When some gentlemen bank robbers are confronted, all hell breaks loose and there is death. Charlie is devastated. We find out that he is pretty autistic and driven by formulas in his head. But soon it seems that federal crimes are in the offing. Lots of heavy police action/lots of shooting.
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Bad bad title
wpirotte20 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
As any Breaking Bad fan, and an untold number of science students, know...Heisenberg was a famous math guy. And, among other things, he opined about certain difficulties in measurement, which we know as, wait for it...the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Various careless scientists, and ignorant non-scientists, have confused the "Observer Effect" with the HUP. . In this Numb3rs episode of the name "Uncertainty Principle", the math whiz brother effs up the definition, just like regular folk do. This would be forgivable in a CNN interview or even an Avengers movie. In a series about math, it is not. What is goofball about this error is that the actual HUP definition could have easily been twisted into a cute and sophisticated writing gimmick - 'we cannot know both the location and the speed of the bank robbers' which would have fit the HUP and the title rather nicely. Instead, Charlie says that observing a system alters the system, which is NOT the HUP, and the whole thing becomes a tangled mess caused by lazy writing. I still give the episode an 8. Hey, I am not going to punish Hollywood for the same errors that TV science gurus make. I once heard Neil The Grass define a diameter as a radius. And Carl Sagan warned us about our man made albedo causing Global Cooling.
Charlie helps his brother again!
Lady_Targaryen4 May 2008
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In the second episode of 'Numbers', Charlie is recruited again by Don to helps him in the mystery of which bank will be the next victim of a band of bank robbers known as 'Charmers'.
Charlie has success in finding the bank, but when Don and his team has a deadly battle with the bank robbers, in which civilians and agents where hit or killed, Charlie decides to drop the case to focus in complicated and impossible mathematical problems.
The reason why he did this, is explained later in the episode to be his fear of losing his brother, since he doesn't want to put anyone in danger. (Charlie has problems in showing his emotions and concerns for people he loves or likes.)
Charlie has success in finding the bank, but when Don and his team has a deadly battle with the bank robbers, in which civilians and agents where hit or killed, Charlie decides to drop the case to focus in complicated and impossible mathematical problems.
The reason why he did this, is explained later in the episode to be his fear of losing his brother, since he doesn't want to put anyone in danger. (Charlie has problems in showing his emotions and concerns for people he loves or likes.)
Why.....?
stevewankling25 April 2023
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Why did the banks hand over the money?
I enjoyed about 50% of this episode and I see the characters as plausible but (unless I blinked and missed it) at no time was any explanation given as to why the banks handed money over to the robbers.
If there was some threat involved then this surely would have influenced the FBI tactics to deal with the situation. Instead there is a sudden change of direction and a huge gun fight ensues.
I'm not a mathematician but I agree with the opinions of some of the reviewers that are. The maths element of the story are weak. I'll watch some more and I hope it will get better.
I enjoyed about 50% of this episode and I see the characters as plausible but (unless I blinked and missed it) at no time was any explanation given as to why the banks handed money over to the robbers.
If there was some threat involved then this surely would have influenced the FBI tactics to deal with the situation. Instead there is a sudden change of direction and a huge gun fight ensues.
I'm not a mathematician but I agree with the opinions of some of the reviewers that are. The maths element of the story are weak. I'll watch some more and I hope it will get better.
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