I would not have minded if this was how the show ended.

Too bad it didn't have a second season to explore it more.

Good job.

Well plotted. Easy to read and engaging.
Not how I would have continued the series because I don't think he and Rebecca are a match romantically. And having Finch going back to the Agency isn't something I would have done; I like the idea of him as a free agent with more involvement in the greater NZT story. But that's just me. Still, I really enjoyed your take on the ending.

cool

FWIW, I'm not a Brian/Rebecca shipper myself. It's a bit too cliché and obvious for me and would impact too strongly on their working relationship. I think that they work better as a bickering surrogate brother and sister.

If anything, I'd like Shauna to come back and, much against both her and Brian's intentions, get inevitably dragged into the mad whirl of his life. Ultimately, she would become a reluctant Lois Lane who is his anchor outside of the pressure cooker of the CJC and give real-Brian the strength he needs to resist becoming more like pill-Brian.