TV.com

Numb3rs Season 5 Episode 12

Jacked

Favorite

Watched It I've Watched This 0

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

9.2

User Rating

133 votes

Your Rating: 10
Your Rating: 9.5
Your Rating: 9
Your Rating: 8.5
Your Rating: 8
Your Rating: 7.5
Your Rating: 7
Your Rating: 6.5
Your Rating: 6
Your Rating: 5.5
Your Rating: 5
Your Rating: 4.5
Your Rating: 4
Your Rating: 3.5
Your Rating: 3
Your Rating: 2.5
Your Rating: 2
Your Rating: 1.5
Your Rating: 1

Rate Now

EPISODE REVIEWS
By TV.com Users

Write A Review

Episode Summary

EDIT

Free Trial / Subscription

VUDU

Buy

AIRED: 1/16/09

Don and his team must race to save the hostages being held on a hijacked bus.

Fan Episode Reviews (6)

Don and the team are in a battle against time as they try to save a group of tourists taken hostage on a bus.

7.0

By meathead704, Oct 25, 2010

This episode is entertaining and very compelling. I can understand why so many reviews for this episode are so positive. David Krumholtz and Rob Morrow are terrific (as usual) so there are many positive things to say about this episode. However as I watched it, I kept being reminded of the classic 1974 action film "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." So many devices from that excellent film are recycled here. The ransom has to be delivered in one hour, old bills with random serial numbers and one hostage will be killed for every minute over the deadline. Average.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
0 4

Flag
Share Hide
unique episode

9.3

By TRISTANRULESCSI, Aug 09, 2010

I watched this episode last night on Tv and i was very pleased with it, this episode had a great and simple plot which i really enjoyed, it was good to more brilliant work by Charlie and Swat getting involved, what i really liked was how the criminals tricked the FBI, also the "cop and his wife" being in on it the whole time. But what i didn't get is why have blanks in a gun? i also liked the decoy effect with the buses and how Don was willing to not comprimise all this made the episode very good.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
2 0

Flag
Share Hide
An absolutely superb episode with a compelling story and great acting from the regulars and guest stars.

10

By timmer82, Jan 19, 2009

If you haven't seen "Jacked" yet, I recommend you stop reading my review right now…

Okay, all set? This episode is beyond any doubt way up the chart as one of the best "NUMB3RS" has to offer. It has all the ingredients to make it memorable. First there's the crime itself: a bus hijacking without a clear motive that keeps the viewer interested and guessing. What could this small group possibly want? It has to be more than the money right? Then you have the lead hijacker, played so well by Fisher Stevens. He had a wild temper, sometimes bordering on rage, which had me wondering when he would eventually fly off the handle and begin shooting his hostages. The crime and the lead hijacker were a perfect combination, adding great intrigue to the episode.

There is also a "Chalie Vision" in this episode that had me laughing pretty hard. He explains a mathematical principle by likening it to a poker game. In the vision, Charlie is dressed in appropriate card dealer attire, while Don and the lead hijacker are seated at a card table, dressed to the nines, smoking fat cigars. Seeing the story's antagonist and protagonist out of context from the plot as opposing stoic card sharks was a brilliant moment of humor. It might even have been a way to foreshadow that the crime was not as threatening as we'd been led to believe.

Finally, there was a moment in this episode where I said out loud, "Oh no," while feeling the same dread and despair that was clear on everyone's faces after they found out the bus they'd been pursuing was empty save for the driver. That was one heck of a twist, and the emotional reactions from the actors following it were perfect. Some of the cinematography after the empty bus reveal also expertly contributed to the moment's despair.

It's episodes like this one that keep me watching every week and make me so relieved that "NUMB3RS" continues to defy the curse of the Friday 10pm time slot.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
2 1

Flag
Share Hide
Amazing episode. Not perfect, but definitely great.

9.5

By WolfgalX, Jan 18, 2009

Good stuff first, not so great stuff later.

The casting for the bad guy was absolutely spot on. I felt that he would definitely go through with his plans (this was before the bus was discovered to be empty). Everyone was great in this episode, no one was too vital or sitting in a corner doing nothing while the rest of the people solved the case.

Unfortunately, I can't give this episode a ten. I really wish I could give it a 9.8, because that would be much closer to what I feel about it. The bus being empty was, for some reason or another, predictable, and I wasn't all that surprised when they ran on and found just the driver. That's not the only reason it wasn't perfect, but it was one of the bigger ones. But, still, great episode. Completely recommended.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
2 1

Flag
Share Hide
Superb Script!!!!

10

By saleblanc, Jan 18, 2009

I was all over this from the beginning. You have what appears to be a situation right out of the movies but as the scenario plays out it's not everything it appears. We start with a group taking an LA tour bus hostage and seemingly driving around the city while waiting for their randsom demands to be met. However, as SWAT takes down the bus, they find out that they have been duped. This sends everyone scrambling to find the bus with the hostages and determine who they are dealing with. They think they are working with an cop on the bus who's been feeding them information via his video phone and to the team's shock when he's discovered he is shot and killed. As the team delves deeper into it's investigation they learn that the cop is alive and part of the gang they are trying to capture. I loved the script and twists within the episode.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
3 1

Flag
Share Hide

See All Fan Reviews

Cast & Crew: STARS

EDIT

Dylan Bruno	Colby Granger
Alimi Ballard	David Sinclair
Peter MacNicol	Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
David Krumholtz	Charlie Eppes
Navi Rawat	Amita Ramanujan
Rob Morrow	Don Eppes

See All Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

EDIT

Michael Beach	Len Walsh	Guest Star
Kevin Weisman	Bus Driver	Guest Star
Fisher Stevens	John Buckley	Guest Star

See All Cast & Crew

Watch Online

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (3)
ADD TRIVIA
- Math used in this episode:
  Articulate
  Volume Rendering
  Poker
  Paradox
  Inverse Game Theory
  EDIT SHARE
- Opening Numb3rs:
  24.9 MILLION TOURISTS PER YEAR
  128 BIT ENCRYPTION KEY
  18 MILLION DOLLARS
  4 HOURS
  EDIT SHARE
- When the FBI SWAT team begins to follow, the bus is passed by a black car parked on the street in front of a telephone pole. Minutes later, two SWAT cars pass by the same car in the same spot a second time.
  EDIT SHARE
QUOTES (7)
ADD QUOTES
- Don: Any idea how these guys are connected?
  David: Well they're not, Don. I mean their arrest records read like a travel log all over the country. Haven't been able to find a common denominator.
  Colby: And a crew like this, these guys they don't hook up over MySpace.
  EDIT SHARE
- Charlie: Nothing's unhackable.
  EDIT SHARE
- Alan: Well, here's a toast. To rabbit season.
  Larry: To duck season.
  Alan: I like rabbit season.
  Larry: Duck season.
  Charlie: (to Amita) You want a recount?
  Amita: Thinking about it.
  EDIT SHARE
- Larry: Eppes-Fleinhardt Paradox...
  Alan: Fleinhardt-Eppes! (grins) Wait a minute. Did you just trick me into taking second position?
  Amita: It's like the time that Bugs Bunny tricks Daffy Duck into declaring duck season by declaring rabbit season. And then Elmar Fudd shoots Daffy Duck and his beak spins around, and... (giggles) It's really very funny, hehe... Am I alone here?
  EDIT SHARE
- Colby: Don, you made the right call. I mean, you could have never known.
  Don: If I hadn't have called for the shot, he wouldn't have pulled the trigger.
  Colby: You can't be inside the guy's head.
  Don: That's my job.
  EDIT SHARE
- Alan: I stopped by Vilosky's engineering class for a chat, and uh, he's on board for the cow manure fuel cell idea.
  Larry: Ooook, well, I had a similarly spirited discussion with Breicher in astrophysics. He suggested we better model our efforts after Paul Davy's cosmic thing at Arizona state.
  Alan: Well that's a bit head in the clouds, don't you think?
  Larry: Well, as opposed to poo on the table...
  Charlie: Guys, this isn't the time!
  EDIT SHARE
- Charlie: Who voted me team leader?
  Anita: (referring to Alan and Larry) They did. Don't look at me, I voted for myself.
  EDIT SHARE
NOTES (2)
ADD NOTES
- International Air Dates:
  
  The Netherlands: April 19, 2009 on Veronica
  
  Norway: July 2, 2009 on TV2
  
  Czech Republic: June 9, 2010 on TV Nova
  
  Finland: May 8, 2012 on Sub
  EDIT SHARE
- Music used in this episode was "Shut Up and Let Me Go" by The Ting Tings and "You Are I Am" by The Ride.
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (1)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- Len Walsh: And what if this turns into Waco?
  
  The Waco Siege took place on February 28, 1993 when the ATF attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch east-northeast of Waco, Texas. A 51-day siege by the FBI ended on April 19 when fire destroyed the compound. 86 Davidians and 4 agents died.
  EDIT SHARE