archytele The Vault
Season guide

Pure Genius: Season 1

13 episodes Premiered Oct 27, 2016 Updated Oct 27, 2026
Advertisement
Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

🛡️ SPOILER SHIELD

Season 1 Progress Shield

Future titles & synopses blurred. Tap "Reveal" on any card to peek.
Binge Efficiency Engine

Season 1: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

23%
77%
Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (10): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Pilot

Oct 27, 2016 · 43 min

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

S1·E2 Core

It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery

Nov 3, 2016 · 43 min

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. Elsewhe

S1·E3 Core

You Must Remember This

Nov 10, 2016 · 43 min

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 o

S1·E4 Core

Not Your Grandmother's Robotic Surgery

Nov 17, 2016 · 43 min

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 disagree

S1·E5 Core

Fire and Ice

Nov 24, 2016 · 43 min

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

S1·E6 Core

Bunker Hill, We Have a Problem

Dec 1, 2016 · 43 min

Walter and the Bunker Hill surgeons must perfect a revolutionary remote surgery when someone on the International Space Station needs an emergency procedure.

S1·E7 Core

A Bunker Hill Christmas

Dec 8, 2016 · 43 min

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 bett

S1·E8 Core

Around the World in Eight Kidneys

Dec 15, 2016 · 43 min

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 tra

S1·E9 Core

Grace

Jan 1, 2017 · 43 min

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 b

S1·E10 Core

Hero Worship

Jan 5, 2017 · 43 min

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 micro

S1·E11 Core

Touch and Go

Jan 12, 2017 · 43 min

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 Lo

S1·E12 Mytharc

I Got This

Jan 19, 2017 · 43 min

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

S1·E13 Mytharc

Lift Me Up

Jan 26, 2017 · 43 min

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 graffit

Advertisement
Advertisement