Warehouse 13, Mahatma Gandhi Dhoti Artifact

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As fourth season premiere episode A New Hope begins, Myka, Pete and Artie have survived a devastating blast, but the Warehouse itself and all its contents have been utterly destroyed.  Pursuing a failsafe device that may allow them to spin back time, the team still needs to figure out how to stop the explosive artifact, a piece of masonry from the WWII London Blitz soaked with the entire destructive force of the Luftwaffe, from detonating again.

Working back at the Warehouse, Leena and Regent Keeler speculate that since the masonry artifact is powered by the pure hatred of the Nazi war machine, an artifact of pure good should counteract and neutralize it.  Their best-guess recommendation: Use the truth and compassion emanating from the Dhoti (a simple unstitched cloth skirt), worn by Mahatma Gandhi during a fast for non-violence, to cover the bomb and hopefully deactivate its countdown timer.  However, the Warehouse team soon find that Gandhi's Dhoti is actually far more effective at removing evil from the human soul than from inanimate objects.

Wrinkled light cotton fabric rectangle, folded and stored in a glass jar with metal lid (also seen onscreen).

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