“Nevermore” is episode twelve of season one of Warehouse 13.
This episode opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the Bering & Sons bookshop – Myka’s family’s bookshop. A delivery man knocks on the door and a man comes out. Myka’s father presumably. Inside the package is a handwritten book.
Myka herself is in Berlin entering MacPherson’s apartment, but it’s empty. Pete is in Montreal, and he seems to have found MacPherson. Artie and Claudia are in the Warehouse organising things. Pete has MacPherson cornered in an alley but in Berlin Myka has found a case and tells Artie that MacPherson has the cymbal. Which he has – two small bits of metal that attach to the fingers and make way more noise than they should, hitting Pete and some police with a sonic shockwave. Back in Colorado Springs, the words from the book Myka’s father has are travelling under his skin, for the book is an artefact. In Montreal, MacPherson is gone. In Berlin, Myka gets a phone call from her mother and says that there’s a problem with her father – that he’s dying.
At the Kingford Academy in Portland, Oregon a boy is carrying some books when he gets tripped by another student. The tripped student does not look happy.
At Leena’s, Artie is talking to Leena, except it turns out to be Mrs Frederic. She doesn’t seem too happy. The two policemen in Montreal didn’t get their ears covered, as Pete did, and are dead. Artie was supposed to just gather information and contact Mrs Frederic so that they could go after MacPherson together (she also mentions something about the first twelve Warehouses; there would seem to be a reason why this is 13) and that Artie will make no moves against MacPherson without consulting her first. Back in Portland, the student from earlier and others are doing some sort of test. The student, Bobby, seems to hear a whispering coming from a case full of stuff connected to Edgar Allan Poe.
Myka has returned home and her mother says that her father is fine now. He doesn’t seem to remember what happened. Myka is surprised to find that Pete is there as well. He has come to offer support – even though Artie said no. Myka has let her family think she is still in D.C. Her father picks up the book again – there seems to be a connection with something at the Kingford Academy. The student, Bobbie, breaks open the case and steals a quill pen. back in Colorado, Myka’s father screams again. She, Pete and her mother arrive to see words travelling up her father’s arm, and Pete realises that he has an artefact.
Of course, the question is how. The artefact looked to have been deliberately delivered to Myka’s father, and in “Implosion” MacPherson had made a comment regarding Myka and Pete (and, indeed, it looks like MacPherson may have sent it). Claudia arrives with a tub of neutraliser fluid. Myka’s mother is concerned, so Myka ends up revealing the sort of thing she is doing now. When the notebook is dunked in the fluid, it doesn’t neutralise anything – and the neutraliser seemed to turn to ink. This means that Myka’s father isn’t any better.
Artie says that the notebook is simply one half of a bifurcated artefact. To neutralise it, they will need the other half. Guess where that is? Artie still needs to track it down though, and Myka’s father won’t be able to survive long. Problems are starting to happen at Kingford Academy and it’s definitely connected to Myka’s father. Pete is going to deal with that but wants Myka to stay with her father. Some things happening in Kingford look like what happens in Poe’s books – and he didn’t write nice, harmless stuff.
Myka gets to repair her relationship with her father as a result.