8.2/109 votes#1 - Little Boy Lost
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2016
Team Scorpion must find a boy from Ralph’s class who goes missing on a field trip after he accidentally has a run-in with a deadly criminal. Also, Toby gets closer to finding out the identity of Happy’s husband.
Director: Steven A. Adelson
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
8.2/104 votes#2 - Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/2021
When Mac and the team are unable to prevent Department of Defense intel from falling into Codex’s hands, Mac must scale a vertical cliff using only gear he can cobble together himself to prevent the info’s transmission.
Director: Christine Moore
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
8.1/107 votes#3 - Ticker
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/2016
When Los Angeles’ blood supply is hacked and deemed unusable because of fear it’s been tainted, Team Scorpion must find the culprit in order to save a young girl in desperate need of a heart transplant.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
8.0/109 votes#4 - Dominoes
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/2014
On Christmas Eve, Team Scorpion races to find a way to save a young boy's life after he is trapped in a beachside cave and the rising tide threatens to drown him.
Director: Omar Madha
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
8.0/106 votes#5 - The Old College Try
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/2015
Team Scorpion goes undercover at a university to find a hacker who infiltrates the Federal Reserve and threatens to collapse the world economy.
Director: Christine Moore
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
8.0/1010 votes#6 - The Hole Truth
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/2017
Team Scorpion must save a man teetering on the edge of a massive sink hole that threatens to destroy the Los Angeles water supply forever.
Director: Sam Hill
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.9/107 votes#7 - Charades
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/2015
Team Scorpion is tasked with uncovering a mole inside the CIA who is being coerced into stealing deadly chemicals. Paige gives Walter a flirting lesson in preparation for the case.
Director: Christine Moore
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.8/104 votes#8 - No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/2019
When two American tourists go missing while doing a “No-Go Scavenger Hunt” through some of the world’s most dangerous countries, the Phoenix team goes undercover as backpackers to find them and bring them home alive.
Director: Andrew Karlsruher
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.8/104 votes#9 - Kid + Plane + Cable + Truck
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/2020
MacGyver and the team board a plane that’s mid-flight when the pilot has a heart attack, and discover the medical emergency was intentional.
Director: Lily Mariye
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.7/1010 votes#10 - True Colors
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2014
The members of Team Scorpion must pass a mandated psych evaluation or face being disbanded after they're accused of destroying a priceless work of art in an attempt to protect an art exhibit. Paige enlists the help of the team when Ralph is reluctant to go to his school's Halloween party.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.7/109 votes#11 - Sci Hard
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2017
While attending a tech convention, Team Scorpion is taken hostage by a group attempting a virtual heist.
Director: Dwight H. Little
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.6/107 votes#12 - Crossroads
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/2015
To protect a key witness who is en route to testifying against a deadly drug cartel, Team Scorpion takes her on the run, with the cartel hot on their heels.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.5/108 votes#13 - Kenny and the Jet
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/2018
Paige’s maternal side goes into high gear when Team Scorpion must save an unconscious, hypothermic boy stuck in the wheel well of their airborne airplane. Also, Walter’s white lie to Paige starts to take a toll on him, and Paige realizes something’s up.
Director: Jeff T. Thomas
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.5/104 votes#14 - Tesla + Bell + Edison + Mac
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 4/17/2020
When Mac is put into a dream state to help him recall key evidence found in Nikola Tesla’s secret lab that could stop Codex’s deadly plot, he encounters Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison…and his mother.
Director: Yangzom Brauen
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.5/102 votes#15 - S.O.S.
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/17/2006
Allison investigates apparently random killings, endangering her family in the process. Bridget has to do a class presentation about her mom's job.
Director: Tim Squyres
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.2/105 votes#16 - Guts + Fuel + Hope
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2018
MacGyver and Riley, with the help of Vasil, a distraught father, must find a way to drive a tanker filled with liquid oxygen through a region occupied by rebels and deliver it to a children’s hospital before they run out. Also, Riley helps MacGyver decide whether or not to allow his father back into his life.
Director: Peter Weller
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.2/104 votes#17 - K9 + Smugglers + New Recruit
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2019
After a surprising introduction to Phoenix’s newest recruit, Desi, MacGyver and team are assigned to escort and protect an ATF (alcohol, tobacco, firearms) gun-sniffing dog who has a bounty on his head, only to discover they’re not the only ones crashing the weapon drop.
Director: Gabriel Beristain
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
7.1/108 votes#18 - The Bunker Games
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/2018
Team Scorpion must work with Toby’s nemesis, Quincy Berkstead, and his wife, Amy, Toby’s ex-fiancée, when they are locked inside an artificially intelligent doomsday bunker that aims to kill them. Also, Walter is distracted by his recent dream where he is married to Florence, not Paige.
Director: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
6.1/109 votes#19 - Cuba Libre
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2015
Team Scorpion heads to Cuba when a woman from Cabe’s past pleads for him to help catch a Serbian war criminal.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Rob Pearlstein
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"Little Boy Lost" is the best rated episode written by Rob Pearlstein. It scored 8.2/10 based on 9 votes. It was directed by Steven A. Adelson. It aired on 10/17/2016 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt".