- The theft of the perfect Samurai sword attracts Artie's attention because he suspects his former partner and current nemesis; McPherson.
- "Warehouse 13" - "Implosion" - August 18, 2009
Pete finds a samurai sword in Artie's office and pretends he's in a dubbed Japanese movie. Artie comes out and tells him to put it down. It's a fake he's made to replace a real one that's arriving in D.C. the next day as a present to the president from Japan. The real one of course is dangerous.
We get an onscreen title that reads "Kluger Electronics" as a man in a coat walks into a building. He encounters an accented crackpot inside a messy warehouse. The crackpot opens a case for the man that has several cylinders in it that look like huge bullets. The crackpot asks for cash and the wordless man fries him with a weird device.
Pete and Myka case the Japanese Embassy. Myka wonders why Artie didn't tell them what the danger of the sword was. Pete figures if it was really dangerous Artie would've told them. Just then they see a quivering light under a nearby door. It draws them to the door and knocks them out. Pete woozily comes to just in time to see a man leaving the room.
Emergency personnel suit up to head into the embassy. Myka and Pete video chat with Artie and show him the scene. They know nothing and are being treated like suspects. Artie wonders if the sword is actually gone. Pete and Myka don't know. He describes the man he saw as "not female." Pete says the Japanese think the "bomb" vaporized the sword. It wasn't a bomb, it was a weird backwards scenario, and implosion. Myka wants to know if the sword did it. Artie says it didn't and they have to get into the room and describe what they see. He hangs up. Leena, in Artie's office, thinks Artie knows what caused the implosion. He's not telling though and he hurries out of the office.
The Japanese emissary Ogawa wonders why there are two sets of Secret Service agents investigating. Dickinson is mad that Pete and Myka didn't contact him when they were in his backyard. Dickinson gets they're serving a new master - Artie- and that this screw-up is his fault. Dickinson says Ogawa wants to know what's up and is looking for suggestions on what to tell him. He tells them to get on a plane and get out. Pete promises they'll be gone as soon as possible.
Pete and Myka stakeout the sword room. Artie shows up and surprises them and hops in the backseat. He says he has an idea of what happened and asks what their plan is to get in. Pete explains: roof access, belly shimmy under motion sensors. Artie sets off a firework to distract the folks around the embassy. It transfixes them. They have ten minutes. They walk in the front door.
There's a crazy sculpture in the room that caused the implosion, it was used by the thief as a cover to steal the sword. Artie thought he'd collected all of the implosion grenades. Whoever stole the sword has other things that belong in W13 they think. Looking at the wreckage they realize their thief- the guy Pete kinda saw- will have no problem killing people to get what he wants.
They check into a hotel to figure out who stole the implosion grenade. Myka asks what the sword does. Artie says they gather power over hundreds of years and this one is practically invincible since it's perfectly aligned. The blade is said to be so perfect that light splits around it, essentially making the person holding it invisible. Pete is excited since he knew this was possible. Myka notices a discrepancy in the painting and the picture of the sword. The "suva"- the rounded clip around the handle- is missing, meaning the sword might not even have it's powers. Pete and Myka follow the suva while Artie looks for the implosion grenade. He finds Kluger Electronics in the phonebook and heads out.
Pete calls Leena and asks for help in looking for the suva. She tells him to ID collectors from that period and find sales and transactions. He asks her to help via computer. She does.
Artie arrives at Kluger and finds the fried guy. Or his ashes anyway. He gets a call from Pete and Myka who tell him that the suva is at the Secret Service. It's going back to the museum in the morning. Artie finds the plans for the grenade. Pete and Myka want to warn Dickinson and Artie says no, essentially saying to use Dickinson as bait. He puts down his video chatter and picks something off the floor and says "James." He thinks he knows who it is, tells them that, and signs off.
Ogawa goes to visit Dickinson and says Pete and Myka are compromised. He drops a background check on Artie on his desk, he was accused of espionage earlier in his career. Ogawa doesn't want to stir up an international incident and wants Dickinson to handle it or he will take it to a higher authority. Another agent enters with the suva, which he's taking back to the museum
Artie is calling someone and asking to meet as soon as possible.
The agent brings the suva back to the Wilson museum. Pete and Myka watch from the bushes and complain about not having intel. (Pete is psyched Myka knows what a redshirt is). The agents walk the suva in and a masked man comes in and fries them with a Tesla. One that is more powerful than both of Pete and Myka's since it overpowers theirs. He does drop the suva though and Pete and Myka grab it. Pete chases after the masked man but loses him. Myka has the box and the other agents ask them to give it back thinking Pete and Myka fried them, Pete asks if they saw the guy and tries to explain about the Tesla frying short-term memory but the other agents - whose weapons are drawn- aren't having it.
The agents wonder who they're working for. Pete tries to explain that they work in a special department. Myka says it's "archival." The agents snark it up about stun guns and invisible dudes. Dickinson comes to save them but is still mad at them for not backing off. Dickinson says if he keeps getting shut out he can't help them. He wants to keep the suva. They say it's dangerous. But they won't say how. He shows them the file with Artie and says if it checks out he has to act on it. They open it.
Dickinson packs the suva away in his safe and asks for extra protection.
Artie meets an older brunette in a bar. He's trying to convince her someone they know has stolen something and he needs it back. She says she hasn't seen or heard from James in 15 years and thinks it's ironic Artie is asking. Artie says he didn't drive him away and if it makes her comfortable to blame him than she can but they all made bad choices. She thinks he's back to twist the knife that she chose the wrong guy. She says James believed in life and Artie needs to get one. She tries to stalk off and he tells her if she's harboring him in any way she's in danger. He comes back to the bar and Mrs. Frederick is there. She wonders why he's bothering Carol and torturing himself. He says it's the case. She says it's not. He says it's James and they can prove it. He shows her the piece of stuff he picked up in the warehouse. She thinks he's leaping to wild conclusions and that his team is falling apart. He didn't know Dickinson had the suva and that Pete and Myka were detained. She's taking them off the case.
At the hotel Pete and Myka are going over the Artie-espionage file when he videos in to say they are to stay put and he's taking it from here. Myka is muted and he asks what's wrong. She says nothing and he's out. Pete says it isn't true. Myka says it is. He says she shouldn't be reading, they should be out doing something.
She explains what's in the file: Artie Weissfelt used to work for the NSA as a codebreaker in his 20s. He decoded Soviet communiations.They think he turned and started selling secrets to the Russians. Then he disappeared. Myka says it's definitely him and shows a picture of the young Artie.
As she's telling Pete this we see Artie go to the Secret Service building, knock out a guard, bust into Dickinson's safe, and grab the suva. As he does Dickinson busts in to arrest him. Artie says it's a misunderstanding and that the suva is dangerous. Dickinson says he's not being arrested for that, he's being arrested for treason.
In an interrorgation room Pete and Myka tell him to tell them the charges aren't true. He says they are true. He tells them not to worry about him but the mission and that Mrs. Frederick fixed it once and can fix it again. He drifts off on this thought as they yell at him for not giving them intel in the first place. He figures out that since Mrs. Frederick expunged his original file someone unexpunged it.He wants them to find out who gave Dickinson his file and that will lead to James McPherson. Dickinson busts in and tells Pete and Myka to put in for transfers so this W13 business doesn't hurt them. They decline. He tells them he's putting them on a plane with their favorite other Secret Service team. Myka wonders why Ogawa is there. He says he's taking the suva back to Japan tomorrow. He won't tell who gave him the file.
Pete and Myka are escorted out and Pete remembers it was Ogawa who came out of the room with the sword. He tells Myka and asks her to trust him. They realize he now has the suva and the sword and is headed to the airport to the unsecure diplomatic section. Myka gestures for Pete to Tesla the agents. He won't. She grabs it and does it. They hop out.
Artie is released from custody courtesy of Mrs. Frederick, who meets him outside in a limo. She confirms he's right about James and it's now up to Artie to stop him. She hands him his bag of supernatural goodies to do that.
In airplane hangar, Ogawa hands the suva to the man with the coat from the opening.Coat man puts it on the sword and renders himself invisible. Artie arrives at the hangar. He draws his gun on Ogawa and asks when "he" gets here. Just then James beheads Ogawa, invisibly. Artie realizes it works and James is here. He and the disembodied James banter about the past and W13 policy. Artie wonders when James became a killer. James says he woke up after he was out from under Mrs. Frederick's thumb and Artie's neuroses. He makes himself visible and invisible. (He's Roger Rees). He threatens Pete and Myka, talks about trying to corrupt them. Artie fires a fire extinguisher at James and he rams the sword in Artie. Pete and Myka arrive. James runs off. Artie asks them to pull out the sword, they do. James rolls in an implosion grenade. They run. The hangar implodes dragging them toward it but they survive.
Back at W13, Leena says she knows what happened between Artie and James was bad. Pete says it clearly was since James didn't want just the sword but to mess up the team. Myka wonders if it worked. Leena explains Artie has lost a lot of people in his life and so now he shuts everybody out as a defense mechanism. Myka says that's not an excuse. Leena says Artie acts like he doesn't care but he really does. Myka walks away saying she's not a redshirt.
Watching on video from his office, Artie doesn't understand why Myka doesn't understand the "secret" part of her job description and complains to Mrs. Frederick. She apologizes for doubting him. She asks if he knows what James might be planning. Artie says no but they shouldn't wait to find out.
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