Writer:	Ken Sanzel
Director:	Oz Scott
Star:	Rob Morrow (Don Eppes),  Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan),  Peter MacNicol (Dr. Larry Fleinhardt),  Alimi Ballard (David Sinclair),  David Krumholtz (Charlie Eppes),  Diane Farr (Megan Reeves),  Dylan Bruno (Colby Granger)
Guest Star:	Teresa Parente (Denise Davis),  Jim Gleason (Senator Martin Tallman),  Chris Warren Gilbert (Bodyguard #1),  Michael Ralph (Sam Finney),  Tom Everett (Keith Whittaker),  Michael Piontek (Stanford Davis),  Tom Amandes (Lawrence Dryden),  David Zayas (Carlos Costavo),  Matt Keeslar (Agent Raymond)

International Air Dates:
Australia: May 29, 2007
New Zealand: September 9, 2007
The Netherlands: May 16, 2007 (edit) Music:

"I'm Alive" by Jeremy Kay.

Jeremy Kay also goes by the name of "Triple," and the song "I'm Alive" has also been called "I Had A Dream." (edit) Judd Hirsch did not appear in this episode. (edit) This episode is rated: TVPG-LV. (edit)

Don: You all right? (Megan gives Don a strange look) About, Larry?
Megan: Yeah well, it's hard to feel badly when you feel so proud but, yeah the timing sucks. Why do you ask?
Don: I dunno. (shrugs) Charlie seems to be struggling, and I just thought, (struggling with words) I'm just, trying to take care of my own, so.
Megan: Oh, well, that would explain the throbbing vein in the middle of your forehead. (rubs Don's forehead) Thank you. (Megan leaves room)
Don: Yeah, well, I'm here if you need me. (edit) Larry: Listen, I realize this relationship has not been exactly.... forward-leaning. I do want you to know that my heart will remain yours in my absence.
Megan: While in a space capsule? With three guys? I should hope so!
Larry: You know what I mean.
Megan: I do know what you mean. But maybe, tonight, we should just lean forward, a little. (edit) Larry: I believe that's my copy of the Quarterly Review of Cosmology?
Charlie: Yeah, it is ...
Larry: Why are we engaged in combat over it? (edit) Colby: She speaks French.
Megan: She dated a hockey player. (edit) Charlie: (To Larry--about when he wanted to grow a mustache) You said my hair folicles had not reached critical mass! (edit)

Larry: Mens sana in corpore sano.

Continuing the Roman theme, this Latin phrase literally translates to 'a healthy mind in a healthy body' and is from Juvenal's Satires. (edit) The MATH in this episode included:

Corridor Flow
Network Theory
Euclid's Orchard and
Target Selection Theory (edit) Goofs:

Megan said Larry is going to be on the Space Shuttle for 6 months, she meant the Space Station.

There are a number of problems with the "Larry in Space" storyline:

1) If he was going as a Payload Specialist on an NASA mission, he wouldn't be staying on the Space Station. He would be part of the Shuttle Crew, and NASA has not used Payload Specialists in awhile (due primarily to the 2 Shuttle disasters).

2) As a non-astronaut he wouldn't be eligible for Expedition Crew (Space Station crew). The Expedition Crew is typically composed of a Commander and 2 Flight Engineers, all astronauts.

3) If Larry were going to be on the Space Station, he would have had to be in training in Houston for at least a year before launch. (edit) Project MKULTRA was the code name for a CIA "mind control" program from the early 1950s until 1963. The project involved the use of drugs, notably LSD, to alter brain functioning and it was carried out on unwitting non-volunteer subjects, most often prisoners and brothel patrons.

In 1972, the CIA destroyed most of the documents related to MKULTRA, though some records made it to the National Security Archives.

Some conspiracy theories claim that MKULTRA was linked with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. (edit) Opening Numbers:

45 YEARS
712 SUBJECTS
3 HANDGUNS
911 (edit)

Don: Larry's got the right stuff.

The Right Stuff was a 1979 novel and 1983 film chronicling the lives of the Mercury 7, the first seven astronuats selected for the NASA space program. (edit) The government program, and the episode title, "Brutus" refers to Marcus Brutus because the subjects of the program were intended to go back into the midst of their friends and assassinate them. The psychiatrist activating the subjects is aware of this allusion and uses the name Marcus as well as Brutus.

Marcus Junius Brutus was the most infamous assassin of Julius Caesar because Caesar considered him a good friend. (edit)