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Ultimately, math conquers all... though on the way, Charlie usually faces a crisis of faith stemming from the fact that, while he's a mathematical genius, he is emotionally immature, with only a very slight understanding of human motivation. Balance is restored via the assistance of his father Alan (Judd Hirsch, a veteran of three other TV series produced by Paramount) and physicist colleague Larry (Peter MacNicol). Larry generally advises him to steer clear of messy human-interaction problems, while Alan nudges him toward a better understanding of human nature.

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• Gambit Roulette: This is a common problem in that it relies on mathematics far more than real investigations ever would. While statistical analysis and some other techniques are used in law enforcement, they are not used in individual cases to the same degree as in the show. For example, an episode centers around a dirty bomb threat somewhere in LA, which turns out to be fake; the actual point of the threat was to trigger the evacuation of the immediate area, so the crooks could break into a vault without interference. However, the plan requires that the FBI evacuate the right area, which was not revealed by the "terrorists" and which is only determined at the last minute through extreme deductive skill (and nearly incorrectly anyway). Had the FBI guessed wrong, the plan would have failed.
• Gambler's Fallacy: Invoked in the pilot, when Don, watching a baseball game with his father, comments that a batter is "due" a big play after going four games without a hit. Charlie is quick to refute this theory, saying that there's "no statistical evidence for a batter being 'due'," but the player does in fact get a big hit. However, it's quickly revealed (to everyone but Charlie himself) that Don is just messing with his brother; what they're watching is not a live game but a tape of a game from the day before, and Don, having read a recap in the paper, already knew what was going to happen, knew that Charlie would react to the fallacy, and intentionally set the whole thing up just to yank Charlie's chain.
• The Gambling Addict:
• In the episode "Bettor or Worse", it's revealed that the victim whose wife and daughter were kidnapped is one, and he arranged the kidnapping of his family and the robbing of his own jewelry store to get the insurance to pay off his gambling debts.
• The episode "Double Down" reveals that Larry was once one, and although he got out of the habit, one of his fellows wasn't as lucky. Said fellow got some of his students into the card-counting realm of cheating casinos, and the situation ended with two of them dead and another one in jail. Larry is disgusted at what his old friend got his students into.
• Game of Nerds:
• Dr. Fleinhardt is a Dodgers fan.
• There is also another nerdy character that plays Fantasy Baseball, Oswald Kittner, who's played by Jay Baruchel, who is a real-life friend of David Krumholtz, according to the DVD commentary on that episode.
• Don was also an accomplished player, although not quite good enough for the pros, before joining the FBI. Charlie also played Little League at one point but wasn't quite as good as his brother.
• Charlie is also somewhat implied to be a fan, as he calls it "the most statistically driven sport in the world" with a note of pride in "Sacrifice" note An episode which initially appeared to revolve around the use of sabermetrics in baseball before being revealed to be about something much more serious. and chuckles in agreement when Alan jokes that you don't need statistics to predict that The Dodgers aren't going to win the pennant that year.
• Gangsta Style: One episode showed two gangsters firing their guns this way. They missed.
• Geeky Turn-On: Charlie is trying to break a code for one of his FBI cases, but he's only gotten halfway. Amita looks it over and tells him the solution to the second half. Charlie just stares at her for a moment before blurting out, "Do you want to go out sometime?".
• Genius Book Club: Charlie is shown packing a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom to read while teaching at Cambridge.
• Genocide Survivor: An elderly Jewish-Holocaust survivor named Erika Hellman is a one-shot character in "Provenance".
• Gentleman and a Scholar: Charlie and Larry in different ways. Amita, too.
• The Ghost:
• Dr. Laurel Wilson in "Sabotage", a friend-turned potential girlfriend of Larry's, as she is mentioned but never made an appearance and Larry later starts dating Megan Reeves.
• Irene, Margaret's aunt and is said to have a troubled relationship with Alan, is also mentioned but never makes an appearance.
• Give Geeks a Chance: Charlie and Amita. It's true she's a computer geek, but she's a smoking hot computer geek.
• Good Parents: Alan.
• Margaret Eppes, too, judging by the way the entire surviving Eppes clan talks about her.
• Good with Numbers: Charlie, of course.
• Gracefully Demoted: In Don's backstory, he was the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Field Office in Albuquerque but took a demotion when his mother got sick from cancer so he could transfer to the LA office to be nearby her and his other family.
• Grade Skipper: Charlie and Don graduated from high school on the same day, despite the fact that Don is five years older than Charlie. This is particularly egregious because, even apart from the extreme unlikelihood of a child skipping five grades, Charlie was only a Child Prodigy in math and there's no indication he was advanced at all in other subjects, so while he would have had no trouble keeping up in high school math and might have been able to handle some of the sciences (particularly math=based science like physics), that grade level would have put him way out of his depth in the rest of his classes, but the show only ever talks about him having social, not academic, problems from being in high school at such a young age. (Although this could explain why his spelling is so bad).
• Guns Do Not Work That Way: Fictional BNT-35 automatic rifle is presented as one of a kind high-caliber weapon that somehow use cartridges, that have no markings and absolutely unknown to experts.
• Said rounds are somehow capable to perfecly maintain shape, stability and velocity even after penetrating thick brick wall.
• However, FBI agents seems to be astonished that said rounds are capable to perforate both sides of a car body - something, that common .308 battle rifle would do.
• There is a reason why most of the automatic rifles and machineguns have cyclic rate of fire about 600-800 rounds per minute (to ensure balance between controlability, volume of fire and ammo consumption). Nobody will design a military rifle with rate of fire of anti-aircraft gun.
• Overheating causes barrels to warp, blow up and causes misfires and jams. However, violent chamber explosion that can kill the shooter more often would be caused by cartridge-related malfunction.
• Even then, in order to overheat even the light thin barrel one would shoot more than a hundred of rounds in less than a minute - and even soldiers sometimes carry less ammo.
• Hair-Trigger Explosive: Subverted. The perpetrator of "Protest" tries to hold off the FBI with a stick full of blasting gel, known to be much more powerful than dynamite, but Colby tackles him because he knows that blasting gel is also more stable and won't go off from simply being dropped.
• He Had a Name: The third episode had a rare example of the perpetrator remembering the names of all his victims, who died as the result of a virus he unleashed with the endgame of trying to save many more lives. He was on his way to light candles for them in a church when he was caught.
• He Knows Too Much:
• In the episode "Democracy", five people who had evidence of a voting fraud conspiracy "accidentally" die before they can reveal the fraud. Unfortunately for the conspiracy, one of them managed to get the list of their names to Charlie shortly before being killed, who determines that the odds of five random people on a list dying in a given two-week period are approximately a bajillion to one. Don orders a second autopsy on the one who gave Charlie the list, which confirms that she was murdered, and the attempt to tie up a few loose ends has now attracted the attention of the FBI.
• In "Disturbed", the episode after the credits opens with a murdered mailman who was last seen alive outside of a home where a woman was killed. He waves at the repairman entering the house. The repairman was a serial killer and he kills both his intended victim in the house and the mailman who could place him there. Nearly an aversion, since the mailman only possibly knew something.
• The killer is stated to do this to pretty much anyone who comes even remotely close to being able to identify him. Unfortunately for him, one of his early attempts at this wasn't quite successful, and that witness ends up becoming the key to taking the killer down.
• Heroic BSoD:
• Charlie goes through a lot of these.
• He goes through one in the very second episode "Uncertainty Principle" when Don is placed in a life-threatening situation because he followed Charlie's advice. He tries to work himself into a safe space by trying to solve the famously difficult P vs. NP problem. Don isn't happy about this since Charlie buried himself in the exact same problem after their mother got cancer, and it takes a while to coax him out of it.Charlie: [frantically] The fact that you survived is an anomaly and is unlikely to be the result of another such encounter.
• He gets another one in "Rampage" due to the trauma from the shooting attack at the FBI (especially since he almost got caught in the crossfire), to the point where he refuses to go back there for a few days afterward.
• He goes into worse ones in Season Five when Don is stabbed and nearly dies and three episodes later when Amita is kidnapped because a terrorist wants to use her for her computer skills. Luckily in both this cases, he's able to function by concentrating on using his math skills to help solve the case.
• In the former case of Don's stabbing, Charlie actually works though the aftermath in the next episode by studying crime stats leading him to find a Serial Killer operating for over three decades that no-one even realized to look for.
• It seems to run in the family. Don is prone to getting stuck in his own head when a case hits too close to home ("Trust Metric", "Arrow of Time", "Angels and Devils"). Not to mention arranging for Edgerton to beat up a suspect in the Season 3 opener.
• In an earlier episode, "Rampage", Don had admitted to Charlie that he's able to cope while the situation is active, but runs into trouble when it slows down enough for him to think.
• The mathematician in "Prime Suspect" has one when his solution to Riemann's hypothesis, which his daughter was kidnapped for, turns out to have a critical flaw that renders it incorrect, and thus worthless to trade for his daughter's life. Fortunately, Don comes up with another plan.
• Also in "Rampage", Colby takes it pretty hard when it turns out that his bullet was what killed the suspected pedophile during the shooting attack, even after all of the evidence shows that it was an accidental death because the bullet that Colby shot through the attacker's shoulder to stop his rampage accidentally landed in the suspect's head so it wouldn't threaten his job at the FBI. Mainly because it reminded him of a similar incident during his Army days when his troop attacked a British troop mistaking them for Afghan enemies, which resulted in two British soldiers dying.
• Hero of Another Story: Though he is usually part of the main story, Larry takes a trip into space in Season 3 and spends several months living in the desert in season 6. He never gives more than very fleeting details about those experiences, but they would no doubt be interesting stories in their own right.
• Megan also goes on special assignment for the latter half of season three (a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as actress Diane Farr was pregnant). Becomes a bit of a subversion in that she seems to have come away from that feeling that she was more of a villain than a hero during that time.
• He's Back!: In the Season 5 episode "Jack of All Trades", Charlie walks back into the FBI office to applause after his security clearance, which was revoked at the end of Season 4, is reinstated.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: David and Colby. At least until they decided to play their Ho Yay for laughs.
• He Who Fights Monsters:
• In "Dark Matter", the mastermind of the school shooting started off just wanting to get revenge on the classmates who arranged for her to be raped, but somehow ended up deciding to do it in a way that put everyone in the school at risk, even though it was only a small number of students that had anything to do with the incident.
• This is discussed heavily in "Killer Chat", since it's about a Knight Templar Serial Killer who is murdering child molesters. Don: [while interviewing a teenaged suspect] Look, it makes sense you'd want to get back at people like that, with what happened to your sister. It's normal, it's natural; I would, too. But that makes you just like them, right?
  [suspect nods his head "yes"]
  Don: Is that the person you want to be?
  [suspect shakes his head "no"]
• Hidden Depths: Colby is revealed to speak Spanish, which helped them on a case that had missing Spanish girls.
• In one episode, Don and Charlie learn that their late mother was a talented musician and composer. The same episode also reveals that Don knows how to play the piano, which then becomes a Chekhov's Skill in a later episode.
• Another episode has Don revealing that his favorite movie is a 1940s black-and-white comedy.
• Hilarious Outtakes: A vast majority of the show's outtakes involve Charlie's actor David Krumholtz messing up a line and letting out a stream of curses. Once, however, he stepped right into the Koi pond - which is apparently deeper than it looks.
• Homage: One episode is one to Scooby-Doo. An abandoned Air Force base is thought by local ConspiracyTheorists to be hosting UFOs or the ghosts of World War II veterans, and when they catch video of balls of energy raining down from the sky and killing a person the FBI gets involved. It starts to look like an Area 51-type Government Conspiracy (the strange Department 44 agent who tags along doesn't help in that regard-though he's surprisingly helpful with the investigation) until it's discovered that the energy was from a Lightning Gun a tech company was working on for the government (the UFO lights people saw were actually from the drone carrying it). The ray was only meant to work like an EMP, and the project's engineers were conducting secret tests to try to make it nonlethal.
• Lampshaded by Colby when he says, "Why do I feel like I'm in a Scooby-Doo Cartoon?" while they search the base for clues.
• After the mystery is solved, Charlie muses that the company could have wasted billions more dollars stringing the government along in their refusal to admit the project was a failure. Floyd replies, "Yes, and they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids," referring to Charlie, Amita, and the CalSci plasma physics engineer Charlie asked for help on the case.
• Hollywood Board Games: Professor Charlie Eppes is scarily Good with Numbers, having attended college at thirteen. This translates to his mastery in playing chess, a game that despite relying primarily on strategy, also requires the same kind of abstract thinking that it's needed to excel at maths. However, when it comes to language, Charlie flunks. This is demonstrated by how he struggles with Scrabble.
• Hollywood Science:
• The episode "Backscatter" had, in a background shot, the phrase "Email response IP address: 192.3382.1043.010.255".
• Another episode involved a coded message whose solution was an IP address with first octet of 275.
• Honor-Related Abuse: Referenced in an episode involving the murder of an Iraqi woman. The FBI initially speculates that it could be an honor killing, either because the victim had begun speaking publicly about having been raped as a teenager or because she is revealed to have been secretly married a non-Muslim man, but it's ultimately revealed that the actual killer was an associate of her rapist who killed her on the rapist's orders in order to stop her from testifying against him.
• Hospital Epilogue: The episode "The Fifth Man" ends with the team meeting in Don's hospital room as he is recovering from being stabbed and he and Charlie have a talk about neither wanting Charlie to have Don's life but Charlie promises to see his brother in the FBI office soon.
• Hot Teacher: Amita is young, brilliant, and attractive, and typically wears flattering casual clothes while teaching.
• How We Got Here: "Blowback" begins with a montage of scenes from late in the episode, then skips back to the beginning of the case.
• Human Shield: Happens at least twice, both times to Colby. Both times he tells a fellow agent to shoot, but neither does.
• Hypocrisy Nod: Done by Don when he expresses frustration to his father about his girlfriend, Robin, an AUSA, being skeptical of the story he's telling her, despite having notorious trust issues of his own. Don: I don't like not being trusted. And yes, I get the irony.
• Hypocritical Humor: In the episode "Finders Keepers": Millie: Now, I know it sounds like I'm in danger of not having a point here, but I do, and it's this: Out at sea, all bets are off. You encounter forces that you could never, ever anticipate. Granted, some of those forces have to do with, you know, being confined to a very small space with someone who you thought you knew but clearly didn't, someone who is so enamored with the sound of their own voice that they could talk endlessly for hours and hours without ever needing to even have to take a breath...
  Charlie: Millie-
  Millie: (not missing a beat) I mean, you don't know what it's like.
  Charlie: You said you had a point?
• I Did What I Had to Do: Ian Edgerton from his introduction on, makes the tough calls that Don vacillates over. On one occasion, he is left alone in a room with the blinds closed to extract vital intel from an uncooperative suspect, a decision which has a lasting impact on Don, both morally and professionally.
• Don gets one himself in "Black Swan", when he tries to justify using what's essentially speculation to hold a man as a domestic terrorist suspect. Charlie questions him after witnessing an unusually frosty exchange between Don and Megan, and Don says this almost verbatim.
Don: I had to push a rule or two, and, you know, I mean, she disagrees. What else is new?
Charlie: You had to?
Don: Yeah, I had to!
Charlie: Hard not to notice a change in your methods.
Don: Look, I'm tired of picking up the pieces. Okay? It seems like all we do is get there too late, and I got a chance to stop something before it starts.
• Idiosyncratic Wipes: The show sometimes does this into (and out of) commercial breaks.
• Idiot Ball: The FBI has an unlimited supply of those.
• YMMV on this. Charlie is more of a face for the real life technicians and consultants that would really be used by the FBI. The techniques tend to be rather standard, Charlie is just Mr. Exposition about how the techniques work. And having him as a university professor is fancier than an official FBI analyst.
• One wonders, how often did the FBI catch criminals before Charlie started helping them? An episode illustrates the FBI's helplessness brilliantly. A man is accused of shooting an FBI negotiator during a face-off with the FBI. He flees after saying he's innocent He really is, and the FBI has been hunting him for months. It's repeatedly mentioned that every cop in the county wants to catch the guy, because he's a suspected cop killer. The bullet that killed the officer flew out of his body, and yet, despite the zeal with which the FBI wants to catch the guy and have him condemned, no one tried to find the bullet that killed their officer, if only to reinforce their case against the guy once they catch him. The bullet is lodged in a tree, with a prominent bullet hole, so it's not like finding it is hard (in fact, once the protagonists decide to look for it, they find it in a few hours) The bullet does prove the guy's innocence, but since no cop knew that, it still wouldn't explain why they never tried to look for it.
• The idiot ball on that one is played with. The thing is, the house was surrounded by police who were intent on watching the house. They knew there was an armed man inside and they were prepared for that man to fire on them. No one expects a drug company to sell him a tainted vaccine, then when the government catches on to the tainted beef to then hire a sniper to frame the man for murdering a hostage negotiator. Every one at the site, faulty witnesses as they may be, would testify to the fact that they were watching the house at the time of the shot and that the armed man was inside. When they are cops at the scene of the crime negotiating with a man who has threatened to shoot them and then someone gets shot, it's kind of justified to think the same man is shooting. Plus, they had the bullet that was inside the negotiator. They just neglected to make sure that the trajectories were right. Probably because they were storming the building and taking him to cover. Later, they do actually just haul the Idiot Ball around. See the next reference for this episode.
• In the same episode, it's mentioned how surprising it is to the FBI's expert manhunter that the fugitive never tried to leave his home county, despite it being in his best interest to do so and avoid the intense police presence searching for him. The cops repeatedly found the campsite where he stayed, but just after he's just vacated it. Yet it takes Charlie and his math to reveal the obvious: The man's sticking around his home county because he goes to visit his wife once in a while. Said wife still resides in their home, where the shooting took place. That's right. The FBI, and their expert tracker, NEVER considered that a fugitive who remains near his home might be visiting his family on a regular basis.
• In another episode, they ask an interviewee if she knows anything about pot. After denying it, she mentions that she doesn't know anything about pot farms. They treat it like a Suspiciously Specific Denial. Of course, they do turn out to be right.
• Garden variety Idiot Ball that seems to occur just about every episode: agents, usually David & Colby, approach a guy to ask him a few questions, identify themselves from about fifty feet away, guy then looks around nervously and bolts in the opposite direction, leading to a foot chase. These are experienced FBI agents? You'd think they'd have learned by now.
• A more proper Idiot Ball is with Millie's reaction to the consulting that her professors do. Given the government contracts that could bring in, that seems like something that she should encourage.
• Idiot Savant: Or "Scan Man" in the case of the titular episode. A savant shows up in the episode working for a parcel delivery service, who can identify a parcel's serial number from just a look at its damaged barcode, but is a compulsive hoarder and barely able to talk with others.
• I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: Played straight by Charlie in "Assassin", when Amita is asking him a question about exactly where he learned code phrases (beyond that it was at the NSA) and he replies with the trope. She thinks he's kidding, but he's actually quite serious.
• If Jesus, Then Aliens: This trope seems to crop up with distressing regularity. Every few episodes, Charlie is challenged to move beyond the empirical world to a matter of faith, only the matter of faith in question is something completely outside the normal debate of science vs. religion, and yet Larry's right there urging Charlie to consider that it might possibly be true. After all, even scientists don't pretend that they can know everything, right?
• More like Larry's just weird that way. If anything, his entire character exists to pointedly avert the Straw Atheist scientist stereotype while other scientists (like Charlie) take a more traditional view.
• I Hate Past Me: Played for Laughs when Larry returns from his space mission, then walks into his office that is packed wall-to-wall with his old possessions and documents. Larry: This... this is obscene! Who is this person that belongs to this mess?!
• I Have Your Wife: It happens at least once per season, but fortunately the FBI usually intervenes before anybody can get seriously hurt.
• "Prime Suspect" involves four criminals kidnapping a mathematician's five-year-old daughter because they believe he solved the Riemann hypothesis, which can be used as a master key for virtually any internet encryption, and they're using her to get the solution as ransom.
• In "Rampage", the man who shot up the FBI office was coerced by a contract killer hired by an arms dealer to get him acquitted from his current trial to do it or else he'll kill his wife and daughter. Rather than kidnap them outright (which would have tipped off the FBI to the real motive behind the attack), the contract killer uses surveillance photos to show the guy how easy it would be to find them and hurt them. It's also played straighter when a critical witness in that arms dealer's case has his family kidnapped by said contract killer.
• "Backscatter" has some bank employees captured (one of whom is pregnant) by the Russian mob to coerce their boss into letting them access his bank for their robbery.
• Crystal Hoyle takes the cake on this one in "Spree"; she kidnaps Megan to extort the FBI to let her partner go. It does turn out there was a little more to it than that; in addition to a hostage, she also swiped the agent's credentials to look up some classified information.
• In "One Hour", a child is kidnapped to extort a ransom from his multi-millionaire father.
• "Tabu" appears to be another case of a rich parent's child kidnapped for ransom, but it turns out the "victim" was actually the mastermind.
• In "Chinese Box", David becomes the hostage of a disgruntled former contractor after trading himself for a woman the man had initially taken hostage.
• In "End Game", a disgraced former Marine captain wants information from one of his subordinates, so he kidnaps the man's father and sister to force him to give it up. The father is killed for trying to fight back, but the FBI manages to rescue the sister and arrest the hostage takers.
• In "Jacked", a group of criminals hold an entire busload of tourists hostage to extort a ransom from the bus company. It turns out to be mostly illusion.
• Toyed with but averted in "Hydra". A child's kidnapping is initially presented to the FBI as a ransom abduction, but the case turns out to be much more complicated.
• The bad guy in "Shadow Markets" threatens his rival's elderly aunt to force the rival to meet him so he can take his revenge.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: In one episode, a movie star's friends are being blackmailed, and the secret is this trope.
• "I Know What We Can Do" Cut: In the episode "Backscatter", two bank employees are taken hostage to force their boss to cooperate with an ATM hacking scheme. The team figures it out and confronts him, and he finally agrees to tell them the truth. His description of what's supposed to happen according to the kidnappers is overlaid over video of him playing his part (basically, appearing to go along with the scheme), intermixed with shots of the FBI's behind-the-scenes actions.
• Illegal Gambling Den: In one episode, the team uncovered a gambling website where patrons can bet on a Russian Roulette-esque Deadly Game. The premise is that a revolver will be loaded with a single bullet and players take turns pulling the gun's trigger while it's pointed at them. The loser is the one who pulls the trigger while the bullet is in the position where the revolver can actually fire it.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: One of the bank workers kidnapped in "Backscatter" is pregnant.
• I'm Standing Right Here: In "Backscatter", Charlie says the trope name word-for-word when he becomes the subject of an argument between Don and Alan. Alan: Explain how a mathematician ends up on a case involving the Russian mafia.
  Don: I told him to drop it!
  Alan: You know he can't just drop that stuff!
  Charlie: Hey, I'm standing right here!.
• Incriminating Indifference: One episode has Liz becoming suspicious when a woman wishes to stay at the FBI officer after being told her