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8	!The Eppes Family
9
10	[[folder:Special Agent Don Eppes]]
11	!!Donald "Don" Don Eppes
12	--> '''Played by''': [[Creator/RobMorrow Rob Morrow]]
13	[[quoteright:203:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/don_eppes2_708.jpg]]
14	One of the main characters of the show, Donald Eppes often had difficulty growing up with a prodigy of a young brother. After graduation, he would go to play for the minor leagues before going into the police and making his way to the FBI. A chance encounter with his brother would start the two working together on various cases while assembling a team.
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16	Don's growth has him dealing with his choices and consequences, alongside his future plans and his occasional problems of commitment. One such incident was the end of season 2, where he went to some pretty big depths to solve the case and rescue Megan, but it lands him in trouble with his superiors and the rammifications are felt, even up to the Season 5. Additionally, he ends up having to go see a therapist to deal with his approach to violence.
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18	The later seasons have him explore his family's Jewish roots and even going to temple (on some indirect advice from said therapist.) Additionally, he undergoes a midlife crisis as a result of a near-death experience [[spoiler: He eventually takes on a higher position and finally proposes to his girlfriend, Robin, a prosecutor.]]
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20	* AffectionateNickname: Is often referred to as "Donnie" by Alan.
21	* AlwaysGetsHisMan
22	* AmicableExes: With Liz Warner, after their relationship ends in season four.
23	* BigBrotherInstinct: Don has always been protective of Charlie, even back when they weren't on the best terms as kids. As such, when antagonists in particular target his brother, he goes on the offensive.
24	* BigBrotherMentor: To his brother, Charlie, and to David, to a lesser extent.
25	* BrainsAndBrawn: He's the badass FBI agent to his math professor brother, what'd you expect?
26	* {{By The Book Cop}}/{{Cowboy Cop}}: He straddles the line between these two roles, which have consequences down the line though he himself admits that it's hard to tell because of different the cases are. On the one hand, he gets into some serious trouble by his superiors when he has [[spoiler: a suspect physically beaten to get information out of it when his girlfriend kidnapped Megan in the Season 2 finale and Season 3 premiere]]. On the other hand, in Season 5 [[spoiler: he also reports the veteran agent when he learns he lied and exaggerated about the figures and crime connections of their target in order to "get the job done" while also that it was personal, given said criminal targeted his sister.]] Despite the implications [[spoiler:that said veteran may've used his influence and prestige to assist in Charlie being reinstated to get him to help.]] The one investigating him eventually asks him "what side of the line he's on," (referring to on the matters of following protocol vs doing what it takes to get the job done).
27	--> '''Don:''' I wish I could tell you, if the line stopped moving around so much.
28	* CharacterTics: Tends to check his watch from time to time when he feels particularly stressed.
29	* ChickMagnet: Seriously, the guy has had at least five girlfriends.
30	* FairCop: FBI and quite a looker.
31	* FBIAgent: Lead agent of the unit.
32	* GracefullyDemoted: In Don's backstory, he was the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Field Office in Albuquerque but took a demotion when his mother got sick from cancer and returned to LA.
33	* InspectorLestrade: Is this to some extent to Charlie.
34	* ItsAllMyFault: Has a tendency to feel this way, even when things are out of his control.
35	* KnightTemplarBigBrother: When one guy went after Charlie, Don walked right into his office and told him right to his face that he would take him down hard for going after his brother.
36	* LadykillerInLove: Is portrayed as this when he falls for Robin.
37	* TheLeader: Head of the unit.
38	* OnTheRebound: Did this with Liz after he and Robin broke up for a time.
39	* OralFixation: He has a tendency to chew gum when he is getting keyed up in the climax, like waiting for a suspect to show up.
40	* PapaWolf: Threatening his family, team or associates is a good way to make Don pissed at you. Exploited in an episode. The Russian mob intentionally went after his brother and team as an elaborate distraction from their scam.
41	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Textbook example, as he will give a talking to his teammates if he thinks they need and he [[spoiler:let Colby back when he turned out to be a FakeDefector]]. If he starts shutting down his team, it means he is in a bad place mentally.
42	* SiblingTeam: The premise of the show is he's this with Charlie.
43	* SiblingYinYang: He and his brother Charlie, referring to their approach in instinct and logic though it's a bit downplayed.
44	* SpikyHair: Has variants of this throughout the series.
45	* StandardCopBackstory: Notably averted. Charlie being a genius caused a few small issues, but he was always loved and cared for. There's a reason he's still so close to his family. He does have a few failed relationships, but it's implied to be mostly by choice.
46	* TheStoic: Don has a tendency to be a stone wall with his emotions. His girlfriend actually lampshades him doing this.
47	* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Felt this way with Charlie when they were kids, as Charlie was a child prodigy and graduated at the same time as he did. Still somewhat felt this at the beginning of the series, but it gradually goes away as they learn to work together.
48	* TeamDad: To be expected as the head of his unit. He looks out for them. And endangering them is a pretty good way to really ''piss'' him off. Also mildly deconstructed since this with his temper lands him in hot water regarding the use of questionable tactics to get information.
49	* TheUnfavourite: Not intentionally, but due to being a math child prodigy, Charlie required a lot more of their parents' attention when they grew up. Alan has some guilt about it and Don initially has some resentment, but they get over it.
50	* WorkingWithTheEx:
51	** In the first season, he worked with Terry Lake, who he dated in their academy days.
52	** Spends part of Seasons 2-4 dating Liz Warner, before eventually parting ways.
53	[[/folder]]
54
55	[[folder:Prof. Charlie Eppes]]
56	!!Charlie Eppes
57	--> '''Played by''': [[Creator/DavidKrumholtz David Krumholtz]]
58	[[quoteright:233:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xxx_6665.jpg]]
59
60	The younger Eppes brother, he is considered something of a celebrity in the academic field for his impressive mathematical skills at a very young age, being a kid when he entered ''and'' graduated university. Now a celebrated professor, he ends up in a unique career spin when he becomes involved in the FBI with assisting his brother.
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62	Charlie was arguably closer to his mother, as she was the one who went with him to university and he and the family work to handle their loss. Additionally, Charlie grows as he ends up in scuffles and having to define his life beyond the classroom. This includes moving on from his then ''magnum opus'' The Eppes Convergence, when his frenemy ends up pointing out the holes and becoming more used to the FBI life. He also deals with entering into a relationship with Anita along with the changes of his mentor, Larry. He goes to his next big study, in the emergance of cognition from brain development while also becoming a successful author in a book applying Game Theory to dating. However, he does up in serious trouble when [[spoiler: an acquaintance of his gets involved in national security and the debacle has Charlie losing his FBI clearance though Don predicts it may have also been correlated to Don's own behavioral problems.]]
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64	He [[spoiler: ends up marrying Amita and the two of them eventually would take a teaching job in Cambridge.]]
65
66	* AbsentMindedProfessor: Not to the extent of Larry, but he has his moments. Downplayed otherwise since he connects well with his students.
67	* AffectionateNickname:
68	** Don refers to him as "Buddy" or "Chuck" from time to time, [[EmbarrassingNickname the latter of which he has some issue with]].
69	** Colby often calls him "Whiz Kid".
70	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: He is younger than Don by 5 years. Apparently, Charlie's gifted mind meant he required more attention and he and Don weren't that close as kids. Granted the only fight we know tht happened was when Don asked out Charlie's lab partner, whom the latter crushed on, to prom, which resulted in a wrestling match in the front lawn.
71	* BadassBookworm: Post-CharacterDevelopment. He has become better able to deal with hostile situations and learns how to shoot quite well in fact.
72	* BrainsAndBrawn: He's a college professor who works with his brother, the FBI agent.
73	* BrainyBrunette: Dark brown curly hair? Check. Mathematical genius, ''check.''
74	* ChildProdigy: Was one, who graduated from Princeton when he was just 13.
75	* DefectiveDetective: Charlie, a mathematical genius who uses his talents to help his FBI agent brother solve crimes, has emotional difficulties to the point that [[HeroicBSOD he locks himself in the garage to work on unsolvable problems when he can't deal with life]]. However, he overcomes this early on.
76	* EmbarrassingNickname: Gets annoyed whenever Don calls him "Chuck".
77	* ExpertConsultant: A math genius who consults for the FBI when they come across a difficult crime to solve.
78	* GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs: Charlie regularly proves he is an incredibly brilliant mathematician, so it's not a surprise when "Decoy Effect" mentions he is a multiple Ph.D.
79	* GentlemanAndAScholar: He's quite approachable and a gentleman, no doubt to being raised well by his parents.
80	* GoodWithNumbers: He went to ''university'' at 13 and mathematics remains to be his strongest passion.
81	* InsufferableGenius: He can be this at times, especially when confronted by a rival.
82	* InterdisciplinarySleuth
83	* JewishAndNerdy: Downplayed. While quite nerdy, he doesn't think much on his Jewish background. Becomes more noticeable when Don takes a greater interest in Judaism in later seasons.
84	** NiceJewishBoy: He is still Jewish and quite a nice young man.
85	* MoreThanJustATeacher: Teaches math at the California Institute of Science, and is secretly a former CIA employee.
86	* NonActionGuy: While he does later learn to shoot firearms, he is still primarily best when at the brains.
87	* TheProfessor: Professor Charles Eppes thank you very much.
88	* QuirkyCurls: Amita certainly likes them.
89	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:Is this to his students.
90	* RunningGag: He can't spell worth crap. This started with David Krumholtz accidentally writing "anomaly" with two "O"s in the pilot and became a recurring gag thereafter.
91	* ShorterMeansSmarter
92	* TheScully: Reacts this way to psychics in contrast to the more open minded Larry.
93	* TheSmartGuy: To pretty much the whole team in general.
94	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: To the point that the only chance that most people have at beating him is for two people to play him at once while also distracting him.
95	* TheStoryteller: Charlie teaches math with stories.
96	* TheStrategist: Charlie would probably qualify with his ability to mathematically predict the moves of evildoers.
97	[[/folder]]
98
99	[[folder:Alan Eppes]]
100	!!Alan Eppes
101	--> '''Played by''': {{Creator/Judd Hirsch}}
102	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/allan_eppes2.jpg]]
103	----
104	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Tends to be this at times, although not as bad as some examples.
105	* TheEveryman: His worldliness and status as just an everyday guy helps ground Don and Charlie's cases out of the realms of crime and academia and into everyday life. Some examples are relating how a friend of his died from organ failure while waiting for a donor, and identifying some random numbers as sports scores from the newspaper.
106	* FormerTeenRebel: Alan was a member of a radical anti-war student group in the 1960's.
107	* GoodParents: He does an admirable job in raising his sons to be honest and good men and he still looks out for them with advice and assistance. No wonder Charlie and Don turned up as well as they did.
108	* IWantGrandkids: Alan takes the proactive approach, giving solid relationship advice to Don and Charlie.
109	* ParentalSubstitute: Is this to Don's team and a big brother/mentor to Larry, giving out advice.
110	* TeamDad: Not just to his sons, but to their co-workers as well, serving as an impromptu father figure. He also serves something of an older brother figure to Charlie's mentor Larry.
111	-->'''Alan:''' I'm going to give you the same advice I give to all the geniuses I know.
112	-->'''Larry:''' And that is?
113	-->'''Alan:''' Don't be an idiot.
114	-->'''Larry:''' Ah. (nodding).
115	* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Occasionally helps out on Don's cases when his past profession as a city planner becomes relevant.
116	[[/folder]]
117
118	[[folder:Margaret (Nee Mann) Eppes]]
119	!!Margaret Eppes
120	--> '''Played by''': Creator/JoBethWilliams ("''[[Recap/Numb3rsS02E24 Hot Shot]]")
121	The deceased wife of Alan Eppes and mother of Don and Charlie.
122	* AlliterativeName: Margaret Mann, her maiden name.
123	* GoodParents: Was this from the way the surviving Eppes family talks about her.
124	* HiddenDepths: Was a talented musician and composer, and could've gone to study in Vienna if she didn't have such a passion for the law. She kept that hidden from Alan because she didn't want him to know how much she gave up for him, but she still hoped that at least one of her sons would like music.
125	* TheLostLenore: To Alan after she died of cancer.
126	* MissingMom: Died before the series started.
127	* NoNameGiven: Wasn't named for two seasons, as she was only mentioned in passing due to her death.
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	!Violent Crimes Squad
131
132	[[folder:Special Agent David Sinclair]]
133	!!David Sinclair
134	--> '''Played by''': Creator/AlimiBallard
135	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/numb3rs_david_9308.png]]
136	----
137	* ByTheBookCop: Don describes him as this in one episode, being too cautious to take initiative, and his own actions throughout the series generally support this assertion.
138	* DarkAndTroubledPast: He grew in a rough neighborhood with troubled family members. He once described having to dodge gangs to graduate high school.
139	* FBIAgent: Don's second-in-command.
140	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Colby. The two are often seen side by side one another when investigating and David took it the hardest with [[spoiler: Colby supposedly being a double agent, later revealed to be a triple agent.]]
141	* TheLancer: He's Don's right-hand man and the one people listen to when Don's not around. Fittingly, he takes Don's position when Don ends up moving on into a different role.
142	* StandardCopBackstory: He grew up in a poor neighborhood "dodging gangs just to get [his] high school diploma". His father died when he was in his early teens, and one of his best friends was killed in a random act of violence (for which another close friend was unfairly blamed).
143	[[/folder]]
144
145	[[folder:Special Agent Colby Granger]]
146	!!Colby Granger
147	--> '''Played by''': Creator/DylanBruno
148	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colby_granger2.jpg]]
149	----
150	* BadgesAndDogTags: Served in the Army as a CID investigator before joining the FBI.
151	* TheBigGuy: Does the most physical activity on the show.
152	* ColdSniper: Of course, all the FBI agents have to be this to a degree, but somehow Colby ends up having to shoot criminals more often than the others.
153	* DeadpanSnarker: Colby does has his moments.
154	* [[spoiler: FakeDefector: Colby turns out to have been a triple agent for several years. This causes a fair bit of drama and angst, since the rest of the cast find out about the "defector" part well before they find out about the "fake". ]]
155	* FBIAgent: Part of Don's unit.
156	* HeterosexualLifePartners: With David.
157	* HiddenDepths: Is fluent in Spanish, which comes in handy when the team investigates the case of missing Spanish girls.
158	* IJustWantToBeNormal: After the [[spoiler:Janus List incident]], he expressed his desire to Don that he just wants to be a field agent, which he [[spoiler:evenutally gets in the next episode]].
159	-->'''Colby''': What I want is to go back and start over. Have a regular job at the bureau. No lying, no pretending.
160	-->'''Don''': Well, then the question is, can you be happy with a regular job at the bureau?
161	-->'''Colby'': I mean, that's what I set out to do. If I wanted to be a spy, I would have applied somewhere else.
162	* [[spoiler: TheMole: See "Fake Defector".]]
163	* StandardCopBackstory: His father died in a single-car wreck when he was fifteen. There's no way to be sure, but Colby has always suspected it might have been a suicide. He also spent several years in the military, and was also involved in a FriendlyFire incident.
164	[[/folder]]
165
166	[[folder:Special Agent Megan Reeves]]
167	!!Megan Reeves
168	--> '''Played by''': Creator/DianeFarr
169	[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/megan_reeves.jpg]]
170
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172	* ActionGirl: The most frequent female team member we see in the action and she isn't afraid to kick ass when she needs to. She also teaches krav maga on the side.
173	* DeadpanSnarker: Likes to snark a lot, especially with Colby.
174	* FBIAgent: Part of Don's unit.
175	* FormerTeenRebel: As revealed when she was kidnapped, she used to be a fair bit wild when she was younger. It's implied this played a role in her choice to leave the FBI to counsel women in prison.
176	* LadyOfWar
177	* NerdsAreSexy: Dates Larry, to everyone's surprise.
178	* OppositesAttract: Philosophical and dorky Larry is mutually attracted and has a relationship with practical and analytical profiler, Megan. Very much lampshaded how odd the couple are.
179	* ParentalIssues: Has a serious problem with her dad that resurfaces every now and again.
180	** [[FridgeBrilliance Probably why she was drawn in by someone like Larry,]] outside of him having some problems (albeit not to the same extent) with his own father.
181	* PutOnABus: She ends up leaving the FBI to become a counselor to women in prison at the end of Season 4. Also has shades of ChuckCunninghamSyndrome since she and Larry talked about having a long distance relationship but she's never mentioned again while Larry occasionally dates other women.
182	* TheProfiler: She is the one who psychoanalyzes their suspects and trying to figure out their motives.
183	* StandardCopBackstory: She was wealthy, but her father always resented her because she was born a girl, and it's hinted (but never confirmed) that there's more to the story. Whatever did happen, it was bad enough that she didn't speak to him for over a decade.
184	* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: According to her, she was her father's "last attempt to get a son."
185	[[/folder]]
186
187	[[folder:Special Agent Liz Warner]]
188	!!Liz Warner
189	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/18819811.jpg]]
190	-->'''Played by''': {{Creator/Aya Sumika}}
191	----
192	* ActionGirl
193	* AmicableExes: With Don, after their relationship ends.
194	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her early life is never discussed, but she does say that at one point that she had been pregnant in college and miscarried, and that her friends were so insensitive to her about it that she never spoke to them again.
195	* FBIAgent: Part of Don's unit from season two-four.
196	* LadyOfWar
197	* WorkingWithTheEx: After she and Don break up.
198	[[/folder]]
199
200	[[folder:Special Agent Nikki Betancourt]]
201	!!Nikki Betancourt
202	[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nikki_betancourt.jpg]]
203	--> '''Played by''': Creator/SophinaBrown
204
205	The "new girl" that joins the team in Season 5 fresh from Quantico after 4 years on the beat for LAPD.
206	* ActionGirl: Takes Megan's role of this starting in Season 5, and is easily the most rough-and-tumble of the female leads, on account of her past in LAPD.
207	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her past is not really explored, but early in her career, she was dumped into undercover work unprepared and one of the targets [[NearRapeExperience tried to rape her]]. The way she plays it off as no big deal also suggests she might have more (ultimately unexplored) trauma in her past.
208	* DeadpanSnarker: Often manages to outsnark Colby with David being her usual target.
209	* FBIAgent: Part of Don's unit in season five-six.
210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Terry Lake]]
213	!!Terry Lake
214	[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/254749_1245346252935_full.jpg]]
215	--> '''Played by''': Creator/SabrinaLloyd
216
217	The team's profiler for season 1 before moving back to Washington in the interlude between season 1 and 2 to try again with her ex-husband.
218	----
219	* FBIAgent: Member of Don's unit in season one.
220	* TheProfiler: She would often create a psychological profile of the criminals, most notably in the Pilot episode.
221	* PutOnABus: Only appears in the first season. Her role as the team profiler was taken over by Megan during Seasons 2 through 4.
222	* WorkingWithTheEx: She and Don dated during their academy days and work together during the first season.
223	[[/folder]]
224
225	!California Institute of Science
226
227	[[folder:Prof. Larry Fleinhardt]]
228	!!Larry Fleinhardt (Creator/PeterMacNicol) [[quoteright:209:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/larry_fleinhardt_7489.jpg]]
229
230	Charlie's best friend and colleague, Larry is an eccentric physics professor who often helps Charlie with his projects.
231	----
232	* AbsentMindedProfessor: Oh yes. He's a very quirky person and has a tendency to be philosophical, which makes him amusing to the eyes of his students.
233	* BerserkButton: Somewhat downplayed; The episode "Atomic No.33" has the team deal with a cult; their regards to faith-healing and disregard to medicine and science makes him angry, albeit in a subdued manner. Still, this is probably one of the angriest we've seen him.
234	* BunnyEarsLawyer: A very bright and valuable man; he even went into space once. However, he also sold his home out of not wanting to constrain himself and once had a diet of only white foods, among other quirks, such as staying in bathtubs for a long time (which is related to the home thing).
235	* CloudCuckoolander: He comes off as this at times, due to his selling his home, that time he ate only white foods, long periods in bathtubs and his eccentric philsophical nature in general. Charlie and the others help keep him down to earth.
236	* TheGamblingAddict: A former one, and his experience comes in handy when a prior colleague of his does the same scheme they did when they were younger -- card-counting.
237	* GentlemanAndAScholar: While he be may an eccentric, he is still quite the gentleman and a very knowledgable physicist.
238	* TheLancer: To Charlie when it comes to the folks of [=CalSci=].
239	* LikeASonToMe: It becomes increasingly evident that Larry views Charlie as this and when Larry went off on a sabbatical, he entrusted his work to Charlie in a way a father would to his son. Charlie in return very much looks up to Larry.
240	* OppositesAttract: Philosophical and dorky Larry is mutually attracted and has a relationship with practical and analytical profiler, Megan Reeves. Very much lampshaded how odd the couple are.
241	* ParentalIssues: Not to the extent of Megan, but he had problems with his father wanting him to become an artist.
242	* PickyEater: For awhile, he ate nothing but white food as part of an experiment.
243	* [[PutOnABus Put On A Space Shuttle]]/[[TheBusCameBack The Space Shuttle Came Back]]: Left in "Brutus" for doing research on the ISS. Landed safely in the "The Art of Reckoning".
244	* TheProfessor: A physics professor at [=CalSci=] and he was Charlie's professor back when ''he'' was a student.
245	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Part of what makes him come off as an eccentric professor, remiscent of the stereotypical kind.
246	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He often plays chess with Alan. He becomes ''much'' better at it when he returns from his sabbatical.
247	* TheSpock: Downplayed. While Larry can show joy and sadness, he is often in a state of logical calmness and relies on logic and rationale. He's also not that good with dealing with passion and emotional uncertainty, which was examined in his budding relationship with Megan.
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Prof. Amita Ramanujan]]
251	!!Amita Ramanujan (Creator/NaviRawat)[[quoteright:216:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amita_ramanujan_5536.jpg]]
252
253	A computer whiz at [=CalSci=], Amita often helps Charlie in building computer programs to run his mathematical models.
254	----
255	* ArrangedMarriage: Amita was in one and knew the guy as a good friend since she was young. [[spoiler: Her parents invited him back to try and win Amita over and she does greet him warmly. When Charlie voices his concerns though, she explains that he is ''gay''. However, when Charlie asks her if her parents ''knew'' he was gay, to which she replies in the negative, she realizes what her parents attempted to do.]]
256	* BollywoodNerd: Of Indian descent and a computer genius.
257	* BrainyBrunette: Has long dark hair, and is very smart.
258	* GamerChick: As revealed in the episode "Primacy". Even when she was supposed to lose, her [[DamnYouMuscleMemory gaming reflexes kicked in]] and she won anyway.
259	* TheHeart: Probably the most kind and feminine character in the show.
260	* LadyOfWar: Mostly "Primacy", but she shows elements of this in other episodes as well, most notably during her abduction in "Angels and Devils".
261	* LeetSpeak: Is fluent in this, with her often decoding leet for the FBI team.
262	* ParentalAbandonment: Not quite, but Amita's parents are always too busy to visit her.
263	[[/folder]]
264
265	[[folder:Dr. Mildred "Millie" Finch]]
266	!!Dr. Millie Finch (Creator/KathyNajimy)
267	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She's a prominent season 3 character but is only mentioned a few times afterwards.
268	[[/folder]]
269
270	[[folder:Oswald Kittner]]
271	!!Oswald Kittner (Creator/JayBaruchel)
272	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: He just sees himself as a small time operator and fantasy sports league player but Charlie and the others are really impressed by his math.
273	[[/folder]]
274
275	[[folder:Ray Galuski]]
276	!!Ray Galuski (Creator/ChrisBauer)
277	* GeniusBruiser: A husky Cal-Scie professor and baseball fan whose a great mechanical engineer.
278	[[/folder]]
279
280	[[folder:Otto Banhoff]]
281	!!Otto Bahnhof (Creator/JohnCariani)
282	Cal Sci's Plasma Physics and technology expert.
283	* AffectionateNickname: Ottobahn.
284	* AfraidOfBlood: He's a bit squeamish with the cases he helps with.
285	* EndearinglyDorky: He's an excitable scientists who easily gets lost in his work.
286	* JumpedAtTheCall: He's happy to serve as Larry's assistant in the finale when he takes over for Charlie as main consultant.
287	[[/folder]]
288
289	[[folder:Russell Lazlo]]
290	!!Russell Lazlo (Creator/TonyHale)
291	Calsci's geneticist.
292	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Charlie finds him a bit overwhelming.
293	* HiddenDepths: Turns out he's also a motorcycle rider.
294	* JustThinkOfThePotential: He's quite excited to be on a case which might involved the first human clone.
295	[[/folder]]
296	!Federal Bureau of Investigations - Other Agents and employees
297	[[folder:Assistant Director Walt Merrick]]
298	!!Walt Merrick (Creator/AnthonyHeald)
299	Don's boss who appeared in the first episode.
300	-----
301	* OneShotCharacter: Only appeared in the Pilot.
302	[[/folder]]
303
304	[[folder:Special Agent Ian Edgerton]]
305	!!Ian Edgerton (Creator/LouDiamondPhillips)
306	An FBI sniper who often assists the team in dealing with particularly dangerous criminals.
307	----
308	* AntiHero: Out of the FBI, Ian's the one most willing to use extreme means to complete his task, most apparent during "Ultimatum", and shows no hesitation in killing. He's still an overall a good guy, though.
309	* ColdSniper: You bet it! It sort of comes with being the fifth?.. [[YouDoNotWantToKnow Fourth?..]] [[BrickJoke Third]] best sniper in the country. He lives up to the reputation, too. If he's in an episode, he'll usually end up being the one to take out the criminal of the week.
310	* StandardCopBackstory: He has a military background but the rest of his backstory is a complete unknown.
311	[[/folder]]
312
313	[[folder:Agent Billy Cooper]]
314	!!Agent Billy Cooper (Creator/MaxMartini)
315
316	An agent Don worked with when he was in fugitive recovery.
317	-----
318	* FairCop: He's a somewhat handsome field agent.
319	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He's introduced as being used to his own methods and surprised by Charlie but there's no real conflict between them and he appreciates Charlie's information.
320	[[/folder]]
321
322	[[folder:Agent Tim King]]
323	!!Agent Tim King (Creator/ChrisBruno)
324	[[/folder]]
325
326	[[folder:Agent Roger Bloom]]
327	!!Agent Roger Bloom (Creator/HenryWinkler)
328	* CaperRationalization: He steals money to frame a man he wants the recourses to pursue more ruthlessly, but only hid the money to give back afterwards
329	* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He goes out of his way to frame a man who cheated his sister of a small sum.
330	* LivingLegend: He's a decades long agent whose worked some very big and important cases.
331	* RedemptionQuest: His second and third episodes have him being an asset to the team after using them for a personal vendetta in his first.
332	[[/folder]]
333
334	[[folder:Matt Li]]
335	!!Matt Li (Creator/MatthewYangKing)
336	One of the technicians.
337	* AlmightyJanitor: Mainly in the episode "Disturbed" where despite his technician status he's the first one to believe Charlie's theories about a serial killer not sticking to average methodologies (being aware of a past killer who did that) and giving Charlie information to help him
338	* MauveShirt: Matt appears across the series (from the second episode to the finale) but takes a while to be named and tends to only get two three minutes of screen time to an episode.
339	[[/folder]]
340
341	[[folder:Dr. William Bradford]]
342	!!Dr. William Bradford (Creator/WendellPierce)
343	An FBI therapist who treats Don, beginning in season three after the Crystal Hoyle incident.
344	* HiddenDepths: Don is initially dismissive of him about being all desk work and no field work, until Bradford reveals his own past in undercover narcotics.
345	* TheShrink: Bradford is a patient, insightful man who helps Don realize a lot about his own psyche.
346	[[/folder]]
347
348	[[folder:Claudia Gomez]]
349	!!Claudia Gomez (Creator/LaurenVelez)
350	---
351	* TheCoroner who was a love interest for David.
352	[[/folder]]
353
354
355	!Los Angeles Police Department & District Attorney's Office
356	[[folder:Robin Brooks]]
357	!!Robin Brooks (Creator/MichelleNolden)
358
359	An attorney who develops a relationship with Don.
360	----
361	* HelloAttorney: She's a smiling, attractive lawyer who wears business suits.
362	* IvyLeagueForEveryone: She attended Harvard Law.
363
364	[[/folder]]
365
366	[[folder:Lt. Gary Walker]]
367	!!Lt. Gary Walker (Creator/WillPatton)
368	* DefrostingTheIceQueen: There's some InterServiceRivalry with him and the team at first but he's a friend by his final appearance.
369	* AFatherToHisMen: He cares deeply about his subordinates and wants to avenge their murders and honor them afterwards.
370	* SerialSpouse: Has been married and divorced three times.
371	[[/folder]]
372
373	!Civilians
374
375	[[folder:Dr. Karen Fisher]]
376	!!Dr. Karen Fisher (Creator/JenniferWestfeldt)
377	[[/folder]]
378
379	[[folder:Simon Kraft]]
380	!!Simon Kraft (Creator/JohnGlover)
381	A supposed psychic Charlie butts heads with.
382	----
383	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Simon does have a talent for showing up at the right place or ferreting out information but there is a simple explanation for most of his stuff.
384	* SkewedPriorities: In his second episode he's filming a show about himself and cares more about getting footage than intervening with a crime, which leads to his SurprisinglySuddenDeath.
385
386	[[/folder]]
387
388	[[folder:Daniel Shay]]
389	!!Daniel Shay (Creator/JoshEriksson)
390	A little boy who Don takes in after his mother is killed.
391	[[/folder]]
392
393	[[folder:Marshall Penfield]]
394	!!Marshall Penfield (Creator/ColinHanks)
395	* TheRival: He's a fellow talents prodigy with Charlie and they sometimes try to best each other.
396	[[/folder]]
397
398	!Notable Criminals '''WARNING: UNMARKED SPOILERS AHEAD!!!'''
399
400	!!Season One:
401	[[folder:Roland Haldane]]
402	!!Roland Haldane
403	--> '''Played by''' Creator/WilliamOLeary
404	A SerialRapist responsible for several attacks that Don and his team are investigating, and the show's first villain.
405	----
406	* ColdBloodedTorture: Likes to brand his victims.
407	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He is shot by Don when the attempted arrest turns violent.]]
408	* SerialRapist: Rapes more than a dozen women before he's stopped.
409	* SerialKiller: He isn't technically one, since he only manages to kill two of his victims, but he was well on his way.
410	* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's only in one episode, and has two or three lines of dialogue, but his crimes are what inspire Don and Charlie to begin teaming up on cases.
411	[[/folder]]
412
413	[[folder:Dr. Clarence Weaver]]
414	!!Dr. Clarence Weaver
415	--> '''Played by''': Creator/JKSimmons
416	----
417	* WellIntentionedExtremist: He [[spoiler:intentionally infected people with [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Spanish Flu]] to prove that the pharmaceutical companies chose the wrong (less virulent) strain to use in the development of vaccines and treatments, because he was convinced that a real epidemic was only a matter of time and so getting it right was literally a matter of life and death]].
418	[[/folder]]
419
420	[[folder:Paul Ballard]]
421	!!Paul Ballard
422	--> '''Played by''': Creator/JamieMcShane
423	[[/folder]]
424
425	[[folder:Scott Reynolds]]
426	!!Scott Reynolds
427	--> '''Played by''': Creator/JosephGordonLevitt
428	[[/folder]]
429
430	[[folder:Timothy [=McDowd=]]]
431	!![=McDowd=]
432	--> '''Played by''': Creator/KevinFry
433	[[/folder]]
434
435	!!Season Two:
436	[[folder:Leonard Philbrick]]
437	!!Leonard Philbrick
438	--> '''Played by''': Creator/EthanPhillips
439	A former colleague and friend of Larry.
440
441	* GamblingRuinsLives: "Double Down" reveals that he did card counting with Larry when they were younger and he got caught up in it, which destroyed his promising academic career and his marriage, he ended up teaching at a high school. [[spoiler:However, he wanted a second chance at proving himself with the casinos and he got several students to do card counting, which results in a couple of their deaths]].
442	[[/folder]]
443
444	!!Season Three:
445	[[folder:Crystal Hoyle]]
446	!!Crystal Hoyle
447	--> '''Played by''': Creator/KimDickens
448	[[/folder]]
449
450	[[folder:Buck Winters]]
451	!!Buck Winters
452	--> '''Played by''': Creator/DavidGallagher
453	[[/folder]]
454
455	[[folder:Dwayne Carter]]
456	!!Dwayne Carter
457	--> '''Played by''': Creator/ShawnHatosy
458	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He started being a spy to get money for his son and when he thinks Colby is another spy, he tries to keep his secret.
459	* TheMole: He's a hired spy for China.
460	* VillainsDyingGrace: He dies saving the life of his old friend Colby.
461	[[/folder]]
462
463	[[folder:Abner Stone]]
464	!!Abner Stone
465	--> '''Played by''': Creator/WEarlBrown
466	* DirtyCoward: Abner gets his cult followers to commit suicide or surrender to him while surrendering himself.
467	* DirtyOldMan: A {{Cult}} leader whose taken eight wives and tries to take a teenager as his ninth.
468	* KlingonPromotion: He's suspected of killing the cults previous leader, [[CainAndAbel his own brother.]]
469
470	[[/folder]]
471
472	!!Season Four
473	[[folder:Mason Lancer]]
474	!!Mason Lancer
475	-->'''Played by''' Creator/ValKilmer
476	* BigBad: appears in one episode but he becomes this when [[spoiler:he tortures Colby]].
477	* CharacterDeath: Dies in ''Trust Metric'' by Carter in an effort to save Colby.
478	[[/folder]]
479
480	!!Season Five
481	[[folder:Slobodan Radovic]]
482	!!Slobodan Radovic
483	-->'''Played by''' Creator/MichaelKhmurov
484	An Eastern European war criminal who [[spoiler:nearly kills Don after stabbing him in the chest]].
485	* BalkanBastard: Not only did he stab Don, nearly killing him, he is also a war criminal for cleansing villages during the Balkan Wars and wiped out a village of some armed robbers, who began hitting houses in revenge.
486	* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Radovic is an obvious stand-in for Slobodan Milosevic, the second to last president of Yugoslavia who was responsible for war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars. It's practically spelled out by Radovic's nationality, Serbian, which is the same as Milosevic's.
487	[[/folder]]
488
489	[[folder:Robert Posdner]]
490	!!Robert Posdner
491	-->'''Played by ''' Creator/BrianHowe
492	[[/folder]]
493
494	!Other Love interests
495
496	[[folder:Susan Berry]]
497	!!Susan Berry (Creator/SonyaWalger)
498	[[/folder]]
499
500	[[folder:Nadine Hodges]]
501	!!Nadine Hodges (Creator/SarahCarter)
502	* An attorney who appeared in season two.
503	-----
504	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Appears in several episodes and was seen as a possible love interest for Don but she disappears and is never mentioned again.
505	[[/folder]]
506
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