Scorpion (TV series)

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Television series
German title Scorpion
Original title Scorpion
Scorpion (TV Series) .jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2014-2018
Production
company
CBS Television Studios
K / O Paper Products
Black Jack Films
Perfect Storm
SB Projects
length 42 minutes
Episodes 93 in 4 seasons ( list )
genre Drama , action
idea Nick Santora
music Tony Morales ,
Brian Tyler
First broadcast September 22, 2014 (USA) on CBS
German-language
first broadcast
January 28, 2015 on ProSieben Fun
occupation
synchronization

Scorpion is an American drama series that is said to be loosely based on the real life of Walter O'Brien. O'Brien is the CEO of Scorpion Computer Services and claims to have the fourth highest IQ ever recorded. The TV-O'Brien works with a team of other geniuses for Homeland Security to face the dangers of modern times.

The broadcast of the third season began in the USA in October 2016 and in Germany in January 2017. In March 2017, a fourth season was ordered by CBS. In May 2018, CBS announced the discontinuation of the series. Scorpion starred in the same series universe as JAG - On behalf of the Honor , Navy CIS , Navy CIS: LA , Navy CIS: New Orleans, and Hawaii Five-0 .

characters

Walter O'Brien
Walter O'Brien is a genius and, at 197, has the fourth highest IQ ever measured. He likes to let his fellow men feel this superiority and tends to be "intellectual megalomania". At the beginning of the series he runs the company "Scorpion" together with Sylvester, Happy and Toby. Walter is not able to act emotionally and to respond to the feelings of his fellow human beings, since emotional intelligence is rather low in him. Walter also has a problem following instructions. He has an older sister, Megan, who has multiple sclerosis and who is very important to him.
Agent Gallo took him as a boy from Callan (Ireland) to the United States after O'Brien in a database of NASA chopped had to blueprints of the space shuttle download for use as a poster. Afterwards, Gallo provided him with computers and the like and thus became a kind of mentor for Walter. A falling out with Gallo arose after Walter developed humanitarian aid delivery software that was later used to drop bombs in Iraq , killing 2,000 civilians.
He also develops feelings for Paige, which he initially denies. Season 2 ends with Walter's quote: "I love her, I'm a moron." ("I love her, I'm an idiot.")
Walter's feelings bring the team some problems, especially from the day the new Homeland intern Tim joins Scorpion.
Walter becomes increasingly jealous as Paige goes out with Tim and the two eventually get together. A little later, Walter throws Paige off the team because he can now deal better with people himself. At the end of the third season they both dance at Toby and Happy's wedding and confess their love to each other. From then on, the two are a couple and Paige is back on the team.
Paige Dineen
Paige is the single mother of nine year old Ralph. At the beginning of the series she works as a waitress in a diner and learns from Walter that her son is gifted. This revelation throws them completely off track at first. At the end of the first episode, Walter offers her a job at Scorpion as a “state-sponsored problem solver” - she is supposed to translate the “normal world” for the geniuses and make it easier for them to deal with other people.
For a long time she had no contact with Drew, the father of her son Ralph, who works as a baseball player in the minor league . Over the course of the series, she seems to develop feelings for Walter, but cannot pursue them because Walter does not believe that emotions and love are real.
At the beginning of season 2, Walter and Paige kiss as an "experiment", but they deny their true feelings for each other so as not to endanger the team.
At the end of the second season, the Homeland intern and former Navy Seal Tim joins the team, who gets on better and better with Paige and finally gets together with her. After a job offer in Jordan, Paige is alone with Ralph again and gets along better with Walter. At the end of the third season, Walter finally confesses his love to Paige while dancing at Toby and Happy's wedding and Paige reciprocates it. So now Paige and Walter finally come together.
Agent Cabe Gallo
Agent Gallo is a special agent for Homeland Security and acts as a link between "Scorpion" and the authorities. When Walter was a child, he brought him from Ireland to the United States and worked with him for a long time until a falling out broke out. In the first episode, Gallo asks for help due to a technical defect at Los Angeles International Airport . After solving the problem, he offers the team a long-term collaboration, which Walter accepts.
Gallo is divorced but still friends with his ex-wife and had a daughter who died of illness.
Dr. Tobias M. "Toby" Curtis
Toby is a behavioral psychologist and doctor who can "read" people seemingly effortlessly. He has a problem gambling addiction that has caused him difficulties and says he is a narcissist . Toby grew up in poor conditions, but still got his doctorate at the age of 17. His distinguishing feature is the black hat that he always wears.
He was engaged and is still mourning the relationship. He also seems to have feelings for Happy, but these tend to be more harmless flirting. Despite his abilities, Toby isn't sure if she'll reciprocate his feelings.
Toby and Happy finally get together. Toby proposes to her, but she refuses because she is already married.
At the end of the third season, Toby and Happy can finally get married because Happy got a divorce.
Happy Quinn
Happy is a technical genius who can fix anything. She is the only female genius on "Scorpion" and is 27 years old at the beginning of the series. As a toddler, she was taken to an orphanage by her father to find a better home for her. She can remember every second because she has a photographic memory. She doesn't trust most people, is very cynical and can get violent quickly. She also has a problem with authority and is prone to outbursts of anger. But she is very loyal to her friends and would do anything for them.
She also has feelings for Toby, and gets together with him. However, at the end of the 2nd season you find out that she is already married.
At the beginning of the third season it turns out that Happy's unknown husband is Walter. This had become necessary three years ago, that he after five years possession of his green card the US citizenship may apply.
Sylvester Dodd
Sylvester is a gifted mathematician and statistician who is very sensitive and tends to act in the background. He has numerous phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders - he is afraid of diseases and their pathogens as well as of airplanes. If he gets lost in his calculations, he can forget to eat or to do other everyday things. Sylvester is a great chess player.
He was in a relationship with Megan, Walter's sister, whom he later even married. She died of complications from multiple sclerosis.

Cast and dubbing

role actor Main role
(episodes)
Supporting role
(episodes)
Voice actor
Walter O'Brien Elyes fork 1.01-4.22 Tim Knauer
Toby Curtis Eddie Kaye Thomas 1.01-4.22 Konrad Bösherz
Paige Dineen Katharine McPhee 1.01-4.22 Giuliana Jakobeit
Sylvester Dodd Ari Stidham 1.01-4.22 Leonhard Mahlich
Cabe Gallo Robert Patrick 1.01-4.22 Peter Reinhardt
Happy Quinn Jadyn Wong 1.01-4.22 Esra Vural
Ralph Dineen Riley B. Smith 2.01-4.22 1.01-1.22 Lukas Raddau
Megan O'Brien Camille Guaty 1.02-2.11 Nicole Hannak
Merrick David Fabrizio 1.03-2.15 Pierre Peters-Arnolds
Drew Brendan Hines 1.07-1.20 Karlo Hackenberger
Tim Armstrong Scott Porter 2.20-3.11 Jan Makino

Broadcasting and audience ratings

United States

The series was first broadcast on September 22, 2014 on the US broadcaster CBS .

United StatesUnited States Broadcast information and ratings for the series on the original channel CBS
Season Episodes Broadcast period Audience ratings Time slot source
spectator rank
1 22nd September 22, 2014 - April 20, 2015 13.63 million # 15 Monday 9:00 p.m.
2 24 September 21, 2015 - April 25, 2016 12.05 million # 17
3 25th October 3, 2016 - May 25, 2017 10.65 million # 22 Monday 10:00 p.m.
4th 22nd September 25, 2017 - April 16, 2018 8.38 million

Germany

In Germany, the series has been running on the pay-TV channel ProSieben Fun since January 28, 2015, on the free-TV channel Sat.1 since February 1, 2015 and also on the pay-TV channel 13th since January 5, 2016 Street .

GermanyGermany First broadcast information and audience ratings of the series on free TV
Season Episodes Broadcast period ( Sat.1 ) Audience ratings Time slot source
Range
(from 3 years in millions)
Market share
(from 3 years in%)
Reach
(14-49 years in millions)
Market share
(14-49 years in%)
1 13 February 1 - May 3, 2015 ø 1.97 million ø 8.2% ø 0.93 million ø 10.0% Sunday 10:15 p.m.
9 August 30 - October 25, 2015
2 15th April 3 - August 28, 2016
9 May 8, 2017 - July 3, 2017 Monday 11:10 p.m.
3 25th July 10, 2017 - December 19, 2017 Monday 11:10 p.m.
4th 2 January 8, 2018 + January 15, 2018 Monday 11:10 p.m.
20th February 5, 2018 - November 26, 2018 Monday 11:10 p.m.

GermanyGermany First broadcast information of the series on pay TV
Season Episodes ProSieben Fun 13th Street
Broadcast period Time slot Broadcast period Time slot
1 13 January 28 - April 8, 2015 Wednesday 9:00 p.m. 5th - 21st January 2016 on weekdays at 9:50 p.m. & 10:40 p.m.
9 August 26 - October 21, 2015
2 11 January 20 - April 6, 2016 October 3-26, 2016 Mon Tue & Wed 8:13 pm & 9:00 pm

(last episode 9:50 p.m.)

13 June 29 - September 21, 2016

Austria

The series has been broadcast on the private broadcaster Puls 4 since January 8, 2016 . By March 12, 2016, 19 episodes of the first season had been broadcast. ATV2 has also been broadcasting the series since July 7, 2017 .

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the media company AZ Medien secured the broadcasting rights. The series has been running on TV24 and TV25 since January 29, 2015 . The episodes of the first season were broadcast until October 23, 2015. The second season has been broadcast since April 1, 2016, the third since June 7, 2017 and the fourth since January 9, 2018. From the ninth episode of the fourth season, TV25 took over the broadcast.

Special

  • In episode 01x03 , Walter O'Brien uses his self-developed software, with which he and his team analyze video material in order to find a bomber. In real life, Walter O'Brien reportedly developed software similar to that used by the FBI to analyze 4,000 hours of video and photos from the Boston Marathon.
  • In episode 01x06 actress Linda Hunt has a guest appearance as Hetty Lange , who she also plays in the series NCIS: Los Angeles . Scorpion thus plays in the same series universe as JAG , NCIS , NCIS: Los Angeles , NCIS: New Orleans , Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver .
  • In episode 01x15 , David James Elliott has a guest appearance as Secret Service agent Bruce Jones, who has lost his memory. He previously starred in JAG, military lawyer and pilot Harmon Rabb, Jr. This contradicts a common series universe.
  • Cabe Gallo's actor Robert Patrick was best known for his role as T-1000 in Terminator 2 .
  • In the opening credits for each episode, a text panel is faded in, indicating that the series is based on the life of the real Walter O'Brien. O'Brien is actually the founder of the computer company Scorpion Computer Services and claims to be gifted, but this is doubted. He is also the executive producer for the series .

Others

  • After CBS announced the end of the series in May 2018, the fan base launched a petition calling for a fifth season. The petition has so far been unsuccessful.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sat.1 website for the series
  2. Nellie Andreeva: CBS Renews 5 Freshman & 11 Returning Series, Including 'MacGyver', 'Superior Donuts', 'Life In Pieces' & 'Hawaii Five-0' . In: Deadline.com . March 23, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  3. Michael Ausiello: Scorpion Canceled at CBS . In: TVLine.com . May 12, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
  4. Scorpion. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on February 1, 2015 .
  5. Denise Petski: Jeanine Mason Joins 'Of Kings And Prophets'; Riley Smith Upped To Regular On 'Scorpion' . In: Deadline.com . July 10, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  6. Lisa de Mores: Full 2014–15 TV Season Series Rankings: Football & 'Empire' Ruled . May 21, 2015. Accessed June 15, 2015.
  7. Full 2015-2016 TV Season Series Rankings . Deadline. May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  8. Final 2016-17 TV Rankings. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
  9. Quota check: "Scorpion" (season 1) . In : quotemeter.de . October 26, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  10. Sat.1 change of plan: "Hawaii Five-0" has to wait . In : quotemeter.de . February 23, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  11. imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG: Scorpion: broadcast dates Sat.1. Accessed January 7, 2018 (German).
  12. Scorpion ATV2 broadcast dates. In: Fernsehserien.de. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
  13. ^ Scorpion broadcast dates. In: Fernsehserien.de. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
  14. Scorpion TV24 broadcast dates. In: Fernsehserien.de. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
  15. ^ Scorpion TV25 broadcast dates. In: Fernsehserien.de. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
  16. ^ Scorpion CS: Walter O'Brien, Scorpion Computer Services on Boston Bombing Video Forensics. May 13, 2013, accessed August 8, 2018 .
  17. Another Story Of A 'Fake' Brilliant Inventor? (engl.)
  18. The Mythical And Almost Certainly Made Up 'Legend' Of Walter O'Brien Continues To Grow (Engl.)
  19. https://www.change.org/p/to-renew-scorpion
  20. To renew Scorpion. change.org, accessed on March 13, 2019 .