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'''Colby''': Your name, your dog's name, your grandmother's name, everybody knows everything.

-->'''Amita:''' My book will be called "My 3 days with a ''computer illiterate''!"

* In "Trust Metric", Colby is found out as a ReverseMole and tortured in an attempt to get him to reveal how much information about them he'd gotten his hands on. After several hours of torture, Colby still finds it in himself to get off this gem:

* There's an interesting one in the Season 1 episode "Dirty Bomb". The FBI has captured the three men involved and none of them are talking, and it'll take two weeks at the maximum to track down the stolen Cesium-137 through the radioactive sensors. Charlie then decides to apply Game Theory and has the FBI put all three men in the same room (against the typical procedure). He draws a chart and calculates risk values for them, with the higher numbers meaning the person has more to lose. Up until now, the leader remained cool-headed and confident his buddies wouldn't talk. Cue the OhCrap faces when they see how much they have to lose, especially the leader's foster brother, who stands the most to lose by not talking. The leader himself loses his cool when he realizes the effect this has on his co-conspirators. Ultimately, the foster brother comes clean and reveals the location of the stolen Cesium-137, with the third guy practically begging the FBI to let ''him'' get in on the deal too.

* There's an interesting one in the Season 1 episode "Dirty Bomb". The FBI has captured the three men involved and none of them are talking. Charlie then decides to apply Game Theory and so the FBI puts all three men in the same room (against typical procedure.) He draws a chart and calculates risk values for them, with the higher numbers meaning the person has more to lose. Up until now, the leader remained cool-headed and confident his buddies wouldn't talk. Cue the OhCrap faces when they see how much they have to lose, especially the leader's foster brother, who stands the most to lose by not talking. The leader himself loses his cool when he realizes the effect this has on his co-conspirators. Ultimately, the young man comes clean and reveals the location, with the third guy practically begging them to let ''him'' get in on the deal too.

* There's an interesting one in the Season 1 episode "Dirty Bomb". The FBI has captured the three men involved and none of them are talking. Charlie then decides to apply Game Theory and so the FBI puts all three men in the same room (against typical procedure.) He draws a chart and calculates risk values for them, with the higher numbers meaning the person has more to lose. Up until now, the leader remaiend cool-headed and confident his buddies wouldn't talk. Cue the OhCrap faces when they see how much they have to lose, especially the leader's foster brother, who stands the most to lose by not talking. The leader himself loses his cool when he realizes the effect this has on his co-conspirators. Ultimately, the young man comes clean and reveals the location.
** Don himself lampshades it at the end of the episode.

* There's an itneresting one in the Season 1 episode "Dirty Bomb". The FBI has captured the three men involved and none are talking. Charlie then uses Game Theory to get information. He draws a chart and calculates risk values for them, with the higher numbers meaning tse person has more to lose. Up until now, the leader remaiend cool-headed and confident they wouldn't talk. Cue the OhCrap faces when they see how much they have to lose, especially the leader's foster brother. The leader himself loses his cool, realizing that there is serious risk of them talking. His foster brother, the one with the most to lose by going to jail, comes clean.

* There's an itneresting one in the Season 1 episode "Dirty Bomb". The FBI has captured the three men involved and none are talking. Charlie then uses Game Theory to get information. He draws a chart and calculates risk values for them, with the higher numbers meaning te person has mroe to lose. Up until now, the leader remaiend cool-headed and confident they wouldn't talk. Cue the OhCrap faces when they see how much they have to lose, especially the leader's foster brother. The leader himself loses his cool, realizing that there is serious risk of them talking. His foster brother, the one with the most to lose by going to jail, comes clean.

-->'''Charlie:''' *drops the millions of dollars of diamonds the man had been looking for as the agents swarm in*

-->'''Charlier:''' *drops the millions of dollars of diamonds the man had been looking for as the agents swarm in*

* An understated one: way back in season 2, Don is being targeted by the Russian mob, and it's made clear they will go after those closest to him as well. Two men show up at Charlie's lecture, and he manages to send them away without inciting panic. That he is clearly under tremendous strain just shows how awesome he is for keeping his head.

** A far cry from his situation five seasons earlier in Sniper Zero.
* In the Season 5 finale
---->'''Amita:''' My book will be called "My 3 days with a ''computer illiterate''!"
* Charlie weaponizing an MRI machine on an assassin in Janus List.

---->'''Killer:''' Is it worth your life?
---->'''Charlie:''' It's worth this moment. Meeting the man who stabbed my brother.
---->'''Killer:''' Your brother? The FBI agent?
---->'''Charlier:''' *drops the millions of dollars of diamonds the man had been looking for as the agents swarm in*

---->'''Charlier:''' *drops the millions of dollars of diamonds the man had been looking for*

* Charlie weaponizing an MRI machine on an assassin in Janus List.

---->'''Amita:''' My book will be called "My 3 days with a ''computer illiterate''!"