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Team Scorpion turn into knuckleheads and Paige must simplify the science for them, when their mental faculties are impaired during a job to prevent the creation of a black hole. Also, Florence and Sylvester grow closer when she helps him with a special project.

The term vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) ray, as mentioned by Walter, are energetic enough to excite an atom into a higher energy state.

The actor Vik Sahay played a supporting role in Chuck (2007), another show with a "geek" cult following. Fellow Chuck co-star Joshua Gomez made an appearance in a previous episode of Scorpion, titled, Scorpion: Queen Scary (2017), playing the character Dave Blakely. In Chuck (2007), they played Lester Patel and Morgan Grimes respectively.

Eddie Kaye Thomas (Toby Curtis) and Vik Sahay (Raja Bhatt) have previously worked together in the 2012 movie Kuum pirukas: Klassikokkutulek (2012). They played Finch and Prateek Duraiswamy respectively.

Robert Patrick was a guest-star on Chuck: Chuck Versus the Tic Tac (2010).

The dark matter detector shown in the episode is based on an actual detector that has been operating since 2016 (construction started ~2012) and as of 2018 is still looking for dark matter: the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector, located at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOLAB) in Canada. The actual detector is at 2km depth in a nickel mine. The description they give at the beginning of the episode, about what dark matter is and how the detector works, is accurate, and the detector schematics shown are copied right from the design drawings of DEAP-3600, down to the labels on the components. It is also true that the detector is periodically irradiated with neutrons from a radioactive calibration source to verify that it is working correctly. The signal you obtain if the detector is working as expected is shown on the computer screen while the team explains what they are going to do, and probably taken from one of the publications by the group of scientist operating the detector (though they applied some creative freedom in the TV version of the graphs). The facsimile of the DEAP detector used in the episode is based on pictures of the incomplete detector, while it was under construction (search for DEAP-300 and National Geographic in a search engine and the pictures come up). The finished detector looks quite different and most notably, is completely immersed in a large water tank. Most of the remaining 'facts' are a mix-and-match of a number of different experiments in the field of astro-particle physics. There is an underground laboratory in a gold mine in the US (the homestead mine in South Dakota) but it's not as deep and not under the Rocky Mountains. There is an underground lab under a mountain range in Italy (LNGS) but also not that deep. These labs house neutrino and dark matter detectors, but those are separate detectors. The detector shown in the episode is a dark matter detector and incorrectly labelled a neutrino detector. Some neutrino detectors observe neutrinos coming from a particle accelerator beam, but one would never put the accelerator in the underground lab right next to the detectors - this would defeat the point of going deep underground for these sensitive detectors. Particle accelerators of course do not create black holes. One would, of course, never just carry around a neutron source strong enough to calibrate a dark matter detector, or even keep it in a residential building. There is no time limit to being underground, and being underground has no significant effects on ones mental capabilities. Miners and scientists do 10 hour shifts underground regularly without any ill effects. None of the scientists working on the DEAP detector knew that it was featured in this TV show.


Episode complete credited cast:
Elyes Gabel Elyes Gabel - Walter O'Brien
Katharine McPhee Katharine McPhee - Paige Dineen
Eddie Kaye Thomas Eddie Kaye Thomas - Toby Curtis
Jadyn Wong Jadyn Wong - Happy Quinn
Ari Stidham Ari Stidham - Sylvester Dodd
Riley B. Smith Riley B. Smith - Ralph Dineen
Robert Patrick Robert Patrick - Cabe Gallo
Tina Majorino Tina Majorino - Florence
Vik Sahay Vik Sahay - Raja Bhatt
Jim Shipley Jim Shipley - Greg
Paige Stark Paige Stark - Amy Stark
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