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Scorpion Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
Civil War
Mon, Oct 3, 201643 mins
After their personal and romantic issues fail, Scorpion puts their plans on hold to help the U.S. Navy stop two out of control fighter jets taken over by hackers while flying over Los Angeles, targeting their weapons at each other, and four cyber-jacked U.S. destroyers pointing their high explosive BGM missiles from nearby at Miami, Boston, Portland and Long Beach. The U.S. military must ground all planes and shut down the nuclear missile silos, leaving the country defenseless. The hackers being back-traced to Bulgarian capital Sofia, Happy and Toby stay home to help the Navy regain control of the remaining fighter plane after the hackers use it to shoot down the other. Meanwhile Walter and Paige fail to hack back the hackers' signal and are almost killed trying; Sly, Cab, and Tim travel to Sofia in a Valkyrie to find the hackers, where Sly shows off his card counting skills to get the attention of crime boss Boris 'Skunk' find the hackers.
Episode 2
More Civil War
Mon, Oct 3, 201639 mins
Sly gains the attention of a crime boss, who demands help to win back millions from a Chinese rival in exchange for the hacker coordinates. The others regain control over the destroyers but find a nuclear submarine remains under hacker control. They try to use magnets to disrupt the hackers' signal, but are mere seconds too late in implementing their solution. Cabe and Tim run into a trap, eventually find the hackers' lair, but not before the hackers launch a nuclear missile. In a team effort, Walter reprograms the rocket's GPS to disable it. Distracted, Sly accidentally loses the game. Finding out Sly works for the U.S. government, Boris decides to kill him. On the way to a secluded area, Sly escapes and is ultimately rescued by the Valkyrie pilot. On Cabe's advice, Walter faces not being emotionally ready for Paige and makes amends with her and Tim.
Episode 3
It Isn't the Fall That Kills You
Mon, Oct 10, 201639 mins
Benefactor tech mogul Richard Elia hires Scorpion to help with his company's first manned space launch, on a NASA deadline. While Walter runs diagnostics on his rocket throttle design, which seems unstable, a lightning strike launches him into space. Due to several malfunctions, including low oxygen, he starts to hallucinate that Paige is with him in the rocket capsule and his lover. The team frantically seeks how to save Walter before his oxygen runs out in less than 30 minutes, all while dealing with the uncomfortable situation. They turn to the Russian Federal Space Agency to sped up an ISS supply launch as rider for Cabe, promising public credit for saving an American citizen. Walter and Toby elaborate plans to deal with their loves while at the garage.
Episode 4
Little Boy Lost
Mon, Oct 17, 201641 mins
Ralph's non-verbal autistic classmate Daniel, who relies on him for help to communicate, goes missing during their school field trip. Scorpion searches for him only to see on security video a suspicious man took Daniel's voice tablet, mistaking it for his intended dead drop, his tablet is linked to the international mercenary ring S6. The team races to track Daniel before them but arrive too late and then must save a panicked Daniel, who reveals that he opened a file on the wrong tablet, detailing an assassination plan to use smart bullets to take out a candidate running for Senate, which they stop. Toby visits amused psychopath Mark Collins in prison to ask him about Happy's husband but only gets a riddle, which he finally figures out: Happy's husband is Walter, purely to help Walter get a green card but she is pregnant and wants to divorce Walter.
Episode 5
Plight at the Museum
Mon, Oct 24, 201642 mins
Team Scorpion's simple job at the Los Angeles Natural History Musuem turns deadly when they discover thieves robbing a rare exhibit, needed to enrich a nuclear bomb.
Episode 6
Bat Poop Crazy
Mon, Oct 31, 201642 mins
Scorpion prepared a Halloween party 'for Ralph', but is called away to a remote cave system in Wonder Rift, Arizona, where they must save a disease-ridden bat population from dwindling in numbers harming the North American ecosystem as a major harvest pest control element would fall away. Due to her pregnancy, Happy stays back 'minding Ralph' -as frightening first mothering experience due to sugar overdoses hyperactivity sparing no genius- instead of Sly, who has a bat phobia. In order to prevent the spread of White Nose Syndrome, the others must aerosol fungicide into the cave with a laser devise Walter constructed. They end up having to save the zoologist couple which failed and got trapped after the rabies-infected bats attacked them. Doc must rush Sly, who got bitten, to a hospital, or lacking time break into the nearest, Halloween-abandoned medical post for urgent vaccination. Walter and Paige fall and must hastily improvise a way out before the leaked poison affects them. Back home, the team wears Halloween party costumes to fake an album 'from years' to help Happy and Walter with their impending immigration inspection by strict agent Joyce Linehan, who isn't so easily fooled.
Episode 7
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Vote
Mon, Nov 7, 201643 mins
On election day, someone tries to create turmoil in the U.S. presidential election, and Team Scorpion is called to investigate.
Episode 8
Sly and the Family Stone
Mon, Nov 14, 201643 mins
Most of Scorpion, including Tim, escorts Walter to his hometown in Ireland to help his parents with the blessing of Megan's cenotaph on Pattern Day for her Catholic one-year memorial service, except Toby and Happy who prepare her 'chelation' treatment and he pleads for a big wedding. The Irish tradition is broken when Walter discovers the nearby lake is about to erupt, which would result in a poisonous gas cloud of fatal carbon dioxide threatening the entire county. Cabe and Toby, via cell phone, try to ease the tension between Walter and Tim, whose SEAL skills pay off to save the townsfolk together. Walter next faces his childhood bullies by fighting them, thus earning their respect.
Episode 9
Mother Load
Mon, Nov 21, 201642 mins
Paige's estranged mother calls on Team Scorpion when she accidentally uncovers a forgotten nuclear reactor on the verge of exploding.
Episode 10
This Is the Pits
Mon, Dec 12, 201641 mins
The team steps in as the firemen are unable to save a woman drowning in a car in La Brea Tar Pits, running out of oxygen unless Walter can get her out without igniting the fuel bomb. Tim resigned from the Marines and is offered an overseas security chief job. Ralph and Veronica Dineen sell 'exclusive Peruvian' ice-cream but he refuses to benefit from preying on gullible people, even those with too much cash, hence calls grandmother disappointing. Sylvester's slacking city councilor campaign fund benefits, Ralph has the vital idea after Walter puts himself in danger.
Episode 11
Wreck the Halls
Mon, Dec 19, 201640 mins
Scorpion agrees to spend an old-fashioned Christmas Eve Paige-style in a cabin free of all electronic devices and reception. While out searching for a real Christmas tree to cut down, Walter, Ralph and the agents encounter armed fiends in the woods and rescue the man they ordered to dig is own grave, who identifies himself as ATF agent Sam Roberts . The team is discovered an beleaguered at the cabin but improvises homemade traps to take down the criminals Home Alone-style. Alas, Sam is really a double-thieving member of the gunrunning gang and drives off with Ralph as hostage, whom Walter in his sport-car rescue with ever-helpful Ralph working himself into the booth. Back home, Tim and Walter, who gave him as present a demeaning child's desk as 'office' in the elevator, have a heated argument, mainly over Paige, causing Tim to rethink his position as a full-time member of Scorpion, she encourages him to take the security job in Amman, but Toby tells Walter that Paige will blame Walter for it.
Episode 12
Ice Ca-Cabes
Mon, Jan 2, 201740 mins
Scorpion is nearly to normal with the regular roster after Tim's departure, only Paige is upset about how jealously Walter handled that. Cabe is moving out of Happy's home and gives her his mother's heirloom brooch for her wedding with Toby The team's routine mission at the Federal Pumping Station in Redwood, California in the desert turns into their hardest case when they are forced to freeze Cabe's body in order to save his life after he is seriously wounded by a copper shard that snapped off from the force of the turbine's friction, too far to wait for a helicopter. The team must collect various materials, forcing Sly and Happy to face their fears -even a rattle snake- and Paige and Walter to enter a nudist spring. At the hospital, Walter finally expresses his feelings for long-time fatherly friend Cabe, who reciprocates.
Episode 13
Faux Money Maux Problems
Mon, Jan 16, 201742 mins
Scorpion has a private job revamping a winery's viticulture technology with selective harvesters and optical sorters. On the way by limousine, Walter notices just too late they're knocked out by kevloturane, a subtle but potentially lethal gas. Foreign diplomat Lucinda trick-engaged them posing as the vineyard owner, and she forces the abducted team to make counterfeit US$ 100 notes for her (fictional Central-American) country, Norteguay where her brother is dictator, intended to ruin the U.S. economy. Locked in a warehouse with her mother, Paige has to rely on her mother's con-artist skills to save tall. At the winery, Toby and Happy are followed by a Norteguaian henchman and escape to the garage to help the rest of the team, who believe to be abducted overseas but discover outside to be really in Simi Valley, California.
Episode 14
The Hole Truth
Mon, Jan 23, 201742 mins
Team Scorpion must save a man teetering on the edge of a massive sink hole that threatens to destroy the Los Angeles water supply forever.
Episode 15
Sharknerdo
Mon, Feb 6, 201742 mins
Scorpion lost a contract to upgrade a Department of Energy server as Walter disagrees with a rep over their "mathematically inaccurate" fee. So he takes on a private case instead: being hired by a Marine salvage company that believes they've found the San Caldera, a Manila galleon that sunk by Drakes Bay in 1595 carrying a fortune in gold to use their echolocation tech in search of the pirate treasure. Cabe's lover, rival's PA Allie, helps Sly out with his campaign by getting him an interview with a teenage reporter for the West Altadena Shopper, but he has more urgently to help rescue Walter and Paige when they're stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after their boat explodes from an electrical problem. Even though they're able to make it to a Danish marine research buoy to get out an S.O.S., a frenzy of sharks surrounds them.
Episode 16
Keep It in Check, Mate
Mon, Feb 13, 201743 mins
Cabe must stay home, as his spy status is too dangerous to partake in Scorpion's mission to help spy Natalya Abelev leave her (fictitious) ex-Soviet country before a coded list is deciphered, which may be fast. The only access is the international chess tournament she's playing in the capital. Walter and Sylvester enter, being gifted and experienced, but stopped playing each-other after a bitter game nearly wrecked their friendship. Their rivalry, drawn fatally to oppose each-other and only the winner can meet Abelev in the final, re-surges out of hand. Meanwhile Toby and the girls prepared the actual escape, which must be hastened perilously.
Episode 17
Dirty Seeds, Done Dirt Cheap
Mon, Feb 20, 201742 mins
When a simple mission to protect a vital seed bank goes awry, Team Scorpion must save Happy, Sylvester and Cabe, who begin suffering from life-threatening, fear-based hallucinations.
Episode 18
Don't Burst My Bubble
Mon, Feb 27, 201743 mins
Following a severe storm, Happy's friend Ada, who lives in a sterile bubble to protect her compromised immune system, is left with dangerous debris on the verge of puncturing the structure. Now, Team Scorpion works to safely move Ada to a more secure location without risking her life.
Episode 19
Monkey See, Monkey Poo
Mon, Mar 13, 201742 mins
Scorpion helps the World Health Organization to stop the dangerous Marari virus from spreading from Rhondon throughout South America and causing a pandemic which may even go global. They fly to the Amazon rain-forest to locate an endangered monkey species called the Homboldt Capuchin that seems immune, hence presumably carries the antibody for a cure. Ever-allergic Sly is released to be left on base for research with Ralph, but still panics due to a caterpillar on the super-tomatoes he's growing. For their marriage to work, Happy wants to express herself better, so she drags Toby to "quack" therapist Dr. Cecil Rizzuto for premarital counseling. Walter identifies with Cabe's emotional pain from losing Allie after his own heartbreak over Paige, showing actual empathy. Not only does the capuchin prove hard to catch, he's only immune due to some element of his diet.
Episode 20
Broken Wind
Mon, Mar 20, 201739 mins
While on a mission to repair a turbine at a wind farm, Team Scorpion must race to save Paige and Happy before the cable holding the gondola they are in snaps and sends them plummeting to the ground.
Episode 21
Rock Block
Mon, Apr 10, 201743 mins
Hechnyan (ficticious) president Korsovich hired Scorpion to to handle to landing of a capsule containing a space-harvested asteroid containing a fortune in palladium. The initially troublesome flight control works out, but the team realizes it contains pathogens which constitute an intolerable pandemic risk. General Savic however, who holds the real power, insists the mission is too valuable to abort. Presidential aid Eerik proves vital in disposing of the germ threat. Meanwhile the rivaling best men efforts for the wedding preparations don't impress Paige. Cabe's date Allie Jones offers evidence of her boss's malversations which can earn Sly his alderman's post.
Episode 22
Strife on Mars
Mon, Apr 17, 201742 mins
Scorpion is hired by Kapper Aerospace Industries in Solvang to fix the thorium power grid in their Mars simulation biodome. When power and hence air systems fail by overload, they must extract the rowing ex-lover scientists who have been living inside for 11 months. Walter and Paige plan contrasting versions of Toby and Happy's Jack and Jill Bachelor(ette) Party: Walter with trips to the science center, planetarium and natural history museum, Paige with a party bus and look-a-like piñatas. Meanwhile, the couple prepares to move in with each other, quickly learning that they have different styles and ways of living, and worried about the dome couple's break-up over excessive proximity. Smells and oxygen-ozone mix in the dome gradually trigger Walter's memory of what really happened in space with Paige. Realizing Paige played him, Walter fires Paige at Scorpion 'having completed her job' after landing a better-paid position for her with Richard Elia; Paige storms out scolding, taking Ralph.
Episode 23
Something Burrowed, Something Blew
Mon, May 1, 201743 mins
Ralph acts coldly to Walter for giving Paige's Scorpion office manager job to weird best man Ray Spiewack, while they arrive as early guests to the wedding which Toby prepares frantically, while bride Happy almost expects it to go wrong. It has to wait as a major subterranean communication line is threatened in Wyoming by volcanic activity, which proves harder to fight then expected, given optimistic data. Ralph steps in to save trapped Walter, but it's impossible to reach the San Jose venue in time. The happy couple and Ray give up, but the others come through with alternatives, including Paige's return and reconciliation with Walter, ultimately caught kissing.
Episode 24
Maroon 8
Mon, May 8, 201740 mins
Flying Scorpion to honeymoon island Tahiti, the private plane crashes on a deserted island after a battery in one of the wave-powered generators explodes, causing shrapnel to cut the plane's hydraulic lines. Only the pilot, Scotty, is badly harmed, suffering from crush syndrome and will die if freed. The team improvises a dialysis machine out of the wreckage to save him, while also trying to find a way off the island, finding a Japanese war bunker, proof they are desperately out of course, so no air rescue hope, but find a radio that can only still receive. Sylvester's near-death experience instills him with a new surge of confidence and his Japanese is good enough to learn about a rare passing freighter, but its attention must be drawn very fast. Toby learns some surprising secrets about Happy's past. Overeager Walter struggles with his emotions while adjusting to his new relationship with Paige and Ralph confides in Cabe his worries the relationship won't survive long on the island.
Episode 25
Scorp Family Robinson
Mon, May 15, 201741 mins
Three weeks after the crash on a deserted South Sea island, the team is divided on how to get rescued before the monsoon, so they split up in projects. Walter hopes a magnetic field change can get them home, Toby fails to build a raft out of newly discovered oil drums. Long-bearded Sylvester is losing his mind in the bunker with his pet chameleon, overcompensating for his phobia having come true. Everyone works together to rescue Ralph and Scotty in danger of smothered in a sand pit created by an exploding copper wire experiment causing an electrical disturbance to signal a plane to fly above them. They spell out SOS on the sand and are saved. Back home safe, Paige and Walter are finally left alone and they consummate their relationship..
