Relationship:[]
Walter seems to show some affection toward Paige, and Paige has evident feelings for Walter. They also took action on their feelings in Satellite of Love, Robots, and Crazy Train.
Season 1:[]
Walter usually catches himself staring at Paige. In True Colors, he reset the device that they were using to get data from the criminal so that he had an excuse to dance with her longer and got jealous when she had to dance with the criminal. Hetty tells him that she knows that he has feelings for her.
In Risky Business, he admires her singing.
In Talismans, Paige tells Walter to "Get back safe." He also acts very protective of her throughout the episode. Walter is very protective of her on the mine field and tries to keep her out of danger.
She had a dream about him and told Toby that she had feelings for him without telling him she was talking about Walter, to get advice on whether it was good for Ralph or not in Charades. Walter also asks Paige to record a new answering machine message because he just realized what a "beautiful voice she has."
In Forget Me Nots, Walter finally confronts his feelings for Paige when she tells him she might leave for Portland. He tells her "I know I said being human wasn't something I wanted, but since I met your son, I know that's not entirely true. These last few months I've been less me, and that's made me a better person. So, no I don't want him to leave. I care about him. And You." He got emotional when he told her, which is very rare for him to do.
In Love Boat, Walter asks Paige out on a "business meeting," to her favorite restaurant on Valentine's Day. Toby teases him about it. However, in the end of the episode he cancels the dinner, hoping to avoid making the same mistakes with Paige as he did with his past girlfriends. Also, in the same episode he trades places with her putting himself as the hostage instead of her.
He is also very concerned for her safety in Going South, and when she is in danger, he tells her to run to him, holding out his arms for her.
In Once Bitten, Twice Die, Walter is amazed at Paige's new talents when she enrolls into a night school. When he is bitten by a snake and poisoned, he tells Paige that he is sorry for never taking her to dinner. When he gets better, Paige hugs him, and he smiles. In the same episode, Walter asks Cabe for a police escort to help Paige make it to her final in time, even though he initially didn't think European History was very important to study. He then tells her that he is proud of her.
In Young Hearts Spark Fire, Toby talks to Walter about his evident feelings for Paige and makes a whiteboard for him to see why it is logical that he is in love with her. Toby points out that Walter has been making Paige's favorite cinnamon coffee even though the rest of the team hates it and has put a Lavender diffuser in his office to "mask a smell," but it also happens to be the same scent as Paige's hand lotion.
Later in the episode, Walter blatantly ignores Sylvester's calculations which he has never done before and forces Paige to get out of the Helicopter before him so that she will not be the last one. Because of this he is nearly killed by the helicopter landing on him. So that Toby will stop nagging him, he makes a big show of how Paige is getting the same water rations as everyone else so that he is not accused of giving her special treatment. However, he later tells her that she can have his ration. Paige refuses though saying he needs as much water as anyone else. When they think they are going to be burned alive by a forest fire, Walter reaches for Paige's hand, and she grabs his. They end up holding hands. After they are rescued, they both watch a hiker proposing to his girlfriend and smile at each-other. In the end of the episode, Walter studies the white board that Toby made and erases all the mathematical calculations but keeps the cartoon of the two stick figures with a heart around them and stares at the picture, smiling.
In Crossroads, Toby tells Walter that love is a risk you need to be willing to take and he needs to hurry before Drew comes back into the picture. Toby, now sad and determined after Happy breaks up with him, convinces Walter to tell Paige how he feels. Walter races out the door, keys in hand and drives to Paige's house, intending to knock on her door and tell her. However, he hesitates and watches through the window first, and to his dismay discovers Drew is inside. Heartbroken, Walter turns to leave.
In Cliffhanger, Walter becomes extremely upset and emotional because Cabe lied to him, and he wants Cabe off the team. He, however, tells Paige that she is the heart of the team and is the one who makes it work. He is shattered when she tells him that she is leaving to Maine because Ralph is putting himself in dangerous situations to copy Walter. She hurts Walter by telling him that she doesn't want Ralph to become him, and Walter, with tears in his eyes asks her, "Is it so bad being me? Being around me?" She then leaves. Walter, a huge ball of emotions leaves quickly and begins to speed his new Ferrari, screaming out his pent-up emotions in anguish. Because of his tears and anger, Walter then crashes off of a cliff, speeding while trying to steer away from a coyote.
In Postcards from the Edge, throughout the entire episode, Walter is reminiscing with the team about times they have spent together -- his way of telling them he loves them and keeps wanting to talk to Paige.
When the team comes up with an idea to save him, he has to open the passenger side door in order to let Gallo in to save him, but he refuses to do it until he can talk to Paige. When she does show up, the car is teetering on the cliff about to fall off, and he says to her, "Paige, I just want you to know that-" but he is cut off because he has to open the door, or the car would have fallen. He is taken up to the stretcher by Gallo, and when he is laying on the stretcher, he gives Paige a soft glance before he is rushed to E.R.
In the end of the episode, Walter is in the hospital and unconscious due to medication and when everyone else leaves his room, Paige stays behind. She then tells him that she was worried about him because, "Because I really care about you Walter." She then leans over and kisses him.
Season 2:[]
In Satellite of Love Walter thanks Paige for the cupcakes she sent him while he was in rehab, and she responds that it was the least she could do. She goes to help him change then fully admits that she kissed him and has feelings for him but is scared that acting on them any more will put Scorpion at risk.
Walter is seen admiring Paige's typing and compliments her for it even resting an arm on her shoulder while they are at the base. On the weather balloon Walter also admits to having feelings for Paige but refuses to risk Scorpion over them. He frets over her safety, and she does his. Then after Walter loses his parachute in drastic measures Paige wraps her parachute around both of them and they descend together.
Upon arriving back at the Garage, Paige and Walter stay behind, Paige to do her paperwork and Walter just stays back. Paige acts distressed over her business proposal and Walter comforts her by saying it's just a theory and it must be tested before mentioning their relationship. Paige then realized she and Walter have never tested their theory and the two kiss passionately.
After breaking apart both deny their feelings and Paige leaves the garage. In the final scene Paige is leaning against the garage door breathless and Walter sits down muttering, "Oh boy..."
In "Cuba Libre" Walter was seen ogling over Paige as she walked from the ocean to the shore and the two spoke when Walter was being spoken to about his court statement about his accident. At the end of the episode, Walter expresses his confusion over how people balance logic and emotion, and Paige tells him a story of when Ralph was three. He is seen giving her looks of sympathy throughout and in the end, Paige walks away telling him that he is smart enough to realize there is no formula for logic and emotion. In the end when Walter testifies, he admits he was indeed under emotional influence hinting that Paige's statement got to him.
In "Fish Filet" Walter introduces Paige to Ray in order for them to save Sylvester. At the end Paige is shocked to see Ralph doing a TV interview after being accepted into MIT and Harvard Walter then comments on his intelligence to which Paige retorts on his emotional quotient. She then tells him to give Ray a chance and he listens and goes to hang out with Ray and his other friends.
During the episode Robots, in beginning when Paige notifies Walter that Ray does not represent a professional image, he listens to her practically throwing Ray on the curb until she insists him to change his mind. Throughout the episode it is clear that Paige was a little jealous when she found out Walter was partying at a bar with another women. Paige admitted to Walter that she had some complicated feelings about him with another women. After his life is saved Walter and Paige confront one another where Walter admits that acting emotionally was what allowed him to survive and maybe there is a chance for them.
During Super Fun Guys, Walter is very protective of Paige throughout the entire mission. At the end she calls him Clark (as in Clark Kent) and refers to herself as Lois Lane. Walter then asks Sylvester what happened with Clark and Lois to which he replied that saving the world gets in the way of life.
In Crazy Train, After Walter jumped on the train, he doesn't want Paige to have to hang out of the train to flip the switch to change the tracks. Once Walter has gotten everyone on the next train car, he locks himself in the first one. Paige realizes he is going to sacrifice himself for her and Ralph. Paige slaps Walter when she sees him after everyone is safe and tells him never to do that her again. When Walter comes up to the loft to check on Ralph, Walter and Paige has a moment and almost kissed. Cabe then interrupts their moment and Walter goes to this club to watch Happy do comedy, and afterwards leaving with Cabe, telling him that he doesn't feel much distance from himself and Paige anymore since a friend told him some advice to not distance yourself from loved ones.
At the end of Arrivals and Departures, Walter tells everyone the story of how Meghan saved him in school, while Walter and Paige are holding hands sitting closely next to each other.
At the beginning of The Old College Try, Paige mentions how Walter had barely reacted to his sister's death. Walter said he was "put off" by his sister's passing but reveals some of his pain near the end of the episode when he is acting a scene of Romeo and Juliet. After walking away from the drama students, Paige comments on his acting skills and how she thinks that he wasn't acting- that he was showing true pain and loss. The sweet moment between the two of them is interrupted when Walter remembers about his experiment for Ray. Later in the garage they found Ray staring at Tuggle's tank. Walter's experiment turns out to prove that it wasn't Ray's fault for Tuggle's death and decides to leave the garage and get out of his gremlin to the world. When he hugs Paige saying goodbye, he whispers to her that Walter has feelings for her, but she has to reach to Walter because he is unable to admit his feelings himself.
In Dam Breakthrough Paige notices that Walter has been talking to himself a lot lately. Concerned that he will never get over the death of Meghan, Toby steps in and says that it is the reason for Walter mumbling to himself. After the city is saved from the dam Paige and Walter gaze at the lighted city. Paige tells Walter that opening up to the rest of Scorpion would benefit him, but it appeared that he wasn't listening. Later at the garage Walter is worried because Ferret Bueller isn't in his cage. He finds him quickly and then puts the ferret in his cage. The thought of almost losing ferret puts Walter's emotions over the edge and he has an emotional breakdown on Meghan's death, with Paige the first to comfort him by giving a hug, to which Walter reciprocates and does the same. At the end of the episode, team Scorpion is at the beach launching the rocket for the Karmem Line Prize to send Meghan's ashes into the stars. After the rocket is launched, Walter reveals that he heard what Paige had said earlier about after fixing the dam and that he would try to change his attitude towards life. Paige says that it just might work for him. She reaches out to hold Walter's hand, gazing into the night sky watching the rocket soar up into sky.
At the beginning of Sun of a Gun Walter goes speed dating, with the help of Toby and Cabe. In response, Paige appears to be jealous while conversing with Happy and calls the speed daters "lunatics". To distract dictator Rahal, Paige, along with Walter, sung an old 80's pop track "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John. At first Walter was very awkward on stage, but after Paige threatens him, he puts more effort into singing the song properly. From his smile during the performance, it showed that Walter enjoyed singing with Paige. Afterwards, hen Paige and Ralph were about to leave the garage, Walter tells Paige that her voice sounded lovely when she was singing the duet. She asked if it was a bending or the truth and says that he is going to Kovalski's with her and Ralph until he told Paige the truth on what he meant. She's pretty much finding an excuse to have dinner with Walter.
Walter goes on a date with Linda (the matchmaker in speed dating) at the beginning of the episode Da Bomb. The next day it's evident that Paige is jealous since she looks up Linda's Facebook checking to see how the date went. She tells Walter how describing a date as "interesting" isn't particularly a good thing. Happy asks why she even cares, and Paige says that she wants to see Walter succeed in his endeavors, but it's clear she's lying. While Linda has a bomb on her chest, her phone rings. She receives a text and Paige saw. She was reluctant to show it to Linda at first, but it didn't take much convincing though. It was almost like Paige wanted to see the message, "Hope you're having a blast!". After Linda and Walter practically get blown up, Paige runs over to Walter and holds his hand for a few seconds. At the end of the episode Walter says how he can't act the same around normal people if they are going to be okay around him. Paige says that's untrue and tells Walter that he is great just as himself. Then while Ralph and Walter are picking up the ballistic gel (for paper mâché) Paige calls a restaurant asking if there was fermented fish. That's Walter's favorite meal, which is a smelly type of fish, and she asks for the fish to show Walter that she thinks he is perfect the way he is. While she's on the phone Walter looks at Paige and smiles and she does so back.
In Adaptation, Walter, after agreeing to letting Happy and Toby be in a relationship, hints that it might lead to other relationships in the future and then smiles at Paige.
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