There are even part-time co-stars who change the whole tilt of an episode. Lou Diamond Phillips has won a spot in my heart as Agent Ian Edgerton, a tactical sniper who has been part of the show since its inception. You can always count on those episodes being pure rock and roll at some point, and he delivers in spades in the two-part opener.
Will Patton is another of my favorites. He returns again in this season’s “End of Watch” and has starred in one episode so far in season four. He plays police lieutenant Gary Walker, a hard-nosed, old school guy who faults Don for his team. However, Don and Gary find a deep friendship in each other.
But the episodes bring so much more to the viewer. A history of art and Nazi theft in “Provenance.” Steady motion algorithm, partial differential equations, data mining, Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition, Euclid’s orchard, statistical textual analysis, and dozens of other mathematical processes and skills are unveiled in easy to understand demonstrations for the armchair mathematician.
If you haven’t seen the series, start watching. Within an episode or two, you’ll be hooked. But if you, like me, love the chance to sit down, watch the show, and reference the math on-line while you’ve got the episode paused, you’ll have to pick up this newest DVD set. The emotions of the relationships run high this season, and the stakes are raised all the way around. But the crime-solving, equation-writing, rapid-fire pace of the series totally shines in this collection.
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