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Mind Games Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2014 - 2014
Episode 1
Pilot
Tue, Feb 25, 201444 mins
Ex-con fraudster Ross Edwards starts a business with his manic-depressive brother Clark, offering his brilliant insight in the human psyche to manipulate 'anyone anywhere any time'. Due to Clark's insistence on spontaneous early disclosure and physical clumsiness, their first sales pitch is a humiliating disaster. So the budding firm's business boy Miles agrees their only chance is to win credibility by taking a pro-bono case, notably a boy whose medical insurance refuses to pay for experimental therapy. Clark's daring plan to stage a fake abuse rescue borders several crimes, and it still only gives 30% chance to switch the key executive's mindset, but Clark comes up with a more businesslike final mind game.
Episode 2
Asymmetric Dominance
Tue, Mar 4, 201444 mins
The team is hired by an executive at a consulting firm who's been overlooked for a promotion she's next in line for in place of a younger male candidate with less experience. Meanwhile, Ross is worried that Beth can't keep their secret from the past and hires a con-woman pal to find out Beth's real intentions with Clark. Later, Ross tries to call a truce with Claire but she still doesn't trust his motives.
Episode 3
Pet Rock
Tue, Mar 11, 201443 mins
When a promising, bright college student unexpectedly joins a cult, her parents desperately try to get her out and turn to Edwards and Associates for their expertise. Later, Claire uncovers Ross' deceit with Clark and feels compelled to reveal the truth.
Episode 4
Apophenia
Tue, Mar 18, 201443 mins
Congressman McKee's adolescent son Ryan McKee hires the team to make his father stick to the single campaign key promise, getting a gun control law trough Congress, to prevent home dramas like when he killed his kid brother and thus alienated his father. Clark succeeds by dream intrusion but no Ross's despair insists on mending the father-son relationship as well, for free. Meanwhile the insurance company boss whose arm they twisted PR-wise to pay for exceptional treatment seeks revenge by sending a reporter to tell the world about the team's unorthodox and inefficient methods.
Episode 5
Cauliflower Man
Tue, Mar 25, 201443 mins
The team is hired by Jim McKenna, a researcher who tried to blow the whistle on his employer for creating dangerous genetically-modified cauliflower, but in the process was fired and had his life ruined. The team enacts a plan to convince his former colleague to leak documentation to validate McKenna's claims and expose their employer. However, in the midst of the plan, Clark suffers from a meltdown that leaves him bedridden. In an effort to get him back on the case, Ross stoops to new lows. Meanwhile, Latrell struggles to find the funds to pay the company's employees as the firm's finances begin to pile up.
Episode 6
Texts, Lies and Audiotapes
42 mins
The team is hired by an unfaithful man who wants to end his extramarital affair so he can return to his wife. Then, after Clark and Beth's car accident, their relationship is tested when Beth's parents become concerned for her safety and consequently, weary of Clark. Meanwhile, Clark desperately tries to figure out what caused the accident while a guilt-ridden Ross struggles to own up to his mistakes.
Episode 7
Judge Not
Tue, Jul 22, 201443 mins
A couple asks the team to fight a drug-addicted birth mother's retraction within the Indiana legal 30 days period to let them adopt her baby. Clark thinks up how to manipulate the judge's state of mind concerning change, but that effort is wasted last-minute when he incurs food-poisoning and another judge is appointed. Latrell takes the case personal, pushing on against the partners' instructions, given his own foster history. Ross grudgingly promises the team actress job compensation for being talked out of a potentially 'permanent' commercial career.
Episode 8
Royal Fiasco
42 mins
The team is approached by a couple who has recently adopted a baby boy only to have the birth mother change her mind and take them to court to contest the adoption.
Episode 9
The Sweet Science
42 mins
Has-been boxer David Bishop's wife hires the team to stop him from risking his health in a last, hopeless come-back fight against a murderous adversary. Miles prevails in proposing a classical method, fails in stopping the actress from overstepping her reception stop into client hearings. Clark adapts the plan as David's unshakable determination excludes aversion, now aiming at a win. Romanticism has a surprising input in the case. Sam reluctantly sticks to her father's plan to repay his loan-shark, although Ross seems onto them.
Episode 10
N.D.E.
Tue, Aug 5, 201443 mins
The team doubts whether a bride may be helped to blank her wedding doubts, Clark and Miles instead help her find out what she really wants. Sam and her father prepare a sting to pay off his gambling debts to a gangster baron, who is spooked by Ross being found snooping around. Thexes blackmail each-other into silence about their pasts.
Episode 11
Embodied Cognition
Tue, Aug 12, 201443 mins
A new client is a precocious child trying to find a date for her widowed father. Reluctant to participate as a dating service, the team wants to decline, but their hearts say different.
Episode 12
As God Is My Witness
Tue, Sep 30, 201442 mins
Clark is getting ready to propose to Beth. Ross wants Clark to help him save Sam from the wrath of the embezzler she duped, but the favor includes tampering with a witness before a trial.
Episode 13
Balloon Boy
Tue, Sep 30, 201442 mins
The team's latest endeavor has dramatic consequences, as it impacts their future and the rift between Clark and Ross.
