WAREHOUSE 13 Recap: Merge with Caution

Hey, WAREHOUSE 13 pals! This episode starts out with a bang, or really a crash, as Pete and Myka are on the trail of a window-breaking, fast running, jewelry thief. Pete grabs his backpack, but neither of them can actually grab the thief. Inside the bag is a bronze griffin (half lion, half eagle). Myka tells us that historically in Greek mythology, they were used to protect treasure. Since it appears to be an artifact now, Pete and Myka are happy. Case closed, right? Pete tells Myka she can now go to her high school reunion to see her old friends, IF she has old friends, that is.

She assures him that she does, sort of, or at least, people she tutored. So they place the griffin into an artifact bag. But just as they are doing so, it reacts; its eyes go yellow. Then Myka and Pete’s do the same.

No harm, no foul, though, right? Yeah, they’d LIKE to think so.

Kelly is back and it looks like she’s forgiven Pete for forgetting to call her. It looks like she’s forgiven him for every annoying thing he’s done, wouldn’t you say? Meanwhile, Myka arrives at her reunion, and it’s clear that it might be a bit awkward. Or maybe that’s just the tub of Twizzlers that just happens to be on the table there. But she soon spots her reason for being there, Kurt Smoller (played by WWE’s Cody Rhodes). Tall, dark, handsome, check, check and check. They chat, and Myka makes casual plans to meet up with him later.

But as she orders another drink, and Pete (at Leena’s B&B) goes to the kitchen for a bowl of cereal, they are both shocked into a small convulsion. The griffin is in the warehouse, and as its eyes turn yellow again, theirs do too. To their mutual horror, their bodies have been switched. That is, Pete’s mind is in Myka’s body and Myka’s mind in Pete’s body. And they both quickly realize that their interaction with the griffin hasn’t ended. So “Pete must deal with high heels while “Myka” must deal with Pete’s knee injury. And oh yeah, Kelly and Kurt! Ha! It’s not exactly a new plot device, the old body switcheroo, but it’s still really funny, especially the way we can tell that Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly had fun ‘acting’ like their counterparts. “Pete” arrives to the reunion with the griffin so they can investigate. They realize it’s a bookend, meaning it has another half. If they can find that, then they might be able to fix themselves. Before they can even leave the hotel, they are approached by the security guard (from the beginning of the episode), who has the second griffin. But the guard has been looking for THEM. He’s also trapped in a double body situation with the jewelry thief, and Pete/Myka and Guard/Thief become locked in a physical battle for both griffins. Team Warehouse gets them and tries to sober up Team Evil in the hotel bathtub. But evil gets messy when the body (bodies?) morphs between one another so quickly that it explodes. They ask Leena for help, and she tells them that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had two bookends, one a lion, and one an eagle. If Pete/Myka can switch the heads on the griffins back to the original bookends, they may be saved. They do it, and it works.

As they leave the hotel, Myka takes the opportunity to connect with Kurt and kisses him. And later, Pete fulfills the ‘promise’ he owes to Kelly.

Artie and Claudia head to Hartford to investigate why TrueHeart Insurance VPs there have been donating 50% of their incomes to charity. That is suspicious enough already, but to add to it, two of them have filed for divorce and one of them has called off his engagement. Artie asks Claudia to investigate what else these guys have in common. She tells him they all have been at Hansen’s Bar. They re-track the system and realize one TH executive hasn’t been affected by the ‘apple mojito’. They follow John Donnelly to the bar and watch as he succumbs to a woman’s charms. Claudia monitors his bank account and sees that he has made a 3 million dollar withdrawal. Artie goes in, prepared with perfume resistance, cigarette smoke resistance, and siren song resistance. But he too is captured by Lauren’s enticement. It’s up to Claudia to figure out what is happening. She does the research and finds out that Lauren’s brother died of liver disease, and he wasn’t assisted by his insurance company, you guessed it, TrueHeart Insurance. Each of Lauren’s ‘men’ are so entranced by her that they will go out of their way to harm any competition they find in their way. Claudia goes to Lauren’s house and confronts her about John confronting Artie, but quickly learns that Lauren is being held captive by the Howard, first man Artie talked to. She also learns that Lauren’s artifact are stockings.

When Howard handcuffs her to the oven, she can only hope that Artie somehow escapes her handcuff job and saves her. He does arrive alright, but he’s more concerned with Lauren. Claudia convinces her to get the stockings and ruin them, thus deflating their power. Artie questions Lauren and finds out that the stockings were from WWI, from Mata Hari.

Though it was still pretty tame, this episode seemed the sexiest and most violent episode we’ve had this season. Do you agree? Did you like it? What was your favorite part? Discuss in the comments!