Scorpion
Episode Title: "The Peters File"
TEASER
INT. SCORPION HQ – NIGHT
The team is gathered around a table littered with news clippings, police reports, and a mysterious envelope labeled "For Scorpion." Paige reads aloud from a headline: "Slain Church Founder Linked to CIA Drug Experiments."
PAIGE:
George Peters. Founder of the Church of Naturalism. Murdered in his Hollywood Hills compound. He claimed he was involved in CIA mind-control experiments—MK-ULTRA.
WALTER:
And someone sent us this file. They want us to find out what really happened.
TOBY:
The police are calling it a robbery, but the timing and the victim's background scream cover-up.
SYLVESTER (looking at the file):
There's a list of names—researchers, institutions, even a few government contacts. Some of these are still alive.
HAPPY:
So, what's the plan? We're up against the CIA and whoever killed Peters.
WALTER:
We do what we do best. We find the truth, no matter who's trying to bury it.
ACT 1: THE MURDER SCENE
INT. HOLLYWOOD HILLS COMPOUND – DAY
The team arrives at the Church of Naturalism's compound, now cordoned off by police tape. Paige and Toby interview Susan Shore, the church secretary and Peters' confidant.
SUSAN SHORE:
George was working on a film about MK-ULTRA. He said he had proof—documents, tapes, names. He was scared, but he wouldn't stop.
TOBY:
Did he mention anyone threatening him?
SUSAN:
He got phone calls. Late at night. Sometimes, he said he was being followed.
PAIGE:
Where are the files now?
SUSAN:
He kept everything in a safe in his office. But after the murder, it was empty.
ACT 2: THE HUNT FOR THE FILES
INT. CHURCH OFFICE – DAY
Happy and Sylvester search the ransacked office. Happy finds a hidden compartment in the floor.
HAPPY:
Got something.
She pulls out a microcassette and a coded notebook.
SYLVESTER (reading):
This is a cipher. Looks like Peters was documenting his contacts and experiments—but it's all in code.
HAPPY:
We'll crack it. We always do.
ACT 3: THE TRAIL GOES COLD
INT. SCORPION HQ – NIGHT
Sylvester and Garcia work through the cipher. Paige and Toby dig into Peters' past, interviewing former church members and associates.
GARCIA:
The code references a "Project Lotus" and a list of test subjects. Some of these names match people who disappeared in the 1960s.
SYLVESTER:
And look at this—there's a reference to a symposium at UC Santa Cruz, 1981. Peters spoke there about consciousness research.
TOBY:
If we can find someone who was at that symposium, maybe they know what Peters was really working on.
ACT 4: THE DANGEROUS TRUTH
INT. UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES – DAY
Walter, Paige, and Toby track down an aging professor who attended the 1981 symposium.
PROFESSOR:
Peters was passionate, but paranoid. He said the government wanted to erase anyone who knew the truth. He claimed he volunteered for LSD experiments while in the Navy, and later was recruited for two more programs.
PAIGE:
Did he ever mention what he found?
PROFESSOR:
He said he had evidence the experiments never stopped. That the same techniques were being used today—on prisoners, on activists, even on foreign diplomats.
TOBY:
Did he trust anyone?
PROFESSOR:
His secretary, Susan. And someone he called "the Archivist."
ACT 5: THE SHOWDOWN
INT. UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE – NIGHT
The team arranges a meeting with the mysterious Archivist, who brings a battered briefcase.
ARCHIVIST:
Peters gave me this for safekeeping. He said if anything happened to him, someone had to finish the story.
He hands the briefcase to Walter. Inside:
– Original MK-ULTRA documents
– Photos of test subjects
– Audio tapes of Peters' interviews
– A partial script for the film Peters was making
WALTER:
This is it. The proof.
Suddenly, headlights flood the garage. Armed men approach, intent on seizing the evidence.
HAPPY (over comms):
We've got company!
WALTER:
Get the files to the press. Now!
ACT 6: THE ESCAPE AND REVELATION
INT. SCORPION HQ – NIGHT
The team narrowly escapes, uploading the files to multiple news outlets and trusted journalists. As the story breaks, the world learns about the extent of the CIA's mind-control experiments and the truth behind George Peters' murder.
NEWS CLIPPING MONTAGE:
– "SCORPION TEAM EXPOSES CIA COVER-UP"
– "PETERS FILE: THE TRUTH BEHIND MK-ULTRA"
– "GOVERNMENT DENIALS UNDER FIRE"
PAIGE (to Ralph and the team):
We did what was right, not what was easy. Sometimes, that's the only way to change the world.
The team sits together, united as the world reacts to the truth.
END OF EPISODE