Scorpion

Previously on Scorpion...

A great fella like you

can meet two special women in one lifetime.

You worry too much.

So did I. Maybe that's why

the pregnancy didn't take.

Paige, uh, bad news.

The lecture was canceled.

It's probably for the best.

I'm glad you could make it. I'm psyched.

Is there something that you want to say?

I-I'd never told you that you're the love of my life.

Y-You told me you love me before.

Wanted you to know.

Okay.

What are you lying about?

I really don't want to do this.

Shut up and drop your pants.

Never thought I'd be unhappy to hear you say those words.

Palms down, stick out that rump.

Hey, gang, I brought bagels.

I don't even want to know.

Relax.

He's just getting a shot.

Oh, please. Woman up.

I thought Happy was getting the shots for IVF.

She is.

But since she hates blood and getting needles,

we made a deal.

For every shot I get,

he gets a saline goose in the keister.

It's forced solidarity, but solidarity nonetheless.

Strange, but...

all right.

Good morning, Cabe.

Only since Doc pulled his pants up.

Oh. Just the people I wanted to see.

Do either of you have connections at Cal Polytechnic?

No. Why are you whispering?

I don't want Walter to hear me.

Remember that lecture he and I were supposed to go to

but it got canceled?

The speaker is gonna be at Cal Polytechnic next month,

but it's sold out.

Bummer. I know.

It's just... well, I sort of feel like there's something

that Walter wants to tell me but my instincts are screaming

that he's withholding.

Really? I-I haven't picked up anything from him.

Huh. It's weird,

'cause my EQ radar is pinging all over the place,

and we just had such stressful cases lately,

and he's been working nonstop on that Gettleman pitch,

and I just thought if I could take him to the lecture,

we'd have a nice night together, he'd relax,

and maybe want to open up to me

and let me know what's been on his mind.

I don't know, but maybe I'm being crazy.

Am I being crazy?

- Yeah. - Yes.

Okay, well, either way,

don't tell him that I'm trying to get him tickets

because I want it to be a surprise.

- Won't say a thing. - Scout's honor.

She's getting you lecture tickets.

I fail to see the problem.

The longer she keeps her head in lecture land,

the more likely it is she's gonna find out

that you already went to it with Flo.

We've established that was innocent.

What was that for? Jerks don't get coffee.

- Childish. - No, Walt.

You're the child if you fail to see

that there is an inverse relationship

between time and innocence.

If I kept a box hidden from you for a long time,

w-when you finally opened it,

wouldn't matter if there was just an innocent pebble inside.

The fact that I obscured it from you for so long

makes it suspicious.

Now imagine instead of a pebble,

it's the cute scientist next door that you have

kissy dreams about.

You said that dream didn't matter.

Oh, come on.

Listen, I have waited

for a family my whole life and Scorpion is it.

And I am about to turn my ass into a pin cushion

so I can have more family.

I am not gonna let you blow up our family

'cause you're a knucklehead.

Scorpion won't blow up.

There's no reason why Paige will find out.

And if she did, I would just tell her the truth.

I didn't mention it to her

because it's a trivial matter.

Instead of poking into my business,

you guys work on your end of the Gettleman pitch.

Need to land that contract.

No more distractions.

Guys, monitor tree.

Stat!

So much for no more distractions.

Can you...

Sly, what's going on?

My pen pal, Alex, just texted me he is in trouble.

It's life and death.

Since when do you have a pen pal?

When I was a kid, I saw a commercial for sending books

to children in need in Africa.

I was assigned Alemeyahu

or Alex. We've been friends since.

Sylvester. Oh, thank goodness.

Thank you for reaching out to me.

Oh, my. I must say, I am nervous meeting the great Team Scorpion.

Sylvester has told me of your exploits.

Uh, Alex, Sly said

you're dealing with a life and death situation.

Yes. Behranu, our village elder,

is quite ill.

He's a widely revered leader.

He's even respected by the violent militants

that have taken over much of Murabi since 2014.

The militants want to expand into our territory,

but they are willing to discuss peace in deference to Behranu.

They will only negotiate with him.

This would save thousands of lives.

Talks are far from complete,

and Behranu's taken ill

and fuel is running out.

Don't you mean time is running out?

No. Behranu has heart failure.

He's being kept alive by a ventilator.

The generator powering our clinic is running out of fuel.

And yesterday, mortar shells

destroyed the only mountain road

that leads to the fuel depot.

And if the generator runs out of fuel...

Ventilator stops working.

Behranu dies along with any chance

of finishing those peace talks.

And Alex's community is decimated by militants.

We only have 36 hours of petrol left.

Alex, I'm sorry,

but we're not suited to rebuild a mountain road.

That is not what we need.

Please, open the file I just sent you.

Got it.

That is a five-mile pass that reaches the fuel depot,

but it is full of buried ordinance from the war of '88.

And if not for the land mines, that would be a perfect

shortcut to the fuel depot.

When I was a kid, my pen pal wanted

a postcard from Hollywood.

Yours wants us to clear a minefield?

Maybe we don't have to clear it.

Maybe we just have to map it.

Now, over time, land mines leak explosives

into the soil, so there must be a way

to chemically ID the leaks.

We have to get Florence in on this.

Oh, she's still in Berlin.

She's pitching her company

to investors.

So we won't use chemistry.

Use biology.

Uh, we can get engineered saprotrophic soil bacterium

from a college research lab.

- What the hell is that? - It's a bacteria.

Eats hydrocarbons.

Use it to clean up oil spills, but it also gobbles up toluene.

And what the hell's that? It's the explosive

that leaks from the land mines.

We spray the ground with bacteria,

it ingests the toluene.

And then the soil above the land mine, it's gonna glow green.

So we'll see where all the things that go boom are buried.

We drive around the mines and we get the fuel for Alex.

I will make a laser

so we can see the bacteria glow in the sun.

Toby, give me a hand.

I'll get us a plane. I'll grab the gear.

I cannot thank you enough.

We are on our way.

Hey, Sly.

Need your help with the mapping software

while we're on the plane.

Sure.

Um, Walter, I noticed

that it was your first instinct

to include Florence in this mission.

Now, I was just wondering

if there was any possibility that...

I told you at the softball game and I'm telling you now,

there is nothing going on.

Worst drive ever.

That road had more bumps than a herd of pregnant camels.

No wonder they can't transport the elder.

There's zero chance he'd survive that.

Sylvester, you are here.