being Alpha : Callum Keith Rennie
by the way, Am I late or is this io9.com/5621267/so-whats-syfys-new-superpowered-action-show-about ?
The team answers to Leigh Rosen (David Strathairn), a psychiatrist who has an unfortunate habit of speaking in therapist-speak and is also a manipulative bastard who can get people to do whatever he wants. Rosen is secretly working on a screenplay for a television show about superpowered people called - wait for it - Alphas. And Rosen, in turn, answers to Don Wilson (Callum Keith Rennie) at the Pentagon, who's kind of a ruthless jerk.
There's a cute moment in the pilot where Rosen is talking to Harken about Harken's reservations about this team, and Harken keeps telling Rosen to stop doing "the shrink voice" or he'll hang up. Rosen asks what it is about this particular case that's bothering Harken - and he hangs up on Rosen. Also, towards the end of the episode, there's this bit of therapist-on-spy dialogue between Rosen and his boss Wilson:
WILSON: Gotta admit, your people did good work out there.
ROSEN: Don, was that a compliment? This is a real breakthrough for you.
WILSON: Joke about it, Rosen, but this could have been a disaster
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WILSON: You are a surreptitious bastard, you know that?
ROSEN: Why do you feel that way about me?
WILSON: Don't start on me with that "questioning a question" thing. You know what I mean. You are a surreptitious bastard.