Don't Hate the Player
| "Don't Hate the Player" | |
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| Warehouse 13 episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 6 |
| Directed by | Chris Fisher |
| Written by | Ian Stokes |
| Original air date | August 15, 2011 |
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"Don't Hate the Player" is the sixth episode in the third season of the science fiction television series Warehouse 13. It originally aired on SyFy in the United States on August 15, 2011.
Claudia and Pete are preparing for a night of inventory. Pete tells Claudia that she should play her guitar at the venue sometime, when her phone rings. The call is from a frantic man who tells her Douglas Fargo relayed her number in case anything went wrong with the beta test. Claudia, Pete and Myka rush to Palo Alto, California to find Fargo and another man, Jerry, plugged into a machine. Gibson, the person who called Claudia, explains that it is a virtual game that malfunctioned; they are now stuck in the game. The men used Beatrix Potter's tea set (an artifact) to make the game work properly.
Claudia and Pete enter the game as characters, an elf and a gladiator, respectively, to rescue the two players. They discover the game is a medieval version of Warehouse 13, complete with a rhyming Artie who sends them on a quest to save a princess and a Leena character. They rescue Fargo from quicksand, only to meet an axe–wielding monster who traps them in the game by taking their controllers. Deciding the only way to escape the game is to finish it, they set out to rescue the princess. The game, however, does not end when they save the princess, a ditzy version of Claudia. As they discover at this point, Jerry is whisked off by the monster.
Back in reality, Myka discovers that Beatrix Potter's tea set takes their fears and makes them real in the game. The monster is Jerry's ex-girlfriend, Hannah, to whom he was afraid to propose. Claudia's fear finds her in a mental institution where a doctor tells her she imagined the Warehouse and everyone in it. Ultimately, Myka and Claudia realize the players can only destroy their own fears. Claudia turns an electroshock device on her doctor, and they track down Hannah and send her in so Jerry can propose to the monster, ending the game.
In the 'B' plot, Artie and Steve Jinks investigate a mysterious suicide at the request of FBI agent Sally Stukowski. A new painting in the gallery is a lost Van Gogh, which Artie thinks is an artifact because "death follows it." Later that night, Jinks and Artie break into the gallery, only to find Stukowski waiting for them. They replace the Van Gogh with one they have copied, then discover the painting is activated by a puff of air after Stukowski sneezes on it and she and Jinks are thrown across the room by a violent wind. The device used to disable the alarm fails, sounding the alarm. Stukowski escapes with the original Van Gogh before the doors shut, leaving Artie and Jinks to be arrested by the police.
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