Walter learns that he can’t save everybody like Superman does in this week’s episode of Scorpion. The team is enlisted by Agent Mark Willis from the CIA to go into the infamous Area 51 to find a missing 27B/6 plane after going on a routine mission. Walter jumps at the chance to help locate the plane after hearing that a large sum of money will be paid if the job is a successful one. Toby, on the other hand, isn’t too happy about the team going on this plane hunt as evidenced by his various predictions that are peppered throughout the episode.
After Team Scorpion arrives at Coughlan Air Force Base, aka Area 51, the missing plane is found in a stretch of desert a good distance away from the top secret base. The team then discovers that there might be a kidnapping being set in motion as Agent Gallo and Toby find packs of AB-Negative blood with rare proteins along with chloroform and zip ties. As Happy would say, not good.
The scene where Happy used the 27B/6’s reflective panels to reflect sunlight and point it toward her magnifying glass in order to create a beam of light powerful enough to burst a tire was extremely cool. I guess magnifying glasses are not just used to play God with a bunch of ants and making small printed words easier to read. Who says television can’t be educational?
Paige tries to get the rest of Team Scorpion to deal with the aspect of death in a more emotional manner as Megan’s condition continues to worsen, but given that she is dealing with a group of geniuses who believe in the facts and figures rather than sharing their feelings on a sensitive subject matter, her efforts may have been made in vain. The same with Agent Gallo, who tries to convince Walter that there’s no solution for every problem and that it’s important to spend time making memories, not burying yourself in solutions that may not work in the end. Mr. 197, however, being the low EQ genius that he is, brushes off Agent Gallo’s advice and stubbornly tells the Homeland agent that he will find a solution to cure Megan because he’s the only one who can take care of her. I like Walter’s determination to save his sister, but I have a feeling that even if there is a solution to cure Megan, its effects may not last as long as Walter wants them to.
On the other hand, the aspect of downloading Megan’s brain and storing it digitally until another suitable vessel is found after Megan’s body fails to function is intriguing. The fact that the information stored within our minds can be downloaded and saved in what I imagine would be an iCloud-esque server until it can be retrieved when the time is right fascinates me greatly. There’s also what I call the Captain America method, in which people can have themselves frozen and preserved until a point in time where they can be thawed and revived, but that’s another story for another time.
Back to the mission, the team seems to have hit a couple of snags when Toby, Paige, and Happy are apprehended by the Air Force soldiers, who don’t seem to believe that the former is part of Team Scorpion. Walter and Agent Gallo are also onboard the 27B/6 with the kidnapped victim, Dr. Ivan Zahn, the person who created the technology used on the plane. Could this get any worse? Apparently so, as Walter and Agent Gallo are discovered by Sardo, one of the pilots flying the plane. Good thing Walter is able to put the plane into a nosedive, causing them to feel weightless for about 20 seconds, thus allowing them to overpower their captors. Too bad the genius and Homeland agent pass out shortly after taking control of the plane. Can I be the first to say “mayday”?
I breathed a sigh of relief as the episode began to come to an end, and Sylvester woke Walter up in time for Happy to instruct him on how to land the plane (seriously? A guy with a 197 IQ doesn’t know how to land a plane? Will wonders never cease?) on the desert runway. I laughed a little when Walter got all “five more minutes” on Sylvester when the human calculator first attempted to wake the genius up. I also knew that, during the scene where Team Scorpion was being held at gunpoint by the CIA, Walter was bluffing when he told Agent Willis that Sylvester’s drone had recorded everything that the agent said, which would result in him being put away for murder. At least Agent Willis wasn’t able to call Walter on his bluff; Team Scorpion lives to fight crime another day.
When the team makes it back to the garage, Paige, after learning that the team has a hard time with handling the fear of the unknown, tries to get through to Walter on an emotional level with regards to death and leads the conversation toward Megan. The genius, confident that he will find the solution to cure his sister, pays Paige’s words no mind as he paraphrases her words when they first met: that Scorpion will save everybody. Therefore, he will save his sister, end of conversation.
Though after arriving at the hospital, Walter sees that his sister is not being put on a respirator, and confronts Sylvester as to why the human calculator did not convince her otherwise. Sylvester tells Walter that he respected Megan’s wishes to not be put on the respirator, and that he is doing the right thing for the woman that he loves. Walter then storms out of Megan’s hospital room, telling Sylvester that their conversation isn’t over. I sense a small crack in Walter and Sylvester’s friendship. Hopefully, it won’t turn into a larger crack that can’t be repaired.
[Photo credit: Neil Jacobs/CBS]
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