"Primacy" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of Numb3rs.
Amita's life is put in danger when she consults on a case involving an on-line role-playing game.
Trivia[]
The clue number seen in the optical scanner is 208525138 . This can be broken into letter-indexes (...C3,D4,E5,...T20...), 20-8-5-2-5-1-3-8 (thebeach), 20-8-5-25-1-3-8 (theyach), 20-8-5-25-13-8 (theymh), or 20-8-5-2-5-13-8 (thebemh),
Amita Ramanujan's (Navi Rawat) driver license information is as follows: DL number I5491649, she lives at 2901 West Dorchester in Los Angeles, California 90006 is 5'8" (173Cm) and weighs 135 pounds (61Kg), and her license expires June 10, 2010, making her birthday June 10.
The coordinates for the dam where Colby Granger (Dylan Bruno), Amita Ramanujan (Navi Rawat), and Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz) go are are N34.1114° W118.2902°
The first victim in the opening scene, and the scene where Amita, Charlie, and agent Colby go to the dam are somewhat reminiscent of geocaching, an activity where people using portable GPS to find hidden trinkets, but in geocaching, there is no online game play involved. See the article on Wikipedia for more details on Geocaching.
There is an hour glass in Charlie's office that you see in other episodes. It is the same every time. The sand does not move and they don't flip it.
Goofs[]
Dr. Charlie Eppes says 208525138 is a "simple hexadecimal alphabet code that translates to the beach". The cipher is not hexadecimal as at least 10 hexadecimal digits would be required to encode "the beach", Hexadecimal letter index cipher should have been 1485250138 . Decimal letter index cipher should have been 11 decimal digits, 20850250138, which deciphers uniquely into 20-8-5-02-5-01-3-8 (the beach).
Amita Ramanujan's (Navi Rawat) address on her driver license shows 2901 West Dorchester in Los Angeles, California 90006. There is no West Dorchester in Los Angeles, only a Dorchester Avenue and that address has a ZIP code of 90023. The post office location for 90006 is located at 2390 West Pico Boulevard about 10 miles away.
The coordinates given for the dam are N34.1114° W118.2902° but those are nowhere near any dam. They correspond to 4610 Los Feliz Boulevard.
Crazy Credits[]
[This appears on the beginning of the episode] 100,000,000 avatars 6 billion dollar industry 54 alternate realities 2 technoutopian visionaries