So, what does this episode give its viewers: it focuses on family from one main sub-plot to smaller sub-plots and even to the main plot of the episode itself.
It all starts when Drew (Brendan Hines), Ralph’s father, returns to town. All of the members of Scorpion, except Paige (Catherine McPhee) and Cabe Gallow (Robert Patrick), get all paranoid about who Drew really is. The mission this episode is to find out how three prisoners escaped and then catch them.
I think one of the things about this show is the characters. Are there glaring inaccuracies? Yes, but the characters make me come back week after week.
One of the amusing parts of the episode is when Toby, the behaviorist, is telling Paige about a simple test to see if Drew is actually a good person. If he’s someone that should be left alone with Ralph for any length of time. That test is handing someone a fruit and seeing how they peel it.
If they peel the fruit in small chunks then they are aggressive. If they peel it in big long strips then they’re safer. The best part of this scene is when Cabe peels a fruit in chunks.
And, yes, Sylvester attempts to give Drew the fruit test but Paige is able to stop him.
There is the sub-plot of the bird drone this episode. The group finds out that a drone, looking like it’s a bird to avoid suspicion, dropped a package for the prisoners escape plan.
When they are repairing it, Sylvester names it and treats it like it’s a real thing. This ends up causing disaster when him and Toby get into a fight over its ‘safety’. They end up crashing the drone through the window and nearly getting the group killed.
More of Cabe Gallo and Walter O’Brian’s (Elyes Gabel) past relationship is shown. Walter thought of Cabe as a father figure, heck the smolderingly sexy metal legend even taught him how to fight, and so Cabe’s betrayal hit hard.
So Walter’s thoughts about Drew are very clouded. He remembers Cabe betraying him and so thinks of Drew in that dark light. No wonder he grows paranoid about Drew as he is more than a little scared for Ralph. Even when he seems to let Paige do her own thing without his interference, he spies on the trio at the end of the episode.
Scorpion continues to be aggravating when getting facts right, but a delight in characters. Robert Patrick has done wonderfully in showing Cabe Gallo’s complexity. How he cares for people but is hard around the edges. Patrick is doing wonderfully in this new role he has found himself in.
Hope to see more.
