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Numb3rs Episode Review
Episode Name: Sneakerhead 
Air Date: February 6, 2009 

• 5,000 pairs made per minute
• 2 trillion lacing variations
• 4 steel shanks
• 30,000 stitches

For some people, it’s all about the shoes. If you’re a person that love shoes, this episode of Numb3rs may be quite refreshing. Nice song at the beginning, and it matches what appears to be a heist taking place. Here’s the short video preview of the episode.

The music is reminiscent of a spy movie. Two robbers stun the security guard and take off with something extremely valuable. Don, David and Nikki respond to the robbery which takes place at the home of Foreign Consul Nespola.

Ok, this episode has some hilarity. I’ve somehow missed the whole phenomenon of sneakerheads – people who instead of investing in real estate or other seemingly more worthy interests, invest in shoes. Consul Nespola collects shoes (he’s a sneakerhead). He paid $250,000 large for the pair of shoes that were taken by the robbers.

There is a nice assortment of guest stars. Grammy Award winner (female rapper and musician turned actor) Eve appeared as La-La Buendia, a sneaker business maven. Bruno Campos (Nip/Tuck, ER) portrays the foreign consul who man-gushes (ask me later…) over sneakers, and collects them to the nth degree. Patrick Bauchau (Panic Room, The Cell) portrays the mysterious French guy (Jean Stephanois) who would never sully his reputation, to steal something as trite as a pair of “sneakers”.

Charlie uses voice clips from YouTube and feeds them to a computer so it spits out different variations and words of the consul’s voice, so that Don and the team can gain access to a high tech voice activated safe (*cough* shoe closet). Very smooth move, Charlie. Let’s hope anyone in real life who has a voice-activated safe doesn’t leave their “voice trails” all over the Internets the way this guy does.

Liz Warner is given a promotion..Supervisor of Organized Crime in Denver, however, she does a lot of “mulling” throughout the hour, and tells the rest of the team at the end that she can’t leave her “family” Aww!

Favorite Quotes:

“The other collectors can kiss my Converse…” – Consul Nespola

“You want a discount yo? I can hook it up.”- Primer Bracelet salesman aka Beastie Boy(?)

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