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7.5/10
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Dr. Daniel Pierce is an eccentric neuroscientist who uses his unique outlook to help the federal government solve complex criminal cases.Dr. Daniel Pierce is an eccentric neuroscientist who uses his unique outlook to help the federal government solve complex criminal cases.Dr. Daniel Pierce is an eccentric neuroscientist who uses his unique outlook to help the federal government solve complex criminal cases.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
490
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Kenneth Biller
- Mike Sussman
- Jerry Shandy(staff writer)
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- Kenneth Biller
- Mike Sussman
- Jerry Shandy(staff writer)
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Debra McCabe
- Pamela Weilmanas Pamela Weilman
- (as Debra Lynne McCabe)
- Director
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- Kenneth Biller
- Mike Sussman
- Jerry Shandy(staff writer)
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Storyline
Neurotic, eccentric Chicago neuroscience professor Daniel Pierce accepts assisting former favorite student Kate Moretti's FBI team with a mysterious murder. He starts by diagnosing the illogical confession pathologically invalid, then helps finding better suspects, strikingly fitting his anagrams and various 'intuition', while fighting off specters of his imagination is harder. —KGF Vissers
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- TV-MA
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- TriviaThe episode contains two scenes with a hospital patient named Jimmy (played by Joseph O'Toole) who suffers from aphasia, which is a real condition where patients can't comprehend spoken language. Jimmy can detect if someone lies based upon physical behaviour, and finds it amusing when someone lies and laughs. Both scenes contain real footage to showcase that ability, both feature former US presidents. The first is George W. Bush, the clip used is when he states that Saddam Hussein possesses Uranium and therefore it justifies the invasion of Irak. The second clip features Bill Clinton and is shown without sound (as it's part of a montage), but he clearly says "I did not have sexual relations with that woman", referring to Monica Lewinsky. In both scenes, Jimmy laughs, indicating that he believes both of them lied.
- GoofsAt one point Dr. Pierce is shown watching what is supposed to be a Chicago Cubs spring training game on his TV. However, the game he is watching is actually being played in Wrigley Field in Chicago, with the ivy on the outfield wall in full bloom. He would have to be watching a game being played in the summertime during the regular season, in direct contradiction of the winter weather seen during the rest of the show.
- Quotes
Daniel Pierce: Reality is a figment of your imagination. Who here hasn't woken up breathless from a nightmare and thought 'oh thank God it's just a dream'? That's because neurochemical impulses fire when we're dreaming or fantasizing or hallucinating are indistinguishable from the one's banging around inside our skulls when we actually experience those events. So... if what we perceive is often wrong, how can we ever know what's real? And what isn't.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Wars (1977)
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Not bad at all for a pilot
They say that most Pilots stink, but I have to say that this one is not one of them, what is more nuts than Columbo? well Eric McCormack as Dr. Daniel Pierce a college professor who gets involved in FBI investigations thanks to his former student FBI Agent Kate Moretti delectable played by the always interesting Rachael Leigh Cook, I have followed Cook from the beginning of her career and if I am not mistaken she might finally have found a project where she can shine eternally.
If you like me like detective shows, then try this one, it is now on my DVR and I hope it continues to develop in direction it is, I have to say though if college professors are all as oddball as Dr. Daniel then American Education are truly in trouble.
If you like me like detective shows, then try this one, it is now on my DVR and I hope it continues to develop in direction it is, I have to say though if college professors are all as oddball as Dr. Daniel then American Education are truly in trouble.
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- digitalbrian
- Jul 10, 2012
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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