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Scorpion 3x12: Ice Ca-Cabes

Everything is back to normal. Scorpion is back to the original roster and they have a case to handle.

While prepping for the mission of the week, the geniuses are inspired to make a curling pond and have some silly fun playing against each other - Toby and Walter versus Happy and Sylvester.

While playing, they discuss how the loss of Tim in the last episode isn’t much of a loss at all. Walter informs his team, “Everyone on Scorpion is replaceable.”

“There are other top mathematicians, behaviorists, engineers. We could find a younger and stronger federal agent. And truth be told, there are three people with higher IQs than mine, four including Ralph. So my point is that we are all substitutable parts of a machine.”

Great pep talk coach. Suddenly, everyone on team Scorpion wonders if their job is in jeopardy.

Scorpion heads to the middle of the desert for their job of the day. While at the job site, a turbine the team is inspecting explodes! Due to the velocity and friction, a shard of copper snaps off! The small piece of shrapnel slices through Cabe’s abdominal aorta, causing him to fall to the ground bleeding out.

Cabe is dying.

His mouth and entire face are turning blue.

Cabe is like a dad to everyone on team Scorpion and they are all his children, even if their biological parents are still alive.

Just earlier that day, Cabe presented Happy with his mom’s gorgeous golden brooch, encrusted with rubies and diamonds, which his mom wore on her wedding day. He figured Happy could wear it on her wedding day as a part of that “something old, new, borrowed, blue” tradition. She loved it. He did such a fatherly act, probably the sweetest thing anyone’s ever done for her, just to thank her for letting him stay with her while he had some work done on his home.

Cabe is the best dad anyone on this team of orphans and neglected has ever had.

The team of geniuses devises a plan to save Cabe. In order for Cabe to live, they have to kill him. Happy and Toby are going to freeze him, make a “Cabescle,” so his heart stops beating and flowing blood out his torn aorta long enough for Toby to patch, or glue, it back up. Toby is less than confident he can do it though. The last time he did vascular surgery was on a cadaver in medical school. So Cabe gives him one last pep talk, telling him, “Doc, you can do it.” Toby comes back swinging, saying, “You’re damn right I can.” Walking down memory lane, he assures Cabe, “You were in my corner when you taught me how to box. I’m gonna be in your corner now.” 

Then, once Cabe’s wound is mended, they’ll use snake venom from a rattlesnake Sylvester catches to thin Cabe’s blood. If Cabe unfreezes and there’s a blood clot in this heart it’ll kill him. Finally, after warming Cabe up and thinning his blood, they will wake him back up by injecting his lungs with hydrogen sulfide Walter and Paige will retrieve from a nearby hot springs. There is a five percent chance Cabe lives through all of this. It’s a long shot, but, as Toby the gambler informs them, “sometimes a long shot is all you have to bet on.”

If it doesn’t work, Cabe dies.

Before Toby freezes Cabe, they all say goodbye to their dad. Happy reminds him they still have to finish their game of Stratego, Paige begs him to not leave her alone as the only normal on a team of geniuses, emotionless Walter tells Cabe it’s been a pleasure working with him, and Toby promises Cabe he’s going to do everything in his ability to bring Cabe back, that he won’t let him down.

Cabe assures Toby that if he can’t bring him back to life, it’s not his fault. He does his best to ensure Toby won’t blame himself if he dies at his hands, because he knows Toby would.

Before freezing to death, Cabe says one last thing – “I trust you kids.” If Cabe dies, his last words will have been “I trust you kids.”

In order to freeze Cabe to death, Happy needs the engine of her truck up and running, but she doesn’t think it can handle the heat of the desert. When it doesn’t and dies, she and Toby bicker like an old married couple.

Toby screams, “What the hell, Happy?!” Happy yells back, “What do you think I’m about to do?! I’m working on it! …I’m working on it!” He even yells positives at her like, “You can fix anything!”

Toby believes in Happy, but if Cabe dies because of a decision they made together, where the fault lies mostly on her…

After eventually successfully working together to  freeze and patch up Cabe, Toby kisses Happy on the forehead and tells her, “I’m really proud of you.”

As angsty as I am about no actual kisses on the lips since I can’t even remember when (they didn’t even kiss when they got engaged!), I have to admit that forehead kiss is a really cute and sweet moment.

But I need a kiss on the lips!

Toby even jokes, after Happy spits out gasoline, “you kiss me with that mouth?!”

Ok, so they didn’t kiss on the lips in this episode, but there are still a lot of really nice, small scenes between them. For instance, they drive to the work site alone, in Happy’s truck, while everyone else is in Paige’s car. I’d love to see a fanfiction written about that!

Plus, Happy recognizes she’s becoming like Toby and starting to sound like him when she asks Cabe, “Isn’t that the cutie that’s hot for your booty?”

As much as I am as dehydrated on their kisses as they all are in the desert, it’s nice to see Quintis being such a fucking couple!

Make no mistake, whenever Quintis kiss next, I’m gonna be screaming & cheering & running around the room punching my fists in the air!!!

For now, I’ll just have to hold out for an actual kiss. But they cannot kiss only once this season!

The only other thing I’d like to see is Happy opening up with Toby more. She is opening up with everyone this season, except for him. Earlier in the season, when she thought she was pregnant, she and Walter had a heart to heart about how she was going to be in a good mom. At Christmas time, she told Sly she likes him and his personality just the way he is. Now she’s calling Cabe her friend and is sad that he’s is moving out of her apartment, because she doesn’t want him to leave. Even though that now means she can move in with Toby, her fiancé. Happy is making progress, but when will that progress make it home with her?

What is it going to take for her to open up to her fiancé that way? Why is she still so closed off to him when they should be the closest? Is being vulnerable with him really all too much?

While driving to the hot springs, Walter and Paige have a fight in the car. She tells him, “Toby has a shot at saving a man who’s bleeding to death in the middle of the desert, but I don’t know if there’s a cure for what you have. For all I know you’re suffering an intense inner turmoil over Cabe potentially dying or you truly feel nothing. I want to help you Walter, but I don’t know if you can be helped and that makes me so sad.”

Walter is so confused as to why Paige is acting so cold toward him, but if she weren’t pissed off at him it’d be even more questionable. Her boyfriend just left to take a job in the Middle East and it’s all Walter’s fault. Of course there is going to be tension between them and not the good kind of tension either.

To make matters even more awkward, the springs they pull up to are “nudists only.” Paige is initially so nervous, but, to save Cabe’s life, she just starts stripping, telling Walter, “get nude genius boy!”

Once Walter and Paige are back with the strong gas, they pass it into Cabe’s lungs, fully expecting him to wake up. But, don’t celebrate too soon, because nothing happens. He’s unresponsive.

Cabe is dead.

Their only chance of getting Cabe’s heart going again is the application of an electrical current. So, in the water they froze Cabe in, the guys drown Cabe while Happy throws the toaster, or fan, in the bathtub with him, electrocuting him back to life.

Cabe comes back!

Soon after, the helicopter arrives to transport Cabe to the hospital. The medical personnel tell Walter, due to liability, only family can fly along in the helicopter. Walter informs her, matter-of-factly, “I am family. He’s my father.”

Walter gets in the helicopter and they fly to the hospital, where father and son tell each other they love each other. “We could find another federal agent, but we couldn’t find another Cabe Gallo…. I love you, Cabe. I love you,” Walter says. Cabe tells him, “I love you too, son.”

Overall:

It’s Scorpion, so no one is going to die, they’re not going to kill anyone off, but the creators did a really good job of producing fear and worry over whether Cabe would live or die in this episode! I really thought, after the episode, Robert Patrick was going to tweet “This was my last episode of Scorpion.” I mean, they did actually kill him for a good while; they just also brought him back! Can’t say people don’t come back from the dead on Scorpion! Have to wonder though, if Tim had been there, would that piece of shrapnel still have struck Cabe? Sly did say, “Tim was integral to 29% of our cases. No small loss.” Just something to chew over while waiting to see what happens next!

Best Performance:

Eddie Kaye Thomas! This was seriously Eddie's time to shine! Having to act like he’s got his hand inside a man, while delivering long lines containing big science-y terms, all while having to convey emotion over his dying friend and mentor? Shit, he was so good! Why is he so good?! He’s really good at the comedy, but he’s still equally good at the drama! He can make me laugh so hard I cry and cry so hard I laugh! Eddie seriously needs to get on at least one social media website so I can bombard him with messages about how good of an actor he is!

Best Dressed:

Should Quintis have a Hawaiian wedding, or honeymoon? Pull these Hawaiian shirts back out of the closet?

Best Lines:

Sly: I call shmockery! Toby: No sham. No mockery.

Toby: If the rule books don’t explicitly forbid it, anything is legal.

Walter: Winner winner, fermented fish dinner!

Cabe: You guys are distracted too easily. Toby: Hazard of busy minds.

Toby: What are you so smug about? Machine did all the work. Happy: Yup, and I built the machine.

Toby: How do you screw up a donut?!

Walter: I calculated that you wouldn’t be angry at me. My calculations were off, weren’t they? Paige: Just a bit.

Cabe: I love Italian food! With a last name like Gallo, how could I not?!

Happy: She was begging you to take her to that Italian joint! Cabe: No. Pretty sure that was just a conversation between two adults. Paige: Alright adults, let’s hit it. Cabe, she wanted you to ask her out. You suck at girls.

Cabe: Speaking of cold travels, Paige didn’t say a word the entire drive out here. She’s pissed.

Cabe: As the federal agent assigned to oversee this federal job I will observe from this chair with my eyes closed, while I enjoy iced coffee in the sunshine.

Cabe: Middle of the desert and I still felt that cold front.

Toby: Turbine’s hot, so are you by the way. Love that rubber boot, mechanic outfit combo. Happy: Let me guess, save it for the honeymoon? Toby: If you could.

Toby: A little personal and a lot of gross.

Toby: Wearing Cabe on my hand like a puppet.

Cabe (to Walter): Help me.

Toby: They taught us at Harvard that stopping the heart is actually bad for the patient, something about the brain needing oxygen.

Sly: For Cabe, I will catch one (rattlesnake) with my bare hands. Happy, can I borrow your pliers to pick it up?.

Happy (to Sly): You’ve got an IQ over 180. You can outsmart a snake.

Toby: Why did science have to make water so heavy?

Happy: These boots were made for walking, not pumping. Toby: A joke from Happy in a tense situation? You must be really scared. Happy: You’re not? Toby: I’m scared to death, Cabe’s death.

Sly: I’m going to use sensory jujitsu to lure this reptile out of its nook and then nab it. Happy: I’m gonna use real jujitsu on you if you don’t get that rattler!

Sly (impersonaing a snake): I’m full of iron and proteins. Num-num.

Sly: It seems the daddy snake is up here with me.

Toby: He doesn’t feel like talking. Well, he does seem a little blue.

Happy: That’s so gross.

Happy: You know how I am about blood. Toby: I do. Now, how are you about your friends dying?!

Toby (to Happy): It’s just like putting your hand inside of a pumpkin, but instead of a pumpkin your hand’s inside Cabe’s body cavity.

Toby (to Happy): Remove your paw from the federal agent.

Toby (to Happy): I’d fist bump you, but our hands are covered in guts.

Security: I’ve heard every story in the book from perverts that want to get all sneaky-peaky without undressing themselves.

Sly: Take it (snake) away from me! Take it far away from me, please! Happy: I gotta be honest. I didn’t think you’d catch one of these critters. Sly: That thing is untrustworthy! He snuck up on me! You’re a rattlesnake! Use your rattle!

Sly: You’re gonna let it bite Cabe? Toby: No. They’re gonna kiss.

Toby: It’s kinda messed up to force a snake to bite your friend!

Toby: Diamondback bastard.

Happy: Vitamin rattlesnake.

Paige (while naked): That dude’s trying to get a peek at my… bubbles.

Walter: You may notice a mild tingling sensation. That’s just the weak electrical current stimulating nerve endings. Paige: Great. Didn’t think this could get more awkward.

Walter: You can really feel the tingling, can’t you? Paige: Just stop talking.

Happy: Mesquite will strengthen the flame. Toby: And give Cabe a nice smoky flavor.

Paige: Tank full of stinky gas.

Toby: Happy, pass that gas…. Oh, that’s strong.

Toby: Come on Cabe, you gotta come back!

Paige: Please don’t let this happen.

Happy: You’re gonna leave me after we become friends?! …I swear to God, if you die, I will not wear that pin just to piss you off!

Cabe: Oh man, heaven’s full of nerds.

Cabe: I think I’ll try to avoid ice for a while.

Happy: You might hear that I yelled at you a lot when you were dead. I was just motivating you.

Paige: I can’t decipher you. Just when I’m sure you’re an android, you’re not. Walter: I know you get frustrated when I take steps back, but I don’t mean to. I just do. There are parts of my brain that work worse than others.

Happy: I’m fine with it, but I’m reserving final approval until I determine whether she’s good enough for you.

Cabe: Maybe I’ll wear one of those Hawaiin shirts on our date. Sly: Bad idea.

Happy: We’re in these nightmares because our clothes are wet and sunbaked at the same time.

Toby: Holy skinny-dips! You went to a nudist spring! You two saw each other’s parts! Walter: We did what we had to do to save Cabe. Paige: It was very professional. Happy: And naked. Sly: It was so sunny out there. You could’ve burned your schmeckle. Walter: Now I wish I got hit with the shrapnel. Toby: Well, uh, I’m gonna go to Kovelsky’s. Get some food. Hey, Walter, Paige, can I get you guys anything? Melons and sausages? Cantalopes and weiners? Paige: I will kill you. Toby: Tater tots and salami?

Cabe: I had to die for an hour to finally get some peace and quiet from you guys.

Next, on Scorpion: ???