Paige Dineen quotes from Scorpion

Paige Dineen

That was painful. This whole experience has been painful.

Odd. Most people who come in here are real upbeat.

Walter O'Brien

I will never understand the allure of comic books. Superheroes, evil villains, it's nonsense.

Paige Dineen

We do it all the time.

Walter O'Brien

We aren't mortals who got powers from radiation exposure. We're simply organisms with abnormally dense brains that process glucose at a rate high enough to allow for advanced thought processing.

Toby Curtis

I'm startin' to think we should just let 'em have the nuke....With great responsibility comes great wedgie.

Cabe Gallo

This is just wrong.

Happy Quinn

Don't say anything.

Toby Curtis

Just friends.

Paige Dineen

I don't know how the actors move in these things.

Walter O'Brien

I want Homeland to double our fee. I feel absurd. I don't like feeling absurd.

Does Ralph play sports?

Paige Dineen

Ralph is more of an indoor cat.

Ralph Dineen

My telescope has a six-inch F8 reflector. Most are eight inches now, but I prefer the older version.

Walter O'Brien

Counterbalance is one of the keys to your survival.

Paige Dineen

One of the keys? What's the other?

Walter O'Brien

How often they empty the grease tracks at Chucky Burger.

Ralph Dineen

Give me the 9-volt battery from your stud finder.

Toby Curtis

Stud finder? I can't go near those things, they just go off.

Paige Dineen

Uh, you wanna fill me in here?

Ralph Dineen

Most electronic doors use a servomotor. A computer sends an electronic signal to unlock it. But since that computer isn't working, I'll send the signal myself.

Paige Dineen

That's why he doesn't have time for scouts.

Walter O'Brien

I don't like this.

Paige Dineen

What, me taking a risk, or me using logic against you?

Walter O'Brien

Both.

Walter O'Brien

There's nothing that we really can't explain.

Paige Dineen

What about death?

Walter O'Brien

It is the breakdown of biological functions that support life.

Paige Dineen

See, you throw science at things that should be emotional.

Walter O'Brien

We process the world differently from most people. It's all it is. And truthfully, I know exactly what's going on with Megan.

Paige Dineen

There is a process to life that ends in unknown.

Walter O'Brien

[pushes intercom button] Toby?

Toby Curtis

What?

Walter O'Brien

Can you explain Megan's condition as it stands?

Toby Curtis

She has a bacterial infection in her lungs. Pneumonia.

Walter O'Brien

Why's that?

Toby Curtis

She has scarred, damaged lungs.

Walter O'Brien

Why?

Toby Curtis

She's inhaled small amounts of food and saliva that over time have damaged her lungs.

Walter O'Brien

Mmm hmm. Why is that happening?

Toby Curtis

Um, she can't swallow very well because of the MS.

Walter O'Brien

Explain.

Toby Curtis

The MS damaged some nerves in her brain, probably her medula.

Walter O'Brien

How come?

Toby Curtis

Her own immune system attacked the myelin sheaths around the nerves.

Walter O'Brien

Thank you, Toby. [turns off intercom] You see, we know everything we need to know

Paige Dineen

[turns on intercom] Toby, why is her own body attacking her nerves?

Toby Curtis

You know, we don't know.

Paige Dineen

What are you doing to my son?

Ray Spiewack

Hey Peggy. I'm just helping him with his homework. His report card was a tad subpar.

Paige Dineen

He gets straight A's.

Ray Spiewack

Not in gym.

Paige Dineen

Ralph doesn't care about gym.

Toby Curtis

All boys care about gym. It's Lord of the Flies in there and getting picked last is painful. Trust me.

Paige Dineen

I'm not sure I like him telling you guys things instead of me.

Toby Curtis

He's one of us. We get him.

Sylvester Dodd

Oh, no. I am not going back to college. College was the worst six months of my life.

Toby Curtis

I'm in! And I'm gonna do it right this time. College sucked hard for 14-year-old Tobias Curtis.

Paige Dineen

Guys, college is fun!

Walter O'Brien

College is a continued adolescence factory where parents subsidize years of nonsense instead of serious academic rigor.

Paige Dineen

Yeah. Fun.

Walter O'Brien

Ralph, have you accessed the system?

Ralph Dineen

Almost there.

Paige Dineen

Uh, by the way, where's your sitter?

Ralph Dineen

Downstairs on her phone. I gave her a soda.

Cabe Gallo

You sure you know what you're doing?

Sylvester Dodd

I am a hypochondriac. I've been taking my own blood pressure since I was nine.

Walter O'Brien

Why is Sylvester administering you medical care?

Cabe Gallo

My doctor says my numbers are up. He wants me to check it every morning.

Paige Dineen

You're in good shape. Why would you have high blood pressure?

Toby Curtis

Happy New Year! I got bagels. throws a bagel and hits Cabe

Cabe Gallo

You were saying?

Paige Dineen

I was worried that Ralph wouldn't connect with other people because he has no siblings, but he's got a whole bunch right here.

Walter O'Brien

Yeah, they're just not as mature as he is yet.

Paige Dineen

There is a fine line between honesty and insult.

Walter O'Brien

I do not see it. You are a hundred percent wrong.

Paige Dineen

Yes, clearly you do not see it.

Paige Dineen

Here, lyrics. You're doing the boy part.

Walter O'Brien

OK...I'm doing what?

Paige Dineen

You're doing the boy part.

Toby Curtis

Oh God! I should be recording this.

Walter O'Brien

[sings] Don't go breaking my heart.