7.5/10381 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/2016
Silicon Valley tech titan James Bell enlists Dr. Walter Wallace, an exceptional veteran surgeon with a controversial past, to run his state-of-the-art hospital with an ultramodern approach to medicine.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Jason Katims, Sarah Watson
7.6/10310 votes#2 - It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/2016
Malik and Zoe don't see eye to eye when it comes to using a revolutionary procedure involving spider silk to save a boy's crushed legs versus the safer route of amputation. Elsewhere, James, Walter and Talaikha care for a young woman in desperate need of a liver transplant who, to their surprise, is reluctant to accept a donation from her estranged father.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Jon Cowan
7.5/10276 votes#3 - You Must Remember This
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/2016
James wants to treat a police officer who suffered a brain injury in a car crash and lost all of his memories with a cutting-edge method to recode his brain; at the same time, an obese woman is given an appetite suppression sensor; and Zoe tries to erase security footage of her kiss with Malik.
Director: Jessica Yu
Writer: Yahlin Chang
7.8/10261 votes#4 - Not Your Grandmother's Robotic Surgery
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/2016
When James' beloved elementary school teacher is diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, he tries to employ a risky robotic surgery to save her, an approach with which Walter disagrees. Also, a military veteran blinded in combat and riddled with guilt refuses Zoe and Talikha's high-tech treatment that could restore his vision.
Director: Mark Piznarski
Writer: Jason Katims
7.5/10245 votes#5 - Fire and Ice
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2016
James convinces a hockey player with a severe spinal injury to undergo risky surgery that could enable him to walk again. Also, James invites Walter’s wife, FDA executive Julianna Wallace, to Bunker Hill to persuade her to approve a new skin bio-printing trial.
Director: Norberto Barba
Writer: Julia Brownell
7.9/10267 votes#6 - Bunker Hill, We Have a Problem
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2016
Walter and the Bunker Hill surgeons must perfect a revolutionary remote surgery when someone on the International Space Station needs an emergency procedure.
Director: Dylan K. Massin
Writer: Meredith Averill
8.4/10280 votes#7 - A Bunker Hill Christmas
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/8/2016
When a young leukemia patient comes to Bunker Hill in need of a miracle, James hopes a new t-cell cancer treatment will save her life, as her optimism inspires him to become a better person.
Director: Michael Engler
Writer: Jason Katims
8.0/10256 votes#8 - Around the World in Eight Kidneys
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/15/2016
James and the Bunker Hill surgeons attempt to make medical history with the largest chain of internationally paired kidney donations ever, comprised of eight simultaneous organ transplants and 16 surgeries.
Director: Dylan K. Massin
Writer: Denise Hahn
7.6/10238 votes#9 - Grace
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/1/2017
When a young man comes to Bunker Hill ravaged by a drug-resistant strain of HIV, James attempts a radical anti-viral treatment. Also, Walter must work quickly when his daughter’s best friend contracts a fatal flesh-eating bacteria, and James makes a connection with Louis Keating’s nurse.
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez
Writer: Andrew Hinderaker
7.6/10221 votes#10 - Hero Worship
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2017
When a woman arrives at Bunker Hill with a mysterious lung ailment, James is conflicted after he connects other respiratory cases in her area to possible contamination from a microchip factory owned by his hero, tech guru Douglas Prescott.
Director: Michael Weaver
Writer: Ted Sullivan
7.8/10226 votes#11 - Touch and Go
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2017
James and Zoe work to help a teenage girl with a rare skin blistering disorder, employing radical treatments to heal her skin in time for her to attend her school prom. Also, as Louis Keating’s GSS condition gets worse, James is tempted to use his experimental cure to save him.
Director: Patrick R. Norris
Writer: Meredith Averill
7.7/10234 votes#12 - I Got This
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/2017
Talaikha and Malik treat Georgia Ray, one of the world’s biggest pop stars and friend of James’s, for laryngeal cancer, but when gold particles and microsurgery reveal more cancer than expected, they incur the singer’s wrath when her vocal chords and career are threatened.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10232 votes#13 - Lift Me Up
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/2017
Angie tries to target her mother’s illness using radical nanobot technology, but she looks to Scott for help when her mother prefers using traditional methods. Also, when a graffiti artist with a clotting disorder falls from a bridge, Walter, Malik and Zoe attempt to use suspended animation to stop his internal bleeding.
Director: Norberto Barba
Writer: Jon Cowan
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A young Silicon Valley tech-titan enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, new school approach to medicine.
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Pure Genius" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 381 votes. Directed by David Semel and written by Jason Katims, Sarah Watson, it aired on 10/27/2016. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery".