Warehouse 13 Wednesday: All The Time In The World

EPISODE 4.19: "All The Time In The World"

Original Air Date: 01 July 2013

PETE: "We can't just go digging holes all over Istanbul."

 Warning: This review certainly contains spoilers

This episode was a fun episode but was not as exciting as some of the other Season Four episodes.  Some fans of the show already disagree with me and think the whole season stinks. I think the second half has been one of the best half seasons. I had to alter my Spoiler Warning notice slightly due to the fact that this episode continues from the previous episode "Lost & Found" and relies on that episode and a few other recent episodes for the plot and some of the guest character backgrounds and IDs. There were some facts from "Lost & Found" that I did not want to reveal in my review last week but due to their importance to this episode's main plot I am forced to reveal for this one. Please excuse me for that.

OK so to start things off with a Bang and a Boom we know from last episode that Nick (Josh Blaylock) has freed Paracelsus (Anthony Head) from the Bronze sector and that they have now bronzed Claudia. One of the facts from last episode I didn't want to spoil, but is a major plot point ***SIGH***. Using some artifact that wasn't explained Nick shows Paracelsus a Reader's Digest vision of the last few hundred years to bring him up to speed. They leave and later the team assumes that Nick has been kidnapped by Paracelsus.

Steve is first on the scene to discover Bronze Claudia and notifies Artie and the team with the disturbing news. Using a recording of a warehouse artifact a durational spectrometer to try to figure out what Nick and Paracelsus were up to. Shortly after viewing the recording, Myka notices that several artifacts are missing from the inventory. They try unsuccessfully to debronze Claudia but the Bronzing Machine isn't working. The reason Artie discovers is that the bronze statue (Stele) that powers the machine is gone. They find a note on the inside of the panel that held the bronze stele that says "Sutton knows what I want". So it is off to find Sutton (James Marsters).

Through flashbacks from a few centuries ago we learn that Paracelsus is responsible for making Nick and his parents Charlotte (Polly Walker) and Sutton immortal by using an artifact known as The Philospher's Stone (a geode). Artie and the team had found half of the stone last episode. After being made immortal the stone was cut in two by Sutton years ago and he made a ring out of some of the crystal inside that gave him the power to revive dead plants. At the bed and breakfast where they are holding Charlotte, we also learn that Paracelsus is Sutton's brother. In an odd sort of way that helps explain why he chose them for his immortality experiments. In the flashbacks he explains that he need a man, a woman and a child, to see how gender and age are affected by the process. Charlotte explains that over the centuries she and Nick have learned how difficult it is for him to be stuck in immortality at age fifteen stuck between childhood and being a man. Both Charlotte and Nick wish for him to become mortal again to end his eternal suffering of not being able to love someone naturally.

The need to debronze Claudia is made more urgent due to deterioration due to Paracelsus using the bronze stele directly and not the bronzing chamber. The team needs to save Claudia super fast. Mrs. Frederic (CCH Pounder) tells Artie that there are some restricted files that she needs to find to help the situation, and that will explain the mystery surrounding Paracelsus. Artie and Steve notice that Mrs. F. is walking away instead of her usual vanishing act. She discovers that the files she needed were redacted. She also seems to be quickly developing dementia. Regent Mr. Kosan explains to Artie that as the caretaker of the warehouse she is "hardwired" into it and he takes him to the heart/nerve center of the warehouse where they discover a problem that is causing Mrs. F's rapid development of dementia and declining health.

Several artifacts are used to try to help stabilize Claudia until they can unbronze her which they eventually are able to do successfully. Through Mr. Kosan we learn that there is a Keeper of the warehouse who is the "living memory" of the warehouse that can access the redacted information from the files concerning Paracelsus. It turns out that the keeper is Abigail (Kelly Hu). It is through her that we discover the actual cause of Mrs. F's condition and another secret of Paracelsus that will of course be partly carried out in next week's episode which is the season finale and a big end of season cliffhanger. I'll keep some of that info under my hat until next week's review.

I give this episode 3 Warehouse artifacts ***

Warehouse 13 Wednesday

Hello welcome to what might become a regular feature. I'm not sure it will but if it happens it happens. One of my favorite television shows is Warehouse 13 which airs Monday Evenings on the cable SyFy Channel. That channel recently announced that they have partially renewed the show for next season, Season 5 but only for Six episodes and then they will cancell the show. If I continue with this feature I will try to post a review or mini review of the previous Monday's episode, sadly until the final episode sometime next year. :(

For sometime now I have been thinking about doing some reviews or mini-reviews of the Episodes of this show. I was going to start from the beginning while I watched the DVDs but with this cancellation revelation and the second part of season 4 already in full swing I might as well start with this past episode and then I'll play catch-up later and when all is said and done I can make a list of my reviews with links to the posts so they can be viewed in the proper order.

On Monday 20 May 2013 SyFy Channel aired

Episode 4.14 "The Sky's The Limit":

PETE: "Come on 'coach' it's the fourth quarter, don't bench me."
MYKA: "Pete (sigh)... I left cookies in the glove compartment"

Warning this review may contain spoilers.

In a nutshell the main plot (with 2 subplots or more) was that in Las Vegas people were falling from the sky. Witnesses said they appeared out of nowhere and were glowing orange. Artie sends Pete and Myka to Las Vegas to investigate. After a few exhausted leads they discover that a magician named Val Preston (Steve Valentine) has been gaining attention with his act that involves levitating people. BINGO he's using an artifact, they search his back stage area and he catches them. He gets angry and begins to toss them out when he himself suddenly starts levitating and disappears in the clouds.

Meanwhile at a horse racetrack in London the winning jockeys have been falling from their horses and dying. Claudia and Steve are dispatched pronto Tonto to figure out what is up with that. Turns out that a stable boy had discovered a swatch of an American Indian's saddle blanket (Sitting Bull) and he has been using it to get revenge on the jockeys who have been mistreating the animals.

Back in Vegas Pete and Myka learn that Val was trying to recreate the act of an old magician Monty The Magnificent (Broadway legend Joel Grey) who along with his granddaughter Rose (Nora Zehetner) were planning a big comeback for him before he makes his big finale. Rose acquired a necklace/pendent that a magician had used long ago.

As part of the ongoing season story arc of Artie dealing with the consequences of using Ferdinand Magellan's Astrolabe and his subsequent murdering of Leena, Mrs. Frederic introduces the new Bread & Breakfast owner Abigail Cho (Kelly Hu) who happens to be a psychotherapist that Mrs. F brought in to try to help Artie cope with his problems. Artie fights tooth and nail against being psychoanalyzed, but of course in the end gives in.

On a mysterious note a semi familiar looking woman* is shadowing members of the team. My memory is fuzzy as to who she really is, but I think it is a return character that obviously is up to no good.

All in all I enjoyed this episode (as I do all the episodes) it receives on a scale of one to five 3.5 Warehouse Artifacts ***.5 (sorry I don't have a cute little avatar for that I suppose asterisks will have to do)

In an effort to save the show I will be launching a new feature on Mondays I call "Myka Monday". It will be a visual reminder of the show but primarily just a way to show pictures of the character Myka Bering played by Joanne Kelly.

Due to a few different factors this first installment wasn't actually posted on Wednesday even though it was first drafted Wednesday evening.

*EDIT for update: Ah in a recent "Previously  on Warehouse 13" episode prologue (for Episode 4.17 "What Matters Most") they showed her again and named her in dialogue. Charlotte Dupres (Polly Walker) who first appeared in Episode 4.11 "The Living and The Dead" she was bad news in that episode and will be bad news in later episodes leading up to and probably including the End of Season 4 Cliffhanger.