#PERCEPTION TV PILOT SERIES#

On March 22, 2011, TNT green-lighted the series with an order of 10 episodes to air in the summer of 2012. Neuroscientist David Eagleman served as the technical consultant to the series. Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman wrote the pilot, Alan Poul was attached to the project as director, with Kenneth Biller, Mike Sussman and Alan Poul serving as executive producers. On September 8, 2010, after having been in development for well over a year, TNT placed a pilot order for Perception. Originally known as 'Proof', Perception was created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman and appeared on TNT's development slate as early as 2009. Christopher Gartin as Father Pat, a childhood friend of Kate and the pastor at her local Catholic church, who helps to annul Kate and Donny's previous marriage so they can legitimately remarry.Brooke Nevin as Shelby Coulson, a member of the Great Lakes Leadership Committee who lobbies for Donnie to run campaign for alderman.Michael Hathaway, a handsome hotshot behavioral science professor newly recruited at CLMU, for whom Pierce has little respect. JoBeth Williams as Margaret Pierce, Daniel's late mother, who died from cancer 25 years earlier, but reappears in Daniel's hallucinations.Peter Coyote as James Alan Pierce, Daniel's wealthy but estranged father, who has Alzheimer's disease.Shane Coffey as the young Daniel 'DJ' Pierce, before he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.Dan Lauria as Joe Moretti, Kate's widowed father, a retired CPD homicide detective who now runs a bar in Chicago.Brad Rowe as FBI Agent Bobby Dalton, Kate's current work partner.

Jonathan Scarfe as FBI Agent Roger Probert, Kate's former work partner, who is very cynical of Pierce's judgments.He has recently transferred back to Chicago in an attempt to re-ignite his relationship with Kate. Attorney Donald 'Donnie' Ryan (recurring season 2, regular season 3), Kate's ex-husband, who cheated on Kate with her best friend. He and Pierce have been close friends since they were roommates in college. LeVar Burton as Paul Haley, a professor of cultural anthropology and Pierce's dean at CLMU.Caroline Newsome, Pierce's psychiatrist and the physical basis for Natalie. Kelly Rowan as Natalie Vincent, Pierce's imaginary best friend and adviser, who he realizes is based on someone he once saw at a college party in Michigan.Pierce then asked Lewicki to come with him to Chicago on the promise of a teaching assistantship to help Max finish graduate school. It is later revealed in the season 1 episode 'Nemesis' that the two met when Lewicki was working as an orderly at the same psychiatric hospital in which Pierce had been confined for his mental illness. Pierce's live-in teaching assistant, who helps him differentiate between real people and his schizophrenia-induced hallucinations. She had a crush on Pierce during her college years and is his most trusting ally. Kate has a 'tendency to go beyond the scope of the assigned investigation', which cost her a position in Washington, D.C.

Rachael Leigh Cook as Special Agent Katherine Rose 'Kate' Moretti, Pierce's former student and the FBI agent who recruited him.

In the season 2 finale, Pierce quits CLMU after realizing that the faculty cares more about the school's image and benefactors than its education and moves to Paris. His hallucinations sometimes enable him to pick out subtle clues in solving crimes. Pierce's interest in neuroscience stems from his own long history of paranoid schizophrenia. Pierce, a neuropsychiatrist and Davenport Award–winning neuroscience professor at the (fictional) Chicago Lake Michigan University (CLMU), who is enlisted by the FBI as an expert consultant to assist on some of their most complex cases. Main article: List of Perception episodes SeasonĬast and characters Main The episodes also typically end with observations said to students about the paradoxes of human perception. Pierce's teaching assistant, and Natalie Vincent, a hallucination manifested as a result of his schizophrenia who also serves as his best friend.Įpisodes typically begin with a scene of Pierce giving a lecture to his students about an aspect of the human brain that becomes significant within the plot of the episode. Pierce works closely with Special Agent Kate Moretti, a former student who recruited him to work with the FBI. Daniel Pierce, a talented but eccentric neuropsychiatrist, is enlisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist in solving some of its most complex cases in Chicago.

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