Limitless - 'Headquarters!'

Huzzah! Clay figures.

Brian wants a Headquarters! With the exclamation point. Since Naz is not keen to pony up a Headquarters!, Brian makes her a deal: In exchange for his own office, with Headquarters! (bargained down to HQ!) on the door, he will deliver a clean sweep of the FBI Most Wanted List.

With his team, the 'Bruntouchables', he sets out to achieve the ultimate crimebusting multipliers. Boyle and Casey go after cop killers, while Mike and Ike are sent on contrasting overseas assignments and one of the tech team is sent to infiltrate a cult. Brian and Rebecca catch one fugitive by making a deal with his partner's wife to arrange for the partner to be upgraded to top ten once he is captured and then confront a wily, wife-killing engineer, whom Brian dubs his nemesis after he eludes them.

When he tracks the man down again, however, he discovers that he is actually the David Jansen of the list, an innocent man on the run to find his wife's real killer. Brian expends his last private NZT pill to help the man unlock the memory of the murder sufficiently to nail the real killer, and trades information on his escape partner (also a lister) for early parole and white collar prison. Alas, with two still to go, Naz closes down the project as too high profile for a covert asset like Brian, but he does get his office, with HQ (no exclamation mark) on the door.

In a personal B-plot, Brian's family visit his new place, but his Dad seems distant. Ultimately he reveals that he knows that Brian is keeping secrets and that he doesn't know how to relate to him anymore, prompting Brian to risk all by telling his Dad the truth.

While this is supposed to be a big moment, so far the Morra conspiracy has not been quite toothy enough for it to feel big. It's more of an emotional payoff, therefore, when in an act of unlikely bonding, Boyle sticks a Post-it note with an exclamation mark on Brian's new door. I do worry that Dad might buy the farm in order to give Morra more threat, but that's for another day. Limitless continues to be a likable, quirky cop show, although I am increasingly concerned that Brian's apparently increasing whimsy is masking a growing disconnection after the incidents of 'Brian Finch's Black Op'.