- The Warehouse team pursues an artifact collector who is trying to gather together sculptures of the four elements thinking they will enable him to find the secret to obtaining god-like powers.
- We opened on a Native American ritual of some sort, involving some stones being unwrapped by a long-haired man while some prayers were said in the background. The words, "When He comes, let these elements be His strength and our hope," flashed on the screen before we were whisked to modern day New York City.
The long-haired man has wrapped himself in a cloak, and in New York a figure appeared with the same cloak. The cloaked figure appeared through a wall in a storage room and stole a sculpture before disappearing through the same wall.
Artie showed Myka and Pete a photo of the stolen artifact while Claudia and her brother argued in the background about him watching too much YouTube. Artie told Claudia was supposed to be writing a schematic on how she broke into the warehouse.
Artie told Pete and Myka the security system was seemingly impossible to crack, which made him most curious about the way the sculpture was stolen. Myka said the case didn't really "scream Warehouse." Artie told her things rarely scream Warehouse, "they usually whisper." He started muttering about how he could be wrong, but the last time he was wrong was in June, 1987. He trailed off before Myka asked to hear more about that. Artie told her, "Not a chance. Go." They left.
Peter asked Artie if he'd cover a show in New York and Artie said no.
In New York, a rep for the auction house told Myka and Pete that the electronic alarm system said the door never opened. They quietly suspected it was either one of the two "interested parties" who were looking to buy the piece, or an inside job. Pete had the hots for the auction house lady and Myka told him she was out of his league. Myka pulled Pete off his quest to impress the auction house lady by asking him to go check on the two interested parties.
Pete met Gilbert Radburn, a developer who was interested in buying the piece. Pete asked Radburn where he was the previous night. Radburn said he was out with friends and said he'd get Pete the names of the friends he was with. Pete noticed a man with a hard hat carrying a box labeled "Ground Penetrating Radar." Myka called him and said he had to see something she found in the storage room.
What they found was a feather sticking out of the wall. It shimmered with light and Myka slowly pulled it out of the wall. Pete took it from her to see what it could do. When he held the feather, his hand and half of his arm began shimmering, too. He put his arm through the wall and they realized it probably had something to do with the theft, but it was only a part of the artifact they were looking for. "Great, so we're looking for an art-stealing bird," Pete said.
"Like Artie says," Myka began saying, before they both finished, "never rule anything out."
They put the feather in a bag.
They video chatted with Artie to show him the feather. He knew it looked Native American. Pete told Artie he thought they could rule Radburn out because he was rich enough to outbid Donald Trump. "Never rule anything out," Artie said.
Pete said the second guy was "a rich dude" named Jeffrey Weaver. Artie thought it was the son of Alexander Weaver -- an extortionist, real estate swindler, "and a ravager of culture." He was, in fact, Jeffrey Weaver's father. "Unless the acorn fell very far from the tree," Artie told them. "Watch your backs."
Claudia and Leena got a chance to chat a bit, and Leena told Claudia she was being hard on Joshua. Claudia thought Leena had a thing for Joshua. Leena said Claudia was turning her own need for purpose onto Joshua. She also told Claudia that she was afraid of being alone.
Back in New York, Pete and Myka went to Jeffrey Weaver's penthouse. He appeared to have the stolen sculpture, but he said it wasn't the same one. The sculpture was part of a series of four. The one Weaver had was "Fire" and the stolen one was "Wind." Pete thought maybe Myka was interested in Weaver.
Pete mentioned the feather that helps people walk through walls and Weaver looked puzzled. He called for a guy named Lasalle -- it was the same guy Pete saw at the construction site. Weaver said Lasalle worked for both men. Lasalle said nothing.
Weaver said his own sculpture wasn't safe if someone was walking through walls. He insisted on moving it to a secure location, but Pete said "wherever it goes, we go."
Leena was about to touch a chess piece, but Artie said he was in the middle of a game with himself and was waiting for a "eureka moment" to get himself out of a jam. He'd been waiting three months. Leena told Artie that Claudia needs a home. "She needs people like her," Leena said. Claudia came over and moved Artie's chess piece and said, "Check." Artie was stunned.
Lasalle drove a truck with the sculpture in the back with Pete protecting it. While the truck was stopped at a light, the cloaked figure streaked into the back of the truck and grabbed the sculpture. He hit Pete and tossed him out of the van, through the wall of the van. Myka had Lasalle stop the truck. She got out to check on Pete. Lasalle got out, too. The truck sped away.
Pete woke up and told Myka he was "sore, everywhere. Need cookies." They realized their "little puzzle" was why the guy wasn't robbing Fort Knox and was stealing these sculptures instead. Myka told Pete that she told Artie about the buckskin cloak. Pete noticed Weaver was there and Myka explained that he "owns the hospital or built it, or something." She then admitted Weaver had asked her to dinner. Pete told her to go, "use your feminine wiles." He told her she should smile. "You're pretty when you smile," he said. She asked what it meant when she wasn't smiling and Pete said, "Kind of frightening."
Joshua was packing and he told Claudia he was going to Switzerland. She told him to keep in touch, "because I think I've demonstrated I will hunt you down."
Artie was researching clues and discovered the Lenape tribe, which sold the land that is now Manhattan "for $24 worth of arts and crafts." The tribe believed the world was created through the four elements. "Rock gave the world solidity," in their legend. He realized that the buckskin cloak that manipulates solidity. Artie said the whole thing could be a pattern. If there are artifacts that control the other elements and if somebody could acquire those elements, "that somebody could have immense power over ..." he started, before Leena finished, by saying, "the world."
Artie told Pete that Weaver might need a second look. Artie told Pete to toss Weaver's apartment. Pete asked if Weaver was their guy and Artie told him to see what he could find out.
Myka asked Weaver about himself. He said he didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps. "I want to erase his footsteps," Weaver said.
Artie told Pete that Weaver's dad once worked with Radburn. Pete searched Weaver's apartment when he saw what was clearly a false wall leading to a secret room.
Meanwhile, Myka was asking Weaver what happens when all four element statues got together. He didn't answer. Pete called and told her about Weaver's secret room full of artwork by Walter Burley. "Whatever's going on, your boyfriend's neck-deep in it," he said. Myka told Weaver they should go back to his place, but unlocked her gun holster when she said it. She said she never likes it when her date lies to her.
Pete figured out the sculptures were some kind of key to a sacred underground cave. The directions to the cave are hidden in the four sculptures.
Lasalle was brought in to Radburn's place by a security guard. Radburn found a bracelet Lasalle was wearing. Lasalle said his father gave it to him, but Radburn knew it was his uncle, Walter Burley. Radburn took the bracelet and saw that the elements were carved in a particular order. He figured that was the order the sculptures needed to be arranged in to learn the location of the secret cave. Lasalle turned his back and looked back around to see Radburn putting on the buckskin cloak. Radburn asked what the saying, "The truth is in the dawn," which was engraved into the bracelet, meant. Radburn grabbed Lasalle and pushed him through a wall, asking him what it meant. Lasalle said he didn't know, and Radburn let him go -- with Lasalle disappearing through the wall.
Pete was putting together the same clues, and found the same saying in Burley's notes. Weaver showed up and told Pete and Myka that he knew Radburn had beat him to the cloak. He said Lasalle was Lenape and also wanted to save the cave. He worried that he hadn't heard from Radburn. Artie knew they had to find the location of the cave before Radburn did.
As dawn broke, Radburn studied all four sculptures. The light of dawn came through the window, creating a map of Manhattan in the shadow on the wall. He marked the spot and thanked the sculptures before leaving.
Artie was looking at a map on the wall, trying to figure out where the cave might be. Claudia saw him and quickly figured out where the cave would be. Artie told Pete and Myka the location and Claudia disappeared. Weaver realized the location was close to Radburn's construction site. We saw Radburn at the construction site, telling a worker to get him down to the cave.
Radburn's men blasted a hole into the ground. Pete and Myka showed up -- apparently too late. Radburn was already underground, where his worker told him the cave was just 18 inches on the other side of a wall. Radburn put on the buckskin cloak and walked through the wall, freaking the worker out.
On the other side of the wall, Radburn said, "It's true. It's all true." He saw a bucket of water, which he called "the water of eternal life." Then he walked over and grabbed an arrow that seemed to create a massive vibration. He grabbed a rock that gave him "the strength of 100 men" and "the strength of the Earth."
That's when Pete, Myka and Weaver walked in. Myka told him to drop the arrow, and Radburn pointed it at Myka, launching her backward into a wall. He backhanded Weaver.
One element remained for Radburn to complete the transformation. Just as Radburn put his hand in the fire and it lit up, Pete came over and jammed the arrow into Radburn's chest, creating a whole mess of vibration and light before a streak of light apparently sent Radburn clear into the sky, into a sudden explosion.
Artie asked Claudia if she wanted to be around people her own age. She said she liked the challenge of being at the Warehouse.
"Are you ready for it?" Artie asked her.
"The question is, geezer," she said, "are you?"
Artie told her she was out of her league.
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