NUMB3RS“Thirteen”
Original Air Date: October 19, 2007
KP – TwoCents Head Writer
6 Days of Creation – 10 Commandments – 14 Stations of the Cross – 1 Word of God
A black cloaked man is performing some kind of ritualistic killing until we flash to a celebration at the Epps home for Charlie is now a published author with his book “The Attraction Equation – Being Popular is a Easy as Pi”. Papa Alan is too busy with his engineering homework to join the fun, so it turns out to be a double date with Charlie, Amita, Don and Liz. The party is cut short when Don gets a call and he, Liz and Charlie all go to meet up with David at the scene. This is the 2nd crime scene that uses Mozart’s Requiem on tape, biblical verses on the wall and some numbers that look like a big sudoku to me, but meets something more to Charlie of course. They are cell phone numbers. Charlie gets the next one out of the formula and as the cell rings the next victim is already with the black cloaked man of death.
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Original Air Date: October 19, 2007
KP – TwoCents Head Writer
6 Days of Creation – 10 Commandments – 14 Stations of the Cross – 1 Word of God
A black cloaked man is performing some kind of ritualistic killing until we flash to a celebration at the Epps home for Charlie is now a published author with his book “The Attraction Equation – Being Popular is a Easy as Pi”. Papa Alan is too busy with his engineering homework to join the fun, so it turns out to be a double date with Charlie, Amita, Don and Liz. The party is cut short when Don gets a call and he, Liz and Charlie all go to meet up with David at the scene. This is the 2nd crime scene that uses Mozart’s Requiem on tape, biblical verses on the wall and some numbers that look like a big sudoku to me, but meets something more to Charlie of course. They are cell phone numbers. Charlie gets the next one out of the formula and as the cell rings the next victim is already with the black cloaked man of death.
Megan is hiding another secret and Don asks David to get Colby to help him follow up some leads. Is Colby staying around? “We’ll see” was Don’s reply. Whatever Megan’s secrets are, this religious case is making them echo in her head now. This killer is using numerology which Charlie believes is meaningless but agrees to go talk with Dr. Alex Trowbridge (Andrea Roth) who is a Professor of Religion and Philosophy. Alex isn’t your elbow patch professor; she is an attractive flirtatious woman. Amita called Charlie on being flustered about Dr. Trowbridge. Alan arrives for some help with homework and Charlie makes a great “Back to School” reference. Love that movie. Ok, here’s some math – the Bible verse, plugged into Amita’s crazy computer, comes out binary style to be a web address. Yeah, I don’t get it either. BUT – that web address gives a physical address and after a nice wipe dissolve effect, we are with David and Colby at that apartment. Mozart’s Requiem is heard in the distance, the dust of the area is caught up in their flashlights, more bible verses on the wall, and Colby and David find not a potential crime scene, but an actual one as a body without a head is left behind. Megan puts on some music (Mozart of course) takes out her bible, looks over the crime scene photos and comes to the conclusion that this serial killer isn’t following a new pattern, he’s following a very old one – the killer is killing off his ‘apostles’. 3 down – 9 more to go.
At the FBI Professor Trowbridge sheds some religious light on numbers found at the crime scenes, and Amita gets the chance to do the real-life example of math. After a nice little coin sorting machine analogy we know we can apply some math to the phone book and find possible targets. In real world FBI work, David and Colby found a trace to the paint used in the killings and have narrowed it down to one specific buyer they are waiting on a cleared up ATM photo of. Amita’s algorithm pops out 200+ names. Megan runs it across missing persons and voila – they have a match. An attempted stolen credit card transaction leads them to a squatter’s tenement. More of the religious paint, Mozart and a body in a tanning bed – that’s been there for a LONG time. BUT STILL ALIVE. That scared the hell out of me. Turns out the guy with the paint and pharmacy supplies is the same with a cross tattoo. We now have a name – Jared Parr. At Jared’s apartment, the crew arrives, runs past the sister (Janine) and the chase starts over the rooftops after Jared. They catch up with him, so we know this can’t be the killer, especially after he’s shot dead from a far building top. His tattoos on his back – nickname? Judas.
Video on Jared’s PC shows another victim being held, Nathaniel. The Apostle Nathaniel dies by whip. Megan and Don go to question Janine about it. While that is happening, Charlie has a breakthrough that the numbers at the scenes are longitude and latitude lines mapping Christ’s walk to crucifixion and is being duplicated in Los Angeles by the killer. The strange thing, according to this information, is the first victim still hasn’t been found. Once the victim is found – her name is Mary – “Mary Magdalene” has been found. Her ex boyfriend, Clay Porter (Sharif Atkins) is a former military man who was an expert marksman and spent time interrogating prisoners.
David and Colby get into Clay’s apartment but he’s not home. They find bibles, news clippings, and photos of his victims – AND of the FBI agents trying to solve the case! Uh oh, hold on, Clay has just come home until he sees his door is open, he speeds off and gets away. David spots Clay outside the tattoo parlor where he and Liz are looking for the man, named Tomas, who inked Jared Parr. The parlor owner says Tomas has been missing a few days. David goes around the back, and as Clay takes photos of them, David gets the drop on him. Clay is being questioned by Megan and Don. The show isn’t over, so Clay can’t be the killer, can he? Megan has lost her mind. I’m dying to know what secret work she was doing with the Dept of Justice.
Colby and David hunt down a girlfriend of Tomas and find him there, dead. He’s been there at least a few weeks. The parlor owner lied. The tattoo parlor is empty, until David finds a hidden door which leads to a scary torture chamber and video showing the parlor owner as the killer. Megan doubts herself for going to hard at Clay Porter. She admits to Colby that her work with the DOJ was to help ‘interrogators’ how to work harder towards getting information out of detainees.
Turns out the killer is going towards a path to resurrection not crucifixion. The path and the numerology points to the possible next murder scene. Mozart, paint and this time – the killer. The FBI take the killer in the open where he’s shot dead on the spot. They find a sniper rifle and picture of Mary. Colby has exacted his revenge.
Don welcomes back Colby – the team is officially all back together. Don and Liz and Charlie and Amita are finally going to have that double date.
The director of this episode, Ralph Hemecker, did an amazing job. There were some seriously beautiful shots. His use of shadow and angles were different than what I’ve seen on this show before. The final attack on the killer, overplayed by the Mozart music was a thing of beauty. This show just keeps getting better.