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1	* An understated one, but 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.
2	* In the Season 6 premiere, Charlie manages to figure out the exact position of a sniper using math, ''while being fired on''.
3	** A far cry from his situation five seasons earlier in "Sniper Zero".
4	* In the Season 5 finale:
5	-->'''Amita:''' My book will be called "2 days with a ''computer illiterate''!"
6	* Charlie weaponizing an MRI machine on an assassin in "Janus List".
7	** Don getting his own {{Eureka Moment}} in the same episode.
8	* Charlie talking to the man that stabbed Don:
9	-->'''Killer:''' Is it worth your life?
10	-->'''Charlie:''' It's worth this moment. Meeting the man who stabbed my brother.
11	-->'''Killer:''' Your brother? The FBI agent?
12	-->'''Charlie:''' drops the millions of dollars of diamonds the man had been looking for as the agents swarm in
13	* 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 notes this and he has to actively try to convince his foster brother not to talk, which is countered by Don noting his background and Charlie pointing the mathematical truth on the board. 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.
14	** Don himself lampshades it at the end of the episode.
15	* In "Trust Metric", Colby is found out as TheMole 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:
16	-->'''Lancer''': Do they know my name?\
17	'''Colby''': Your name, your dog's name, your grandmother's name, everybody knows everything.

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