- A prison, a new warden, and a charismatic preacher inmate who may have a artifact seems related to a string prisoner suicides accompanied by hallucinations. Pete and Myka search for the artifact as an approaching tropical storm accentuates its influence but get caught up in the mayhem.—David Foss
- "Warehouse 13" - "Regrets" - Sept. 1, 2009
We open on a rowdy teen party. And an unsettled older man is moving through the crowd. His perspective is very warped. A girl offers him a shot. He says he doesn't drink. She says it's because he drank enough for a lifetime the night he killed her. We get a flash of the accident scene. The man is pulled out of the dreamlike scene by a doctor. He's a prison doctor and we flash to the present and we see the man is an inmate. As he runs from the "party" he falls over the top bar of the cellblock to his death.
Myka opens an envelope at Leena's. It's a report on her shooting/incident in Denver. Before she can look at it. Pete comes in to tell them they're going to jail... to investigate the unexplained suicides at Riverton prison.
At W13 Claudia does inventory. A nearby overhead lamp flickers. She heads up to the office where Artie is playing a keyboard. He's composing a tune for his dad. She asks for keys to the cherrypicker so she can change the bulb. He says they are special bulbs and will never actually burn out and to leave it alone.
At the Riverton Penetentiary in Florida Myka is creeped out. The female warden greets them, curious why the Secret Service is interested. She reports that there have been no suicides in two years and then four in last two months. The most recent guy had just gotten parole. All the suicides were model prisoners. Pete asks if anything was new to the prison, objects or furniture. Nope, she says. Were there new inmates asks Myka. Nope, she says. She's new though, she started right before the suicides did. They enter her office, it's sparse. Myka has a vision of her dead partner/lover in an outer room and chases after it.
The warden gives Pete a box containing the latest suicide's personal effects. It includes a screenplay called "The Path," with a snake eating itself on the front. It was written by another inmate, Reverend John Hill. Hill, who is in for killing his wife, is preaching to other inmates about those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. He looks up to Pete and tells him to leave regret aside and to look inside for salvation.
Claudia is trying to figure out how to change the lightbulb and she comes across a "Volta" coat that increases electromagnetic energy. It helps her climb the building supports Spiderman-style to get to the lamp. It also draws metal things like paperclips and keys to her face. She twists the bulb and then it goes out.
At the prison Pete stops walking and is stricken. He sees a fireman standing at the end of the hall. It's his dead father. Myka doesn't see it.
On the video phone Pete and Myka tell Artie about seeing dead people. The tropical storm is rolling in. Artie points out that the storm could be ratcheting up the intensity of the visions through electrical energy affecting the artifact. He tells them to call in every hour and to investigate all the suicides. They go investigate the most recent one, Lee Donaldson, and hear about his kiling the young girl in the drunk driving accident. The doctor says the Reverend was Donaldson's enemy.
They go to see Hill. The warden says she doesn't like him but that he's harmless. They ask where he got his interesting necklace. It's a "robberus." He says it represents the transcendence of guilt and walking the path to enlightenment. He says to feel remorse is to shame God. Myka asks about those who are feeling guilty like Donaldson. He says his death represented the need for sacrifice. Myka has another vision of Sam, her dead partner as Pete keeps talking to Hill, who tells him to give up his fear and regret. Pete stirs her from the hallucination.
Claudia is putting in a new bulb and it seems to work but now she's stuck to the supports. She drops the bulb as larger things, like a bike and a metal tub come flying her way. She yells for Artie.
Pete and Myka are investigating the prison. In earlier days it was called the snakepit, inmates went insane and then a hurricane rolled in and a crazy riot broke out. The last warden was very religious and turned the place around with daily prayer. He died right before the suicides started.They find a photo of the old warden with a much larger representation of "the robberus." The warden has a moment of warped vision. Pete and Myka notice. They go to Hill and take away his necklace. He complains he had permission to wear it. The warden asks what the danger is. Pete says they can't tell her. She's annoyed. Pete says there won't be anymore suicides now.
In the morgue the doctor is reporting Donaldson's cause of death into a dict-a-phone and then Donaldson seemingly comes to life and blames the doctor for his death. The hallucination begins strangling him.
The warden yells at Pete and Myka that there's been another suicide as they survey the doctor's crumpled body. She complains they're not being truthful. Myka tries to explain sort of. Pete tries to help, talking about freaky stuff. The warden says after the storm passes she expects them to be gone and will start a federal investigation.
Myka and Pete know doctor's record info about deaths and search for his recorder. Pete finds it and they hear him yelling at the dead guy. They play it for Artie, who surmises the static noise in between the doctor's shouts is coming from an electrical source. He agrees that they should look for an artifact with a mineral source as he hears a noise in the distance. He realizes it's a the code for S.O.S. and that Claudia is in trouble.
Artie finds Claudia clinging to the support beam. She explains what she tried to do. She says she's learned her lesson. He says the reason the coat is in the warehouse because Volta couldn't control it and each metallic object it attracts, makes it stronger.
Myka is making a makeshift metal detector from a speaker of a walkie talkie. Pete asks if she's okay. She says she is. He tells her she can tell him things. She says she got the report about Denver, and that she didn't read it. She says intellectually she knows she did everything by the book but wonders if she missed something and got Sam killed. Pete says the only one to blame is the piece of garbage who pulled the trigger. She and Sam protected the president and are heroes.
The walkie talkie crackles at everything so Myka thinks it isn't working. Pete says maybe there are minerals everywhere. This sets Myka off and they go to look at old photos of the prison being built... on quartz mines. They realize the entire building is one giant tuning fork for crazy and that Mother Nature is banging away at it with her tropical storm.
Back at W13 Artie lets loose magnets and attaches them to Claudia. He says the worst case scenario is that the entire warehouse buckles in on them.
Pete and Myka are trying to figure out what stopped the suicides and crazies for 30 years. They figure that the religious warden must have had some kind of artifact that was helping to cure the crazy. The storm makes the lights flicker and they see their dead peeps. They freak and run off to tell the warden about their theory. The warden is seeing visions and freaks out and slams the door in their face. The guard outside her office also starts having them. Inside her office the warden is freaking out and throwing stuff at an unseen attacker. They try to bust into the warden's office but it's too well-fortified, obviously.
In the prison, the cell doors open and all the inmates are freaking out. Reverend Hill walks out taking in the nutty scene calmly.
The warden is being driven insane as Pete and Myka start rifling through the old warden's stuff fruitlessly.
In the prison Hill declares himself the one-eyed king of the blind.
Myka gets in touch with Artie and asks what shuts down Quartz. He tells them they have to cancel out the frequency of the quartz with another piece of quartz which is what the artifact probably is. A big piece. He tries to give them important instructions about exact proximity but the signal breaks up. Pete goes to look.
Meanwhile Claudia is freaking out as a lone ice skate slides toward her perch. He tells her they have to reduce the magnetic field very gradually in order to not destroy her central nervous system. They hear a loud noise. It's a semi-truck headed her way. Artie says there's been a change of plans and Claudia needs to do exactly as he says.
Pete keeps looking in storage as Myka tries to calm the warden through the door.
Pete finds an old photo and realizes they're looking for a quartz cross. He walks into the office with it and Hill and a bunch of inmates are staring them down. Hill goes over to Pete and touches the cross, mumbling about living by the sword. He goes to Myka and asks her to stand aside. He claims he wants to help the warden since she's always suppoted his work. The inmates take the door off it's hinges and the warden, trapped in her vision, shoots Hill. Myka tackles the warden.
The storm rages and Myka is transported back to Denver, the situation is happening again and she still can't stop it. Sam says he killed her and she has to pay for it and he holds a gun to her head. Pete confronts his dad who asks if Pete knew he wasn't coming home why didn't he tell him. Pete says he was just a kid and his dad would've gone anyway since it's who he was, and who Pete tries to be everyday.
Remembering Hill's words about regret and fear being a prison of our own making, Pete stands up to his dad and says that he has no more fear and reget about what happened becaues he knows it wasn't his fault. He hugs his dad and lets him go. Pete comes back to the present and grabs the cross. Myka is still in her vision and as Pete approaches with the cross she thinks he's Sam and turns her gun on him telling him to stay away.
Pete tries to reason with her. He tells her she knows the truth of what happened in Denver and to not be afraid. Sam continues to blame her. Pete says she knows it's not the truth and she doesn't need a report to know it and that Sam didn't listen to her, he screwed up, not her. He tells her to tell Sam the truth. She apologizes to him and is sorry he made a mistake. The vision says she was late. She says no, he was early and he got himself killed. She goes to him and says she loves him and always will but she has to move on. She cries and falls into Pete's arms in the present, free and clear.
They shake it off and put up the cross in the same spot in the old warden's office and it seems to do the trick.
Claudia asks Artie to hurry. He breaks the antenna off the truck, rubs his feet and begins conducting electrictiy to draw stuff to himself, and then he shoots the antenna at Claudia, She grabs it and falls just Artie undoes an inflatable raft. She's psyched at how awesome it was. He tells her to take off the coat right now.
The warden comes to and wonders what happened. Pete says it's a long story and hopes she likes crosses. They run to Hill. Pete says he's losing blood and needs help. HIll shrugs it off saying he's been chosen for sacrifice and dies happily.
Back at W13 Artie is making Claudia write on the blackboard something to the effect of "I will not disobey Artie" hundreds of times. She asks when she can stop. He erases it and then tells her to keep writing it, and to not just write it but believe it. He's playing the piece he's writing for his father. She asks how long he's been working on it. Since he lost him, he replies. She apologizes and asks when he died. He says he's still alive and is hoping that when he finishes this piece it will help bring them together again.
At Leena's, Myka is looking at the report again as Pete enters and says he's taking the girls for a night on the town- which in S. Dakota means going for ice cream- and asks if she wants to come. She says she's beat. He promises to bring her something back. She looks sad. He asks if she's alright. She says she is. He tells her if she wants to talk they can. She says maybe tomorrow. He leaves and she gets up and throws the report in the fire and smiles a relieved smile.
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