NUMB3RS“Velocity”
Original Air Date:
October 12, 2007
KP –
TwoCents Head Writer
7000 Revolutions Per Minute – 1200 Foot Pounds Of Torque – 420 Horsepower – 7 Victims
We open with a NUMB3RS scene that combines The Untouchables and The Fast and Furious as a news stand owner pushes a baby carriage out of the way from a speeding street racer as it crashes over the curb into a coffee shop.
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Original Air Date:
October 12, 2007
KP –
TwoCents Head Writer
7000 Revolutions Per Minute – 1200 Foot Pounds Of Torque – 420 Horsepower – 7 Victims
We open with a NUMB3RS scene that combines The Untouchables and The Fast and Furious as a news stand owner pushes a baby carriage out of the way from a speeding street racer as it crashes over the curb into a coffee shop.
Colby is moving back into his desk at the FBI. David still doesn’t know how to act with him but now we know Colby is back. Don and David are on the accident scene, they can reenact why and Charlie shows up to use math to find out why. At the hospital David (he’s everywhere) and Megan are told that there are 2 sets of injuries on the driver of the street racer – Kyle Clippard (Michael Welch) – ones from the accident and a kick to the head AFTER! Everyone at the accident scene is now a suspect – the barista of the coffee shop, the girl with the camera, the delivery man.
OK, maybe Colby isn’t fully back – Don tells his dad (Alan) that Colby’s been offered a job in D.C. Charlie’s friendship dynamics math paper has been offered to be published – not as a text book, but as a self-help book. Back to the case at hand Charlie and Amita go to ask Larry to help out, he’s busy with meditation, gardening and pond cleaning so he gives them the name of a mechanical engineer - Ray Galuski (Chris Bauer) who they go to see. Galuski loves it when he’s asked to find out why something crashed, broke or blew up – “the more complicated it is, the more beautiful it becomes”.
Colby and Don, after an uncomfortable conversation about trying to ‘start over’ in the department, payoff a stakeout by apprehending Ernie Fuller (Sam Murphy) trying to disable a traffic camera and a parade of street racers drive on by. Simon tells us the guys trade cars all the time and after a little persuasion by David, agrees to give up names of other racers. Galuski and Charlie are working on a computer model of the crash, but they can’t get the math to crash the car. Enter Alan there just to look for tools to change his oil, and as is the beauty of the show, give a little tip that (after an Issac Newton based Charlie story) saves the day and makes the math work. The car was 260 lbs heavier than the math thought – sounds like another person to me.
Through a lot of car knowledge about slip differential, carousel analogies and awkward flirting between Galuski and Megan (who Larry admitted he doesn’t see very often, if at all) David and Galuski end up at a fancy car outlet speaking with Frank Fisher (GQ – the bass drummer from Drum Line!). Frank tells them the parts from the car from the accident are sold in the states… however, that doesn’t mean they can be found. David flashes his badge and Frank starts a-runnin’. I think at one point he even threw a wrench. Who does that? Frank is caught and is willing to give up names of his suppliers and IDs the driver of the renegade car as someone who bought that special slip differential.
So, the crash was recorded and uploaded to the internet by someone on their little camera phone video. Colby and Megan find her and we meet Nitrogurl. (After staring at her long enough I realized I was looking at Tonya Kay who was “Creature” on Who Wants To Be a Superhero.) The video shows Kyle Clippard coming out of the trunk of the car after the accident, he WASN’T driving! It’s a hazing ritual called trucking where the new guys have to sit in the trunk before being able to sit up front. Thru some FBI computer work (helped out by Amita’s algorithm of course) we see the driver on the video – oh man, it’s the Drum Line guy! But he only ways 140lbs – we’re still missing another 120lbs! Charlie and Galuski still can’t figure it out. Alan shows up – what will he say? Nothing, he just was insulted by Galuski. Not cool Galuski, not cool.
At the hospital Kyle is finally awake and his father does the shifty eyes thing when they mention Kyle was kicked in the head after the accident leaving that big boot mark on the side of his face. Did his father kick him? We shall see! But not before we’re treated to another jilted girlfriend scene between Colby and David. There’s a second story with the street racer car – the fender was originally on a car that was in a hit and run murder 2 years ago. A couple died with no relatives, yet someone places flowers on the grave every year on the anniversary of their death and donated $7000 to their church anonymously.
David and Don show up at the street racing meeting, everyone runs, Don speeds off after Dr. Drum Line who comes right at Don in a big game of chicken. Don barely avoids getting killed and Drum Line escapes. Back in the garage, Charlie and Galuski get the model to work by showing the extra 120lbs is from a slight collision from another car. The driver of that car? Ernie Fuller. Larry shows up at the FBI, much to the grins from Megan, and wants to see the boot print pictures. Larry knows how to, using math, make that partial print show up as a full one. (You’d think the FBI could do that on their own – no?) David gets the call that they found Drum Line… the bass drum will beat no more – he’s dead – the SAME boot print on his head! Charlie and Amita have the results of the boot analysis! The delivery man at the scene of the accident used to be a racer, did the hit and run 2 years ago and took his guilt out on Kyle thinking he was the driver, then that guilt out on Drum Line Dude. Case solved. Oh, Colby turned down the D.C. job and Don hesitantly said he’ll check into Colby staying on with them. More jilted girlfriend stuff with David and we close the show on yet another happy little moment with the Epps family as Alan is on campus after auditing Galuski’s engineering class.
A great show stays that way this week! See you all next week!
The episode is on bittorrent if anybody wants to watch it.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning animation, it mentions 420 horsepower and 1200 foot pounds of torque! A 4 banger can't get that ratio of power! The HP # is attainable on a heavily boosted VTEC engine but not the torque numbers. At least they got the curb weight of 2359 pounds correct (stock 2000 Civic Coupe), though they didn't account for the mods to the car or the driver so really that was an error as well.
The FBI guys acted like they didn't know anything about sports cars.
16:30 into the episode, the scene is at the car analysis place and the guy mentions 'weld points' when talking about the front grille of the 2000 Honda Civic, how a different front grille has been put on the Civic. It's all plastic, no weld points! Just clips.
The ox ('oh ex') gecko ultralock 2-way differential. LOL.
Overall I found the episode to be enjoyable and the bit about the differential was hilarious since you can't put in a custom differential to a Civic transaxle (at least that I know of).
The script writers allowed a bit too many errors to make it a truly enjoyable episode for me.
I also found the character of the mechanical engineer enjoyable. Wish there was a computer engineer character as well but that wasn't applicable to that episode. I'm a nerd. Numb3rs is for nerds.