“Stop trying to Fleinhardt your way out of answering me.” (Traffic)
“I told you so.” (Blackout)
“There was electricity when you were a grad student?” (Blackout)
“I can’t just pretend she wasn’t just here. She was here. I saw the woman.” (Waste Not)
“You said my follicle count had failed to achieve critical mass.” (Brutus)
“Godspeed, Larry Fleinhardt.” (Killer Chat)
“I love… I love working with my brother.” (Money for Nothing)
“I’m not as helpless as people think I am.” (Money for Nothing)
“There’s no downside to packing a lucky shirt.” (Killer Chat)
“You know, I just remembered that I already had breakfast.” (Burn Rate)
“I think Humanism should be about Humanity.” (Burn Rate)
Best Don Quote
“Don't underestimate how great it is to have somebody to come home to talk to.” (Two Daughters)
“Welcome to my world.” (Longshot)
“Look, I don’t hate my dad, alright? I like women. I respect them as people. I don’t get off on pulling my gun. What else do you want to talk about?” (Take Out)
“Look, I’m their boss. I don’t have to trust them. It’s their job to trust me! Oh...man.” (One Hour)
“New attitude is gratitude.” (Under Pressure)
“Charlie never gave me a variation.” (Two Daughters)
“He's this curly headed black hole that can suck the air out of the universe.” (Money for Nothing)
“Hey, what’s up? You beating us to a crime scene.” (Burn Rate)
"Guys, I know that there's been this talk going on and I just want to say, in the name of full disclosure, that uh Liz and I, have in fact, been seeing each other." (Money for Nothing)
"C'mon, Bro. I'd put my life in your hands any day of the week." (Burn Rate)
Best Alan Quote
“Larry, I’m going to give you the same advice I given to all of the geniuses I know. Don’t be an idiot.” (Spree)
“How can a math genius not know how old his father is?” (Spree)
“Wow! That is amazing. Well…unless you can do that with my car, I still say it's a toy.” (Blackout)
“I think Einstein would say we started with you, just in a different time and space.” (Provenance)
“What, I have two jaded world-weary sons?” (Democracy)
“I’m an FBI…dad.” (Money for Nothing)
“When have you ever known Charlie to let his emotions trump his math?” (Burn Rate)
"We've decided that anti-consumerism is too all consuming." (Burn Rate)
Best David Quote
“Do you get the feeling everybody's forgotten about us?” (Spree)
“Shut up.” [to the sex offender] (Killer Chat)
“It’s often been confusing, but it’s always been real, man.” (Killer Chat)
“Just take the damn phone! Please.” (One Hour)
“We're straight-talking G-men” (One Hour)
“TruePole just updated all their motherboards on their machines in California. Now the motherboards are made in Taiwan by a company based here in the states: SDKG Electronics.” (Democracy)
“You mean if I give you up, I get to go home?” (The Art of Reckoning)
“Yeah, I’m taking Ruth. ‘Cause he hit all those home runs and he was drunk.” (The Janus List)
“In your case, skateboarding is a crime.” (Hardball)
Best Larry Quote
“Charles, it is white corn?” (Provenance)
“No, I don't I want to remain a blithering idiot. Yes, of course I want your honesty.” (The Mole)
“I spent the weekend at Paulester’s and he completely disassembled my Eleven D Super Gravity Theory! So here I am in ten dimensions with two pee brained solutions, electrically and magnetically charged, respectively to the C field.” (Traffic)
“Oh...this modern age...” [After Charlie breaks off their conversation to answer his cell phone] (Traffic)
“I never percuss for pleasure.” (Longshot)
“Actually, I have known certain expressions to take on a shimmering quality.” (Hardball)
“Let me rephrase. Change is inevitable and those who adapt most quickly are most likely to survive.” (Waste Not)
“I will be leaving the planet Earth, but I will remain in orbit.” (Brutus)
“Isaac Newton had his apple, but it took you falling into my life to make me see the world anew. Even I became new. And the way we see ourselves changes the way we see the world. Even from space.” (Killer Chat)
“Greetings gravity bound homo sapiens, I am orbiting your lovely blue planet until the middle of the earth year 2007. You may leave a message here or simply call out to the heavens. I will be listening.” (The Art of Reckoning)
Best Amita Quote
“I was just trying to be supportive here, Larry, not destroy a solar system.” (Traffic)
“Just think she could be your boss and your step mom.” (Waste Not)
“I thought that was you being…you.” (Brutus)
“You know he’s never dreamt of something he couldn’t reach. So he has no idea what it’s like to want something that he might not be able to get. So how could he understand how much you’d give up when this chance comes along?” (Brutus)
“When it comes to emotions, Professor Eppes has to cut Charlie Eppes a little slack.” (Killer Chat)
“What was that? Geek trash talk?” (Contenders)
“Would you like to tag along?” (One Hour)
“Having someone come in and rob your house can be a very emotional thing.” (Pandora’s Box)
Best Megan Quote
“I will never get tired of being compared to the M57 nebula.” (Spree)
“You gonna take her on the road with you robbing Liquor stores?” (Two Daughters)
“Well, that would explain the throbbing vein in the middle of your forehead.” (Brutus)
“Whatever makes you feel better about handing them [the documents] over.” (The Janus List)
“He’s like a star collapsing in on himself!” (Killer Chat)
“I think I should get to use the wild car for something…wild!” (Waste Not)
“Well, I’ll have to ask you the classic, then. If you didn’t do anything wrong, why did your run?” (Hardball)
“Is it possible for something to be too random to be random?” (Traffic)
“That was almost funny, Granger.” (Longshot)
“I didn’t know I was coming here until I was, well, here.” (Longshot)
Best Colby Quote
“The only thing a teacher ever gave me was detention.” (Spree)
“Just nod your head and wait for the punch line.” (Two Daughters)
“You're looking for a pattern in a series of random events? Oh dear, Professor Eppes wouldn’t approve.” (Traffic)
“Ahh man, I just had this suit cleaned.” (Traffic)
“David, apologize to the man for saving his life.” (Brutus)
“It’s like A equals B equals C equals D. I can’t believe I just said that.” (Brutus)
“He's fun to watch when he gets going.” (Finders Keepers)
“I don't look good in gold chains and a pimped SUV.” (One Hour)
"I can understand why you guys moved up here, away from the city. To forget where you are." (Pandora's Box)
"I come from five generations of duty, honor and following orders." (The Janus List)
Best Guest Star Quote
“Family is our anchor to life; if we lose it, we're adrift. You have no idea what it’s like to be the only survivor of your family and to have no idea why.” (Erika Hellman in Provenance)
“It takes five business days to process a request!” (Unemployment Office Employee Rebecca James in Longshot)
“Take away my badge and gun and I'm just like everyone else. Of course, try to do that and I'm likely to kill you.” (Liz Warner in Blackout)
“You got my clothes off and now you're going to leave me?” (Liz Warner in Blackout)
“Dude, honestly all I see is a lot of chalk. Are the numbers supposed to start glowing at some point?” (Oswald Kittner in Hardball)
“So I almost get shot and you guys respond by doing a lot of math?” (Oswald Kittner in Hardball)
“Why are you working on cattle breeding?” (Millie Finch in Nine Wives)
“Inbreeding works great in cows, not so good in people.” (Millie Finch in Nine Wives)
“It was like a big library...with penguins.” (Millie Finch in Take Out)
“We're never just talking about one thing.” (Dr. William Bradford in One Hour)
“You shouldn't come between a man and his fiber.” (Ian Edgerton in Pandora’s Box)
“That oughta make me number three.” (Ian Edgerton in Pandora’s Box)
“Bet I can pull the trigger before you hit the gas.” (Ian Edgerton in Pandora’s Box)
“Pony would do a hit for the Girl Scouts as long as they had enough cookie money to pay him.” (AUSA Alvin Brickle in The Art of Reckoning)
“Maybe you need more caffeine.” (Millie Finch in Burn Rate)
"Where you find one Eppes, you'll find two." (Ian Edgerton in Pandora's Box)
"I am never leaving my office again." (AUSA Alan Brickle in The Art of Reckoning)
Best Sarcastic Remark
“This bull's got problems.” (Millie Finch in Nine Wives)
“Let's put it this way: if we were on a farm, we'd be having steak for dinner.” (Millie Finch in Nine Wives)
“All the koi lived.” (Charlie in Finders Keepers)
“Next time you’re running. I'm driving.” (Colby in One Hour)
“Not everybody gets to know the caliber of the bullet that's going to kill them.” (Ian Edgerton in Pandora’s Box)
“Music should be embraced, not worn.” (Millie Finch in Burn Rate)
“Remember, I approve your research funding. You better hope that my pen doesn’t break.” (Millie Finch in Burn Rate)
“Knowledge plus a guess. Where I come from that’s a hunch.” (Ian Edgerton in Spree)
Most Painfully Awkward Line (TM theoriginalspy)
“I'll make sure it doesn't rain. You know my brother can do things with math. He's a genius.” (Don in Blackout)
“I'm massively confused.” (Amita in Waste Not)
“I wasn’t looking over your shoulder, I was looking at your shoulder. The computer just happens to be in the way. It’s a very nice shoulder.” (Charlie in One Hour)
“The best problems always are.” (Charlie in Democracy)
“Shouldn’t you be applying your talents to higher pursuits than gumshoeing for a pack of thugs?” (Emmett Glaser in Burn Rate)
Best Dialogue Quip
Megan: There's got to be something else. Colby: Yeah, like why a hot history teacher goes for a high school football player. Megan: That's a question only a thirty year old man would have to ask. (Spree)
Peyton Shoemaker: You have no right! Megan: Actually, we have a warrant. (Provenance)
Calvin Oats: I am the poster boy for anger management. David: That must be one ugly poster. (Traffic)
David: How is it going? Colby: White pick-ups checked: 1,307. Only about 162,00 left to go. (Traffic)
Colby: Field trip. Love it. David: You drive. I'll navigate. (Traffic)
Charlie: Who you calling? Alan: Your brother. Next thing you know you’re gonna tell me you’ve gotta call Don. Charlie: Thanks (Longshot)
Charlie: Don't touch it. Larry: Hey, play nice! I'm tenured! (Blackout)
Finney: FBI? What did I do to you guys? Colby: You picked up the wrong phone. (Brutus)
Charlie: Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Colby: No. (Brutus)
David: We don’t have any coffee. Don: Yeah, well, y-you don’t even drink coffee, so now, what’s going on here? (Contenders)
Amita: I thought you liked the analogies. Megan: Any other day. (One Hour)
David: Granger, man, next time I don't answer my phone, do me a favor: just call the cavalry. Colby: Yeah, what if you're having sex, huh? David: Eh, point taken. (The Art of Reckoning)
Charlie: You're not supposed to be looking at that. Amita: You're not supposed to leave it lying around. (The Janus List)
Best Dialogue
Charlie: You’re worried that I’m going to turn into Larry? I worry about that too sometimes. Yeah. Because I look around and I don’t see the best role models. For example, Einstein. Einstein never had a home life. Einstein dumped his wife and married his cousin. Alan: Hope that’s not your way of making me feel better. Charlie: Dad, I’m wrestling with all this. All of it: my math, my work with Don, Amita. I’m sorry, I just don’t have it all figured out yet. (Provenance)
Larry: I guess there’s nothing to be done about meteors. Well just yet. Charlie: No, Larry, even the FBI can’t stop meteors. Larry: O not yet, but someday. When we have plasma cannons, steam rockets… (Traffic)
Don: Hey guys, thanks for staying. Colby: That's cool, I could use the overtime. Megan: You don't get overtime, Granger. Colby: Yeah, I know, and it's a shame, ‘cause I can really use it. (Blackout)
Megan: Death was by a gunshot wound to the head. Colby: We need an autopsy to tell us that? (Brutus)
Colby: He’s a psychiatrist and he just wrote a book called New Methods on Operant Conditioning and its Effects on Neuroanatomy. David: I’ll wait for the movie. (Brutus)
Charlie: So then I applied multidimensional graph Laplacians and page rank matrices Colby: Yeah, that’s what I would have done too. Charlie: Well, Of course you would have because that’s the way you investigate a group of things and identify their shared properties. (Take Out)
Alan: I think I liked it better when you used to set dead bugs on fire with a magnifying glass. Charlie: Don did that. (End of Watch)
Dr. Bradford: You grew up in the shadow of Albert Einstein, playing baseball just not good enough to make the bigs, and you finally found something that you’re good at. You’re terrified that’ll be taken away from you, too. Don: Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, this isn’t exactly making me feel a hell of a lot better. Dr. Bradford: If you want to feel better, take a pill. You wanna get it right, face the truth. You’re not worried about your team falling apart because you’re not there, you’re afraid that they won’t. That Don Eppes doesn’t matter. Don: Well, you said it, there’s a lot of guns and badges out there, you know. I mean, one of us falls, there’s someone right there to take our place. Dr. Bradford: That’s pretty much the human condition, Don. It’s what you do before you fall, that’s what counts. (One Hour)
Don: Don't worry, you've got the fifth best shot in the country covering your ass. Edgerton: Hey, fourth. (Holds up four fingers and makes his hand shake.) You don't want to know how I moved up a spot. (Pandora’s Box)
Charlie: How are you seeing this? Don: I don't know, I just am. Charlie: Is that what my face looks like…? (The Janus List)
Ken Sanzel (Spree, Two Daughters, Brutus, One Hour, and The Janus List)
Don McGill (Provenance, Killer Chat, and Burn Rate)
Robert Port (The Mole, End of Wath, and The Janus List)
Louis St. Clair (The Mole)
Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci (Traffic, Hardball, Democracy, and Money for Nothing)
J. David Harden
Andrew Dettmann (Blackout, Finders Keepers, and Under Pressure)
Julie Herbert (Waste Not, Nine Wives, and The Art of Reckoning)
Sean Crouch (Take Out)
Mark Llewellyn (End of Watch)
Andrew Black (Pandora's Box)
Math
Best Math Concept
How the Bell Curve distribution changes when paths are blocked and the balls no longer have a choice where to fall (Two Daughters)
How you can win by ignoring what doesn't fit into the answer you want like a Texas sharpshooter (Waste Not)
The fact that Shuffle Mode on your iPod isn't really random because it never repeats (Traffic)
Sabermetrics (Hardball)
Best Math Vision
One plane chasing and anticipating the movements of another plane to explain a pursuit curve (Spree)
Jenga to describe how a cascading energy failure would work (Blackout)
A series of letters inside other letters to explain onion routing (Killer Chat)
The Labyrinth toy to explain a state diagram (One Hour)
A champagne fountain to explain how California’s voting machines could be rigged to fake electoral votes in a presidential election (Democracy)
Online map software to describe Dijkstra’s algorithm, a greedy heuristic algorithm (Money for Nothing)
Don figuring out that that Taylor Ashby planted bombs in a picture of the G major scale (The Janus List)
An upside down race car to explain the fluid dynamics of the Cheetah (Finders Keepers)
Best Scene Where Charlie Writes an Equation
Turning around to find Larry gone (Brutus)
Working in the garage during a montage (Under Pressure)
Writing on the hospital window next to Taylor Ashby (The Janus List)
Working out that the kidnapper wants $1,650,000 and Amita dubs Charlie’s work “really cool math” (One Hour)
Best Teaching Scene
Charlie explaining luck, chance, and randomness to his class (Traffic)
Charlie demonstrating how the Cheetah would have sunk to the two NSA agents using pieces of paper (Finders Keepers)
Larry and Charlie demonstrating the impenetrable armor of physics (Spree)
Charlie explaining how Craquelure can determine if a painting is a forgery (Provenance)
Scenes
Best Charlie Scene
Looking through the box of Larry's prized possessions and realizing that his best friend is really leaving for outer space for 6 months (Brutus)
Vouching for Larry’s character to NASA (Killer Chat)
Explaining to Don why he had to work on the NSA case rather than the one for the FBI (Finders Keepers)
Realizing that the murder of Rachel Lawton, an old statistician friend, didn’t really bother him (Democracy)
Talking Glaser into helping him rescue Jessica Malloy (Burn Rate)
Best Don Scene
Talking with Erika Hellman about family while he learns about the history behind the stolen the painting Paris au Printemps Apés-Midi (Provenance)
Taking Colby off the case and telling him that his friend Dwayne Carter was bought and paid for by the Chinese government (The Mole)
Punching CIA Agent Raymond (Brutus)
Defending Charlie against the NSA agents (Finders Keepers)
Discussing his team and trust issues with Dr. Bradford (One Hour)
Dealing with the NSA agents who were hassling Charlie (Finder’s Keepers)
Assaulting the Black Rain operative, Allister McClair, after Charlie almost got killed (The Janus List)
Telling Buck that he needs to talk or else he won’t be responsible for Edgerton’s actions (Two Daughters)
Best Alan Scene
Playing chess with Larry and discussing how to tell Charlie Alan is thinking about moving out of the house (Spree)
Talking with Don about crossing lines and trying to beat up the little league coach (Two Daughters)
Trying to get Don to realize that the breakup with Robin is a step forward and then saying that Don can’t make him go to bed since he doesn’t even live there (Blackout)
Telling Charlie about Einstein and then asking about Don finding cousin Anne’s family (Provenance)
Talking about the time he had a dilemma at work trying to figure out how much he valued his boss’ friendship (The Mole)
Best David Scene
Posing as EPA agent Lyle Grant to gather evidence Desert Shale and Lawyer Reed Parkman were improperly burring toxic waste (Waste Not)
Making peace with childhood friend Ben Ellis about the death of their friend Earl Day in New York (Contenders)
Being cool under fire (literally!) in the lemon grove (The Art of Reckoning)
Telling Larry that it isn’t his fault that Megan was taken (Two Daughters)
Walking down the street and talking with Claudia about his past (Contenders)
Best Larry Scene
Apologizing to David for calling him artless when Megan was kidnapped (Two Daughters)
Discussing with Alan his reasons for not collaborating with Charlie for his article in Physics Weekly titled “Zero Point Energy and Quantum Cosmology” (The Mole)
Playing tug of war with Charlie over the magazine “Quarterly Review of Cosmology” and then shoving Charlie out the door to cover his Computational Physics class (Brutus)
Groaning when Amita sends him off to do another lap around the track (Brutus)
Talking with Charlie about Alan moving out (Spree)
Berating Charlie for calmly doing math after Megan is kidnapped (Two Daughters)
Talking about his father wanting him to be an artist. (Provenance)
Best Amita Scene
Talking with Larry about becoming a professor when she’s been a student so long and how she feels she should be listening to lectures rather than giving them (Traffic)
Telling Millie that she doesn’t appreciate being disrespected in front of a colleague (Waste Not)
Offering admirable insight into Charlie's character while trying to give Larry a heart attack (Brutus)
Telling Charlie that he wasn’t a horrible person for being a little happy that Larry might not be leaving for the International Space Station (Killer Chat)
Talking with Charlie about giving up her spot on the Curriculum Committee (End of Watch)
Talking to Charlie about the break in at his home (Pandora’s Box)
Working in the car on the way to the FBI trying to trace a VOIP call (One Hour)
Best Megan Scene
Trying to get Crystal Hoyle to know her better so it is less likely she will be killed (Two Daughters)
Telling Larry she wouldn’t be opposed to having more structure in their relationship and then asking him out (Longshot)
Talking with an FBI director about not having a choice about leaving for a special detachment (Democracy)
Convincing Che Lobo to allow the FBI to help rescue his son from the kidnappers (One Hour)
Talking with the guys in the hospital after her rescue (Two Daughters)
Talking with Larry about structured complexity (Longshot)
Best Colby Scene
Bemoaning the fact that they’ve been forgotten in the van with David (Spree)
Talking former Army buddy Dwayne Carter into turning himself in at the boatyard (The Mole)
Pretending not to be interested in talking with Megan about her relationship with Larry (Longshot)
Rescuing Jo Santiago from the kidnapper Nacio Duque on the stage at Disney Hall (One Hour)
Returning Jo Santiago to his father Che Lobo (One Hour)
Admitting to the team that he planted a bug in Taylor Ashby’s apartment for the Chinese while Don interrogated him (The Janus List)
Telling Liz to let Charlie run with it (Finders Keepers)
Best Guest Star Scene
Edgerton giving Megan advice about getting into the heads of criminals (Spree)
Erika Hellman talking about her family with Don and explaining how when she looks at the painting Paris au Printemps Apés-Midi she’s with her family again (Provenance)
Millie helping Charlie and Amita untangle the polygamist cult’s family tree (Nine Wives)
Pony meeting his daughter Lucy (The Art of Reckoning)
Millie beating Alan at chess and then challenging all the Eppes men to poker (Finders Keepers)
Best Eppes Family Scene
Playing the golf video game (Two Daughters)
Don and Charlie working on trying to find the driver, who hit Mitchell Mackenzie and consequently started the freeway violence sequence, as Alan looks on watching and worrying (Traffic)
Don telling Alan and Charlie that Robin Brooks broke up with him and then having Charlie pop popcorn to watch a “classic” television show (Blackout)
Don and Charlie at a session with Dr. Bradford talking about the camping trip when Don was thirteen and Charlie was eight (Money for Nothing)
Gathered around the fire and drinking while discussing double Agent Taylor Ashby (The Janus List)
Don and Charlie discussing how Amita is staying at CalSci (Spree)
Alan and Charlie discussing whether Charlie would end up like Larry (Provenance)
Best Comic Scene
Charlie jumping up and down to demonstrate where there is an international banking code number from Cyprus hidden in eyebrow of the picture (The Mole)
Megan admiring Dwayne Carter’s biceps as he swims in the pool (The Mole)
Don and Charlie comparing notes about Megan and Larry and laughing over the fact Megan finds Larry “beautiful” (Traffic)
Colby and David parking up on Lover’s Lane waiting for the electrical substation to be sabotaged (Blackout)
Charlie and Colby high fiving in the conference room (Brutus)
Charlie’s BBQ failure at Larry’s aborted coming home party (The Art of Reckoning)
The group celebrating after the completion of the kidnapping case (One Hour)
Best Action Scene
The prison shootout (Blackout)
The polygamist cult’s hideout exploding (Nine Wives)
The FBI Suburban broadsiding the death squad’s van (Take Out)
The chase through the lemon orchard (The Art of Reckoning)
The shootout in the sewers as they stop the terrorists from poisoning the water supply (Under Pressure)
Taylor Ashby detonating a bomb on the 6th Street Bridge (The Janus List)
Crystal Hoyle shooting at David and Colby and then throwing a hand grenade (Two Daughters)
Best Takedown Scene
Even with his B-game Colby manages to take Tyler, the car mechanic, down (The Mole)
Don punching CIA Agent Raymond (Brutus)
Charlie taking out the Black Rain International assassin with the active MRI machine (The Janus List)
Don facing down the smugglers car that was trying to run him over (Finders Keepers)
Edgerton shooting Buck in the hand (Spree)
Arresting Ivan Tobakian (Longshot)
Best Romantic or Flirty Scene
Larry comparing Megan to the M57 nebula (Spree)
Megan and Larry’s first kiss on the grounds of CalSci by the bridge (Two Daughters)
Opening montage of Don and Liz (Blackout)
Don saying goodbye to Liz by the ambulance after the prison shootout where he tucks her hair behind her ear (Blackout)
Charlie and Amita’s kiss in the garage (Waste Not)
Larry and Megan on the picnic blanket talking about Larry’s planned trip to the international space station and how Megan wants a telescope in her bedroom (Brutus)
Larry and Megan saying goodbye before Larry leaves with Buzz Aldrin (Killer Chat)
Don admitting to Liz that he wouldn’t know how to deal if something happened to her (Under Pressure)
David and Claudia talking about their pasts (Contenders)
Best Awkward Scene
Charlie and Don walking in on Millie and Alan’s pizza dinner date (Take Out)
Alan coming home early and interrupting Charlie and Amita’s poker date (Contenders)
Colby asking David if he and Liz have a good vibe (Under Pressure)
David asking Liz how she is adjusting to life in Los Angeles and with Don (Money for Nothing)
Millie walking in on Charlie and Amita making out. (Waste Not)
Charlie and Amita at the restaurant where Charlie is blathering to not hear Amita is going to Harvard (Spree)
Best Non Eppes Scene
Megan wanting to use her wild card for breakfast the next day (Longshot)
Larry and Megan contemplating the heavens and each other (Brutus)
David, Colby, and Alvin Brickle eating pizza and joking (The Art of Reckoning)
Colby running all across town only to find David under the seats at Disney Hall (One Hour)
Megan and Colby talking at the beach house about duty (The Janus List)
Amita trying to give Larry a heart attack (Brutus)
Megan and Amita talking about their relationships with Larry and Charlie (Killer Chat)
