"Limitless" Recap - "Finale: Part Two!!"

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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I guess I should not have been surprised at all by Limitless this week, but once again, this show managed to completely take me off guard. I was expecting "Finale: Part Two!!" to be a dark and brooding nightmare, one that ended in ugly fashion thanks to Sands and his Legion of Whom...but that was simply not the case. 

The grand finale to season one of the series turned out to be one incredibly uplifting and wonderful hour of television. One where everyone worked together at last without deception or agenda and what do you know? They actually managed to get things accomplished in doing so. But what mattered most, was the fact that this was the episode that brought Brian Finch's journey to its completion, as we saw him say goodbye to being a lost loser without a care in the world, to becoming an outright hero who will do anything to save lives. 

But before we get too deep on Brian's heroics, the first thing that provided me with a sense of satisfaction was that we finally uncovered The Legion of Whom's evil plans and at first, I was a little surprised to see it was related to a land grab. It seemed quite unlike the Legion to go all Lex Luthor on the world but thankfully...it turns out they were as evil as expected. Their plan was more about getting rich and creating chaos along the way and if ruining financial prosperity for two countries was their first step toward world domination, one has to wonder what else they had up their sleeve...but oh yeah, we may never find out because Brian led the FBI right to them and brought Sands and his wicked group down, and he did it in spectacular fashion.

We've seen Brian push himself before, but never like this. With his immunity shot fading fast, he kept popping NZT left and right in order to figure out Sands' plan and of course to save his darling Piper and well...his quest for justice was both noble and terrifying. After all, NZT brings with it plenty of side effects and the show went to some genuinely creepy places when they kicked in. The scene where Piper appears in the file room crying, before turning into a freaking zombie that gets dragged into what appeared to be the underworld was one that sent chills down my spine and after that, every time Brian's side effects kicked in, I braced myself...unsure of what was about to happen next. But...none of that stopped Brian. He pushed ahead, looking worse for the wear every single time he took another pill, all in the name of doing the right thing.

That was perhaps this week's greatest surprise, that we in essence were given a happy ending in a show where conspiracies and evil men and women run rampant because the last ten minutes of this episode left me smiling. The Legion of Whom were taken into custody, the man behind the NZT surge was in custody and Piper managed to escape after all, giving Brian the gift of permanent NZT immunity before fading off into the night. All of that happened right before Brian was rewarded with what he wanted all along, a chance to help people by rejoining the FBI and the CJC because there is still plenty of work to be done and of course Senator Morra is still out there somewhere, in hiding. Either way, what a blast this episode turned out to be. There was no deeper meaning to be found or anything to analyze in depth, it was just a kickass hour of television that wrapped up a vast majority of the season's plot threads while finally making Brian the hero he was always meant to be. Until next time.

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