Mercedes from one genre into another and alters Bill’s pursuit of Brady from one of dogged persistence to one of fantastical credulity. The gap, though, between what Brady is doing in the first season and having the literal ability to hijack a person’s brain is a big one and it pushes Mr. He viewed people as chess pieces and the game he played for most of the first season was trying to make Bill kill himself. He’s just a horrible, horrible man haunted by metaphorical and personal demons. He’s not a vampire, telekinetic, firestarter or Satan incarnate. The essence of the show’s first season is all of the things Brady is not. This is Stephen King’s twist and it’s not for me to tell the Master of Horror that there’s a time and place for mind-controlling psychopaths and this isn’t it. This is already a bad idea and that’s before Brady begins to recover his demented internal monologue and discovers that, presumably related to the serum but not necessarily explained by the serum, he now possesses the ability to hack into particularly susceptible people’s heads and, tentatively at first, make them do his bidding. Extraordinary means come in the form of neurosurgeon Felix Babineau (Jack Huston), who is goaded by his wife, Cora (Tessa Ferrer), into making Brady a guinea pig for an untested Chinese serum that could help Brady recover brain activity. Bill remains obsessed with Brady and visits him regularly, even though there are no signs that Brady will ever recover, at least not through ordinary means. After suffering a heart attack, Bill has gotten his life back together and is now working with Holly (Justine Lupe) doing freelance detective work that seems to combine being a repo man, a skip chaser and a bonded gumshoe. Mercedes, Brady’s plans to blow up the arts fair had been thwarted and the malevolent genius was left in a coma.