"'Something Burrowed, Something Blew" is the twenty-third episode of the third season of Scorpion and the sixty ninth of the series overall. It aired on May 1, 2017.
Synopsis[]
Team Scorpion help Toby and Happy race to the altar to say, “I Do” after a simple job extinguishing a tunnel fire becomes catastrophic.
Plot[]
It's been several weeks since Walter fired Paige and sent her to Richard Elia for a new job. Every time someone tried to contact her during that time, she said that she was too busy settling into her new job. However, the day of the wedding has arrived, and Paige has come to finish her Best Ma'am duties. Like everyone expected, her being in the same room as Walter is awkward. What made it awkward is the fact that Walter is still clinging onto his story that he fired Paige because she is no longer needed which is a lie. The team did still need her and finding out that she's been replaced by Ray has added salt to the wounds.
Walter goes searching for Ralph to find him in the camper looking for his centrifuge. When Ralph starts talking to Walter coldly, Walter doesn't understand. He tries to assure Ralph that Paige truly is no longer needed because she has helped the team evolve. Walter tells Ralph that, despite the fact that he is a genius, he's still a kid and doesn't understand the situation. Ralph tells Walter he may be just a kid, but Walter only fired his mom because he is scared. Ralph also tells Walter that what he did wasn’t okay, and that Walter should be glad he is just a kid, because if he was bigger, he would fight Walter for hurting his mom.
The rest of the team is different. They pretend like nothing is wrong and even ignore seeing Paige roll her eyes at Ray’s antics, yet Ray truly is annoying at his job. He believes in tough love, making customers take a number, and filed the cases by their level of how "interesting" they are. He also isn’t much help when it comes to Team Scorpion’s actual job. Paige steps in when she sees that she is needed. She tries to get everyone back on track. She talks to Happy about her vows and she tries to reassure the other woman that it's okay that she doesn't have anything yet. She downplays the situation until she can talk to Toby.
Toby has written pages of vows and Paige tries to make him realize that they might make his bride feel guilty about not being able to come up with a lot. Toby tells Paige that Happy will be just fine. He said that she is a blacksmith, but he is a wordsmith, and he doesn’t need her to come up with something eventually. The job gets in the way of that. Happy, Walter, Sylvester, and Cabe have gone out to deal with a tunnel fire that unfortunately met a coal mine that is feeding the fire and the guys get caught up with trying to it before it could blow. They don’t have a lot of time to stop it.
The fire was traveling fast and their first option on fixing it hadn’t worked out, but they called Toby and received his help as well as Paige’s. Paige did everything that she could to help, and she was even looking at old tunnel systems when she got a call from work. Though she isn’t in any trouble. Her boss forgot that she was taking a personal day and a quick reminder from her has made him realize that she won’t be having breakfast with her personal chef. Toby later has something to say about that because he has been surprised that Paige is living the high life.
Toby said that maybe the reason she didn’t bother calling them or coming to see them is because she is too busy with her new life. But Paige reminded Toby that she was dismissed. He said that that meant she couldn’t work there anymore and not that she couldn’t be friends with them anymore. That forces Paige to deal with the unpleasant truth. She ditched her friends because her pride was hurt. However, she isn’t the only one realizing her mistake. Walter also thought about things after his confrontation with Ralph and he wants to know how he could make things better.
Ralph refused to budge. He is angry and he made Walter know that it even as he helped the guys with their tunnel fire. Walter has turned to Cabe. He wants to know what he could do to fix things with Ralph. Cabe tells him that children can be set in their ways because the world is a little more black and white for them. Just as they are talking there's a problem with the tunnel. The guys have come up with a plan to stop the fire and the plan will work except both Cabe and Walter are taking too long to evacuate the tunnel. And the guys have to get out of there fast.
They run through the tunnels, and they knock down a wall cutting them off by ramming it with one of the carts left behind. Cabe gets out, but Walter remains trapped behind. They now have to rescue Walter before the fire catches up to him and kills him. The team all come together to pull Walter out of there and get him some oxygen. The saving of a little town in Wyoming as well as rescuing one of their own has taken up a lot of their time and they don't know if they can get back home in time for the wedding.
Paige has booked them the last flight out of town, and she hopes they can make it time. They end up being just a little too late to catch it and the wedding is called off, but Paige didn’t let things end there. She worked on alternate plan, and she put together a wedding in Kovalsky's parking lot in two hours as a way to make it up to her friends for ditching them because she realized that they are her family. She got a wedding together at the last minute and that has brought everyone together.
Walter tells Paige that he is in love with her and that is the real reason he fired her. Paige has surprises him by telling him that she loves him too. The two sneak away to make out in the closet and they get caught by everyone. The others think it is about time and the bridal couple even decide on a group honeymoon with everyone so that they could all have time away. The day is ending on a happy note when suddenly the plane experienced some turbulence that seems to be too serious to ignore…
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
Guest[]
Trivia[]
- The title is a reference to "Something Old, Something New".
- Toby and Happy made a comment when they were discussing their lack of funds when they were touring wine venues back in Faux Money Maux Problems about how he doesn't care where they get married, as long as they do. He told Happy he'd be fine with marrying her in Kovalsky's parking lot. However, at the time they both also said, "Let's not marry in the parking lot". Ironically, that's exactly where they end up tying the knot, though Paige decorated it so beautifully they don't mind.