Warehouse 13's penultimate episode of season 1

So Syfy is out of the dog house, with this week's episode entertaining and hitting the right intellectual buttons. Called Nevermore, there is no surprise we had an artifact belonging to Edgar Allen Poe take over the minds of two people and wreak havoc.

Mika's father, played by BSG star Michael Hogan*, reads a notebook delivered to his book shop and soon has the text crawling through his skin. This awakens a raven-feathered pen in a high school, and an over-looked intelligent boy is drawn to it. He then attacks his bullying classmates with words written on paper, such as WALL (the cask of amontillado) and PENDULUM (do I need to explain this one?). Indeed, Pete was led to the man trapped in the wall by a sound strongly resembling a beating heart.

An artifact belonging to Poe and creating scenarios resembling his stories is exactly the kind of thing we want to find in Warehouse 13.

Other highlights include Mika and her father learning to understand one another a little better, a guest appearance by Philip Akin*, and the continued hunt for MacPherson (Roger Rees*).

Speaking of Philip Akin, I had the pleasure of having coffee with him (or rather tea and a chai latte) this week. As the Artistic Director of Obsidian Theatre Company in Toronto, he is busy making important theatre happen here in Canada, while still finding time to act and, even more impressive, to talk to young theatre people like me.