Lower Decks

This was easily the worst episode of Warehouse 13 to date. Neither the main story with Pete and Myka nor the side story involving Claudia and Artie were at all interesting and by the time the episode ended I had all but tuned out. Once again, an actor from another Syfy series — Eureka‘s Joe Morton — had a guest spot and, once again, added nothing to the episode. There just wasn’t anything compelling, nothing to hold my attention and nothing I really care to write about.

I will say that with every passing episode I grow more and more certain that adding the character of Claudia to the series was a mistake. She spent the bulk of this episode stuck to a giant girder in the warehouse after putting on a jacket that magnetized. At first, it was pretty cool and let her climb to the ceiling and change a light bulb. But then it started attracting loose pieces of metal. Artie was eventually able to free her but it was touch and go for a while.

Pete and Myka, meanwhile, are sent to investigate a string of suicides at a prison. They start hallucinating soon after arriving. There’s a prisoner (played by Joe Morton) leading an ad hoc religious movement, a warden who doesn’t trust the agents, and a whole lot of quartz sitting beneath the prison. Oh, and there’s a huge storm raging outside. Myka nearly shoots Pete while hallucinating but he is able to get through to her and they both deal with some personal demons.

This wasn’t an exciting episode. That wouldn’t be a problem if it was thought provoking or emotional but even with Myka’s dead partner and Pete’s dead father in the mix it just wasn’t. It was a dull, dull episode and I can only hope the remainder of this season is better.