While shooting a TV show about the brain, producer Esther Stone gets the opportunity to interview a notorious serial killer, and as someone who’s seen every single episode of Mayday, Sara Mazrouei considers herself an expert in all the ways you can die on a plane until she takes a flight to Australia.

On the top bunk in her childhood bedroom, Kayla Hernandez makes plans to escape her home life and become a scientist and, as a teenager, Marc Abbott dreams of finding a wife and having kids, but a case of testicular torsion could ruin it all.

When pediatric oncologist Sam Blackman gets called for a consult by the obstetrics department, he’s convinced they have the wrong number, and after 25 years of teaching, Matthew Dicks questions whether or not he should still be a teacher.

Neuroscientist Pardeep Singh feels more than out of place when he ends up as a contestant on The Bachelorette and when Thiago Arzua comes to the United States from Brazil to study science he doesn’t know how to fit in.