I have decided to recap one of our favorite summer shows, Warehouse 13.
If you don't know anything about the show, check out the Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse_13
Last night's episode started with Artie chasing after a scarab in the warehouse while Pete was chatting on the Farnsworth with Claudia. Pete wanted to know where the little marshmallows were. Claudia was at a Civil War reenactment with Jinks, looking for a specific flask. After hanging up with Claudia and Artie sniping at Pete for not helping him catch the bug, Leena called Pete on the Farnsworth to tell him his ex-wife was at the B&B, which sent Pete running quickly.
Myka came home to the B&B after a trip to Dubai to pick up an artifact, and met Pete's ex-wife, Amanda, in the living room. Amanda was a major in the Marines, and Pete never told anyone in the Warehouse that he was previously married. Sidenote: Amanda is played by Jeri Ryan, who is famous for playing the Borg Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager. It's awesome how Warehouse 13 has hired several sci-fi icons as guest stars, like Lindsay Wagner (Wonder Woman), Rene Auberjonois (Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Jewel Staite and Sean Maher (Kaylee and Simon from Firefly).
Back to the action. Myka was distracted by Amanda, and left the artifact, a golden metal beehive, on a side table. Artie also returned and he was sneezing all over the place. Pete came in and ushered Artie and Myka out of the room. After some awkward conversation, Amanda gave Pete one of his cherished first edition comic books, and made the move to leave. Pete asked her what she was really here for, and she finally confessed that she wanted her grandfather's ring back, because she was getting married the next day at a rented castle in the Poconos. While Pete went upstairs to get the ring, Amanda accidentally triggered the beehive, and a metal bee came out and fell into her bag. After Pete came back, he apologized to Amanda for being a bad husband back then because of his alcoholism, and gave her the ring. They agreed that in the end, it worked out for the best for both of them.
After Amanda left, Artie found that the bee was missing from the beehive, and they eventually figured out that the bee fell into Amanda's bag. Myka and Pete were sent to retrieve it. At the wedding, the bee pricked Amanda when she was reaching into her bag. When she hugged the bridesmaids and groomsmen, they turned into worker bees (Mr. Y's note: in mindset only, they were still physically human) who obsessively followed her as the Queen Bee, but Amanda did not notice. Pete and Myka told Amanda they needed some time alone with her to explain a problem. Amanda granted their request, but on the way to find a private place to talk, she saw her future in-laws heading towards her, and told her bridesmaids to keep them away from her. Unbeknownst to Amanda, the bridesmaids were possessed by the bee and took this order very seriously. They were seen picking up the future in-laws and unceremoniously carrying them away.
Pete and Myka explained that they needed to look into Amanda's bag, and found the bee. They immediately put it in their special artifacts bag, and there was a flash and a bang. They thought it was over. Amanda asked for a little time alone with Pete, and she also apologized for her part in the failure of their marriage. Amanda's fiance Michael came in dressed in his Marine uniform, and was introduced to Pete. To Pete's chagrin, Michael was a nice guy.
When Myka and Pete were leaving, the groomsmen and bridesmaids started chasing them around. They eventually ended up in the same room where Amanda was waiting, and blocked the door. Amanda was furious and confused, and Myka talked to Artie to figure out how they could solve the issue. Artie was in bed, sick and chugging cold medicine, and trying to read ancient hieroglyphics. The beehive was an Egyptian artifact from Warehouse 2, and it belonged to an Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut, who created the beehive to control her subjects. Sidenote: there was a running gag here about whether Artie was sneezing or was saying Hatshepsut's name. However, the subjects were so obsessed with the Queen that they turned on her, destroying anything that might be against her best interest, no matter what her orders were. Artie mentioned that the bee was supposed to have a stinger, and Myka noticed that the stinger was missing. They figured out that Amanda was stung by the bee in the finger, but they did not know how to get the stinger out, since it was somewhere in her body.
Pete had the idea of taking Amanda to the hospital to do an X-ray to find the stinger. They knocked out one of the groomsmen who was guarding the door with a vase, then tried to sneak out. On the way out they saw the bridesmaids destroying the reception area, and the groomsmen had captured the groom and were carrying him towards the head table. Artie explained that they saw Michael as a threat to the Queen, because if he married her, then he would be King and higher than the Queen. The wedding party tied Michael down and was about to kill him with a sword (the groomsmen were Marines dressed in their uniforms with swords) when Pete, Myka, and Amanda burst in. Everyone fought each other and eventually Pete managed to free Michael. In the meantime, Artie figured out that the bee was a magnet and should be held against the left clavicle to draw the stinger out of the body. Myka quickly performed the task on Amanda, and the stinger came out and returned to the bee. At that point, the enchantment was lifted and the wedding party was back to normal, albeit with bruises and torn and dirty clothes from the fights.
The wedding did go on and Pete and Myka tried to explain to the shell-shocked and disheveled in-laws that the bridal party ate a bad batch of wild mushrooms at the rehearsal dinner the night before, so they behaved very strangely. After the wedding, Amanda and Michael said goodbye to Pete and Myka, and Amanda said that Pete and Myka made a good team. When back at the Warehouse, Pete and Myka were cataloging the beehive when Pete explained to Myka that the reason why he never mentioned Amanda was because he was ashamed of who he was back then, and he never wanted anyone at the Warehouse to know that version of him. Myka reassured him and, to cheer him up, semi-jokingly told Pete that Amanda's new husband was a tool.
The other story involved Claudia and Jinks, who were trying to find Ulysses S. Grant's flask in the middle of the Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Shiloh. Drinking from the flask would make the drinker believe that he was really Ulysses S. Grant, and would take the reenactment too seriously. After fruitlessly looking through a lot of flasks in a trunk, they decided to get dressed in Confederate uniforms to look in the field. They found a guy who was bruised and battered, and asked him who beat him up. The guy told him the man's name was Private Johnson. Claudia was "shot" by a Union soldier, who was in turn "shot" by Jinks. Claudia was going to go on, but the Union soldier insisted that she was dead. So she went back to the tent while Jinks kept going. Eventually he found Private Johnson, but Private Johnson took his role so seriously that he knocked Jinks down and was ready to kill him with a bayonet when Claudia showed up in a Southern belle outfit. She shot Private Johnson with a mini Tesla that was of her own design. Jinks looked somber because Claudia in the black wig looked a lot like his sister, who died awhile ago. They bagged the flask and went back to the Warehouse. Claudia was looking up the newspaper article about Jinks's sister, Olivia, who was shot by a stray bullet when she was 20 years old, the current age of Claudia. Jinks came in and opened up to Claudia about his sister, and how she was very similar to Claudia and always had his back. The last shot was Artie looking fondly at the fact that Claudia and Jinks were beginning to form a tight friendship.
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