Pandora's Box

Summary
Charlie splits his genius between finding the cause of a plane crash and dealing with the burglary at his home. The equations for the latter, however, are far less clear, and the costs far harder to calculate - and withstand.

Main

 * Rob Morrow as Don Eppes
 * David Krumholtz as Charlie Eppes
 * Judd Hirsch as Alan Eppes
 * Alimi Ballard as David Sinclair
 * Peter MacNicol as Larry Fleinhardt
 * Navi Rawat as Amita Ramanujan
 * Diane Farr as Megan Reeves
 * Dylan Bruno as Colby Granger

Guest

 * Lou Diamond Phillips as Agent Ian Edgerton
 * Geoff Pierson as CEO Aaron Helm
 * Tom Pelphrey as Mike Daley
 * Erin Cottrell as Caroline Williams
 * Gonzalo Menendez as Victor Morelos
 * D.W. Moffett as Bob Tombrello
 * Kathy Najimy as Dr. Mildred Finch
 * Brendan Ford as Phil Hadwin
 * Brian Keith Russell as John Wellner

Title
The eponymous jar (or amphora) containing all the ills of the world - and Hope. Metaphorically, a situation best given a wide berth, and one which, if begun, can never be entirely undone or erased.

Trivia
Air NZ Flight 901 is the plane that crashed into Mount Erebus (Ross Island, Antarctica). Killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. The investigation concluded that the accident was caused by a correction made to the coordinates of the flight path the night before the disaster, coupled with a failure to inform the flight crew of the change, with the result that the aircraft, instead of being directed by computer down McMurdo Sound (as the crew had been led to believe), was instead rerouted to a path toward Mount Erebus.