
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.

Team Scorpion attempts to save a man stuck on the edge of a massive sinkhole that could permanently destroy the Los Angeles water supply.

Team Scorpion's job to find sunken treasure goes awry when Walter and Paige's boat explodes, leaving them lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean surrounded by sharks.

Walter and Sylvester enter an international chess competition undercover on foreign soil in an effort to extricate a U.S. spy before her identity is exposed.

Happy, Sylvester and Cabe suffer from life-threatening, fear-based hallucinations after a simple mission to protect a vital seed bank goes awry.