Warehouse 13 returned for its fourth season last night, and it was a great episode. It was darker than a lot of their usual episodes, but there were still some of the show's trademark humor.
The episode picked up right where it left last season - the Warehouse in ruins around Artie, Myka, and Pete after Walter Sykes's bomb went off, and H.G. Wells saved them by trapping them in a bubble. The team figured out that MacPherson's watch could lead them to a fail-safe that might prevent the bomb from going off, and set off in a race to get the artifact in France and at the Vatican. The fail-safe turned out to be Magellan's astrolabe, which could be used to turn the time back 24 hours.
Brent Spiner guest-starred as Brother Adrian, a priest who headed a secretive and scary brotherhood prepared to kill to protect the astrolabe, and almost succeeded. They managed to kill Pete, but Pete also stabbed Brother Adrian before he died. Before dying himself, Brother Adrian warned Artie that he would be releasing evil if he used the artifact. Artie used it anyway in order to save the Warehouse and the world, which had fallen into chaos due to the release of Pandora's box from the Warehouse, but it was clear that by doing so there were going to be consequences.
I like how the show doesn't take the easy way out of resetting the Warehouse and then just moving on. One of the clearest themes in the show is that using artifacts always has its consequences, and sometimes those are far worse than one can imagine. In this case it looks like the evil mentioned by Brother Adrian is related to Claudia and her determination to bring Steve Jinks back to life using the metronome. I thought Claudia was behaving like a brat in this episode, but in the first timeline she was forced to recognize that other people have lost loved ones as well. In the new timeline, she never had this conversation, and her determination to bring Steve back to life appears to be a very bad idea.
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