The Librarians

Deidre.

Honey...?

Can we go now?

I'm dying here.

What?

I thought we were gonna see mummies and shrunken heads.

If I see one more urn, I'm gonna lose it.

Broaden your horizons, Barry.

So painted wood statues were common

during all dynasties of the old kingdom.

This decorative urn from the 13th century

was from Pharaoh Akhenaten to his first wife...

But you're not really interested in any of this,

are you, Barry?

What the... What the hell?

Hey, honey, you're not gonna believe this. This thing just...

Go through the door on your right,

if you want to see something really interesting.

Okay, I guess.

Yes, keep going.

To the right.

Almost there.

In the center of the room.

All right. That's more like it.

Flynn, how we doin'?

Don't know how long I can hold these goat heads.

I'm climbing, I'm climbing.

And technically, it's a ram's head.

Interesting fact, the ram's head

is a Druid symbol of power and virility.

More interesting fact, Druids are trying to kill us.

- I need those translations. - Give me a second!

- Okay. - It's, um...

Looks like ancient Gaulish

mixed with third-century astrological symbols.

Ezekiel! Please tell me

you're working on an escape plan!

Uh, way ahead of you, as always.

The entrance appears to be blocked by a board game.

All right, all right, all right.

The markings read, "North... northern king..."

No. "The King... when the king reaches the north,

the light will reveal itself."

- Ah! Gwyddbwyll! - Oh, my God. He's having a stroke.

No, no. Gwyddbwyll.

Ancient Celtic precursor to chess, actually.

Seven-by-seven grid, 21 pieces,

72,804 possible moves...

Uh... 72,803 possible moves.

Okay, I can see the board.

It's... two up, two across,

three down, another left. One up.

Uh...

Ugh!

Boom. Just saved the world, again.

- Did you see us back there? - We're unstoppable!

What could possibly go wrong?

- Don't do that. - Do what?

Look, I'm from Oklahoma, okay?

It's not easy for me to get beat up by...

- By a girl? - By my boss.

Okay, "Van Damme," try the punching bag.

Give it your best shot.

Good impact, but you use too much energy.

You'll punch yourself out fighting like that.

Here, try cocking your fist at 130-degree angle

from your forearm, bend at the elbow.

- Tae Kwon Do jab. - Why are you doing this?

What's with all the practice and the training?

You have a lot of raw talent.

But you've never taken the time to learn.

Do you know how many years Flynn trained with Excalibur?

Baird, I'm a brawler, okay? I'm a brawler.

That's what I do. I've been a brawler since I was a kid.

I can't learn this stuff.

Yes, you can.

You're a Librarian.

You have multiple PhDs in history and art.

We're just gonna add martial arts to that list.

Okay, but the fighting? That's what we got you for.

I'm more than just your bodyguard.

All right, we'll pick this up tomorrow.

130.

Stupid.

Baird? Baird!

- 'Night, Mr. Stanek. - Good night, Curtis.

Oh...

Here you go, old man.

Perfect. Good as new.

Stendec, Stendec,

Stendec, Stendec,

Stendec, Stendec, Stendec,

Stendec, Stendec,

- Whoa! - Stendec...

Stendec...

Stendec, Stendec...

Stendec, Stendec...

Stendec, Stendec...

Stendec, Stendec, Stendec,

Stendec, Stendec...

No. No!

No! No!

Well, my examination is complete.

And now the fabled Nwyfre Runestone

is ready to be housed in its new home.

So what is that? That's five artifacts in four weeks?

That's pretty impressive, right?

Go ahead, Jenkins, say it.

We're the best team you've ever seen.

Your mothers did not hug you enough, did they?

I know that face.

That's the "I should be happy,

but instead I'm unnecessarily worried" face.

Oh, yeah? And what's my "If you don't leave me alone,

I'm gonna punch you in the face" face?

That one. What's goin' on?

The team's on a roll. We're doin' great.

That's exactly when mistakes happen.

One day you're on top and then, boom!

Fall of Rome, collapse of the Mayan Empire, Myspace...

Well, you're a "library's half empty" kinda gal today.

I just want everyone to be better.

Before, when I saw Dulaque cut the Loom of Fate,

- I saw... - Alternate versions of themselves.

I know. I was there. Although I wasn't there,

because I was an alternate version of myself.

I saw their true potential. And they're gonna be

amazing Librarians, Flynn, like you.

I just have to get them there faster.

We can't wait 10 years.

- What's the hurry? - I don't know.

It's just this feeling I have, Flynn.

I can't explain it. Call it "Guardian's intuition."

Well, I think that you are worrying...

...for no reason... whatsoever.

Ya think?

What the hell just happened?

How did it just explode like that?

It must have been trying to tell us something important.

Now we'll never know.

Sure we will.

Sure we will. Take a look around you.

There's pieces of the book everywhere.

All we have to do is think of this

as a jigsaw puzzle, right?

Piece what we can back together...

- Find the parts that are missing. - That's the spirit.

So the clipping book bursts into flames.

Big deal. We can handle that, right?

No problemo.

This is a huge problemo.

The clipping book bursting into flames? Are you kidding me?

Your grace under pressure is always admirable, sir.

I told you my "spidey senses" were tingling,

but you wouldn't listen.

- What...? - See?

Okay, please. Let's just concentrate on the matter at hand.

Now we know the clipping book

shows us events that have happened

or are about to happen, so obviously there are

so many events on the horizon,

that it overloaded.

You know, we could do this a lot more quickly

if we could just use a reconstituting spell.

We don't use magic, Cass. We're Librarians.

- We use our brains. - Yes, but my brain is telling me

we should use magic. I mean, we have the greatest collection

of magic in the whole world, right here in this building.

And we never put it work for us.

- I do. - You do what?

Use magic. All the time.

Right now I have that knit-wheel thingy

fixing some of my sweaters.

The Spinning Wheel of Clotho? That's not a toy, Jones.

You guys know why the Library exists?

To save the world from things like that.

Yes, but if we just learned how to use it properly...

There is always a price to pay.

Now, I do not disagree that wielding magic can have its benefits,

but I have seen too many corrupted by its power.

We don't need to use magic.

We have the finest collection of minds in the world

right here in this very room.

Now, what is the clipping book trying to tell us?

This is all we could piece together so far...

Uh-huh, uh-huh, yes.

Obviously, the clipping book wants us to go

to "Pumpernickel Rubber Bubbles."

Ring a bell?

Anyone?

What about "Potato Duck Girdle"?

Okay, how 'bout "Kidney Weasel..."

Okay, fine, we'll just do it the old-fashioned way.

It's a gigantic anagram with missing pieces.

So we need to calculate the probable outcomes,

divided by the number of probable events...

in this case, letters, possible words.

And then determining the likely odds,

we can reduce the number of probable outcomes

until... "Science-Museum-Boston."