Limitless - 'Bezgranichny'

Borscht.

With everything collapsing around him, Brian sets out to find the one person who might be able to help him escape from Morra's grasp: Fellow NZT user Blair Piper.

Using a pair of pills swiped from Mike and Ike he tracks her to St Petersburg, and springs her from prison with the assistance of George R R Martin. She is in reach of perfecting the enzyme which suppresses NZT side-effects, but needs samples of a rare flower, which she was trying to steal from the private seed vault of a Russian oligarch when she was arrested.

After a week of prep and fun, they make a second attempt on the vault. Piper tells Brian that the past week was not 'real'; real is the people they are on NZT, and he ought to embrace this. It seems that she has embraced it all too much, when the heist goes awry and she rabbits with the prize, leaving him to be bagged by the Russians.

With this look, it is clear that Piper is the Root of this series, but not as cool
as Root.

Meanwhile, Rebecca is trying to track him down, and finding it hard to face the hostility of his family. She likes them, liked Brian, and clearly struggles to cope with being accused of causing his change in personality when she herself has been betrayed because of it.

Fortunately for Brian, Piper has a change of heart and George R R Martin comes through like a boss. He sets out for home with a hope of freedom and reconciliation, even as Sands receives pictures of Brian with the supposedly dead Piper and Brian's sister tells Rebecca about Sands' visit to the safe house.

It's kind of hard to see where Limitless is going at this point. It's all getting rather heavy, and even if Brian 'wins', how will we ever be able to get back to Happy Fun Brian? Because I really hope we do, and since the series has now been cancelled, I hope we end on an up note. It feels as if Limitless might have been better served without the overarching conspiracy from week 1; if Morra had seemed less dodgy for longer, allowing the series to play more to its strengths. As it is, the arc has always seemed at war with the weekly premise, and that has sadly never been completely reconciled.