The season finale of Brilliant Minds delivers a two-part emotional rollercoaster, featuring a dramatic building collapse and a shocking revelation about Wolf's family.
Warning! SPOILERS ahead for Brilliant Minds season 1, episode 12 and Brilliant Minds season 1, episode 13. Brilliant Minds ended its season with a two-part finale that contains several surprising developments. The freshman medical drama focuses on unusual neurological cases based on the real-life cases and life of renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks.
The special picks up from the cliffhanger of Brilliant Minds' best character, Ericka (Ashleigh LaThrop), trapped in an elevator with several other apartment residents as the building collapses. Wolf (Zachary Quinto) and Nichols (Teddy Sears) rush to the site to help with the rescue effort, while Ericka must help an older man who collapses in the elevator. Ericka is ultimately rescued but watches helplessly as the elevator plunges to the ground with her patient's granddaughter still inside. The second half of the finale is a more typical episode featuring the real-world issues Brilliant Mind is known for —in this case, a pastor who mistakes tumor-related hallucinations for visions from God. Wolf (Zachary Quinto) also has to deal with the fallout from a shocking family secret that results in a new character joining the Brilliant Minds cast for season 2. Wolf Learns That His Father Is Alive (& How It Affects His Relationship W/ Nichols) A Mysterious Doctor Turns Out To Be His Presumed-Dead Dad Close Brilliant Minds introduces a seemingly random doctor (Mandy Patinkin) at the site of the building's collapse, but the end of the first hour of the two-part finale reveals the shocking truth that he is Wolf's supposedly-dead father, Noah, and subsequent flashbacks explain that Noah insisted his son believe he died in the woods because he felt he was a danger to Oliver. Now that his bipolar disorder is under better control, he has returned to reconnect with his wife and son. Noah breaks into Muriel's (Donna Murphy) house to reintroduce himsel
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