Don Eppes

Don Eppes is one of the two main fictional characters in the television show NUMB3RS. He is played by Rob Morrow.

Don is an FBI Special Agent who recruits his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes, to help him and the Bureau solve some of their most difficult cases. Don makes great sacrifices in his personal life in order to devote himself to his career, which to him is more of a way of life than a mere job. More important to him than his work is his family, especially Charlie, even though he doesn't understand his brother's way of looking at the world.

Special Agent Eppes in his FBI gear.

Don gave up his position as Special Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque FBI office to move back to L.A. when his mother became ill with cancer. He doesn't understand how his brother could lock himself up in the garage with a possibly unsolvable math problem, P versus NP, for the three months before their mother died, never going to see her. It's a point of contention between them (1st season - "Uncertainty Principle" and a brief mention in "Vector").

After Charlie found a classical music composition for the piano (an Etude in G minor) that their mother wrote under her maiden name and his father Alan Eppes admits that music was one of Margaret's first loves, Don and his brother remember the piano lessons that she made them take. While Don jokes about the dreadful teacher they had, he and Charlie realize why it was so important to their mother. At the end of "Running Man" (2nd season), Don comes home and finds the sheet music his mother wrote on the table. He sits down and starts playing, hesitantly at first, as Charlie and Alan listen from the garage.

Don dated Terry Lake while at the FBI Academy approximately 10 years ago (his favorite date was when he had pizza in a laundromat with her) and, unbeknownst to Charlie for a time, nearly married another agent named Kim Hall who is now with the Secret Service in L.A., but he is not currently (1st season) romantically involved with anyone. The latter love interest observed that the brothers had "one part exuberance, two parts obsession." The beautiful prosecutor Nadine Hodges (Sarah Carter) seems to be smitten with him and shares his sense of duty. In the episode "Guns and Roses", he decides to investigate his flirtation with AUSA Robin Brooks.

Although Don's devotion to his job means he does not have much of a personal life, he does enjoy the occasional game of baseball. He played Single-A with the Stockton Rangers between college and joining the FBI. He is quite amazed at how Charlie used to predict the number of walks he would get just from his stance at the plate.

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According to a prop used at one point on the show, Don Eppes was born on July 15, 1967, his address is 8111 Aguacate, Los Angeles, CA 91021, and he drives a silver Mitsubishi 4 Sedan with California plates and code 4Q49902. On his Chevy Suburban, which is equipped with lights and sirens, the license code is 6Q49932.

Don Eppes

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