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CHARLIE:
So, yeah, uh, remember that

the fluid dynamics class has been
moved this week to Friday at 10:00.

So, it's not at its normal time.

Okay, see you then.
Bye-bye.

Charlie.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to startle you.

- Rachel?
- Yeah. Hi, Charlie.

What-What are you doing here?

Aren't you supposed to be doing that
Geospatial project over at Stanford?

No, I...

This is a list of names
of people I know,

that I've worked with recently.

Three of them are now dead.

- Did you say dead?
- Yeah.

I think they found out something
they weren't supposed to know.

They were killed,

even though it doesn't
look like it.

And I think they're going
to kill me as well.

How did they die, Rachel?

It's complicated.
Look, I can't...

I can't explain it right here.
Not... not now.

Have you gone to the police?

No, no, no, I can't trust them.

But you can trust me?

I know you.

I know you're who
you say you are.

If you take me to your brother,
I'll believe he's your brother.

All right.

I'll take you to see
my brother Don,

tomorrow, at the FBI.

Thank you.

I'll meet you here
in the morning.

And I'll bring documentation,
just, please,

look at those names.

They shouldn't be dead,
but they are.

Rachel...

A conspiracy, huh?

I guess so, I mean,
with this woman Rachel Lawton,

it's always something, you know?

- Wacky, is she?
- Uh, maybe a little yeah.

She was into these odd
ideas in grad school.

Like for instance, uh,

she once posed
that certain top scientists

were actually aliens sent here
to help mankind.

She probably knew Larry.

That's the thing about Rachel,

she was always quite
a brilliant thinker

and she was usually
a lot of fun to hang out with.

So, uh, what's her field?

She's a statistician --
specializing in demography.

Oh.

There are some crazy
conspiracies, you know.

Sometimes it takes a brilliant,
nutty thinker to spot one.

The only trouble is,

usually the kind of people
nobody believes.

MAN: Subject suffered
a cardiac arrest.

A result of a massive
absorption of acetaminophen,

hydrocodone and alcohol.

My preliminary finding
is Rachel Lawton died

of a non-accidental overdose
of prescription medication.

Hey, thanks very much.

All right?

She was scared, upset,
and maybe a little erratic,

but, uh, she didn't
seem suicidal.

Look, I got a quick
background here.

I mean, you know, she was going
to a therapist for two years.

For what?

For depression.

The employment records show she,
she had emotional outbursts,

questionable stability,
you know...

So, that's,
that's the end of it then?

No, I mean, we'll do
a basic follow-up,

but, I mean, I don't think
it's going anywhere.

Come on, let's get out of here.

OSWALD:
Hey, Charlie.

Oswald.

Thanks for stopping by.

I mean, don't thank me yet.

I figured you wanted to talk to me
more about enrolling or whatever.

Yeah.

Specialized program.

For people like you.

High school dropouts that are
obsessed with fantasy baseball?

Gifted people

who lack traditional educations.

Ah. That's a nice way
of putting it.

But, Charlie,

I'm just not a CalSci guy.

I'm horrible at tests.

Like, the worst.

I can't talk to professors.

- You talk to me.
- Yeah,

but we met over baseball stats.

That's the one thing I know.

Oswald,

with some training, man, you,

you really could work
in any field you wanted to.

What is this?
Ten million to one?

It's the odds of a woman

and three people she worked with
dying in a two week period.

I knew her.

I identified her body
this morning at the morgue.

Oh, Charlie, that's awful.

- I'm sorry.
- Yeah.

She claimed that
these people were killed

because of something they knew.

What about this guy
that's not checked off?

Still alive, I guess.

RECEPTIONIST: Berkeley Political
Science Department.

Hello. Uh...

I'm trying to reach
Dr. Robert Reynolds. I, um...

I'm sorry.

Dr. Reynolds is no longer
with us.

Are you a friend
or a family member?

That's okay. Thank you.

Charlie, what are the odds
that these five people

would die in a two week period?

About 700 million to one.

Which means Rachel was
telling me the truth.

DON: So five people
all mid-20s to 40s,

all in good health,

and all dead within two weeks.

David.

Teresa King, computer scientist.

Rebecca Ortega, Sam Chambers
statisticians.

And Robert Reynolds,
political scientist.

No known connections.

Heart attack, asthma --

conditions that can be
mimicked by drugs.

DAVID: Yeah, we also have the
classics here.

Slipped in the bathtub,
car accident,

self-administered drug overdose.

What about doing a second
autopsy on Rachel Lawton?

Yeah, we already requested it.

COLBY: And if Charlie's wrong,
and these are five random deaths?

Well, that's why we got to find
something solid.

Otherwise, I mean, you know,
I don't want to waste our time here.

Hey...

am I losing you?

Pardon?

Some memo from DC about a
special detachment to the D.O.J.?

No, uh...

they called and I said
it probably isn't for me.

Probably...

Isn't.

Okay.

Hey, I found some more journals
with articles by Rachel Lawton.

- Oh, thank you.
- Yeah.

Any idea what she's
currently working on?

No, not yet.

She published a lot,
on a variety of topics.

You know, she, she came to a
seminar that I taught in San Diego.

- Really?
- Yeah.

She was a bright girl,
you know, creative thinker.

It's just a shame.
You know, it's just a shame.

Who kills a statistician?

You know, one of our stats guys
got a death threat once.

Yeah.

For doing expert testimony
in a water rights case.

Isn't that what got your special
admissions candidate guy into trouble --

baseball stats, huh?

Yeah.

Actually he may not be applying.

Hmm?

He's scared that he may not
be able to handle it.

Well, we've all been there, huh?

Except for maybe you.

You know, when we have students
who lack confidence,

sometimes we get them interested
in a really good problem.

You know, just get
them obsessed,

and then they forget
that they're afraid.

Hmm.

- Like what's this guy into?
- Girls.

Skateboarding.

Baseball.

Statistics.

(fast, hip-hop music plays)

CHARLIE: You know, you just
broke the law with that little trick.

The law of conservation
of angular momentum.

Ah. Wait, is that Sir Isaac Newton
going to come and bust me?

Charlie, you're not gonna hard sell
me on this college thing, are you?

No. Actually, I, uh...

I kind of need your help.

We searched the hotel room
where Rachel Lawton died,

but we didn't find any of the
documentation she told Charlie about.

Now we have to go through what
she had on her when she died.

Well, that's everything, so...

COLBY:
This is it, huh?

Hey, man, check
the bag for pens.

Pens? What for?

You didn't get that memo
on corporate espionage?

Yeah, they make pens where they
can put the flash drive on the inside.

Well, what else can they put
flash drives in?

Key chains, rubber duckies.

Rubber ducky flash drive?

- I want one of those.
- Yeah.

How 'bout a watch?

OSWALD: This is about those
five people that died, isn't it?

Well, Oswald, they must
have known something

and were killed to
keep it a secret.

This problem's
becoming a bit dangerous.

That being said, I have
already been shot at once.

Oh, hey.

Hey, Professor.

- COLBY: Perfect timing.
- DAVID: Oswald.

- Good to see you.
- Fellas.

Um...

maybe I should step out.

Uh, you know what? If
it's all right with the FBI,

I would love to
utilize Mr. Kittner's

statistical analysis
skills on this case.

Mr. Kittner?

So what do you guys got?

You've got a watch.

It's Rachel Lawton's.

Ah, yeah, it's a flash drive.

Here.

Yeah, you just open this

and all you need is a USB cable.

- USB.
- Perfect.

Plug that in there.

That plugs directly
into your computer.

That I do know about.

This is some sort of
statistical raw data,

pertaining to what
I'm not exactly sure.

Oswald.

I have no idea
what those headings mean.

This is going to be tough.

The best problems always are.

DAVID: One connection between
Rachel Lawton and the other dead people --

they all worked in
statistical analysis.

And statisticians
usually work freelance --

they go from project to project.

Hired by corporations,
governments, political campaigns.

I found a more specific connection
to three out of five of them.

DAVID:
J. Everett Tuttle.

The billionaire?

Yeah, he's a hedge fund manager,

he's into philanthropy
and politics.

Three of the people
on Rachel's list

worked for one of his companies.

That's not much.

I mean, a financial wiz
hiring statisticians.

"Not much" is all we have.

I finished the forensic
autopsy on Rachel Lawton.

It was smart to request
a second one.

Why? What do you got?

Apparently, her killer didn't
have a lot of patience.

Although she had a potentially lethal
dose of alcohol and painkillers in her,

Rachel Lawton
died of asphyxiation.

How?

She had traces of
cotton fiber in her lungs,

likely suffocated from a pillow or
towel after she was unconscious.

Sort of thing that,

in the absence of
suspicious circumstances,

might be missed.

So we're not talking
about five random deaths.

We've definitely have
one murder on our hands.

We're gonna need forensic
autopsies on the other victims.

I'll get it started.

We might be
looking at five murders.

Yeah.

But we have no idea
what they're about.

Five deaths, but so far you can
only prove one was murder.

It's mathematically improbable
that these deaths are coincidence.

Well, to make a case,
we need a motive.

And live witnesses.

You say three of the dead did
consulting work for J. Everett Tuttle?

Right, and what do you
know about him?

Got a rep for playing dirty
on Wall Street.

SEC made a run at
him, got nowhere.

The New York AG
indicted him on fraud,

but two of the
witnesses disappeared,

and couldn't make a case.

Witnesses disappeared?

One was later found in Greece.
The other never turned up.

You think he's capable
of murder?

They think so in New York,
but they had no evidence.

The guys are off to see Tuttle,

let's see what they
come up with, all right?

It's a great cardio workout.

Great way to get
some firewood, too.

Yeah.

Well, you end up
with something useful.

Sit on those exercise machines,

you got nothing
when you're done.

So, how can I help the FBI?

We're here to talk to you about
three people who used to work for you.

Let's see.

Well, Sam Chambers
did research for me.

And, uh...

I don't know the other two.

They were researchers as well.

I hire a lot of consultants.

I don't meet them all in person.

Well, these three all died
within the last few weeks.

I'm sorry to hear that.

What were they hired
to do for you?

I'm not sure.

Would you check on that?

I'll get back to you.

Mr. Tuttle, do you know
a Rachel Lawton?

Doesn't sound familiar.

What business
do you actually do?

I retired a year ago.

Well...

I manage a hedge fund.

I serve on corporate boards.

Try to put more time into public
service, that sort of thing.

And why do you employ
statisticians and computer scientists?

To test stock market systems.

See, I'm still
dreaming about finding

that magic formula
for striking it rich.

Some people would say
you've already found it.

Take it from a guy
with more than enough,

it ain't never enough.

So, it looks like
this Oswald kid

bit pretty hard
on the FBI hook, huh?

Yeah, yeah, no,
he's really into it,

but he still won't
apply to CalSci.

What?

He doesn't quite grasp all the
things he could accomplish here.

And I just don't know how
to get that across to him.

Well, that's because your
whole life is math and science,

same with your students.

I mean, what, you were
raised in the church here

and you preach to the converted.

Just have to figure out a way
to convert the heathen.

Yeah, well, here he comes.

Oswald.

Hey, Charlie.

Speak of the devil.

There's something off
about Rachel's numbers.

- Hi there.
- Hi, hi.

Go ahead.

I did what you said.

I printed them out without
headings to search for patterns.

Didn't find any patterns,

but there's definitely
something off about her numbers.

I just can't put my finger
on it, you know?

Let us take a look at it.

- Here you go.
- Thanks.

You know what? That's a very
good observation, Oswald.

Because there are
too many sevens.

- And threes.
- Too many for what?

Too many for this
list to be random.

MILLIE: Yeah. For some reason,
when people make up

reports with numbers in them,

they always put in way too
many threes and sevens

and not enough ones and twos.

Me, I think I'd use
too many fours.

I mean, this way, you can not
know what the numbers describe,

but you can tell
if someone's lying.

Mm.

And on that note,
I have to go to work.

- Bye-bye, Millie.
- Nice to meet you.

- You, too.
- Thank you.

She was pleasant.
Who's that?

That's Dr. Mildred Finch.

She's the chair of our math,
physics and astronomy division.

Really?

She's easy to talk to.

Yeah, she is, a little bit.

So, anyway, how do we
figure out what this is?

Well, we have applications that can
help analyze unlabeled sets of numbers.

It's called meta-data.

It's information about data.

For instance, the numbers one,
two, three, four and five are data.

They may refer to anything.

But let's say you found out
that they refer to a zip code.

Well, then they mean
something specific --

in this case,
Schenectady, New York.

So we use that to figure out

what Rachel's numbers
are talking about.

Yeah, and then we may be able
to figure out why she died.

If you want a spooky guy
to mastermind a conspiracy,

J. Everett Tuttle
is your pick.

Why do you say that?

We told him that three of
his former employees died

in the last couple of weeks,

didn't seem to care,
didn't even ask how.

No concern for them,
nothing for the families?

Not at all.

No, in fact, the only time he
expressed any interest at all...

Don't tell me.

- Was when you asked him about himself.
- Yeah. You got it right.

All right, we could have a self-absorbed,
Type-A personality,

or he could be a sociopath.

You got something new?

I do.

But I don't know
what it means yet.

Four of the five dead people have
consulted on political campaigns.

(typing)

Mostly high-end
polling analysis.

But...

I'm still working
my magic on that.

OSWALD:
Hey, Charlie,

what about the lottery?

Could we just be looking
at Lotto numbers?

- I mean...
- Watch your head.

- New category.
- Oh, great.

Megan says that four
of the researchers

consulted for
political campaigns.

Oh, so you think
we're looking at, like,

like, polling data

or, uh, campaign contributions?

Maybe votes.

Lets see what happens

when we compare Rachel's numbers
to election returns.

ALAN:
Hey, Donnie.

Do you ever think
of moving back home?

Yeah, no thanks.

Well, I mean, you're here
all the time lately.

You know, there's
plenty of room.

Yeah, look, I like having
somewhere else to go.

You know, my own
little piece of privacy.

I yearned for that once, too,
if you remember.

I remember.

Guess I thought
I'd miss you guys too much.

(door opens)
Hey.

So, Rachel's data
might be election results.

We're gonna compare it
to local and state returns.

ALAN: It wasn't suicide,
it's a murder?

Yeah, looks that way.

This Rachel girl
you met at grad school,

I mean, were you...

Yeah, a bunch of us used
to hang out -- she had a van.

So we'd all pile in, we'd go
to movies, go to concerts or...

It's funny -- she'd always say

we could spend
our whole lives studying,

but we'd only be young
for a short while.

What are you...

You're not worried about
how I'm handling this, are you?

Uh... yeah.

To be honest, I'm kind of concerned
that it's not bothering me more.

It's all this FBI stuff,
you know?

After a couple dozen
murder cases,

just isn't hitting me
the same as it used to,

even when I know the victim.

And that's, um...

that's an unsettling
realization.

Yeah, tell me about it.

Oh, so now I got
two jaded, world-weary sons.

Yeah. This one's got
a shrink to prove it.

CHARLIE:
Hey.

So I ran Rachel's data
against election returns,

and this brute force
data search found a match.

To an election here in L.A.?

Yeah, to the most recent
county supervisor's election.

I think it's the sixth district.

Jason Brasher won,
beat a three-term incumbent.

- Big upset.
- What, he stole it?

CHARLIE: Well, I'll tell you this:

those vote totals should be random,
and they aren't.

All right, this is starting
to make sense.

J. Everett Tuttle was
Brasher's largest contributor.

He was the driving force
behind the campaign.

Rachel Lawton, she worked
on Brasher's campaign.

Says that she did
demographic analysis, Charlie.

MEEKS: Teresa King did freelance
work for a computer company.

That same company had a contract
with the Brasher campaign.

That's all five victims.

Oh, man, do we have
to ask, you know?

The odds that this
would be random,

it's like the four of us getting hit by
lightning on the way home tonight.

And it's not even raining.

So, Tuttle...

Yeah, I'm with you.

Now, California Elections Code

requires an audit of five percent
of touch-screen voting machines.

And here it is.

A preliminary audit
indicated discrepancies,

but the final report
said the race was clean.

The auditor changed his mind?

We should talk to him,
find out why.

- That the house?
- That's the one.

Hey, hold on.

- FBI. What happened here?
- Guy who lives here,

looks like he slipped by the pool
and hit his head, fell in and drowned.

Get everybody out.
It's a crime scene.

Get everybody out right now.

Hey, everybody,
we got to clear out.

Arman Cuthbert,

auditor with
the County Registrar.

There's no evidence
of foul play,

but, I mean, what do you think
Charlie would say about those odds?

Why kill somebody over
a county supervisor's seat?

L.A. County Supervisors
are powerful.

Each reps over
two million people --

more than
many U.S. Senators.

They control a budget
worth billions.

You think Tuttle rigged
the election for Brasher?

It's looking like it.

The county's using these
new electronic voting machines.

We'd better find out
how secure they are.

A political conspiracy,
complete with dead witnesses.

We need a live witness.

If there's any left.

Doubt you're here for my darts.

Nope.

But I am winning.

Yeah, Charlie, we need your
help finding witnesses

these guys haven't
gotten to yet.

I'll certainly try --
using organizational theory.

Because every organization
can be analyzed mathematically.

And in this case, there's the
extra added parameter of secrecy.

So you could mathematically
analyze the JFK assassination?

CHARLIE:
Oh, sure.

Look, JFK conspiracy theories

require the cooperation
of the CIA, the FBI.

That number of people involved,
mathematically,

makes keeping the secret
impractical.

OSWALD: Yeah, which is why
we all know about it.

But can your analysis help us find
the role of any remaining witnesses?

Here's what I'm gonna
do for you.

I'm gonna look at the employees
at Brasher's campaign,

as well as at Tuttle's firm,

and match them against who you'd
need to pull off an election fraud.

I guess the FBI could do that.

I can do it faster.

Election irregularities?
I thought that got looked into.

The county conducted an audit
of the election, am I right?

Well, there you go.

MEEKS:
Superintendent Brasher,

what was your connection
to J. Everett Tuttle?

Everett is my good friend.

We go way back.

He is the one that talked me
into running for public office.

Everybody else said no way,
impossible, can't win.

They sure look like idiots now.

Sir, do you know this woman?

Nope. No, never seen her.

Cute girl.

She worked for your campaign.

She was murdered.

Uh...

I... I don't even know what her
job was; never met the woman.

What's this about?

Are you saying that
there's some connection

between this woman's death
and my campaign?

Was there?

What the hell...?

No... This can't
be happening to me.

I will talk to you
after I've gotten a lawyer.

But before I do,
I'm gonna make some phone calls

and find out what the hell
you people think you're doing.

Wonder how much
Tuttle's told this guy.

My guess... nothing.

I know Tuttle's our guy,

but I still don't know
how he did it.

And we don't have any evidence
I can put in front of a judge.

It's like prosecuting
the Mafia --

everybody knows
something's going on,

but nobody will talk about it.

We just need some time,
you know?

I mean, how about you
pressuring him on Brasher?

They might lay low, give us
time to find some witnesses.

Worth a try.

My company has met or surpassed

every security requirement.

Our machines create a
paper trail that can be audited.

They're actually more
secure and easier to use

than any paper ballot system.

How's the software
actually protected?

All machines are kept in a
guarded facility until an election.

Access to the unit's
hard drive is locked.

But poll workers can open it.

Even if one machine was hacked,

they don't link up.

And there's no way
to dial into them.

Mr. Dockins, you're confident that
these machines performed as intended

during the recent
election cycle?

What if I told you
the results were fraudulent?

Whatever the problem was,

it wasn't in these machines.

CHARLIE: So I've identified two
job profiles necessary

to the conspiracy that don't
match the dead people.

Uh, what are we looking for?

Okay, one would be a demographer

specializing in statistical
analysis of L.A. elections.

Someone well experienced
with precinct data.

- And the other one?
- A computer programmer

someone exceptionally
innovative and smart.

Probably makes a lot of money
and consults extensively.

You have no evidence of any
wrongdoing on my client's part.

MEEKS: Mr. Tuttle is at the center
of an intensive federal investigation.

I've been investigated
dozens of times.

Resulting in no convictions.

We ain't talking about
stock fraud here, guys.

We'll look at your
businesses, your contacts,

your political involvement,
particularly the Brasher campaign.

And we're going to get into everything,
you understand what I'm saying?

Hmm.

I own two dozen companies,
with numerous subsidiaries,

I serve on 15 boards
of directors

and I employ four
major law firms.

Even a cursory
investigation of my holdings

is going to put quite a strain
on the FBI's limited resources.

But... good luck, fellas.

Oh, yeah, he's scared.

So, you found some people that
fit the profiles we came up with?

DAVID:
Actually, Megan found two.

Austin Parker and Jane Aliano.

He was the head researcher
on Brasher's campaign.

And she did software
security work

on one of Tuttle's
stock management firms.

Yeah, the kicker is
they're both missing.

Why am I not surprised?

Rachel Lawton's
phone records show

that she called both of them
day before she was murdered.

She must have
tried to warn them.

Yeah, now Parker's still alive.

We got four hits on his credit
card in the last two days.

So, assuming he's moving around,
hiding out.

OSWALD: When I tried that...
you guys found me.

DAVID:
Yeah, he left his car at home.

Could have borrowed one,
might be living in it.

If he'd rented, we'd have found
a record of that by now.

Yeah. All right, we'll try to figure
out what he's using for a car.

I'll chart some rough ideas
on where they might be,

based on those four
credit card hits.

Using the theory that he's, uh,
avoiding his usual hangouts.

So...

I'm assuming that she's
our computer scientist.

That's right. She told her sister
she was heading out of town,

expected back on Monday,
but we haven't heard anything,

there's been no calls,
no activity on the credit cards,

so, she might be dead.

OSWALD: Now, forgive me
for stating the obvious, but, uh...

it seems Austin Parker

is your last hope.

Whoa! Whoa! What are you doing?
What are you doing?

What's going on?
What's going on?

It's all right. We're FBI.

We're here to protect you, okay?

Hold on! Hold on!

We know that Rachel Lawton
called you.

She told you what's going on.

We also know that this is
about the Brasher election.

Whatever life I have left has
become about the Brasher election.

What was your involvement?

I was asked to make up a list of
precincts where the vote would be closest.

- And that's what I did.
- Is that unusual?

Winning precincts doesn't count.

All that matters
is the overall vote total.

But guess what?

Brasher won all the precincts
on your list.

Somebody used my list to decide
where to hack the vote.

They figured it'd look less
suspicious if they did it in precincts

- where the votes were closer.
- Yep.

There was a mandatory audit,

due to the use of electronic
voting machines.

Now the auditor's dead.

Mr. Parker, we'd like
you to come with us, okay?

We need you to make a statement.

Wait, wait. You can't
make a case yet.

Until you can,
I'm not cooperating.

We have witness protection.

These people rigged an election,
I think they can hack witness protection.

Get some indictments,
then maybe I'll testify.

All right. Who do you think
is behind this?

Brasher's an idiot.

But his old friend Tuttle --
he had a hand in everything.

Okay, gentlemen,
that's what I know.

Now get out of my car.

Now, Mr. Parker, you're gonna
be safer if you come with us.

None of us is safe. Get out.

We'll find you again.

If I'm around to find. Get out.

We need unmarked
units for surveillance

on a vehicle license 4-D-Q-S...

- You okay?
- Yeah.

I didn't think I'd be this close to a
car bomb again after Afghanistan,

but, yeah, I'm fine.

Could have been
detonated remotely.

Might have been a timer.

Could have been any one of about
half a dozen different fusing techniques.

MEGAN: Well that's a change in
tactics.

I mean, this is
an obvious murder.

It's not a staged
accident anymore.

We confronted Tuttle and he
put it right back in our faces.

So it's gonna come down
to Jane Aliano.

Agent Reeves, the Director's
Office is on line two.

I'll call him back.

Okay.

What, you're ducking
calls from the Director?

Only when I have to tell him
something he doesn't want to hear.

I'll take the Aliano interview.

All right.

I take care of Pico, Jane's dog,
when she's out of town.

Do you know what's
happened to my sister?

No. But we're trying
to locate her.

She does a lot of consulting --
travels all the time --

but she's never just not
shown up like this.

Is there any possibility
she might have spoken

to another family member
or a friend?

No. No, not that I've heard.

And that's what's
really scaring me.

She's never gone this long
without calling Mom and Dad.

And how was she the last time
that you spoke to her?

Distracted.

But, but that's Jane --

one of those brilliant people
always processing four things at once.

(laughs)
I know the type.

She wanted to be sure
I'd have time for Pico.

Feed him, take him for a walk
in his favorite park.

I told her of course.
I know how much he means to her.

She even made him
a Christmas stocking.

This dog is like a child to her.

(whines)

FBI.
Jane, it's okay.

- We're the good guys.
- We have her.

DISPATCH:
Roger that, Agent Sinclair.

I got a call from Rachel Lawton,

and what she said scared me.

But even before that,

I knew something was
hinky about the whole thing.

What you know could really
help us, Jane.

Yeah, but then what
happens to me?

Look, if we were
able to find you,

it would've only been a
matter of time until they did, too.

But we will protect you
every step of the way.

And we need a witness
who's willing to take them down.

I'm... I'm just
so damn scared.

I know you are.

But you're angry, too.

They picked the wrong computer
geek to mess with.

DON: Come on, there just,
there can't be that many possibilities.

In general, no, it's
power/control, power/wealth.

Well, it all comes back
to money, doesn't it?

People get money to get power,

or power to get money.

There are fanatical
idealists, you know.

He shoots, he scores!

Oh, Oswald Kittner.

Mercy rule?

It's got to be
a Canadian hockey table.

If they can rig a local election,
why not a larger one?

Uh, because the bigger election,
the bigger the conspiracy.

If it's too big, it can't
sustain secrecy, you know?

It's like Watergate. It's like
Iran-Contra or something.

Unless there's a self-perpetuating
element involved like,

uh... nano technology.

Okay, you know when you
stack up champagne glasses

and fill them with champagne?

You only pour the champagne
into the top glass

and then it overflows
to the others.

Requires resources applied in
one location, then it spreads.

Oh, good God, another one?
(chuckles)

What he means is, is that
the conspiracy starts

at a single source
but can then spread.

ALAN:
That's right,

because the supervisors
oversee the county budget.

I mean, they oversee
everything the county buys,

which includes...
voting equipment.

Brasher could definitely make sure
the county only buys their machines.

Yeah, and with L.A.
County's huge population,

rigged voting machines here could make
the difference in a statewide election.

You know what they say --

as California goes,
so goes the country.

This Tuttle...

wants to be a kingmaker.

Hey.

Megan just got a report
from Tru-Poll Systems.

That's the company that makes
the electronic voting machines.

Uh-huh, and?

Tru-Poll just updated all the motherboards
on their machines in California.

Now, the motherboards
are made in Taiwan

by a company based here in
the States: SDKG Electronics.

And the really interesting part
about SDKG --

it was founded by this entrepreneur
named Paul Prescott two years ago.

Tuttle approached him about buying
out his company and Prescott says no.

Prescott died
in a rock-climbing accident.

Really?

It happens to a lot of people
that get in Tuttle's way.

- Who owns that firm?
- A holding company

that Tuttle sold one year ago.

COLBY: Well, Aliano was hired
to design a stock analysis program,

but she was told that it should
also be able to alter prices.

Right.

Now, she didn't really see the point,
but Tuttle was paying her well, so...

So, what, it changes votes?

Apparently, to a computer,
votes and stocks are the same thing.

They're just a bunch
of number...

If he's going after Jane Aliano,
that's a problem.

Yeah, for us and for him.

Aliano studied at UCSD.
They say she's brilliant.

Supposedly, she told the FBI

that "they picked the wrong
computer geek to mess with."

Not the most threatening
statement I've ever heard.

Her code must be hidden in
the machine's legitimate coding,

probably in
the operating system.

Oh, well, here.

That's easy.
Tell you what you do.

You need to look for the
computer code that looks like Jane's.

This all looks exactly the same.

Well, all I have to do then
is write an algorithm

to isolate her code
from the rest.

Hey, do me a favor.

Go find Dr. Finch.

Tell her we need a priority run
on the supercomputer,

and, you know, be convincing.

I'll tell her the fate
of democracy is at stake.

I like that.

Jane's code is embedded

in the operating system
on the motherboard

of the Tru-Poll machines.

And you can prove that?

Mathematically incontrovertible.

Well, how do the rigged machines
pass all the testing they go through?

Ah. Why don't you think of,

of voting on a voting machine
as a man reading instructions

to assemble a model car,

but you want the man to build
something different than this car.

The easiest way is
to rewrite these directions.

These re-written instructions
then become evidence of tampering.

However, if you can alter
the operating system,

the way the man interprets
the correct instructions,

step one becomes step five,

four wheels become two,
and red becomes green.

See, the voting machine
makes illegal alterations,

but only within the
operating system,

so there's no evidence.

Mess with the operating system,

you can make that machine
do anything.

Right, well, Jane Aliano
can testify to this

unless Tuttle gets to her first.

Yeah, we'd better get her
someplace safe, okay, guys?

FBI! Get down!

Get down!

Down on the ground!
Put the gun on the ground!

Drop the gun!
Drop the gun!

(engine roaring)

(tires screeching)

Drop the gun.

Hands behind your back.

Mr. Dawkins, we just arrested three
men trying to assassinate Jane Aliano.

They're Tru-Poll Security
on your company payroll.

Yeah, we also
cracked your coding.

You conspired
with J. Everett Tuttle

to tamper with the voting
machines and fix the election.

As well as killing six people.

You will cooperate
with the investigation

or you're going
to face the death penalty.

Maybe you don't quite understand
what you're up against here.

No...

I do know.

I know exactly
what I'm up against.

I intend to fully cooperate.

You'll give us Tuttle?

No.

Tuttle wasn't part of this.

This was my plan.

My people. My machines.

Tuttle had absolutely nothing
to do with any of it.

He won't change his story.

Yeah, his goons all back him.

They took orders directly from him,
never even heard of Tuttle.

Yeah, but I say Tuttle's
got something on him.

Whatever it is, it's scarier
than multiple murder charges.

He's smart.

Played it perfect.

If Tuttle kills Jane Aliano,

we got no case...

or this guy takes the fall.

Agent Eppes.

You know, I may be retired,

but I still have
appointments to keep.

Election fraud,
conspiracy and murder.

(laughs)

You're constrained by limited
funds and inadequate manpower,

and you've got a suspect
who's made a full confession.

He's lying and I'm
gonna prove it.

You're going to spend bureau
resources pursuing a case

that's already been solved?

And your superiors are going
to call that selective prosecution.

You know that.

And especially when
the congressmen start calling

and complaining about you,
which they will.

You're just one man.

Just like you, pal.

- Don.
- Hey.

The Times has the story.

The Brasher campaign,
Tru-Poll, Tuttle, all of it.

The governor wants an investigation;
there's demand for a special grand jury.

How'd they even get it?

That's what I'm wondering.

Well, it wasn't me.

DON: I can't talk to the press
about an open investigation,

and I wouldn't, I mean,
not without proof.

Well, who... who do you think
gave the story to the press?

Uh... they might have
seen an advance copy

of an article set to run in the
Journal of Political Science.

Really, Charlie, you did this?

What I did was I submitted an
article detailing my recent research.

Charlie, you can get
into a lot of trouble.

Yeah, it's possible,

but it's unlikely because, look, I-I used
information that's in the public record.

And the organizational
theory I performed

linking Tuttle's firm to
Brasher's campaign to Tru-Poll,

th-that's all
mathematically solid.

- The Journal leaked it?
- Yeah.

They sent out a summary
to the general press.

It's extremely difficult to prevent a
scientist from publishing his research.

Academic freedom is
big in this country.

Yeah, apparently so.

Yeah, so Tuttle wasted his time.

He wasted all that money trying
to devise his little scheme.

It was all useless...

...because now the voting
officials will know what to look for.

(doorbell rings)

You did good, Chuck.

But Tuttle's still not in jail.

Hey, I'm not done
with him yet, don't you worry.

(door opens)

What's up?

Hello, Don, Mr. Eppes.

- Hi.
- Oswald.

Hey, did you see the news?

Yeah, it's pretty wild.

It's on CNN and stuff.

I got to tell you, man,

this is like nothing
I've ever felt before.

I, it's really big, you know?

Yeah, it was, it was,
it was important work.

Was, was that your plan, to show
me the powers of math in fighting evil?

Because it, it worked.
You got me.

I'm applying to CalSci.

Dude, that's, that's awesome.

You're right, another one.

Well, we can
always use one more.

Are you kidding?
They're taking over here.

You're right.

(phone ringing)

Reeves.

Yes, sir.

I... I have given it
a lot of thought actually,

and I don't think I can do it.

I understand, but...

So I don't actually have
a choice in the matter?

Yes, sir.

♪ I don't remember much,
if anything ♪

♪ Of those years,
kinda strange ♪

♪ Kinda sad, considering ♪

♪ All the laughs and all ♪

♪ The tears. ♪