Black Scorpion
The City of Angels is falling apart, and crime pervades the city to the core. The mayor is corrupt, the police are inept, the city needs a figure to take control of the situation. Then in the light of day Darcy Walker is a cop, but in the dark of night she becomes the Black Scorpion. She does with a mask what she can't do with a badge. This is vigilante justice, old school style.
- Metascore33
- 2001-2001
- 1 season
- The Sci-Fi Channel
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama, Science Fiction
- TV-PG
The City of Angels is falling apart, and crime pervades the city to the core. The mayor is corrupt, the police are inept, the city needs a figure to take control of the situation. Then in the light of day Darcy Walker is a cop, but in the dark of night she becomes the Black Scorpion. She does with a mask what she can't do with a badge. This is vigilante justice, old school style.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2001
Episode 1
Armed and Dangerous
Fri, Jan 5, 2001 44 mins
Darcy, a female undercover detective, also fights crime as the Black Scorpion, an entity wanted by the police, as well. Her partner, not aware of her secret identity, wants to capture the Black Scorpion himself. Together they are trying to track down a new villain known as Firearm.
Episode 2
Wave Goodbye
Fri, Jan 12, 2001 43 mins
A beautiful biologist is studying ocean pollution when the Mayor's Yes Men dump toxins on her. Gaining new water-based powers, she becomes Hurricane, vowing to drown the city. Can Black Scorpion calm this evil storm?
Episode 3
Blinded by the Light
Fri, Jan 19, 2001 42 mins
Blinded in his attempt to capture the identity of Black Scorpion on film, a photojournalist becomes the vengeful supervillain Flashpoint and vows to blind the entire population of the city with a laser beam.
Episode 4
Home Sweet Homeless
Fri, Jan 26, 2001 42 mins
AfterShock, a former seismologist who has discovered how to create earthquakes, joins forces with the homeless in an attempt to take over the City of Angels.
Episode 5
Love Burns
Fri, Feb 2, 2001 44 mins
Darcy carries a torch for a heroic fireman who goes insane and becomes the arsonist supervillain Inferno, who is determined to use his power to make objects spontaneously combust to burn down the City of Angels.
Episode 6
Out of Thin Air
Fri, Feb 9, 2001 43 mins
Breathtaker is resuscitated by the mad-but-benign Dr. Phoenix. Unfortunately for the populace of City of Angels, Breathtaker plots to torture the city with a nerve gas that brings their fears to life through dangerous hallucinations.
Episode 7
No Stone Unturned
Fri, Feb 16, 2001 43 mins
Medusa, the owner of a ritzy mineral spa, abducts the city's most eligible bachelors, including Darcy's partner, Steve. When Medusa starts turning them into statues, only Black Scorpion can save them.
Episode 8
Crime Time
Fri, Feb 23, 2001 43 mins
Master criminal who can control time itself escapes from prison.
Episode 9
No Sweat
Fri, Mar 2, 2001 43 mins
Aerobicide, a sexy-but-deadly aerobics instructor, exercises overweight millionaires to death. Her evil plan? Take control of the city by decimating the male population.
Episode 10
An Officer and a Prankster
Fri, Mar 9, 2001 43 mins
Gangster Prankster is resuscitated by Dr. Phoenix and genetically altered to be an upstanding citizen. When the plan goes awry, Gangster Prankster reassembles his old gang and plots to destroy City of Angels with laughing gas.
Episode 11
Life's a Gas
Sat, Mar 24, 2001 42 mins
When an environmental scientist's experiments go awry, she is turned into Pollutia, a superpollutant whose breath causes others to become superpollutants, as well. She decides that consumers are the real source of pollution and vows to erase humankind from Earth, to leave the planet free to cleanse itself.
Episode 12
Roses Are Red, You're Dead
Sat, Mar 31, 2001 42 mins
A fiendish florist called Greenthumb plots to control the City of Angels' oxygen supply by selling Valentine's Day flowers laced with a poisonous pollen that saps the strength of the population. Because only Greenthumb possesses the antidote, he holds the city hostage.
Episode 13
Fire and Brimstone
Sat, Apr 7, 2001
Darcy and Steve are reunited with their old flames, Inferno and Medusa, when the two super villains team up to destroy the city of Angels by creating a volcano. Meanwhile, Cupid is creating havoc of his own.
Episode 14
Virtual Vice
Sat, Apr 14, 2001 43 mins
Dr. Sarah Bellum plans to shelter the homeless by creating a virtual reality world for them to live in. When Mayor Worth rejects her proposal, she becomes MindBender, a sexy VR specialist who uses her powers of virtual persuasion to create fantasies that transform into reality.
Episode 15
Bad Sport
Sat, Apr 21, 2001 42 mins
When a hockey player is injured after he refuses to throw a game, he becomes the villain Slapshot and plans to eliminate his former teammates who betrayed him and those who stand in his way.
Episode 16
Kiss of Death
Sat, Apr 28, 2001 42 mins
When a new female detective is suspended for police brutality, she becomes The Angel of Death, a vigilante who kills criminals with kisses.
Episode 17
He Who Laughs Last
Sat, May 5, 2001 42 mins
Gangster Prankster, sick of being the butt of jokes, escapes jail and forces Argyle to invent a weapon to punish anyone in City of Angels who laughs.
Episode 18
Power Play
Sat, May 12, 2001 42 mins
When Mayor Worth ignores the warnings of his Deputy Mayor, Edwina Watts, and proceeds with his plan to put his name in lights, Edwina is accidentally electrocuted and becomes the villainess Stunner. She threatens to unleash her raging electrical current through every outlet in the city, turning household appliances into deadly bombs.
Episode 19
Photo Finish
Sat, May 19, 2001 44 mins
Flashpoint escapes from jail and snaps a photo of Black Scorpion unmasked - forcing Darcy to ask Dr. Phoenix to clone her in order to convince Steve (and the city) that she is not Black Scorpion. However, like most of the professor's clones, the Darcy clone turns evil and the real Black Scorpion is forced to fight her equal in a bid to preserve her good name.
Episode 20
Face the Music
Sat, Jun 16, 2001 43 mins
Vox Populi, the lead singer of the world's worst band, finds the only way she can sell records is through subliminal recordings that make her young fans (including Darcy's pal, Tender Lovin') turn violent.
Episode 21
Zodiak Attack - Part 1
Sat, Jun 23, 2001
A washed-up psychic gathers Breathtaker, AfterShock, Inferno and Hurricane to destroy the City of Angels.
Episode 22
Zodiak Attack - Part 2
Sat, Jun 30, 2001 42 mins
Darcy questions her courage and quits being Black Scorpion- until Dr. Phoenix clones her father Lt. Walker. Together father and daughter battle Professor Prophet and the four elemental supervillains under his command.