Warehouse 13 S02E09 Vendetta

The series follows United States Secret Service agents Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) and Peter Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) as they are reassigned to the government's secret Warehouse 13, which houses supernatural "artifacts". They are tasked to retrieve missing objects and investigate reports of new ones.

Warehouse 13 was established in 1914 after being designed by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and M. C. Escher. As the name suggests, there have been twelve incarnations of the warehouse prior to the one in South Dakota. One of the oldest warehouses was at the Library of Alexandria. Throughout history, the warehouse has moved to whichever country/city-state was the most powerful of the time (Greece, Rome, Spain, Russia, England, etc.).

The artifacts in the show are special pieces that are almost all in some way connected to some major historical figure. Each one has been imbued with something of their creator or user, something that they make allusions to in their writing or enhances some aspect of their personality. Lewis Carroll's looking glass is a portal for something dangerous, Poe's pen and a volume of his writing has the ability to make whatever the user writes a reality, etc. The artifacts react with electricity and can only be neutralized by a mysterious purple goo that is produced by Warehouse 13 which the protagonists in the show use to retrieve them.