Neuroscientist Qi Lin can’t escape her scientific mindset, and attorney Michael Perlin makes a startling discovery while interviewing prisoners who are unfit to stand trial.

Journalist Alok Jha is trapped in the ice off the coast of Antarctica, and neuroscientist Rita Tavares attempts to analyze her romantic problems with science.

Ecologist Evon Hekkala must confront a man-eating croc, and criminologist Stan Stojkovic receives a letter from a convicted murderer.

Marine biology grad student Liz Neeley and criminologist Heith Copes confront the messy reality of the field.

Naturalist Helen Cheng leaves Brooklyn for her first experience in the field, and ecologist Thom Young-Bayer decides to leave science.