Burnout, part 1
Pete and Myka took a redeye flight to St. Louis this morning in order to check up on a gas main explosion under the 83rd precinct police station. At least, it was reported as a gas main explosion; Artie has his doubts. For one thing, six people were burned to a crisp, but there's no sign of a fire beyond that.
For another, Pete and Myka have just reported that they found the remains of a long-dead Warehouse agent handcuffed to a water pipe in the bowels of the station.
"Look, he has a Secret Service star, but his ID and his credentials are dust," says Myka over the Farnsworth.
"I'm sending for the body right... now." Artie taps the last key on the computer keyboard and scoots his chair back over to where the Farnsworth is propped up. "Okay? And meanwhile, what I want you to do is, I want you to get me pictures. Meanwhile, I am going to find who this Agent is..." He marches over to the bookcase by the door and returns with a stack of recent field activity reports. ('Recent' being from the last seventy years or so.) "I'll ID him, and I will find out, if I can, what mission he was on."
"It looks like the blast opened up the wall and somehow... people were fried." Myka shakes her head, frowning. "I mean, could an Artifact cause an explosion like that?"
"Or," interrupts Pete, "Did the explosion release the Artifact, and then burn everybody up?"
"Well, that is a very good question, Pete," says Artie. "A very good question. That's exactly what you have to figure out. Bye." He thumbs the On/Off button and starts shuffling through the stack of reports. "How the hell...?" he mutters to himself. "How in the hell am I gonna figure out who that mysterious Agent is?"
Not from the field reports, that's for damn sure. They're little more than a list of Artifacts retrieved on a given date and who was involved. Not nearly enough information for Artie's purposes. And that means one thing: it's time to go into the stacks.
[Dialogue from Warehouse 13 episode 1x07, "Burnout."]
For another, Pete and Myka have just reported that they found the remains of a long-dead Warehouse agent handcuffed to a water pipe in the bowels of the station.
"Look, he has a Secret Service star, but his ID and his credentials are dust," says Myka over the Farnsworth.
"I'm sending for the body right... now." Artie taps the last key on the computer keyboard and scoots his chair back over to where the Farnsworth is propped up. "Okay? And meanwhile, what I want you to do is, I want you to get me pictures. Meanwhile, I am going to find who this Agent is..." He marches over to the bookcase by the door and returns with a stack of recent field activity reports. ('Recent' being from the last seventy years or so.) "I'll ID him, and I will find out, if I can, what mission he was on."
"It looks like the blast opened up the wall and somehow... people were fried." Myka shakes her head, frowning. "I mean, could an Artifact cause an explosion like that?"
"Or," interrupts Pete, "Did the explosion release the Artifact, and then burn everybody up?"
"Well, that is a very good question, Pete," says Artie. "A very good question. That's exactly what you have to figure out. Bye." He thumbs the On/Off button and starts shuffling through the stack of reports. "How the hell...?" he mutters to himself. "How in the hell am I gonna figure out who that mysterious Agent is?"
Not from the field reports, that's for damn sure. They're little more than a list of Artifacts retrieved on a given date and who was involved. Not nearly enough information for Artie's purposes. And that means one thing: it's time to go into the stacks.
[Dialogue from Warehouse 13 episode 1x07, "Burnout."]