Warehouse 13 s04e02 Episode Script

Previously on Warehouse 13 No! I'm taking the metronome.
I'm bringing him back.
Don't think this is over.
I will remember what I have to do and nothing will stop me from doing it.
If you use the astrolabe, you will create an evil of your own making.
Claudia's gone.
She disappeared in the middle of the night.
An evil that will live with you the rest of your days.
It's time for you to stop talking and listen, okay? You're not-- no, no, no.
You can't do this without accounting for the variable.
- The variable? - The variable.
Dude, eccentric strength, concentric strength, and static strength all being factored into the equation-- None of those are the variable I'm talking about.
Oh, no? The variable is the resistance, okay? Is the resistance encountered greater than the overall maximal isometric strength? Yes.
Scrapple and eggs, times two.
You'll need this.
I have accounted for the variable.
And given the copper-based physiology, the end result is The Vulcans are Huh.
I wonder why there's never a girl with you two.
The usual? Yeah.
- What is that? - Holy-- Oh, my God! Somebody call 911! It's gonna kill us! We're gonna have to stop it! Okay, okay.
- Police! - Police! Break it up.
- Come on.
- No! Dispatch, we need backup and an ambulance now! Oh, my God.
That's-- Dude, that's-- that's Joe! I'm not getting a pulse.
Oh, my God.
Oh-- An Evil Within An evil that will live with you the rest of your days.
Aah! - Artie.
- No! Artie.
Don't worry.
We're going to find her.
Just drink it.
It's protein.
Artie.
Artie.
Hey, so what's the plan? - Plan? What plan? - The plan to help Claudia.
Yeah, what other plan would there be? Okay, so we know where she went, and we know what she's after.
Okay, technically, we don't know where she went, but I'll bet you do.
- We are not helping Claudia.
- What? - What are you talking about? - We're not stopping Claudia? No, no.
We are not doing anything.
I will find Claudia.
The two of you will be in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia? It's cold there.
What are we supposed to do in Philadelphia? We got a ping.
What is that? Cool is what it is.
It's a pocket ping device.
Claudia made it for me.
Oh.
Well, there you go, Artie.
That's another reason that we need to find-- Listen, listen.
A mob in Philadelphia almost killed a young man in cold blood.
They claimed that they were attacked by some kind of-- something.
Anyway, unless you want it to happen again, you will get there, uh, yesterday.
Yesterday? What, are we supposed to turn back time? - What? - What? - What? - What? - Nothing.
- You're the one that said-- I was being hyperbolic.
I'm colorful.
Just go.
Go! What are you doing here? I'm sorry.
I must have gotten turned around outside.
Why are you here? I'm looking for an Arthur Nielsen.
My name is Adrian.
Brother Adrian.
- I work with the Vatican.
- Yes, of course you do.
I know, we've met-- No, we haven't.
No, I-- I don't believe we have.
Arthur Nielsen.
Oh.
Excellent.
Please.
I need your help, Arthur.
And the Warehouse.
How do you know about the Warehouse? Well, as I said before, I work with the Vatican.
We know an awful lot of things about an awful lot of things.
I understand you can locate certain items.
Possibly.
Something's been stolen from my care.
A very powerful something.
And now I must get it back.
Yeah, it's very powerful.
I mean, it must be very powerful for you to come all the way from the Vatican to-- Yes.
And very dangerous.
Yeah, I understand that, but what exactly-- can you tell me exactly the da-- Magellan's astrolabe, to be precise.
Oh, Magellan's astrolabe.
Interesting.
It's been used to erase and now the thief has to undo that act.
Yes, but the danger, what exactly is the danger? Undo? What do you mean, undo? Using the astrolabe unleashes an evil.
A formidable evil, an evil that has to be eradicated.
And the only way to do that is to undo what the astrolabe did? Yes, if the same person uses the astrolabe again, time will be reset.
The evil never will have existed.
Things will go back to exactly as they were? Yes.
But wouldn't the person who used the artifact be aware of that danger? I mean, clearly, it is a risk they were willing to take.
No.
A risk they might still be willing to take if circumstances-- No! It was a mistake.
It has to be undone.
Now, will you help me, Arthur? Of course, I'm absolutely at your service.
You can reach me at this number.
Anytime, day or night.
Well, I will do everything in my power to find the person who used the astrolabe.
Eradicating this evil is of the utmost importance.
I cannot impress that upon you enough.
Eradicating evil? It's what we do.
Please don't worry about a thing.
Yeah.
Delicious scones by the way.
Scones and evil.
That's what we do.
Yes.
Oh.
- It's that way.
- Right.
It was gonna kill us and fry us up for dinner, I swear.
Well, maybe it was something in the food.
Not a chance.
I never eat the food in this place.
I've never seen anything like it.
Not even on animal planet.
It was like a nightmare.
Or an acid trip gone really, really bad.
But you guys said that you weren't drinking last night, right, or doing, you know, anything else? No.
Not even Red Bull and Ritalin.
Dude.
Whatever it was, it was real.
No, it--it wasn't.
It was Joe.
He was supposed to meet us here, and we put him into a coma.
Why would we do that? We think that something affected you, made you see the-- whatever it was that you think you saw.
That's why were here to find out what it is.
Now, did you guys come into contact with anything weird here at the diner? Like, um, an old plate maybe? Or-- ooh, a ladle? Never mind.
- Could--could we go? - Yeah, you can--yeah.
Let me guess.
They couldn't make it out, but it was big and red and had lots of tentacles.
Oh.
I hate tentacles.
Well, you're not gonna like this case.
It's a veritable tentacles-a-palooza.
Mm.
They said that they were sober.
I used to say that a lot.
Yeah, but there's-- there's no drink or drug that can--can make multiple people have the exact same hallucination at the same time.
No, it had to be something here.
Something that the cops didn't come into contact with because all they saw was Joe.
Well, what? Artifact intoxication? Maybe it's something in the water.
Oh! The condiments, you know.
I never trusted no grey poup.
Give me good, ol' fashioned yellow.
Well, whatever it was, we should find it before somebody else gets hurt.
All right, well, let's just close this baby down.
No diner, no danger.
Gary? Dr.
Bauer's ready for you now.
Thank you.
My God! What is it? What's happening? It's gonna kill us! Linda, run! Help! Somebody help us! What are you doing? Get away from him! Okay, calling 911 now.
Whoa! Oh! Miss, are you all right? - No, no, no, no, no, no.
- It's okay, it's okay.
God, this can't be happening to me.
Everything's out of order now.
God, I'm due on 14, and if I'm late, he's going to fire me.
He's not going to fire you.
We'll get you there on time, okay? Gosh, oh, thank you.
I'll sort it in the elevator.
- Okay.
You all good? - God, thank you.
Oh, wait, sorry.
I need to see your security badge.
Oh, God, yeah.
Just--no.
Don't--don't-- don't cry.
It's okay.
It'll be our little secret.
Thank you.
Hi.
How's it going? Pretty quiet.
Why doesn't that surprise me? Uh, you new? Yeah, I just started on Tuesday, actually.
Must not have met yet.
New kind of badge.
- Made it myself.
- Hey, crybaby.
This isn't 14.
Enough! Okay, all right.
All right--ow-- with the pulling.
Ow.
Ow.
You learn anything? Well, whatever attacked them was big and green with enormous claws and glowing eyes.
- Anything helpful? - Nah.
What about you? No--I mean, none of the patients had been in to see the dentist yet, so it wasn't one of the instruments he used.
None of them drank from the same water cooler or read the same magazine or even used the same pen.
I mean, there's no cross-contamination at all.
Great, we have a fantastic list of what this isn't.
Think there's a chance any of them ate at the diner? No.
I mean, aside from the end result, there's no connection to the people at the diner.
Look, the folks at the diner saw a big, red scary thing.
With tentacles.
Please don't.
And, you know, the people here saw this green thing with the claws and the eyes and-- I think there's something about the tentacles.
Will you please stop saying that word? Man, it's like Indiana Jones with snakes.
Yes, it is.
I don't know what that means, but it is, okay? I hate octopi Or jellyfish or squid Or anything that's a form of cnidarian, okay? It's a phobia, so just don't.
Okay, okay.
All right, fine.
Let's review.
We don't know what the artifact is, how it works, or why it's doing what it's doing.
We do know that it's spreading.
And this time, someone died.
Okay, I'm going to call Leena.
You know, maybe she'll scour the police scanners and find--find out if anyone's reported more of these hallucinations.
Ask her about the tentacles.
I don't care who knows I'm here.
I don't care what it costs.
I'm bringing Steve back, Artie, and you are not going to stop me.
Don't you think that I know how you feel? I have lost partners, I've lost friends, people that I would do anything to bring back.
It's not how things work.
You don't get to use artifacts for your own selfish needs.
I'm not being selfish! This is not about me, it's about Steve! Is it? Or is it because you can't bear losing him? Claudia, is this what Steve would want? For you to risk everything? Artie If you could use an artifact to set something right, to undo a huge, stupid tragedy, wouldn't you do it? I cared about Steve too.
I care about all of you.
I know how tempting it is, but I'm not going to let you go down that road, letting yourself be seduced by an artifact-- Claudia, that's just a path to destruction! And I've seen it.
You've seen it! With MacPherson, with H.
G.
, with Sykes.
I'm not them.
They weren't them either until they became them.
No! No, she did not use the metronome.
And she won't.
I'll see to it.
There's no need for a Regent to get involved.
It's all right, Artie.
The decision has already been made.
Claudia can bring back agent Jinks.
What? No, no.
No, no, no.
They can't.
- They can't allow-- - Artie, I said it's all right.
It's not all right! You don't understand.
Something could be released.
This is wrong.
It's wrong.
Thank you.
I know I'm putting my career on the line.
No, no.
You're putting your life on the line.
- Are you absolutely sure? - Yes.
All right.
Then there are certain arrangements to be made.
Hey, Jimmy, I'm home.
Can you come help me with these groceries? Excuse me, ma'am.
I think you dropped your key.
No, sorry.
This isn't mine.
Oh, well, my mistake.
Yeah.
Hey, honey, did you remember to get the kale for the-- I intercepted a 911 call where a man said something scary did something awful to his wife.
That sounds like one for us.
Leena, did the scary thing have tenta-- - Don't.
- tive.
Was it tent--I was asking if it was the same tentative.
What did it do to her? He didn't know, but he locked it in a closet, and the 911 operator told him to sleep it off.
Ah.
Artifact intoxication.
East side of town, and it doesn't seem like the police are in any rush to get over there.
Well, that's okay.
We are.
- You! - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy, easy.
Okay? We're here to help.
- It's in there! - We're Secret Service.
All right? We have a lot of experience dealing with this, uh-- this sort of thing.
That's right, that's right.
Look, see? We--we even brought the right equipment.
What are you? Like, the Men In Black? Yeah, yeah.
We kind of are.
Sure.
Why not? Okay, listen to me.
I just need you to move aside.
Just come over here with me, okay? And just give me the gun.
No, no, no, no! What are you doing? It's going to kill us! Hey, hey, hey! Will he, um-- will he be the same? He's not going to come back like some kind of zombie, right? Steve will be Steve again.
Claudia, what you're about to do-- Is very dangerous, yes I know.
- You don't have to hold my hand.
- I actually do.
This is not unlike the bronze shoes.
Without someone to walk this road with you, you may lose your way.
Understand? Now.
Leave one hand on the metronome.
Gently place the other on Steve's heart.
Close your eyes, Claudia.
Concentrate on his face.
His eyes.
But why doesn't it-- Shh.
Wait.
- Thank you for contacting me.
- What kind of evil? The evil that you mentioned from the astrolabe? What kind of evil exactly? I've been told it's an unimaginable evil, unique to the user.
Nothing-- nothing you could anticipate but an evil that will cut through his heart like a-- - A dagger.
- Yes.
Nothing's happening.
It's not working! Patience, Claudia.
Patience.
Please, please come back.
Please.
Steve! Put your hand back on the metronome! Claudia, look at me now, look at me.
You can't help him if you die too! Claudia, look at me! I've done the research.
I've used every resource at my disposal.
Nowhere, nowhere does it describe this evil.
Is it possible that-- could this evil be triggered by a resurrection? By bringing somebody back to life? A resurrection? Why? It is possible, isn't it? Anything's possible.
Claudia, don't look away! That's it, that's right.
Try not to panic.
Breathe.
No! No, I will not let this happen.
Claudia, talk to me! What do you see? White everywhere.
And Steve Don't go to him.
He has to come to you.
Stay focused on me, and bring him with you.
You wanted to save him, so save him! Damn it! Breathe! Steve! Steve! That's it.
That's it.
Yes.
Hey.
Oh, my God.
What happened? There has to be something more that you can tell me.
Something specific.
Knowing the evil won't help you locate the astrolabe.
I have to know everything.
Everything about the astrolabe in order to find it.
For instance, was it used before? Yes, but every circumstance is different.
And the evil that was released? By Robespierre, at the advent of the French Revolution.
The reign of terror.
Which resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people, so you see the possibilities.
Nothing? There was nothing that could be done to stop it? Yes, I've explained the only way to stop the evil from being created is to reverse the effect of the astrolabe.
There has to be another way.
It was huge.
With wings and these glowing eyes.
Yeah, he started acting weird right after lunch.
Must have been the mushrooms he had in his salad.
That happens sometimes, especially with wild mushrooms.
It's the psilocybin.
Thank God you got here in time.
It was like he was having a nightmare, but he was wide awake.
This happened as soon as you got home? Right after I got inside.
Did you see anything else? Anything unusual? Nothing.
Okay, look, Robin, just walk me through this, okay? Jimmy was home, you got home from the store.
You got out of your car.
I grabbed the groceries from the trunk.
And then I go inside.
Oh, yeah.
There was a man.
He thought he dropped my key, but-- Wait, wait, wait.
A man.
A man-- a man thought what? Well, he handed me a silver key, but it wasn't mine, so I gave it back.
A key, a key.
Mykes, do you still have those sketches? Yeah, if you could just excuse us for a second? Yeah.
You know, there must be some sort of time element to this artifact.
I mean, her husband saw some terrifying something, and then we show up a few minutes later, and we don't see anything at all.
And the same thing happened to the cops at the diner.
A key.
Nightmare.
Tentacles.
Tentacles! Would you stop staying that word? That's it! That's it! - Cthulhu.
- What? That's what I've been trying to remember, Mykes.
When I was a kid, I read these comic books about a sea creature named Cthulhu.
"Created by H.
P.
Lovecraft.
" You know, I've never read anything by him.
What? A writer you never read? Well, when it comes to horror, I'm more of a Kafka or Shelley girl.
But Cthulhu, I mean the mythos does permeate a lot of popular culture.
Well, you lost me there.
But these things that they've been seeing Are definitely Lovecraft.
Tentacles, claws, and sometimes wings are all common to Lovecraft creatures.
Apparently, he suffered a form of waking dream called night terrors.
They came to him in his dreams.
- Nightmares.
- Right.
And yes.
He blamed it on a silver key.
He called it "the key to the gate of dreams.
" Aha.
I smell artifact.
Okay.
Thanks, Leena.
Okay.
Okay.
So--so a man in a baseball cap gives Robin a silver key.
- Right.
- Right? She walks into the house, like the guy at the dental office.
Or the kid in the diner-- oh, my God, Pete.
We're looking at this thing all wrong.
It's not the people who are seeing Lovecraft's creatures who've been affected.
It's the victims.
The victims are the ones who get whammied.
The artifact makes people see them as monsters.
Okay, we need to go to talk to the first victim.
- We can't.
He's in a coma.
- Okay.
Well, we'll just-- we'll go to his house then.
And--and try and find a connection.
Let's go.
I'm not finding anything.
Mykes.
Look at this.
What? It's from the championship game.
Didn't Robin say that our key collector wore a hat from the championship game? Yeah, so? So they went to the same game.
Philadelphia versus Cincinnati.
Okay, so what was so important about that game? I don't know.
After Cleveland lost, I quit watching.
Which was early.
Wait.
Philly versus Cincinnati.
I remember something about that game.
You know about a sports event? Something that could connect our victims? Not something.
Someone.
Theresa Hicks.
She died at that game.
I feel like I've been hit by a truck.
Yeah, well-- The last thing I remember, Marcus was coming at me with a syringe.
Ooh.
Guess I wasn't much of a hero.
Oh, no, you were a hero.
You were amazing.
Oh, yeah? So how did I end up here? Well, the injection Marcus gave you was pretty intense.
You know, you were out of commission for a while.
But what you did saved us.
Your intel led us right to Sykes.
- So he's-- - Finished.
- The Warehouse is safe.
- And Marcus? Also finished.
For good, this time.
Well, I must have been out of it for a while - to have missed all that.
- Yeah.
But you're back now, Jinksy.
Good as new.
Why aren't we in my room? No reason.
It's cleaner, easier.
It's closer to the front door, really.
- Claudia.
- Yeah? What aren't you telling me? What? Nothing.
Oh, now you're lying.
Okay.
I guess we didn't lose the whole human lie detector thing.
God, I was kind of hoping.
Lose? Why would I lose-- Steve, listen to me.
I wasn't lying to you, exactly.
A lot of things happened.
Here's the security camera footage we have from that part of the stadium.
The victim's name was Theresa Hicks.
I know.
It's a name I'll never forget.
Look, that's her right there.
She was knocked out.
Wait, stop.
Stop.
That's him.
That's--that's the guy who was attacked at the dental office.
- He knocked her down, right? - Right.
That's-- that's the accountant.
Could you keep it running, please? He got in his way.
Oh, my God, that's--that's Joe, - the kid from the diner.
- Yes, it is.
- He wouldn't help either.
- Oh, wait.
Let me pull up a different angle here.
Okay, this is a few seconds later.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wasn't she just holding his hand a few seconds ago? That newspaper article-- it said that Theresa Hicks was engaged.
Right, right.
UhRon Hadsell.
He's trying to save her.
- Why won't she help? - That's Robin.
- The--the housewife.
- He couldn't save her.
- What? - He couldn't save her.
He--he couldn't save her, so he blames them.
All those people.
The man who pushed her down, the woman who wouldn't stop to help.
To Ron Hadsell, those people are monsters.
He used Lovecraft's key so that people would see them as real monsters.
And suffer the same fate as his fiancee did.
Pete, look.
The guy who's blocking the ambulance.
He's got another monster on his list.
Okay, I'm going to find Ron Hadsell.
Okay, you run those tags and find his next victim.
Okay.
I guess I should have told you.
You think? Dead.
I was dead.
You know, a lot of people experience clinical death for a few minutes.
How many minutes was I dead for? I'm sorry, okay? God, I'm sorry any of it happened.
But if you think I'm going to apologize for bringing you back, I'm not.
You know, maybe it was completely selfish of me.
Maybe I ruined your karma or put a kink in your plan to achieve enlightenment and come back as a butterfly or whatever Buddhists do.
Maybe I've upset the whole cosmos.
I don't care.
I would do it all again.
I really hop you can forgive me, but it's okay if you don't.
You know, as long as you're here.
The world's a better place with you in it, Jinksy.
My world is, anyway.
It's just-- it's weird, okay? I don't know what I feel or how I feel.
Hell, I don't know if I feel.
It's going to take some time.
I get that.
I totally get it.
And you know, if you decide you want to be a butterfly, we can always stop the metronome.
Let's not rush into anything.
Mr.
Hadsell, open up.
This is Secret Service.
Ron Hadsell? Secret Service.
Mr.
Green! Mr.
Jeff Green? You may be in danger.
Ew.
Mykes.
Pete, listen, I'm at Hadsell's house.
He's definitely our guy.
Good work, partner, huh? We got him.
Uh, well, not quite.
He's not--not here.
Jeff? Jeff Green? That's 'cause he's here.
Who are you? Look, I'm just someone who's here to help.
Son of a-- Wait, wait! Just un-whammy me, okay? Look, we know what happened to Theresa.
We can work this out.
I promise.
Oh, yeah? Can you bring her back? Then there's nothing to work out.
I'm sorry.
It's too late.
Oh, my God, what the hell is that? What you talking about? Hey, it's gonna kill me! Somebody, this alien thing's gonna kill us all! Wait, cut it out, man! What are you talking about? Help, it's gonna kill me! Help! Somebody, help! Somebody, help! Come on, Pete.
Just pick up the phone.
Mykes.
You better get here quick.
I've been whammied.
Oh, my God, Pete! Is that you? Help! Help! It's gonna kill me! Somebody, please help me! Would you knock it off? Hang on, buddy! Wait, hold on! Hold on! Okay? This--this isn't what it looks like.
I'm not-- Kill it! Kill it before it kills us! Never mind.
Oh, my God, Pete! Is that you? Of course it's you.
Oh, that's a lot of tentacles.
Lady, look out! Get away from it! Pete, just get behind me! - Okay.
- Are you crazy? Everybody, just stay where you are, okay? I'm Secret Service, don't make another move! Yeah, you tell him, Mykes! It's gonna kill you! No, no! I'm not gonna hurt her.
I like Myka.
She's my partner.
See? Okay, everybody, just stay where you are.
Okay, this isn't real.
Whatever you think you're seeing, it's not going to hurt you.
I mean, he's annoying and childish and sometimes I wish I could throw a chair at him, but he's-- he's not dangerous.
Okay? He's my partner.
Thanks, Mykes.
What you're seeing is a hallucination.
It's caused by mushrooms.
I don't eat mushrooms! In the water supply, okay? So everybody just relax.
No, she was right.
We got to kill it before it kills us.
Oh, my God, it's him.
Pete, here.
Just-- Okay, Hadsell, give me the key.
- Even she's afraid of it.
- It's got her ray gun! Don't make me shoot you.
Hey, watch it.
Those things are expensive.
Hey! You could have put an eye out, mister! We got it scared now.
Stay down.
Jerry, wait! Stop! You're just a-a guy? Oh, yeah? Well, you're overworking your lats.
You see what happens? I tried going to the police.
They wouldn't listen.
They said it was an accident.
It wasn't.
It was a crime.
Fear and selfishness.
People should be prosecuted for that.
So why go through with all of this? I mean, why not just shoot them? I tried once.
I couldn't do it.
Then--then you just stumbled upon the key? I heard about it years ago at a horror con.
When the cops wouldn't help, I-I hunted it down.
I know that if it somehow worked, it would be the perfect weapon, and it was.
It showed those people for who they really were.
Let's go.
I wish I could feel sorry for him, Mykes, butI can't.
One guy in a coma, another guy dead.
He's no better than they are.
I know that in my head, but I also understand how that combination of grief and anger can drive you to do things that you know you shouldn't do.
All right, Artie, Steve's at the "B" and "B" waiting for Pete and Myka, so I'm Apparently in a bit of trouble.
Wait, no, I'm s-- I got permission.
So it would seem.
Adwin, what's going on here? Jane, I believe you know exactly what's going on.
You didn't get approval, did you? - You rebel.
- Agent Donovan.
Using an artifact of this magnitude - is almost unconscionable.
- No.
Leaving Steve dead after he saved the Warehouse, saved all of us-- that would be unconscionable.
- Jane.
- That would have been wrong.
Jane.
You cannot be ruled by your guilt.
Whether any of this is right or wrong is now irrelevant, isn't it? Neither one of you understand the ramifications of your actions.
Nor does agent Jinks.
There are consequences.
Agent Jinks may be alive, but he's not a free man.
He's linked to the metronome, and therefore, to the Warehouse and the Regents forever.
And because we do not yet know the downside of this artifact, the metronome will stay with us, and agent Jinks will be under supervision.
Lifetime supervision.
Well, okay, that doesn't sound so bad.
And if there is a dangerous downside, the Regents will take action.
Sounding worse.
What if we were to discover that the downside of the artifact is that anyone agent Jinks has ever touched is now slowly dying? Bear in mind, should things go awry, we will not hesitate.
- You would have to-- - Our first responsibility-- all of us-- is to protect the world from dangers of an artifact.
- Dead guys eat, right? - Oh, that's so stupid.
Uh, what? I imagine Mr.
Kosan-- Mm-hmm.
And are you okay? Yeah.
I'm okay.
Are we okay? Yeah.
We're okay.
I'm so tired from bringing a man back from the dead.
- Salad? - Yes.
Good.
An evil that will cut through your heart like a dagger.
Artie? Hey, what are you, dead? You did hear the word "dinner," didn't you? Artie.
What? What? What is it? Oh.
It's nothing.
- Nothing at all.
- No, what is it? Artie? So what have we-- what have we got? What's in there? Um, it's like a vegan-- - No.
- No, it's good.