"MAN:" "Get on the ground, all of you!" "Do not move!" "THIEF 1:" "Let's go, let's go." "Throw it." "THIEF 2:" "Let's get out of here." "[BANGING]" "THIEF 1:" "Turn around." "THIEF 2:" "Wrong way." "THIEF 1:" "Yo, leave this way." "Go, man." " Come on, hurry." "THIEF 2:" "Watch out." "THIEF 1:" "Follow me, follow me." "THIEF 2:" "Over there." "MAN:" "Drop the bags!" "Get down on the floor, now!" "Hands above your heads!" "[GROANS]" "THIEF 1:" "Man, you ain't cops." "MAN:" "No, we're not cops." "What the hell are you doing?" "MAN:" "Protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty." "DAVID:" "Whoa." "This I have not seen before." "What do you say, Nikki?" "Your boys at L.A.P.D. Couldn't handle a B and E?" "B and E's they can handle just fine." "But they do need help" " tracking down a group of vigilantes." "DAVID:" "Vigilantes?" " Might explain the message." " Yeah." "Fifth incident in two months." "Similar situation, same types of victims." "What, these mooks are victims?" "Yeah, got five subjects, ages 16 to 19." "Now, white, Latino, black." "No gang affiliations." "They were found with lock picks, crowbars, cable cutters and backpacks full of school computer equipment." "Wrapped up like Christmas presents for the police." "The vigilantes ambushed them." "High-powered lights, improvised flash-bangs, plastic restraints." "What about Vanguard?" "That come up on the databases?" " Eh, nada." " So you don't have anything?" "No, I just got this cell phone." " Found it here on the floor." " Dropped by a vigilante, robbers?" "Yeah, or a student." "I mean, it could be anybody." "Well, if they can't tell us anything, this might." "Someone scraped out the MIN" " and the ESN." " Translation." "The MIN's a phone number, ESN's the electronic serial number." "So this wasn't dropped on the floor by a student." "Getting rid of the phone number is easy." "Getting rid of the ESN, it's supposed to be impossible." "You guys know math?" "Well, you can add, right?" "Well, add up the cost of the equipment you were trying to steal and that's grand larceny." " It's a first offence." "We won't do time." "DAVID:" "Oh, yeah?" "Ha, ha." "Who told you that?" "[DAVID CHUCKLES]" "You know, I'm looking at you the two of you, and I just don't see masterminds." "But you knew where all the computers were and you knew how to get past an alarm system." "So I'm thinking you had some help." "Keep your mouth shut." "Maybe you and I should have a talk alone." "You know what will happen." "I don't know nothing." "That's the third round with these guys." "I never figured the FBI couldn't get a bunch of kids to talk." "They're scared to death of someone." "You know, the lobby's filling up with parents and lawyers." "We're running out of time." "A cold boot attack?" "Yeah, also known as a cold ghosting attack, an iceman attack." "When I remove the memory chip all the data in it will be lost instantly." "But, if I freeze it first, the data remains readable." "For sometimes, as long as several minutes." "[KEYBOARD CLICKING]" " You got it." " Wow, that actually worked?" " Of course." " Match that to the cell carrier's ESN." "Then get the name and the address, then we go get him." "CLERK:" "Thank you." "Take care." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" " Put it down." "Put it down now." " What the hell is going on?" " Are you Bai Lan Zhou?" " What?" "No." " Bai Lan, where is he?" " He?" "You don't know" " what you're talking about." " We know Bai Lan owns this phone." "And it's registered to this address." "Hey, Grandma?" "FBI has your phone." "No, I got it." " Bai Lan Zhou?" "CLERK:" "And that's her phone." "It never leaves her sight." "Texting charges are through the roof." "Someone must have cloned her number." " Sorry for the inconvenience." " Inconvenience?" "Yeah, you can file a complaint, sir." "[INDISTINCT CHATTERING OVER RADIO]" "So the truck's stolen and there was a crew unloading electronics off of it." "And the driver said it was a bunch of kids." "That's one of these vigilante kids." "Two shotgun slugs to the chest." "Someone decided to fight back." "Check this out." "Looks like we got ourselves a feud." "DAVID:" "Facial recognition software identified the dead guy as Peter Hathaway, 22, grad student at Mission Hills College." "Thesis candidate in systems engineering." "Talked to the parents, said they never heard of Vanguard or vigilante activity." "Need to find these guys before they get killed." "All right, friends, students, teachers." "And who is running the crew?" " Where are they based?" " And how did this war start?" " Hey, can I show you something?" " Yeah." " The kids we arrested at the school?" " Uh-huh." "They all live in the same general neighbourhood, Atwater Village." "Just over the 5 freeway, a.k.a. Toonerville." "A.k.a. What?" "That's a L.A.P.D. Nickname because of this guy, Vic Tooner." "Suspected in dozens of crimes, including murder." "L.A.P.D. Hasn't been able to get anything on him." "Witnesses, informants, all turn up dead." "This guy's got an entire neighbourhood terrified." "He runs his crew military style." "You know, organised." "Posts sentries to watch out for cops 24/7." "He's smart, but he's also crazy." "He murdered one of his lieutenants for driving the same car he drives." " He's got the kids working for him." " Yeah." "He uses kids because if they get caught, they'll be back on the street." "Just like old Fagin." "Yeah, it explains the murdered vigilante." "Uh, Tooner wouldn't tolerate anyone messing with his operation." "Cell phones can be cloned using a DDI." "A digital data interpreter." "Yeah, cellular thieves sit by busy roads and pick up radio-wave transmissions." "So serial numbers and phone numbers of people passing by are captured and recorded." "Great, now you tell me." "Can they monitor me if all I'm doing is playing Tetris?" "Can we trace these DDI devices?" "Unfortunately, they don't emit enough of a signal." " All right, so this is a dead end." "CHARLIE:" "Maybe not." "Can I see this?" "Yeah, you know, Vanguard has advanced engineering skills." "So maybe they're getting access to the robbery crew's communications." "And if we figure out how, maybe it'll give the FBI a lead on where the next robbery will happen." " How would you go about doing that?" " Whew." "That's a difficult problem." "Three words:" "Deep-current sets." "And the expert on them is guest lecturer at CalSci at the moment." " Um, Marshall Penfield?" " He's your friend, right?" " Friend..." " Oh, more like a frienemy." "That's that guy you were always having those math fights with." "The one who calls Charles "Eppsy."" "Well, I mean, he did help out with that home invasion case" " a couple years ago." " Tangentially." "Charlie, we gotta get this figured out before anybody else gets killed, okay?" "I know, I know." "Uh, Professor Fleinhardt, a word?" "You know, actually I'm expecting to hear from a colleague at CERN, and you know how wounded particle physicists get when their calls go to voice mail." "So anyway, ciao." "Robert Santos?" "I wanna talk to you about your roommate, Peter Hathaway." "Like I told the police, I didn't know him very well." "Even though you shared a room with him for nearly a year?" "We didn't hang out." "Yeah, what do you know about him?" "He was lonely, you could see it." "Sometimes he tried to talk about classes, something he was reading, but, you know, I'm so busy" " with classes and tutoring." " His behaviour change recently?" "He used to be in every night, but starting three months ago, he went out a lot." "Did he indicate where?" "And maybe mention a group called Vanguard?" "No, never said a word." "And I never asked where he was going, so..." "What, what is it?" "I don't know, maybe if I'd tried to talk to him a little, invited him to hang out with me and my friends he wouldn't have gotten mixed up in whatever he was doing." "When he died, uh..." "Look, I gotta go." "Peter's parents are coming today." "And I have no idea what I'm gonna tell them." "From set theory's inception some have argued that it's a game that includes elements of fantasy." "Wittgenstein questioned how Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory handled infinities." "Errett Bishop dismissed it as:" ""God's mathematics, which should be left for God to do."" "[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]" "Next week's discussion will be on the Spectral Theory of non-Hermitian Random Matrices." "Okay?" "You're welcome." "I'll see you next week, you math geniuses." " Where's the glasses?" " Where's the hair?" "You know, these CalSci students really can appreciate an incisive discussion from a guest lecturer." " How can they resist your charms?" " Yes, it is impossible, isn't it?" "Speaking of which, how is Amita?" " Are you two still dating?" " Yeah." "Really?" "Well, good for you, Eppsy." " Marshall." " Yes?" " I'm gonna ask you something." " Okay." "And if it's at all possible that you can manage not to launch into your smirky world of glee" " it'd be much appreciated." " Who, moi?" "I'm working on a case, you know, for the FBI, and, uh, it might benefit from your work in deep current set theory." "So Charlie Eppes is asking for my help, a second time." "What, too gleeful?" "Sure, it'd be fun." "Yeah, I can't sleep either." "I got this ratio-of-green-space problem for CalSci landscaping." "I can't get out of my head." " What is this, non-FBI math?" " Not for long." ""Professor Marshall Penfield." He's working on a case with you?" "Hey, so, uh, this Saturday you wanna have Amita and Don and Robin over for brunch?" "Better make it dinner." "I got golf and Don's going to temple." "Since when does Don go to temple?" "I don't know." "A few weeks ago, I guess." "COLBY:" "So L.A.P.D. Responded to an alarm at an auto-sound shop about five weeks ago, found three teenagers in restraints, like at the school." "Back then they didn't know they had an ongoing problem." "And so maybe something got overlooked." "Good thinking, Granger." "They did miss something." "What are you showing me, the gang signs?" "Yeah, I spent a year on L.A.P.D. Gang Task Force." "Never seen nothing like that." " That mean anything to you?" " Uh, not immediately." "But there might be a subset within the superset." "And for those of us who don't speak math?" "I'm talking about set theory." "Let's say this circle represents objects visible in the night sky." "And this circle represents objects that generate light." "Where they overlap is a subset." "Objects visible in the night sky that generate light, like a star." "How do you not have your own show on PBS?" "The big question in this case is, obviously, how do the vigilantes know where the robbery crews will strike?" "That's where Marshall's deep current theory comes in." "It looks for undetected sets." "Think of patterns in crowds." "Crowds move in general patterns." "Relatively minor events in specific areas can change the overall patterns for everyone even if most never see what created the change." "This approach allows us to deduce information about the hidden nodes from the anomalies in the observed behaviour of the visible network." "Is that an accurate assessment, Marshall?" "Huh?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I must have dozed off during your riveting monologue." " I was stating the problem." " Yeah, your approach to the problem." " Using your method." " Being as though it's my method," " shouldn't I be leading this inquiry?" " Well, this isn't a seminar, Marshall." "It's a criminal investigation." "So, uh..." "So then you have, uh, handcuffs, yeah?" "Oh, yeah, that will get you there." " I like the sound of that." " Well, don't." "Okay." "Where'd you find this?" "At a business where the vigilantes, uh, caught some thieves." "It's computer code." "Why would anyone use a few random computer code symbols?" " Unless it isn't random." " Yeah, what about that?" "It would take pages of code to say anything meaningful." "Well, what if it's not a computer code, but a cipher code?" "It could take months to figure out." "They painted it on a wall." "I doubt they made it hard to crack." "Yeah, well, maybe it's a simple Vigenère cipher." "Then match the first 13 letters of the alphabet to those 13 code symbols." "And what if the key word is Vanguard?" "[BEEPING]" " Is that a website?" "AMITA:" "Let's find out." "[KEYBOARD CLICKING]" "Vanguard's website." "Those are the robberies the vigilantes stopped." "They even have the exact times that each robbery was supposed to happen." "And look at the last one." "Appliance warehouse downtown, and the date, that's today." "[BEEPS]" "CHARLIE:" "Vic Tooner." "MARSHALL:" "Who's that?" " That is trouble." " Well, he doesn't look friendly." "A daytime robbery." "Tooner's looking to flush out Vanguard where he can see them." " They're taking the stuff." " Yeah, I'm watching." "It's just the robbers." "There's no sign of Tooner." "And Vanguard isn't showing either." "Ken, you got anything?" "KEN [OVER RADIO]:" "Negative, all zones are clear." "[CAR ENGINE STARTS]" "COLBY:" "Don, the crew's moving out." "We gotta move in." "All right, let's go." "All units move in, take them." "[TYRES SCREECH]" "AGENT 1:" "Down on the ground!" "AGENT 2:" "FBI." "AGENT 1:" "Head down!" "DON:" "Get out of that truck!" "Now!" " Turn around, turn around." "AGENT 1:" "Get out!" " Okay, let's move it." "DON:" "Hands behind your back." "NIKKI:" "Now, now, now." "COP 1:" "Put your hands on the wall." "COP 2:" "Give me your left hand." "MAN [ON RADIO]:" "We've got suspects in custody." "None of Tooner's kids looked armed for a showdown." "Let's check out these people here, check out all these people here." "Wanna look at the crowd?" "See if anyone's wearing Vanguard symbol?" "DON:" "Yeah." " That we found." "East perimeter found him on a rooftop with this, filming the robbery." "They kill one of yours, you show up with a camera?" "My mission was to gather evidence, not to intervene." "What mission?" "Who's part of this mission with you?" "I was there to record the incident." "Nothing else." "That against the law?" "Prior knowledge of a crime?" "Yeah, that's a problem." " Who you working with?" " We don't use names." "Just code names." "If we're captured, we can't compromise the operation." "DAVID:" "Do you know him?" "We call him Bars." "His code name." "Bars?" "Yeah, you know, like on a cell phone." "He's a phreaker." "Uh, a phone expert, could do stuff with cell phones." "COLBY:" "So how do you know which places to rob?" "There's a website." "Or you get a phone call." "Or a guy comes to your house." "That's how you get the word." "Where to go, what to steal." "And who gives the word?" "Nobody talks about that." "You're gonna take the full weight for stuff you didn't plan or control." "It's worth it to do what's right." " And what's that?" " Doing what needs to be done." "What the cops haven't been able to do." "Do you know a guy named Vic Tooner?" "Never heard of him." "Not ever." "[ELEVATOR BELL RINGS]" "Tooner seems to have a deep supply of kids, all too scared to talk." "The guy from Vanguard was stonewalling us also, but he's not scared." "So, what's that about?" "Um, maybe someone inspired him." "I mean, he speaks like a covert op on a mission." " They both have the same methods." " Yeah, only one is pure damn evil, and the other one's trying to play hero." "You're wrong, its structure lacks originality or integrity." "It's a classic organisation based on tested and proven elements." "It's a chain." "It's a chain with irregularities that come with maintaining complex matrices." "So you propose that a single-point mechanism provides superior output?" "Enough." "Surely two eminent mathematicians can find ways to calmly discuss theory." " We're not discussing theory." " We're talking hamburgers." "Pie 'n' Burger's the best, no question about it." "In 'n' Out is far superior." "You know, I remember a day not long ago, when you were both undergrads working together on a topology problem." "That's only because you assigned us to work on it together." "CHARLIE:" "We preferred working alone." "Which is my point." "Neither of you is gifted at the art of collaboration which is most crucial to science." "Who is this?" "Is this one of our students?" "No, it's a grad student at, uh, Harvey Mudd College." "FBI arrested him in connection with the vigilante group." "No one else in his circle seems connected to vigilante activities." "But this student is defined by the same deep current as the other vigilantes." "So we should look at supersets as they define this student." " Like the fact he is a student." "LARRY:" "Precisely." "There's a finite number of grad students in the region." "Even fewer with the computing and telecommunications skills required." "Yeah, they hide the organisations, so you need to refine the search by eliminating people openly linked to identified Vanguard members." "So we work up an algorithm that does that and..." "And just set it loose in grad school databases." "Ah, the sweet sound of collaboration." "This will ID students who fit the profile of Vanguard members." "The results will be based on probability, so you can't just arrest people whose names pop up." "You don't want us making life miserable for innocent grad students." " That's what professors are for." "NIKKI:" "You guys work with bright kids." "I mean, why do you think these Vanguard guys would risk their lives going up against a violent criminal?" "A hazard of being smart." "You figure you can outthink anybody." "MARSHALL:" "Look at life like a chess game." "You make smart moves, you win." "This isn't a game or a classroom problem." "MAN 1:" "You want it back, man?" "MAN 2:" "Make a ball roll." "MAN 3:" "Give it back." "MAN 4:" "Make me, man." "MAN 5:" "All right, let it go." " Hey." "MAN 1:" "Let's go, man." "Go in the house." "Everybody knows our name, but nobody's glad we came." "I've never seen a neighbourhood this scared." "Hey, these are for you." "Thanks, little guy." "Who sent them over?" "Heard you guys are looking for me." "NIKKI:" "Yeah, he used to pull this with L.A.P.D." "Walk up to officers on the street, come in for interviews." "He knows we don't have anything." "I own a tattoo parlour." "Legal, licensed business." "What do you know about robbery teams running out of your neighbourhood?" "I hope the police can do something about that." "Somebody's trying to do something about that." "Well, I understand why people do that." "I'm a concerned citizen, like anybody else." "Oh, I know how difficult it is to police an urban area with a gang subculture in a black-market economy." "Oh, you'd have to spend years working to infiltrate highly secretive groups that are paramilitary in their operation." "So we've got ourselves a concerned citizen." "I studied police sciences." "I took classes at City College." "Hey, maybe I'll apply to the Academy." "You know, I bet you I could ace that obstacle course." "[LAUGHS]" "What do you know about a group called Vanguard?" " Just what I hear on the street." "DON:" "And what's that?" "Smart guys in over their heads." "Over their heads?" "How so?" "Oh, you know, emotionally." "Living in a dream world." "What do you think is gonna happen to them?" "What happens to anybody?" "Some will quit." "Some will have accidents." " Accidents?" " Accidents." "Car accidents, whatever." "Also, depression is a problem for college kids." "You, uh..." "Well, you might find one of them way in the back of the library." "Note pinned to his chest, hanging from a rafter." "[CHUCKLES]" "What does it matter?" "One by one, sooner or later, everybody dies." " Where you going?" " This is a non-custodial interrogation." "Oh, I can leave whenever I want." "CHARLIE:" "You ruined it, look at it." "You flattened the tip and now it's out of ink." "How was I supposed to know that you like scented markers and that your favourite flavour is strawberry?" "Well, listen, you know, the next time, do me a favour and just bring your own markers, okay?" "Here's another thing." "Your idea about the analysis of Vanguard's attacks, it totally ignores the cardinality of the union of sets." "You know, what's funny?" "It's my idea, so I think I know how it's supposed to work." "Oh, who is the expert on deep current sets here, huh?" "Me." "Why does he always negate my proposals?" " Why are you so dismissive?" " Why are you so competitive?" "Boys, don't make me pull the math car over." "This isn't about math, is it, Eppsy?" "Maybe it's about you calling me Eppsy." "Anyway, ahem, I was thinking that if someone at Vanguard is that familiar with the computer source code" "I should probably take a closer look at the browser code on the website." "Yes, programmers often use distinctive object-oriented symbols, uh, statements, method calls." "AMITA:" "Exactly." "My comparative analysis shows the Vanguard code is very similar to a code found in the intra-university astrophysics project." "Note that success results not from the Eppes method nor from the Penfield approach, but from the Ramanujan scan." "All right, Amita, can you find the name of the person who wrote this code?" "Because that might be the leader of Vanguard." "Why do I let Marshall get to me?" "LARRY:" "He's a rival." "Look, everybody has one and, frankly, who they are says a lot about who you are." "Yeah?" "What does Marshall hating me say about me?" "He doesn't hate you." "What is that word that Amita uses?" " Frienemy." " There you go." "Colleagues as well as rivals." "I think you just remind each other of a time in your careers when you were both less secure in your reputations." "What about you?" "Who sets you off?" "Al McNabb." "Guy in my car club, he absolutely covets my Ford roadster." "And yet he always says the leather is not restored to 1931 period standard." "The colour is all wrong." "He is just one jealous bastard." "You know who doesn't have a rival?" "Don." "Seriously, I've never heard him talk about anyone like that." "Well, Don questions and challenges himself." "He's like his own frienemy, so to speak." "You know, maybe that's why he's going to temple." "What is it that Rabbi Abraham Heschel said:" ""The primary task of the philosophy of religion is to discover those questions to which religion is an answer."" "Now, did my dad tell you that?" "About Don going to temple?" "No, Don did." "He told you?" "He didn't tell me." "What's up?" "Uh, nothing, it's just something Tooner said about, um, Vanguard members having accidents." "You know, suicide in a library." "Maybe we should call the local colleges." "All right." "[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]" "So, what did Nikki say about Tooner?" "Smart, but crazy." "Looks like the crazy part." "Mason Spellman, 19, physics major." "ME thinks he was dead about 10 hours before his body was found." "In the engineering library, pretty much like Tooner said." "In general terms." "Robin is gonna definitely say we need more than this." "Especially since Spellman had a problem with depression." "No other fingerprints at the crime scene except for his." "Note is in his own handwriting." "So we think we know how Tooner has been able to locate those vigilantes." "The deep current set analysis reveals that he's found some way to reverse engineer their technology." "Right, so we're gonna try to duplicate Tooner's math." "All right, that sounds good." "None of the dead kids have a connection to Tooner that we can find." "I'm thinking somebody at Vanguard must have crossed paths with him." "Right, see if you can find any of those colleges he took courses at, you know." "Tooner audited courses at Occidental and Whittier, as well as City College." "And while at City College," "L.A.P.D. Had him as a person of interest in the rape and murder of student Lori Sanchez." "OLIVER:" "Never met her." "I heard she died." "And how did you hear that?" "It was a topic of discussion." "With who?" "I told you, I don't know names." "But a lot of people care when an innocent person dies." "You really think that this is all revenge for one murdered girl?" "Let's find out more about her." " Hey, what's up?" " I'm on my way to school." "Got to get through that analysis for you." "You and Marshall really set each other off, huh?" "Yeah, I know, I don't know, we're, uh, frienemies." " Where's Dad?" " He's around." " Hey, Don." " Hey." "So you started going to temple?" "Dad tell you that?" "And Larry." "Is there some reason you didn't tell me?" "I don't know, you know, it's just like that thing you're always saying about not contaminating experiments." "Yeah." "Charlie, I don't know where I'm going with it, I just..." "I can't get into a scientific debate with you about whether it's logical or not." "Since when did you listen to everything I say?" " Uh, you can be pretty intimidating." " To you?" "To everybody." "Well, I think going to temple is an interesting choice." "I have nothing negative to say about that." " Okay." " At least it's not a monastery." "Ah." " All right, see you at dinner, all right?" " Yeah." "What, you standing there listening?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "I heard every word, yeah." "Okay, so let's have it." "I think you did a good job all these years hiding any sign that he intimidates you." "[LAUGHS]" " Well, that's what I think." " All right." "So the vigilante who wrote the coding, he was involved in this astrophysics project?" "Yes." "Similar phrases, styles." "NIKKI:" "Who do you think killed Lori Sanchez?" "That Vic Tooner creep." "But the police said there was no evidence." "There was no mention in the file about a boyfriend." "She didn't have one." "Was there anybody special?" "Some guy that maybe liked her?" "There's this guy, didn't go to school here." "Okay, I have it down to one programmer." "So that's the person behind Vanguard's computer network." "He worked as a tutor, super smart, had a huge crush on Lori." "His name was Clayton." "Here's his personal website." "NIKKI:" "We think this is the leader of the vigilantes." "Clayton Caswell." "Studying for his master's in computer engineering." "Tutored Lori Sanchez." "Been missing three days, so he's either hiding out or Tooner got to him, we just haven't found his body yet." "Oh, we'd have found him." "Tooner would make sure of that." "Run down every place he can be." "I'll see if I can get Charlie on it." "Takes a nerd to catch a nerd, huh?" "COLBY:" "All right, enough of the l-don't-know-names crap." "I know you know Clayton Caswell." "What does it matter now?" "He's gonna die, that's why it matters." "And the rest of Vanguard with him because Tooner has figured out how to get to them." " Clayton can handle it." " He can't handle it." "He's gonna get a lot of people killed." "So where is he?" "I don't know, okay?" "I wasn't told where they'd hide if it came to this." "This is all about a girl who died." "I get why Clayton wants revenge against Tooner for Lori Sanchez." " But what about the rest of you guys?" " Clayton's the type of guy..." "When he wants you to do something, he makes you feel like you can make a difference." "Like you're part of something important and special." "So you guys wanna be heroes?" "Yeah." "Don't you?" "God, why am I so stupid?" "You want answers one through 50 or 50 through a hundred?" "The regional cell matrix." "That's the deep current." "Uh, Tooner mines the regional cell phone matrix for data on the movement of merchandise." "Vanguard mines Tooner's cell matrix subset." " You know, if we set up derivatives..." " What, for all regional cell calls?" "You realise that will take days on a supercomputer." " Like you have a better approach." " Just narrow it down the data set." "It's quite logical." " Why are we fighting about it?" " Well, I'm not fighting." " What would you call this?" " I don't know, you started it." " I did not." " Yes, you did." "[COMPUTER BEEPS]" " What was that?" " Ongoing analysis of the robberies and past possible targets." "That's a computer repair store." "Vanguard's data said Tooner hit that." "There's no police report of a break-in, so that's an anomaly." "Maybe it wasn't reported." "We need this information for the data grid." "Maybe Vanguard left its graffiti symbol." "Wanna go on a field trip?" "So where are the Wonder Twins?" "Oh, they probably started arguing, forgot all about food." "Oh, man, I'm starving." "Looks open." "CHARLIE:" "Hello?" "MARSHALL:" "Hello?" "Hello, is anyone here?" "Hi, we're looking for an owner, uh, maybe a manager." "Just whoever is in charge." "That would be me." "You here about a computer?" "Yeah, we, uh, were expecting a call about when to come pick up our system." "It's a, um, compact supercomputer." "It's very valuable." "Supercomputer?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, eight serial CPUs, uh, vector processing..." "It's got a liquid-cooled HVAC system." "It's our baby." "It can even calculate the path of subatomic particles." "Or play 300 versions of "Halo" at the same time." "Yeah, I think I remember that one." "My partner processed that work order." "I'd have to look for it." "[CELL PHONE RINGS]" "Maybe that's him." "Hello?" "TOONER:" "Listen, we can find it if you don't know what you're looking for." "Uh, feel free to look around." "After all it's your supercomputer." "As they say:" "Mi casa es su casa." " All right." " Ha, ha." "Guys, I gotta go." " Gotta be here somewhere." " Yeah, uh, well, uh, this isn't it." "CHARLIE:" "Um, I think maybe..." "DON:" "Hey, Colby, Charlie's on my cell." "I need you to get a location, meet me there with L.A.P.D., got it?" "COLBY [OVER RADIO]:" "What's going on?" "He might be with Tooner." "Uh, did you change the, uh, decorative shell?" "No." "Guys, sorry I can't wait around for you to find your computer." "Yeah, no, that's fine." "We'II, uh, come back in the morning." "Thanks." "Don't you want to wait around for your brother, Professor Eppes?" "Here's a math problem for you." "Take the number of people who have seen me at crime scenes." "Subtract the number who've testified." "DAVID:" "He's gone." "CHARLIE:" "He was here." " In all of his sociopathic glory." " L.A.P.D. Is running traffic checks." "I don't understand how you guys ended up here." "We thought it was an old crime scene, turned out to be a currently active one." "NIKKI:" "You okay?" "MARSHALL:" "Yeah." "Adrenaline makes my skin itch." "[INDISTINCT CHATTERING OVER RADIO]" "In a world where mathematicians go mano a mano with a killer..." "This time it's personal." "We gotta get this guy." "All right, he made me itch in front of strangers." "He told me he was gonna kill me, you know, in so many words." "It's no wonder the Vanguard kids hate him, he's quite hateable." "Yeah, if he killed one of my friends, I'd go after him." "Clayton Caswell and Tooner, they hate each other." "They want a confrontation." "It sounds like they created a classic game-theory scenario, doesn't it?" "Yes, it does, Johnny Von Neumann, the old three-man gunfight." "A mathematical gunfight, huh?" "Imagine a duel between three people, okay?" "Now, I'm the worst shot." "I hit the target once every three tries." "One of my opponents is better, hits it twice every three shots." "The third guy is a dead shot." "He never misses." "Come on." "Now, each gets one shot." "As the worst, I go first." "Then Charlie." "Then Colby." "Who do I aim for my one shot?" "I guess me because I'm the biggest danger, right?" "I shoot Eppsy first, but not for the obvious reasons." "Chances are, two to one, I'm gonna miss." "And now it's my turn." "Logic says, I shoot Colby." "Right, because if I'm still standing, I'm gonna shoot you." " And I don't miss." " Exactly." "As the worst, I use the two better shooters against each other." "Vanguard and Tooner know each other's communication skills better than we do." "So we can use that against them." "We insert our info into their systems and make it work for us." "[POPS LIPS]" "CHARLIE:" "We created a target that Tooner can't resist." "And we made sure that Vanguard knows about it." "A setup?" "That's not gonna be obvious?" "Not the way we're doing it." "They'll both think they've got data the other side doesn't know they have." "Well, these guys are gonna come ready for war, so we better gear up." "We're using their hate against each other." "It's kind of ironic." "Oh, hey, I don't hate you." "What?" "You hate me?" "Only when you call me Eppsy." "Oh, I guess it's a way of dealing with who you are." "What do you mean, who I am?" "Charles Eppes, the guy everyone talks about." "You know, you're a pretty intimidating person." "That's the second time today I've gotten that." "Only the second?" "Well, you're fairly challenging yourself there, Marshall." "Seriously, every time I come up with something new in the back of my mind I'm thinking, "Penfield's gonna tear this apart."" "No, you're just saying this to be nice." "How about a truce?" "Is this some game-theory trick?" "If it was, I would be using a fourth level altruism ploy, right?" " It's a truce then." " All right." " How does it look?" "MAN [OVER PHONE]:" "All clear." "TOONER:" "Okay." "Twenty-two hundred cell phones, 800 iPods." "Like going to a supermarket." "Sixty-inch plasma TVs, 32 to be exact." "Okay, let's get to work." "Get these things open, come on." "Now." "MAN 1:" "Go, go." "MAN 2:" "Hey, get down." "Well." "Well, that had to be disappointing." "What?" "You're fighting us with bombs you cooked up in chem lab?" "Well, how did you think this was going to end?" "What, you college boys can do what the L.A.P.D. And the FBI can't?" "Huh?" "Huh?" "[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]" "DAVID:" "FBI!" "Put the detonator down." "[SIRENS WAILING]" "[COPS SHOUTING]" "Tooner, drop it, drop it right now!" "AGENT:" "Don't move." "Put your weapon on the ground." "Tooner." "Eat it." "We killed you." "[LAUGHS]" "He's gone." "[LAUGHING]" "We killed you." "You're done." "So, Marshall, how did you like your second taste of FBI work?" "Oh, it was terrific." "With the exception of meeting the psychotic killer face-to-face." " I didn't like that." " That wasn't optimal." "No, it was not." "Oh, you two don't seem to be fighting as much." "Is that on purpose or did you just get tired of it?" "No, it's on purpose, I never tire from an argument." "Yes, well, that's all too apparent." "Marshall and I have found we can actually get along, huh?" "Yes, I should have stopped calling you Eppsy years ago." "It's all right, I've been called worse." "Hey, everyone." "What do you say, Chuck?" " Like that." " Chuck?" " Yeah." " Like that." "I'm gonna work with that."