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Limitless

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Limitless	comment	Limitless is a 2015 television series that aired on CBS, and a Sequel Series to the 2011 film of the same name.Brian Finch (Jake McDorman) is lost in his life. His career as a struggling musician has tapered off while all of his bandmates moved on to better things, his siblings seem to have grown up while leaving him in the dust, and now his father is sick with a seemingly undiagnosable disease. But a chance encounter with one of his old friends leads to Brian taking the mysterious new drug NZT - a drug that allows the human brain to function at its highest potential. Brian thinks the drug will help him achieve something that will make his father proud of him in the time he has left, but his attempt to get more from his friend lead to him becoming the chief suspect in his friend's murder and on the run from the FBI.Brian is able to gain evidence and turn it over to FBI agent Rebecca Harris (Jennifer Carpenter) in order to build goodwill, but soon after almost gets killed while pursuing the killer. Blacking out from his bullet wound, he awakes to find himself being treated by Senator Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper reprising his role from the film). Morra offers him one dose and a way to counteract the side effects, his only reason that Brian will be in a position useful to him very soon. Brian solves the murder and, at Rebecca's suggestion, is brought on as an informant while the FBI studies his apparent immunity to NZT's side effects.The series also stars Hill Harper as Agent Spelman Boyle and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as FBI special agent Nasreen "Naz" Pouran. It is also produced by Bradley Cooper, who reprised his role from the film. The character sheet for both the movie and the show is here.Was cancelled after its first and only season.
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Limitless / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Limitless / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: NZT-48, as well as Morra's treatment to eliminate the side effects of NZT withdrawal. He tells Brian that each subsequent dosage makes the user's body crave it more, but Morra himself has been able to take a pill every day and was last sick two years ago.
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Limitless / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Limitless / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: Played with. Brian is able to a lot of things he wasn't able to do before, but almost everything he accomplishes on his first dose was based on information he had been exposed to over his life, but was unable to access from deep in his memory. When he realizes he might be able to help his father, he actually needs to go through his brother's old medical textbooks before he has any idea what he might be looking for. Thanks to NZT Brian is able to pick up new skills so fast that he looks like an instant expert to normal people. When he gets some martial arts training, by the second session he is able to duplicate techniques that his veteran instructor needed five years to master.
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Limitless / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
Limitless / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: Brian after his NZT immunity wears off, and he starts experiencing all the side effects of the drug at once.
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Limitless / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Limitless / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Right in the title of "When Pirates Pirate Pirates". Naz's niece is kidnapped by pirates in the South China Sea, who are then attacked and robbed of all their possessions by a different group of pirates.
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Limitless / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Limitless / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Brian's father loves him and is very supportive of him but has accepted that Brian's life is not going anywhere and that Brian will probably not accomplish much. Brian desperately wants his father to be proud of him again just as when Brian was younger and him starting his own band was a major accomplishment.
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Limitless / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
Limitless / int_18e11001	comment	A cartel assassin tells the FBI that he could not have killed the Victim of the Week because he lost his gun hand in an accident two years ago.
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Limitless / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Limitless / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Page 44 briefly has Brian investigating the children of a billionaire who a friend of his was suspected of murdering, being shown studying the family tree and discussing their common motive (money), but none of them appear in person or get singled out during that scene, and even when they catch the killer (a lawyer who was conspiring with one or more of them) and offer him a deal the camera cuts away before he reveals which heir/s he was working with. Some of the fugitives in "Headquarters" remain unseen save for brief photos.
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Limitless / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Limitless / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: The killer in the pilot keeps an incriminating piece of evidence in his apartment in a location that is highly noticeable. He then brags to Brian about being too smart to keep any NZT in his apartment which clues Brian in on where he actually keeps it. The evil bomb designer in the second episode appears on the news after every bombing to report on it, and also happens to hold the patent for the highly distinctive bombs he uses. He seems to have designed at least the bombs to be unrecognizable after they went off, may be addicted to the attention, and could just say that the bomber based their work on his patent, but it's still pretty darn risky. His garage for "restoring classic cars" has the wrong parts, and the cars are just shells to keep his tools and supplies in, which Harris notices in seconds.
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Limitless / int_1da3a484	type	Alice Allusion
Limitless / int_1da3a484	comment	Alice Allusion: In Finale: Part One!, Brian stands next to a "Drink Me!" contraption which pours a beer when the "Pull Me!" handle is pulled. He is waiting for his friend, who is buying LSD NZT from an Alice.
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Limitless / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Limitless / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Brian tries to get out of telling his dad what's going on by telling him it's too dangerous for him to know. His immediate response is tell him, "I'd die for you." After telling him everything about his situation with the FBI, Brian's dad starts working on a way to get him out. Once Brian tells him that he doesn't want to get out, he tells Naz that he will make sure she goes to jail if anything happens to Brian.
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Limitless / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Limitless / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: When a suspect flees to another country, Brian frames the guy for a series of crimes that while very minor are also very culturally offensive to people in that country. This ensures that the authorities in that country will not have a real cause to put the guy in jail but will instead deport him back to the US.
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Limitless / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Limitless / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: In Headquarters Mike is too busy moaning about the food and feeling paranoid that the locals he's trapped with might eat him if the food runs out to actually notice that said locals are the man he's chasing and a known associate.
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Limitless / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Limitless / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Boyle's old army buddy is initially presented very sympathetically. He is a veteran who lost an arm due to an IED and spent years trying to adjust to his disability before finally getting his life back on track thanks to an advanced prosthetic arm. The guy is then accused of a brutal murder and Boyle and Brian jump at the chance to prove him innocence. However, they then discover that the man was involved in a plot to sabotage the company that made the prosthetic arm and not only was he guilty of the murder of his wife but he also tried to frame an innocent woman for his crimes.
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Limitless / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Limitless / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Brian tries to figure out how a sniper performed an assassination so he uses Post-It Notes to built a replica of the crime scene, including a model cathedral. It looks really cool but provides only limited information that is not immediately useful. He could have save a lot of time and effort if he used cardboard for his models, used a computer simulation, or just have done the math in his head. But building the model was a much cooler challenge. It's later revealed he always tended to visualize his thoughts with arts and crafts even as a kid. This is essentially how Brian describes the human brain when he takes his first NZT pill. "Your brain is a miracle, but it's inefficient." In the episode "Headquarters!", Brian triggers synesthesia in order to visually track a scent. He tells Rebecca "it's completely useless as an investigative technique, but it's interesting." He soon proves himself wrong and subverts the trope when the trail actually takes him somewhere useful.
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Limitless / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Limitless / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Discussed. Brian lampshades the fact that movies like to use a montage to show a character hacking through Rapid-Fire Typing and then suddenly the hacker has gained access to the target system. Brian wants to learn how real hackers work and is disappointed when he learns that hacking in real life is Boring, but Practical. The irony is that in "Sands, Agent of Morra", Brian has to do some more hacking. Sands claims that the PC is running a Unix-based system. In reality, it's running Windows 10 and Brian is actually typing a lot of nonsense in a Power Shell, which all return errors. Although you can easily miss it, and it was probably not intended to be seen.
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Limitless / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Limitless / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Nobody, not even the FBI, know where the drug comes from or who is distributing it. Even government attempts to reverse-engineer it have failed and caused the users to burn out and die.
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Limitless / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Limitless / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Ike is quite the artist.
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Limitless / int_2fbab42f	type	Wrongful Accusation Insurance
Limitless / int_2fbab42f	comment	Wrongful Accusation Insurance: In the pilot, Brian ends up doing a lot of highly illegal things proving his innocence. However, he is so valuable to the government as someone who is immune to the side effects of NZT that they offer to drop all charges in exchange for his cooperation. In the process of capturing an escaped prisoner, Brian discovers that the guy is innocent. After Brian proves the escapee's innocence, the guy still has to face the legal consequences for his escape. Fortunately, he seems to have committed no major crimes while on the run and gives information to help capture the man he escaped with, so he probably will be sentenced to time-served and will be able to walk free. He still has to spend some time in a minimum security prison while the legalities are resolved.
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Limitless / int_31d55275	type	Tuxedo and Martini
Limitless / int_31d55275	comment	Brian quickly learns that real criminal investigations involve a lot more drudge work and fewer Tuxedo and Martini spy tropes than he expected. Which is why when he remembers something he always makes it look more awesome.
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Limitless / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Limitless / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: In Episode 11 it focuses more on the people around Brian and Brian is more of a side character in each story.
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Limitless / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Limitless / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Discussed by Brian's father, who points out the FBI is essentially keeping him hostage and using him as a drug guinea pig. Brian doesn't want to actually push it though. Additionally, clearing the innocent man in "Stop Me Before I Hug Again" would be much harder with the evidence shown than they make out.
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Limitless / int_382bdb6b	type	Volcano Lair
Limitless / int_382bdb6b	comment	Volcano Lair: Brian imagines the Legion of Whom as super-villains who use an active volcano as their base.
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Limitless / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Limitless / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Brian's first assignment at the FBI is to learn foreign languages like Farsi so the FBI can use him as a translator and analyst. This would be of great practical use to the FBI but its also rather boring. NZT users cannot stand being bored and Brian soon goes Off the Rails. After Brian's attempt to use I Know Mortal Kombat ends in an Epic Fail, Brian is given self defense training by a veteran agent. He is taught to wrestle his opponent to the ground and then twist an arm or a leg in a direction the appendage normally does not move in so the opponent stops fighting due to the pain. Alternatively he can try to choke his opponent into unconsciousness. This is very effective but does not look as cool as the martial art moves shown in movies. The series has Brian openly narrating just how boring real life hacking is and why TV and movies make it look more exciting.
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Limitless / int_3a873e6	type	Screw the Money, This Is Personal!
Limitless / int_3a873e6	comment	Screw the Money, This Is Personal!: Sands offers Rebecca a high paying position on Senator Morra's staff that would require her to quit the FBI and stop her investigation into Morra's connection to NZT. Rebecca suspects that Morra might have been behind her father's murder, so she strings Sands along for a bit and then throws the offer back in his face.
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Limitless / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Limitless / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Brian regularly speaks to the audience.
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Limitless / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Limitless / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Brian is able to do this while under the effects of NZT. The only problem is that he isn't a trained criminal investigator so what he considers to be noteworthy might not necessarily be relevant to the agents he works with.
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Limitless / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Limitless / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Brian quickly learns that real criminal investigations involve a lot more drudge work and fewer Tuxedo and Martini spy tropes than he expected. Which is why when he remembers something he always makes it look more awesome. When he confronts a criminal on his own, Brian assumes his perfect recall of kung fu movies gives him an advantage. He's taken down in five seconds and realizes that all the "recall knowledge" in the world doesn't help if you've never had any fight training. This is the reason why Eddie Morra claims he hasn't used his abilities to revolutionize the modern world. Politics and human stupidity make it impossible for one man to bring about change without being drowned out by the baying masses. He needs to be much more subtle and play a longer game. When he tries to get into a computer hacking, Brian's narration notes how movies and TV shows do hacking as a montage because "in real life, hacking is boring." Information about NZT is strictly need-to-know but Brian regularly interacts with a number of highly skilled and observant FBI agents. Even Locked Out of the Loop, some of them put the clues together and conclude that Brian's bursts of super intelligence are the result of a super secret drug he is taking. A trained FBI agent will Shoot the Hostage Taker who has a gun pointed at a hostage's head. If a situation has deteriorated to that point, the agent's priority is to save the hostage's life rather than trying to talk the hostage taker down. In Brian's defense, he insists that Casey's last act was to lower his gun, proving that he would have done so eventually had he been given more time. It becomes more muddled when it becomes evident that while on NZT Casey saw the bullet coming and could have avoided being killed. Meaning that it was more likely that with his career gone down in flames, and long term prison the result of his actions, Casey decided to take the only way out left to him. In one case involving a powerful secret society, Brian expects them to kill people who might leak their secrets. Their representative says it's much more practical - and legal - to just use NDAs and lawsuits. When Brian tells his father about everything, his father is horrified, pointing out that the government is using him as a guinea pig in a probably illegal government drug trial. Furthermore, he points out that with competent legal representation, he might be able to get Brian out of his FBI contract arguing he is under duress and not in his right state of mind. He only stands down after Brian asks him not to pursue though he makes it clear to the FBI that if Brian dies, he will sue them into oblivion.
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Limitless / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Limitless / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: This is attempted twice in "Badge! Gun!". First a bomber sabotages a target's car so it looks like the guy lost control of the vehicle and it exploded after the gas tank ruptured. Second, the CEO of a biological weapon company uses a genetically engineered flu virus to induce a stroke in a general and make it look like the general died of natural causes. This would have worked with the middle aged general but the virus also kills three healthy 20-something men (including the target of the attempted bombing) which is so unlikely that Brian quickly figures out what is really going on. Also, in "Arm-ageddon," Boyle's old army buddy claims his robotic arm went crazy and killed his wife. Soon, other people with the same robotic arms made by that company also have serious malfunctions and the team tracks down the hacker behind it. However, at the episode's end Boyle confronts his friend on how he had helped plan the hacking and used it as a cover to murder his wife for insurance. Boyle points out the man's key mistake: Every other place with the hacked arms had a camera there for the hacker to use but there was no camera in Boyle's house so how could the hacker be able to see what the arm was doing?
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Limitless / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Limitless / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Eddie Morra from the film has been watching over Brian and using Sands to test him to see if he's merely a drone who'll do as he's told or if he has a mind of his own and will do whatever he can to find an ethical solution to his problems. He passed.
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Limitless / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Limitless / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Played for laughs in "Headquarters!" Brian sends his teammate James to infiltrate a cult, and the guy's subsequent updates make it clear that he's slowly buying into it. The episode ends with a casual mention of him being deprogrammed by the FBI.
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Limitless / int_44c8891c	type	Safe Word
Limitless / int_44c8891c	comment	Safe Word: Naz uses "pomegranate" with Brian when there's a chance that he might have to go into hiding in her safehouse. She uses the same word with her daughter.
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Limitless / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Limitless / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Mike and Ike started out being used and abused by Brian just short of the point where they'd shoot him to put him out of their misery. He eventually starts showing them a bit more respect. James Peckenpah, aka "Tech", the CJC's computer guy is treated fairly well by Brian but tends to come out the worst whenever Brian ropes him into a plan. So far, he's been accidentally indoctrinated into a cult, suffered severe wind burns after spending all night outside in freezing weather (Brian forgot to tell him that the assignment had ended), and constantly been stood up on scheduled game nights.
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Limitless / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Limitless / int_48081842	comment	In the series premiere Brian is working as a temp in the HR department of an investment bank. When he first takes NZT he makes their filing system more efficient and develops a way to quickly spot problem employees. He gives all the credit to his boss, a talented young woman who he predicts will become the bank's first female vice president. In the season one finale, The Stinger reveals that the woman is now the CEO of the bank.
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Limitless / int_48126ac0	type	CIA Evil, FBI Good
Limitless / int_48126ac0	comment	CIA Evil, FBI Good: In "Brian Finch's Black Op", the CIA kidnap Brian out from under the FBI and force him into helping them with a black op. His FBI teammates spend the episode scrambling to get him back. The black op turns out to be an illegal operation on US soil intended to kill a witness who can implicate the CIA in a war crime. The trope is subverted in the next episode, which shows that there are people in the FBI willing to let Brian be harmed if it means they can take advantage of him, or simply imprison him in a lab for testing and not utilize his skills at all. Also deconstructed...those actions by the CIA? They cause SERIOUS trouble for both agencies. And the guy in the FBI who signed off, is fired, the whole CIA team is killed, and the guy who authorized it on the CIA thing is also in deep trouble.
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Limitless / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Limitless / int_48b9731f	comment	The evil bomb designer in the second episode appears on the news after every bombing to report on it, and also happens to hold the patent for the highly distinctive bombs he uses. He seems to have designed at least the bombs to be unrecognizable after they went off, may be addicted to the attention, and could just say that the bomber based their work on his patent, but it's still pretty darn risky. His garage for "restoring classic cars" has the wrong parts, and the cars are just shells to keep his tools and supplies in, which Harris notices in seconds.
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Limitless / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
Limitless / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: The audience gets to watch how Brian solves various crimes for the FBI, but since Brian is using NZT to solve the mysteries through bounds of logic and data-analyzing that no one else can do, there's rarely any way to solve the mysteries ahead of him, and various culprits and motives are rarely even mentioned before he figures out whodunit and why.
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Limitless / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Limitless / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: One of Boyle's contacts in DC is a watchdog who holds on to copies of documents that might be important to exposing corruption or scandal within the FBI, just in case they need to be presented to a court.
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Limitless / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Limitless / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Deliberately averted. Brian might be able to quickly learn new things and become hyperaware of his surrounding while on NZT, but his lack of training means that he can disregard information that Harris and Boyle would consider to be important. In the pilot, the FBI almost catches Brian despite him being on NZT and their own investigation would have probably revealed Eli's killer if Brian did not blunder in and steal evidence. Conventional investigation is shown to still be useful, and Harris herself is pretty smart and perceptive. In one instance Brian calls Harris up to tell her about a piece of evidence he discovered that will prove that an accident was actually a murder but Harris tells him that they already discovered all of that an hour earlier through conventional crime scene investigation. Though it's notable in this last one that Brian discovered that on a fifteen minute break after spending three hours studying Farsi. So he could have saved them two hours at the very least. This is part of a trend where Brian on NZT is shown to be not necessarily better, but faster than the traditional methods. Averted once again in "Sands, Agent of Morra". Where despite Brian secretly helping Sands as the FBI are on the same case, Sands and Brian beat the FBI to the location only by mere minutes.
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Limitless / int_59907e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_59907e4f
Limitless / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
Limitless / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: Downplayed. The Legion of Whom plans to make a fortune by causing an international crisis between Canada and Greenland. This has the potential to sour the relationship between the countries for years but is unlikely to cause an actual war.
Limitless / int_5c99b642	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_5c99b642	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_5c99b642
Limitless / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Limitless / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Brian is, by nature, a meddler and NZT makes him hyperaware of things that need to be "fixed". This trait means that he can completely derail intricate plots without even intending to.
Limitless / int_60194b82	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_60194b82	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_60194b82
Limitless / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
Limitless / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: In "The Legend of Marco Ramos", the villains unsuccessfully try to flee to Venezuela in a jet while flying under a commercial airliner to hide from radar. When Brian starts tracking down the people on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, he discovers that some of them have fled the country. One is hiding out in Costa Rica, another is somewhere in Africa and another decided to hide out in Greenland of all places. A suspect flees to Dubai counting on the fact that it does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. However, Brian finds a way to get the guy deemed an undesirable by the Dubai government which promptly gets the suspect deported back to the US.
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Limitless / int_607d4ada	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_607d4ada
Limitless / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
Limitless / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Eli sees Brian as this, the only member of their band who has not sold out and is still pursuing his musical goals no matter what life throws at him. The truth is that Brian is stuck and is unable to find a way to move on with his life like his friends did.
Limitless / int_60b4a128	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_60b4a128	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_60b4a128
Limitless / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Limitless / int_60eac4ba	comment	Brian's first assignment at the FBI is to learn foreign languages like Farsi so the FBI can use him as a translator and analyst. This would be of great practical use to the FBI but its also rather boring. NZT users cannot stand being bored and Brian soon goes Off the Rails.
Limitless / int_60eac4ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_60eac4ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_60eac4ba
Limitless / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Limitless / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: In "Finale: Part One", Brian points out how having a scary name or nickname is actually detrimental to a drug dealer named Hades (after the Greek God of the underworld) as a large part of his customer base is easily intimidated college kids, yuppies, and minimum wage employees who likely seek out drug dealers whose names don't make them think they're in danger of being killed.
Limitless / int_60fa92ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_60fa92ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_60fa92ac
Limitless / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Limitless / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Brian is a snarky, awkward slacker who enjoys playing goofy pranks and has little to no regard for boundaries or rules. This is when he's not on NZT. The drug takes away his laziness, but replaces it with curiosity so overwhelming that he can't help but go out of his way to discuss miscellaneous topics with strangers for the fun of it. But he works with the FBI because he's the only person they know who's both immune to NZT's debilitating side effects and is willing to cooperate with them, and because NZT still makes him smart enough to help them solve cases while he goes through all of his quirks listed above.
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Limitless / int_61b8f9e2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Limitless / int_62f9d08e	comment	It's a Freeze-Frame Bonus, but the message sandwich board Brian wears in "When Pirates Pirate Pirates" is written in grammatically correct, proper textbook Malay.
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Limitless / int_62f9d08e	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_62f9d08e
Limitless / int_634a2ff9	type	Sue Donym
Limitless / int_634a2ff9	comment	Sue Donym: Brian's favorite fake name to use is "Mike Ikerson".
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Limitless / int_634a2ff9	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_634a2ff9
Limitless / int_6382334a	type	Converse with the Unconscious
Limitless / int_6382334a	comment	Converse with the Unconscious: After Ike winds up in a coma Brian tries talking to him in the hospital, wondering if Ike can hear him. Cut to Ike's dreams where, due to the stress of dealing with Brian, the words end up terrifying him.
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Limitless / int_6382334a	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_6382334a
Limitless / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Limitless / int_65acf9db	comment	In one case involving a powerful secret society, Brian expects them to kill people who might leak their secrets. Their representative says it's much more practical - and legal - to just use NDAs and lawsuits.
Limitless / int_65acf9db	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_65acf9db	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_65acf9db
Limitless / int_6779fb0b	type	Shoot the Hostage Taker
Limitless / int_6779fb0b	comment	A trained FBI agent will Shoot the Hostage Taker who has a gun pointed at a hostage's head. If a situation has deteriorated to that point, the agent's priority is to save the hostage's life rather than trying to talk the hostage taker down. In Brian's defense, he insists that Casey's last act was to lower his gun, proving that he would have done so eventually had he been given more time. It becomes more muddled when it becomes evident that while on NZT Casey saw the bullet coming and could have avoided being killed. Meaning that it was more likely that with his career gone down in flames, and long term prison the result of his actions, Casey decided to take the only way out left to him.
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Limitless / int_6779fb0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_6779fb0b
Limitless / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Limitless / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: Amusingly averted. Brian has to explain to a scientist how he hacked his "unhackable" project; he prepares to deliver a long monologue, but no technobabble reaches the audience - a large "TECH TALK" blinking sign appears and a warning klaxon drowns out all of his speech.
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Limitless / int_6b723294	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_6e9e1e32	type	GottaCatchEmAll
Limitless / int_6e9e1e32	comment	Gotta Catch 'Em All: The premise of the episode "Headquarters!" featured Brian offering to catch the FBI's top ten most wanted criminals within two weeks in order to get his own headquarters CJC. Subverted at several points, however: he catches one of them before the timer actually starts, two of them are still at large when the timer runs out, one of them is innocent and subsequently exonerated by Brian, and the FBI eventually puts a stop to it because the CJC is making the rest of the Bureau look bad. He still gets the headquarters, though.
Limitless / int_6e9e1e32	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Limitless / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Limitless / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: NZT makes a person super smart but it also makes them overconfident, arrogant and eager to show off his/her abilities. This causes Brian to do a number of things that are fairly stupid simply because he thinks that he will be able to mitigate the consequences. This is lampshaded in the pilot where after he jumps in front of a moving subway train, he realizes that it was not the smartest thing to do and in narration he starts rapidly downgrading his chances of surviving.
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Limitless / int_7286e96d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Limitless / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: Rebecca and Brian investigate a hospital's radiology department. All the radioactive materials are behind a locked door with a 9 digit passcode that changes every week. The staff writes the code on the door frame. Brian even admits that if he had to memorize a 9 digit code every week, he'd use a cheat sheet too.
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Limitless / int_72c07237	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
Limitless / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: One of the first skills Brian learns, and utilizes in the Pilot, is pickpocketing. Specifically, he explains that the best way to do it is to draw the subjects attention to something else during the action so that they don't notice the theft occurring. Rest assured, if Brian points out some innocuous detail or fact to somebody while talking with them and you can't see his hands, he'll be showing off the phone or wallet he lifted to Rebecca a minute later.
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Limitless / int_7390323c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Limitless / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: In "Headquarters!", a janitor was part of the team assembled to catch the top 10 most wanted. Subverted in that the janitor just ended up making T-shirts for the team.
Limitless / int_73ef9ef3	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_73ef9ef3
Limitless / int_76cde6e	type	Better the Devil You Know
Limitless / int_76cde6e	comment	Better the Devil You Know: Brian was able to get Sands to use the information he gave him to get Naz back her job, simply because she would give him more freedom than anyone else to be an assets in the FBI. Brian even quotes this trope.
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Limitless / int_76cde6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_76cde6e
Limitless / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Limitless / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: If Rachel went to her father first rather than her mother with her concerns with Brian there is no doubt a majority of the problems could have been easily avoided.
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Limitless / int_79a60aec	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
Limitless / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Not With the Safety On, You Won't: After months of babysitting Brian, Mike gets a little rusty and forgets to turn the safety off on his gun when confronting a robber. This almost gets him killed.
Limitless / int_7a2a34ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_7a2a34ef	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Limitless / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When his father ends up in the hospital in the series premiere, Brian offers to do everything he can to help. His father asks him "How would you help?". This makes Brian face the truth and realize he is barely able to take care of himself and lacks any ability to help his family in the crisis.
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Limitless / int_7e1184d8	type	Suspect Is Hatless
Limitless / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: Subverted. Brian spends a lot of time building a model of a crime scene but the only new information he can figure out about the killer was that he was very tall. This is of no immediate use to the FBI but comes in handy when they find a suspect who is indeed very tall.
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Limitless / int_7e1184d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_7e1184d8
Limitless / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
Limitless / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Brian, which is why the FBI find him so valuable. He is the only one (whom they know of) that is functional with NZT.
Limitless / int_7f1be21	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_7f1be21	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_7f1be21
Limitless / int_7f514dd1	type	AwesomeByAnalysis
Limitless / int_7f514dd1	comment	Awesome by Analysis: The effects of Brian, and anybody else, on NZT. It allows them to retain and access every memory, make connections between abstract pieces of information, and calculate everything around them. In one instance, it even allows Brian to turn himself synesthetic and visualize smells!
Limitless / int_7f514dd1	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_7f514dd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_7f514dd1
Limitless / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Limitless / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Brian's first appearance is evading the FBI using the NZT powers, dodging traffic perfectly, and evading being shot at by jumping into the path of a moving subway train. Then it freezes, and the narration begins.
Limitless / int_7febc23b	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_7febc23b	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_7febc23b
Limitless / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Limitless / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The pilot begins with Brian already fleeing Eli's murder scene while being chased by FBI agents, and follows his pursuit into the subway. It stops just before the train (almost) hits him.
Limitless / int_80251be3	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_80251be3	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_80251be3
Limitless / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
Limitless / int_820ac351	comment	It Amused Me: In the second episode, Brian escapes his FBI bodyguards by ramming through a thin wall into another room and running out of the building. Knowing that they'll be savvy to his plan the second time, he instead makes the sound of him running through. When they go into both rooms to head him off, Mike finds a picture Brian drew of himself with the caption "I did it for the LOLZ". Then Brian downs a shelf in front of the door to trap Mike in there while he escapes.
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Limitless / int_820ac351	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_820ac351
Limitless / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Limitless / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: Subverted. Brian watched a lot of martial arts movies but when he tries to use that knowledge in an actual fight, he gets punched in the face and knocked down. He then gets some actual self-defense training and lampshades that he has to forget everything he learned from the movies about hand-to-hand combat.
Limitless / int_850258ca	featureApplicability	-0.3
Limitless / int_850258ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_850258ca
Limitless / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Limitless / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: Is Eddie Morra a Well-Intentioned Anti-Hero who's willing to sink to any depths to bring about positive change in the world, or is he an Affably Evil Manipulative Bastard who just has some good justifications covering his thirst for power?
Limitless / int_853b7948	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_853b7948	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_853b7948
Limitless / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Limitless / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Boyle helps his old army buddy (who got a robotic arm to replace one lost in combat) when it seems to out of control and kills the man's wife. He's backed by how other arms made by the same company are also going wild. However at the episode's end, Boyle realizes his friend really did murder his wife and used the hacking of the arms as the excuse to cover the crime. Boyle acknowledges his blind spot to Army comrades and it took Brian to make him see the truth.
Limitless / int_868409c	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_868409c	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_868409c
Limitless / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Limitless / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Eddie Morra tells Brian that the pre-NZT Eddie does not exist anymore and only the new Eddie matters. Morra is quite perplexed by Brian clinging to his old life rather than fully embracing the "new and improved" Brian.
Limitless / int_87ede6fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_87ede6fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_87ede6fc
Limitless / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
Limitless / int_8cbd311b	comment	In "Brian Finch's Black Op", he ends up talking to two versions of himself at once in a version of Good Angel, Bad Angel - and also a version of himself that looks just like Rebecca, though she insists that she's just a manifestation of his inner self as well.
Limitless / int_8cbd311b	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_8cbd311b	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_8cbd311b
Limitless / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Limitless / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Averted and played straight in the pilot. He in fact did think his plan through to the tiniest detail of to stop a train just in front of him. However after he sees the train coming at him his confidence in this plan working quickly decreases.
Limitless / int_8d0785d5	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_8d0785d5
Limitless / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Limitless / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: The bomber in the second episode admits to multiple counts of murder, but only attempted murder in the case being investigated. The victim had died due to something else killing him before the planned assassination. A cartel assassin tells the FBI that he could not have killed the Victim of the Week because he lost his gun hand in an accident two years ago.
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Limitless / int_95b875b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_95b875b1
Limitless / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Limitless / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: In Headquarters they get an imprisoned hitman to rat out his client for 12 Coney Island bagels a week.
Limitless / int_98aaf983	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_98aaf983	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Limitless / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Rachel, Brian's sister, accidentally causes a huge amount of trouble despite having the best of intentions. Brian ends up going on the lam as a result. Also his mother, who spout out a lot of classified information she wasn't supposed to know, revealed Brian's hidden stash, and made note of Sands all right in front of Brian's FBI handlers. Needless to say Brian gets in a lot of trouble, loses his stash, tips the FBI to his involvement with Morra, and then she kicks him out of the house which causes him to go AWOL.
Limitless / int_99ddfcec	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_99ddfcec	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_99ddfcec
Limitless / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Limitless / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: In the second episode at the end when Brian finds out the nurse working for his father is also the one working for Morra. Her statement about how his father is getting better is clearly meant to be a threat to Brian and to tell him to keep his mouth shut. In "When Pirates Pirate Pirates", Brian wears a sandwich board in the middle of New York. However, it's not written in English, so only the former pirate captain and his crew can know what he means.
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Limitless / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Limitless / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Doubles as Foreshadowing in "The Assassination of Edward Morra": Piper faked getting hit by a train thanks to Brian having had firsthand experience cheating death the same way back in the pilot episode.
Limitless / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
Limitless / int_9e1beee3	comment	90% of Your Brain: The host of the NZT Party explains that this is what the pill does. Brian quickly corrects her that the 10% brain function is a myth.
Limitless / int_9e1beee3	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_9e1beee3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Limitless / int_a10775b7	comment	Mean Boss: When Brian and Harris go to see a CEO in the second episode, they see a video of him in the lobby trying to gild the lily on recent layoffs. They know that he's responsible for murdering a general but have no way of proving it without files on the companies computers he refuses to turn over and will no doubt destroy as soon as they leave. Brian announces in the middle of the office that the boss will be arrested if someone at the company will anonymously send him the files they need and, within 30 seconds, ten of his mistreated employees have.
Limitless / int_a10775b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_a10775b7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Limitless / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: "Brian Finch's Black Op" is one to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, especially the beginning which recreates most of the film's opening scenes as Brian attempts to take a day off from the FBI by faking illness. He ends up naming his CIA kidnappers Rooney, Cameron, and Abe Froman (sausage king of Chicago). When his inner voice manifests as Rebecca, she's dressed as Sloane. Finally, Aleksey gets high off a combination of Belladonna and NZT, and gets a lift out of the forest from a school bus. "Headquarters!" ends with one to 22 Jump Street, with the future adventures of the Bruntouchables being presented as cheesy movie concepts.
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Limitless / int_a1a1491e	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_a1a1491e
Limitless / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Limitless / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Set to the opening riffs of "Nobody But Me" as Naz repeatedly turns down Brian's request for a headquarters.
Limitless / int_a31b47ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_a31b47ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_a31b47ae
Limitless / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Limitless / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": A hospital stores radioactive materials in a storage room on its premises. The door has a secure keypad lock that can only be unlocked using a numeric code that is randomly generated and changed each week. Brian quickly figures out the current code because it is written on the door frame.
Limitless / int_a3509d95	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_a3509d95	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_a3509d95
Limitless / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Limitless / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Brian resolves to treat Mike and Ike with more respect and even addresses Ike by his real name. Ike then says that he's gotten used to being referred to as "Ike".
Limitless / int_a6e8221e	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_a6e8221e	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_a6e8221e
Limitless / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Limitless / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The two un-captured 10 most wanted fugitives the murderer of several DEA agents and a firebug.
Limitless / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
Limitless	hasFeature	Limitless / int_a70223
Limitless / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Limitless / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Brian has these occasionally, often when trying to make the boring parts of his job more interesting. Almost every time he has one it's shot down by his FBI colleagues.
Limitless / int_a7382a73	featureApplicability	1.0
Limitless / int_a7382a73	featureConfidence	1.0
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Limitless / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
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Limitless / int_b14836af	comment	Just a Flesh Wound: Averted when Brian gets shot in the leg in the pilot. He is able to make a run away from the shooter but quickly loses strength. When he tries to treat the wound, he passes out and would have bled out if Morra had not found him and got him proper medical help. Invoked by Eddie Morra when he realizes that he is about to get shot and positions his body in such a way that the bullet will graze his shoulder but do no real damage. He could have avoided getting shot entirely but figures that a wound will give him a lot more public sympathy and advance his political ambitions. Rebecca gets shot in the shoulder. It's explicitly debilitating but she is on NZT at the time so she uses the abilities the pill gives her to shut off her brain's pain receptors in order to keep functioning.
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Limitless / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Eddie Morra is still on NZT after stating at the end of the movie that he had discovered a way to get off it. However, the implications are that he was just bluffing to Van Loon as a way to show he would not be under his thumb or influence. Turns out Eddie not only figured out how to make his own NZT stash, but created a supplementary shot to combat the negative effects.
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Limitless / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: Brian is stuck in an FBI file room learning languages when he feels that he would be of more use out in the field. He cannot leave the room due to the two guards posted outside the door. He figures out that the file room is actually just one half of a much bigger room that was divided using cheap drywall. He breaks through the drywall and escapes.
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Limitless / int_b532642f	comment	Drugs Causing Slow-Motion: NZT is a drug which augments a person's intelligence to superhuman levels, often resulting in users perceiving the world in slow-motion while they think up a solution to an imminent disaster.
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Limitless / int_b8259a3b	comment	Dumpster Dive: Working on an espionage case Brian is tasked with looking through the suspects garbage. He lampshades the fact that, once you get used to the smell, you can learn a lot about people based on the things they throw out. He is able to crack the case because he finds it very suspicious that a person who is lactose intolerant would be throwing out so many milk cartons. He also lampshades the fact that the FBI does not need to obtain a warrant to search someone's garbage once it is in a public dumpster.
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Limitless / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: When a sniper takes a shot at Eddie Morra, Rebecca quickly realizes that the shot was "impossible". The distance to the target was considerably longer than the longest recorded successful sniper shot (to emphasize the scale of it, she says it would beat the record holder by six football fields), the rifle was not designed for shots of this nature and the conditions in general were unsuitable. She concludes that the shooter had to have been using NZT to account for all those variables.
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Limitless / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Limitless / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Brian is a nice person who cares deeply about his family. When he first takes NZT he reorganizes the file room at the bank where he works as a temp and then give all the credit for the increased efficiency to his supervisor because he recognizes that she is a nice and talented person who needs a break. He then spends most of the day reading medical books so he can find a way to save his father's life. When he goes on the run from the FBI, he is very apologetic about the illegal things that he has to do. When he is stuck on a bus for a few hours he chats up the other passengers and helps them with their problems. This is a big contrast to how many of the other NZT users act, though he still tends to lose his better judgement about respecting limits - oh.
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Limitless / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Limitless / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: In "Headquarters!" Brian reveals to his dad about NZT.
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Limitless / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Brian has a Zoltar Speaks machine in his headquarters, and uses it in a case during a montage.
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Limitless / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Limitless / int_c8146c52	comment	Synthetic Plague: This is featured in the episode "Badge! Gun!", where a virus is created that targets the Ghenghis Khan gene and can thus be used for an assassination.
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Limitless / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The movie is an actual psychological thriller, whereas the series is notoriously lighthearted in comparison. This is helped by the fact that Brian is willing to help anyone he comes across when on NZT, and also goes out of his way to troll his FBI superiors.
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Limitless / int_d2b8cd85	comment	Idea Bulb: Literally shown with a bulb going on right by Brian when he hits upon a discovery on a case.
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Limitless / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Limitless / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: A cartel assassin was making custom ammunition to use in his next murder but one of the shells blew up and he lost his gun hand.
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Limitless / int_d429d0f6	comment	Canada, Eh?: Brian suspects that a Canadian politician is a member of the League of Whom. He envisions the politician as a supervillain wearing costume made out of a Canadian flag and ending all his sentences with ",eh".
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Limitless / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Brian escapes the FBI by running straight into traffic and then jumping in front of a moving subway train. Brian needs to get the FBI to search a bank safety deposit box that might contain evidence that would exonerate him. He walks into the bank, steals a guard's gun, declares that he is robbing the bank and then tells the teller to trigger the alarm and call the FBI. When Agent Harris arrives, he breaks into the box in front of her. He is in a ton of legal trouble for the stunt but the FBI is free to use the evidence to arrest the real killer.
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Limitless / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Eddie Morra eventually reveals that he's playing an extremely long game to try and bring about real change in the world. He explains to Brian that he could simply debut revolutionary developments as soon as he comes up with them, but lobbyists and a poorly informed public would render all his efforts for naught.
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Limitless / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Brian is repeatedly stated to be 28, but is only eight years old in a flashback to 1998. If this series is intended to be set in 2015, Brian should have been born in 1987, not 1990, and thus eleven years old in the flashback. This error could be due to the series originally being written to take place in 2012, the year after the original film was set in/premiered, only to later be updated to the year it aired.
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Limitless / int_da1e24b7	comment	Recovered Addict: Rebecca Harris's father was a drug addict whose addiction ruined his life and cost him his family. The last time Rebecca saw him, he was in recovery and seemed to have put his life back together. However, he then apparently fell Off the Wagon and was murdered soon after. Rebecca now suspects that he was an early NZT user and was killed because of it. Brian finds out from a secret FBI file that her father had indeed been involved with NZT. Despite his NZT-using persona evaluating that it's a terrible idea, he decides to share the information with her.
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Limitless / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: Brian gets suspicious about Black Flag Baby being the Arm-pocalypse hacker because they found all the evidence right on her company computer. He even claims it was way too easy.
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Limitless / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Limitless / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Parodied in the pilot, where the opening montage of random moments for Brian being a slacker has him refer to a friend named Eli by name as he talks about how he and some friends once had a band, with captioning appearing to refer to Eli as someone who will be important later as he strums away at his instrument in the background.
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Limitless / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
Limitless / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: Assistant Director in Charge Johnson in "When Pirates Pirate Pirates". ADIC Johnson.
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Limitless / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Limitless / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Brian occasionally points out that the audience is watching a scene play out in English for their own convenience while he and everyone else are actually speaking different languages.
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Limitless / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Limitless / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Naz considers Brian, with his recklessness and petulant attitude, to be one. She even explicitly compares him to her own children.
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Limitless / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Limitless / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The first episode seems to be a shorter version of the film. Guy gets NZT from a friend, friend ends up dead and he is framed for it, needs to both get a supply of NZT and solve the crime before the side effects destroy him.
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Limitless / int_e394c5d	type	Color Wash
Limitless / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: Like in the movie, the perspective of NZT users is shown in orange and yellow, while reality is more dull and blue.
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Limitless / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: In episode 13, a hot-shot profiler from the BAU who's also an author shows up—much like the main character of another CBS show. Naz is rather dismissive of him, which veers into Actor Allusion territory as Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was on that show as an ex-wife of the character in question.
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Limitless / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The reason "Headquarters!" is titled as such - Brian doesn't want an office, he wants a headquarters with an exclamation mark.
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Limitless / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: Brian complains that the Bruntouchables don't appreciate how much work went into shooting his video on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List in one take.
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Limitless / int_eff7d17	type	Mysterious Backer
Limitless / int_eff7d17	comment	Mysterious Backer: In the first episode, Eddie Morra, who kidnaps Brian, patches up his gunshot wound, and offers to supply him with the formula that staves off NZT's side effects. In return, all he wants is for Brian to solve Eli's murder, as Eddie somehow knows that doing so will land him in a good position with the FBI. Somehow this all works in Morra's favour, whatever he's after. Then he starts asking for more favors...
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Limitless / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Limitless / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: When Brian first starts working with the FBI he only receives random research assignments to make him an expert at specific topics, or grunt work such as reassembling shredded documents or going through a suspect's trash. While the drug does allow him to accomplish these much quicker than a normal person, it's still a far cry from the espionage and investigation that he was expecting when he agreed to come on board. In fact, this is pretty much a once an episode thing, for the first five episodes at LEAST. His skills are in analysis and recall. So, they give him a huge set of information, he figures out which information is necessary in 1/10th the time, and they use that information.
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Limitless / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Limitless / int_f06b07ff	comment	Information about NZT is strictly need-to-know but Brian regularly interacts with a number of highly skilled and observant FBI agents. Even Locked Out of the Loop, some of them put the clues together and conclude that Brian's bursts of super intelligence are the result of a super secret drug he is taking.
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Limitless / int_f13643c4	type	Tunnel King
Limitless / int_f13643c4	comment	Tunnel King: Lawrence Drake, a former engineer, manages to tunnel out of Rikers Island in "Headquarters!".
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Limitless / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Brian has a lot of character traits in common with Eddie Morra, down to getting NZT from a friend, being mistaken for his murderer, and stealing his stash. Which may be part of why Morra decided to help him.
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Limitless / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: In the season one finale Brian keeps taking NZT even after he starts experiencing debilitating side effects because it is the only way to stop the bad guys and save Piper. He puts himself through hell but in the end Sands' organization is taken down, Piper is safe and Brian gets a booster shot that makes him permanently immune to NZT side effects.
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Limitless / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: A NZT user facing the prospect of running out of the drug, quickly concludes that he needs to kill the other people he knows are taking the drug and steal their pills.
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Limitless / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Brian finds realistic hacking to be an intensely boring process, so to keep the viewers' attention he likes to narrate what he's doing over a montage of unrelated clips. Themes include explosions, cat videos, and a dog saying "I love you."
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Limitless / int_fb8b5014	comment	Talking to Themself: Unlike the movie, which only shows Eddie's actions and not what he's thinking, whenever Brian takes NZT, he occasionally talks to an hallucination which is implied to be his subconscious helping remember things he knows. It's taken even further in "Personality Crisis" when NZT!Brian starts leaving video taped messages for Normal!Brian and then Normal!Brian leaves one for NZT!Brian.Usually it's just one version, but there can be more. In "Brian Finch's Black Op", he ends up talking to two versions of himself at once in a version of Good Angel, Bad Angel - and also a version of himself that looks just like Rebecca, though she insists that she's just a manifestation of his inner self as well. More appear in "The Assassination of Eddie Morra". Rebecca joins Mr. Happy Nice Guy Brian (in a matching sweater) and Sands joins Badass Brian (in a matching leather jacket). Then Ike wanders complaining that the sweater's itchy, but leather sticks to his skin. After Normal Brian freaks out and tries to get all the voices to shut up, another one emerges: his father, who helps him calm down and think about what he has to do.
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Limitless / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: Brian is one when on NZT, after looking up enough info on engineering.
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Limitless / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Although not specifically named in dialogue, the container that a quantity of stolen radioisotope was taken from is labelled "Iridium-192". Ir-192 is a medical isotope and is the one most commonly investigated for going missing in quantities large enough to create a dirty bomb. Brian accurately describes the real threat of a dirty bomb, unlike portrayals in other TV series and movies: not that one made from medical isotopes are particularly more dangerous than a regular bomb, but that its social impacts represent the far more significant effect. It's a Freeze-Frame Bonus, but the message sandwich board Brian wears in "When Pirates Pirate Pirates" is written in grammatically correct, proper textbook Malay.
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