The second episode of SyFy's new series was better than the last though it certainly could have been improved. I think the producers are still trying to flesh out the concept of the show, but from the improvement, I'm sure it will get better.
The artifact Myka and Pete find this episode is a recording of something that messes with people's brains. Robbers use it to hit 3 separate Chicago banks without any resistance. Our team shows up at the bank where an FBI agent played by Tricia Helfer arrives. She seems to know a lot about them and they are not welcomed. Myka sees a man on the phone in the bank while the robbery occured and Artie gets a recording of it. They play it back to a woman in the bank and she goes into a daze. Pete recognizes the music playing and they find the old guy that made it. It turns out that he is useless to rob banks.
He also owns no more records having sold it. Pete and Myka visit the guy who owns records and apparently the old guy had some unreleased New Age crap that he made with a sound engineer. Tricia Helfer is staking out a bank and Pete decides to go with her (who wouldn't?). Myka stays behind and then realizes that maybe it's the acoustics of the banks along with the binaural beats recording to cause the effect. She rushes over to one of the banks with the features and finds some people in black running off. She takes chase and for some reason does not draw her gun. Instead she tackles and tries to fight them, only capturing one (smart move).
They are escorting the sound engineer that they captured when Pete gets one of those "vibes." He tells Myka to put in the earplugs just as the robbery crew busts in an incapacitates everyone other than Myka who has one earplug in. She manages to slip a cellphone in one of the robbers which they use to track. They end up at the old guy's house and find all his records. Apparently, the receptionist of the guy would owned the records was also the old guy's daughter and she along with the old guy's caretaker had stolen the money to buy the records. Pete and Myka take the recording and just leave, not arresting anyone (really?).
The other storyline will be ongoing and will probably last for a few more episodes. Someone tries to hack into Warehouse 13, and Artie tracks the intrusion to Myka and Pete's Secret Service boss Dickinson. Artie goes to his office where he freezes him with a cool camera and uses his computer. Artie unfreezes Dickinson and they start cooperating a little, resulting in the discovery that the hack did not originate from Dickinson's computer. From what I've seen of promos, someone will break into the warehouse.
There is backstory of Myka revealed. Her father is having a retirement party and she doesn't want to be there because he was a total douchebag. After seeing seeing what the old artist guy's daughter did for him, she wants to see him (wow, that was fast). We also find out that the partner she was having an affair with was married, but separated (cliche?).
I thought the plot was a little too simple, and Tricia Helfer wasn't used enough, but overall the episode was good, and there were some funny moments.
Score: 8.35/10
Next Episode: No promos on youtube, but the description says that the will be energy pulses at the warehouse and a mind-altering artifact.
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