Warehouse 13 There's Always a Downside Review!

Beware to Warehouse 13 newcomers! If you haven't caught yourselves up on past season episodes of Warehouse 13 then this episode may be a little bit confusing. I've watched the show since Season 1 but I have gone back myself a few times because with this series it can help.

Hmmm. There's Always a Downside was mostly filler to me (and not that much of a interesting filler) except for a few plot turning moments. It took a awhile for me to warm up to this episode. A character we've seen in a previous season, Hugo Miller is back. He introduces a new character Brady, his nephew (I also have nephew named Brady). Artie breaks up the dynamic duo of Pete and Myka. He also breaks up the Claudinks partners and does the switching game. Pete with Claudia to find an artifact that is causing people to be competitive and aggressive which somehow has led to Hugo Miller. Myka and Jinks are on the hunt to find an artifact that takes people's pain and sickness away. Interesting how Jink and Claudia complain about being separated. Awww. They want to be close. Well, we do know that Jinks is worried about Claudia. Don't think he wanted to have her out of his sight since whatever happens to him she feel now. He has so far kept this a secret. When Jinks is told that him and Myka must find such an artifact that takes pain away he objects to this at first. We can see that Jinks really wants to somehow take Claudia's pain away so this was hitting a little too close to home for him.

Anyway, with the new partners together, Pete and Claudia meet up with Hugo Miller and his nephew Brady. We learn about a bunch of magic marbles that are making the one who keeps them in their possession for too long dangerously aggressive. Hugo gave some of these marbles to Brady. A foolish thing on Hugo's part I might add even if he was training him to be a Warehouse agent. Hope Hugo doesn't need to go back to the loony bin like one part of his essence was for a decade or more. Brady gave four of these marbles to four of his friends and so the hunt is on to track these down before people get hurt.

Myka and Jinks head to New Orleans to track down the pain taking away artifact and it leads them to  a pretty cool antique looking bar. They meet a bartender, a girl who is in love with a sickly blues player. The team a little too quickly puts together the fact that the horn player's sickness is connected to everyone else being well.

Meanwhile, Artie has another visit from Brother Adrian (yay, I remembered his name!) and we have a little plot changing moment in what was a sort of weak episode for this week. Adrian brought a bogus object that is supose to help them find the astrolabe. Artie uses another artifact to melt this object while he has Adrian close his eyes and focus on the astrolabe  Adrian tricked Artie with this object. It was a fake and now he knows it's Artie who has what he's looking for. An argument begins between the two and it's clear that Artie doesn't want to give up the astrolabe. Adrian asks him how can the world be protected from the evil Artie has made. It beginning to look like Artie may be this season's unwilling or willing villain!

Jinks talks to the horn player and the horn player begins to take away Jinks' pain which at the same moment Claudia who's with Hugo begins to choke. Jinks screams to the horn player that he's choking Claudia and Myka hears him. Myka breaks up the moment and we find out it's a cursed cigarette holder. Myka is upset that Jinks hasn't told Claudia yet.

Pete and Claudia track down all the marbles except one which is in the possession of a school principal. He wants to hurt a gym full of students. With the help of the last marble, Pete saves the day. Claudia has a talk with Hugo about Brady becoming a future warehouse agent and the gang all come back together at the warehouse.

Artie finds out that the marbles were an artifact that was suppose to already be in the warehouse. He now thinks someone is trying to undo all his work. On to next week.

This episode wore on in the middle and took forever to get to a certain point. I was mostly waiting for the moment when Jinks got hurt and Claudia felt it. It finally somewhat delivered in that but I am now waiting for a better episode for next week.

Side note: The guy who played the horn player looked so familiar. I know I've seen him somewhere but can't  remember where. Anyone out there know?