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WALTER: My name is Walter O'Brien.

I haVe the fourth-highest lQ ever recorded: 197.

Einstein 's was 160.

When I was 11, the FBl arrested me for hacking NASA

to get their blueprints for my bedroom wall.

Now I run a team of geniuses, tackling worldwide threats only we can solVe.

Toby's our behaviorist.

Sylvester's a human calculator.

Happy, a mechanical prodigy.

Agent Cabe Gallo's our government handler.

And Paige ? Well, Paige isn't like us.

She 's normal, and translates the world for us,

while we help her understand her genius son.

Together, we are Scorpion.

Kneel ! On the ground ! Do it right now!

I wanna talk to Walter O'Brien .

[ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI'S "HEART IT RACES" PLAYING]

I said we could come in for an hour before school started .

That ended five minutes ago, bud .

Ralph , did you even touch your breakfast?

- To move it over. HAPPY: Hey.

I gave you your own set of AIIen wrenches for a reason .

[CHUCKLES]

- I have them set by lens strength . - Ah , well done.

First optics test is to check for spherical aberration .

Actually, the first test he needs to do is long division , he can't be late.

You really think we need a test to determine if he knows long division?

Point taken , but he still needs to be at school on time.

Go downstairs and get your backpack.

Can we run the tests together after school?

Can't wait.

I'll be back in 20-- What--? What is that?

It's a centrifuge.

You guys have been up here for hours, no breaks.

- I'll assume you skipped breakfast. - We're working .

- Ralph does the same thing . - Well , focus is normal .

When someone goes down the rabbit hole, you'Il know.

- What's a rabbit hole? - Dehydration ,

loss of sense of time, anti-social behavior.

And how do you avoid that?

You avoid it by starting a team like Scorpion .

Come. Here.

TOBY: I'm seeing ace of spades.

Wait a minute. You think you're sneaky, huh?

I've never seen him happier.

He's in the right place.

TOBY: This isn't your card?

- Is this your card? - Car, now.

Ralph , have a good day at school and don't listen to any of your teachers.

Happy, pick one. Twenty bucks says I can guess it in under five seconds.

Is this your way of asking for a loan?

You blew your money, didn't you?

Your ex-fiancée told you to never call her again

and you licked your wounds at a card table.

Wrong . Cleaned up at a card table, I got killed at craps.

Perhaps next time, I should just call you .

Absolutely wrong .

Not that I would , but if I did ,

what exactly would be so wrong about that?

We don't have the time.

See, that's why I gamble.

Walter! Why the hell aren't you answering your phone?

I was working .

I need you to come with me. Just you , urgent.

- What is it? - Do you know the name Mark Collins?

Yeah .

Let's keep this quiet.

GALLO: Collins breached the perimeter at the military-controlled

Montero nuclear reactor about five miles from here.

- Did he say why he did it? - All he said so far is your name.

- Wonder why that is. - I haven't talked to him in years.

General Ned Walker, the reactor is under his command .

Mr. O'Brien , anything you can do to determine his intent

and threat level would be a huge help.

Like to get this buttoned up as soon as possible.

- How active is the reactor? - Not at all .

It's been decommissioned and scheduled to be dismantled .

Basically, all we do is security.

Now, how do you know Mr. Collins?

Mark used to work at my company, Scorpion .

[WHISPERING]

- Hi , Walter. - Mark.

So, what's going on here?

- Seven-eighty-two. - What's that supposed to mean?

You got the second-sharpest brain in the room , use it.

- Seven-eighty-two-- - What is that, some code?

No, it's not code, it's days, 782 days since we saw each other.

These people aren't messing about.

PIease, tell me, why did you trespass at the reactor?

- And why did you ask for me? - You're working with the feds now.

I also heard about that close call you had with the governor

- on that bio-hacking . - It wasn't reported .

- How'd you hear about that? - No, he means Iiterally he heard it.

Mark's a radio expert.

It's okay, you can say hacker.

He monitors nearly every signal that passes through the air,

from truckers on CBs to cell-phone calls

to military communications.

How long have you been spying on us?

Yes, please, Mr. Government,

go ahead and tell me again how bad spying is.

Mark, how is your head?

- Are we on solid ground now? - I could ask you the same thing .

But, yes, I'm as clear as a bell .

And I'm 100 percent sure that there's a problem .

Come on , I wouldn't expect these normals to understand .

851 .67. 851 .69.

With a moderate isolation scheme,

I've achieved a ten to the second , ten to the fifth uptick in BER.

GALLO: What is he babbling about? - Six thirty-two black,

6:46 green ,

March 25th .

You with me, Walter?

I knew I could count on you . All right, there's not much time.

I need you to get to my house and open the notebooks.

You'Il find everything you need to make sense of it all .

- Make sense of what? - Something big is happening .

That's not gonna suffice, son .

Come on , what is it they say about time and being of the essence?

- Take him back to the cell . - Walter.

It's something big , Walter.

The guy says something big is coming then clams up.

Why is it you geniuses are such a pain in the ass?

He's not to me.

He knows I understand his expertise to radio frequencies, time codes,

but I won't know for sure exactly what he's talking about until I see his notes.

I have to call my team, get them to meet us at Mark's.

Gentlemen , we have zero interest in opening the circle on this.

I will ensure their discretion, sir.

What was that about earlier,

about you keeping your head on solid ground?

Mark's always had the wrong idea about me, it's best to leave it at that.

AIso, best not to tell the team whose house we're going to.

- This way. - You know how we love

a good mystery, Walter.

- What exactly are we doing here? - Working .

Whoa. I bet this picks up the country station nice and clear.

That is quite a fence.

Half-inch diameter rebar, reinforced steel chain link mesh .

Pure paranoia.

When I rotated through Bellevue psychiatric,

I treated a patient who wore a diaper and called himself King Poo-Poo.

This is crazier.

Can't be more than a few people in California

with this much listening equipment. Whose house is this, Walter?

- Keep an open mind . - Mark Collins?

- Are you insane? - No, but Collins is.

Someone want to explain?

He was a member of the team . It didn't work out.

With Collins, "didn't work out" is an understatement.

- You lured us here. - Would you have come if you knew?

- No. WALTER: Help us find the recordings

we're Iooking for. All we need is data.

Where's Collins?

- He was arrested . - Of course he is.

All right, let's get a move on . Come on .

PAIGE: My God , was he always like this?

Looks like he had a Ionely few years.

Oh , tough for him .

What's the story with this Collins?

Well , if you didn't agree with him, he'd argue with you until you did .

And he knew his mind games.

The worst of it was how he affected Walter.

He'd get in his head , erase his good judgment

- and forget we existed . - Guys.

We're supposed to be working here.

They really don't like this guy. Maybe you should've told them up front.

I'm just saying secrets breed mistrust.

2004, 2005 through 2014.

PIaying all the hits from the obsessive top 40.

Got the tape from March 25th .

Queue up 6:32 a. m .

It's incredible work.

So this guy was like you guys, and then this?

It happens sometimes. With Mark it was intense, though .

Like, if you played chess with him, he'd make you doubt your every move

and then blammo, checkmate.

Against you?

GALLO: Walter. Walter.

Walter.

- Walter! - What?

I said your name four times.

I'm good .

PIay the tape. 6:32 a. m.

MAN : But, sir, I'm almost certain there 'll be a major problem

unless we find a way to run the SCADA update.

Nothing until 6:46.

- Channel went dark for 14 minutes. - Who was that on tape?

A scientist at the reactor, talking over an internal radio.

- And SCADA? - These old reactors

run on ancient 1980s technology.

SCADA is the brain that controls the rest of the system .

And it needs to be kept up-to-date.

What are they covering up?

Collins has been down here for years

capturing everything he could on his neighbor,

the Montero nuclear power plant.

Rising ocean temperatures,

radiation Ievels near the plant.

Right. So the water is getting warmer, more radioactive.

Then someone at the power plant says there's a problem ,

- communications went blank. - Collins is alerting us

to a major problem at the reactor that's being actively ignored .

- Why would someone do that? - Bureaucratic cover-your-ass.

Shocking to think that would extend to nuclear materials, but it does.

Okay, so we pass this on to the Army and we are done here, right?

No. Collins wouldn't have called us

unless he thought it needed our expertise.

Since when does he call us?

General Walker said he needs our help.

Who knows how dangerous the situation is?

- Exactly. - Guys, what's happening here?

We just took a job upgrading an ancient nuclear power plant.

End of story.

Know what's really happening here? Mark Collins is back in our lives.

If this nuclear power plant doesn't melt down , the team might.

Oh , this is wonderful . The creepiest place on Earth .

We'll upgrade the system , we'Il be gone in two hours.

Without speaking to Collins, correct?

The general is coming . General .

All right, somebody educate me.

WALTER: You guys wait here.

Now, Collins intercepted discussions

about the reactor software and computers.

Now, the ones that regulate the nuclear core temperatures

were installed in the late 1980s.

Walter believes the software should've been completely updated 15 years ago.

Standard bureaucratic mentality is to go cheap,

patches on patches. This whole system becomes a house of cards.

But I'm Iooking at a core temperature gauge in the green .

Yeah , well , there are shoddy indicators all around this place.

Mind if I try something?

- Thank you . - The plant's got time-worn fail-safes,

but we're supposed to believe some rambling lunatic

- we found in a field? - A brilliant mind

with a likely 190 IQ.

General , you had a loose fuse.

Oh , no.

- Why don't you play the tape? - General , let me show you something .

MAN [ON RECORDI NG]: The problem is it stopped regulating

and the SCADA update is risky as hell.

God help us if it fails.

That's Dr. Fitzsimmons, lead safety officer of the plant.

On a cell call to his wife saying that the reactor software

is failing to regulate the nuclear core temperatures

and he's too scared to say anything . He runs your safety checks, correct?

He just moved to Pennsylvania six weeks ago.

H is replacement hasn't been hired .

The only regular traffic here are the M Ps guarding the perimeter.

The reactor's inoperative.

It's in cooldown mode for the next eight years until it can be dismantled .

WALTER: Except it's not being properly regulated ,

so it's not cooling down, it's overheating .

And the system needs a SCADA update,

supervisory control and data acquisition .

You know, I confess to a basic knowledge of the technology here.

So if we're facing the next Fukushima, tell me that.

General , I can fix this. And as soon as Collins gets here, we begin .

- Collins? - So the guy in the tinfoil hat

- is gonna walk us out of this? - Look.

From listening to chatter,

Collins diagrammed this exactly, patches on patches.

Now, if we try to upgrade

using the wrong building blocks, we could fry the whole system.

Collins' knowledge of this mess could help prevent that.

And given the core temperature, I'd say we have 18 hours

- before it starts to overheat. - Don't even say the word "meltdown ."

Keep him in handcuffs with a gun at his back for all I care.

We need him.

TOBY: More on Collins, he's what my teachers called me:

- A bad influence. - He and Walter push each other

- and just get lost in the work. - Theoretical algorithms for days,

no breaks, no food , no sleep, they'd barely speak.

Sometimes we'd lose Walter for weeks.

It's called a savant dissociative state, not pretty.

- Then what? - Mark just disappeared , thin air.

Walter was pretty affected .

- Simply put, Mark is disruptive. - So, project manager,

does today strike you as a good day for disruptive?

GALLO: You going to talk to our man? - Yes.

Good .

I may not know that much about geniuses,

but I do know when someone's keeping a secret.

Okay.

You're making a lot of unilateral decisions

to include a guy no one else wants.

They'll have to deal with it.

I'm trying to keep this facility and 4 million people from getting cooked .

You obviously have a very different relationship with Collins.

- And you miss it since he left? - Yes, exactly.

Or is it that he's now alone living in squalor and you feel bad for him?

You know I don't think emotionally. That's your job.

Which you're certainly not making it easy to do.

A Iittle insight would help everyone.

Whoo!

[G RU NTI NG]

Wise choice, my friend .

Come on , let's get to work.

Ah . The gang's all here. I love it.

Sylvester, my brother. Come on .

Well , come on .

Now, this is a two-pronged attack.

Two computers need our attention .

First there's this one. It runs the reactor.

Exactly whom are we taking orders from?

Both of us.

We need to download reactor calibrations from here.

- For the civilians? - Reactor calibrations

tell the computer if hot is too hot,

so it knows what's an alarm and what's normal .

Can't update the system without getting that information here first.

Did you get smarter, Sylvester?

I think I've always been this smart.

Right. Second thing we need to do

is to prep the system for the SCADA update,

otherwise it'd be like putting a new V1 2 in an old Model T.

Happy, you and Toby can handle that.

I do not like him handing out assignments.

It's efficient, Happy. We're here to do a job.

Now, the main computer, that's near here?

We're at the reactor.

Mainframe's in this building here

about a quarter mile across the campus, max.

All right, come on .

Get a move on, people.

We have a job to do.

HAPPY: Remember what I said .

Oh , my God . This technology predates my birth .

Well , hello. We come to you from the distant past.

Are we seriously supposed to stop a nuclear meltdown with this junk?

You are and you will.

He really tests my nerves.

Prepare the SCADA system upgrade. We 'll be there in ten minutes.

[MACH I N ES POWERI NG U P]

Hey.

Thanks for letting me help with this.

It was efficient.

Some things never change.

Except now you're getting paid .

Team's coming together.

You got a girl .

You've been spending too much time in your basement.

You could've called the cops or the military,

but you chose us. Why?

Do you ever think about any of our old projects?

We were making a lot of progress on our super symmetry theory.

Maybe when we wrap up here, you could show me the new data.

Maybe you owe me one.

You do understand I wasn't pleased with the way that things turned out.

Was that EQ, Walter?

Maybe you could reminisce later.

- Focus on the work right now. - Boss man's right.

Okay. For this section of code you're gonna need RPL and Paradox.

WALTER: This OS isn't corrupted?

It's like they have their own Ianguage.

Imagine that kind of intensity for three weeks straight.

And he just disappeared , no trace?

Walter wouldn't discuss it.

COLLI NS: Okay.

We 're good to download the reactor calibrations.

- Sylvester, you're on. - Wait.

We have not run a full diagnostic.

If we don't stress test the system circuitry,

it could be us melting this place down .

What is she talking about?

When we upgrade, it will pump a lot of electricity

through this junk pile.

If the system has flaws,

old wiring , rat-chewed insulation ,

we wanna know now and where so we can fortify.

No, that's a waste of time.

We're not rebuilding a motorcycle engine.

Look, that test alone could overload the system.

Walter, I know what I'm talking about.

Not more than I do.

Would someone make the call here?

Happy, we've only got one shot.

If your diagnostic crashes the system ,

then we have a meltdown in 17-and-a-half hours.

And we might not have enough time

to rebuild the system from scratch .

If Collins runs the download before the system's ready,

we haVe a meltdown now.

Happy has never liked me.

Her opposition is personal.

It's not based on knowledge.

Knowledge that I have of this reactor that she doesn't.

Trust me, I have complete confidence in this.

Well , you better be right, son .

Because there's no do-over.

Don't do it, Walter.

SYLVESTER: Okay.

We are downloading the reactor calibrations.

- Four minute ETA. - Walt, a minute outside.

Yeah .

You might have bought yourself some goodwill for the trespassing charge.

I'm just glad to be of service, general .

Don't ever take someone else's side over me in public again , Walter.

Or I will disappear on you faster than Collins did .

You're taking this personal . It was business.

I was trying to avoid a meltdown .

I already stopped a meltdown . Yours.

Ten-day bender with Collins?

And who pulled you out of it?

You were damn near starved , muttering to yourself.

I practically had to force-feed you .

- I remember. - When he bailed ,

it was the best thing for us.

And him being back is the worst.

And if he stays and you take another trip down the rabbit hole with him,

you are on your own .

I'm not going through that again .

Happy.

- What is this? - I know you're upset.

The note expresses a few things that might make you smile.

You kidding? I'm going toe-to-toe with Walter

and you hand me a mash note?

When you feel the time is right,

read it and you'II understand why I gave it to you .

Pretend I know a Iittle about the human psyche.

"Rebuilding a motorcycle engine."

Collins loved digging that knife in .

You love rebuilding motorcycle engines.

It's hardly the breadth of my ability.

Screw him . This computer could still use a circuit test.

We can at least do half this job safely.

Sylvester?

AImost done downloading the configuration .

Okay.

The others were always very sharp, Walter.

But they were never us.

[EXPLOS ION TH EN ALARM BLARI NG]

Oh , no.

Happy, what do you see?

The backup generator in Chamber 1 blew out.

Walter, I think it's my fault.

It happened right after I ran the system check.

Happy, I told you not to.

We evacuate now before all the containment doors close.

- Containment? - Why am I thinking this isn't a drill?

This is what you get when an aging system is held together

with duct tape and a Hail Mary for 30 years.

Cooling system , radiation leak.

Get out of here, now!

- O'Brien, get your ass in gear. - No, we're still downloading .

If I leave, we're all dead . I can still fix this.

Give me an ETA.

Got the reactor configuration .

We can upgrade the system in the computer room .

If we get out alive.

The containment doors are closing .

Should we tell them that if the temp keeps rising ,

we're less than 60 minutes from full meltdown?

Maybe hold that off until they're out.

- Hurry! - Come on , Cabe, come on .

- Go, go, go! - Paige, get to the door.

- Walter! Walter. - Paige, get to the door.

There's gotta be a way to get them out of here.

Guys, there's a door at the end of the walkway, over the cooling room.

It must be defective because it's closing slower than the others.

But you better move your asses.

Over there, the door.

Cabe. Cabe.

Right here. Cabe.

- Cabe, it's not gonna hold . - Go now!

Cabe, it's not gonna hold .

Go! Go!

Gotta be an override here somewhere.

Oh , damn it.

Calculate fast. How much time to get me out of here?

You hold on tight. I'm gonna figure this out.

What's going on?

Walter's safe, Cabe's trapped in there.

- Thanks to you . - Hey, how about you settle down .

Oh , that's cute. The tell-it-like-it-is shrink

making up for his pal's mistake.

All right, I got it. The Iayout of the entire power plant.

There's gotta be an escape route for Cabe in here somewhere.

No. No. The monitor won't let me see the full size.

- Print it. - Okay, good idea.

Are you kidding me?

Come on , you slow bastard !

Okay, I'm sorry I yelled .

- Where are we? - Reactor blueprints won't print.

The monitor's frozen . This is bad .

[EXPLOS ION]

It just got worse. That's radioactive steam escaping .

- Walter? - Cabe.

A pipe just broke. I need to know if that steam's contaminated.

The structural integrity of the building you're in may be compromised .

- Answer the question. - It's a large room .

If you're out in ten minutes, it won't be worse than x-rays.

What's the likelihood I'm gonna get out of here in ten minutes?

The greater good would be to forget about him

and concentrate on stopping the meltdown .

- We can't let him die. - You're worried about a man's life?

- Not the Walter O'Brien I remember. - You can help him.

It doesn't need all of us to upgrade. We could solve two problems at once.

The effluent pipe.

It pumps water out of the reactor and into the ocean . He could get in it.

Ride it out, away from the power plant.

Which one is it?

I don't remember off the top of my head .

I recorded radio chatter about it last cooling system check.

June of '04. It's back at my house. It's five minutes away.

Take him, under guard .

Happy, go with him, translate the schematics.

Hey, Collins, you lay off her or we have an issue.

Happy and Collins might not play nice, can you--?

- I'll go with them. - Walter, do I want to

hear the stats on how this might turn out?

- Cabe. - Walter.

I'd say best guess,

you have a 1 -in-3 chance.

Walter, if my life is in the hands of this Collins guy,

I need to know if you're hiding something.

Three years ago I had him committed to an asylum .

Fantastic.

June, 2004.

Three minutes until Cabe gets radiation poisoning .

- Listen to this. MAN : Effluent channel

outbound to ocean, Pipe 6, Chamber 19A.

Walter, Pipe 6, Chamber 19A.

- How certain are we? - Totally certain .

U nless they changed it in the last ten years, which is possible.

Cabe, we found the one pipe that's gonna get you out to safety.

- What do the other pipes do? - Don't think about that right now.

Okay, but for the record, if you're wrong and I get killed,

l'm gonna be Very pissed off.

Yeah , I'll be pissed off if you don't start running now.

Cabe, Chamber 19A is down the hall ahead ofyou.

And the pipes have access hatches.

You drop in it. lt should carry you out to safety.

lt's about a hundred yards from shore.

Okay, I'm ready.

Hey, listen , kid , if this doesn't work out,

- I'm glad I got to know you . - Okay.

A man gives you what could be his last goodbye and you say "okay"?

You could use some time on the couch .

GALLO: I may be seeing you soon, sweetheart.

He's in .

- I'm going to say a prayer for him now. - I don't really believe in death .

First rule of physics, energy can't be created or destroyed . It changes shape.

But still ...

- Ladies. - Mister, are you okay?

Never better.

- Give me an update. - Thirty minutes to stop the meltdown .

Step one was the reactor calibrations which we downloaded .

This is step two, we're programming SCADA update.

When we're finished , we can send it to the reactor.

The moment this update hits the reactor,

it's programmed to drop all of the core temperatures to a normal level .

Which means the meltdown is no longer a threat, correct?

Correct. And then I get hammered .

- What if this doesn't work? - You got roughly 45 minutes.

Take your car, get Ralph , drive like hell past the Santa Monica Mountains.

Radiation cloud should pool up in the San Fernando Valley Basin .

You might be okay. No one would blame you if you wanted a head start.

If it doesn't work, I'll go get Ralph .

But it will . I believe in us.

Yeah , well , us is all I've got.

[CELL PHON E RI NGS]

Tell me it's done. The reactor's safe?

Yeah , I can talk you through the reboot, hold on .

COLLI NS: Numbers are my photo albums.

Days elapsed since significant occurrences.

I change them every morning . That's my birthday.

My mother's birthday.

So I'm still trying to piece out your role here.

No offense, but you're clearly not a genius.

No, but my son is enabled , like you .

Walter's trying to repair his youth through your son .

No, he cares about Ralph and Ralph is crazy about Walter.

Of course he is.

Walter's the pied piper of geniuses. We all worship him.

What he's capable of, how he makes us feel special for being special .

It's why it hurts so much when he throws you away

when he's done with you .

Walter would never do something like that.

I was his experiment once.

The highest IQ that he had ever seen other than his own .

U ntil I couldn't color in the lines the way that he wanted me to

and then I was gone.

How many times has he avoided conflict by telling you he's fine?

You get about a thousand "I'm fines" before you realize that nothing is fine.

And you are getting shown the door.

And then you realize that you're an experiment too,

you and your son .

U pdate's complete. Now we just compress the file,

send it to the reactor computer and no more nuclear meltdown .

- Sylvester, can you start compression? - I can, yeah .

This is like WarGames.

Matthew Broderick avoided nuclear calamity with minutes to spare.

That film had a grouchy general too.

Not a movie guy, huh?

Good work.

Usually saving millions of lives gets a bigger response.

- I'm just thinking . - Yeah, well , you're always thinking .

You're worried about Collins.

I'll make sure the authorities know that he was cooperative.

No, that's not it.

When I had him committed , I did it because

he needed help and for the team .

But there's a part of me that knows

- that I did it for myself. - How's that?

When he and I would get into that state where nothing exists but thought,

it can be a wonderful place.

But it can be terrifying because you don't know if you can come out of it.

Part of me knows that I had Collins committed

to see if other people could pull him from that place,

in case I ever got to the point where I couldn't be pulled out on my own .

Bull .

You did the right thing .

This Collins fellow? He's got you questioning yourself

making you think you did the wrong thing, but you didn't.

He does have a long history of that.

Oh , no.

What's going on?

This override was just switched to manual 20 minutes ago.

He knew Happy would run the diagnostics.

He made her think that she did something wrong when she didn't.

Just like he does in chess. Makes you doubt your every move.

- He wanted to show up the team . - Yeah, to prove his worth .

- Mark. No. - What the hell's he done now?

There's a piece of gear called an RFDAC.

It converts digital signals into analogue.

And we need it to send the update from this computer

to the control room.

- Collins set this all up. WALTER: It's how he structured it.

He planted a Trojan horse.

He knew it'd be triggered once Happy ran the system test.

General , I'm sorry to say, there's a third step, we need analog antennas.

We got them at the base, but that's a half an hour away.

We need to get to Mark's house.

Good God , how many times are you gonna play right into his hands?

We should figure something out here. I don't wanna go to him .

I know I shoved him down your throats, but please, trust me.

I'm gonna need a sidearm.

[ALARM WAI LI NG]

Warning system . Three minutes till meltdown .

Two minutes and 12 seconds, actually.

N ED: What the hell is this? - This is our only chance.

Walter, why is an alarm going off?

We got two minutes to avoid a meltdown .

I need your access codes for the antennas to send an analogue signal .

Didn't work, Mark.

Mark, it didn't work.

- Why are you looking at me like that? - I need the code, that's all we need .

It's the same look you gave me the day

that the ambulance came to take me away for two years.

- The code, Collins. - Nine-five-one.

- No, that's not it. - Could've sworn it was 951 .

WALTER: N ine-hundred and 51 days ago

Mark and I disproved a section of the H iggs boson theory.

COLLI NS: Excellent work.

- It's 1199. - What's happening here?

I know Walter found out that I set this whole thing up.

I listened to your conversation at the reactor base.

The whole place is miked .

- Just over a minute left. - What's the holdup?

- Just give us the damn code. - Or what?

You'Il shoot me?

That only guarantees you'Il fail .

Walter, how do you stand for such intellectual inferiors?

- The code! - I told you , it's 1199.

One-one-nine-nine, 1 , 199 days ago.

It was May the 20th . It was a Thursday.

We stayed up all night in the diner,

discussing the quantum mechanics of time travel .

We could've accomplished anything together, but you ruined that.

You hate me for what I did , I get it.

And I always debate my decision .

- This isn't the right solution . - And having me locked up was?

Do you have any idea how badly that hurt me?

- Less than a minute. - You think I'm afraid to die, Walter?

I'm not afraid to die.

My life ended the day you destroyed our partnership, our friendship.

I just wanted to show you that I could save everyone.

- I just wanted back on the team . - Walter, that's it.

- The day his life ended , losing you . - Seven-hundred and eighty-two days.

- What's the date? - August 22nd , 2012 .

No! Aah!

Look out, Sylvester.

All right. Code's in, signal's up.

- Did it work? - Walter?

We're good .

[BOTH GROAN I NG]

This might be awkward , but I , for one, am against Mark rejoining the team.

[ALARM STOPS]

The wound was a clean exit. They just brought him back from the hospital .

I should've kept a closer eye on Collins.

- Why didn't you? - I was focused on the upgrade.

You were focused on a friend .

And you were trying to make right what happened between you guys.

- So you trusted him . - That implies I feel guilt.

Acting like a human being is never a mistake.

It means you're evolving .

It's nice to see that you're capable of that.

COLLI NS: It's pretty ironic, isn't it?

First day I see you in years,

I'm back to Iockup.

I showed you the outer Iimits of your intelligence

and you couldn't handle it.

You couldn't risk me or anybody else

jeopardizing your team , your precious cyclone.

They are worth it.

Why them?

Toby, Happy, Sylvester, they can't touch my abilities.

So why wasn't there room for one more?

There was. Paige, she binds us.

I'm going away, but I'll get out.

Maybe I'll see you back down the rabbit hole, Walter.

I hope not.

- Hey. - Hey.

I never thanked you for what you did for me back there with Collins.

Pulling me away from that darkness.

I didn't do it for a thank-you .

I did it because you're my friend .

I won't let you down again .

So, um , Toby going after Collins to protect your honor.

Heh . What was all that about?

Shrink's crazier than all of us. What a surprise.

- Hey, everyone. - Hey.

What, do we have a meeting scheduled?

No. No, we just dropped by.

Because even after you save the world ,

you're still all lost in thought, doing your own separate projects.

Tonight we have a group project: Chicken piccata.

I don't think we have a chicken thermometer.

Pizza would be more efficient.

We're all going to get out of our own heads for a while and cook Italian .

Sounds fine.

PAIG E: Can you just. . .?

Okay.

If you're trying me out to see if I work with this team--

- Paige-- - If that's what's happening

and I could end up being a failure and get discarded one day, just tell me.

I can handle it, but don't do it to Ralph .

He's grown attached to the team, especially you ,

- and I don't want to see him hurt. WALTER: You are one of us.

We can't do this without you .

Good?

Let's go cook some chicken piccata.

Measure twice, cut once.

Can we talk about the so-called extra-virgin olive oil industry?

Beaucoup fraud .

Ha, ha. Kid's a natural .