Numb3rs (TV Series)

Noisy Edge (2005)

David Krumholtz: Charlie Eppes

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• [Charlie and Amita are standing before a chalkboard full of equations, as usual] 

  Charlie Eppes : Amita... you know, I didn't think you could make this work. But you've come up with a novel approach to solve this problem.

  Amita Ramanujan : Spent six months getting nowhere until I thought - if you can't come in the front door, climb through a window.

  [Charlie laughs] 

  Charlie Eppes : Well, you've obviously, certainly, come a long way in your thesis work.

  Amita Ramanujan : Thank you.

  [she grins] 

  Amita Ramanujan : You know what the weird thing is?

  Charlie Eppes : What's that?

  Amita Ramanujan : Well, I realized how much I enjoy being here, at CalSci.

  Charlie Eppes : That's good, I'm glad to hear that.

  Amita Ramanujan : Well, I was hoping you'd say that, because... I'm seriously considering getting a second PhD.

  [Charlie's eyebrows go up] 

  Amita Ramanujan : In... astrophysics.

  Charlie Eppes : ...No. Don't do that.

  [Amita grins and sighs and Charlie continues, teasingly] 

  Charlie Eppes : Don't tell me I've been working with you for over two years on combinatorics, and you're just going to throw that all away for physics?

  Amita Ramanujan : Charlie, astrophysics and computer science make a pretty good match.

  [Charlie hms skeptically] 

  Amita Ramanujan : Besides, I've really realized how much I like... being here.

  Charlie Eppes : So you'd do your work here.

  Amita Ramanujan : [nods]  ... Of course, I'd have a different advisor.

  Charlie Eppes : [softly]  ... Of course.

  Amita Ramanujan : Which means that... I wouldn't be your student anymore.

  Charlie Eppes : I guess that's true, isn't it?

  [the two of them share a long moment just looking at each other and smiling, until they're interrupted by the NTSB official]