Pure Genius
Season 1
201613 episodes
Episode 1
Pilot
Oct 27, 201643m
TMDB rating 7.2TMDB
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.
Episode 2
It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery
Nov 3, 201643m
TMDB rating 7.2TMDB
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.
Episode 3
You Must Remember This
Nov 10, 201643m
TMDB rating 6.5TMDB
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.
Episode 4
Not Your Grandmother's Robotic Surgery
Nov 17, 201643m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
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.
Episode 5
Fire and Ice
Nov 24, 201643m
TMDB rating 7.7TMDB
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.
Episode 6
Bunker Hill, We Have a Problem
Dec 1, 201643m
TMDB rating 7.3TMDB
Walter and the Bunker Hill surgeons must perfect a revolutionary remote surgery when someone on the International Space Station needs an emergency procedure.
Episode 7
A Bunker Hill Christmas
Dec 8, 201643m
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.
Episode 8
Around the World in Eight Kidneys
Dec 15, 201643m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
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.
Episode 9
Grace
Jan 1, 201743m
TMDB rating 6.5TMDB
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.
Episode 10
Hero Worship
Jan 5, 201743m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
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.
Episode 11
Touch and Go
Jan 12, 201743m
TMDB rating 6.5TMDB
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.
Episode 12
I Got This
Jan 19, 201743m
TMDB rating 6.5TMDB
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.
Episode 13
Lift Me Up
Jan 26, 201743m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
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.