Leena was an employee of Warehouse 13 and the owner of Leena's Bed and Breakfast, which provided housing for Warehouse agents.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Nothing is known of Leena's life prior to joining Warehouse 13.
Joining Warehouse 13[]
Leena was hired to Warehouse 13 after James MacPherson had been fired and imprisoned following his fight with Arthur Nielsen over the Phoenix.[1] When she was hired, she made a statement video at the instruction of Regent Benedict Valda affirming that she knew the risks inherent to the job, claiming that she would happily take on the risk for the sake of keeping others safe.[2] Soon after being hired, she met Mrs. Frederic for the first time on the main office's balcony, where she foresaw her own death and Mrs. Frederic made a promise to protect her from it.[3]
It is implied that Leena moved to Univille after joining the Warehouse, and was not a native resident.[4]
Prior to the hiring of Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering, Leena worked for the Warehouse for a number of years,[4] and had been present for the deaths and disappearances of several agents during that time.[5]
Leena did work at the Warehouse. She figured out which section the artifacts would go in. She was not only privy to the secrets of the Warehouse, but she knew things about the Warehouse that not even Artie knew,[6] and she was allowed access to the Warehouse files.[7] It is likely that she was at least some minor form of personnel. Her Bed and Breakfast is possibly tied to the Warehouse and its operations too, a supposition supported by the presence of a "clingy" version of the B&B within the Warehouse and the storage facility for the personal possessions of former agents, which removes and retains the entire room as is.
Leena had some form of ability to read or sense auras and energy forces. She could sense whether something is living or not.[8] She used her aura-reading abilities on new artifact arrivals at the Warehouse. She apparently did this so that the energies of the artifacts did not react badly with each other, an occurrence which caused unwanted static build up that could harm agents. For example, when handling the arrival of the Honjo Masamune samurai sword, she went looking for an appropriate location within the warehouse to store it by wandering aisles, finally stopping at an apparently random location and stating, "This feels right."[7] Artie bowed to her judgment in such matters, even remarking to himself on one occasion, concerning the placement of a new acquisition, "if Leena agrees."
Her aura-reading ability was also helpful in catching any potentially overactive objects that try to "escape" Warehouse confines, such as Harry Houdini's Wallet that she sensed in the B&B and recovered from its hiding place under Myka's bed.[9] In "Endless", it was shown in Mrs. Frederic's memory that Leena could also read the aura of places, determining the nature of events that defined it.
She clearly possessed considerable technical skills, since Artie entrusted her, along with Claudia Donovan, with carrying out of almost all system maintenance projects, as well as security upgrades, for the Warehouse. Presumably, this was entirely her responsibility before the new batch of agents arrived.
Leena being controlled by James MacPherson
In the season finale of Season 1, it was revealed that Leena was working with James MacPherson, and covering her actions by posing as Claudia with the aid of Harriet Tubman's Thimble. However, in the second season premiere, it is revealed that, using an artifact called the Pearl of Wisdom, MacPherson was controlling her mind at that time.
In Season 2, Leena mentions she has also lost people she loved to Claudia. This statement eventually led to Claudia letting go of her anger towards Leena.
At the end of Season 3, Leena was the most mysterious of the main cast of characters, and certainly the one about whom the least was known with any certainty. She often demonstrated affection for all the Warehouse agents and the Caretaker, but no family has yet been mentioned, let alone shown, and her initial (apparent) flirtation with Pete in the pilot seems to have fizzled.
In Season 4, Helena, Mrs. Frederic, and Leena are all told by Artie that he used Ferdinand Magellan's Astrolabe. All three of them believe Artie made the right decision.[10] In The Ones You Love, Leena followed Artie through the Warehouse when he went to settle things with Brother Adrian and, after Leena told him that he had been yelling at no one, Artie realizes that the Brother Adrian the Warehouse personnel had been fighting all this time was a hallucination brought about by the Astrolabe and that he was the one removing artifacts from the Warehouse. Mrs. Frederic, having found this out at the Vatican, warned Leena to leave the Warehouse immediately. Instead, Leena tried to help Artie only to find out that the evil of the Astrolabe had taken over Artie. Leena is killed by a possessed Artie because she was "in the way".[11]
In "We All Fall Down", Leena's ghost visited Pete. It's unknown why Pete was the only one that saw Leena's ghost, but she did lead Pete to a wooden cabinet where H.G. was hiding all her research on Borgia's Dagger. Before Leena died, Mrs. Frederic told Leena where H.G. was hiding her research on the dagger so if something were to happen to H.G. Leena would still know where her research was.
Leena after finishing her signature statement in Parks and Rehabilitation.
In the season 4 finale, "The Truth Hurts" we see Leena's ghost again. It is implied that she has been watching over the team since her death. It is also implied she forgives Artie for killing her.
In the final episode, Mrs. Frederic's memory of Leena's first day is shown. Leena tells Mrs. Frederic that she can read the aura of the Warehouse, and confides in her that she knows she will die there one day. Irene promises her that she will do everything she can to stop that happening, but Leena re-assures her that she needn't worry, and that she is prepared for it when the time comes...
Relationships[]
Arthur Nielsen[]
TBA
Irene Frederic[]
Leena and Mrs. Frederic first met after Leena was hired to Warehouse 13. Mrs. Frederic had been told that she could perceive aura, and Leena saw that hers was "an old soul". Mrs. Frederic told her that she would fit in nicely at the Warehouse. When Leena somehow foresaw that she would die there, Mrs. Frederic promised her that she would do everything in her power to prevent it; Leena calmly told Mrs. Frederic that she would be unable to, but that she was at peace with that.[3]
After Mrs. Frederic discovered that Leena had been implanted with the Pearl of Wisdom by MacPherson, she strangled Leena nearly to death to remove it.[12] When the Regents attempted to learn information from MacPherson's residual memories in Leena's mind, Mrs. Frederic eventually took on the duty of doing so to ensure Leena's safety.[13]
When Marcus Diamond attacked and restrained Leena for his attack on the Warehouse, Mrs. Frederic appeared wielding Shirō Ishii's Medal to threaten him. When Leena warned her that she should not have come to help her because of the danger, she reminded Leena of the promise she had made to protect her.[14]
Unlike other non-agent Warehouse employees that are not under Mrs. Frederic's direct command, including her successor Abigail Chow, Leena always referred to her as "Mrs. Frederic" instead of Irene.
Pete Lattimer[]
When they first met, Pete and Leena were romantically attracted to each other.[9] Leena had found him attractive, "kind of sexy",[6] and "flirted shamelessly with him"; as Leena described it, "there had been a definite vibe between them". However, she did not allow this to go any further, as she believed that getting romantically involved with a Warehouse agent would have been "much too complicated".[15]
Over time, their romantic feelings faded and they regarded each other as family rather than prospective partners.[15] Despite this, Pete still considered Leena physically attractive, and openly ogled her virtual counterpart in Douglas Fargo's video game.[16]
After Leena's death, her ghost appeared almost exclusively to him and guided him to where Helena G. Wells had hidden her research on Francis Borgia's Dagger so as to stop Artie from obtaining it.[17]
Myka Bering[]
TBA
Claudia Donovan[]
TBA
James MacPherson[]
TBA
Skills[]
- Aura Perception: TBA
To-Do List[]
While Leena worked at the Warehouse, one of her responsibilities was keeping artifacts stable through various means. After her death, Artie kept one list of such responsibilities that he attempted to follow:[18]
Details not written on the list, or corrections to mistakes on it, are added in parentheses for clarification.
Leena's List
- Rotate wheels on George [sic] (Georges) Mochet's Pedal Car
- Wind Henry Work's Grandfather Clock
- Randomize Alexander Alekhine's Chess Board
- Vacuum Prince Husain's [sic] (Hussain) Flying Carpet
- Check bulbs in Roseland (Ballroom) Marquee
- Reverse Statues of Castor and Pollux
- Polish badge on (Romano) Cattaneo's (Alfa Romeo) Spider
- Drain static from Ricardo Setaro's Radio
- Redistribute Tanto Blade energy weight
- Take Porthole Window to Spiral for shelving
- Add 2 cents to (Bill) Todman's Penny Ante Board
- Adjust rabbit ears on Leonard Smith's TV (or "TX" (Transmitter))
- Re-focus Evry Schatman's [sic] (Schatzman)Telescope
- Give Zhang Heng's Seismometer a good shake
Trivia[]
- The name Leena is derived from the Greek name Elena or Helena (Helen) - which has the meaning of "Beautiful Woman" or "Light"/"Shine".
- Leena is another spelling of Arabic Lina (q.v.), meaning "delicate" or "softness/tenderness"; (used in Africa).
- In Irish however, it means "wet meadow".
- In the original Pilot script, Leena's personality was slightly different than in the final show, and seemed to have more extrasensory or supernatural abilities than reading auras (she was able to sense that Myka and Pete were the reincarnated spirits of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais - respectively).[19]
- Rather than running a B&B, she ran a "Hotel and Boarding House".
- Additionally, at the end of the Pilot, her full name was revealed to be Leena Frederic, though whether she was a sibling, descendant, or someone else entirely was never explained.
- Unlike most main characters throughout the series, nothing is known of Leena's life prior to joining the Warehouse, including her last name. This is a trait shared with Mrs. Frederic, whose life was intentionally kept mysterious, and yet ironically whose prior history is more known.
- Prior to seeing Steve Jinks's and Claudia's auras swap from the effects of Johann Maelzel's Metronome, she claims to have only ever seen that happen once before and that it "didn't end well".[20] It is unclear if she was referring to witnessing Marcus's death when Claudia stopped the Metronome[14] or not.
- The series shows that Leena spends nights sleeping at the B&B,[21] but the novel implies that she has her own home separate from it.[22] It is unclear if the novel's claim is non-canon, or if Leena spends nights at either residence.
Appearances[]
| Season 1 | ||||||||||||
| Opening Credits: | Appears | |||||||||||
| 1. "Pilot": | Debut | 7. "Implosion": | Appears | |||||||||
| 2. "Resonance": | Appears | 8. "Duped": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "Magnetism": | Appears | 9. "Regrets": | Absent | |||||||||
| 4. "Claudia": | Absent | 10. "Breakdown": | Absent | |||||||||
| 5. "Elements": | Appears | 11. "Nevermore": | Absent | |||||||||
| 6. "Burnout": | Absent | 12. "MacPherson": | Appears | |||||||||
| Season 2 | ||||||||||||
| Opening Credits: | Appears | |||||||||||
| 1. "Time Will Tell": | Appears | 7. "For The Team": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "Mild Mannered": | Appears | 8. "Merge With Caution": | Appears | |||||||||
| 3. "Beyond Our Control": | Appears | 9. "Vendetta": | Appears | |||||||||
| 4. "Age Before Beauty": | Absent | 10. "Where and When": | Absent | |||||||||
| 5. "13.1": | Absent | 11. "Buried": | Absent | |||||||||
| 6. "Around the Bend": | Absent | 12. "Reset": | Appears | |||||||||
| 13. "Secret Santa": | Appears | |||||||||||
| Season 3 | ||||||||||||
| Opening Credits: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "The New Guy": | Appears | 7. "Past Imperfect": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "Trials": | Appears | 8. "The 40th Floor": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "Love Sick": | Absent | 9. "Shadows": | Absent | |||||||||
| 4. "Queen For A Day": | Appears | 10. "Insatiable": | Appears | |||||||||
| 5. "3... 2... 1": | Absent | 11. "Emily Lake": | Absent | |||||||||
| 6. "Don't Hate The Player": | Appears | 12. "Stand": | Appears | |||||||||
| 13. "The Greatest Gift": | Appears | |||||||||||
| Season 4 | ||||||||||||
| Opening Credits: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "A New Hope": | Appears | 11. "The Living and the Dead": | Appears | |||||||||
| 2. "An Evil Within": | Appears | 12. "Parks and Rehabilitation": | Pictured | |||||||||
| 3. "Personal Effects": | Appears | 13. "The Big Snag": | Absent | |||||||||
| 4. "There's Always a Downside": | Absent | 14. "The Sky's the Limit": | Absent | |||||||||
| 5. "No Pain, No Gain": | Absent | 15. "Instinct": | Absent | |||||||||
| 6. "Fractures": | Appears | 16. "Runaway": | Absent | |||||||||
| 7. "Endless Wonder": | Appears | 17. "What Matters Most": | Absent | |||||||||
| 8. "Second Chance": | Appears | 18. "Lost & Found": | Absent | |||||||||
| 9. "The Ones You Love": | Appears | 19. "All the Time in the World": | Absent | |||||||||
| 10. "We All Fall Down": | Appears | 20. "The Truth Hurts": | Appears | |||||||||
| Season 5 | ||||||||||||
| Opening Credits: | Absent | |||||||||||
| 1. "Endless Terror": | Absent | 4. "Savage Seduction": | Absent | |||||||||
| 2. "Secret Services": | Absent | 5. "Cangku Shisi": | Absent | |||||||||
| 3. "A Faire to Remember": | Absent | 6. "Endless": | Flashback | |||||||||
Webisodes[]
References[]
- ↑ Artie claims in "TBA" that this occurred 15 years prior. However, the timeline of past events as given in Season 1 (specifically regarding James's history and its relation to Joshua's disappearance and Claudia's age) is incompatible with information given later in the series when Claudia's age is retconned to more closely match that of her actress. While the series of events can remain the same, the number of years prior to present day that these events occurred are different given the more recent information, rendering the specific window of time for Leena to have been hired inconsistent.
- ↑ Parks and Rehabilitation
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Endless
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Leena was happy to see that her neighbors’ auras all seemed to be in alignment today. She had known most of them for years." "She had lived in Univille for years and years now. It was more than just her base of operations. It was her home. She couldn’t imagine living anywhere else." Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever, Chapter 11
- ↑ "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." Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever, Chapter 18
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Magnetism
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Implosion
- ↑ Duped
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Pilot
- ↑ Second Chance
- ↑ The Ones You Love
- ↑ Time Will Tell
- ↑ Beyond Our Control
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Stand
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "To be honest, she’d found Pete attractive at the start and had flirted with him shamelessly that first afternoon. There had been a definite vibe between them, although she had known better than to let it go any further than that; getting involved with a Warehouse agent would have been much too complicated. Besides, she no longer thought of Pete that way. He was family now." Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever, Chapter 18
- ↑ Don't Hate the Player
- ↑ We All Fall Down
- ↑ Parks and Rehabilitation (see this image)
- ↑ http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Warehouse_13_1x01_-_Pilot.pdf
- ↑ Fractures
- ↑ A New Hope
- ↑ "Forget stewing at the B&B. Maybe the others could use a hand back at the Warehouse? Her car was parked at home, just a few blocks away." Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever, Chapter 18
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