This episode begins with Charlie and Amita in the process of making plans for their new life together once they are married. Tension builds, however, when they discover that Alan is looking to take on a new job so that he can support himself outside of the household. Alan is determined to make enough money to be able to provide his own financial independence to get a place of his own when Charlie and Amita tie the knot.
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Meanwhile, a real body is discovered at a movie set with eerie similarities to the movie that is in the process of being shot. Don and his crew quickly get involved. Don does not know whether the writer of the script had anything to do with the murder but due to the fact that fiction is following too closely to fact, the writer is the obvious suspect. Charlie figures out that the time of death was prior to the start shoot date for the project, which casts even more suspicion on the writer. The question now becomes how the writer knew about the murder in order to write it into the script without having been the killer himself.
Charlie gets a hold of a screenwriting software tool that was designed by the writer of the movie. After spending a substantial amount of time dissecting the software Charlie breaks it down to a set of algorhythms. Testing his new theory, Charlie plugs several screenplays into the algorhythms that he has determined based on the software and determines that all of the screenplays that have been written by the writer who created the software fit perfectly into the algorhythms. Except for the screenplay in question. Which begs the question, what caused the drastic change in the writing styles between this movie and the rest of them. The simplest explanation is that either he did not write any of the earlier work or he did not write the movie in question.
As the bodies continue to pile up Charlie is pressured to help Don get the bad guy before an entire Hollywood studio is wiped out.
As Don gets closer to catching the writer as the killer, it is revealed that the writer is being blackmailed into leading the FBI to each crime scene for revenge of a stolen script as well as free publicity.
The climax of the story unfolds when the audience learns the true identity of the killer, who just happens to be a character that the FBI has already met and interviewed on the last known activities and the last few days of the first victim.
After The Climax
The aftermath of the case wraps up and the storyline goes back to Alan, Amita, Charlie, and Larry, who has felt unsettled ever since leaving his sabbatical at the monastary. Deciding that he needs to move away in order to move on, he purchases three separate plane tickets to other locations where he can see the stars at night. He leaves early while others are busy in order to avoid the obligatory mushy good-bye scene, and is seen driving towards the airport on a back road.
Poetically and perfectly timed, a freak gust of wind blows the plane ticket out of the car. Larry frantically stops the car on the side of the road and goes running after the ticket. After retrieving his ticket, Larry looks up at a sky filled with stars. Magically, a For Sale sign stands before him, offering 15 acres at this site available. Larry will not be moving to the midwest after all, and due to the close proximity to Charlie and the rest of the gang, it is a fair assumption that Numb3rs has not seen the last of Larry.
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