S02.E22: Hard Knox

[shapeshifter]

Team Scorpion is hired by the Department of Defense to break into Fort Knox and “steal” a precious artifact in order to test their security, but they must break in a second time when they find something dangerous hidden inside the object.

I missed parts of this, but was surprised that I enjoyed the lawyer character winning his case, and Walter telling Ralph how much he appreciated him. The soap opera drama was mercifully ignorable.

[Artsda]

I like Ralph and Walter more than Walter and Paige. Wish they'd kept Walter's girlfriend.

 

Toby proposing seems way too fast. 

 

The lawyer was really horrible at the start, but glad he got his win.

[Texasmom1970]

I like Walter better with anyone but Paige. They have no chemistry, they bore me and I am tired of the writers pushing them as a couple on us. 

 

I adore Toby and Happy I hope they don't do something to screw it up!

[Scott]

The lawyer was horrible all the way through.  He only got his win because Ralph did all the legwork.  I really hope that's the end of his arc, but I'm sure it's not...ugh.  

[Free]

The lawyer was horrible all the way through.  He only got his win because Ralph did all the legwork.  I really hope that's the end of his arc, but I'm sure it's not...ugh.  

 

I'm not sure what the point of his arc was, like the last recurring character who had an arc and then disappeared after that was over.

[thuganomics85]

Yeah, the lawyer arc really was just so stupid.  The character was unfunny, and I was annoyed how he seemed to be hindering Ralph instead of helping him.  At least Ralph was able to prove his innocence.

 

I still like Toby and Happy, but I don't see Toby proposing ending well for him.  He is going about this way too fast, and I suspect this will make Happy freak out and question their relationship.

 

Tim is going off to get some kind of treatment, while Linda admits that she only wanted to date Walt due to him saving her life, so I'm sure this is all set-up for Walt and Paige to confront their feelings again.

 

Shamefully, I totally know what film Toby was referencing throughout the mission: Escape Plan, which not only had Stallone, but Robert Patrick's former advisory, Arnold Schwarzenegger!

[twoods]

Walt and Ralph scenes were really nice. They made me a little misty. I like Walt and Paige but hate how anvilicious they are making their scenes. Jealous gazes, trying to date other people. Just stop, writers!

Poor Toby. Happy is so going to freak out and dump him, which will cause him to gamble again. This won't end well.

[KDB]

It never came up at the end of the episode, but I assume that Scorpion didn't get to keep the million dollars that the crooked D o D offered them. That amount of money would help Sylvester get the money he wanted for the hospital.

I liked Linda, Walter's friend. She seemed pleasant and a little awkward, somewhat like the other team members.

[marketdoctor]

 

It never came up at the end of the episode, but I assume that Scorpion didn't get to keep the million dollars that the crooked D o D offered them.

 

This is one of those recurring questions about this show.  ("One-off" questions are "how far from reality is that piece of science?").  They seem to be paid lots of money for most of their jobs, but they never actually seem to *have* money.  Maybe they spend it on electricity for the teleporter.

 

Although the "let's go from LA to Kentucky and back in a fraction of a day, and while we're at it, there's no time change" bothered me, at least they didn't play up Kentucky stereotypes (no one had an accent, which is accurate for a military base.)  I was a little disappointed Toby didn't do any Churchill Downs references, but they were kind of busy.

 

There was what might have been a nice science joke, when they referred to how dangerous "plumbium" was--it might have been a nod to "plumbum", the Latin word for lead (which is dangerous, but I don't know if it's useful as a chemical weapon.)

[shapeshifter]

\There was what might have been a nice science joke, when they referred to how dangerous "plumbium" was--it might have been a nod to "plumbum", the Latin word for lead (which is dangerous, but I don't know if it's useful as a chemical weapon.)

Was it supposed to be plutonium? Or more like handwaveium?

[theatremouse]

I heard polonium. I didn't think it was intended as anything other than literal.

[bros402]

It was Polonium, not plumbium.

[marketdoctor]

I had it wrong, then.  (I hope someday they use a literal reference to handwavium soon.)

[TeeVeeStevie]

Stanley the Manly!