
Eccentric genius Walter O'Brien leads a group of brilliant misfits who constitute Homeland Security's new think tank, helping defend against the high-tech threats of the computer age. The team -- dubbed Scorpion -- includes behaviorist Toby Curtis, mechanical prodigy Happy Quinn, and statistics guru Sylvester Dodd. While comfortable with one another, the team members struggle with understanding life outside their circle, so when they need help translating societal cues, they rely on the skills of Paige Dineen, a woman with a gifted young son.

Sylvester goes undercover in a federal prison in hope of saving three judges' lives; the team must orchestrate a prison break when Sylvester's life is threatened.

The members of the team go undercover on a movie set in Kazakhstan in hopes of disabling a Soviet-era nuclear missile being sold by terrorists.

The team must intervene when Paige and Ralph are on a sabotaged, runaway subway train; Toby tries to impress Happy during his first boxing match.

The members of Team Scorpion take a lucrative job locating a top-secret aircraft in Area 51 for the CIA.