Regrets - Recap

Lee Donaldson, wearing prison clothing, wanders through a nightclub. Everybody goes silent as a girl, Claire, approaches Lee and offers him a drink. He refuses and Claire accuses him of killing him in a drunken hit-and-run five years ago. As Lee backs way in shock and horror, he faintly hears the voice of a Dr. Cooper calling out his name. Lee falls over a balcony, and in real life, Dr. Cooper looks on in horror as the prison trustee falls to his death. The prisoners start yelling and chanting, but one man remains unmoved: John Hill.



At the bed & breakfast, Myka is studying a Secret Service envelope containing the final report on the Denver shooting that her and now-dead partner Sam Martino were involved in. Pete comes in to tell her that Artie is sending them to Riverton Prison in Florida to investigate unexplained suicides.

In the warehouse, a disgruntled Claudia is running inventory and spots a flickering light bulb overhead. She complains to Artie, who is composing a song on a keyboard. He refuses to let her use the cherry picker and tells her not to worry about it because the light bulbs never burn out.

Pete and Myka arrive at the prison and talk to Warden Huggins. She warns that Hurricane Inez is moving in and they're making preparations. There have been four suicides in the last month and in each case, the dead men were due for release and had everything to live for. Since Huggins has taken over, there haven't been any new prisoners admitted because of overcrowded conditions. They go to her office and notice that she hasn't had time to redecorate since the last warden, Matthews, died a few months earlier. As Pete talks with Huggins, Myka sees what appears to be the ghost of her partner, Sam, walk by and accuse her of murdering him. She goes after him but when she rounds a corner discovers that he's vanished.



Hill, a self-professed preacher, is talking to the prisoners about freedom from regret when the agents go by on their way to see Dr. Cooper. Hill notices them and announces loudly that a person can only find salvation if they let go of regret and remorse.

At the warehouse, Claudia tries to find a way to change the light bulb and discovers a lab coat belonging to Alessandro Volta. According to the ID tag, it increases the wearer's bio-magnetic field. She puts it on and climbs the metal girder, but discover that paper clips are attracted to her. She gets to the light bulb and tightens it only to have it go out entirely.



On their way to Cooper, Pete sees his dead father, a fireman who died in a blaze when Pete was a child. The figure disappear and the agents call Artie. Myka admits she saw Sam earlier and warns Artie that a storm is rolling in. Artie warns them that increased electrical activity can boost an artifact's power and to check in regularly with him. They see Cooper, who explains that Lee was in in prison for killing a girl while driving under the influence of alcohol. He heard Lee say Claire's name before he fell to his death. Cooper, Lee's friend, blames himself for not realizing that the trustee was suicidal. He explains that Hill hated Lee because Lee was one of the Hill's converts, but left his cult-like group after Hill started to capitalize on the first few suicides.

The agents meet with Huggins, who doesn't believe that Hill is dangerous. They go to see Hill and realize that he's wearing an Ouroboros necklace. Hill insists that he has overcome remorse and regret, which stand in the way of becoming closer to God. He has no remorse over Lee's death, saying suicide was the only way Lee could redeem himself. As the agents leave, Myka sees Sam again but he disappears when Pete catches up.



At the warehouse, Claudia discovers that the coat's magnetic powers have increased. She's stuck to the girder and can't get out of the coat. As bikes and other large metal objects start sticking to her, she yells for Artie without success.

Pete and Myka check the prison files and discover that Riverton was called "the Snake Pit" and violence among the prisoners was common. It reached a peak during the last hurricane and closed for six months. Warden Matthews took over then and somehow managed to turn the place around. Huggins says that Matthews used daily prayer to calm the prisoners. However, the agents discover a photo of Matthews and his men removing an Ouroboros statue made out of some unknown mineral. Overriding Huggins' objections and unable to fully explain, the agents collect Hill's Ouroboros necklace and put it in a cylinder of neutralization fluid.

Cooper is in his office recording an autopsy report when Lee comes back to life and approaches him, blaming the doctor for his death. The dead prisoner starts strangling Cooper, who tries to cut him with a scalpel to no effect.



The guards find Cooper dead and Huggins wants to know from the agents what's going on. They can't tell her and she orders them out once the storm has passed. They find Cooper's tape recorder and play back the last conversation. They only hear Cooper's side of the conversation: Lee's words are just static. They contact Artie, who tries to identity the type of mineral that caused the interference. However, he hears Claudia banging out a SOS in Morse code and goes to investigate, leaving the agents hanging. He finds Claudia stuck to the girders and tells her that the reason the coat is in storage is because its magnetic field increases the more metallic objects it touches… and the more powerful it becomes, the more metallic objects it attracts.

Myka uses a guard's walkie-talkie to make a metal detector and Pete asks if she's doing okay. She admits that she received the Denver report but can't bring herself to read it. She blames herself for Sam's death, wondering if she missed something, but Pete tells her that the only person responsible for Sam's death is the man who shot her. Myka isn't comforted and continues with her work. However, the metal detector picks up a general signal of the mineral they're looking for. They realize that the prison, built on top of a quart mine, incorporated quartz into its building material. The entire prison is one huge artifact, a tuning fork causing hallucinations.

Artie tries to free Claudia using magnets but warns that if he doesn't do it 100% correct, the warehouse will implode.

Myka tries to contact Artie but is unable to pierce the electrical interference. They figure that the hallucinations stopped when Matthews arrived, and when he died his items went into storage. They figure one of them prevented the building from causing the hallucinations. As they go to see Huggins to get permission to check out the storage area, Pete sees his dead father again. They discover that she's locked her self into her office and believes that Cooper is there, blaming her for his death. They go to the storage room on their own while the prisoners, suffering from hallucinations, start to riot. Hill takes command of his group of worshippers, who have all cast aside remorse and are immune to the hallucinations.



Myka calls via Farnsworth to brief Artie on what's going on. He tries to explain that two pieces of quartz on the same frequency can cancel each other out. However, the storm cuts off the transmission before he can fully explain. Unable to help the agents further, he tries to reduce Claudia's magnetic field while ever-larger objects start moving across the warehouse toward her. While Myka tries to get through to Huggins, Pete finds a photo showing Matthews with a quartz cross mounted on his office wall. He finds the cross in storage but Hill and his people arrive. However, Hill is there to help the warden, who always supported his beliefs. They get the door off its hinges but Huggins, panicking, grabs a gun and shoots Hill in the chest. Myka brings her down while Hill's prisoners run off.

Myka suddenly finds herself in Denver with Sam, trying to find the assassin. Sam contacts her on the radio and tells her that he's moving in but she says that's not per the plan. He ignores her and she hears a gun spot. Sam appears behind her, pointing a gun, and says that it's her fault that he was killed.



Pete finds himself standing beside the house where his father died. His father is there and asks why he didn't tell him about the intuition Pete had about his father's dad. Pete says that he was just a kid and remembers Hill's words about letting go of remorse. He confronts his father, saying he would have died no matter what Peter said. The two of them embrace and Pete breaks free of his hallucination. He grabs the cross but Myka is there, aiming her gun at him.



Myka is still in her hallucination, facing off against Sam. Pete tells her that she knows what the truth is no matter what the report says, and that Sam is the one who got himself killed. Myka apologizes to Sam, accepting what Pete says, and lowers her gun. She tells "Sam" that she loves him and still does, but it's time for her to go on with her life. Pete embraces her as she snaps out of the hallucination. Embarrassed, they quickly separate and grab the cross. Using the photo as a guide, they put it back on the wall where it was and a shock wave shoots through the prison as the quartz frequencies are cancelled out, ending the hallucinations.

Artie uses a crossbow and a radio antenna from a truck and fires a cable up to Claudia. The antenna draws the increasing electricity in the warehouse. Artie gets an inflatable life raft under her just in time as the electricity short-circuits the magnetic field. Claudia and the objects drop and she lands on the life raft, breaking her fall.



Pete and Myka check on Hill. He's still alive because his Bible slowed the bullet's path. As he dies, he smiles and tells them that God has chosen a new path for him.

Later, Claudia writes "I will not disobey Artie" a thousand times on a blackboard while Artie works on his song. He explains that it's for his father, and hopes that finishing it will help them find each other. Then he tells Claudia to write the words a thousand more times and believe them.

At the B&B, Myka still hasn't opened the report. Pete invites her along for ice cream with Claudia and Leena. She turns him down and he asks if she's all right. She says she's fine and says she might want to talk with him about her feeling tomorrow. He leaves and Myka tosses the report into the fire.



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