SyFy's Warehouse 13 returned tonight with a fantastic season premiere that retained the humor and adventure of last season while raising the stake for our favorite protectors of supernatural relics.
We open at the Warehouse, right after the season-ending explosion that left Artie’s fate up in the air. Pete and Myka are racing to find him amongst the wreckage, wondering how he could have made it out alive.
We open at the Warehouse, right after the season-ending explosion that left Artie’s fate up in the air. Pete and Myka are racing to find him amongst the wreckage, wondering how he could have made it out alive.
Elsewhere in the Warehouse, Leena opens a door, telling someone they don’t have much time.
Myka finds something among the debris, and as she and Pete are trying to figure out what it is, Artie appears out of nowhere. Hugs abound. Artie seems confused. He used the phoenix, a medallion that prevents its bearer from being touched by flame, with the caveat that someone else will die. Pete begins choking. False alarm. It was dust. Artie dust. Pete’s fine.
Outside the Warehouse, Mrs. Fredricks’ car is engulfed in flames. Pete, Myka and Artie race outside to pull her out, only to see her lying in the desert.
Nearby, MacPherson is watching. Leena comes out of the Warehouse with a figure wrapped in a blanket.
She hands it to MacPherson, recommending that whatever it is spends 24 hours free of sunlight. MacPherson sits the figure in his car saying “Welcome to future, let’s change it.”
Ellsworth Military Hospital, South Dakota. Mrs. Fredicks lives, but is in critical condition. Her driver is the one who ended up dying. In a dream, Artie laments that it never would have happened if she hadn’t kissed the phoenix. She tells him to find Claudia and Joshua, and says that MacPherson is playing a long game.
Back in the Warehouse, Leena is showing Pete and Myka security tapes of Claudia breaching the Warehouse (as we learned last season, this was actually Leena wearing Harriet Tubman’s shapeshifting thimble). Pete can’t believe it, but Myka is open to the possibility. Leena has some kind of vision, then Artie comes in, saying Claudia is headed for CERN in Switzerland to be with her brother Joshua. He thinks they might both be working for MacPherson. He’s going to follow her. Pete and Myka want to come, but he wants them to say to survey the Warehouse to find out what MacPherson might have done there. Before he goes, Myka warns him to be careful, MacPherson already killed him once.
Starting in the Bronze Sector, Pete and Myka find that something heavy and bronzed was dragged into the debronzing machine. Two somethings, actually. MacPherson himself, and H.G. Wells, author of The Time Machine. According to Leena, he’s not on the list of Bronze Sector residents.
Peter learns that the H.G. Wells Museum in London was broken into. They think MacPherson was using Claudia to get to her. Pete and Myka head to London.
We see Joshua at CERN, webcamming with Claudia. She tells him that one of his professors, Reynolds, was actually MacPherson in disguise. She’s coming to see him. A doctor enters the rooms and informs Joshua that he’s going to be raising his clearance. He then leaves and sees . . . himself. A moment later, he takes something off his hand . . . the thimble . . . and turns into MacPherson.
In London, Pete and Myka head into the museum. Pete wants to know if H.G. Wells one of the Munsters, because he think the place is dump. Oh how I've missed Pete and his adorable quips. Pete wonders why Myka slept on the plane ride over. She doesn’t know how many times one can watch Marley & Me. Pete got choked up and managed to say that the movie was “so sad”.
The museum is open. Pete is distracted by a pretty English girl inside. It’s been a long time since he’s gotten any, and he doesn’t see why he can’t do his job and satisfy his needs. Myka is not amused.
They check the guest book and see the same Edward Prendick, a character from H.G. Wells’ Island of Doctor Moreau. Wells must be there.
Charging into an office, Pete pulls a man aside, accusing him of being Wells. It’s not. He’s an impersonator, complete with fake moustache. Pete has vibes, and he doesn’t like it.
Claudia arrives in Geneva. She feels like she’s being followed, but there’s no one behind her. Or is there? A man in black with a hat darts just out of view. Claudia turns down an alley, he follows. She hits him in the head. It’s Artie. He tells her she’s fired.
Pete and Myka clear out the museum. Pete wants to know how Myka smoothed over the situation with the Wells’ impersonator. She said she told them Pete was a mental patient who thought he was Wells’ long lost boyfriend. Not even funny, according to Pete.
Back in the hospital, Mrs. Fredericks is dreaming of Leena, when she wakes with a start.
At the museum, Pete pulls open a shaky doorknob and points his gun at the pretty English. She came back to get her notebook. He flirts, and offers to help her find it.
In the alley in Geneva, Claudia and Artie talk. He tells her that she would have to run for the rest of her life to get him off her back. He wants her to trust him, so they can figure out what is going to. She tells him she’s not a double agent and tells him about MacPherson being Professor Reynolds and how they can’t let him get to Joshua. Artie remembers that when Joshua’s position at CERN came up, so did the name Reynolds, but he didn’t know at the time who it was. They bolt for CERN.
Back the museum, Pete and English girl are making out in a hallway. Elsewhere, Artie calls Myka on the Farnsworth. She tells him about the debronzing of Wells.
In the hallway, Pete is vibing again. Myka comes in to tell Pete that H.G. Wells is actually a woman . . . the pretty English one currently holding a Tesla to his neck. Wells tells them that she’s the one who brought teslas to the Warehouse, back when she as apprenticed at Warehouse 12. She wants to know why they are ransacking her home. Myka manages to distract her with a cookie monster cell phone ringtone, and Pete gets away. They restrain her.
After telling Pete and Myka that she hates men, calling them Neanderthals, she tells them that once bronzed a person is not unconscious, just immobile. She’s had a lot of time to think about things. They want to know why she’s in London. She directs them to a hidden compartment and a key that opens a safe of sorts that opens a secret passageway. Myka brings out what Wells calls a family heirloom, a vest with wiring that matches the wiring on the safe. Pete presses the safe, an electric current throws he and Myka to the ceiling. Wells is still on the floor, courtesy of magnetic boots. She frees herself and leaves.
At CERN, Artie and Claudia searching for Joshua and the antimatter storage facility. They see him walking along a catwalk with Professor Reynolds/MacPherson. The professor, flips a switch that turns on a red flashing light and blaring siren, yells that Artie is a terrorist. Claudia runs up to the professor and pulls off the thimble. MacPherson comes out, grabbing a briefcase from Joshua and pushing him over the edge of the catwalk.
Back the museum, Myka talk about an antigravity metal called caberite that Wells invented for one of her stories. She can’t believe it would be real, but Pete reminds her that anything is possible. Then, he manages to turn the anti-gravity off Pete by ramming his tesla into a nearby light socket.
They Farnsworth Artie and he says that the relic Wells has must be the Imperceptor vest, which makes the wearer so fast as to be imperceptible to the naked eye. They will use MacPherson’s antimatter to make it work and enter the Escher vault back at the Warehouse, where they keep the personal effects of those who have been bronzed. Then, they figure out that Leena must have been the breach.
At Leena’s Bed & Breakfast, Mrs. Fredrick enters and questions Leena about the explosion. She hesitates. Mrs. Fredericks asks if she’s been having lapses and blackouts, waking up in different places. Then she chokes her.
A pearl falls from Leena’s ear. She wakes up. Mrs. Fredricks gives her some absinthe to drink, telling her she had to kill her to remove the Pearl of Wisdom that MacPherson must have implanted it in her. It can control a person’s thoughts and movements. Leena realized all that’s happened, and how she used the thimble to disguise herself as Claudia.
In the Warehouse, MacPherson and Wells have the antimatter attached the vest. It works. MacPherson opens the vault and tells Wells that access to it isn’t the problem, it’s getting lost and never coming out again. She enters.
Artie and Claudia are first back to the Warehouse, looking for MacPherson and Wells. Something is off. They smell fudge and discover chameleon minds that blend into the landscape around. Dante’s Death Mask is in the wrong place, and begins shooting up flames. Claudia says it’s okay, the flames only go up eight levels, they can just climb twenty and back down again. Artie can work off those extra pounds he’s been griping about.
Pete and Myka are back. They Farnsworth Artie and he warns them of MacPherson’s traps, telling them to take a long, circuitous route to find them. They decide to zip line down instead. Myka holds on to Pete’s waist and he tells her that to grab him like that he’ll need some sweet talk first.
Downstairs, Wells comes out of the vault, telling MacPherson she got what she came for and left the vest behind. Only, it isn’t Wells, it’s Myka wearing the thimble. Pete cuffs MacPherson. He says he knows the plan and is willing to tell Artie everything.
Wells comes out of the vault and cuts the necklace MacPherson wears to keep his blood from boiling through his veins, then disappears. MacPherson tells Artie that he is the one that put the phoenix in his pocket. He wanted him to die and see the dark he saw. Artie says he saw only light and felt only peace. MacPherson is sorry. He falls to ash.
At Leena’s. There is no trace of Wells, and she has left the vest outside. They resolve to find her. Claudia and Leena are fighting over what Claudia calls “the worst case of identity theft ever”. Artie tells her to go easy on Leena and gives her a Farnsworth to make her happy. And not just any Farnsworth, but Philo Farnsworth’s original. Pete is jealous She asks if this means she is an agent now. Artie says no, it just means that he can reach her any time day or night. Not as fun, according to her.
Back the Warehouse, Mrs. Fredricks and Artie enter Escher vault using some kind of steampunk looking glasses to find out what Wells took: her locket, ring and compact.
We see Wells in café somewhere, looking at and then hiding her locket. A handsome young man asks her what she’s working. She says, “Something I’ve been thinking about for a long time”.
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