The Personnel Quarters Archive, also referred to as the Agents Storage Area[1] and the Dead Agent's Vault,[2][3] is a location within Warehouse 13.
Appearance[]
The entrance of the archive is located at a wall accessible from the general storage level/ground floor of Warehouse 13 and its shelves. Its metallic door slides to open and close, and has three slots near the top through which light can be seen.
In Seasons One and Two, a rotary dial was affixed to the wall to the right of the door, with an analog number display above it that displayed the code that was inputted.[4][5] From Season Three onward, this was replaced with a podium directly in front of the door with a digital touch-screen.[1]
The archive itself is a very large and tall circular room comprised of four levels of metal rings stacked on top of each other, which hold multiple individual rooms from the Bed and Breakfast and are capable of rotating their inventory. In the middle of them and the room is a tall mechanical apparatus with an extended arm, which can rise, fall, and rotate. With this arm, the apparatus can grab rooms from the four upper levels and move them to a different ring on the floor, which rotates the chosen room to align with the entrance of the archive. This is described as an "elaborate conveyor belt mechanism."[6]
When a room is summoned and aligned with the archive's entrance, the metal door slides open. A very brief and brightly lit white "hallway" bridges the gap between the archive's door and the B&B room,[5][1] sometimes with a small portion of a B&B hallway leading to the room's own door.[5]
Description[]
When an agent of Warehouse 13 dies or disappeared in the line of duty (and perhaps when they are fired as well, in James MacPherson's case),[5] their personal belongings are collected and then transported completely from Univille to the Warehouse to be kept in their room, or a recreation of it.[7] Within the Warehouse, they are all stored indefinitely in a large room on multiple circular levels.[4][6]
When one wishes to enter a room, they must summon it; initially this was done by inputting an individualized code into a rotary dial, which would select the room from the collection and have it manually placed in front of the entrance.[4][5] This was eventually replaced by a podium with a digital screen that displayed the profiles of the agents whose rooms were archived. Instead of inputting a code, a dial on the front of the podium is spun to rotate the rooms within the archive. Touching the screen still activates the apparatus/arm that moves rooms from their storage level to the access level at the bottom, as well as opens and closes the door to the archive.[1] Later, this dial is not used, and one must press buttons on a panel on the right side of the podium and input a code or command of letters via digital keyboard to summon a specific room.[8]
When a room is selected, the room is taken from its storage level by a large mechanical apparatus and placed on a rotating ring on the floor, which rotates to face it toward the section's entrance, where it can then be entered.
When entering an archived room, visitors are usually advised to wear hairnets and neutralizer gloves to avoid contamination or unintentional artifact activation.[4]
Potentially, in the event the agent owning an archived room is found or resurrected, their room may be returned to the B&B. In the one instance this occurred, the agent in question removed their personal belongings from the archived room while the room itself and its furniture were left behind, suggesting that the moving process either risks damaging personal belongings, or that the rooms and their furniture are mere recreations rather than the rooms themselves transported from the B&B.[7]
History[]
When Jack Secord was an active agent, he wrote letters to Rebecca St. Clair, who was living in St. Louis, Missouri at the time, in his room at the B&B. When he later became a host of the Spine of the Saracen in June of 1962, he locked himself in an underground chamber to trap it. Having disappeared mysteriously, his room was archived on June 22nd, 1962.[9]
In the 1990s, James MacPherson was fired following his use of the Phoenix to save the life of Carol Augustine, resulting in the deaths of five firemen. Due to this, or his later faked death while imprisoned for his crime,[10] his room was archived.[5]
Prior to the hiring of Pete Lattimer or Myka Bering, Leena was present for the deaths of several Warehouse agents and helped Arthur Nielsen archive their rooms and personal belongings.[6]
After learning the identity of Jack Secord's corpse, Artie and Claudia Donovan go to the archive to investigate Jack's room. While in there, they discover he had been sending letters to Rebecca St. Clair, who had been living in St. Louis, Missouri at the time.[4]
After the death of James MacPherson, Artie began experiencing hallucinations of James. Coming to the mistaken conclusion that it was the result of them sharing a death and subsequent resurrection thanks to the Phoenix, he visited James's room to reminisce on their relationship and feelings toward each other. While there, he discovers a letter James wrote addressed to him about their regular fighting over Duarte Barbosa's Pocket Watch, which was also included with the letter, in which James chose to give the watch to Artie. Artie eventually leaves the room, perhaps leaving the watch behind, and possibly leaving the Phoenix behind as well.[5]
After Benedict Valda sacrificed his life to allow Pete, Myka, and Helena G. Wells progress to the interior of Warehouse 2, either his room was archived or what personal belongings he owned were kept in a B&B room within the archive for general storage.[8][11]
After Pete Lattimer was afflicted with Typhoid Fever by Calvin Worrall using Clara Barton's Left Glove, Leena hoped Artie and Claudia would find the gloves to heal him, not wishing to pack up Pete's or Myka's rooms for the archive the way she did for several past agents.[6]
After Steve Jinks was killed by Marcus Diamond under the orders of Walter Sykes, Steve's room was archived. Artie and Mrs. Frederic visited Steve's room in the archive, discussing the difficulties of losing an agent and Mrs. Frederic's lack of communication that Steve had been undercover. They leave the room and wonder what to do about the rest of Sykes's plan. After Mrs. Frederic leaves, Artie recalls his visit to James's room and his donation of Barbosa's Watch to him. He summons James's room and enters it, potentially to take Barbosa's Watch, and then goes to the Main Office.[1]
After Steve's resurrection by Claudia using Johann Maelzel's Metronome, he removed his personal belongings from his archived room. After leaving his room, Claudia spun the podium dial and it is seen being picked up by the apparatus, potentially to be transported back to the B&B.[2][7]
After the alternate timeline created by Paracelsus in which he was the Caretaker for Warehouses 9 through 13 was erased, the evil Benedict Valda native to that timeline kept himself in existence in the original timeline with one of Louis XIV's Silverware Forks. Now in the original Warehouse 13, he hid within the archived room of his original counterpart.[8] During this time, he brought many artifacts to his room to learn how they may be used to further his plans of moving the Warehouse to China as Warehouse 14.[11]
The alternate Valda's existence was revealed when he kidnapped Claire Donovan. The agents later learn he had been hiding within his original counterpart's archived room and go to investigate it. Pete attempts to avoid spending time alone with Myka inside, having recently realized he holds romantic feelings for her, to no avail. They wonder what Valda's plan with Claire is, and discover he had taken a key to a safe deposit box within the Regents Vault in the Valu-Mart in Elk Ridge. Steve and Claudia continued researching in the room in their place while they went to the vault; when Artie was frozen by William Edward Parry's Inukshuk, Steve left to bring him Albert Butz's Glasses. Claudia shattered the glass frame of a portrait of (the original) Valda in anger at his evil counterpart. Later, while investigating more of his collection of artifacts, she discovered the empty envelope of Chuck Yeager's Favorite LP. Realizing he had placed it on Oliver Sacks' Record Player, which Pete and Myka were now going after, to prevent it from being stopped, she left to warn them.[11]
Known Rooms[]
Trivia[]
- The code for Jack Secord's room, 5485,[12] is a slight rearrangement of the dates he was recruited to the United States Marines (1948) and the Warehouse (1955).
- Arthur Nielsen/Saul Rubinek mistakenly said "5845" when inputting the code.[4]
- Jack's room is identified as room five of the B&B.[4]
- The code for James MacPherson's room is 0630.[13]
- Although Artie and Claudia wore hairnets and gloves when they first visited Jack's room in the archive,[4] agents are not depicted doing so after the archive's debut,[5][1] likely due to plot convenience. However, Pete, Myka, and Claudia did wear neutralizer gloves when investigating the collection of artifacts the alternate Benedict Valda had brought to his room to avoid activating them.[11]
- When Artie visited James's room, there is a short section of B&B-style hallway between the white archive hallway and the archived room's own door, which matched the style of wall surrounding James's room's door.[5] This appears to be absent in subsequent appearances of the archive, as only the archive's own white mini-hallway is shown to bridge the gap between the archive's and archived room's door afterwards.[1]
- Originally, Regents were said to never visit the same place twice,[14] as their high-ranking position made them very valuable to keep alive and very high-risk targets for attacks. However, in keeping with this fact being disregarded in later seasons, Benedict Valda is shown to have had a room full of personal belongings that would be archived by the Warehouse after his death.[8][11] However, it is possible he truly had no stable living quarters, and what belongings he did own were simply put into a B&B archive room for general storage.
Appearances[]
- Burnout
- Mild Mannered
- Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever (mentioned)
- Stand
- Personal Effects
- Endless Terror
- Cangku Shisi
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Stand
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Personal Effects
- ↑ Cangku Shisi (see this image)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Burnout
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Mild Mannered
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "When a Warehouse agent died or disappeared in the line of duty, his or her personal quarters and effects were carted up and transported to the Warehouse, where they were stored indefinitely. Tucked out of sight, and accessible only via an elaborate conveyor belt mechanism, were the private rooms of every lost agent, preserved exactly as they had left them, right down to the last detail. Leena had helped Artie pack up such lodgings before. She was in no hurry to do the same for Pete’s room. Or Myka’s, for that matter. " Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever, Chapter 18
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 It is unknown how exactly rooms are transported to (and potentially from) the B&B and the Warehouse. As the rooms are preserved exactly as they were when the agent who owned them died or disappeared, presumably nothing is touched. However, as Steve took his personal belongings out of his archived room, and it is never explicitly shown or mentioned to have been moved back to the B&B, it is also possible that the rooms in the archive are merely exact recreations of only the rooms, while the personal belongings themselves are transported and placed in their appropriate place (essentially, a recreation rather than the original room).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Endless Terror
- ↑ Arthur Nielsen: "Jack Secord, living quarters, personal effects, sealed 6-22-62." Burnout
- ↑ MacPherson (Episode)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Cangku Shisi
- ↑ Burnout (see this image)
- ↑ Mild Mannered (see this image)
- ↑ The 40th Floor
