Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) and Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) may work for the government, but at least their Secret Service assignment was a simple one: protect the President. What may have gone unspoken was understood—your life could be forfeit in the process. Warehouse 13, however, is a whole new ball game. Artifacts are collected over time and kept in one spot. Every so often, an item goes astray and has to be retrieved. Generally speaking, this means post haste.
A series of bank robberies takes place in Chicago. This is not an uncommon occurrence. The criminals do not use guns, and Pete and Myka are on the case. They just have to deal with Agent Bonnie (Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galactica) of the FBI, who is not happy to have help.
Seeing McClintock and Helfer face off is a sweet touch! It wasn't too long ago each played a government agent, he in Bones and she in Burn Notice. Kelly plays the tough as nails operative who goes by procedure. A three-way conflict reminds viewers there is a cop feel to the science fiction.
In the midst of this, Artie (Saul Rubinek) has issues of his own. Someone breaks through the firewall and locks on the computer array. Leena (Genelle Williams), the bed and breakfast owner and a secret-keeper herself, is nearby when Artie breaks the news of where the hacker is located. Hello, Dickenson (Simon Reynolds), who would like nothing better than to have Lattimer and Bering work for him again. The instant I hear this, I had to wonder if Dickenson himself is the actual culprit. Why? A computer person does not have to use his or her own computer to perform the task in question. Seems to me Artie might consider this.
Yet another toy is uncovered in this episode when Artie's camera flattens Dickenson literally into a cardboard cutout. Whether or not the former boss is involved is for you to find out. There is, though, a conspiracy afoot. Or so it seems, anyway.
Mrs. Frederic (CCH Pounder) may not not be the head of the food chain when it comes to the Warehouse. The only thing anybody knows for sure at this point is via a flashback to Artie's younger days which suggests he has already met this person or group during his career or lifetime.
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