\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhen a doctor looks at a patient, what do they see? The disease or the person?\u201d What a powerful thought-provoking way to start off an episode. Brilliant Minds<\/b> follows neurologist, Dr. Oliver Wolf, and his unconventional way of treating patients with neurological impairments. What makes his take that more interesting is that, Dr. Wolf has prosopagnosia; face blindness. Face blindness is a brain condition where you can\u2019t recognize faces or facial expressions. It\u2019s not that he can\u2019t see people, it\u2019s that he sees them differently. He notes characteristics of a person\u2019s features in order to, for lack of better wording, put a face to the name.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPilot\u201d – BRILLIANT MINDS. Pictured: <\/span>Ashleigh LaThrop as Dr. Ericka Kinney, Alex MacNicoll as Dr. Van Markus, Tamberla Perry as Dr. Carol Pierce, Amy Stewart as Child Protective Agent, Aury Krebs as Dr. Dana Dang, Spence Moore II as Dr. Jacob Nash. Photo: Rafy\/NBC \u00a9 2024 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The episode begins with an older gentleman in the hospital. A nurse walks in asking him questions she knows he cannot answer, and she brushes it off like it\u2019s routine. Enter Dr. Wolf, who helps this man make a grand escape. I was beyond confused and found myself laughing at the scene of him and this older gentleman on a motorcycle. What was he up to? Then it all started to make sense; he brought the older gentleman to his granddaughter\u2019s wedding. Her mother, the gentleman\u2019s daughter, was furious because her father suffered from Alzheimer Disease. She was upset that he was there when there wasn\u2019t a chance of him remembering who his granddaughter was. Oliver, knowing that the older gentleman once had a love for music, brought him over to the piano and said they should play.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPilot\u201d – BRILLIANT MINDS. Pictured: Quenton Rose as the Groom, Getenesh Berhe as the Bride, Andre De Shields as Harold. Photo: Rafy\/NBC \u00a9 2024 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n He starts playing the piano and encourages the older gentleman, Harold, to join him. As he played, it\u2019s as if something unlocks in Harold and he joins in, even joking that he didn\u2019t care for how Oliver was playing and took over. He played the piano and sang a beautiful song commanding the attention of all of the wedding guests. Once he finished playing, one look at his granddaughter, he says her name and everyone, including his own daughter is shocked. How was this happening? Dr. Wolf was able to determine that music was the way of unlocking Harold’s memories and made him more lucid. Treat the patient, not the disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s too bad not everyone shares the same beliefs as Oliver; because of his involvement in Harold\u2019s great escape, he was let go. He tried his best to make them see things his way, but it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n \u201cPilot\u201d – BRILLIANT MINDS. Pictured: Kira Guloien as Hannah Peters, Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf. Photo: Rafy\/NBC. \u00a9 2024 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Oliver\u2019s friend, Carol, stops by to check on him after hearing the news. He sees right through it and calls her on it and she folds. She offers him a job in the neurology department at Bronx General and he is against it at first, but she told him about a case that he couldn\u2019t refuse. A woman who had surgery to cure her epilepsy had her behavior completely shifted and no one could figure out why. A case such as this is something Oliver would be great at given his perspective on treatments.\u00a0<\/div>\n As he\u2019s thinking about this, we get a flashback to Oliver when he\u2019s younger and we learn that his father was the one who taught him how to remember people. We also learn that his father had a mental disorder, and his mother only said that he was \u201csick\u201d. These flashbacks continue throughout the episode, and the more we see the more we understand why he chose to become a neurologist; his closeness with his father was being dwindled by his father\u2019s disease. He got upset that his mother gave up on his father, rather than trying to understand him. That\u2019s the thing about some doctors, they forget the patient is a person and that is something Oliver can\u2019t accept.\u00a0<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiGVM4VDo4bBzWgzfPF43WuiS3aIXW5l6V83bJkPGdz1Hjc43NcNNSiKZpn5qRYN3lMZtxq0i9DRwhQvVWf1XOZCfbz57yQHxO19fiZON5Jfo1IcPR4l3fThlhxv5XD3rmzG5X21P6nWNO-sHae_09SE0wiuCygk4c3HPnBcFGn226rU4-RxHobnA\/s1000\/NUP_201063_01556.jpg\")
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