User blog comment:Garr9988/Story Ideas/@comment-1674153-20190419210703/@comment-5782071-20190419211649

Fair point, fair point. The reason I was referring to was, back in S1 when Claudia was doing inventory most of the time, it was because she wasn't an agent and Artie was obsessing over MacPherson (both wanting to know what else he stole and to keep them safe and off the field).

After he died, we don't really see the gang doing inventory as far as I can remember. Artie was doing inventory at the start of "The Ones You Love" to see what else "Adrian" had stolen (Pete and Myka were shelving or doing inventory at the same time, but could have been for the same reason); the closest I can remember to non-dire-circumstances-relevant-inventory-ing is "The Sky's the Limit", where Myka comes over from somewhere, holding a clipboard, and tells Pete that Anthony Bishop's Manuscript belongs somewhere other than where it had last been shelved.

And even if you make the perfectly fair and justified argument that "it's inventory, it's the WH, it must logically happen often even if we don't see it", which I agree with, I just feel like starting the story off with someone in the stacks because of inventory and something goes wrong feels kind of... overdone and a bit boring/cliche now? If there's a better option, I want to use it.