Numb3rs, Season 1

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt:
I'm avoiding Laurel Wilson.

Amita Ramanujan:
The professor of philosophy of science?

Charlie Eppes:
She's the lady you go hiking with?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt:
For years we've enjoyed this … I don't know … delightful wilderness-based friendship, entirely platonic. But last night, she and I just veered … we veered off into the carnal.

Amita Ramanujan:
I'm taking it didn't go well.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt:
Actually, it was incredible. It was primal. I mean, in the animal, not the numerical, sense. But what I'm saying, this was a perfect event, and, as such, untwinnable.

Amita Ramanujan:
So, because the sex was great, the odds are against it ever being great again.

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt:
The replication defies the laws of probability.

Amita Ramanujan:
[dryly] So, why try?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt:
[missing the sarcasm] Yes, yes. That's why I'm here. I mean, it's the perfect refuge.

Charlie Eppes:
What do you mean, "the perfect refuge"?

Dr. Larry Fleinhardt:
Well, the math department must be the least libidinous place on campus.