Numb3rs Season 2 Episode 8

The process we see the lab follow to recover data from the disk is total bollocks.

You would *never* allow a computer to boot from the suspect drive - it could have any number of special protective or destructive programs set to run.

First you'd use a bit-copier system to (attempt) to make an exact copy of the disk. Then you would set the original asied and work on the copy. And you would mount it as the *second* drive on a computer set to boot from an OS you control full of forensic tools.

And as for recovering data from a disk which *isn't* readable using a cotton bud... might as well have put a couple of purple lights on it and called it a tricorder.

In the scene where FBI specialist explains Charlie how she is going to recover data from a burnt hard disk drive, she says "First, we'll hook the hard drive up to a new computer, same model it was in before...". This sounds like a nonsense, as we see a regular HDD with standard PATA interface. So there is no point in mentioning any computer models, as HDD she was working with could be hooked up to any computer. What could be important in this situation is the disk partition.

Colby's license plate on his black Ford is: (California) 2GEE645.

The MATH in this episode included: Flock behavior, steganography and matrices - error correction code.

Opening numbers:
167 Metric tons
5.4 Billion dollars
1.3 Million meth users
2 Girls

At one point, Alan is with Charlie when he pulls up a photo. Close-captioning has him saying "She's naked," but there is only silence on the audio. The same happens later when Charlie and Megan leave the office at the end of the episode, close-captioning has Don saying "See ya," but nothing can be heard.