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A nurse who provides medical services for Morra's employees.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She goes to work as a nurse for Brian's father and insists that she values the Hippocratic oath and is just there to monitor Brian's discretion and give good service to his father as a motivator for him to be loyal to Morra. Sands says that she's there to harm Brian's father if he gets out of line and this does happen (albeit non-fatally) later on, implying he's telling the truth.
* ChekhovsGunman: She initially just appears as a nurse accompanying Morra when he gives Brian his first [=NZT=] immunity shot. In the next episode, she shows up as Dennis's nurse to spy on and intimidate Brian.
* PutOnABus: After Dennis's poisoning, which she is probably responsible for, Sands has her transferred, presumably due to knowing Brian wouldn't be able to hide his feelings of hostility toward her in front of people.
!!Danny
[[AC:Played by: Jeffrey Omura]]
One of Morra's senatorial aides.
* NumberTwo: He appears far less than Sands, but seems to be Morra's highest-ranking lieutenant, as he's present while Morra alludes to his master plans and doesn't seem confused or ignorant.
* SpearCarrier: He appears in three episodes with a certain amount of dialogue but has little characterization, and it wouldn't have affected the plot to split his scenes among three different {{Bit Character}}s.
!!Huston
[[AC:Played by: Brian Mannain]]
A former [=MI6=] colleague of Sands and the man who recruited him for Morra.
* AndIMustScream: After a stroke and a car crash, he has locked-in syndrome and can't move or talk, but is aware of his surroundings.
* ChekhovsGunman: He's introduced as just a comatose old friend of Sands, who recruited him for Morra and whom Sands doesn't want to be forced to kill for a blackmailer. Then it turns out that his ledger has secrets about the murder of Rebecca's father and he has some communication abilities despite his poor health, enabling Brian and Rebecca to communicate with him by using his heart monitor to ask him yes and no questions.
* CrazyPrepared: He's experienced in blackmail and surveillance and has a ledger holding all of the dirty secrets of his criminal friends and enemies in case anyone tries to kill him to shut him up.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It's implied that he wanted to turn against his and Sands' drug-running old boss even before they were busted and offered immunity deals.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Huston is a codename, for Creator/JohnHuston, and his real name is unknown.
* VillainousFriendship: He and Sands served together as black ops spies and drug runners for years together. After their unit disbanded, Huston bribed authorities to get Sands out of a HellholePrison and got him a job working as a fixer for Morra. Sands is reluctant to kill him even when he's comatose. Huston does ultimately co-operate with the investigation against Sands, but mainly due to his desperation to get help with his AndIMustScream state of health.
!!Amelia Glasser
[[AC:Played by: Shirley Roeca]]
A former rising star in the [=DOJ=] investigators office who crashed and burned after taking a job for Morra as an investigator.
* BeingGoodSucks: She quit working for Morra after Sands started killing the [=NZT=] addicts she tracked down and had to go on the run as a result, while suffering from agonizing [=NZT=] withdrawal.
* BrokenAce: She's a former government investigator who Rebecca remembers as an intelligent peer and who went into the private sector for a seven figure salary. After going on the run from Morra and losing her access to the [=NZT=] pills he gave her, she's a physical and mental wreck with a string of arrests for petty crimes and is living in a trailer in the woods.
* LazyAlias: Amelia uses the alias Amy Glass.
* OneShotCharacter: She only appears in "Hi, My Name Is Rebecca Harris."
* ThrowTheDogABone: Brian and Rebecca bribe her for some help, giving her a shot at relocating and getting back on her feet.
!!Brandy Jo Hawkins
[[AC:Played by: Simone Bailly]]
A terminally-ill sniper who Morra has bribed to take the blame for Piper's failed attempt to assassinate him so that no one will look into the real motives behind the shooting.
* ActionGirl: She is one of the first female snipers in the military, has four confirmed kills in Iraq, and got a dishonorable discharge for punching a superior officer.
* TheFallGuy: In exchange for money for her family, Hawkins claims that she's a RightWingMilitiaFanatic who tried to kill Morra. Interestingly, she isn't acting as a fall guy for the real culprit, but for the intended victim (who doesn't want an investigation into his affairs).
* GunmanWithThreeNames: She makes a false confession to an attempted political assassination and is referred to by all three of her names.
* OneShotCharacter: She only appears in "The Assassination of Eddie Morra", but is mentioned in other episodes.
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* OverarchingVillain: Morra only appears in a handful of episodes, yet his actions are constantly moving the plot forward and perpetually hangs over Brian's life.
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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: He pronounces NZT as "N-Zed-T". Justified in the actor's case because he is British and the British English spoken language pronounces "z" as "zed" rather than "zee".
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* {{Badass in a Nice Suit}}: Sharply dressed and a ruthless schemer.
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*AffablyEvil: It’s debatable if he is selfish or well-intentioned, but Morra is generally a polite and well-mannered man.
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* ControlFreak: As Piper points out, Morra takes complete control over his underlings’ lives.
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* ActionSurvivor: Brian doesn’t have and combat training, but thanks to NZT, he can get out alive from any situation.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Puts Brian through one to see if he is merely someone who will follow orders to save his own skin or someone who would do the right think despite personal cost. [[spoiler: Brian passes.]]
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Puts Brian through one to see if he is merely someone who will follow orders to save his own skin or someone who would do the right think thing despite personal cost. [[spoiler: Brian passes.]]
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* ColdTurkey: After coming back from Russia he is forced to take a drug test, which means they confiscate his bong and is no longer to smoke marijuana.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: As far as we know, NZT affected Brian's moral judgement the least among NZT users. More examples above.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: There aren't many scenes with his younger siblings, but the few he has with his sister, Rachel, show that he does his best to keep her out of his troubles. Also played with with Rebecca, whom he shares a sibling-like relationship with, though it's sometimes not clear who is supposed to act like the elder sibling.
* ChickMagnet: Right on his first day on NZT, he seduces his supervisor. Other women he works with, including Naz' daughter and Piper, also fall for him.
* ChickMagnet: Right on his first day on NZT, he seduces his supervisor. Other women he works with, including Naz' daughter and Piper, also fall for him.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: One of the nicest characters in the series. His genuine empathy and goodness is the reason [[spoiler: Piper gives the permanent NZT immunity shot solely to him at the end of the series.]]
* TheMole: To Senator Edward Morra. To be fair, he isn't left with much of a choice, as his family is threatened and his supply to the NZT immunity shot is also cut off if he doesn't comply.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Brian's father clearly loves him and has made peace with the fact that his son will constantly struggle through life while trying to find some sort of meaningful calling. Brian, on the other hand, sincerely wants his father to be proud of him and decides that becoming a an FBI consultant will be a good way to do it.
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* InSeriesNickname: There names aren't actually Mike and Ike, but Brian has called them such so often that other agents (or at least Rebecca) have taken to it as well.
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* BoyfriendBluff: This is how she introduces herself to Brian's parents, when she wants to test whether Eddie Morra's associate is a trushworthy person. Later on she really becomes Brian's lover and girlfriend[[spoiler:, though she has to leave eventually]].
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, she leaves Brian to hide from the government, as she has the formula to make someone permanently immune to NZT's side effects and doesn't want anyone other than Brian to get it.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, she leaves Brian to hide from the government, as she has the formula to make someone permanently immune to NZT's side effects and doesn't want anyone other than Brian to get it.]]
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** In "Fundamentals of Naked Portraiture", they shown preparing a Brian-esque presentation about [[spoiler: Spike]], complete with sketches, models, and puppets.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: As the series progresses, they indulge in more and more of Brian's shenanigans.
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* BlondesAreEvil: If Morra falls into the category of the good guys... which is still up for debate.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: What makes Brian so special among NZT users is that all he wants to do is help people. This allows him to build a significant network of people who want to help him in return.
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* PlayfulHacker: Becomes this after learning hacking skills. Including hacking a killer's prosthetic arm just to make him StopHittingYourself and giving the code to a Hacktivist group so they can do the same.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: They finally [[spoiler: get bumped up from being Brian's errand boys and are given investigative responsibilities in the first season finale]].
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!!James Peckenpah
An FBI computer technician and the person Brian turns to for tech-related matters he can't be bothered to do on NZT.
* AffectionateNickname: Brian and the rest of the CJC take to calling him "James Tech".
* ButtMonkey: James tends to come out for the worse whenever Brian gives him an assignment beyond the scope of his computer duties. This is not out of malice, however,but due to simple bad luck.
** He's once sent out to infiltrate a cult but ends up buying into the cult's logic and has to be deprogrammed by Bureau psychologists.
** Brian once forgot to tell him that an assignment had ended and he got serious cold burns after spending an entire night in freezing temperatures.
An FBI computer technician and the person Brian turns to for tech-related matters he can't be bothered to do on NZT.
* AffectionateNickname: Brian and the rest of the CJC take to calling him "James Tech".
* ButtMonkey: James tends to come out for the worse whenever Brian gives him an assignment beyond the scope of his computer duties. This is not out of malice, however,but due to simple bad luck.
** He's once sent out to infiltrate a cult but ends up buying into the cult's logic and has to be deprogrammed by Bureau psychologists.
** Brian once forgot to tell him that an assignment had ended and he got serious cold burns after spending an entire night in freezing temperatures.
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** The season one finale reveals that Mike's first name is [[spoiler: Darryl]].
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* DebtDetester: Warns Brian about the hitman he sent after him and Rebecca simply because Brian helped save his son. He states that after that they were even.
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** [[spoiler: It comes in over it's head when he reveals to Rebecca he still has it with him. The reason he took it in the first place was so he can give his aging mother a great day to remember before she dies. But, he couldn't go through with it, having been keeping this secret for a while.]]
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* BerserkButton: The FBI seems to have become one to him since the start of the the series, recalling the time they claimed that his son murdered his best friend then later are practically using his son as a drug guinea pig. When Rebecca comes over to his house again he shows her nothing but contempt and tells her to leave.
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* TheDutifulSon: He takes care of his ailing grandmother, cooking for her and feeding her in the mornings and hiring a nurse to be with her when he's at work. He has to be home by 7pm most days because the nurse has to leave and his grandmother can't be left alone.
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