- Myka and Pete go to Detroit after a seemingly invulnerable vigilante begins using extraordinary means to thwart criminals. Meanwhile, the rest of the team tries to get past recent events while improving conditions at the warehouse.
- "Warehouse 13" - "Mild Mannered" - July 13, 2010
Pete (Eddie McClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) stroll down the street and Pete tries to make nice with the locals to no avail.
They go visit Brenda (Kyra Harper) who has their "stuff," after a six month wait. It's a package for Myka full of her personal stuff like books, music, and her slippers. We also learn her middle initial is "O." She won't say what it stands for.
Artie (Saul Rubinek) broods about the late MacPherson (Roger Rees) in the Warehouse and Claudia (Allison Scagliotti) asks how he is. He says he's fine and she needs to work on the security system with Leena (Genelle Williams) so the Warehouse won't be vulnerable begin. An alert comes up on the screen. The problem is in Detroit.
We cut there to a burglar who is taken out by an unseen force during a burglary.
Myka puts away her things while dancing with her teddy bear. Leena and Pete poke fun at her happiness over her things. Artie enters and tells them about their assignment. Detroit criminals are being assaulted in strange ways. Pete and Myka are sent to find out why.
Artie pulls Leena aside and asks her to work on mending her relationship with Claudia. Leena then experiences a weird head trip.
In Detroit, Pete and Myka survey the scene where the burglar was thrown through the wall. They speak to the officer who arrived on the scene, he doesn't have much info. Three shots fired, the apartment dwellers were out of town. Pete and Myka find bullet casings that look like they hit something impenetrable.
At the Warehouse Artie works on the sensors and bumps into a vision of MacPherson which promptly disappears.
Claudia does inventory while listening to her headphones. Leena comes up and startles her and tells her they need to put up more motion sensors and also work out their problems. Claudia is uninterested.
Back in Detroit, the cop brings them to the meeting place of the neighborhood watch group, a great diner.
Pete hangs back to check in with Artie about the squashed bullets and asks about artifact possibilities. Artie tells him to figure it out on his own. Artie is cranky and tells him he'll have Claudia look into it.
Pete and Myka chat with Loretta (Jewel Staite), head of the watch group and the diner owner. She has to head to the bank - and Myka notices a strange box in her safe. They talk to Sheldon (Sean Maher),another member of the watch group. They ask him about the strange goings on. He hasn't seen anything, but says he'll keep an eye out. The cop departs.
(Whedon geek alert: Loretta is played by Jewel Staite and Sheldon by Sean Maher, both of the dearly departed "Firefly".)
Pete and Myka notice the cop was the first on the scene at all three crimes, is mad about city cutbacks and could be their artifact man.
They tail him. They notice him get a call and follow him. Some criminals are robbing a home. There is a ruckus in the living room and one of the criminals, who is in the bedroom hears mayhem in the other room and when he looks out we see his face react to something incredible. Myka and Pete bust in to see their cop in the disheveled room with several of the robbers on the ground. They tell him to surrender the artifact but he has no idea what they're talking about saying he didn't do this. They hear shots fired outside and race out to see a man in a purple superhero costume, who is vibrating, holding the final robber over his head. He hurls the criminal over them and flies away. They are flabbergasted.
Myka refuses to believe it was a superhero, Pete is convinced it was the "Iron Shadow" of awesome comic book fame. The cop is freaked. Pete explains the character is a regular guy trained as the ultimate urban samurai. Myka thinks his mask looked artifact-y.
The pair go back to the diner and have her open the safe. Sheldon is outraged they are going after a good woman like Loretta. She says they all feel unsafe, they just want someone to do something about it. Pete pulls out an old bag. It has a key in it. They drop it in one of their mystical evidence bags and nothing happens. Pete says the Iron Shadow must not use keys. Sheldon is confused, the comic book guy? Yup, Pete explains. He and Myka depart.
They try to suss it out: regular schmo vigilante, where does he hang out? They go to the local comics and collectibles shop. Pete browses while Myka talks to the owner, who was at the diner earlier complaining about cops and praising vigilantes. She asks if he knows about the vigilante. He doesn't but is glad he's out there. She asks for a list of customers who have bought Iron Shadow merchandise. He likes being ordered around.
Pete is lost in the stacks of Iron Shadow back issues, including one where the government orders superheroes unmasked but he refuses. He's got nothing useful on the case though. He has all the issues except #46. Pete quotes the Iron Shadow motto and she realizes she heard Sheldon use it earlier.
Back at the Warehouse, Artie is again visited by a vision of MacPherson. Leena and Claudia can't see it. He tells them about his visions. He thinks he's risen thanks to Warehouse hoodoo, projecting an apparition, but Leena thinks it's a manifestation of his own guilt. They then get a hit on Rasputin's prayer rope as a potential suspect of the projection.
In Detroit, Sheldon denies being the Iron Shadow. But he soon reveals himself and says Loretta knows nothing about it. He's still mad about being attacked in his own home and vibrates with energy. They ask him to give them the artifact and he says okay but, of course, that's too easy and he flies away. They go outside and, as the Iron Shadow stands on a far wall, he proclaims he will save the city and keep Loretta safe and no one will stop him. He then lets loose some power from his fingers and blows Pete and Myka into a wall.He says this is their one warning and to leave Detroit and flies away. Pete is kind of excited. Myka points out Sheldon is altering his molecular structure which is going to be bad news for him.
Artie, Leena, and Claudia investigate Rasputin's rope and give it a good scrub in a mystical washing machine to rid it of MacPherson's resurrected energy. When they take it out it appears "clean." Artie takes off and Claudia confronts Leena about her feelings of betrayal about her "picking" her as a disguise and how she almost lost the only family she's ever had. Leena says she didn't "pick" Claudia to become and blames MacPherson for dividing them. Leena then points out Claudia's not the only one who almost lost her family and stalks off. Myka rings Claudia on the Farnsworth to run a theory by her.
Back in his office Artie is confronted by MacPherson again.
Claudia and Pete and Myka figure out the Iron Shadow is using Jacob Kurtzberg's belt, which gives the wearer secret strength. Claudia is going to research how to counter it while Pete and Myka come up with a plan to deal with him in the meantime. They're going to see Loretta, but Sheldon gets there first. He's all sweaty and stuff and she wonders if he's okay. He says all he wants is for her to feel safe. She says she always feel safe with him. He says he has to tell her something. She says she already knows, she sees it in his eyes. He can't believe he might have her, especially who he was before but now it's all different. He outs himself to her as the Iron Shadow. Pete and Myka bust in and make him mad, and he starts emanating his power and busting up the diner. He can't control his power and a shelf falls on Loretta and he flies away through the ceiling.
Pete and Myka help up a shaken Loretta. She's freaked out about Sheldon. Claudia calls with an antidote and is also in Detroit, walking into the diner. She brings a superhero suit of her own which absorbs energy and helps redirect it. The wearer is drained of their own energy in 60 minutes. Pete is psyched until he hears that after an hour it makes the wearer impotent. He hands the suit off to Myka.
Artie is getting nutty at the Warehouse and wonders frantically why MacPherson won't leave him alone. Leena tries to reason with him and then he realizes it must have something to do with both of them dying and being brought back by the Phoenix. He wanders off muttering and Leena has another head trip.
The gang tracks Sheldon down at an automotive factory where he used to work. He's still vibrating and mad about them making him accidentally hurt Loretta. Myka saunters in in the super hot suit of energy absorption. She says they're trying to help him whether he wants them to or not. He says he doesn't want to hurt anyone. She tells him to take her hand. He does, and his power flows into her for long enough for Pete to take the belt. Myka lets go and shoots the energy she absorbed through the ceiling. Loretta comes in relieved he's okay since they got the belt. Only problem is, his power is not in the belt -- it's in his superhero underwear/trunks. It starts up again and he can't get them off. They pull Loretta away. Claudia informs them if Sheldon collapses in on himself, black hole style, he's going to take all of Motown with him.
Myka goes to absorb the energy and get the trunks off. The suit only works so well, so Pete moves in to get the trunks off. He does. Claudia throws them in an evidence bag. Pete calls Myka his hero. Sheldon admits he bought the trunks at a yard sale and he had no idea what power they held until he put them on. They let Sheldon go to live happily ever after, in a dangerous neighborhood, with Loretta. Claudia can't believe it. Myka explains an artifact took control of him and made him hurt someone he loves, and perhaps that's forgivable. Claudia gets it and agrees.
At the Warehouse, Artie enters the special rooms of remembrance, a place he shared with James. He talks to a picture of himself and Macpherson, reminiscing and grieving. He wonders if MacPherson knew what would happen and that's why he gave him the Phoenix and is haunting him now. MacPherson appears behind him just as Artie notices a note from him in the desk drawer. There is a pocket watch there the two used to argue over, and he says Artie should have it. MacPherson hopes it brings him the good luck he will clearly need. He says goodbye.
Claudia goes to apologize to Leena saying she knows the shoe, or Harriet Tubman's thimble, could easily have been put on her. Leena thanks her. Leena shelves an artifact and has another head trip. She calls Mrs. Frederic.
Back at the Warehouse Myka admits to Pete it was pretty cool being a superhero and finally admits her middle name is Ophelia. Back at the B&B Myka, Artie, and Leena surprise Pete with a big screen TV and a copy of issue #46, to distract him until his stuff arrives.
Artie apologizes to Claudia for being so cranky and starts to lecture her about ghosts.
Myka asks Pete if this is starting to feel more like home now. He says no, it's better.
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