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(S03E12) Good start for 2007 here. This is the type of Numb3rs episode I'm talking about when I say this show could easily carry its weight on another weekday night. Edgy topic, great guest casting, and a tense story. It was all there.

It was great to see Deadwood's W. Earl Brown (aka Dan Dority) too. Once again, the cast of Deadwood strikes on a CBS drama. This is maybe the fourth time I think? Beyond that, Joshua Malina reprised his role as U.S. attorney Howard Meeks and Teri Polo guested as another investigator. Nice little West Wing reunion right there. This show is really pulling in some recognizable faces lately, huh? Not too shabby.

(S03E11) This was great Numb3rs episode. It made you think beyond just what was going on with Don and the team, especially since it dealt with such a hot topic: sex offenders. Despite the obviousness of the overall theme for this show being math, I still find it incredibly entertaining when they apply algebraic principles and theories to things that I would never think to apply them to. Credit to the writers and producing team behind Numb3rs, because the amount of research that goes into each episode must be staggering.

(S03E10) What a disturbing episode. The whole idea of a government running experiments on it's own citizens is creepy enough and it's made even harder to swallow because there's plenty of truth to it. So I guess it's pretty cool that this show was willing to tackle a taboo topic like that.

So... government ran experiments. People got killed. Don and the team caught the bad guy. Savor that brief episode description because it's all you're going to get out of me. There are tons of other things I want to talk about.

(S03E08) After I saw the previews for this episode last week, I wasn't too excited about it. Baseball stats just seemed like too easy a topic for this show to cover. But I was pleasantly surprised. It was pretty good actually.

The focus was a has-been player who was trying to make a big league comeback. So naturally he was juicing (it killed him) and there was involvement with a BALCO-type corporation. I loved how at one point there was a built-in PSA during a conversation between David and Colby. They were talking and all of a sudden Colby started listing off all the side-effects of steroid use. It was horribly cheesy and stood out like a sore thumb. Numb3rs -- watching out for America's youth.

(S03E06) An epiosde all about horse racing. Makes sense since there's about a million different math related stories that could be pulled from the science of picking the right horse. Some people like Alan "The Rail Bird" Eppes just get it. Charlie, on the other hand, doesn't and when a young man is stabbed to death during a race... I could make a really bad "there's no time for horsing around" or an "all bets are off" comment but I'll restrain myself. Suffice to say that everyone is jockeying to find out whodunnit first. Sorry, couldn't resist.

(S03E03) I suppose it was only a matter of time before we got this episode. Numb3rs is a cop show and you can't have one of those without the obligatory "priceless art theft" episode. So I suppose "generic" is a suitable word to describe this installment. It was good (Numb3rs always is), but you've seen this one before.

(S03E02) I don't get why this episode wasn't called "Spree, Part 2." It was, after all, just the continuation of last week's premiere... right? So why confuse viewers into thinking that this episode may be separate from last week's? I would think you'd want to keep the title in the two-part format so that viewers are more apt to tune in for the conclusion. I think that makes sense.

Whatever, I'm rambling because there wasn't much else to talk about in this episode. It was just so-so regarding the way they wrapped up the Crystal and Buck storyline. Obviously Megan made it out alive following her abduction, but you knew that was going to be the case. There is one thing I did want to talk about though. Is it just me, or is this show using less and less math?

(S03E01) I wasn't all that excited about this episode. Last season ended on an uneventful note so there wasn't much to really look forward to. I mean, I love this show, don't get me wrong. If you ask me, it shouldn't be on Friday nights because it could easily hold it's own in another time slot. So yeah, I wasn't too excited. Well that changed, because five minutes into the episode what did we get? That's right, the triumphant return of Lou Diamond Phillips.

(S02E24) This was an extremely satisfying season finale. No bells and whistles. No ridiculous cliffhanger. Just the answers to a few lingering questions allowing us some closure and making it far easier for a new viewer to join-in (without too much catch-up) when season three rolls around.

The vast majority of the episode dealt with a 40-something momma's boy who had finally been cut off from the family trust fund by who else, his mother (in a nice turn by Olympia Dukakis). He didn't react too well. So he got a hold of his mother's valium and morphine (she had a hip replaced recently) and went around drugging and killing woman after he had his way with them. Like I said, he didn't react too well.

The rest of the episode (and it was far more interesting) dealt with the one character in this show who's frequently mentioned, yet we've never met: Margaret Eppes.

(S02E22) Well that was tense. Note to self: I don't ever want to be targeted by the Russian mob. After watching this episode, I get the feeling that it may get in the way doing certain things that I enjoy. Such as living.

After busting a couple of "phishers," Don suddenly finds that his bank accounts have been cleared out. Phishing, by the way, is the term given to sending out phony mass e-mails from banks to lure people into sending in their banking information. Elderly folks are generally targeted because they tend to have larger accounts that aren't used so often. That and many of them don't get this whole "internet" thing that much.

The two computer geeks give up the names of the Russians, but then they somehow make bail (I missed how that happened). Afterwards, their bodies were found underneath a bridge. Again, Russian mob. Bad.

(S02E20) This episode was kind of different. I don't think they've had a case before where Don had a personal/romantic connection to those involved. I'll say this though. I didn't like how they kept pushing the idea that working in any kind of law enforcement (police, FBI, ATF, etc.) is so stressful that suicide is an option for many. I realize a job like that can have it's pressures, but I was surprised that this show took that angle. The unfortunate thing is that there's probably some truth to it so I suppose I'm just eating my own words right there. 

Beyond that gripe, this was a very good episode as usual. There really is no reason why this show couldn't pull it's weight on a night other than Friday. It's better than The Unit and would make a nice pairing with NCIS. But I digress. A former love interest of Don's (she was an ATF agent) commits suicide. But after some crazy mathematical analysis from Charlie, it seems like it may have been a murder.