Waste Not

Summary
Charlie's investigation of a company's toxic paving material is impeded by a new school administrator at CalSci, who wants him to focus primarily on his pure academic work instead, while for Don the moral and the legal don't quite add up.

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

 * Kathy Najimy as Dr. Mildred Finch
 * Joshua Malina as Howard Meeks
 * Gabriel Olds as Reed Parkman
 * Deirdre Lovejoy as Daria Samson
 * Lawrence Gilliard Jr. as Amos Shabaz (credited as Larry Gilliard Jr.)
 * Erica Gimpel as Principal Riva Bell
 * Bob Gunton as Boyd Resnick
 * A. Russell Andrews as Duke Piermint (credited as Russell Andrews)

Trivia
The phrase "Waste not, want not", the mantra of the pack rat, would seem to be the origin, although here there is equally the toxic waste element and the massive sums of money available to those who dump illegally.

This episode introduces Dr. Millie Finch (Kathy Najimy). The character was introduced to help fill the void left later in the season when Larry (Peter MacNicol) spends several months on the International Space Station, then retreats to a monastery (in real life, MacNicol was playing a recurring character on the 6th season of 24 (2001)). Najimy was reluctant to commit to a TV role, but was persuaded by the quality of the show's writing. Nevertheless, her role only lasted 9 episodes; the character is mentioned in later seasons, but never appears.

Goofs
When Charlie Eppes says "The acid effect was like SWISS cheese...", they show a "Jarlsberg", which is a Norwegian brand of cheese.

Crazy Credits
13 Million tons of hazardous waste 9.6 Billion dollars in fines 1244 disposal sites 1 Sink hole