- Claudia gets some on-the-job training in her first field assignment with Myka. But she's a bit overwhelmed by the hunky guys on the wrestling team they're investigating despite their tendency toward spontaneous human combustion. Fortunately, H. G. Wells lends a hand seeking a sympathetic, if skeptical, ear from Myka. Poor Pete, stuck back at the Warehouse, helps Artie with his infatuation with the Warehouse doctor and then takes action on his own infatuation.—David Foss
- "Warehouse 13" - "For the Team" - August 17, 2010
Because Pete (Eddie McClintock) is still grounded from the telegraph incident, Artie (Saul Rubinek) sends Myka (Joanne Kelly) and Claudia (Allison Scagliotti) to investigate a suspicious winning streak and even more suspicious death for a wrestling team at Tamalpais University. Claudia is excited to be going on her first mission as an agent but both Artie and Myka remind her that she's an apprentice.
They arrive at TU and try and determine what artifact is making the wrestlers bulk up in no time. While trying to talk to the players in the locker room, Claudia freaks out and goes back to the gym. There she witnesses a wrestler, who just won his match, spontaneously combust and she freaks out.
Myka talks to the coach and Claudia tries talking to the players. The coach is defensive but it's unclear if he's involved. Claudia strikes out with the players because she's trying to be all professional and business-like like Myka. Myka tells her to be herself and relate to the boys as peers. Claudia doubts her abilities but Myka bucks her up.
When they see the coach hold a gold medal out for all of players to touch, they figure that's the culprit and go to his office to nab it. Instead they run into H.G. Wells (Jaime Murray) who has got it in her hot little hands. She hands it over a little too easily because it's not the artifact.
When someone runs the coach down and kills him, things get even stranger and they figure someone must know they're on to them. That someone then tries to run down Myka and H.G., but H.G. pulls out a grappling hook of her own design, grabs Myka and whisks them to safety. Myka is begrudgingly impressed with H.G.'s grappler. H.G. tells Myka what she really wants to do is come back and be a Warehouse agent, like she was previously. She no longer has living friends or family -- she stole a locket from the Escher vault with a picture of her now dead daughter in it- and thinks she could be of use to them. Myka says it's not her decision but she'll think about it.
They figure out that the players are spontaneously combusting because of an energy drink they've been guzzling - Boiling Point- supplied to them by a local bottling magnate. Myka, H.G., and Claudia go to the bottling plant and discover the artifact - a Viking ladle which touches every batch of the drink. It allows those who drink it to bulk up quickly to defeat their opponents but then kills them. It turns out the magnate knew nothing about it but his head chemist did. Said chemist has a huge financial stake in the energy drink which is about to be sold for beau-coup bucks to a larger corporation. In a fight to grab the ladle, Claudia falls into a vat of the drink. Because it was absorbed quickly into her pores, she immediately starts burning up. They dump her in a tub of ice while H.G. and the chemist work on an antidote. It saves Claudia's life and as Myka turns around to thank H.G., she is gone, having left behind the grappler with a note saying Myka can keep it and owe her one.
Meanwhile, back at the Warehouse, Pete continues his contentious flirtation with Univille town vet Kelly after she takes care of Myka's ferret. Artie starts experiencing pain and it turns out, he says, his appendix regenerates every year as a side effect of working in the Warehouse. The special doctor Vanessa (Lindsay Wagner) is called in to remove it, again. But before she can, Pete finds an artifact Artie has been using from P.T. Barnum which actually causes the organ to keep regrowing. He's been using it as an excuse to see Vanessa annually. Vanessa gets called away on another emergency and Kelly ends up having to take out Artie's appendix. When Vanessa returns, Pete pushes Artie to simply ask her out on a date. Artie does the same with Pete and Kelly. By episode's end, both get up the courage to do just that. Vanessa happily says yes. Kelly is more hesitant at first but agrees in the end to eat at the same table with Pete.
Myka returns to the Warehouse, where Artie scolds her and Claudia for not telling him about H.G. Wells, appendix regrowth or no. Myka puts the grappler away.
Back at the B&B, Claudia goes online and registers for classes at South Dakota U after Myka points out what a great job she did. To be a real Secret Service agent, Claudia will need a college degree.
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