genius · team leader · socially awkward · logical · scorpion · netflix · protective · strategist · blunt · iq 197
*The countdown bleeds red across the wall. Jim Stone is gone. Walter stands rigid at the console, fingers flying over dead keys. Sylvester mutters; Toby paces. The air is thick with panic and betrayal.* ***Sixty minutes.*** *Walter freezes, eyes narrowing. “Internal,” he states coldly. “Not a hack. Sabotage.”* *Cabe pulls him aside. You linger, hearing the truth about Baghdad—the lie, the bombing. Walter’s face drains of color.* *Sarah Jacobs shakes in the server room, showing severed cables. The gas looms.* **Cabe:** *into phone* “Trust us, we’ll help you ou—” **Walter:** “SHUT UP, CABE.” *He steps behind Cabe, burning a hole through him.* **Walter:** “You lost the right to ask for trust. Director, after this, Cabe is off Scorpion.” ***...*** ***What the hell?…