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(bell rings)

Last week, on Numb3rs...

No real witnesses.

Broad daylight here
and no one saw a thing?

- Agent Eppes?
- Yeah, Liz Warner, right?

Don was my tactical training
instructor up at Quantico.

All right Agent in Charge, come
here. What do you got?

Looks like Tabakian
was paying for drugs

by fixing races and laundering
money at the same time.

Two overdoses,
a fatal hit and run --

Tabakian's got to be
behind this.

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

Ivan Tabakian? FBI.

Got a warrant for your arrest.

Hey!

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

I just heard some things about
you and a certain federal prosecutor?

Did you?

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

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

Depends who you ask, right?

(pounding techno music plays)

♪ A wonderful place to be ♪

♪ The birds are singing ♪

♪ Dreams that are sent to me ♪

♪ Everyone's waving... ♪

I owe you, Eppes.

Ahh...

You saved my night

from being a total disaster.

Hey, look, I don't see how
anyone could stand you up anyway.

Will you keep this
between you and me?

Word gets out I use an
Internet dating service,

I'm going to take
some serious crap.

Yeah? I don't know,

I'm having a hard time
imagining that.

Take away my badge and gun,
I'm just like anybody else.

Course, you try
and take it away,

I'm likely to kill you.

See? That's my point.

Thanks for dinner.

♪ A beautiful place to be ♪

♪ So I don't know why ♪

♪ You're telling me something ♪

You sure you want to do this?

You've got this
whole settled life.

This prosecutor girlfriend.

Yeah. Maybe you're right.

♪ So ready to see you ♪

♪ So ready to see you ♪

♪ So ready to see you ♪

♪ So ready to see you... ♪

(cell phone rings)

Hey.

Nah, it's going to be late.

I don't know how late.
Just late.

(crackling)

(wrench clatters)

Hey, uh... no, it's fine.
It's nothing.

I just dropped the phone.
That's all.

But I need to go.

All right?
Don't wait up.

(tires screeching)

♪ So ready to see you ♪

♪ So ready to see you... ♪

(phone rings)

Mine or yours?

(ringing continues)

♪ So ready to see you... ♪

It's mine.

(sighs)

Yeah, Eppes.

Yeah.

All right.
I'm on my way.

(hangs up)

You got my clothes off,
and now you're going to leave?

Yeah, someone blew up
a power plant.

Homeland's involved, and...

What do you think?
Should I come back?

Nah, I have to get up early.

You have to get up early, huh?

How early?

I'm locking the doors
at midnight.

All right.

♪♪

Just got the
all-clear from LAFD.

Mm-hmm.

Power company's taken
the station off-line.

Don, if this is terrorism,
it's pretty low-end.

A few thousand customers
spend the night in the dark.

Or it could be a test run,
you know, for a bigger attack.

DAVID: This is the worker right
here. Doing routine maintenance.

And the driver?

Must have gotten out
before the fire and taken off.

(indistinct voices)

Hey, check this out.

DAVID: Somebody jammed a 2X4
in the gas pedal?

Yeah, looked like it was wedged
in there pretty tight.

So, there was no driver.

Hey, guys, thanks for
staying late. Sorry.

That's cool,
I could use the overtime.

We don't get overtime, Granger.

Yeah, I know, and it's a shame,
'cause I could really use it.

Anyway, here's what we got
on the victim, Randy Syles.

31 years old, he's
married with two kids.

How long's he been with
the power company?

Well, he's not,
actually, not officially.

This substation is owned by
Renault Energy,

and they're in the middle of a
labor dispute.

The union's been on
strike for six weeks.

So, he's a scab?

Union workers must
have loved that.

There's your motive.

Have a printout on the truck
that was used.

It's not going to
help us much, though.

Stolen.

DAVID: Yeah, early this
afternoon.

Echo Park area.

MEGAN;
Echo Park?

That's really far
from the crime scene.

So, this guy steals a car, drives it
20 miles and into a power station?

How-How's he get home?

Means we're looking for
multiple suspects.

Yeah, we're gonna need to get a
list of the local union members.

Yes, and cross-reference it
against addresses in Echo Park.

Yeah, I'll check with Homeland,

see if they're picking up any terrorist
chatter that is related, you know?

You got somewhere to be?

Not anymore.

You got this wire
coiled too tight.

No, it's not too tight.

- It's wrapped too tight.
- You didn't leave enough --

- Don't touch it, okay?
- Hey, play nice!

Hey, if you two are gonna
fight over your toys,

I'll have to take 'em away.

CHARLIE: This is not
a toy, Dad.

This is an electrostatic lifter.

How does that work?

Well, there's some serious
disagreement about that,

whether it's
Biefeld-Brown effect,

ionization of the corona wires,

simple dielectrophoresis.

ALAN: Boy, I'd hate to be in
the room during that debate.

You laugh, but it's
a heated issue.

Okay, let's see what happens
when we apply a little current.

(buzzing)

Wow! That is amazing!

Well, unless you can do that
with my car,

I still say it's a toy.

DON:
Hey!

What's with all the candles?

You guys didn't lose power,
did you?

Yeah, it was out
just a few hours ago.

Someone blew up a substation
down in Mission Hills.

ALAN: Mission Hills?

How in the world would we be
affected by something so far away?

It's called a precautionary
broad-line reduction.

The operator simply
shuts the power off

till they can restore balance.

Right, the thing you have to
remember about electricity --

it can't easily be stored, so
generally, it has to be consumed

within milliseconds
of being produced.

LARRY: Yeah, which means
for the power companies,

it's a constant game of balance

between electricity production
and consumption.

CHARLIE: So, when this
substation in Mission Hills failed,

then there would have
been a surge in other areas.

ALAN: So, the operators shut
down all the large areas

until the balance is restored,

- right?
- Right.

DON: What happens
if they don't do that, Larry?

Worst case scenario,
cascading failure.

CHARLIE: It's just like
that game, Jenga.

You know, the game with the
tower of wooden blocks.

Except in this case, the substations
are just like the individual blocks.

Many of the blocks can be
removed without having

a great effect on the entire
system as a whole.

However, if the wrong block --
or in this case, substation --

is knocked out, well, then...
then yeah, the whole system

could come crashing down.

What, like the-the huge
blackout back East,

a couple, what, three years ago?

Right, 50 million people
left in the dark

because of the failure
of a single switch.

ALAN: You think someone
who did this tonight

had something like that in mind?

LARRY: Well, if so,

I can't imagine
we've heard the last of them.

WOMAN: I talked to him on the
phone just minutes before it happened.

He was there, you know,
and then... suddenly he's not.

Maybe you should have a seat.

I'm sorry.

I'm acting like a crazy person.

I can't believe he's dead.

Mrs. Syles, we know your husband
only worked for Renault for a short time.

Since the strike.

The pay was so much better
than his usual job.

But do you have any idea
if he received any threats

for crossing picket lines?

He tried to keep it
from me, but...

he got calls.

I know he did.

That's why he started
working at night.

Figured he'd have less chance
of running into trouble.

You really think that someone
killed him for trying to earn a living?

MEGAN:
We're not sure yet.

You know, emotions run really
high during a strike.

People think their livelihoods
are in danger.

Someone had to do the work.

Otherwise, people
would be in the dark.

Like the station that failed two
nights ago wasn't one of Robbie's.

He said that was
just poor maintenance.

A substation failed
two days ago?

Boyle Heights.

The night before last,

Renault Energy had
another substation go down.

No way.

No, and they blamed it
on wear and tear.

Because of the strike,

they can't keep up with the
maintenance program.

All right, well, it ain't a
coincidence, then.

Why not? I mean,
coincidences, after all,

are an absolutely valid
mathematical occurrence.

Two failures in two nights,
I mean, they're related.

And if they are, then Randy
Syles wasn't the target last night.

So... they're after substations?

It doesn't rule out
the striking workers,

because every blackout is
bad PR for the energy companies.

DON: I don't care about
the PR;

I'm worried they're gonna
crash the entire grid. Right?

Cascading failure.

Yeah, but wouldn't they need to
knock out every substation to do that?

No, just the right one.

Look, if a cascading
failure is what they're after,

then yes,

I-I may be able to predict where
the next attack will come from.

Yeah? How do you do that?

Load flow analysis.

Just get me the usage and current
flow figures from the power company.

- I can do that.
- And then a load flow analysis

could tell us which substations
are most critical --

the ones that are most
likely to be the next target.

All right, we'll get
you what you need.

- Hi, Charlie.
- Hey.

Hey.

What's up?

You left these last night.

Ah...

Hey, that was fun.

Yeah.

Hey, I'm sorry...

No, you don't have to explain.

No, no, no, we ended up going
way past midnight, so...

I mean...

I appreciate it,

but I really did just come
by to return the glasses.

Oh?

I've got a meeting upstairs.

Now, really.

It's cool.

All right, thanks.

Don't get me wrong, Eppes.

I wouldn't say no
to a rain check.

All right, well, I'll keep
my eye on the weather.

- See you later.
- Yeah.

That was a quick visit.

Yeah, she, uh... just had my
glasses, so...

Is everything all right
with you and Robin?

Yeah. I got to get
Renault Energy on the phone.

(crackling buzz)

Look at how much energy
we actually consume.

This is amazing.

Yeah, and how much
paperwork goes with it.

This is staggering.

I didn't know you
guys were still here.

What are you doing?

CHARLIE: We're trying to
determine which substation we'd attack

if we wanted to black out
most of Southern California.

Please don't tell me this is
something for Senior Ditch Day.

It's Don.

LARRY: Hey, did I never tell you
two how one year in graduate school

I attempted to live
without electricity?

They had electricity when
you were in graduate school?

LARRY:
Yeah.

Yeah, and thank you
for that, Charles.

Why would you want
to go without power?

Was this some Thoreau's
Walden Pond phase or something?

No, it had to do with
some girl I was dating.

Sandra Darwinkle -- yes,
that was her real name.

Anyway, this is back a ways.
This is back during the energy crisis.

The first one.

LARRY: And again,
I thank you for that, Charles.

Anyway, she thought that if she
and I went off grid

that it might make
a political statement.

And of course,
I was just thinking it might get me...

Lucky?

Eh... crudely put, but yes.

Did you?

Well, there is, of course,

my obsession with
dental hygiene.

CHARLIE: She caught you with
your electric toothbrush, didn't she?

Uh, the Waterpik, yeah.

But with the same result.

Anyway, thus ended my
relationship with Sandra Darwinkle.

CHARLIE: All rightie, you know
what? I think I have it.

So if I wanted to cause
a cascading failure,

then this is the substation
that I would attack.

Anything?

No.

Maybe Charlie's wrong.

There's no activity at
this power station.

DAVID:
Math says this is the spot.

Hey, you think Megan ever comes
up here with Fleinhardt?

Oh, come on.

When you gonna give that whole
thing a rest, dude?

I'm just saying,
that guy's into his classic car,

he doesn't have
anywhere to live,

leaves him with pretty
severely limited options.

You are obsessed, man.
That is crazy.

Why is it so hard for you to
get it through your head

that those two like each other?

Come on, you're telling me you
don't think that

that's just the slightest bit
weird?

I don't think about it.

Seriously?

Seriously.

(electrical zapping)

DAVID:
Whoa, look at that.

COLBY: They must've crashed out
another power station.

They hit it.

Not here they didn't.

DAVID:
Then which one did they hit?

How'd they do it?

Looks like they threw a little piece
of rebar across the transformer grid

and it caused a short.

That'd bring
the whole thing down?

Oh, absolutely.

Yes, rebar, is it?

- Yeah.
- That's metal.

Highly conductive.

Yeah, that would provide a
pathway from the high to the low sides.

Get a power surge...

drives the transformers way
beyond their capacity -- boom.

We were having dinner,

and all the lights went out.

- So?
- Don's briefing the mayor.

60,000 customers
lost power tonight.

This is not where Charles and I
predicted they'd strike next.

No, we were staked out
up on Mulholland.

And they hit here instead?

The question is why.

Think the real question is who.

Our prime suspect group
doesn't make any sense anymore.

The striking workers?

Yeah, this power station is
owned by an independent company.

It has nothing to do
with Renault Energy

or the labor dispute at all.

So that means that terrorism
moves back to the number one slot.

MAN: Agents, LAPD found a
body along the north perimeter.

- Oh, dear.
- Come on.

The company said they didn't
have anybody on, so

he can't be a worker.

Then I think we just found
our next suspect.

He must have climbed the fence
to throw the rebar.

Still holding on
when it shorted out.

Electricity -- always looking
for someplace to go.

Jumped to that fence post
as a ground.

And then made use of this
poor gentleman as well.

Got no I.D. on him.

There's no way we're going to
get any prints off these hands.

- They're way too charred.
- Car keys, cell phone?

Nothing.

Were his pockets turned out
like that when you found him?

Yeah. I didn't touch anything.

Somebody went through
his pockets?

I'm guessing whoever
he was working with

cleaned him out to make sure
we couldn't I.D. him.

What's this on his neck?

It's a prison tattoo.

"4-B-27."

Cell block in Chino.
He did time there.

Well, then let's get his photo,

and we'll fax it over and see
if anyone recognizes him.

Alejandro Munoz -- he's a
Salvadorian national

released from Chino
about six months ago

after serving a four-year
stint for dealing drugs.

Any ties to terrorist
organizations?

Still checking.

All right, so Charlie, explain to me
why the attack happened in Silver Lake

and not up on Mulholland.

Well, my guess is we were wrong.

See, we assumed that the objective
was a cascading failure, remember?

So you don't think that's
what these guys were after?

No.

So, wrong on suspect,
wrong on motive.

DAVID: I think I have a line on
Munoz's accomplice.

Cell phone records.

Last three days he traded more
than a dozen calls with one number.

I traced it back to a guy
named Lyle Donahue.

An electrical engineer,

and former member of the
State Utility Commission.

Former member?

It gets kind of interesting.

He helped stage a phony
power shortage back in 2001.

Made a fortune when
the prices shot up.

He was caught.

It's called utility price
manipulation.

Served two and a half years.

- In Chino, same as Munoz.
- Yeah.

So all of this has to have some
effect on utility prices, right?

COLBY: So you think Lyle
Donahue is back to his old game?

Makes sense.
He's not a player anymore.

Maybe he's found a new way
to manipulate the power market.

By crashing substations.

COLBY: Or hiring old prison
acquaintances to do it for him.

DON: All right, well, let's get
this guy Donahue in here.

Set up his phone, his house,
credit cards, the whole nine yards.

- Hey, Charlie.
- Hey.

I was thinking
about you last night.

Is that right?

I was preparing a lecture.

And I found an interesting
article on synapse reflexivity.

I thought you might fit it into
your cognitive emergence theory.

Oh, thanks.

Another load flow analysis?

Yeah. The FBI has
a new suspect.

Former utilities commissioner.

I guess they think that the attacks
are an attempt to influence utility prices.

The outages cause spot
fluctuation in the demand market.

So I guess if you made
the right investments

and you hit the right targets,
you could do pretty well.

If you hit the right targets,
you could do very well.

These guys aren't hitting
the right targets.

What do you mean?

Well, if you really want to
influence utility prices,

there are so many other
substations to go after

that would have greater impact.

Then what's all this about?

I don't know. Who knows, right?

I mean, all they've really accomplished
is a few localized blackouts.

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 by-product.

And what if they aren't
a by-product?

What if they're the objective?

What if?

Hey, Donny, I didn't
even know you were here.

Yeah, I left this here
the other night.

So, uh, you think you're going
to be around for dinner tonight?

Or do you already
have plans with Robin?

No plans.

Really?

I could have sworn I remember
you talking about a concert, but, um...

So how are things going
with you two, huh?

They're fine.

Fine?

What is it, we can't
talk about it?

Do I need a security clearance to
get information about you and Robin?

Dad, what are you doing?

What? I'm not doing anything.

Yeah, your little
interrogation here.

All right, I was talking to
Charlie earlier.

Ah...

And he told me some woman came
around to see you at work.

A woman, n-not Robin.

And, um, he said it was
fairly obvious that

something was going on
between the two of you.

So?

Donny, uh, do you remember
we were talking about

how you wanted things to work
out between you and Robin? And...

I mean, you can't have
a relationship

if you're
not gonna commit to it.

Yeah, well, Dad, I'm not
doing this, okay?

I'm not Charlie, and, I...

(phone ringing)

Eppes.

DAVID:
Don -- Lyle Donahue, engineer.

We've been sitting on
his credit cards.

He just used one.

Uh, bar up on Sunset,
corner of Gardner.

All right,
you know what, take it.

Get Megan and hit it.
We can't wait.

All right.

I'm doing the best I can.

How? By carrying on
with another girl?

See you later.

Have you seen this guy?
(rock song playing)

- I don't think so.
- That's funny,

'cause you just ran his credit
card less than 20 minutes ago.

- What's the name?
- Donahue.

Lyle Donahue.

Here it is.

Lyle Donahue.

He's not the guy in the picture.

Kid over there.

He and his buddies
are running a tab.

Got a kid running -- he's
headed for the back door.

COLBY:
All right.

(grunting)

Where do you think
you're going, huh?

Kid, where'd you get
the credit card from?

So which one is it?

It's that one there.

- Oh, boy.
- I didn't do it.

He was that way
when I found him.

It's Donahue.

Single shot
to the back of the ear.

A little too professional for,
this bozo, don't you think?

MEGAN: Donahue must have been
dead when he got the credit card.

We all realize that this means
there are more players involved

than just the
Salvadorians and Donahue.

Maybe some other investors
in his little pricing scheme.

Found Munoz,
made the connection to Donahue.

Someone wanted to make sure
we didn't take that chain any higher.

Yeah, but who is that somebody,

and how high is that
chain going to go?

Hey, we've all been
going in the wrong direction.

All right, Charlie, just relax.
We just found Donahue, all right?

Oh! Did you talk to him?
Did he, did he tell you?

No, Charlie. He's dead.
Somebody shot him.

DON: This is much bigger than
price fixing, I can tell you that.

I'm sorry, but this has nothing
at all to do with price-fixing.

What do you think
it has to do with?

I... I don't know, but it's
about the blackouts.

It's about the blackouts.

I mean, at first they seem
unrelated and disparate,

but when I looked at them
in the context of set theory,

they had a lot in common,
so just...

Just pay attention.

So there have been three
substation attacks.

Each of these caused a blackout
in a particular region.

This is the area hit
by the first blackout,

the Boyle Heights
substation failure.

This is the second,

caused by the outage that killed
that maintenance worker.

And here's the third.

Okay, so the three
overlap in one area?

Right, to a statistically
significant extent.

All right, so why blackouts
three nights in a row?

Well, that must be
Donahue's objective.

To take down these blocks.

Okay, so what...?
Uh... Cover up a heist,

knock out a security system...

And there's a lot of
stuff in that area.

There's banks and
brokerage houses, museums,

but I haven't seen any
reports of break-ins.

Charlie, the thing is, we're pretty
much looking at most of downtown here.

Is there any way
to be more specific?

This is the best I could
do with what I had.

That's not all you have.

We just found this pad
in Donahue's car.

And it's filled with
calculations.

These are Dantzig-Wolf
decompositions,

network interdiction
strategies...

It's-It's pretty high-end stuff.

Can you use any of it to figure out
where he was gonna try to black out?

Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna need to
take a look at these.

In the meantime, I'll see who else
Donahue was in bed with.

Maybe that's who murdered him.

Hey. Wait, wait. Listen.

This, this little conversation
you had with Dad.

Oh. Yeah. Um...

Sorry. I just...

No, you're right.

You're right -- I had no right

to tell him about
you and Agent Warner.

Yeah. Exactly.

I don't know.

You seemed to be getting
along real nicely with Robin,

you know, and...

you just seemed a lot happier.

Well, Charlie, you don't know
what you're talking about, okay? So,

I mean, I appreciate
the thought, but...

All right?

- Sorry.
- Thanks.

Go ahead, take a look and let
me know what you come up with.

Okay.

CHARLIE: None of the
three substations attacked

directly affect
the downtown area.

You know, they're too far out,

like Boyle Heights and Mission
Hills and Silver Lake.

No, the blackouts were due
to the broad-line reductions.

The operators just shut
the area down.

Right, right.

So Donahue
did these calculations

in order to predict the
human operator's reaction

to his attacks?
I mean, that's...

that's so impressive.

Impressive, yes,
but it gets us no closer

to discovering his
intended target, does it?

No. I know.

I, I've performed every particular
permutation I could possibly perceive of.

I've gone over and over
these three attacks.

I can't narrow it down.

What about the other
substations that affect downtown?

What about them?
He didn't choose the others.

Yeah, that's precisely
my point -- why not?

Presumably because
they would not

result in a blackout
that included his target.

An exclusionary approach?

Run calculations
on the other substations,

see what area of
downtown is omitted.

Plus, it is a more powerful
approach than the one you're using.

LIZ: You know what, I'll catch
you later, all right?

I'll catch up with Don.

What do you say, gents?
How you doing?

What? Downtown two days
in a row, huh? Lucky me.

Forget it, Eppes.

You already blew
your one chance with me.

No way. I thought I
was getting a rain check.

You remember our, um,
drug dealer friend

operating out of the racetrack?

Yeah. Tabakian?

He's decided to cooperate
and help us go after

the Salvadorian cartel
that was supplying them.

Oh, yeah, well that's a
good get for you, huh?

Yeah.

Bottom line, Tabakian and I are
gonna be shacking up in a safe house...

in San Diego.

Ha-ha.

While he spills everything
to the U.S. attorney. So...

You know when you take off?

Today.

I gotta run. We're gonna
process him, but, uh...

I'll call you when I get back.

Yeah.

I'll make sure it doesn't rain.
(chuckles)

You know, my brother can do
things with math.

It's, uh... he's a genius.

Oh.

Got it.

- You narrowed down the area?
- Yeah.

So it turns out,
there are 12 substations

whose failure would have directly or
indirectly caused a downtown blackout.

Overlaying the boundaries
of the three attacks

gave us an initial target area.

Yeah, but, Charlie,
that area was too big.

- It's too vague.
- No, I know.

Mapping the three blackouts
was just the first step.

The real key was examining the
substations that Donahue did not attack.

He rejected the nine others
as targets because

the blackouts they would have
caused didn't include this area.

COLBY: You say this is the area
that he wanted to black out?

'Cause that's only a couple
blocks from here.

It's the J. Edward Rice Building.

The Rice Building.

Yeah, right. Rice. What?

That's the downtown
Federal Detention Center.

Donahue's choreographing
a prison break.

(indistinct voices)

MAN: I don't really know
how we can take

any more precautions against a
breakout if you can't tell me

which prisoner you're
talking about.

Right. Well,
we're working on that.

As soon as we get the name,
we'll get it to you, okay?

What about the power-failure
scenario we were discussing earlier?

Well, there's no denying it.

Everything here
runs on electricity.

Cells open and
close electronically.

Locks are automated.

We rely heavily on
surveillance cameras.

Yeah, and what happens if
the power gets cut totally?

We're screwed.

45 guards.

2,200 prisoners.

But that's exactly why the detention
center has a backup system.

We have four
30-megawatt generators.

Diesel-powered.

Anytime we fall off the power grid,
they automatically kick in.

Right. And where are they at?

Sub-basement, totally
secure and no inmate access.

DAVID: For the last three nights during
the blackouts were there any incidents?

Anyone trying to
get to the generators,

maybe trying to disable them?

No. Powered us through,
no problems at all.

Look, if-if, if these blackouts
are someone trying to get to us,

they haven't done
their homework.

We're the last place
to feel any effect.

Hi.

You look awfully contemplative.

Is it pondering some
mystery of the universe?

Hardly. I'm pondering the
Federal Detention Center.

Oh. Charles said you suspect
some possible jailbreak.

Yeah, but there's
2,000 prisoners

and I can't connect
any of them to Donahue.

I don't know who
he was working for.

How do you know Donahue
was working for someone else?

Well, there has
to be someone else.

Someone murdered him.

No, I'm not questioning whether
someone else was involved.

I think that much is a matter
of near certainty.

Okay, now you're
just confusing me.

Well, what I mean to say is...

You see, all along you've been
applying a kind of bottom-up analysis.

It all started with the unfortunate
gentleman who was electrocuted.

Alejandro Munoz.

That's right, and then you
worked your way up to Donahue

and now you're working up
to someone above Donahue.

That's standard procedure.

We're always looking
for the bigger fish.

Yeah, but how do you know you're
even fishing in the right direction?

You see, in 1959,

Richard Feynman gave
a very famous lecture.

It was called, "There's
Plenty of Room at the Bottom,"

and it altered the thinking of a
whole generation of scientists

because it changed their focus
to thinking smaller and smaller

instead of larger.

Now, see, you've gone
from Munoz to Donahue,

and now you're looking
even farther up the chain.

Perhaps you need to go

in the opposite direction.

You're suggesting that the plan
to blow up the substations

just started with Munoz.

I think it's worthy
of consideration.

You're a genius.

Head of the class.

DON: Look, the prison is
immune to blackouts.

- Hey, guys.
- How do you mean, "immune"?

Well, they have a backup system.

The recent blackouts didn't
even ruffle their feathers.

There's the possibility of
other targets in the area.

Yeah, but I'm not
wrong about the prison.

Charlie, three nights in a row,
the backup generators kicked in

and-and there was no impact.

Listen, you cannot have
an event in a closed system

without subsequent impact
on that system.

- All right.
- Impossibility.

Don't go all Isaac Newton on me.

We'll go take another look
at the map, all right?

Sir Isaac Newton.

Hey.

We just found the link between
the prison and the blackouts.

Tell me again how I'm wrong.

A link to Donahue?

No, it's Alejandro Munoz.

Turns out Munoz is Salvadorian.

Has close family ties
to a major drug cartel.

The same cartel that was supplying
the drugs to Tabakian's operation

at the Southland
Downs racetrack.

Tabakian.

COLBY: Yeah, and he's currently being
held in the Federal Detention Center.

It's gotta be who they're
trying to break out.

Tabakian had a deal
with the U.S. Attorney

to testify against
the Salvadorians.

COLBY: Well, then, maybe the
blackouts were an attempt to cover a hit,

try and get an inmate close enough
to him to shank him or something.

DON: No, no.
The guy's in solitary.

I mean, they're not gonna
let anyone near him.

DAVID: And besides, the blackouts didn't
have any effect on the prison operations.

I don't understand how
they're part of the plan.

Well, the blackouts had to have
had some impact.

We were there. They didn't.

You said the prison ran their
generators three nights in a row.

How are the generators fueled?

On diesel, Charlie.

That's a pretty large facility.

They'd have to have burned
through a lot of fuel.

MEGAN: Okay,
so what if that was the plan?

The first three just
run the fuel tanks dry,

and the fourth night
they're in the dark.

Yeah, but they're not gonna
just let the tanks go dry.

I mean, they'd just call up and
get an emergency order of fuel.

DON:
It's the truck.

It's the truck. It's-It's an
unscheduled delivery.

DAVID: Oh, they get that
truck in there,

they will have a way
to break Tabakian out.

Yeah, but wait a minute.

Don just said that he's
testifying against them.

I mean, why are they gonna spend
the time coming in to break him out?

Be a lot easier
to just kill him.

They're going after him.
This isn't a break out.

These guys are
trying to break in.

MAN (on P.A.):
Opening Sally port one.

Fuel transport coming in.

Hey, you guys are right on time.

(silenced shots fire,
man groans)

(buzzer)

Hey, how are you doing?
Liz Warner, FBI.

I'm processing out a prisoner,
Ivan Tabakian.

No weapons allowed inside
the prison, Agent Warner.

You're gonna have
to check that here.

Thank you.

I can't get Liz.

COLBY:
Probably no cell service inside.

I'm still not getting anything
from the prison switchboards.

Fuel truck.

I got a man down.

Is he dead?

Yeah.

Thing's empty.
It's a Trojan horse.

The guys are already
inside the prison.

SWAT's out on a call right now --
it'll be at least 20 minutes.

All right, look, we got 45
officers in there on our side, right?

Yeah, but their guns are
locked in the armory --

it's gonna
take time to distribute them.

If we wait, it's over --
I say we make our move.

Let's go.

(buzzer)

Assistant U.S. Attorney
Diane Verano.

Nice to meet you.
Special Agent Liz Warner.

I'm gonna be heading the
transport and safe house detail.

I just have some paperwork
for Mr. Tabakian to sign,

then he's all yours.

No problem.

- Hey, you guys...
- (silenced gunshots)

Hey! FBI. You've
been breached.

You got guys in here
with weapons.

They already killed
one of your guys --

get some men to the armory
and break out the weapons.

Go, move!
Megan, go with him!

Got it, got it.

(buzzer)

Mr. Tabakian.

Well...

This is even better
than I expected.

(alarm buzzing)

(P.A.) Attention all personnel!
Attention all personnel!

Be advised, the entire facility
is now on lockdown.

Hey! Where's the utility room!

End of the corridor!
Go left!

All prisoners,
return to your cells immediately.

All prisoners,
return to your cells immediately.

We have a deal.

You have to protect me.

The entire facility is now on
lockdown.

This is a mandatory lockdown.

You move,
I'll put a bullet in your head.

Don't move!

How many more in there?

It's clear, you guys can
come on.

Let's go!

This is too hard to defend.

Don, we got to go.

DON:
Liz, come here.

Come on.

DON:
All right.

It's clear.

Clear on this side.

You guys stay close.

You hear gunshots,
you get to the ground.

All right, put him in the guard
station up there.

Door!

Get down!

Get down!

- Is he all right?
- (groaning in pain)

We got a prisoner down!
We need EMT right away!

MAN: Copy that, medical team
four minutes out.

Got no pulse.

- All right?
- Yeah.

Okay, just keep
breathing, keep breathing.

(groans)

How is he?

The bullet passed clean through.

They don't think
it hit any vitals, so...

he'll live.

You guys saved his ass, Epps.

Not to mention what you
did for me back there.

Hey, now, don't sweat it.
You kidding?

But now I owe you one.

Well, that's just the way
I want it, so...

You know I don't
like being in debt.

No? What are you
gonna do about it?

Get even.

All right, I'm ready
for you, tough guy.

COLBY:
Hey, Don.

You got the warden waiting
in his office to talk to you.

All right, one sec.

- I got to run.
- Mm-hmm.

I want to get him out of town before
they have a chance to try again, so...

Hey.

What are you guys
doing up so late?

Hey, hey, Charlie told me
what happened today,

and, uh, we were worried.

Well, he was worried.

I-I just stayed up to savor
an "I told you so" moment

while it was still fresh.

- Hold on, we dealt with this.
- Did we?

There-There was
so much going on.

Accusations about my math
being shifty.

All right, Charlie, have
your moment, go ahead, say it.

I told you so.

I told you so.

All right, there you go.

Well, that's about as much
brotherly love as I can take tonight --

I'm going to bed.

Yeah, I'm done, so
I'm gonna hit the hay.

Hey, look, uh...

about Robin.

Yeah, I said we-we're...

I mean, we're sorry, you know?

Well, she broke up with me.

About a week ago.

Oh.

- She dumped you.
- Shut up.

No, no, look, Donny, uh,

I'm, uh, I'm really sorry.

What happened?

You know, it takes two, and, uh,

I guess she didn't want
to be one, what can I say?

Mm.

Well...

you know, maybe she'll
change her mind.

Yeah.

Anyway...

Hey, now, wait a minute,
wait a minute.

That-that's a good sign,
isn't it?

You're not the one
that pulled the plug.

You were willing
to go through with it.

That's a good sign, isn't it?

A step in the right direction?

I guess, if you say so.

Hey, look, I'm not really tired.

There's got to be
something good on late night.

You know, that's when
they play the classics. Let's...

I mean, if we're gonna stay up,
then I'll just pop some popcorn, and...

- Guys, you don't have to do this.
- ALAN: Do what?

Seriously, go to bed. I'm okay.

Hey, come on,
you don't even live here --

why are you telling us
what to do?

(song to Taxi playing on TV)

All right.

Thanks.

Don't mention it.

(theme to Taxi continues)