Line #35 Recap/Warehouse13S1E1Pilot


1	-> '''Myka''': "''What is this place?''"
2	-> '''Artie''': "''Officially? K-39ZZZ on the North American grid. But, I like to think of it as America's attic.''"
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4	After saving the President of the United States from a quasi-supernatural assassination attempt, Secret Service agents Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer find themselves transferred to an isolated facility known as "Warehouse 13" in South Dakota at the behest of the enigmatic government agent Mrs. Frederic. Their new boss, Arthur "Artie" Nielsen, explains that they're uniquely qualified to help track down and neutralize paranormal items called "artifacts." These artifacts have the ability to warp reality and control the behavior of people who come in contact with them -- and it's the Warehouse's job to lock them away for safe keeping. Pete is skeptical but willing to give the Warehouse a chance, while Myka despairs of what she views as a demotion and requests a transfer back to her previous position.
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6	While they wait to hear back from their old boss in Washington D.C., Pete and Myka are dispatched to look into the case of promising law student Cody, whose sudden violent outbursts seem to indicate the presence of an artifact. The two are skeptical but quickly find themselves drawn into a web of mystery and intrigue surrounding a professor of Italian, Cody's godmother-lawyer, an aspiring actress, and comb that once belonged to Lucrezia Borgia.
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11	! Tropes that Apply to this Episode:
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13	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Myka deduces Professor Marzotto is lying through this.
14	* BiggerOnTheInside: The Warehouse.
15	* BookSafe: Lucrezia Borgia's "book" is really just a box designed to hold a decorative hair comb. There are a few pages at the front.
16	* CommonalityConnection: Myka and Pete [[BondingOverMissingParents bond over people they've lost]] [[MyGreatestFailure thinking it was their fault.]] In Pete's case, his dad and in Myka's it was her partner Sam.
17	* DeadPartner: Sam, who was Myka's Secret Service partner in Colorado. She was also having a romantic affair with him before he was killed in the line of duty (though he and his wife had been separated (but not divorced) for years).
18	* DeadPersonConversation: Myka is visited by her former partner Sam due to Harry Houdini's wallet.
19	* DefrostingIceQueen: Myka initially is rather uptight and cold to... pretty much everyone. This is partially [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to grief over her [[MyGreatestFailure partner's death]]. She eventually warms up to Pete and Artie.
20	* DoubleEntendre: "''Let me know if your bed is big enough for you.''"
21	* EstablishingCharacterMoment
22	** Myka is first seen at the museum for a pre-gala inspection to make sure ''everything'' is up to her exacting standards before the president's visit. After an awkward run-in with a kid on a school tour, she demands the full attention of the head of the museum and steamrolls over his objection to accompanying her on the tour.
23	** Pete is introduced at his apartment the morning after a fling with a waitress from the gala's catering company. She says she "doesn't know anything about him" before dragging him back into bed.
24	* EverytownAmerica: Univille (short for Unnamed Unincorporated Settlement). Pronounced "UHN-I-VILLE".
25	* HannibalLecture
26	--> '''Lorna''': "Did you really let your lover die?"
27	--> '''Myka''': "[[ShutUpHannibal Shut up.]]"
28	--> '''Lorna''': "For a chance at glory?"
29	--> '''Myka''': "I [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SAID. SHUT. UP.]]
30	* INeedAFreakingDrink: One of Myka's many coping mechanisms with her re-assignment.
31	--> '''Myka''': "Is there anywhere I can get a drink? I mean a DRINK drink?"
32	--> '''Leena''': "What would you like?"
33	--> '''Myka''': "Whiskey, neat."
34	--> '''Leena''': "I can do that."
35	--> '''Myka''': "''Please do that.''"
36	* MakeAWish: The wish granting kettle can do this. Impossible wishes however, get you a ferret.
37	* MassHypnosis: Yeah, the comb can do this.
38	* MindControlDevice: Lucrezia Borgia's comb. Also the Aztec Bloodstone.
39	* MrsRobinson: Lorna Soliday to Cody Thomas. Though not intentionally, rather through the influence of the comb.
40	* MysteriousWoman: Leena. Also Mrs. Frederic.
41	* OddCouple: Pete (intuitive and impulsive) and Myka (diligent and hardworking).
42	* OhCrap: Artie is not happy to see that Houdini's Logbook has escaped the warehouse.
43	* OrphansPlotTrinket: The fireman badge that belonged to Pete's dad.
44	* {{Pilot}}
45	* PhoneCallFromTheDead: One of the various ways Sam is talking to Myka.
46	* ReassignedToAntarctica: What Myka thinks has happened when she is assigned to the Warehouse.
47	* RefusalOfTheCall: Largely what Myka goes through for most of the episode.
48	* SelfImmolation: Professor Marzotto, under the influence of the comb. He pays for a fill up at the gas station counter, then douses himself out by the pumps and sets himself on fire.
49	* StealthHiBye: The first of many for Mrs. Frederic and her bodyguard, who seem to appear from thin air and disappear when one's back is turned.
50	* StealthPun: The ferret produced by the wish granting kettle in response to Myka's impossible wish is a Teakettler, one of the FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore.
51	* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: Artie's {{Technobabble}} speech about artifacts. He compares the current inability of science to fully explain their functioning to Thomas Jefferson being handed a modern day radio.
52	* VoiceOfTheLegion: Cody when creepily chanting in Italian.
53	* WelcomeEpisode
54	* {{Yandere}}: Lorna Soliday when under the influence of the comb.
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