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Mind Games

Season 2, Episode 17, Aired Mar 10, 2006

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Don and his agents are asked to investigate when a search team finds three dead women in the wilderness who were apparently murdered under bizarre circumstances. The case becomes more suspicious when Don learns the search team was led to the crime scene by a psychic. When the psychic offers to help the FBI in solving the crime, Charlie is determined to prove the psychic is a fraud.moreless

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Mirelly Taylor

Lupe Sandovol
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Damian Delgado

Male migrant worker
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Curtis Mark Williams

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Rob Morrow

Don Eppes
Peter MacNicol

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt
Navi Rawat

Amita Ramanujan
Judd Hirsch

Alan Eppes
Dylan Bruno

Colby Granger
Diane Farr

Megan Reeves

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How can a show like this promote ESP?

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By Cyoor, May 16, 2012

I usually dont write anything here, but this episode made me think about stop watching the series.
This is a show about science and since I'm an astronomer myself I find it discusting that they would use the astronomer in the show to say that ESP could be correct. NO THINKING ASTRONOMER BELEVES IN ESP! This is since astronomy is a science and ESP is not.

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
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Full of conflict

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By AvatarBlue, May 14, 2008

A solid episode full of emotional and personal conflicts. The initial scene is fairly ordinary until we learn of the psychic to discover the death bodies. This starts a short period of initial disbelievement by the team that setups the theme throughout.

It is when Charlie and Sam Kraft (John Glover) meet. It is this friction of believes that drives most of the conflict in this episode. As you can expect the actual crimesolving is just a platform for this conflict to be played out. Personally, I liked this, but some may not.

The ending is fairly avg, except for the gulf in belief in psychics which leaves good sense of reasonce when Agent Reeves phones her dad asign she believes. Wheres the brothers argument rises to shouting at which point a photo of their mother falls from the wall. A sign perhaps....moreless
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By cavanagh15, Mar 11, 2007

Don and his agents are asked to investigate when a search team finds three dead women in the wilderness who were apparently murdered under bizarre circumstances. The case becomes more suspicious when Don learns the search team was led to the crime scene by a psychic. I didnt really like this episode much at all. There were no "outside the case" scenes between any of the characters that really stood out and I didnt think the case was that interesting compared to some of the other ones in season 2. The "loaded with drugs" theme that this episode was about turned out to be a really bad idea and I wasnt buying into anything that the pshycic was saying and I thought the random drama between him, Charlie, and Megan also took away from the episode. Nothing really special in this episode I thought...moreless
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A medium shows up at the FBI offices and causes tension between the Eppes brothers.

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By kateyvic, Aug 14, 2006

Jerkiness was contagious this episode. Larry was complaining that Charlie wasn't open-minded when he himself was so staunchly "open-minded" on this issue that he himself was closed off to Charlie's beliefs and concerns. I also feel that the FBI should have done more research into Kraft's background before deciding to believe him. Whether you believe in the paranormal or not, it should be the last thing you come to after exhausting all other possibilities, not the third.

That said, it was nice to have an episode where not everything ended nicely in a bow for the family. I also liked that, while still showing some respect for mysticism, the episode did not have the mystic defeat the science. I watch Numb3rs for the numbers. If I want ghosts I'll watch Medium, thank you very much.

Some people complained that Charlie didn't act professionally by leaving the investigation in the middle. That may be so, but I also think that Charlie felt that he was slapped in the face by Don and the team so readily accepting the "expertise" of Kraft. Some may see it as childish, but Charlie saw it as keeping his professional credibility. If I was being forced to work with someone I saw as damaging to my credibility, I would be angry as well. This is passing no judgment on the actual existance of psychic powers, just why Charlie did what he did.moreless
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Math at its best.

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By phaserblazer, Apr 29, 2006

I love how math can be used this way. Especially how the calculations for the multi-body formula were done even though it did span across miles of land. It holds a sense of CSI to it while having upon itself my math class with a zing to it because I'm not usually used to seeing my math equations and such being applied to real life in such a fashion that what I'm studying can actually seem appealing to me. Great show, I think it's because of these episodes I get to my math homework at night these days. Seriously, it's that awesome.moreless
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- Megan has not spoken to her father in ten years.
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- Megan has three older sisters.
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- Opening numbers: 1,952 MILES 275,000 BORDER CROSSINGS 7,000,000 ALIENS 6 SENSES
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- John Glover, who guest-starred in this episode as the psychic, Samuel Kraft, wanted to take a break from playing the bad guy (he plays Lex Luthor's father, Lionel, on the WB's Smallville). He took this part as a chance to play someone on the right side of the law.
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- Larry: To hold to one assumption, to exclude any and all contradictory data, that isn't science, that's politics.
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- Charlie: Let's all sit down at a ouija board and solve P vs NP once and for all.
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- (Don and Charlie are quarreling over the validity of the psychic's powers. A loud thud is heard in the background. The arguing stops.) Don: That's mom's picture. Charlie: Oh, don't start to say that meant something, okay? Don: Come on, that's spooky. Alan: You know your mother never liked it when you guys argued.
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- Larry: To misquote Shakespeare here, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in all your mathematics. Charlie: Shakespeare also had people sprouting donkey ears and wood fairies running through his forest.
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- Samuel Kraft: I feel a bit like a prized show dog and you're asking me to go fetch a stick.
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- Charlie: Ludicrous waste of taxpayer money. Larry: No, no, no, don't be so quick to vilify here. I've done a little research myself, and I think it had some merit. Okay? The CIA recruited individuals who demonstrated psychic abilities... (behind him Charlie motions as if to object, without turning around) Larry: (waves a hand at Charlie) Don't.
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- Victor: Are you kidding me? Colby: No. I got a whole 'nother kidding face.
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- Samuel Kraft: (to Charlie) So you wouldn't be impressed if I said I felt the presence of your mother standing beside you?
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- Don: (to Samuel Kraft) You're a suspect in a triple homicide. We're not here to promote your book.
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- Charlie: What flavor of crazy Kool-Aid do they make you drink when you join the Physics Department?
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- International Episode Titles: Czech Republic: Hry s myslí (Mind Games)
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- International Airdates: Czech Republic: June 11, 2009 on TV Nova Slovakia: November 25, 2009 on JOJ
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- This episode aired without an opening sequence in Australia.
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- The song heard in the opening scene was "Praise" by Sevendust.
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- This episode was rated TVPG.
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- Although this episode was written by Andrew Dettman, the story idea for "Mind Games" came from Peter MacNicol.
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- Megan: They had a program called "Star Gate", where they took people like Kraft and tried to train them to use them as weapons. Project Star Gate was one of a number of "remote viewing programs" conducted under a variety of code names by the CIA.
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