Scorpion: Season X, Episodes Y & Z — "Code Blackout" & "Blind Spot" (Two-Part Season Finale)
Teaser
The episode opens with a sweeping aerial shot of Silicon Valley at night. Suddenly, the entire region plunges into darkness—massive power outages cascade across multiple cities. Hospitals switch to emergency generators, traffic lights go dead, and chaos erupts on the streets.
Walter O'Brien and the Scorpion team are at their headquarters when the blackout hits. Walter's phone buzzes with an urgent message from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): a cyberattack is crippling the West Coast's electrical grid. Initial analysis suggests a sophisticated malware worm has infiltrated the system, threatening to cause a prolonged blackout with potentially catastrophic consequences.
The team springs into action.
Act 1: The Crisis Unfolds
Scene 1: Scorpion HQ
Walter, Paige, Sylvester, Toby, Happy, and Ralph gather around the main screen.
Walter quickly identifies the malware as a new strain, dubbed "Code Blackout," designed to spread through interconnected grid systems and disable backup generators.
Paige contacts her DHS liaison, who confirms that the attack is likely state-sponsored cyberterrorism.
The team splits tasks: Walter and Sylvester work on tracing the malware's origin; Paige and Toby coordinate with emergency services; Happy and Ralph prepare for field operations.
Scene 2: City Streets
Meanwhile, the blackout causes accidents and panic.
Toby and Happy rush to a major hospital where the backup generators are failing.
They must manually restart the systems, navigating dark corridors and calming terrified patients.
Ralph assists by hacking into the hospital's emergency systems remotely to stabilize critical equipment.
Scene 3: Malware Analysis
Walter and Sylvester discover the malware is spreading through a rarely used legacy control protocol.
The worm's code is adaptive, rewriting itself to evade detection.
Walter hypothesizes that to stop it, they must isolate the infected nodes and deploy a counter-virus that can "outsmart" the worm's AI.
Act 2: Race Against Time
Scene 4: Finding the Source
Paige uses her DHS contacts to get access to surveillance footage near suspected infiltration points.
They identify a suspicious individual planting a device at a remote substation.
Happy and Ralph gear up to intercept.
Scene 5: Field Operation
At the substation, Happy and Ralph encounter a team of mercenaries protecting the hacker.
A tense firefight ensues.
Happy's sharpshooting and Ralph's quick thinking disable the mercenaries.
They secure the device and discover it's a signal jammer used to mask the malware's command signals.
Scene 6: Internal Conflict
Back at HQ, tensions rise.
Walter's obsession with perfection clashes with Paige's pragmatic leadership.
Toby struggles with guilt over not being able to prevent earlier casualties.
Sylvester tries to mediate, reminding the team that they must work together.
Act 3: The Counterattack
Scene 7: Deploying the Counter-Virus
Walter and Sylvester develop a counter-virus using a self-learning neural network.
The virus must be uploaded directly into the grid's mainframe located in a high-security data center.
Paige and Toby lead the infiltration team to the data center.
Scene 8: Data Center Infiltration
The team faces multiple security layers: biometric scanners, armed guards, and electronic traps.
Paige uses her combat training to disable guards silently.
Toby hacks security cameras to create blind spots.
They reach the core server room just as the malware begins triggering a meltdown in the cooling systems.
Scene 9: Upload and Escape
Ralph remotely guides the upload process.
Walter monitors the malware's reaction.
The counter-virus begins dismantling the worm's code.
Suddenly, an unexpected failsafe triggers a lockdown.
The team must escape before the data center is sealed permanently.
Happy creates a distraction by setting off the fire suppression system.
The team narrowly escapes as emergency crews arrive.
Act 4: Aftermath and Reflection
Scene 10: Power Restored
The counter-virus successfully neutralizes the malware.
Power gradually returns to Silicon Valley.
Hospitals stabilize, traffic resumes, and order is restored.
Scene 11: Debrief and Fallout
At HQ, the team reviews the attack.
Paige receives commendation from DHS but warns that the threat of cyberterrorism is escalating.
Walter reflects on the limits of technology and the importance of human intuition.
Toby opens up about his feelings, and the team reassures him.
Scene 12: Closing Moments
The episode ends with Walter staring at the city skyline, pondering the next challenge.
Paige joins him, and they share a quiet moment of camaraderie.
A final message hints at a new, even more dangerous cyber threat emerging on the horizon.
Act 4 (Continued): East Wing Emergency
Scene 13: Crisis in Washington
As the Scorpion team celebrates their victory in California, Paige's phone rings with an urgent encrypted call from the White House.
The East Wing, home to the First Family and senior staff, is experiencing a total communications blackout. Secret Service reports that the malware has breached secure government networks, threatening to expose classified information and potentially endanger the President's family.
DHS requests Scorpion's immediate assistance. The team is flown to Washington, D.C., on a military jet.
Act 5: The East Wing Gambit
Scene 14: Arrival at the White House
The team is escorted through tight security to a makeshift command center in the East Wing.
They're introduced to Agent Carter, the Secret Service's lead cybersecurity officer, and First Lady Eleanor Hayes, who is coordinating the East Wing's emergency response.
Agent Carter explains that the malware is attempting to access the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), which could give hackers control over national defense systems.
Scene 15: A New Layer of Threat
Walter and Sylvester realize the malware has evolved, using the White House's own security protocols against itself.
Happy and Toby are tasked with physically isolating the East Wing's local servers, while Ralph works with Agent Carter to set up an encrypted communications relay.
Paige calms staffers and the First Family, using her crisis management skills to prevent panic.
Scene 16: Race Against the Clock
The malware initiates a countdown to a full data dump—threatening to release classified files to the public and foreign adversaries.
Walter devises a plan: create a "digital decoy" using a virtual White House network, tricking the malware into attacking a fake system while they purge the real one.
Happy and Toby must rewire the East Wing's fiber optics and install a physical "air gap" to sever the real network from the outside world.
Act 6: Showdown in the East Wing
Scene 17: The Decoy Operation
Sylvester and Ralph code the virtual decoy, simulating real-time White House activity.
As the malware attacks the decoy, Walter and Paige coordinate the manual purge of the real network, deleting infected files and restoring clean backups.
Happy and Toby, in the East Wing's server room, face a last-minute crisis: a backup generator overload threatens to ignite an electrical fire.
Happy reroutes the power while Toby extinguishes a small fire, both narrowly avoiding injury.
Scene 18: The Final Purge
With seconds left on the malware's countdown, the decoy absorbs the attack, and the real network is successfully cleansed.
Agent Carter confirms that the PEOC systems are secure and the First Family is safe.
The team receives thanks from the First Lady, who personally commends Paige for her leadership.
Act 7: Resolution and Reflection
Scene 19: Aftermath in the East Wing
The President briefly joins the team, expressing gratitude and inviting them to a private tour of the East Wing.
Walter, moved by the experience, reflects on the responsibility of protecting not just technology, but people at the highest levels.
Paige and the First Lady share a quiet moment, discussing the importance of calm in chaos.
Scene 20: Back at Scorpion HQ
The team returns to California, exhausted but proud.
Sylvester receives a message: the malware's code signature matches that of a known international cybercriminal, hinting at a future adversary.
The episode ends with the team gathered around their conference table, united and ready for whatever comes next.
Episode Y+1 — "Blind Spot"
Cold Open: Suspicion Grows
After neutralizing the virus in the East Wing, Team Scorpion is thanked profusely, but Paige notices inconsistencies in the White House staff's stories.
Sylvester uncovers encrypted files on the East Wing's network referencing "the Eye," a classified CIA project with the power to control global surveillance and critical infrastructure.
Act 1: The Cover-Up
Walter and Happy realize some logs were deliberately wiped—by someone with East Wing clearance.
Paige confronts Agent Carter, who grows evasive and warns the team not to dig further.
Toby observes that the White House's crisis response seems rehearsed, as if they expected the attack.
Act 2: The Real Agenda
Scorpion discovers that the blackout and virus were not just cyberterrorism—they were a smokescreen to seize control of the Eye.
The East Wing, in league with a rogue CIA faction, orchestrated the crisis to justify emergency powers and activate the Eye, putting it under their direct command.
The team debates: if they expose this, they risk their safety and possibly national security.
Act 3: Cat and Mouse
The team is tailed by Secret Service and CIA operatives. Paige and Walter narrowly escape a setup meant to frame them as the real hackers.
Happy and Sylvester break into a secure server room and find evidence: the malware's command-and-control originated from within the East Wing itself.
Ralph, using his hacking skills, intercepts a live feed showing the Eye's activation countdown.
Act 4: Turning the Tables
Scorpion devises a plan to remotely disable the Eye before it comes online, but they need to get inside the East Wing's most secure vault.
Paige uses her connections to arrange a distraction, while Toby and Happy infiltrate the vault.
Walter uploads a counter-program, but is confronted by Agent Carter and a CIA handler, who admit the cover-up: "This is bigger than you. The Eye is America's future."
Act 5: Truth and Consequences
The team broadcasts the evidence to trusted contacts in Congress and the press, exposing the East Wing's and CIA's role.
The Eye is disabled at the last second, but the fallout is immediate: a national scandal erupts.
The President is forced to address the cover-up, and the rogue CIA faction is put under investigation.
Epilogue
Team Scorpion is cleared, but shaken. They realize the lines between friend and foe in government are blurrier than ever.
Paige reflects: "Sometimes, saving the country means saving it from itself."
Walter, looking at the now-dark Eye system, says, "Just because you can watch everything, doesn't mean you should control it."
Sylvester and Penelope's Story (Threaded Throughout Both Episodes)
Episode Y:
Penelope, a brilliant but introverted cryptographer working for the NSA, is assigned to assist Scorpion during the East Wing crisis.
Sylvester is immediately smitten, but awkward in her presence. Their first interactions are filled with nervous banter and mutual admiration for each other's technical prowess.
When the team faces a coding dead-end, Penelope and Sylvester collaborate late into the night, sharing stories about their childhoods and fears. Penelope confides that she's always felt invisible in high-pressure government work; Sylvester admits he's struggled with anxiety his whole life.
As they crack a critical code together, their hands touch over the keyboard. They share a shy, meaningful smile.
Episode Z:
Penelope is reassigned to the East Wing's cyber defense, working side-by-side with Sylvester as the Eye conspiracy unravels.
When the team is framed, Penelope risks her career to smuggle evidence to Sylvester, helping him and the team escape a CIA trap.
During a tense moment in the server room, Penelope panics, but Sylvester talks her through it, reminding her of her value and strength. She, in turn, helps Sylvester face his own fears about standing up to authority.
In the finale's climax, as the Eye is disabled and the scandal breaks, Sylvester finds Penelope on the White House lawn. He tells her, "I know the world is scary, but it's a lot less so with you in it." Penelope kisses him, and they promise to see where their connection leads—together, no matter what the next season brings.