Warehouse 13

Previously on Warehouse 13...

You want juice or are you a milk person?

Know what I'd really like?

Oh, I do indeed, but falling off the wagon...

May not be the best option.

Haven't seen you around before.

Are you new?

Eight years, actually.

Just--just a minute.

What is this?

Sometimes he forgets we answer to a higher authority.

What higher authori--

the Regents.

These are the Regents?

This waitress is a Regent?

Who would you have control the Warehouse?

Kings?

Popes?

Politicians?

Be nothing left of it.

Mr. Valda, you tell me right to my face.

Either fire me or kill me...

Or let me do my job.

A missing walking stick?

A stick that causes earthquakes?

Say it.

It doesn't mean that this is it.

Oh, it kills you that I figured out one first.

Just because the robberies involved...

Earthquakes.

What some people reported as earthquakes...

Ah!

And there happens to be a piece missing

from a nearby exhibit about an earthquake...

The largest one ever felt in England,

a country not known for its earthquakes, by the way.

It doesn't mean that this is the artifact.

Chin up, Watson, old Bean.

We can't all be as brilliant as Sherlock Lattimer.

Ahem.

Hey, Pete? Yes?

The case is intact and the lock's not picked.

So what, inside job?

Peruse their payroll?

After you.

Ooh.

Victory lap.

Will you get over yourself?

What's that you say?

Grow up.

Ahh. Ooh, ooh!

News flash! Stop.

Bering to admit she was wrong. Stop.

Pigs standing by for maiden flight.

Stop!

You do see the "do not touch" signs everywhere?

New favorite job perk:

Officially allowed to ignore velvet ropes.

I'm on this side. I'm on this side.

I'm on this side.

Hey, Pete. Yeah?

The sign for the stick was still there.

Okay?

Well, the museum hasn't reported a theft.

They haven't noticed it's gone.

He puts it back.

When he's not using it.

Whoa!

Oh! Myka, look out!

Ah!

You okay? Yeah.

Okay. Okay.

That way? I'm on it.

Secret Service.

One of your security guards is getting away

with a stolen-- you, hold it!

I don't have time for this.

Mrs. Frederic?

It's no time to explain.

This is of the utmost secrecy.

You cannot tell Arthur or even Agent Bering.

Okay.

I want you to throw this mission

and let the artifact get away.

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Mrs. Frederic, what is going on?

That's an order, Mr. Lattimer.

I'll contact you later.

Go!

Pete!

Pete, where's the guy?

I don't know.

I lost him.

I thought he was out here, but he's gone.

Guess you can spare some time for us now.

Yeah, they're Secret Service.

We're not gonna press charges.

I thought fishing you out of custody

would be like old times, Lattimer,

but you and your friend are both fully clothed.

They catch you too early or too late?

Well, I've matured since then.

I get arrested in my pants all the time now.

I'm guessing you two have met?

Kate Logan, Chicago field office.

The cops called us to check out your story.

And you heard my name and wanted to see me.

You know, I could just vouch for you

and we could leave him at the early man exhibit.

Awesome. I like her.

Hmm.

That's a good one.

I didn't know you transferred to Chicago.

I didn't know you transferred

to super-secret South Dakota.

Is that a promotion or a punishment?

Yeah, well, it depends on the day.

So far, today's good.

Anyway, I got to get back to my case.

Ahh, yeah, a stolen walking stick.

Defcon Four.

Well, it's part of my new look.

You know, top hat, monocle, big stick.

Mr. peanut. Very sexy.

So, uh, you showing up here means

I should call you, right?

Call, don't call.

Same as always.

Play date over?

Not if I can help it.

Thief's name is Lenny Malone.

Has a sheet--two petty thefts, one assault,

and now he's in the wind.

We were in D.C. together. We used to--

it's clear what you used to.

I'm more interested in what happened here last night.

Nothing.

I just lost him.

You two out of the clutches of the Lakefield Police Department?

Yes, thanks to Pete's old girlfriend.

Yeah, I probably don't want to know what that means,

but consider that the frying pan.

Now get back here and brace yourselves for the fire.

Hey.

So what's this about a fire?

Agents Bering and Lattimer,

back from losing another artifact.

Once again involving local police

and unauthorized members of the Secret Service.

We didn't lose an artifact. No, no, no, no.

I don't know who you are-- Myka, Myka--guys.

This is Benedict Valda.

He's one of the Regents.

Our Regents? The Regents?

No, Pete, the South Dakota college board of Regents.

Yes, the Regents.

That's unusual, right?

An in-person visit from a Regent?

Was unusual for the first 30 years that I worked here,

but lately, I guess we just can't be trusted to do our jobs.

Mr. Valda could have done all this by courier,

not brought my agents back from the field.

That's quite enough, Agent Nielsen.

I brought these agents back due to their repeated inability

to protect this organization from unwanted scrutiny.

The Regents have decided to become more hands-on.

Moving forward, you can expect me to be--

all up in our dust traps?

Shh.

You, in particular, miss Donovan,

should consider yourself on notice.

Your inclusion in this group at all

is a matter of lively debate.

Don't waste any time on me.

I'm just tech support. Claudia.

Yes, you are.

Nuh-uh.

I got this.

Remember what I said.

I can input that. I'll handle it.

I want you two back in Illinois.

Find that stick.

Artie? Artie?

What's going on? Why can't I see that?

Is there something about me on there?

I cannot believe a Regent was just here

and he's pissed at us.

This is probably your fault.

I never thought I'd be in a rush to get back

to Lakefield, Illinois.

Pete, you coming?

Uh, yeah.

I got a thing first.

I'm allowed to have a thing.

Okay.

You know, it's a strange time to have a thing.

So what's with all the cloak and dagger?

Keeping secrets from my team really isn't my thing.

Get in.

Some of the Regents are concerned about a pattern.