He picked up Claudia in the morgue. But he's all "she hasn't worked there in a year!"


Theoriginalspy: Claudia? They remember Claudia?! That's awesome! OMG! Wait, are TBTB trying to distract me from Robin?


NotASpyAnymore: Hee! I got my partner to mention Claudia by acting innocent. Not that he'd know because he doesn't tweet. #Davidwon'ttwitter.


TheSilencerGlen: I've lost everything.



ChiefFedcake: Not everything.



MyHubbyIsWhere: I still love you, you chickenshit so you'd better face me now.



CurlyHaredBlackHole: I stand here, in my home, contemplatting WhiteSpaceKnight's pic from when I passed my orals.



Theoriginalspy: That sounds dirty.



PappaEppes: Must justify my golfing to my son. Wait. I'll just talk about other things.



CurlyHaredBlackHole: I think my Dad wants to tell me something.


PappaEppes: @CurlyHaredBlackHole I need a job and I need you to help me with my computer skills. #subplot.


KaliStoleYourMojo: @PappaEppes. Are you sure that isn't something you'd like me to do for you, when you get back?


PappaEppes: @WhiteSpaceKnight, you missed our chess game!



CurlyHaredBlackHole: @PappaEppes Don't bother with WhiteSpaceKnight. He's having issues.



WhiteSpaceKnight: Am contemplating video games.



Theoriginalspy: @WhiteSpaceKnight Play a video game. Standing in an arcade & staring makes you look creepy (to those who don't know you).


ComicBookFed: This is what you wanted me to do? Look at the topics! #Davidwon'ttwitter #dead #subplot. What was I missing?


NotASpyAnymore: @ComicBookFed At bar! Lotsa Ladies!



ComicBookFed: @NotASpyAnymore, Did you just drunk-tweet me?



NotASpyAnymore: @ComicBookFed Come on, I'll buy you a beer. #beer



ComicBookFed: @NotASpyAnymore, I'll be right there. #beer



NotASpyAnymore: @ComicBookFed Dude.

Extra Froth: Happy Be Kind To David Day!

One day a year, Special Agent David Sinclair should be free from being attacked, shot at, beaten up, or generally mistreated by the Numb3rs universe. Therefore, October 12 has been named Be Kind To David Day.

(Please ignore any reference to it also being Spy's birthday.)

Therefore, read your comic books! Watch David-centric eppesodes! Be nice to people (not just those named David), all in the name of David Sinclair!

Most importantly, be awesome, just like David.

Percolated Recap: Numb3rs: Friendly Fire (Eppesode 602)

Recapper's note: This recap was brought to you by various medications. Yes, I caught a nasty virus just prior to my birthday Be Kind To David Day. I take no responsibility if I say shit that makes no sense.
We begin with another one of "those guys," preparing for a raid. You know what I mean by "those guys;" I mean one of those actors who have been in so many things (in this case, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, and CSI, just to name three out of 12904823908 -- actual number) that it's hard to figure out exactly what to call him. Granted, he's not That Guy, the one I'm confident is contractually obligated to appear on every show ever made, but he's getting pretty close.
In this case, this one of "those guys" is named Pete, and he's about to take a team of Feds (not Fedcakes) on a raid. Just to make sure we connect with all the members of Pete's team, we have flashes of their family photos in their lockers. That, along with the music of Beck's "Timebomb" gives me a clue (a phrase which here means, hits me over the head with the dead trout of symbolism) that perhaps not all of the team is going to make it out alive.

Cal Sci: Larry and Alan are trying to turn in a late paper. Well, Alan's really the one trying to turn in a late paper, and Larry's trying to help him, through an old Cal Sci honoured tradition: making one's way through the tunnels to the prof's office. Unfortunately, this is like the blind leading the blind, since neither one of them have no idea where they're going -- despite a map and a compass.
Utterly lost, the pair is rescued by Charmita, who has been following them, just in case a rescue was necessary. They mock Charlie's father (and surrogate academic father) for being directionally challenged. Apparently, both Larry and Alan have gotten lost on the way home from a grocery store. Oh yeah, well, I'm willing to bet Larry has a one up on Alan when it comes to getting lost. I'm pretty sure Alan always knows what city and state he's in. Larry, not so much.
Larry tries to defend his sense of direction by bringing up his being in space. Yeah, well, Larry, Charlie missed an optimal chance to point out that someone else was driving, otherwise, the shuttle mission, instead of going to the International Space Station, probably would've wound up as the first manned mission to Mars -- completely by accident.

In another part of the tunnels is something more interesting than a weird tradition allowing Alan to hand in a late paper. (I notice that Numb3rs pretends some of the other ways, like getting parents to call and bitch out college professors, or temper tantrums, isn't mentioned, implying much more maturity amongst the fictional Cal Sci student body, than those in real life.) It's a bunch of graffiti work from a variety of people, including Albert Einstein and Larry Fleinhardt (not that Larry wants to talk about that).

I notice is how much Cal Sci's grafitti, looks like what I do, every week to the screencaps.
I also notice how it attempts to be funny, like my screencaps.
What isn't there though -- a shout out. Seriously, as TPTB keep producing eppesodes, I will be here asking.

IHOF: This close to Be Kind to David Day, we get an eppesode that features what has to be the best subplot, ever, featuring David, and some serious David love (not like that -- well, maybe like that). It all starts out with Nikki ragging on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (as she has nothing else to do since Liz is elsewhere this week) about how they should have a social life.

Nikki says to David, "You're handsome. You've got a good job. There's no reason why you shouldn't have a girlfriend."
David responds with some sort of comment that if Nikki applied herself to her job as much as she did ragging him about his love life, she would've caught Bin Laden and D.B. Cooper. By that logic, with the amount of obsessing I've done about how my BFFedcake isn't taken, I should've solved the Black Dahlia murder, the Jack the Ripper killings, found D.B. Cooper, stopped The Great Muppet Caper, and found out who took the cookie from the cookie jar.

Suddenly, we veer from how awesome David is, into slasher land, and I need to rewatch this scene due to the squeeing from slashers everywhere. "We're married," Colby says, indicating David.

I wait for the slashers to stop screaming.

I wait a little longer.

I make some tea.

I walk my dogs.

I thank whoever invented my PVR.

Finally, I see the second half of the line, which was far too long after the first part not to be a nod toward the slashers (which they've done before), is "to the job."
Deflecting, Colby brings up how Nikki managed to land Ian Edgerton. There's a couple of interesting facts here. The first is that the end of Edgerton from last season was not just a teaser, since the Fedcakes are still ribbing Nikki about it. The second is that it's not progressed anywhere since Nikki makes a bet leading to the MOST AWESOME SUBPLOT THIS SHOW HAS EVER HAD (capslock required). She bets that they all go out on a triple date on Friday. Whoever shows up alone, pays.

As Nikki walks off, smug in her ability to land a great date, Colby and David start going through the files of a dating service they busted last year.
Golden Bear Bank: I know we're supposed to care about these other team of Fedcakes, but I can't. Suffice it to say, after a pretty cool not-Gyllenhaal directed shoot out, we have to wait to find out the results. I'm more interested in how the date thing will work out.

IHOF: Artemas explains Athena's absence (she's in San Fransisco), just seconds before David arrives with the news of the shootout.

Golden Bear Bank: The Fedcakes arrive to get involved with the firefight, making me wonder how long this thing has been going on if it allows the Fedcakes to get into their Kevlar (mmm, Kevlar) and get to the crime scene, without both sides having run out of bullets.

Unfortunately, they've arrived only at the bitter end and the aftermath of the shoot out is this: only Pete and the token female are still alive. The other two, the ones with families in their lockers, have been killed in the line of duty.

As there's nothing remotely funny here, I'll move along.
Title flash.

In the aftermath, Don's the one who gets to deliver the news of the two dead Feds, Hale and Ryba, to Pete. It's clear there's some history between Don and Pete, as the latter's only recently moved out to California, to head up a team of newbies. Okay, so Pete doesn't quite put it like that but the connotation is there.

We get some flashbacks of the shoot out, this time from a different perspective. Just like the first perspective though, it doesn't give us any useful information. Neither does Petey (hey, that's Don's term, not mine) as he lays the blame on bank robber Jim Wilson. I can't believe him.
Nikki, David and Colby have come up with a few leads. The first is that the robber has to be bleeding profusely and will need medical attention. As for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, they've gotten 20 differnt stories from twenty different people. Geez, I wonder how they're going to get all the piece to fit?
Charlie compares the twenty stories / vids, etc., to the stitch assist function on my camera.
Apparently, Charlie can stitch together all the accounts. I'm not to sure how that works with verbal statements, but since I'm highly medicated at the moment, I'll blame the medication and not the show.

Cal Sci: I'm going to digress for a minute, and say I miss Charlie's old office. I miss the mess of post-its that I could vandalize in screencaps and other random objects just laying about without a purpose. There's something far too neat about this office.
Back to the plot line, as Charlie studies Larry's work from the tunnel, Amita drops a bombshell. Larry is not going to Geneva. In my opinion, this is a good thing, considering what happens to fictional characters at CERN.

As if the very mention of his name causes him to appear (a trait Larry ascribes to archaic beliefs in the devil but is a staple trope of network television) larry arrives warning of the imminent arrival of Jordan Farmar. We all remember him right? One of the two ringers used to help the Cal Sci basketball team not suck? (Apparently, they've lost every game since. Imagine being the team who lost to them? Talk about humiliation.) Anyway, he's going to let Farmar play in the shuttle simulator.

Larry is, well, Larry, and completely vague as to why he's not heading off to Switzerland. Really, there's only one reason I'd accept.
IHOF: It's an exposition scene! The entire purpose is to tell us how awesome Petey is, establish that it's awful Hale and Ryba died, and to locate Wilson -- at a vet's office. While this scene's designed to move the plot along, and fast, it also allows for something else.
Santa Monica Veternary Clinic: Somehow, between David and Nikki locating Wilson, to actually getting to the clinic, night has fallen. Considering how much time has passed, I want to know what the hell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were doing!
As David tries to get into the locked clinic, Colby thumbs through potential actresses to impersonate a rocket scientist. Unfortunately, he's not getting them, from say, William Morris, instead from an extras agency. We all know how professional extras can be, unless someone wants to tell me that my Britcoms have been lying to me.

After a stereotypical standoff (I have no way of escaping, but I'll threaten to kill this poor innocent), David gets off a shot, taking Wilson down. David's got a better, and safer, way of capturing this baddie -- taking the weakened criminal out with a cat tranquilizer gun.
IHOF: Wilson accepts responsibility for the deaths of his crew members, but refuses to accept responsibility for the deaths of Ryba and Hale. He even offers to take a polygraph, leaving Don, stumped.
Later, using the second video game of the year, Charlie and David confirm Wilson's story.
Petey is a liar. Dun dun dun!

After the commercial break, we learn that Petey is the closest thing to Edgerton, since, well, Edgerton, according to his CV. The problem is, that, unlike Edgerton, Petey's career took a serious downturn by accepting to go on the hunt for Wilson.

David and Nikki are trying to be surreptitious when looking into Petey's background, since there's a serious connection between Don and the man in question.

Although, Don's willing to tell everyone all about it -- including reminiscing about some photos taken in the past.
In fact, Don's so confident in Petey's innocence, he shurgs off Nikki's suggestions that perhaps his mentor is a big liar, liar pants on fire.

Outside the tech room, Charlie's discussing Larry's behaviour, with, who we can safely assume is Amita, even though we can't see who is on the other end of the phone. As for Colby, he's far more interested in getting a better look at what happened, which charlie promises will happen, thanks to one of his Charlie-visions and laser scanning.
Target Practice: In a part of the Fedcake training I don't think we've seen before, Don is introducing us to an important set for later honing his skills by competing against automatic cardboard baddies. As weird as that sentence is, it's the the truth, and not a medication induced halluncination.
Don is caught by Petey's paintballs (which sounds dirty, but isn't), before Petey is caught deflecting all of Don's questions. He lays the blame back on his green agents, training tactics, and anything and everything else (including protecting the dead agents' pensions), but it's clear Don's stressed and doesn't believe him, no matter how calm he's trying to sound.
Cal Sci: Charlie has two things to worry about. The first is Larry's behaviour and refusal to call the dean, and the second is Jordan Farmar looking quite intently in Amita's direction. Not to bash Charlie or anything, but Farmar is pretty darn cute. He solves the second problem by ushering Farmar out the door and towards the space shuttle simulator.
Nikki finds Farmar as cute as I do, and hands Charlie over some information adding that "friends help friends." First Edgerton and now Farmar? I have to compliment Nikki on her fine taste.

Hospital: The only member of Petey's team who is still alive puts the same codicil on her statement that I put on this recap: if it doesn't make sense, blame the drugs. We get her flashbacks of the event, but they're as useful in telling us what happened as the rest of the shootout images thus far.

She deflects any challenging of her statement from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, by sniping that perhaps they partners would've been more useful if they'd been there, in person, to save her teammated. Funny how she gets defensive the second her word is challenged. What happened to her excuse of the drugs made her foggy? Trust me, that doesn't go away.
Space Shuttle Simulator: Jordan Farmar may be a great basketball player, but he sucks at driving the shuttle. If he were the pilot, Apollo 13 wouldn't have had such an uplifting ending.

Farmar thinks he can pilot the shuttle because he's seen the Star Trek: Reboot three times. Larry's response to that I found particularly hilarious, and I don't think that was due to DayQuil.
Unfortunately, the worst place to try to talk to Larry about what's going on in his life is while Jordan Farmar, as cute as he is, is crashing the space shuttle.

IHOF: There's a brief moment where David and Colby are clearly trying to bluff Nikki about how their great date search is going, before finding out Petey's sexual habits. Apparently, he likes to harass coworkers. Well, at least we now know why his career took a serious downturn.
Cal Sci: David's off to play more Grand Theft Auto with Charmita, and the game plan shows something's off in Agent Gordon's statement.

Hospital: Why, Agent Gordon lied! I'll try to work up some shock, as she claims she was protecting Hale. She says it was Hale who shot Ryba, if by accident.
IHOF: Petey's far too ready to accept responsibility for what happened on his team. It's a moment that's supposed to show how dedicated a trainer he really is, but something stinks.

Cal Sci: Alan finally gets something out of Larry, in regards to the latter's behaviour. Larry is searching for clarity (and he's upset he didn't get to personally taste the raspberry-flavoured Milky Way). In the monastery, he was too much trouble. In space, there was too much between himself and the stars. Now, he sees that everything in his life is obscuring his path. I guess there's only one way to put it.
IHOF: Nikki's found another problem with Petey -- he pays out a lot of money to informants and gets very few results. The way she sees it, to get away with even more crap than Donnie!Darko would get away with back when he needed some help back in seasons 3, Petey must have naked pictures of someone.
David's found something else, this time on Ryba. The dead agent was only a desk jockey -- until he was assigned to Petey's team.

Math Garage: Oh, it's been so long since we've seen you! While Alan points out that it's used for everything but a garage, Don's been digging out more pictures from the past.
Don's also reflecting on how good agents go bad. First Bloom, now Petey, and Don's thinking about his own career as an agent, repercussions from the stabbing, and, essentially, how he's worried about his own future. (He also laments not beating Colby and David in a foot chase, and I'm not touching that one.)

Never fear though, because Alan has some words of wisdom. He tells the story of a park he designed and his favourite pond in the park. Eventually, everything grew around it, obscuring what he thought was his favourite element, until he looked around and appreciated the beauty that had sprung up. Sure, Don is the chief Fedcake, but he's got to appreciate all the wonderful developments -- Colby, who isn't as stupid as we once thought, David, who is made of awesome, Artemas and Athena, hell, even Megan, and his new relationship with Charlie, has all sprung up around him. That's got to be worth appreciating.
IHOF: Colby's all excited and David hopes it means that they've got dates with a judge (and her sister) for Friday (or the sushi chef and her niece). Even I can tell by Colby's face that neither option is the case.
What Colby's found is that Ryba was actually internal affairs, about to file a report against the pilfering Petey.

La Maison d'Eppes: All right, I need to pay some special attention here. I need to grovel at the pattern of something so stalwart, so supportive, that I'm sure it'll forgive me for paying it no notice last week.
We get a weird conversation that starts out with me thinking that Larry's calling Don stupid. (It's something about his simplistic view of the world, etc.) and ends with Larry saying he'd rather go yodel on a mountaintop (okay, so the yodeling is my take on it -- but imagine, Larry yodeling, and tell me you don't find that funny) than be stuck underground at Cern.

Eventually, the conversation ends with the recommendation we act more like cavement and use our instincts instead of technology. Um, huh? Is it just the drugs, or do I have a right to be confused?

Fortunately, the conversation ends due to a call from Charlie. He's sent Don the newest simulation from Grand Theft Auto, which show that Gordon shot Ryba.
Hospital: Confronted yet again with being a big fat liar, and having an affair with Petey, using Fed money to have said affair, and being unable to keep her stories straight, she becomes one big run-on sentence of screw ups.
She tries to justify it with the whole argument that Ryba was a rat. Well, no one needs to rat you out if you don't do anything horrifically wrong, bitch.

Cal Sci: Larry's finishing up all he needs to do before he heads out East to visit a former Fedcake before taking off to God knows where. One of those things is returning Charlie's books.
He also needs to make things right with Charlie. Larry needs to tell Charlie why he's running away from everything he knows. Yet, he can't quite explain his reasoning, even when Charlie begs for a place to send the wedding invitation. Sadly, I can explain it all.
IHOF: Charlie's arrived with some even worse news. I think we can all figure out what it is.

Target Practice: Don's gone to pick up some shell casings Petey left behind, as it's clear that Don's mentor was also involved in the shootings of the two Feds. As soon as he picks up the evidence, he hears Petey, taunting him from above. Thus a cat and mouse game begins, where the student has to best the teacher, or die.

Sure, it's all drawn out, as Don confirms the details (Petey used the unregistered back up, and killed Hale) and Petey tries to justify himself (in the same, it's all the FBI's fault, not mine, that Bloom was infamous for) while bullets are exchanged. Trying to give his mentor a way out, Don confronts Petey only when the latter is out of bullets but Petey doesn't want it. What he wants is to commit suicide by cop -- or more specifically, suicide by Don.

All this does, is cause Don even more grief and probably another round of therapy. In short, while I think I'm supposed to feel that Petey was a tragic character, I can only feel one thng as Don sinks to the floor, crying, "Ah Petey."
He should go see Robin, because, clearly, he's in need of a hug.

Restaurant: In the conclusion of the best eppesode subplot ever, Nikki greets Farmar, sure she's got the bet in the bag. That is until Farmar remembers they've met before. The problem is taht he didn't meet the new, mature Nikki, but the angry, judgmental one I loathed at the start of season 5. Apparently, she arrested his friend, who had food poisoning, mistaking it for drunk and disorderly. Having nothing to say to defend herself, Nikki can only watch as Farmar walks out.
Warning: The level of awesome in the latter half of this scene might be too much for some slashers people.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive just in time to see Nikki's embarrassment but she thinks as they've arrived without women that they've all lost the date.

Oh, so not true! In fact, if anyone won the bet, it's Colby. He's brought the best date (David came second). Let's see if we can work out who this date might be.
Yes, Colby brought the recently promoted, Fedcake extraordinaire, and excellent marriage material, David Sinclair, as his date. The entire time, Colby behaves as if David would be the best possible option, and I thoroughly agree.

Now, I know, of late, TV shows aren't afraid to acknowledge slashers. (Hell, NCIS's advertising campaign in Canada was practicially based on it. Also, can we say House/Wilson?) But the fact that this isn't done with a tonne of irony, or the stereotypical homophobic undertones of "we're not really gay, tee hee hee," is what makes it so awesome. They could've played it that way, but no, playing it straight (pun totally intended) made it better. David is the best option, and he would be quite the catch, for anyone. Thus, Colby has won the bet, fair and square, made slashers everywhere happy, and made me applaud our show with being so awesome.

Awesome like David Sinclair, that is.

Nikki, on the other hand, needs a drink.

Cal Sci: Back in the tunnels, we found out what Larry was doing when he was living down there.
In the middle of all the work is a Hindi sign reading "all for son." Larry's left everything to Charlie. As if the poor, adorkable professor didn't have enough on his plate.

IHOF: Don is alone, putting Ryba and Hale's pictures on the wall of martyrs.

Stepping back and looking at those who fell in the line of duty, Don is shaky, literally, and I'm left offering him a hug.

Unless Robin would like to offer it. I'm totally cool with that.

Instacap: Numb3rs: Friendly Fire (Eppesode 602)

Originally, I wasn't going to instacap this, but the last five minutes of the eppesode required a response. Actually, this is an instacap light, since I have only one thing to say.

Dear slashers,

It was lovely to know you. You will be missed since all of your heads just exploded at the Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, I mean Rosencrantz/Guildenstern, date.

Love,
Spy.

PS: HEE! I love my show for going there.