"'Maroon 8" is the twenty-fourth and penultimate episode of the third season of Scorpion and the seventieth of the series overall. It aired May 8, 2017.
Synopsis[]
While enroute to Toby and Happy’s honeymoon, Team Scorpion’s plane crash lands on a remote deserted island, leaving them all with little hope for rescue.
Plot[]
Taking off from the previous episode after they heard a loud bang and the plane started having issues, they are rapidly losing altitude, and the plane's main hydraulics system fails. They investigate and discover the equipment that company supplied them included batteries that weren't safe for flying and exploded, sending out an EMP pulse, which killed the plane's engines. Happy needs to look at the hydraulics, but that section of the plane is unpressurized. Walter tells the piolet Scotty to get them below 8000 feet. Since the plane is already falling, it doesn't take long to reach it. Happy and Walter cut their way down to the hydraulics and discover that the exploded battery has punctured the hydraulics pump. Happy uses a trick that she learned while ice road truck driving and uses Dr. Shazz soda they packed for the journey, a piece of piping and chewing gum to create a tight seal, so the hydraulics system sucks up the bottled liquid. This temporarily gives the plane hydraulic control and allows Scotty to adjust the angle of the plane. Scotty dumps the plane's fuel so they can glide longer, while Sly and Ralph run calculations to estimate the angle the plane's nose needs to be at for it to bounce perfectly off the ocean waves and land on an island spotted by Walter.
The pilot adjusts the plane's nose angle and the team buckle up, preparing for the impact. Scotty demands Happy get in back because the cockpit is the most dangerous place during a crash. Ralph tells Paige he's scared, and she hugs him close. Paige, just as scared, seeks comfort from Walter by holding out her hand to him and he takes it. Ralph spots them holding hands, and despite the circumstances, smiles when he sees them holding hands.
Everyone wakes up twenty minutes later. The cockpit door is stuck, so Cabe kicks it open. The entire plane is split into three big pieces and their luggage is scattered everywhere. They all see the nose of the plane and run to it, only to find Scotty with his right arm pinned by the dashboard console of the plane. The seat Happy was sitting in was impaled by a pole, making her grateful to Scotty for sending her to the back. Scotty is conscious and talking fine, but Toby pulls the team away and tells them they need to get Scotty to a hospital. because his arm is pinned, deadly toxins are building up inside that arm and as soon as they release Scotty, the toxins will flood his body. They need a way to clean his blood.
Knowing they're stuck without a hospital, they devise a plan, coordinating Paige, Sly and Walter (the latter who insists on helping Paige) find fruit, something that can help Toby create a natural bypass machine. They need to release his arm from the weight of the dashboard. Scotty says they don't need to do anything, and it can't be that bad because it doesn't hurt, but Toby tells him his brain can't process the pain because of the way his nerves are pinned. Scotty is reluctant to allow them to do medical procedure on him and says they can just wait until one of the search planes find them, because they know what route they were taking and automatically send out search planes, but Toby says he only has 60 minutes left to live if they don't do anything.
While searching for fruit, Paige realizes Sly's behavior is not normal - he's acting fearless to deadly serious scenarios. Walter explains that Sly knows the chances are slim to none of surviving in their location. Because of this, they say he's less focused and isn't looking for ways to fix problems. He walks over a steep drop via only a tree trunk, something he would definitely normally be afraid of. They need a citrus fruit to help clean Scotty's blood and Sly finds limes, but suddenly insists Paige and Walter to come to the other side using the tree trunk. Paige is scared but they both go over.
On the other side, Sly has discovered an abandoned World War II bunker. There are maps with coordinates to their location. They discover the equipment that caused the EMP on the plane also messed with their flight path from Los Angeles to Haiti, and they are far away from where they're supposed to be. This caused the plane to lose bearings without the pilot even knowing. Sly concludes that the chances of survival have dropped dramatically, until Walter finds a radio system. Walter repairs it using more gum and pieces of foil. Sly listens to the radio - a Japanese ship is passing by the island one mile out to sea very soon. Back at the plane wreckage, Ralph and Cabe return with material to create a fire.
Quickly rushing back to the rest of the team, they deliver the fruit. Toby discovers plenty more information about Happy he never knew - that she speaks Portuguese, she made a single in Portugal when she was broke, she traveled to Morocco to visit her boyfriend Jake, who Toby realizes was Jake Gyllenhaal.
Happy also gives Scotty a natural anesthetic to help relieve the pain, while Walter lifts the dashboard off the pilot's arm by heating up a steel pipe, melting the structure and helping it bend out of place. Happy, Toby and Paige quickly move the pilot out of the plane and place him on a blanket outside. Toby connects the homemade bypass machine, and it begins to work.
Despite doing whatever they could think of, the Japanese cargo ship doesn't see them, and they know they're stranded.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Elyes Gabel as Walter O'Brien
- Katharine McPhee as Paige Dineen
- Robert Patrick as Cabe Gallo
- Eddie Kaye Thomas as Toby Curtis
- Jadyn Wong as Happy Quinn
- Ari Stidham as Sylvester Dodd
- Riley B. Smith as Ralph Dineen
Trivia[]
- This is the first time we hear about Happy's song she made in Portugal, Amigo Amigável.