“3… 2… 1…” is episode five of season three of Warehouse 13.
This episode opens in London, 1893, near to the location of Warehouse 12. It’s night and a man is walking to a meeting with an unseen someone. He greets them, gets out a few words of surprise – then is apparently disintegrated by a sound and a wave of energy.
In Greenbury, Ohio, in 1962, a man is bird watching on a farm. He notices a damaged building with a strange piece of equipment visible. Then an energy wave comes out of it and he is disintegrated the same way as the previous man.
In Pittsburgh in the present day, a man is putting up a poster when he, as well as part of the sign, is disintegrated. 12 hours later and Pete is eating in a restaurant facing the sign. The power went out as well. The edge of the sign shows signs of being eroded, as in a sandstorm. Myka has an idea. The idea is for the hologram of H.G. Wells that spoke to Myka at the end of “The New Guy” to help. And the Regents have agreed. H.G. says that she does know what it is. Pete is not happy.
Myka remembered a case with the same details from H.G.’s own files. A painter had disappeared off a bridge the previous day, and the same sound was heard when he disappeared as the others. H.G. narrates what happened back in the past. Perhaps a different perspective on the latter. Apparently some agents were murdered the same way, by disintegration, and an artefact was stolen from them. The first man seen to die was an acquaintance of H.G. and an astronomer. The artefact stolen, and what was used to kill people, is the Horn of Joshua, the legendary horn that brought down the walls of Jericho. The Horn is real. What’s causing the deaths now seems more powerful than the Horn though. And the Horn was fired into space. In the 19th century.
It appears that the Horn was returned back to Earth, and someone is playing around with it (although perhaps not with bad intentions). Although Jack and Rebecca said that it was destroyed in the sixties. They were wrong.
Much of the episode takes place in other time periods, both H.G. in the 19th century London and Rebecca and Jack in sixties Ohio (after the events of “Where And When”).
In the 19th century, H.G. was assisted by a Mr. Wolcott, played by Gareth David-Lloyd, who also played Torchwood‘s Ianto Jones.