Within the small sphere of our lives we can stare into the past, but all we can really change is our future.
Larry Fleinhardt, "Arrow of Time"
Lawrence Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) is, in the words of Charlie Eppes in Robin Hood, one of "the two great adult influences in my life", along with his father.
Backstory[]
Fleinhardt's father was a painter and wanted his son to become a painter as well. Consequently, a young Larry learned the trade. His admission to art school were copies of masterworks, as his father told him he needed to understand those who came before him before he could attempt anything original. In Larry's own opinion he only had technical ability not originality, and therefore chose a different path in life.
Larry is a cosmologist by profession and a professor, but like Charlie is endlessly intrigued by life in all its permutations, and frequently offers essential insight or a vital moment of refocus. Larry holds a doctorate (or more) and is a professor at CalSci, having (a baker's dozen years before the series starts) been Charlie's instructor when the teenage Mr. Eppes graduated from high school at age 13 and set foot on campus. Unlike many in his position, Larry never seems remotely threatened by the fact that, in certain areas at least, his former pupil has outstripped him.
Personality[]
Larry is a complex man, crammed with quirks, such as his predilection for white food, but often serves as the counterweight to Don's pragmatism, reminding Charlie of the need to broaden his scope of inquiry, and look beyond the immediate, and obviously necessitous. Larry spends the time from the end of Killer Chat to The Art of Reckoning ticking a big item off his bucket list - in space.
Series[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
Season 3[]
Season 4[]
Season 5[]
Season 6[]
Relationships[]
Charlie Eppes[]
Megan Reeves[]
Larry has a fluctuating, and reciprocated, romantic interest in Megan for several years, although by the end of her stay they appear to have settled for just being very good friends.
Amita Ramanujan[]
Appearances[]
Season 1 | |||
01. "Pilot" | 07. "Counterfeit Reality" | ||
02. "Uncertainty Principle" | 08. "Identity Crisis" | ||
03. "Vector" | 09. "Sniper Zero" | ||
04. "Structural Corruption" | 10. "Dirty Bomb" | ||
05. "Prime Suspect" | 11. "Sacrifice" | ||
06. "Sabotage" | 12. "Noisy Edge" | ||
13. "Man Hunt" |
Season 2 | |||
01. "Judgment Call" | 13. "Double Down" | ||
02. "Better or Worse" | 14. "Harvest" | ||
03. "Obsession" | 15. "The Running Man" | ||
04. "Calculated Risk" | 16. "Protest" | ||
05. "Assassin" | 17. "Mind Games" | ||
06. "Soft Target" | 18. "All's Fair" | ||
07. "Convergence" | 19. "Dark Matter" | ||
08. "In Plain Sight" | 20. "Guns and Roses" | ||
09. "Toxin" | 21. "Rampage" | ||
10. "Bones of Contention" | 22. "Backscatter" | ||
11. "Scorched" | 23. "Undercurrents" | ||
12. "The OG" | 24. "Hot Shot" |
Season 3 | |||
01. "Spree" | 13. "Finders Keepers" | ||
02. "Two Daughters" | 14. "Take Out" | ||
03. "Provenance" | 15. "End of Watch" | ||
04. "The Mole" | 16. "Contenders" | ||
05. "Traffic" | 17. "One Hour" | ||
06. "Longshot" | 18. "Democracy" | ||
07. "Blackout" | 19. "Pandora's Box" | ||
08. "Hardball" | 20. "Burn Rate" | ||
09. "Waste Not" | 21. "The Art of Reckoning" | ||
10. "Brutus" | 22. "Under Pressure" | ||
11. "Killer Chat" | 23. "Money for Nothing" | ||
12. "Nine Wives" | 24. "The Janus List" |
Season 4 | |||
01. "Trust Metric" | 10. "Chinese Box" | ||
02. "Hollywood Homicide" | 11. "Breaking Point" | ||
03. "Velocity" | 12. "Power" | ||
04. "Thirteen" | 13. "Black Swan" | ||
05. "Robin Hood" | 14. "Checkmate" | ||
06. "In Security" | 15. "End Game" | ||
07. "Primacy" | 16. "Atomic No. 33" | ||
08. "Tabu" | 17. "Pay to Play" | ||
09. "Graphic" | 18. "When Worlds Collide" |
Season 5 | |||
01. "High Exposure" | 12. "Jacked" | ||
02. "The Decoy Effect" | 13. "Trouble In Chinatown" | ||
03. "Blowback" | 14. "Sneakerhead" | ||
04. "Jack of All Trades" | 15. "Guilt Trip" | ||
05. "Scan Man" | 16. "Cover Me" | ||
06. "Magic Show" | 17. "First Law" | ||
07. "Charlie Don't Surf" | 18. "12:01 AM" | ||
08. "Thirty-Six Hours" | 19. "Animal Rites" | ||
09. "Conspiracy Theory" | 20. "The Fifth Man" | ||
10. "Frienemies" | 21. "Disturbed" | ||
11. "Arrow of Time" | 22. "Greatest Hits" | ||
23. "Angels and Devils" |
Season 6 | |||
01. "Hangman" | 09. "Con Job" | ||
02. "Friendly Fire" | 10. "Old Soldiers" | ||
03. "7 Men Out" | 11. "Scratch" | ||
04. "Where Credit's Due" | 12. "Arm in Arms" | ||
05. "Hydra" | 13. "Devil Girl" | ||
06. "Dreamland" | 14. "And the Winner Is…" | ||
07. "Shadow Markets" | 15. "Growin' Up" | ||
08. "Ultimatum" | 16. "Cause and Effect" |
Trivia[]
Larry is the holder of the "Walter T. Merrick Chair in Theoretical Physics" at CalSci, as he states in "Disturbed". When Alan decides to go 'back to school', he finds Larry a very useful sounding board, as well as a companion whose interests do not automatically end in beer.