Scorpion
Episode Title: "Scorpion Takes the Lead"
TEASER
INT. SCORPION HQ – NIGHT
The team gathers around a table stacked with legal documents, news clippings, and a freshly delivered envelope marked "CONFIDENTIAL: ATLANTA CASE." Paige reads aloud from a Washington Post article: "Lawsuit Forces CIA Confession on MK-ULTRA."
PAIGE:
Four former prisoners from the Atlanta federal penitentiary are suing the government for half a million each. They claim they were used as human test subjects in the CIA's MK-ULTRA program—drugged, manipulated, and left broken.
TOBY:
The CIA admits it. They used psychoactive drugs, tried to erase self-control, and didn't even have doctors on hand for the aftermath.
SYLVESTER:
Records destroyed, consent forms missing—this is classic cover-up.
HAPPY:
And now someone wants us to find out what really happened. Why now?
WALTER:
Because the victims are still suffering. And because the world deserves the truth.
ACT 1: THE CLIENTS
INT. SCORPION HQ – CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY
The team video-calls Thomas Maddox Jr., the Atlanta attorney representing the four surviving victims: Farrell Kirk, Don Roderick Scott, John R. Maole, and James T. Knight.
MADDOX (on screen):
My clients were dosed with LSD, mescaline, amphetamines—sometimes all at once. There were nights with no doctors, no follow-up. Some tried to take their own lives. The government's defense? "It was the Cold War."
WALTER:
We want to help. But we'll need access to every scrap of evidence—medical records, expense reports, anything left.
MADDOX:
You'll have it. But be careful. The CIA still wants this buried.
ACT 2: THE INVESTIGATION
INT. ATLANTA FEDERAL PENITENTIARY – ARCHIVES – DAY
Happy and Toby search through old medical files and expense ledgers. Sylvester works remotely, hacking into digitized records.
HAPPY:
Look at this—$349,445.10 for the Atlanta subproject. But the files are incomplete. Gaps everywhere.
TOBY:
Here's a list of drugs: LSD, mescaline, amphetamines, "truth serum." No mention of consent forms.
SYLVESTER (via video):
I'm cross-referencing names. Dr. Carl Pfeiffer ran the experiments. He claimed it was for mental illness—but the records say otherwise.
ACT 3: THE VICTIMS' STORIES
INT. HALFWAY HOUSE – ATLANTA – DAY
Paige and Walter interview Don Roderick Scott, one of the surviving plaintiffs.
SCOTT:
They told us it was medicine. Next thing I know, I'm seeing things that aren't there. I've had flashbacks for decades. I lost my family, my mind.
PAIGE:
We're going to make sure your story is heard.
SCOTT:
Just promise me you won't let them get away with it.
INT. PRISON VISITATION ROOM – DAY
Toby and Happy meet James T. Knight, still incarcerated.
KNIGHT:
They made us guinea pigs. I tried to sleep, but they just gave me more drugs. Some nights, I thought I'd never wake up.
TOBY:
We're going to expose what they did to you.
ACT 4: THE COVER-UP
INT. SCORPION HQ – TECH BAY – NIGHT
Sylvester and Garcia dig into the destroyed records. They find a digital trail: expense records, redacted memos, and a list of destroyed files signed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb.
GARCIA:
Look at this—orders to destroy all records in 1973. Pfeiffer burned his files in '72. They wanted this erased from history.
SYLVESTER:
But they missed a few things. Here's a memo about "MX-BURN," a chemical program that continued after MK-ULTRA. Same people, same drugs.
HAPPY:
So it didn't end. It just changed names.
ACT 5: THE COURTROOM SHOWDOWN
INT. FEDERAL COURTHOUSE – ATLANTA – DAY
The Scorpion team presents their findings to Maddox and the victims' legal team. The courtroom is packed with press, activists, and government observers.
WALTER (on stand):
The evidence shows a systematic pattern of abuse. No consent, no oversight, and a deliberate effort to destroy the truth.
PAIGE (to the judge):
These men deserve justice. The world deserves to know what happened behind closed doors.
MADDOX:
We ask for accountability—not just for our clients, but for every victim whose story was erased.
ACT 6: THE AFTERMATH
INT. SCORPION HQ – NIGHT
The verdict is in: the victims are awarded damages, and a federal inquiry into government mind-control experiments is launched.
NEWS CLIPPING MONTAGE:
– "SCORPION TEAM EXPOSES CIA ABUSE"
– "COURT AWARDS DAMAGES TO MK-ULTRA VICTIMS"
– "GOVERNMENT FACES NEW SCRUTINY OVER SECRET EXPERIMENTS"
PAIGE (to Ralph and the team):
Sometimes, you have to take the lead. Even when it means standing up to the most powerful people in the world.
WALTER:
We did the right thing. And we'll keep doing it.
The team sits together, united as the world reacts to the truth.
END OF EPISODE