“Resonance” is episode three of season one of Warehouse 13.
At the end of the previous episode, “Pilot – Part 2”, Dickinson had obtained a one-time, very limited offer from Mrs Frederic for Myka to return from Warehouse 13. Whatever she chose, Pete would still stay there. Despite their earlier doubts, they have definitely realised that there are weird things out there, after the trouble caused by a comb that belonged to the infamous Lucrezia Borgia. So, Myka has decided to stay.
This episode opens in Chicago, last Friday. It’s at the Chicago Fidelity Mutual Bank and a man is chatting to a teller when he pulls out his phone (this is important). A van full of people who look like bank robbers is pulling up outside the bank. When they enter, they are completely covered in black – there are even goggles over their eyes. The view then switches to the security camera, one man is seen opening his coat, which suddenly fuzzes, then goes outside, and some sort of energy wave is seen passing through the doors.
At Warehouse 13, Myka is outside using her mobile (because there is no signal inside) and inside Pete is apparently playing ping pong against a wall. Except he’s actually playing against a version of himself in a mirror. Not his reflection, because the ball is travelling into the mirror and his reflection is actually playing independently. Pete seems to be adjusting to the weirdness pretty well.
Artie is playing with his computers (actually, threatening the monitors to make them work) and he has detected something in Chicago. Lena comes in and someone hacks the servers. The thing isn’t that the hacker is hacking the servers, but that they actually know Warehouse 13 exists in order to hack it. Artie then tries to track the hacker. Which results in him using a really weird camera later on.
It seems that three banks have been robbed in Chicago, all in rush hour on a Friday, and no-one knows how they did it, so Pete and Myka are heading there. They are in the bank waiting for the security tape when local FBI turns up. The agent in charge of the investigation is not happy to see them. Nor is she cooperative (Pete is smitten). She thinks that Myka and Pete have a bad reputation (okay, it probably doesn’t look so good on paper now that they have disappeared into the netherworld). Dickinson gets them to be a little more cooperative, but he wants to know what the two are up to. Pete says that he can’t tell him. Heck, it sounds like he’s afraid to. Artie is not happy they didn’t go through him and orders them not to do it again.
The robbers are apparently getting everyone to hand over their money without firing a shot. Only everyone is a little hazy on how they managed to accomplish this. Artie says that there are a number of ways, such as flashing lights, that can induce short term memory loss. The man who opened his coat had speakers inside it, and they played a sound. So far, it sounds kind of odd, but just technologically odd. Thanks to the phone call the man was making in the bank, they actually have a recording of the sound, and when they play it to the teller, she acts a bit strangely. And then forgets she heard it. It definitely has a weird effect on her, but not on anyone else who heard it.
Artie says that it’s an original, unknown, recording by an artist that Pete has heard of. Said artist is now a prime suspect. Too obvious though. Far too obvious. The song is definitely not having a normal effect on people. The artist had played lots of genres over the years, but the last was weird, really experimental stuff. Now, we’re onto something weird.
Myka is talking a lot to her mother on the phone about a party for her father. She doesn’t really want to go though.