Writer:	Ken Sanzel
Director:	John Behring
Star:	Alimi Ballard (David Sinclair),  Peter MacNicol (Dr. Larry Fleinhardt),  Rob Morrow (Don Eppes),  David Krumholtz (Charlie Eppes),  Diane Farr (Megan Reeves),  Dylan Bruno (Colby Granger),  Judd Hirsch (Alan Eppes),  Navi Rawat (Amita Ramanujan)
Recurring Role:	Lou Diamond Phillips (Agent Ian Edgerton)
Guest Star:	Kim Dickens (Crystal Hoyle),  Colin Campbell (Meth chemist),  Georgia Hatzis (Lydia Campos),  David Gallagher (Buck Winters),  Jerry D. O'Donnell (Pierce Brenner),  Anthony Vitale (Diner Cook),  Andy Mackenzie (Felix)

This was originally written to be just one episode with a police officer being kidnapped midway through. The producers asked Ken Sanzel to make it a 2-part episode. They decided that Megan should be the one kidnapped to make the 2nd part more dramatic. (edit) International Air Dates:
New Zealand: July 7, 2007 (edit) Beginning with this episode, the third season has done away with the opening sequence and instead scrolls the names of the cast, crew, and guest stars across the bottom of the screen during the episode. (edit) This episode is rated: TV-14-V. (edit) "Fly Away" by Lenny Kravitz was the song in the opening scene. (edit)

Charlie: (explaining math to Ian and Don) You know I, I've been running expressions assuming a dog chasing a cat. But its actually a dog chasing a cat, chasing a mouse!
Ian: I thought it was an airplane?!
Charlie: Oh well, cats and dogs work better now. (edit) (Larry drives away and Megan heads for her car.)
Crystal: Not exactly the type of guy I pictured you with.
(Megan goes for her gun)
Crystal: I really wouldn't if I were you. (edit) Megan: (To Larry) Well, I didn't run away from home at 16, but I didn't walk either. And unlike Crystal, I can live with most of my decisions. Does that make you uncomfortable?
Larry: (Shaking his head) I'm a man who lives in hotel rooms, and sleeps on couches.
(pauses)
Larry: Does that make you uncomfortable?
Megan: Noooo, I find it oddly attractive.
Larry: You constantly put me in mind of the M57 Nebula, with these endless layers upon layers of complexities.
Megan: You know, I don't think I will ever get tired of being compared to the M57 Nebula. (edit) Colby: The only thing a teacher ever gave me was detention. (edit) Alan: Larry, I'm going to give you the same advice I give to all the geniuses I know.
Larry: Which is?
Alan: Don't be an idiot. (edit)

Goof:

When Crystal throws the cigarette lighter toward the door, the fire starts a long way away from where the lighter is. (edit) We learn that Don has never owned a house or apartment--he has always rented. (edit) The MATH

The usage of "Pursuit Curves" and "the Geodesic Sphere" was the basic math in this episode. (edit) Opening Numbers
17 DAYS
11 ROBBERIES
8 STATES
2 LOVERS (edit)

Larry: You constantly put me in mind of the M57 Nebula, with these endless layers upon layers of complexities.

M57, also known as the the Ring Nebula and NGC 6720 is 2,300 light years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. It is not visible to the naked eye; through a telescope, in visible light it looks like a multicolored ring. If it is viewed at other wavelengths, including infrared, ultraviolet and radio telescopy, it reveals a far more complex structure, which Larry was using as a metaphor for people being more complex than they appear at first study.

It is usually referred to as the Ring Nebula rather than by its catalog numbers. (edit)