“Revenge” opens on what could actually be an exciting episode of Scorpion, as we see a bunch of criminals wearing Wes Anderson-esque animal masks as they put to task some high-tech equipment. Not only is the visual style a lot for the typically drab Scorpion, but this feels different from the moment the masked vigilantes start filling these innocents with bullets. The show is usually not this brutal and violent and these guys really love shooting people, going out of their way to land final bullets in fallen bodies as if the show is trying to validate its coolness. We learn that Sylvester took heavy shrapnel to his chest, nearly dying from the IED that he set off, with additional swelling and bleeding in his brain, keeping him unconscious in the hospital. And suddenly—gasp—everyone is acting like Sylvester might lose his genius superpowers! I actually kind of love the idea of the various members of Scorpion somehow losing their intelligence or becoming “normal” as much as I know this isn’t the route they’re going down. It’s an interesting story angle. Team Scorpion tries to compartmentalize and focus their anxiety over Sylvester into their mission, which sees the culprits, known as Ghosts, stealing the heavy artillery (an IED) that we saw them take in the beginning of the episode. They’re going to set it off somewhere, and Scorpion needs to figure out where. This behavior in Walter culminates with him hesitating to help save the Ghosts leader, the one responsible for hurting Sylvester, right before he falls to his death. Cabe says he’s sorry for how he must be taking this but Walter is quick to correct him that he doesn’t have real feelings. It’s played as a joke, but the concern Walter has towards losing what’s left of the empathy he has, is compelling stuff. I’ve never thought that Scorpion has known exactly what to do with their action sequences, with them mostly fond of just sitting there, being effective technically but not much more than that. Here we have people zipping around on motorcycles and firing guns and looking flashy, but it still kind of falls flat. Scorpion takes a lot of steps in the right direction this week, but even if a lot of the smaller elements hit well, the larger story going on here isn’t much to write home about, and there’s still very fundamental problems going on with how they tell stories, but all we can do is hope that they learn a little from this, the character developments are felt, and we slowly keep eking towards a half-way decent show. Oh, and did anyone else find it a little distracting to repeatedly hear the TD-9000 vault get mentioned, especially when coming from Cabe, the T-1000 himself? Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!