Implosion - Recap

Pete stops in at Artie’s office at the warehouse and finds a samurai sword. A few minutes later, Myka catches him playing with it. Artie arrives and explains that it’s a replica he constructed of an artifact, and the real one was recently discovered in Okinawa. It’s being brought to the U.S. and given to the President as a gift, and Pete and Myka have to steal it.



A man, James, visits Kluger Electronics in Washington. The owner, Eric Kluger, knows him and complains that James’ partner used to dismiss him as a crackpot. As James eats a mint, Kluger gives him a suitcase filled with several cylindrical grenade-like device. Once James has them, he shoots Kluger with a Tesla gun.

At the Japanese embassy, Pete and Myka go in and discuss how Artie doesn’t entirely trust them. They approach the room with the samurai sword and there’s a flash of light. The agents are pulled toward the door and then thrown heavily back by some invisible force. Myka is knocked out and Pete retains consciousness long enough to dimly see a man walk away with the sword.



As the embassy security team mobilizes, the security officer, Ogawa, holds Pete and Myka on the grounds. The agents call Artie on the Farnsworth to let him know what happened. The Japanese are claiming the sword was vaporized in the explosion, but Artie recognizes the agents’ description of the effect as an implosion. He abruptly tells them to get into the storage room and find what they can, and then signs off. At the warehouse, Leena watches Artie, concerned, as he packs and heads out into the field.

At the embassy, Ogawa demands to know what Myka and Pete are doing there. He turns them over to Dickinson, who is there with his people. Back at his office, Dickinson questions them but the warehouse agents admit they’re under orders not to tell him anything. Dickinson points out that the reason they’re in trouble is because of Artie, not anything they’ve done, and gives them one more chance to come clean. When they refuse, he tells them to get out of Washington.



That night, Myka and Pete watch the embassy and try to find a way to get in. Artie slips into the car with them and tells them to follow his plan. He sets off an ancient Chinese firecracker that mesmerizes all of the embassy staff and police. The trio goes inside to the storage room and discovers that something caused an enormous implosion, sucking in several staff members along with tons of debris. Artie says the destruction was caused by an implosion grenade and admits he thought he had collected them all years ago. They realize that the thief set off the grenade as a distraction, and that the man is going after artifacts.



The trio checks into a hotel and Artie tries to avoid Pete and Myka’s questions while going through the yellow pages. He finally explains that the samurai sword is so sharp that it can split life, rendering its user invisible. Myka examines the photos of the samurai sword and points out that the tsuba, the hilt piece, is missing. Artie finds Kluger’s address and tells the agents to locate the tsuba while he deals with Kluger and finds out who he sold implosion grenades to.

At a dead end, Pete calls Leena and asks what Artie would do in their position. She suggests that they check the artifact’s history and track down collectors and buyers who deal in items from that era. Pete charms her into using Artie’s computer to generate a list of names.

At Kluger Electronics, Artie discovers that Kluger has been electrocuted and burns to dust. As he starts to look around, Pete and Myka call to tell him that they’ve found the tsuba. It’s been at Secret Service headquarters since World War II. Artie figures the thief will go after it next and tells the agents not to warn Dickinson, since it could tip off the thief. He spots a roll of mints on the floor and realizes they belong to a man named James, and signs off.

Ogawa goes to Dickinson’s office and informs the Secret Service man that Myka and Pete are compromised. He hands Dickinson a file on Artie and tells him that either Dickinson handles them, or Ogawa will go higher up the chain of command. As he leaves, an agent informs Dickinson that they’re moving the tsuba to the museum.



Myka and Pete watch the museum while Myka complains that Artie isn’t telling them everything. She’s worried that Artie considers them expendable but Pete insists that it isn’t true. They move into the museum as the thief uses his Tesla gun to stun the escort agents. Pete fires on him and their two guns’ electrical charges cancel out. The thief runs for it and Pete goes after him but loses him in the surrounding trees. Myka comes out with the tsuba just as the Secret Service agents, their short-term memories erased, figure the partners are the thieves and arrest them.



As the agents interrogate Pete and Myka, Dickinson arrives and releases them. He warns that unless they tell him what’s going on, he can’t help them. They keep their silence and Dickinson gives them the file on Artie, telling them they have to read it to know what they’re getting into. As he goes back to his office, he orders increased security for the building.

Artie goes to a bar and meets with Carol, a woman who knows James from the past. She says she hasn’t seen James in 15 years and blames Artie. When Artie insists he wasn’t the one who drove James away, Carol says that Artie was the one who couldn’t walk away and James believed in living. Carol insists that she’s in no danger from James and leaves. Artie finds Mrs. Frederick waiting for him. She warns him that he’s wasting his time annoying Carol and torturing himself. Artie believes that the thief is James MacPherson and shows her the mints. Frederic warns that he’s paranoid and that he has no idea what’s going on with Pete and Myka. She tells him to go home and take the agents with him.



At the hotel, Myka and Pete go over Artie’s files. He calls and tells them to stay there, but Myka wonders if she can work with him now. The files confirm that Artie was a NSA cryptographer who sold out to the Russians and gave them classified information. He was caught but then disappeared before he could be tried.

Artie knocks out a guard and enters the Secret Service building. He makes his way to Dickinson’s office and gets the tsuba from the safe. However, Dickinson arrives to capture him, informing Artie he’s under arrest for treason.

The next day, Pete and Myka visit Artie where he’s being held at the Secret Service building. He admits the charges are true but Mrs. Frederic will get him released. Artie insists they need to focus on the mission but Myka argues that if he hadn’t kept secrets from them, he wouldn’t be in trouble. Ignoring her, Artie figures that since he had his identity changed after he disappeared, whoever exposed his history did so to get him out of the way while they went after the tsuba. He tells the agents to find out who revealed his history, and that’s the person with the sword. The partners go to see Dickinson, who warns them that they need to save their careers and get as far away from Artie as possible. They refuse and ask who gave him Artie’s file. Dickinson refuses to tell them and orders them back to South Dakota with two Secret Service agents as escorts. As they leave, they notice Ogawa collecting the tsuba. Pete recognizes him and realizes that he’s the thief from the embassy. Now that Ogawa has acquired the tsuba, he’ll be able to smuggle it out through the diplomatic gate at Dulles Airport. The Secret Service escorts stops at a red light and Myka uses the Tesla gun to stun them.

Mrs. Frederic’s bodyguard delivers the papers to get Artie released. She’s waiting for him outside and admits that he was right and MacPherson is involved. She gives Artie his collection bag and tells him to stop the man before it’s too late.

At Dulles, Ogawa goes to a private hangar and meets with James. He hands over the tsuba and James assembles it, and then becomes invisible. Artie arrives and confronts Ogawa, and James decapitates the security chief. Artie and his ex-partner exchange greetings and Artie wonders how his former friend turned traitor. James disarms him while boasting that once he was on his own, he came to understand things better. He talks of how promising Pete and Myka are, and Artie vows he won’t get them. Artie grabs a fire extinguisher spray and tries to make James visible. James stabs him through the side and Artie clutches at the blade, keeping his ex-partner from taking it. Pete and Myka arrive and James flees rather than confront them.



The partners arrive and Artie tells Pete to pull the sword out. When they wonder how he knew they would be there, he figures they’d figure it out. As they talk, an implosion grenade rolls across the floor toward them. They run for it and escape the hangar just as the grenade goes off, sucking the hangar in and almost pulling the agents to their death.

Later, Pete and Myka take the sword to the warehouse floor and Leena accompanies. She warns them that things were bad between Artie and James. Myka worries that she can’t work with Artie, knowing what she knows about him. Leena explains that Artie has lost so many fellow agents that he refuses to let himself get close to anyone or trust them, but Myka insists that it’s not a good enough excuse.



In his office, Artie listens in on the conversation while Mrs. Frederic watches. Artie warns her that James has something big planned and this was just the opening move. He suggests they take precautions and Mrs. Frederic warns him to be careful.

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