"I wish we did more stuff with-with the women on Numb3rs, our characters interacted more, um, but when you get a scene, with, you know, Navi's character, Amita..." "It's always nice to get some female energy in the mix." "And when they pair Nikki and-and Liz up..." "You're in this huge boys' club, and a lot of times, you feel as though you have to prove yourself." "It's so fun to watch." "We get so many compliments, you know, from family and friends that love seeing the two FBI girl agents kick butt." "FBI!" "Don't move!" "Our show runner, Ken Sanzel, is a former cop who had a female partner, that he had actually been in a shootout with," " side by side with." " Uh-huh." "He really didn't want weak women on..." "Especially not behind the badge." "He just did not want weak women on the show." "Hey, where's your girlfriend?" "Not Colby." "The other one." "The girl." "We were just very fortunate." "We had..." "The actresses we hired were all strong." "It..." "You know, you don't always get lucky, 'cause so often you hire actresses in this business, and then they kind of..." "they-they act tough," " 'cause on the page it says be tough." " Yeah." "And then they suddenly show up on the set..." "Well, that's the funny thing about..." "And they want to be... they don't want to be tough anymore." "FBI." "Drop it..." "When I first came on the show, my deal was, you know, definitely three episodes with a possibility of series regular, so the first time I went to the range, all of that was going on on the inside," "but I didn't want the producers to know, so I was, like, giving, like, my best..." "Like, "What?" "This-This gun?" "Oh, yeah." ""No problem." "Yeah." "No." "Even bigger." "Bring me something bigger."" "You know, but on the inside, I was just, like," ""Oh, my gosh, how am I going to look okay doing this?"" "You know?" "Um, but I..." "I think I pulled it off." "Oh, that's for the DVD, 'cause it's all about me." " Oh." " It's not about you." "Well, that's the funny thing about Sophina is, like, she plays, like the toughest FBI agent you've ever seen." "Bad ass, yeah." "I mean, she's so bad ass, she's so tough, and she's giving the attitude." "And you talk to her in real life..." " She's the sweetest thing." "...she's the sweetest thing." "She understands her character is tough, and then she somehow becomes that character." " She becomes the character." " It's extraordinary." "She's a really wonderful person." "It's a huge departure for me." "Um, I think I'm a little bit more... even aside from the firearms and the, you know, fists and brawn that Nikki is... um, I think I'm just a little more soft-spoken than she is, and" "just not as abrasive." "The-The answer to the first question is, we're working on it." "The answer to the second question is, it's not gonna happen." "That's why she's so much fun to play, though, is because I get to kind of escape for a little bit and just really delve into..." "into Nikki land." "And the second question?" "Ooh, he likes you." "The biggest challenge for me was probably being okay with being that physical." "You know?" "Not apologizing for the physicality of this character." "When we were shooting that show, um..." " "Scratch..." - "Scratch."" "we did this scene down... in... by the Venice canals here in Los Angeles." "Oh, the chase with the bicycle..." " Yeah, I was on set that day." " Sophina has to run down this..." " kid on a bicycle." " She has to..." "Yeah." "And it's a professional stunt bike rider." "And I was telling the director, Steve Gyllenhaal..." "I said, "You haven't seen Sophina run."" "I said, "You better see her run, because the way you're-you're..." ""When you're setting up your shots, I mean, she is gonna be what you want the camera on."" "And it turned out, she not only ran so..." " Well, she..." " It wasn't that she ran good." "This is, again, a professional biker." "He was taking off..." " Stunt guy, yeah." " Stunt guy." "And Gyllenhaal goes, "Action," and Sophina goes..." "Runs up, catches up with the bike, and grabs it." "And she says, "I'm not supposed to catch him, am I?"" "It was, like, "No."" "Um, but yeah, they give us a lot of fun stuff to-to do." "Guess you can skip your spinning class today." "It's always exciting to see women who are really good at what they do, you know, in a man's world." "You just root them on." "It's great." "Aya's a very forceful, dynamic character and very physical." "First of all, l-I love action." "And I think... you know, I have a dance background... so anything physical, I love to attack direct, straight on." "I did a cop show before this, and we went to the gun range and all of that, and that was extremely helpful." "I love that, you know, the writers of this show, they don't ever have me taking off my clothes, you know?" "They never have me, you know, in really just compromising situations." "It's not a T and A show." "No." " It never was." "I mean, one thing we-we definitely made a decision to do was to not go the way other shows can go, where the... if there's a female character on the show that they end up having to have sexual relationships" "with just about every male on the show." "They're very respectful, and even if one of us does have to go there... like Aya had to kind of go there in one of her episodes last season..." "it was done very tastefully." "And it was purposeful." "You know, there was a complete reason behind why and... why she did what she did." "It wasn't just kind of some gratuitous..." ""Oh, let's get one of 'em in bedl"" "You know what I mean?" "Um, get the ratings up." "It's never like that, so I..." "my hat's off to the writers." "It's another thing I kind of admired that Ken Sanzel decided..." " Mm-hmm." "...is like, you don't... the cops don't have to sleep with other cops." " Mm-hmm." " And he kind of actually... there was a point where Rob broke up..." "the character of Don breaks up with Liz." "And some of the fans were mad about that, but Ken was like," " "No, cops... you know, I don't want to see that. "" "Yeah." "See you tomorrow, boss." "I'm always aware of that, whenever I'm, uh, portraying a character... uh, especially in television, because it does reach so many people..." "I'm very aware of especially young women and just the lack of role models that there are." "I mean, I think definitely in terms of, um, you know, showing people that are educated, that are in school, that are not, you know, dorks, so to speak, you know, it's so nice to see an intelligent" "female character." "We get a lot of mail and contacts from young women, and that's always very touching that they... they really love..." "It's-lt's more..." "they-they love Navi." " Navi's the one who gets..." " Yeah, particularly Navi." "They come up to her in public and cry." "I mean, they really feel, "You made it okay to be smart." "You made it okay to be good in math."" " It's a very moving part of the job for Navi, I think." " Mm-hmm." "A lot of the feedback I got was, you know, it's great to see somebody who's ethnic and who seems, like, worldly and who also is somebody who's supposed to be a math professor," "and, you know, it's a lot of, a lot of positive feedback about that." "'Cause I guess, um, there's a kind of a stereotype about women that... that go into math and science." "Charlie, the focus so far has been on the global systemic objective." "First, the cascading failure;" "Now, market manipulation." "Yep, that's right." "Well, you're treating the outages as if they're a secondary byproduct." "And what if they aren't a byproduct?" "What if they're the objective?" "What if?" "Two young girls... probably like sophomores in high school... came up to me and loved the show." "And I, for a moment, was taken aback, because usually it's, you know, people in their 40s and 50s and older and, um, or, you know, com..." "math geeks, you know, and that's their world and, um... but these were like two young, hip sophomore high school girls that came up to me and were like, "We love your show."" "We get letters from people saying, you know, yeah, again," ""You make it okay... it's because of the show, it's cool at my school to be okay at math."" "Hacking a satellite signal requires a little more sophistication, but I can put a unit together." "I mean, I built my first computer when I was 13." "I know my way around a circuit board." "Younger, um, kids come up and say that teachers bring our show in for math class, yeah." "That meant a lot, I think, to the actors and to us." "It makes me feel really proud and, uh... that, you know, people respect the show and are bringing it into classrooms and-and making math sexy and fun and... it's great." "Two boats meet in the middle of the ocean to swap a load of illegal drugs." "You have to catch them in real time." "Otherwise, there's no evidence of the meeting left behind." "I mean, I feel fortunate in that sense that my character has had a really good arc and made a lot of progress." "It's not like..." "You know, I started out as a student." "I was his student." "Um, I remember in the pilot, the dynamic was that my character had a crush on Don." "How you doing?" "Good." "It's nice to see you again." "And then I was working." "David was like... you know, I was in school with him or he was my teacher, and he kind of had a crush on me." " Really?" "Hmm." "Getting married?" "So it was this interesting love triangle that then, I think, went away." "So that was completely different, and I'm glad that they kind of moved away from that." "I think that would have been a little odd." "But yeah, I mean, just the progress that she's made in her career and how far she's come from being a student to then, you know, graduating and then becoming a professor and kind of now being, you know, working" "alongside Charlie." "You know, that's brought up in the last few episodes, too, how she's kind of... the evolution of her, uh, in terms of her career, which, I think, is great." "Score on the probability distribution." "Well, what about us?" "We could do something to help Anne get CJ back." "That's what we're doing now." "No, I think it's, I think it's really nice, it's really..." "I've been on a lot of different shows playing a lot of different characters, and it's been a real honor to play somebody who is, you know, an upstanding kind of human being and who can be looked to for examples." "It's... you don't get to do that a lot as an actor, you know?" "So it's been nice."