Numb3rs (TV Series)

Uncertainty Principle (2005)

Rob Morrow: Don Eppes

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• [Don is trying to talk to a distracted Charlie about the case in the back garden] 

  Don Eppes : We think they have specialized military training and now they have struck again and killed another innocent person, Charlie.

  [Charlie continues poking around the garden, looking for who-knows-what] 

  Don Eppes : Charlie, please don't do this. Do you understand the stakes we're dealing with here? More bloodshed, people's lives. I mean, if I have to do this on my own it's going to put me and all of my people at greater risk, is that what you want?

  Charlie Eppes : Their old pattern's gone, I told you...

  [Don grabs Charlie by the front of his shirt and swings him around, shaking him in frustration] 

  Don Eppes : Well then there's gotta be a new pattern! Doesn't there? Isn't that the way it works? You incorporate whatever's going on?

  Charlie Eppes : Ow.

  Don Eppes : I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I need your help, do you understand?

  Charlie Eppes : I don't think I can, that I can...

  Don Eppes : Charlie, I know it's hard for you, I understand that, but it's hard for everybody.

  [Charlie goes back to poking around the garden] 

  Don Eppes : You know, I don't know how I got in a situation where I need your help to do my job, but I sure as hell have.

  [Don storms back towards the house, then turns back around] 

  Don Eppes : And I wish you would just snap out of your precious bubble, for once!

  [Charlie stays in the garden, looking dejected]