The episode introduces us to Walter O’Brien (Elyes Gabel), a genius with a 197 IQ who was famously caught by the FBI as a child after hacking into NASA. Now an adult, he leads a ragtag group of geniuses who struggle with "normal" life but excel at everything else:
The pilot's main conflict centers on a massive crisis at . A software update has knocked out the communications system, leaving 56 airplanes unable to land and at risk of crashing.
The team finds their "translator" for the real world in (Katharine McPhee), a struggling waitress whose young son, Ralph, turns out to be a child prodigy. A Literal Race Against Time