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Scorpion Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2014 - 2015
Episode 1
Pilot
Mon, Sep 22, 201441 mins
Scorpion follows an eccentric genius and his team of geniuses who operate as a think tank called upon by the federal government to fix seemingly unsolvable emergencies. The financially-strapped team is hired by the federal government to fix defective software at the Los Angeles airport (LAX) that has knocked out all communications.
Episode 2
Single Point of Failure
Mon, Sep 29, 201441 mins
The Californian governor's daughter has been infected with a deadly, custom-made virus. Other ones have as brilliantly been administered to at least four other children, the only link being the parents were executives for a pharmaceutical company which manufactured a drug for a rare killer disease but only developed a lucrative modification for asthma patients. Walter is emotional about the case because his own sister is dying from MS, yet presides brilliantly over a daring break-in to identify the vindictive geneticist and save the four children and two more potential victims.
Episode 3
A Cyclone
Mon, Oct 6, 201442 mins
Homeland Security director Merrick suspends the team after hey fail an absurd test to work with Marines. Walter and agent Cabe are desperate to earn reactivation by demonstrating its effectiveness in a daunting case. A bomb in a law firm proves a terrorist attack at the Internet itself, Walter's theory, confirmed soon by more bombs. The team must work along or even against a shadow federal bureau, whose chief agent Keeler proves far worse then just defensive of jurisdiction claims.
Episode 4
Shorthanded
Mon, Oct 13, 201443 mins
Walter is eager to prove himself and the team's worth by accepting a private case, without Cabe. They brilliantly analyze why Bob Connelly's Las Vegas casino Crimson's earnings are down, leading to a croupier being fired. Walter correctly reads to signs of a holdup, but too late to counter it, and actually becomes the prime suspect, is even jailed after waving an attorney. Toby must win his huge bail in a few hours, but fails last-minute. Walter escapes to take charge of the search for the real robbers, yet needs surprise help once the mastermind is identified and proves ruthless.
Episode 5
Plutonium Is Forever
Mon, Oct 20, 201442 mins
Cabe Gallo calls on Walter for advice about genius loner Mark Collins, who refuses to talk to anyone else when caught intruding a nuclear plant under decommission, guarded by General Ned Walker's army men. Walter urges them to take seriously Mark's claims that the facility is likely to melt down due to hopelessly outdated software, but admits he had to throw Collins out of Scorpion for being a mentally unstable troublemaker. Mark's recording and notes provide evidence, but his temporary return to the team stirs hefty friction and the nuclear emergency proves dramatically urgent.
Episode 6
True Colors
Mon, Oct 27, 201443 mins
Walter tries displaying a client-friendly, in his mind sanctimonious, 'humane' attitude during a job, which still turns rather nasty. The team is hired to check security in a museum for a prestigious exposition starring a piece on loan, but Walter finds that the art piece is a fake and proves it precipitously by carving it up. Then the team traces the forger. Afterward, Walter makes an exception to his disgust for Halloween to help Ralph.
Episode 7
Father's Day
Mon, Nov 3, 201443 mins
A case gets personal for Team Scorpion when three convicts break out of prison and one of them is a brilliant hacker who was forced to help the others steal billions online. Meanwhile, Paige must manage Ralph's expectations when his father returns.
Episode 8
Risky Business
Mon, Nov 10, 201441 mins
Team Scorpion enlists the help of a musician who created a controversial algorithm that generates hit songs to help find the murderer of a music blogger. Meanwhile, Drew asks Walter to help him connect with his son.
Episode 9
Rogue Element
Mon, Nov 17, 201443 mins
Walter worries when Ralph's father thanks him for physics advice to improve his throwing technique as it enables him to apply for a better club, out of state. Cabe needs the team's help when his ex, lawyer Rebecca, urgently needs protection after having discovered secret payments in a major political campaign lobby firm. They soon work it it concerns the murder by bomb aboard a yacht on a Congressman whose water rights bill could cost the agricultural industry billions, and become targets themselves, yet Walter risk his life to retrieve proof.
Episode 10
Talismans
Mon, Nov 24, 201444 mins
The Team must recover stealth technology from a military plane whose pilot, Captain Barrios is presumed dead, and they must work with a non-approving Navy Seal Team to recover the technology and the body. Walter's sister Megan, was bailed out of jail earlier in the day by Walter. Megan, played by Camille Guaty, was placed there after being charged with drunk and disorderly. She went hookie from the hospital she's been staying at, going bonkers wanting freedom in more than one way, from her MS illness, which will make her immobile in less than a year, even tho Walter see's her every week. She stays with Sylvester, who will help by staying behind... Surprisingly, Paige, "the former waitress" is along for the ride to Bosnia, trying, as the "glue of the team" to keep the two teams from tearing themselves apart with Government Agent Gabe looking on.
Episode 11
Revenge
Mon, Dec 8, 201439 mins
Gabe puts Walter's team on Javier's ruthless Latino robbers gang, who expertly use twenty custom-made explosive charges. One of their set of five bombs during a bank robbery goes off and lands already paranoid Sylvester in hospital. Now it's personal. The teams speculates on a next bank job, but comes to realize the charges only suffice to scare banks into evacuating their cash by armored truck, which won't withstand them.
Episode 12
Dominoes
Mon, Dec 15, 201443 mins
The team's Christmas Eve preparations must wait to rescue ten year-old Owen, who is trapped and in urgent risk of drowning in a rocky sinkhole at the beach. Toby and Happy, who confides only in him she identified her father but dares not come forward, are sent home to construct a lifting device to liberate the kid's foot. Walter risks life and limb over and over to dive down, comfort the boy, who would die in case of panic, and fit Owen with an on-site improvised oxygen device.
Episode 13
Kill Screen
Mon, Jan 5, 201540 mins
Ralph is almost arrested by the CIA as a dark Internet game he is suspected of helping to design has been used to pass top-secret information endangering many secret agents' lives. The boy is released in Gabe's custody to help Walter's team track down the real traitors, which both parents mistrust, turning overprotective. Walter, their scapegoat as he taught Ralph the necessary programming techniques, turns out the one who incurs the great physical danger.
Episode 14
Charades
Sun, Jan 18, 201542 mins
The CIA asks Walter's team to expose a mole. They soon work out it must be a fellow nerd and identify researcher Leonard, who has been supplying chemicals fit for a weapon of mass destruction to his lover Sima, whom he remains committed to. To trap her, Walter must pose as the mole to make an appointment, then flirt with her (heavily coached by 'Cyrano' Paige, who now has romantic dreams about him) and hope the others can identify 'Sima' and find the chemicals. The last part proves a nightmare, as well as the spy, who plans to turn the tables.
Episode 15
Forget Me Nots
Mon, Jan 19, 201543 mins
Team scorpion must jog the memory of an injured former secret service agent who is their only hope in preventing weapons of mass destruction from being launched from a secret U.S nuclear silo. Meanwhile, Paige is torn when Drew suggests that moving to Maine might be the best for Ralph.
Episode 16
Love Boat
Mon, Feb 9, 201541 mins
Homeland needs the team to prevent the elusive arms dealer Christoph shipping top-notch anti-aircraft missiles to clients from African war zones by luxury cruiser, under borrowed passenger identities. Sylvester impersonates a juvenile millionaire, Gabe his personal trainer, Page is wife, Walter the valet. Walter and Cabe find the missiles, which must be reprogrammed and GPS-fitted to catch the clients, but against plan can't get off board as they loose time dealing with an armed guard. Soon the thugs aboard are on their trail, and even resort to take all passengers hostage. Toby and Happy stayed behind, failing false identities, to help Ralph deal with his Valentine's crush, and now to hack Scorpion out of peril for them and commandeered military assistance.
Episode 17
Going South
Mon, Feb 23, 201544 mins
Walter's team mates feel passed over as a local TV interview he gave focuses on him as 'the genius hero'. Technology tycoon Richard Elia hires Walter and his team to rescue his daughter, who was kidnapped by a particularly bloody Mexican drug cartel. The Mexican federal police fails to protect them when they deliver the ransom, each team member's skills prove important, local teen Paco also wants his share. Sylvester meanwhile dreads telling Walter he's dating his terminally ill sister Megan.
Episode 18
Once Bitten, Twice Die
Mon, Mar 9, 201540 mins
Director Merrick needs the team to help rescue peace talks between top delegations from White Russia, Latvia and Lithuania, whose border dispute may escalate into an East European war that could trigger World war III. Paige seems to break the ice by bringing them together in a vodka ritual, but president Kreshenko collapses, poisoned. Walter's team must urgently identify the snake venom and culprit, and manufacture and administer an antidote within hours, despite security agents holding everyone off at gunpoint. Walter faces his fears in the nearest reptile center, which legally can't cooperate, and helps Paige make a history exam in time.
Episode 19
Young Hearts Spark Fire
Mon, Mar 23, 201541 mins
Walter's team sets out to rescue lost hikers in the woods, but their helicopter crashes. Sylvester stays with the badly wounded pilot, but a bush fire chases them. Walter's party meanwhile finds the lost commoners but get closed in by the fire. Cabe meanwhile mobilizes a military helicopter rescue team. A couple about to get engaged only strengthens Walter's feelings for Paige, but he remains in denial.
Episode 20
Crossroads
Mon, Mar 30, 201540 mins
To protect a key witness who is en route to testifying against a deadly drug cartel, Team Scorpion takes her on the run, with the cartel hot on their heels.
Episode 21
Cliffhanger
Mon, Apr 13, 201544 mins
Having learned that Cabe lied (albeit it to protect him) about their first vital mission in Iraq, where thousands were killed with his software, Walter refuses to have anything to do with his Homeland mentor anymore. He stands by hat decision, even if it means Cabe being sidelined by his director and the team being discarded by the government, its main and indispensable employer. Team members resign or attempt to change Walter's mid, to no avail, and blame him for considering working (alone) for tycoon Richard Elia instead. Ralph is down as he can't be around the team anymore but escapes from school when he hears that Walter is in trouble during his last team mission, in a nuclear reactor out of control.
Episode 22
Postcards from the Edge
Mon, Apr 20, 201541 mins
The leaderless rest of the team is uncertain about Scorpion's future with Cabe fired by Walter, who is AWOL, and Paige off to Drew with unenthusiastic Ralph. They must soon come together for a vita mission: to save Walter's life as his sports car is found gingerly balancing on the edge of a cliff. Cabe fakes still being a Homeland agent to overrule the local fire chief arresting Toby and Happy, Sylvester's calculations prevent fatal errors from the rescue team, while Toby's medical skills are painfully useful as Walter is spiked. Ralph having seems TV coverage, Paige rushes back and stays on with Scorpion, their 'real family'. Walter stabilizes in hospital on strong pain-sedating medication, Paige kisses him and expresses how much she cares about him.
