Scorpion Season 4 Disc 6
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shallownessIn ‘Kenny and the Jet’, Toby was worried about Happy’s dangerous behaviour now she wasn’t pregnant, as he’d like her to be around for their next round of fertility treatment. Quintis also learned that Walter was feeling guilty now that he realised that he’d lied to Paige about the lecture and omitted to tell her he’d one with Flo (and spent the rest of the episode making a pros and cons list about revealing the truth to her.)
You would have thought that Paige would have realised Walter was feeling guilty, because he’d gone overboard on giving her gifts. But she was distracted, because she and the rest of the team (plus Ralph) were flying back from Hawaii where Sly had been piloting his water-filtration system. Teen!Ralph was in a snit because his trip to Hawaii meant he couldn’t go to Patty’s birthday party. Paige was trying to protect him from the inevitable heartbreak of Patty being 16 (or was it 17 now?) This would be thematically relevant.
Sly was freaking out about being on a plane, but would get even more freaked out as Cabe realised something was up on the flight.
At first, they thought it was a bomb, but it turned out to be a stowaway in the wheel axle. Kenny (hence the title) was conveniently 13, the same age as Ralph, and had been trying to fly back to LA with his dad, a passenger, in a DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, KIDS way.
Quintis went to a grounded plane like the one in the air while Walter did computing in the garage to help the rest rescue Kenny while not panicking or frightening all the other passangers. All of Scorpion played their part, there was a fire and Paige did heroics, while Kenny’s dad tried to reciprocate by protecting Ralph.
After what they’d been through, Cabe urged Sly to ask Flo out, Quintis found a compromise, Ralph asked Patty out, but, understandably, she turned him down. Nicely, but it hurt him, and Walter chickened out of telling Paige (who was going to take Ralph home to look after his broken heart with comfort food) but in such a way that Paige realised Walter was hiding something from her.
I liked that this episode returned to a plane, not just because of the shadow of that time they crashed on to a desert island, but because a plane appeared in the show’s very first episode.
I liked ‘The Lie in the Sand’ a little more, but the bigger issue is that because I’d been so good at avoiding spoilers and the words ‘the final season’ were plastered all over the DVD case I assumed they knew when making this finale that this was it and would tie everything together the best they could. However, after watching this, I was left repeating ‘No’ in disbelief that the end of this season was the end of the show. It would have worked fine as an ending to the fourth season as it brought many of the issues that had been bubbling under all season to the boil, mainly Waige’s … if there had been a fifth one.
I’ve subsequently learned that the network cancelled the show, even though it still had what other networks would have considered good viewing figures rather ruthlessly.
There was a penpal of Sly’s that we’d never heard about before (sidenote: Sly seemed almost blasé about being back in Africa.) It emerged that Sly had lied/exaggerated to said penpal about how responsible he was for Scorpion’s successes (which would also be thematically relevant.) There was a literal minefield to traverse as well as the emotional minefield Walter pretended he wasn’t navigating, however much Quintis pointed it out to him. DUDE, listen to Happy (I would have been fine with her utilising more violence than twisting Walter’s ear.) There was also the background of them being (mostly) white saviours in a made-up African country.
On the other hand, there was the A1 moment when Happy saw the adopted doctor who helped Toby and had the perfect realisation that Quintis could, nay should, adopt. (I felt like a doofus for not seeing that one coming, because apart from speaking to her inner abandoned child and the whole team as family vibe – about which I have more to say as it pertains to this ep – it avoids the character’s pregnancy taking her off cases or out of the action.) I think the Quintis shippers were probably least mad about the show’s cancelation.
Paige is worried about Walter lying to her, without knowing the full scale of it. Scorpion’s job is to help Sly’s hitherto unmentioned penpal’s village by navigating a mined shortcut to get fuel to keep the ventilator going for the only elder who can negotiate a peace with some military forces or something. Cabe is still trying to get Sly to ask Florence out.
Toby diagnoses what the village elder’s health problem really is, but fails at behavioural science i.e. in convincing the doctor to allow him to help give the patient the right treatment. (Bleeding him to relieve pressure on his heart.)
Sly’s penpal is excited to go with the rest to the fuel depot until a sandstorm and mines happen. Walter is in real peril of suffocating from sand, but Paige (quite literally) talks him out of it, and offers him a chance to come clean, which he doesn’t fully take.
And so there is the inevitable blow-up at the garage when Paige finds out what Walter lied about to her (and that of the others knew). Florence confesses to having feelings for Walter (which I’d been denying). This leads to Sly finally expressing his feelings for her, physically shoving Walter and quitting. Paige then has her say and not only calls off the ‘experiment’ of their relationship, but also quits. Quintis watch the family they wanted to expand..dissolve.
I was expecting a double-length episode to resolve all this, but we just got a scene set two weeks later. Scorpion 2.0 (Walter, loyal Cabe, who somehow han’t had STRONG WORDS with his idiot son and Florence, who’s given up her independent attempt to get investment) discover they’re competing for a job against Centipede (the rest. Also, ‘Centipede’, heh.) Scorpon 2.0 have already lost a job they were competing for to Centipede if Paige is telling the truth as she likely is.
And that was it, a juicy set-up for the fifth season that never was. I will never get to see Team Scorpion restored. Or Waige.
The features include the traditional gag reel, some deleted scenes, the usual Ordinary Heroes overview feature, a feature on making the opening musical scene and a feature of Flo. Again, it’s clear that the Nicks and all the rest of them had no idea the axe was going to fall.
You would have thought that Paige would have realised Walter was feeling guilty, because he’d gone overboard on giving her gifts. But she was distracted, because she and the rest of the team (plus Ralph) were flying back from Hawaii where Sly had been piloting his water-filtration system. Teen!Ralph was in a snit because his trip to Hawaii meant he couldn’t go to Patty’s birthday party. Paige was trying to protect him from the inevitable heartbreak of Patty being 16 (or was it 17 now?) This would be thematically relevant.
Sly was freaking out about being on a plane, but would get even more freaked out as Cabe realised something was up on the flight.
At first, they thought it was a bomb, but it turned out to be a stowaway in the wheel axle. Kenny (hence the title) was conveniently 13, the same age as Ralph, and had been trying to fly back to LA with his dad, a passenger, in a DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, KIDS way.
Quintis went to a grounded plane like the one in the air while Walter did computing in the garage to help the rest rescue Kenny while not panicking or frightening all the other passangers. All of Scorpion played their part, there was a fire and Paige did heroics, while Kenny’s dad tried to reciprocate by protecting Ralph.
After what they’d been through, Cabe urged Sly to ask Flo out, Quintis found a compromise, Ralph asked Patty out, but, understandably, she turned him down. Nicely, but it hurt him, and Walter chickened out of telling Paige (who was going to take Ralph home to look after his broken heart with comfort food) but in such a way that Paige realised Walter was hiding something from her.
I liked that this episode returned to a plane, not just because of the shadow of that time they crashed on to a desert island, but because a plane appeared in the show’s very first episode.
I liked ‘The Lie in the Sand’ a little more, but the bigger issue is that because I’d been so good at avoiding spoilers and the words ‘the final season’ were plastered all over the DVD case I assumed they knew when making this finale that this was it and would tie everything together the best they could. However, after watching this, I was left repeating ‘No’ in disbelief that the end of this season was the end of the show. It would have worked fine as an ending to the fourth season as it brought many of the issues that had been bubbling under all season to the boil, mainly Waige’s … if there had been a fifth one.
I’ve subsequently learned that the network cancelled the show, even though it still had what other networks would have considered good viewing figures rather ruthlessly.
There was a penpal of Sly’s that we’d never heard about before (sidenote: Sly seemed almost blasé about being back in Africa.) It emerged that Sly had lied/exaggerated to said penpal about how responsible he was for Scorpion’s successes (which would also be thematically relevant.) There was a literal minefield to traverse as well as the emotional minefield Walter pretended he wasn’t navigating, however much Quintis pointed it out to him. DUDE, listen to Happy (I would have been fine with her utilising more violence than twisting Walter’s ear.) There was also the background of them being (mostly) white saviours in a made-up African country.
On the other hand, there was the A1 moment when Happy saw the adopted doctor who helped Toby and had the perfect realisation that Quintis could, nay should, adopt. (I felt like a doofus for not seeing that one coming, because apart from speaking to her inner abandoned child and the whole team as family vibe – about which I have more to say as it pertains to this ep – it avoids the character’s pregnancy taking her off cases or out of the action.) I think the Quintis shippers were probably least mad about the show’s cancelation.
Paige is worried about Walter lying to her, without knowing the full scale of it. Scorpion’s job is to help Sly’s hitherto unmentioned penpal’s village by navigating a mined shortcut to get fuel to keep the ventilator going for the only elder who can negotiate a peace with some military forces or something. Cabe is still trying to get Sly to ask Florence out.
Toby diagnoses what the village elder’s health problem really is, but fails at behavioural science i.e. in convincing the doctor to allow him to help give the patient the right treatment. (Bleeding him to relieve pressure on his heart.)
Sly’s penpal is excited to go with the rest to the fuel depot until a sandstorm and mines happen. Walter is in real peril of suffocating from sand, but Paige (quite literally) talks him out of it, and offers him a chance to come clean, which he doesn’t fully take.
And so there is the inevitable blow-up at the garage when Paige finds out what Walter lied about to her (and that of the others knew). Florence confesses to having feelings for Walter (which I’d been denying). This leads to Sly finally expressing his feelings for her, physically shoving Walter and quitting. Paige then has her say and not only calls off the ‘experiment’ of their relationship, but also quits. Quintis watch the family they wanted to expand..dissolve.
I was expecting a double-length episode to resolve all this, but we just got a scene set two weeks later. Scorpion 2.0 (Walter, loyal Cabe, who somehow han’t had STRONG WORDS with his idiot son and Florence, who’s given up her independent attempt to get investment) discover they’re competing for a job against Centipede (the rest. Also, ‘Centipede’, heh.) Scorpon 2.0 have already lost a job they were competing for to Centipede if Paige is telling the truth as she likely is.
And that was it, a juicy set-up for the fifth season that never was. I will never get to see Team Scorpion restored. Or Waige.
The features include the traditional gag reel, some deleted scenes, the usual Ordinary Heroes overview feature, a feature on making the opening musical scene and a feature of Flo. Again, it’s clear that the Nicks and all the rest of them had no idea the axe was going to fall.
