Perception premiered on TNT on July 9, 2012. This series features one of the most unique crime solvers on television, an eccentric neuroscience professor who is recruited by the FBI to help solve complex cases. Dr. Daniel Pierce possesses an intimate knowledge of human behavior and a masterful understanding of the way the mind works. Although Pierce's mind may be brilliant, it's also damaged as he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. FBI agent Kate Moretti is Pierce's former student who has recruited Pierce to consult on cases.