After telling the Scorpion team how reliant they are on technologies like spellcheck and speed dial, Cabe Gallo alludes to machines taking over; "it will be the rise of the machines!!" Robert Patrick played a Terminator in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which depicts the rise of machines.
Cabe Gallo mentions Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Robert Patrick the man who assumes the role, played the antagonist in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).