Numb3rs Season 1 Episode 5

Don: (Nudges Charlie) Come here. Explain something to me. So, now, he was lying the whole time?
Charlie: (Shaking his head) No, he wasn't lying. He was convinced that he had it.
Don: And you can't do it?
Charlie: You - You've just asked me to solve one of the world's biggest mysteries in a few hours.
Don: Charlie, you got me thinking you can do anything with numbers.
Charlie: No. What do you think we should do now?
Don: Well, the same thing I did when I was in school, and I didn't know the answer. Fake it.

Don: Yeah. Hey, Charlie, let me ask you something. The math thing that the father was working on, is there anyway that could be worth money?
Charlie: Well, it is one of the millennium problems.
Terry: What's a millennium problem?
Charlie: Seven like, classic difficlut math problems. The Clay Institute of Mathematics offers 1,000,000 dollars for the solutions to each one of them.
Don: All right, well, that's motive. So, how would he collect the award?
Charlie: Well, first the solution has to be published in a refereed journal. Then it has to achieve general acceptance in the math community over the course of two years, and then an advisory committe is convened...
(Terry interupts him)
Terry: It's possible somebody knows he's workin' on it, but doesn't know how far off the award is.
Don: Right. Well, who else would know he was working on it?
Charlie: I would check with the math journals, you know, because maybe he contacted some of them.
Don: All right. Why don't you give me some of those names?
(Hands Charlie a pad of paper and a pen.)
Don: Here, actually--you write it.

Alan: How is it I always end up loading the dishwasher?
Charlie: You were the one that wanted to flip a coin.
Alan: Yeah, I know, but I lost the last five times. Now what's the odds of that happening? Never mind, don't tell me.

Alan: Oh, come on, Charlie, don't you remember we talked about this?
Charlie: Talked about what? No.
Alan: I'm sorry, I should've made sure you were paying attention when I was talking to you.

Don: Relax, I got a great apartment in a great neighborhood... you'll find one too.
Charlie: Then why are you over here all the time?

Alan: I just don't think you realize what you're getting yourself into.
Charlie: Yeah, how's that? I've lived here pretty much my whole life. I think I'm used to it by now.
(Furnace begins to rumble in the background)
Alan: (smiling) Ah, that would be the furnace in your newly acquired home. There's a wrench in the basement... I'm sure you can figure it out.

Charlie: Ethan, all your conclusions emanate from this point. If it's not fairly solid, then we can't get to where we need to go.
Ethan: I know. (Gets frustrated) It doesn't work. (Tosses books at wall) It doesn't work! We need ... we have ... it has to work, so we need to fix it. You and I, we have to fix this.
Charlie: It's ...ah, it's a 150-year-old math problem, you know, we just can't solve it because we want to or we need to.
Ethan: How about because my daughter's life depends on it! How about because she's going to die when they realize... there's nothing. (Sits down) There's nothing. There's nothing... to give them... for... her life.