Artie gets called to lunch where he meets the Regents who control Warehouse 13. Among them is Mark Sheppard, who is most known as Crowley on the Supernatural TV series. If the Regents had replaced Artie with Crowley, this show would still be filming.
Crowley has a great personality, and is a great actor. By contrast, Saul Rubinek seems incapable of communicating with anyone, never explains anything, and is just plain rude and irritating. I never watched this show when it was on TV because of Saul Rubinek. He does not seem to be able to have a conversation with anyone. He always seems annoyed to speak to people. He is a jerk character.
In spite of the numerous near catastrophes of Warehouse 13, the many failed missions of its agents, and lack of any training for Claudia, the Regents do not terminate the horribly incompetent Artie. I would not trust Artie to be in charge of anything. He spends all his time in self-reflection, introverted happiness with his greatness, and does nothing to support his staff, train them, or give them any guidance. As a manager, Artie is a total failure.
While Artie is being evaluated, Warehouse 13 is nearing a meltdown due to the stupidity and incompetence of Claudia, who unleashed numerous artifacts again (not the first time). The agents are back from another failed mission, with a bag of one donut. Some shows really fail at comedy.
Warehouse 13 could have used Crowley (Mark Sheppard) as their new manager-director. Saul Rubinek is painful to watch and listen to.
