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(hoofbeats)

(indistinct voice
on P.A. system)

Hundred on Buckey's Folly
to win.

Hundred?

Seems like you're on some streak,
huh, Danny?

- Sorry?
- Just keep picking winners.

Yeah.

Just, uh, tweaked
my system a little.

♪ ...Your hairdo, yeah ♪

♪ I'm glad you like my 'do ♪

♪ See we're lookin' pretty cool,
getcha ♪

♪ Wait ♪

♪ Who's that guy ♪

♪ Just hangin' at your pad? ♪

♪ He's lookin' kinda blah ♪

♪ Yeah, you broke up,
that's too bad ♪

♪ I guess it's fair ♪

♪ If he always pays the rent
and he doesn't get bent ♪

♪ About sleepin' on the couch
when I'm there ♪

♪ 'Cause I like you... ♪

(fanfare plays)

ANNOUNCER:
The horses are on the track.

♪ And I'm feelin'
so bohemian, like you ♪

♪ Yeah, I like you,
yeah, I like you ♪

♪ And I feel... ♪

(starter bell rings)

ANNOUNCER:
And away they go!

(cheering, indistinct voice
over intercom)

ANNOUNCER:
...around the first turn.

Buckey's Folly settles in
against the rail.

♪ I'm getting wise ♪

♪ And I feel so bohemian
like you ♪

♪ It's you that I want ♪

♪ So please ♪

♪ Just a casual, casual,
easy thing ♪

♪ It isn't? It is for me ♪

ANNOUNCER: At the wire,
it's Buckey's Folly by a nose!

♪ And I feel whoo! ♪

♪ Whoo-hoo, hoo ♪

♪ Whoo-hoo, hoo ♪

♪ Whoo-hoo, hoo,
whoo-hoo, hoo. ♪

(a taiko drum pounding
rhythmically)

Why are you doing that
right now?

Did you know that primitive
societies believed in using percussion

as a means of communicating
with the dead?

Are you drumming for someone
in particular?

Yes. I'm drumming for the corpse
of my inspiration.

And banging bongos worked
for Richard Feynman, so...

Well, Feynman delighted
in making music.

I never percuss for pleasure.

Actually, I may have before me a
problem that cannot be drummed away.

Larry, why don't you take a
relaxing soak in the Jacuzzi?

No.

When it comes to matters
of the heart,

even Archimedes
preferred a cold shower.

Megan?

She's...

She's exciting,
and she's beautiful.

And this thing
that is between us --

it's beginning
to affect my work.

Well, what is going
on between you two?

I... have not...

the slightest idea.

(two drumbeats)

Well, you never work well
with emotional uncertainty.

Do you think that's it?

Do you think that emotional
uncertainty lies at the heart of all this?

Really, I'm not as familiar
with that side of you.

No, nor it seems, am I.

COLBY:
No real witnesses.

Broad daylight here,
and no one saw a thing?

Excuse us, folks.

- Excuse me.
- Hey, Chuck.

- How you doing, buddy?
- Hi, Don.

Well, apparently, the long shot
was winning in a photo finish,

and everybody was
focused on the race.

Uh-huh.

Found this on the body.

- Something for Charlie, I guess.
- Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Looks like a pretty
complicated betting scheme,

and there's race references
in the margins.

Why'd they call us?

COLBY:
Call came from inside.

There's an agent from O-C already
has an investigation underway.

Right.

Apparently, the track ownership
had ties to an organized crime group.

Agent Eppes.

Hey, nice to see you.

Yeah. What, uh...?

Liz.

Yeah. Liz Warner, right?

You guys know each other, huh?

Don was my Tactical Training
Instructor up at Quantico.

What, now, you're heading
your own O-C unit?

Uh, see what a good teacher
I am, Colby.

Agent-in-charge took
a leave of absence,

so I was asked to keep the
investigation up and running.

All right, Agent-In-Charge,
come here. What have you got?

Owner of the racetrack,
Maurice Connors, likes to gamble.

- Uh-huh.
- Isn't very good at it.

So, Ivan Tabakian
bought up his markers.

- Oh, yeah? Ivan Tabakian?
- Mm-hmm.

He's a major player. His crew's
into credit card scams,

insurance fraud, and extortion.

Right. No, I know
who he is.

What-What have they got
going on here?

Well, it's a gambling scam,

but we haven't put
our finger on it yet.

What, you think
this kid's connected?

We found that notebook
with the body.

From the looks of it,

seems like this kid,
Danny Roberts,

may be helping Tabakian.

I don't know.
Sounds a little thin to me.

We also found some betting slips
on the body.

Past ten days, 90 races.

This kid Danny Roberts made more
than 30 bets.

Yeah. So?

And won every single time.

Explain to me why the drum has
to be in my office.

Because I had to clear my floor.

They're steaming the carpets
in the Physics Department.

- Hey.
- CHARLIE: Perfect. Hey.

You-You guys hungry?
Let's go grab so dinner.

I can't get any dinner, but I
need you to look at this for me.

- Would you? Just take a second?
- Okay, sure.

Speaking of dinner...

I know. I-I'm sorry.

I-I just... I've been
so bogged down with...

- Work?
- (slight groan)

Lawrence?

Come take a gander at this.

It's a category-based
approach to...

I don't know what,

but it's a forecasting
system, right?

- It's very sophisticated.
- LARRY: Oh, no, no, no.

This is more than sophisticated.

You know what this
reminds me of?

A topos approach
to Bach's music.

- I said "very sophisticated."
- Yes, you did.

Where did this come from?

It's from a-a guy
who was murdered at a racetrack.

A racetrack?

Yeah, and we think he
was using it to pick horses.

Yeah, but if so,

this whole approach
is counterintuitive.

Well, how so?

Well,
if you're trying to forecast a horse race,

you're usually trying
to pick the winner, but, uh...?

What?

But these equations aren't
designed that way.

How are they designed?

They're designed
to ignore the winner.

Because he wasn't
picking the winner.

He was picking
the second place horse.

Hey, why design a system
to pick second place?

How does that system let you
pick 30 straight winners in a row?

- Doesn't make sense.
- (sighs)

You know, if you're gonna fix
horse races on a regular basis,

you have to pick horses
that are at least contenders.

Right, because if the long shot
wins too many times,

then, I mean, it's
gonna look strange.

Right. So, you have
to pick a horse that could win.

Second.

And then Tabakian would have
to make sure that horse had help.

COLBY: Looks like somebody
beat us to Danny Roberts' apartment.

Landlord just called
LAPD with a break-in.

I'll go.

I heard about what happened,
so I let myself in.

When's the last time
you were here?

I dropped off the mail
yesterday.

Can you tell
if anything's missing?

I don't think so, but
I can't tell really.

MEGAN:
And you live downstairs?

WOMAN:
Mm-hmm.

Any chance you might have
heard something last night?

I took an Ambien
before I went to bed.

I'm not much help, am I?

You have any idea who this is?

Oh, Danny's girlfriend.

She did something with
computers, I think.

Danny was crazy about her.

Any idea where
we might find her?

Well, they spent most of their
time at her place down in San Pedro.

You had any lunch yet?

Hmm?

Is that a yes or a hmm?

I'm sorry. What?

I said, do you want lunch?

What are you looking at?

It's a forecasting system.

It's extremely complex.

I just can't seem to crack the
logic of this enabling argument.

- All right, so take a break.
- I'll just...

I'll make myself a nice
turkey sandwich later.

- You sure?
- Mm-hmm.

These raspberries
look delicious.

I bought two boxes of them.

Ever since that big thing
on the news about antioxidants,

you can't find a blueberry,
but these raspberries --

they're so cheap.

What did you say?

I said the raspberries --
they're so cheap.

'Cause everyone
wants blueberries?

And I thought
you weren't interested.

Um...

I got to go check on something.

I got to go find Don,

so I'm gonna be home
later for dinner.

Okay.

But I'm going out for dinner.

So I, uh, did a tour
in Washington.

Good for the resume.

Oh, yeah? What?
You miss kicking ass?

(laughs)

Oh, you only think that
because you taught me how.

Hey, you were a wild girl.

I mean, if I recall,

you had a bit of an issue
with adrenaline, right?

I like to think it's more
of a hobby than an issue.

Uh-huh. Now, how'd you
stumble onto this case?

Well, we were running a
surveillance on a a midlevel supplier

linked to a
Salvadorian drug cartel.

He liked coming to the track,
so we came with him.

What? That's where
you found Tabakian?

Yeah, we're thinking the drugs
and him can't be a coincidence,

but so far, we've never seen
any product at the track.

Now, just tell me if this
owner guy... Is he cooperating?

- Maurice Connors? No.
- Oh?

Track's a cash cow,
so, long as it is,

he figures Tabakian's just
gonna keep him around.

Hey.

You know, we could shake
things up for him with Tabakian.

You know?

Risky game you like to play.

I like to think of
it more as a hobby.

So that's him.

How you wanna play this?

Uh, well, you lead.

I'll shake.

WARNER:
Mr. Connors. FBI.

We'd like to talk to you
about what happened yesterday.

I don't know anything about it.

You don't know anything about
a murder at your racetrack?

Well, I'm aware
of what happened,

but I didn't know the kid.

Really? 'Cause according
to some of your tellers,

he was a regular.

We have a lot of regulars.

Yeah, how many of them
are stabbed during the races?

You're suggesting his death had
something to do with my racetrack?

I don't know, maybe with
the track's new management?

New management?

Yeah, Ivan Tabakian.
You know anything about him?

I don't think I should
answer any more questions.

You haven't answered any yet.

(phone rings)

Eppes.

Yeah, all right,
we're on our way.

Hey, Liz, we gotta go.

You know, doesn't really matter
if you answer our questions.

'Cause all Tabakian's gonna hear

is that you were talking
to the FBI.

DON: Thanks for all your help,
Mr. Connors.

We'll be seeing you.

Got the dump
on Danny Roberts's phone.

Anything good?

Yeah, past month, he's only
called two numbers regularly --

one is a San Pedro exchange,
probably his girlfriend.

Yeah? Did you
get her name?

And an address.

Plug that in to your fancy
little nav system in your Acura.

Oh, don't player hate.

What about the other one?

It's an off-track betting place.

Palomar OTB.

That sounds good.
What'd they say?

I didn't call them.
Didn't really seem important.

(laughs)
That was almost funny, Granger.

Come on, what did they say?

Transferred me over
to legal affairs.

They said they're
happy to cooperate.

Soon as I produce a subpoena.

(groans)
Let's go see the girlfriend.

So I think I know
why Danny Roberts

was focused on picking
second place finishers.

He designed a system that
identifies arbitrage opportunities.

What does that mean?

It means he was looking
for bargains.

Bargains?

Racetracks use
pari-mutuel betting systems

where market forces
determine the odds.

It was actually invented by a French
perfume maker, uh, in the 1800s...

All right, Charlie, just...

Okay.

In pari-mutuel betting,
the odds fluctuate

according to how much
is wagered on a horse.

So it's like kind
of like an auction

where the more people there are
that want to buy something,

- the more expensive it becomes.
- And sold!

In horse racing, more expensive
translates to lower odds.

So, the lower the odds,

the smaller the return
on the bet.

So the favorite is just a horse
with the most amount of money bet?

That's exactly it.

And so many people are focused
on picking the winner,

there's an active exchange of
information going on about the favorite.

But we're dealing
with a horse here

that no one's really
paying attention to, so...

And it can also be
a highly inefficient market.

That inefficiency
creates a situation

where the potential for reward
outweighs the risk.

Those are the opportunities
that Roberts was betting on.

But that still doesn't explain how
Roberts won 30 straight bets, right?

No, you're right, it doesn't.

I mean, something must've changed,
you know,

whether it was in his system,
or at the track.

Right, enough to get him killed.

And in order to determine that,
I need data on those races

so I can compare his system
to the most recent results.

How recent?

Just, like, you know,
the races in the past year.

Yeah, welcome to my world.

(taps rhythmically)

WOMAN: I write software
for an IT company.

It's freelance,
so I mostly work out of home.

Danny always used to stop by
after the races, and,

when he didn't show up...

Can you think of anybody who
might've wanted to hurt him?

No.

I'm sorry.

How about if I give the whole
"just us girls" thing a try?

All right.

I'll call the office,

check on the status
of the subpoena for the OTB.

- Good luck.
- Thanks.

(phone pad beeping)

Had you guys set a date yet?

Next spring.

(chuckles)

We were kind of an odd pair.

Danny was outgoing,
and I was more the geek.

Hmm.

I got something similar
going on myself.

I just don't understand
how this could have happened.

Do you know if Danny had an
argument with someone at the track?

He didn't even talk
to anybody at the track.

He was too focused
on working his system.

Do you think he could have been
involved in fixing horse races?

Agent Reeves, most months
I had to pay Danny's rent.

If he was cheating,
wouldn't he be winning?

He was winning.

30 bets this week.

So maybe this Danny Roberts kid
was keeping the girlfriend in the dark.

She was totally surprised
about the winnings.

WARNER: I don't know.
Wouldn't be the first time

a guy tried to hide money
from his girl.

I'm with you, but the way the
landlady spoke about them,

young couple in love,
it's not really adding up.

This thing isn't adding up
in a big way.

Turns out he was hiding more
than just 30 bets from her.

That's the results
of the subpoena

from Danny Roberts's
account at the Palomar OTB.

He set up the account a couple
weeks ago and he placed one bet.

- What, Pick Six?
- Yeah.

What is a Pick Six?

You have to pick the winner
in six straight races.

It's basically like
winning the lottery,

and he just did it
five days ago.

- Yeah, what did he get?
- Half a mil.

Oh, well, there's a lot
of motive for someone.

Or not.
I just talked to them.

They told me that he never
cashed the ticket.

So you know Don
pretty well, huh?

You know what Quantico's like.

Yeah, I bet he was a pretty
tough instructor, huh?

He was just back from the field.

- Fugitive hunting?
- Yeah.

And still getting used
to being back in civilization.

Any reason you're asking?

I just screwed
something up a while back.

Well, I can tell you this much.

Fact you're still here,
means something.

But I wouldn't count
on being forgiven twice.

So Danny Roberts
picks six winners

for half a million dollars,
but doesn't cash the ticket?

Just doesn't make any sense.

His girlfriend said he
was borrowing rent money.

Sounds like he was hiding
the winnings from someone.

That bet, too, maybe.

What do you mean?

Roberts is down at the track
every day, right?

So why place a bet
through an online OTB

when you could do it in person?

Because he couldn't.

The tellers all knew him.

So maybe he wasn't
working for Tabakian?

Which might explain why
he's dead right now.

CHARLIE:
Six winners.

Six consecutive winners.

A streak of 30 wins.

All from a system designed
to pick a second place horse?

Does it make sense?

No. In theory, it should
never have happened.

Hey, you guys.

What are you two up to now?

We have been dealt a paradox
of theory versus praxis.

Is that bad?

We're attempting
to decipher a betting system

that's achieved something that
it just wasn't designed to do.

And currently,
we stand at the abyss,

having reached the limits of our
knowledge of the sport of Kings.

Oh, racetrack. Huh?

Do you know about horse racing?

Well, before I met your mother,

I used to hang out
at the track, uh, a lot.

Really? I would never have
pegged you for a railbird.

(laughs)
Yeah, well, I...

I got hooked when I was a kid.

I-I knew nothing about this.

Like I said, it was before
I met your mother.

I take it Margaret was not
a fan of the horses.

Uh, no, she was a big
fan of college funds.

Hey, by the way, if
we leave right now,

we can make it to the track
for, uh, morning workouts.

Yeah, great. Larry?

No. Count me out.

Horses going around a track,

it all puts me in mind of
an acute childhood trauma.

- Really? What happened?
- I was nine.

I was with my parents
at a county fair,

and I saw a man get crushed.

Wow.

By a horse?

Horses, actually.

Yeah, it was a merry-go-round.

- Let's go, Dad.
- Yeah, coming.

- Hey.
- Hey.

Want some coffee?

Yeah, sure.

So, we may be right about Danny
Roberts not working for Tabakian,

but so far, I got nothing.

Roberts bounced a check
here and there,

but there's no reason for him
to hide money from a creditor.

Let's see what Charlie
comes up with.

Back at Quantico, you never really
talked about your brother.

No?

As I recall, you never really
talked about yourself with anyone.

Thanks.

Well...

I wasn't in a really good way
back then.

Well, I hear you may
be mellowing with age.

(laughs)
Well, let's hope so, right?

I've just heard
some things about you

and a certain
federal prosecutor.

Oh, yeah, did you?

Don Eppes with the same woman
for more than a week.

I don't know,
some might call it progress.

Yeah, I mean, I guess it depends
who you ask, right?

So, this kid, Danny Roberts,

he's got no debt, he's not
working for Tabakian...

why does he get whacked?

You know, we had a
witness, a trainer.

He'd been doping horses.

Injecting an antidiuretic
so a horse would retain water,

- Uh-huh.
- Carry excess weight.

He was all set to testify
for the grand jury.

But what, Tabakian found out?

He had the guy's hands
nailed to a stall,

brought a horse in and had
the guy kicked to death.

Pff. Nice.

CHARLIE:
So Danny Roberts's system

was designed to pick the
second place horse. Why?

Because there's a bias in
the betting on second place.

If you know what you're doing,
you can exploit that.

Now how do you know?

Railbird, remember?

It took me half a day to work
that out mathematically.

Well, you should've
come to me sooner.

Yeah. So,
handicapping.

We're trying to predict
how a horse will run

at the distance
of the current race.

Exactly. But you have
to consider past performances,

type of horse, track conditions,
the experience of the jockey.

See, I'd even take it
a few steps further.

I would. I'd factor an average
race speed, interval pace,

wind speed, time of day,
assigned weights,

- Oh, Charlie. Charlie...
- Gate slot, sun position...

Charlie, you can't account
for everything.

You can, if you
can think of everything.

Ah.

But this is what's
confusing here. Look.

It's a probability adjustment

describing a dynamic system
with hidden states.

Charlie. Railbird. Railbird.

It's just something that's not
readily apparent to other bettors.

In my experience, handicappers
know practically everything.

That is, unless you want to take
cheating into consideration.

Well, that's just it, isn't it?

What?

Cheating is the behavior that
Roberts designed this algorithm for.

(clears throat)

- Who are you calling?
- Your brother.

Next thing you'll know, you're
going to tell me you gotta call Don.

Thanks.

Oh, hey, Megan.

May I come in?

Uh, yeah, yeah, uh... um...

Just, um...

(chuckles)

It's a little unexpected.

I know. I'm sorry.

I really should
have, um, called.

I just wasn't really sure I was
coming here until I was already, um...

here.

I-It's-- Yeah, that's fine.

And... Don said that Charlie
and Alan went to the track.

You didn't go with?

No, no, no, no.
Gambling on animals.

That's a messy business.

No, no, I much prefer cards.

There you have an appreciable
structure, you know,

played out in a graded
tensor product space, so...

Sounds like structure
is pretty important to you.

I'm sensing a-a more
than casual inquiry.

Well, I think what's been going on
between us is pretty unstructured.

(laughing)
Yeah.

Look, we make baryogenesis
look tidy.

(laughing)
I don't know what that means.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I-It's an asymmetry between
matter and anti-matter,

which emerged shortly
after the Big Bang.

It's -- Yeah, it's baryogenesis.

I think I'm finding
that, that things between us

are maybe just,
I don't know, um...

just kind of a trifle free-form.

I'm guessing that's why
you haven't called in a while.

Well, you see, Megan,

I-I'm just finding this
whole journey from I to us --

it's just a little more distracting
than I originally anticipated.

(chuckles)

And I would have guessed
that a guy that lives in his car

wouldn't need that
much structure.

There's few things better
organized than a 1931 Ford.

(laughs)
Listen,

I'm not, um,

making any demands.

No, and I'm not suggesting
that you are.

But if you need a
little more structure,

I'm not necessarily
opposed to that.

You're not?

Uh-uh, and if you can
get past the distraction,

there's a Truffaut
retrospective this weekend.

Okay.

Yeah, let me just
check my planner.

(giggles)

(whispering)
I'll see you this weekend.

Yeah, it looks -- it looks clear.

So originally,
Roberts designed his system

to pick second place finishers,
and then something changed.

Yeah, cheating.

- My idea.
- Mm-hmm.

Right, a-and suddenly,

the horses that should be
winning stopped winning,

and that screws up his ability
to pick the runner-up.

So then he makes an adjustment
because, well,

he realizes that the outcomes
are consistently falling

outside the range of
realistic probabilities.

It's like a weather report

where the forecast calls
for a heat wave,

and instead
there's a freak snowstorm.

You know, once or twice,
that's anomalous.

You can't predict
anything perfectly,

but if that pattern
is persistent,

you've got to assume

that there are unknown factors
to consider.

Unknown factors like cheating.

CHARLIE:
See, Roberts retooled his system

to account for those
fixed races, and presto.

30 straight winners.

So it proves it was a scam.

Maybe it was the cheating
that got the guy killed.

Yeah, he may be right.

I loaded all the race data
onto my laptop,

so I was able to run
every Pick Six winner

for the past six months
through Roberts' algorithm.

- And?
- A snowstorm in July.

Right, at least for
the past few months.

I mean, five winners.

Each of them won the Pick Six
when the races were fixed.

That's just not a coincidence.

Granger.

Hey, we got something
from Charlie.

Tried to give you a call.

Yeah, I got your message.

I was at CalSci.

Ah, Larry.

You're dying to ask, aren't you?

No.

(chuckles)

I think it's
the unpredictability.

- I didn't ask.
- All right, you didn't ask.

I do think, uh, you're a little
bit of an odd pair, but...

Exactly.

What do you see?

Celia Martinez' bank account.

She's one of the Pick Six winners
Charlie linked to the cheating.

Yeah.

The last transaction is
to an Estate Trust.

I think Celia Martinez is dead.

- What are you doing?
- Just checking something.

Social Security numbers
of the other Pick Six winners.

Yeah.

Wharton is dead?

Look at this.
They're all dead.

So, you got two overdoses,
a fatal hit-and-run...

And the other two deaths were
caused by drowning and a fall.

So all five deaths were
accidental?

What are the odds of that?

DON: About the same as all five
winning the Pick Six.

All right, so let's look at 'em
as homicides. Right?

All right, I'll get into it
with the Medical Examiner.

Tabakian's got
to be behind this.

Well, then, we just connect him
to the money.

Or we just go pick him up.

Last time we were this close,
he killed my witness.

We tip our hand early,
we only add to the body count.

Thanks again for the use
of the tub, Alan.

I'd say anytime, but
you might think I meant it.

No, no, I promise I
won't make it a habit.

I was kidding, Larry.

You know you're always welcome.

- Anytime.
- Thanks.

By the way, if you get tired of
that nomadic lifestyle of yours,

I, um, I do happen to have some,

uh, brochures
of a condo development.

They're really great properties.

While back, I was thinking
of taking one myself.

It's so funny you're
even mentioning this.

Oh, really. How so?

Because lately,
I have been rethinking

some of my earlier assumptions
with regards to,

you know,
pure intellectual endeavor.

Ah.

Oh, you figured out
that grown women won't make out

in the backseats of cars, huh?

I don't know, I just think
I may have lost touch

with certain important aspects
of life in the real world.

Plus...

my car.

No backseat.

Let me get you
one of those brochures.

All five victims cleared out their
accounts with a cashier's check.

The checks were cashed
at banks overseas

in Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Ugh, so I'm guessing the
accounts went nowhere?

Ah, the money is a dead end.

We have five victims from
five different neighborhoods

and five different ethnicities.

There's no common denominator.

Except Tabakian.

He found them; we just
got to figure out how.

Maybe...

it's an employment thing,
a work connection.

Raymond Wharton didn't
even have a job.

Neither did Celia Martinez.

That's it,
the unemployment office.

It's two blocks away.
It's quicker to walk.

(knocks)

Hey, so Don asked me if I could
connect the Pick Six winners to Tabakian,

but so far, we don't
have enough data,

and any data-mining
algorithm may require

way more information than
we already have, so it's like...

Larry.

Yeah.

How much did you hear
of what I just said?

You don't have enough data to
connect the people to your mob boss.

Exactly.

So concentrate on
the data you do have

and maybe there's a way to
connect them through their bets.

Larry, that's... brilliant.

What is it with
me and structure?

Do you find me
overly structured?

I don't kn--
Why are you asking me?

Just humor me here,
just answer this question.

Well, on the one hand,

you don't have a home;

and on the other,
you eat monochromatically.

Look, do you remember when I was

an undergraduate in
your quantum physics class?

Yes, how could I ever forget?

That class was the first place
that I learned about the paradoxes

between quantum mechanics
and general relativity.

Yeah, and we're still
in search of a theory

to unify the two in a single
explanation of gravity.

But w-where were you
headed with this?

There's no unifying theory
for Larry Fleinhardt.

And I think Megan

could very well be...
your own private gravity.

I have records
for all five of them,

but they all went
to different job centers.

MEGAN: Can you access
that information from here?

Sure. Everything's linked.

I can pull up a list of companies
that each of them interviewed with.

Wait, can you scroll
back up for a second?

Do you see something?

Yeah.

Take a look at this.

They all interviewed
at the racetrack?

Can you see
who they talked to there?

Uh, that sort of thing would
only be in the original files.

So, let's look
at the original files.

It takes five business days
to process a request.

- Hey, all right, so...
- Where you been?

Hold on, hold on, we got here
as fast as we could.

Just relax.
What's going on?

Look, there wasn't enough data.

Larry said, "Try to use other
data." I said, "Use other data?"

- I-I reworked the algorithm, you know.
- Shh.

Just slow down, just slow down.

I made improvements
to Roberts' algorithm.

I took a look at all the racing
results for the past two years,

and you know,
not just the Pick Six.

- I looked at all the betting.
- And?

They were fixing races way
before they fixed the Pick Six.

What do you mean?

They started by fixing races,
like, once a month.

Then twice a month,
then more frequently.

Look, there is a regular
progression to this pattern.

Charlie, we already know
they were fixing races.

Right, but now, now we know
when they were doing it.

I mean, Don, don't you see?

If, if they killed those five Pick Six
winners right after they got their money,

then what's to stop them
from killing all the other winners

of all the other fixed races?

- That would be...
- 18... other murders.

Charlie, that's a lot of bodies.

I mean, look, we'd know if these
guys killed that many people.

Well, not if they staged
the deaths as accidents.

So look at this.
Here's another one.

Not deceased.

I'm starting to think we're
not looking at more bodies.

All right, so what is it?

I mean, first of all, we're not
looking at 18 different people.

We're looking at six guys
who won a lot of bets

over the course of the 18 dates
that Charlie gave us.

Six guys.

And they all have to
be connected to Tabakian.

All right, look, why don't you just
start checking into their backgrounds?

All right.

Give up on the water cure?

Yeah, it wasn't really working.

- Plus, I ran out of hot water.
- Oh.

Here I am, once again
monopolizing your bathtub.

I apologize.

You take as much
time as you need.

Thank you.

You all right?

Yeah, it's just the efforts
I've made to simplify my life

have started to complicate it.

You know, not long ago,
I was, um,

I was worried
about Charlie, you know.

About him having a normal life.

That's a bit of a challenge,

given the circumstances
of his genius.

Yeah, that's what I realized.

So I thought maybe, uh,

normal for him
was not on target.

And perhaps for you,

- simple is off the mark.
- (chuckles)

I've never known
life to be simple.

- CHARLIE: Larry?
- Yeah, in here.

Hey, I need you to
look at something.

Why are you both in here?

Okay, what is it I'm looking at?

That's my question.
Look closely.

If you didn't know that this was
evidence in an FBI investigation,

what would you say that it was?

I'm sorry, what is it
you're asking?

Ignore the context
of the murder,

you know what, and imagine
the page a little bigger,

what does it look like?

Uh... it looks like a blue book

that one of my teaching
assistants has graded.

That's exactly what I thought.

Oh, yeah, one of those things you guys
give your students to do exams in, right?

I think someone was
helping Danny Roberts.

I think someone was checking

and improving his work.

So he had an accomplice.

Who was talented at math.

WARNER:
So, according to Charlie,

Roberts was getting
help on his system.

COLBY: Yeah, now,
if Danny Roberts had an accomplice,

that means somebody else knows
about the cheating at the track.

Which means we still have
a witness out there.

Now, his girlfriend told Megan
that he worked at the track alone.

So maybe whoever helped
him wasn't at the track.

The girlfriend was into
computers, she writes software.

BOYD: Maurice,
just calm down, all right?

CONNORS:
Well, how long is it gonna take?

About 45 minutes.

We got the full records
from Unemployment.

Maurice Connors' name is
all over their interview cards.

So, wait, what happened
to the five business days?

I let her hold my gun.

That's a subpoena.

Every single one of
the Pick Six victims,

they went into the track
looking for work,

Connors must have directed them
straight to Tabakian.

Wow, that's accessory to murder.

Yeah, to say the least.

All right, good.

Hey, did you get anything on the
guys who won the bets on fixed races?

Yeah, three of them had sheets,
mostly drug related.

Ooh. Mind if I have a look?

Yeah, I'll show you the
files. They're on my desk.

I got to run,
but you can look at them.

I want it noted for the record
that my client is here voluntarily.

Yeah, well, if it means I didn't
have to go out and drag him in here,

consider it noted.

You have no cause
to arrest my client.

DON:
You know these people, right?

Go ahead, take a good look now.

Don't answer that.

You interviewed them for jobs.

I interview a lot of people.

How many get murdered
after winning the Pick Six?

Maurice,

I'm ordering you not to respond.

You're ordering him?

Who's the client here?

Look, I got your name signed
on the interview cards.

All right? That's one,
two, three, four, five.

I had nothing to do with this.

Mr. Connors, it's gonna take a jury
about ten minutes to decide otherwise.

Maurice, you need to keep quiet.

No, you need to keep quiet.

Let's go.
We're done here.

Walk out that door, I'm telling
you they're gonna kill you.

They will kill you.

You have no right to interfere
with the representation of my client.

Your client.

Who's paying your bills,
counselor?

Go ahead, ask him
who's paying his bills?

Boyd?

Maurice, don't make a mistake.

I didn't kill anybody.

I'm afraid
I can no longer represent you.

One guess who
his first call's gonna be.

Tabakian told me to keep
an eye out for single people,

no families.

People who could work the
late shift at his club.

Why?

He told me he was expanding
his business into drug trafficking.

He figured out a way
to clean their money.

(knocking)

All right. Mr. Connors.

Just hang tight for two minutes.

(sighs)

You remember how I told you I
followed a drug supplier to the track?

- Yeah, the Salvadorians.
- Yeah.

Turns out the supplier's name
was on Colby's list of people

who won money
on the fixed races.

Looks like Tabakian
was paying for drugs

by fixing races and laundering
money at the same time.

Okay, what, they bet with the
dirty money, then he washes it.

They even paid their taxes.

Danny Roberts must have
just stumbled into this.

Yeah, along with the girlfriend.

Megan and Colby are
on their way to San Pedro

and bringing her in right now.

All right, good.

Sharrlyn?

It's Agent Reeves.

It's clear.

Granger.

Look at this.

That's blood spatter.

Looks like Tabakian
got here before us.

So the locals are running
a neighborhood canvas,

but so far, nothing.

What? They carried a girl's body
out of here in broad daylight.

Yeah, we're trying to track down
deliveries or mailmen,

anybody who might
have seen something.

Sharrlyn Smith has a master's
degree in Math from Stanford University.

So she was definitely
Danny Roberts' accomplice.

Great. Which means
I just lost another witness.

(cell phone ringing)

Yeah?

All right.
We got to go.

The techs monitoring Danny
Roberts' account at the OTB,

- they just got a hit.
- A hit?

That half-million dollar ticket,
it just got cashed.

MEGAN: Someone transferred all
the money to an off-shore account.

Our techs traced it to
an IP address inside this hotel.

Tabakian's crew
probably found the log-in IDs

when they tossed
the girlfriend's apartment.

So they killed our only witness,

and they cashed the ticket.

Why leave a half mil on
the table if you don't have to?

(whispering)
Let me get those keys.

- FBI!
- FBI!

You're supposed to be dead.

(panting)

Danny asked if I'd look
at his system.

It just...

it wasn't working anymore.

And that's how you realized
they were fixing the races?

The only way to explain
the results was cheating.

So I wrote an algorithm
that included a proviso for it.

That's how Danny
picked 30 winners in a row.

I didn't know
that he was doing that.

You had the Pick Six ticket.

We were afraid the tellers would
notice if he was winning all the time.

But the Pick Six ticket...

it would be enough for us
to start a life together.

If I'd never worked on his
system, Danny wouldn't be dead.

Why did you fake your death?

They came to my house.

I hid in my car.

I waited all day
for them to leave.

And when I saw what they did,

I panicked.

I figured if everybody
thought I was dead...

Sharrlyn...

your algorithm gives us a
wedge into a major narcotics ring.

But Tabakian and his guys are
not gonna stop looking for you

until they... know

you're not a threat to them.

So what am I supposed to do?

You help us, and we protect you.

Agent Reeves, they killed Danny
in broad daylight,

in front of a crowd of people.

I know. And I'm not gonna
let that happen to you.

But you have to help me.

(tires screeching)

Back at Quantico, it was
all about the rush for me.

But now...

What? You're mellowing with age?

Don't get me wrong,
I still like kicking down doors.

Yeah, I know,
it can wear thin, right?

(talking indistinctly)

Ivan Tabakian, FBI.

I've got a warrant
for your arrest.

Let's go, get up.

Let's go! Get up.

I'm eating my fish.

(laughter)

A nice sea bass.

Perhaps this can wait?

Hey!

DON:
Was I talking to you?! Huh?!

Wasn't talking to you, either.

Get up!

All right.

- I know the drill.
- Uh-huh.

This time, we got a witness
you can't touch.

- (handcuffs snap)
- Let's go.

(jazz music playing)

MEGAN: Maybe it's just
my own history speaking,

but I'd like to think that
Antoine grows up to be a cop.

What? A cop?

Did you and I just see
the same movie?

Well, you never know
how things turn out.

Well, I guess for some people,
that's part of the fun.

And for you?

(laughing)
Clearly, I'm not some people.

(laughs)

So go over the schedule
with me one more time.

Okay, dinner and a movie
every other Friday,

lunch on Thursdays.

No, Wednesdays.

And I get a wild
card once a month.

That's it, that's it.
To use at your own discretion.

And what do we call this?

Oh... how about
structured complexity?

(laughs)

You know, I'm thinking
of using my wildcard.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Maybe for
breakfast tomorrow.

♪ There's no easy way... ♪

Okay.

♪ To say goodbye. ♪