Episode
Numb3rs: Calculated Risk
Overview
Don and Megan are called to the murder scene when the CFO of a powerful energy company - who was about to testify against her fellow executives - is murdered at her home and her son is the only witness. Knowing there could be thousands of disgruntled ex-employees, Don asks Charlie to narrow the list.
Details
- Series
- Numb3rs
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2005-10-14
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Calculated Risk is Episode 4 in Season 2 of Numb3rs. It aired on 2005-10-14. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 3: Obsession
The FBI becomes involved in the stalking of a popular singer after she is threatened by an intruder in her house and reveals a series of threatening letters she's received through the mail. Charlie determines the letters are from two different people after analyzing the handwriting. When a photographer is found dead near the singer's house, Don believes the photographer was murdered and his death is somehow related to the stalking case.
Episode 5: Assassin
Don uncovers a secret code that begins the hunt for a skilled and trained assassin, and the efforts by the FBI to save the life of a Colombian exile living in Los Angeles.
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Episode 8: In Plain Sight
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When a researcher who specializes in Native American antiquities is killed at the museum where she works, the FBI is called in because the museum is on federal land.
Episode 11: Scorched
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