Warehouse 13 Season 4, Episode 3: Personal Effects

The contents of Syke’s artifacts cache are suspected to be in what appears to have been a safe house, when a cleaning lady winds up in a hospital with the symptoms of a bite from a south American spider… but no bite. When Pete and Myka arrive and find the crates empty, they realize the artifacts in question are on the loose in the town.

With the whole team in on the search, they must round up the missing artifacts the pawn dealer already sold and search for the final artifact – one the thief chose to keep.

What they find as they hunt down the artifacts is that the man, who’s escalated to robbing banks and armored trucks, is after, is a matter of life and death. But his little brother’s heart transplant is more than a matter of money- as they soon find out and the solution is a bigger sacrifice than the crew expected.

Artifacts in this Episode:

Richard E. Byrd’s Smoking Pipe – Controls the weather. When the user smokes the pipe it can call down any number of different weather-related things. In this episode – Tornadoe, snow, precise lightning strikes.

Boa Vista Plantation Token  - induces the symptoms of a bite from the theraphosa blondi spider when someone touches the token (with no spider bite present)

John A. Macready’s Ray-Bans – Reflect Light so well, the user becomes invisible when wearing them. Caveat: The wearer is not invisible on camera. Backlash – user will be blind for twice as long as they wore the glasses.

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Violin – Hitting a G-sharp would cause an entire town to erupt in a wave of violence. Other notes send glowing balls of energy careening out to destroy anything they collide with.

Bobby Jones’ Golf Clubs – Magnifies the user’s anger, resulting in violent rage at the merest annoyance.

Catherine O’Leary’s Cow Bell – Ringing the bell will cause a violent firestorm (Cause the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the Great Chicago Fire.)

Birdcage (unknown origin, perhaps Alfred Hitchcock’s?) – Causes all avian life around it to turn hostile.

(other, mentioned, but unused artifacts: A Clothes Iron, A mask, A Rubik’s Cube, & Headphones)

My Thoughts:

The three teams of two is a fun twist on the otherwise division in two. It’s nice to see Leena out of the B&B and getting some field time in. She’s a really interesting character, and I’d love for them to inject her into the action of the series more.

I’m interested to see where they go with the link between Claudia and Jinks. Shared pain is one thing, what happens if he receives a life ending blow? Or if they stop the metronome?

Personally, I think that a lightning strike would not be the way to kill yourself… if you intended for your heart to be a donor for your brother’s transplant. That bothered me. It still does. But I’m moving past that and hoping next week’s give us more to chew on with the season arc.