- Following the orchid's release in Germany, Pete and Myka must race to stop a global plague before it kills half the world's population.
- "Warehouse 13" - "The Living and the Dead" - April 29, 2013
Where we left off: Artie-- or more precisely the evil forces possessing him-- killed Leena and then pierced the impenetrable shell with the dagger that can pierce anything to release an orchid that when it crumbled unleashed a deadly illness that swept the globe. Claudia then stabbed him with the dagger.
We pick up with Artie being brought back to the Warehouse on a stretcher. There are two missions: save Artie from the force possessing him and find a cure/way to stop the pandemic of "sweating sickness" unleashed by the orchid that could wipe out half the world. They have 24 hours before people start dropping dead.
Pete and Myka are set to the latter task.
After doing a bit of research they stumble across a man known as "The Count of St. Germain" who was a confidante of Marie Antoinette and was famous for performing magical feats including appearing to make dead flowers come back to life. Bingo!
They head off to Columbia University to meet with a Professor Sutton who is supposed to be the foremost authority on St. Germain. They arrive to discover he is soused, arrogant, lecherous, and scheming. But, he has the info they need: St. Germain performed his magic with the help of a special ring now buried in his tombs in the catacombls below Paris. Only problem is the catacombs are a notorious web that, without guidance, can prove deadly. Luckily, Sutton says he knows where a legend to the tombs exists.
So they jet off to Paris to the home of one Charlotte DuPre, whom Sutton describes as something of a hoarder of antiquities. He claims to have performed a bit of subterfuge to get her out of her house and they break in and look for the legend. Except she is home and she's got a big old rifle and an equally large grudge against Sutton, who it turns out pocketed a few gems while Pete and Myka weren't looking. They distract her long enough to zap her with the Tesla, find the legend and get gone.
They discover St. Germain's tomb in the catacombs and find the ring. In the course of him talking about Antoinette and Sutton, Pete and Myka realize that he is not Sutton at all, but St. Germain himself. A 500-plus year-old man given extended life by an alchemist. There isn't much time to dwell on that, however, as they must save the world. While Pete and Myka are nabbing the ring, Sutton/St. Germain pockets a diamond also in the tomb, rumored to have belonged to Antoinette. Picking up the ring, however, sets off Indiana Jones-style alarms and poison daggers begin shooting out of the walls. One hits St. Germain and he appears to die.
Pete and Myka place the ring on the dessicated flower and it comes back to life just in time and we see the sweating sickness emerge from around the globe and return to the flower.
But, later, when Charlotte arrives in the tomb, his body is gone and we learn, that Charlotte and St. Germain have a good reason for their animus: they were married.
While Pete and Myka were saving the world, back at the Warehouse Jinks and Claudia were working to save an important part of their world, Artie. When Claudia stabbed him with the dagger she separated the evil from Artie himself. But unless he could be convinced to want out he could be lost forever. Mrs. Latimer arrives with Freud's clock, which allows Jinks and Claude to enter Artie's mind.
Of course, his mind is the Warehouse. They figure they need to get to his office to save him as they note the Warehouse is slowly shutting down. Several obstacles are put into their path by Artie's sub-conscious including McPherson and Dr. Calder but they press on towards the office. At one point Jinks uses himself as a distraction so Claudia can keep going and he is effectively kicked out of Artie's brain. Claudia manages to reach the "office" and he discovers that Artie is peacefully playing the piano at Leena's and chatting with the woman herself.
Claudia realizes that Artie feels so guilty about killing Leena-- even though it wasn't technically "him" that did it-- that he would rather die than face that. Here in his mind he has created a beautiful world where he can see Leena and they are happy. But Claudia knows better and she forces Artie to remember killing Leena and, ultimately, to live. He wakes up in the Warehouse, not happy about this outcome.
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