In the first season of “Warehouse 13,” viewers met the mysterious Mrs. Frederic, played by veteran actor CCH Pounder. Over the course of the season, we’ve been given a few hints about Mrs. Frederic, but more questions.
“What we know about Mrs. Frederic so far is that she is Artie’s [Saul Rubinek] boss, she is a go-between between the higher-ups and the Regents and the people who run the Warehouse,” Pounder tells SciFi Wire.
In last night’s finale, Frederic was at the warehouse, looking over Artie’s shoulder in the pursuit of MacPherson and trying to find out if MacPherson had an agent on the inside. We won’t reveal more about what happens for those of you who time-shift.
And while we know a few tidbits about Frederic, Pounder says there is still a lot more to explore about her enigmatic character.
“”We don’t know whether she’s flesh and blood, whether she’s a hologram, whether she’s been living 40 years, 60 years, a thousand years,” Pounder says. “Whether she has been at the very beginning of the first Warehouse or whether she’s part of the reincarnated 13th Warehouse, which is what this one is.”
Pounder went on to say that we haven’t yet seen the character enter a room.
“She arrives, and she’s there, which always gives Artie trouble [and] freaks him out completely,” Pounder says. “Her leaving, her arriving; her comings and goings are always, ‘Oh, my God, she’s in the room.’ So it just sort of leaves one to believe that … Mrs. Frederic is some other kind of entity, but we don’t know.”
And Pounder says that, for now, the answers will have to come from the writers and future scripts. However, she does have a theory about her character.
“I think she’s a hologram,” Pounder says. “That’s my theory. I think she’s a device from some higher place. … She has a lot of personality for not being real. … Maybe [she’s] another entity that should be in the Warehouse that they’ve put to use. You never know.”
“Warehouse 13” will return for a second season next year.
Awesome season end. I am very happy with this show. It should be on everyone’s to-be-watched list.
I agree it has gotten better but it is still too predictible for my liking. I wich I could like it more than I do. The only characters that get on my nerve are the agents. If it was not for them I could overlook the lack of originality in the basic theme of evil artifact of the week.
@K9
Maybe you should stop sneaking into the tardis and getting the dvd box set to watch it in advance 😛
After watching a while I couldn’t remember seeing Leena and Mrs. Frederic together in the same room. “Hmmm”, I thought, “could they be the same person?” … but the season finale blew that theory away. 🙂
CC is one of the grand dames of Hollywood and I instantly knew this show would be a success from the second I heard she was attached to it. Add to that the perfection that is Saul Rubinek and you have yourself a guaranteed hit.
RE: Hologram … doesn’t she get into a car/limo at one point in this episode? (or is my memory faulty) That seems a pretty “normal” way to travel.
But, yes, normally here entrances and exits are pretty sudden and mysterious.
A hologram doesn’t work for me but I like the idea of her being a kind of artifact or someone who has been around since the first wharehouse.
I think she has an artifact that lets her appear where she wants to. Simplest explanation.