Scorpion New Episode Review: 'Once Bitten, Twice Die' Takes Ridiculousness to New Level

The latest episode of CBS' Scorpion aired Monday night and "Once Bitten, Twice Die" took the usual batch of ridiculous that this show cooks up every week and cranked it up to levels previously unreached even for this show.

WARNING: There will be spoilers ahead for the episode but if you really care that much about getting spoiled on this show, then I don't think I can help you.

The plot of this episode started decently enough. Three foreign leaders arrived in the U.S. for a peace summit in an effort to avoid war in Eastern Europe and, quite possibly, the rest of the world. Okay, this is a simple enough plot for me to get behind. In a not-so-surprising move, one of the leaders gets poisoned, which throws the whole summit into chaos and puts the leaders, and their nations, at each other's throats. Again, I can roll with this.

From here, though, the entire episode goes off the rails. For starters, why is the Scorpion team even there? What purpose do they serve in attending this summit? Sure, Sylvester helped the U.S. government bring the foreign leaders into the country undercover to avoid public knowledge of the peace talks, but beyond that, what reason did Walter or anyone else have to be there?

As it turns out, Paige has been studying to get her college degree. Again, this is a perfectly reasonable progression for her character. She's constantly surrounded by geniuses and she wants to better herself. But of course, she just so happens to become an expert in the customs of the three nations that are at the peace summit. This, in turn, lets her be better at her job than a trained international official to the point that Cabe destroys a vial of adrenaline just on Paige's word alone.

As the leader is dying, Walter, Happy, and Paige devise a plan to leave the compound (they had all been on lockdown until the situation gets resolved) and find the snake that was used to poison the man in order to manufacture an antidote. How did they escape? Cabe had watched a DVD about his favorite movie that was filmed on the compound and remembered the DVD commentary said there was a secret passageway that led outside.

Toby and Sylvester struggled to find the right snake out of a list of dozens, but the true identity of the assassin immediately led them to the correct snake becaue there was only one native to the assassin's region of the world. Of course.

The three needed to get to the zoo to steal the snake but had no way to get there. So Walter made Happy punch him in the face. He flagged down a taco truck and when the driver went to help him, they stole the truck.

Walter went to retrieve the snake but fell in the pit. There were two that appeared similar, so Walter let one of the snakes bite him and poison him to see if it matched the symptoms of the dying man. They then needed a host organism in which to manufacture the antidote, so they stole a ferret, a natural prey of the snake.

They got back to the compound, lost the ferret, and then Happy found the ferret in about 35 seconds. But wait! They needed to separate the antidote from the blood but didn't have access to a centrifuge. "Wait, you came here in a taco truck, right?" Toby asks. So they retreive a salad spinner from the truck and use it to extract the antidote and save Walter and the foreign leader's life.

Just to summarize: the Scorpion team used a snake, the blood of a ferret, a taco truck, and a salad spinner to prevent World War III.

I don't even know what to say anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIwUI9_j1E0