- Pete and Claudia reunite with Warehouse alumnus Hugo (Rene Auberjonois) to track down a deadly artifact at his nephew's prep school, while Myka and Steve investigate an Artifact that is killing an up and coming musician (Sam Huntington) in New Orleans.—Anonymous
- "Warehouse 13" - "There's Always a Downside" - August 13, 2012
We have three cases tonight.
Myka (Joanne Kelly) and Steve (Aaron Ashmore) investigate a therapist who seemingly cures her patients overnight. It leads them to a jazz club in the French Quarter. They encounter a trumpet player named Ethan (Sam Huntington) who is an amazing player but seems he's in pain for the last three months, the same amount of time the patients have been losing theirs. Myka and Steve figure someone/something is taking the patients' pain and giving it to Ethan. Steve and Myka talk to him but have trouble pinpointing the cause. They determine that he's doing it to himself, that he found an artifact that helps him steal other people's pain and therefore makes him a better player just like an old jazzbo told him it would. They try to tell him to stop. but he says it's what he wants. He can take Steve's pain too and grabs Steve before Myka can pull him back. As waves of Steve's pain move from him to Ethan, Ethan looks at him and asks "what happened to you??" Steve tells him it's his pain and to please stop, knowing somewhere it's probably also affecting Claudia (Allison Scagliotti). Myka breaks the connection and grabs the artifact and neutralizes it. Everyone breathes easily. Turns out it was Scott Joplin's cigarette case which had been handed down to him. He thought he was helping people and wanted to die at 27 and leave a legacy like Morrison/Cobain/Hendrix/Winehouse. The cute bartender calls him selfish and declares her love. After solving the case, Steve admits to Myka the downside of the metronome: when something hurts him, it hurts Claudia too. He admits he hasn't told her yet. He says he has to take himself off the metronome. Myka says there has to be another solution because she's experienced too much death. Back at the Warehouse, they explain once they neutralized the artifact, the pain returned to the patients but now they'll work it out themselves. Steve asks for a little time off to sort some stuff out.
Brother Adrian (Brent Spiner) comes to visit Artie (Saul Rubinek) at Leena's. He has brought several artifacts including a spur from a famous bounty hunter to help sniff out who took the astrolabe. Artie says he can't use them. Brother Adrian says it's important to retrieve the astrolabe by any means necessary. Artie says they need research.Brother Adrian produces a whole portfolio. He's very excited to get going. Artie is understandably wary. When Artie has Brother Adrian close his eyes and destroys his artifact, Brother Adrian tells him it was a trick. It wasn't actually the famous spur, but a thrift store piece of crap. Artie realizes Brother Adrian is onto him. Brother Adrian calls him a selfish, foolish man for using the astrolabe and bringing evil into the world. Artie says they're done. Brother Adrian catches up with Artie and tries to convince him to use the astrolabe again and undo what he did. Artie says there's too much at stake and tries to explain what happened and includes the part with the encounter between them. Brother Adrian is livid Artie won't listen. He says he is dismantling Artie's life's work. Essentially, Adrian will exact revenge. Some elements have already been set in motion.
We meet up with Hugo Miller (Rene Auberjonois) again much to Artie's chagrin. Hugo was sent Bobby Fischer's marbles. They make the user very focused and productive. The downside is the person using them eventually loses their marbles and becomes very violent. Hugo's nephew goes to a very competitive prep school in the midst of an academic tournament. The nephew takes the marbles and also loans them to four friends. Each has a violent outburst--one students beats another, one student threatens a teacher for a better grade in biology-- an outbreak of crazy veins on their bodies. Claudia and Pete (Eddie McClintock) try to track them down while Hugo tends to his nephew who, like the other boys, are headed for cardiac arrest or stroke. They round up the boys, but it turns ot the last marble is in the possession of the headmaster who has it in for the school board which wants to make budget cuts. We see him collecting a bunch of poison as he plans for the final event of the tournament: a basketball game in the gym in front of the whole school. Pete goes after him, but the boys want to win the tournament so badly and under the influence of the marbles they try to make Hugo and Claudia stop them. Claudia zaps them. Hugo is bereft. He admits he gave his nephew the marbles and told him what they did. He was trying to groom him to become a Warehouse agent like him. Suddenly Claudia is short of breath-- thanks to what's happening in Steve's storyline. Claudia gets her breath back and tells Hugo they have to get that last marble to make this all right. Pete disarms the headmaster and uses the marble to focus to figure out how to disarm the gas bomb he set up to kill the school board while Hugo and Claudia evacuate the gym. Hugo thanks Claudia for being understanding. Claudia and Pete return just as Myka and Steve were finishing up, bag of neutralized marbles in hand. After Claudia, Myka, and Steve leave, Artie asks Pete how Claudia did. (He had asked him to keep an eye on her.) Pete says she was scary. Artie has a flash on the image of Claudia stabbing him in the chest and asks what Pete means. He says he means she was scary good, strong and powerful. Artie would be proud. He hands Artie the marbles. Artie is aghast. It was Bobby Fischer's marbles they were after. Pete asks him what's wrong. He plays it off and tells Pete to go get some rest. He then rushes out to the Warehouse to a display which reads "Bobby Fischer's Marbles". The electronic screen in front of it is blinking red, reading "Artifact Removed." The words of Brother Adrian ring through his head about plans already being set in motion. He picks up a small shiny black stone on the case where the marbles should be and shouts to himself "no!"
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