- Title: Warehouse 13 – Pilot
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Today’s Throwback Tuesday post takes us back to a top-secret storage facility in South Dakota known as Warehouse 13. The show’s pilot episode introduces us to Secret Service Agents Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) and Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) who, after witnessing unexplainable events one night, are reassigned by Mrs. Frederic (CCH Pounder) to work for Warehouse 13 recovering mystical artifacts which are stored within the Warehouse by its caretaker Artie (Saul Rubinek). “Pilot” does its job in introducing the various characters and setting the paramaters of the show’s weekly episodic nature involving the agents recovering various artifacts and returning them to the warehouse.
The show has several similarities to The Librarian movies of the early 2000s, which (after Warehouse 13‘s cancellation) would later be adapted into a series. Like The Librarian, some aspects of the show work better than others (and some, like the blue ooze that negates an artifact’s powers and the ridiculous list of questions, are just plain odd). Half of the two-part opener deals with getting Pete and Myka to Warehouse 13 (and their attempts to get transferred back to Washington). The other half of the episode focuses on the pair’s hunt for their first artifact, Lucrezia Borgia’s Comb, which is compelling the wearer (Sherry Miller) into some very questionable behavior to her ward (Dillon Casey) and his girlfriend (Sarah Allen). Despite their initial dislike for each other and their reassignment, Pete and Myka work well together and decide to remain at the warehouse where they will spend the next five seasons.
