List of The Librarians episodes

The Librarians is an American television series developed by John Rogers that is broadcast on TNT, and premiered on December 7, 2014. It is a direct spin-off of The Librarian film series, sharing continuity with the films. On February 12, 2015, TNT renewed the series for a 10 episode second season,^[1] which began airing on November 1, 2015 on TNT. On December 15, 2015, TNT renewed the series for a 10-episode third season.^[2] As of December 27, 2015, 20 episodes of The Librarians have aired, concluding the second season.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	10	December 7, 2014	January 18, 2015
	2	10	November 1, 2015	December 27, 2015

Episodes

Season 1 (2014–15)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"And the Crown of King Arthur"	Dean Devlin	John Rogers	December 7, 2014	5.35[3]
Anti-terror agent Eve Baird runs across Librarian Flynn Carsen during a mission in Berlin, and, on her return to the U.S., is invited to join the Library as the new Guardian. Despite Flynn's resistance, she works with him to discover that someone is killing potential Librarians, and they find and rescue three who are still alive: mathematician Cassandra, art expert Jake, and thief Ezekiel. Combining their skills, they find the crown of King Arthur and bring it to the Library. But the Serpent Brotherhood invade the Library with the help of Cassandra who believes that they would do good by unleashing magic in the world. They steal Arthur's sword Excalibur and stab Flynn with it causing a magical wound that will not heal. Judson and Charlene seal off the Library.
2	2	"And the Sword in the Stone"	Dean Devlin	John Rogers	December 7, 2014	5.35[3]
As the Library is being sealed, Flynn, Eve, Jake and Ezekiel jump through a portal and find themselves in an unfamiliar forest. They soon meet Jenkins who takes them to the Library branch facility in Portland that he oversees. Flynn is dying and depressed, but Eve convinces him to take the team and spend his last day saving the world. They go to London where the Brotherhood plan to find the stone that once held Excalibur and reinsert it unleashing magic into the world. The team free Cassandra from a dungeon and foil the Brotherhood. Cassandra uses the last magic from Excalibur to heal Flynn rather than to cure her own brain tumor. On their return to Portland, Flynn and Eve kiss but both recognize that duty will keep them apart. Flynn goes off to attempt to recover the main Library while Eve prepares to lead the three new Librarians into further adventures.
3	3	"And the Horns of a Dilemma"	Marc Roskin	Jeremy Bernstein	December 14, 2014	3.37[4]
Eve is disappointed with the new Librarians' response to and performance in her self-defense drills, but she allows them to persuade her to let them go on a mission. Jenkins' clippings book reports that eight young people have recently disappeared, and they find that all worked as interns in the Boston headquarters of a large agribusiness firm. They travel to Boston using a magical door that Jenkins has activated, and meet with the firm's CEO (Tricia Helfer). While Eve breaks into what she thinks is the company's server room, the other three are sent into what turns out to be a labyrinth complete with a Minotaur (Tyler Mane), since the firm appears to be a direct descendant of the Minoan monarchy. The server room turns out to be a collection of Minoan artifacts that powers the labyrinth's magic. The four are eventually able to navigate and disable the labyrinth and Eve realizes that her new charges will require management techniques different from those she uses with soldiers.
4	4	"And Santa's Midnight Run"	Jonathan Frakes	Paul Guyot & John Rogers	December 21, 2014	3.19[5]
The Librarians learn that Santa Claus (Bruce Campbell) has disappeared. Jenkins explains that Santa is an "immortal avatar" who gathers goodwill through the year and returns it on Christmas; if he fails to do so there will be worldwide chaos. The team travel to his last known location, a London soup kitchen. There, they find that he has been abducted by the Serpent Brotherhood, who plan to kill him at midnight on Christmas Eve and thus appropriate his stored magical power. The team release him but with his sleigh stolen by the Brotherhood they cannot get him to the North Pole in time. The Brotherhood attack them while they are on a plane trying to reach a focus of aurora borealis in Alaska. Dulaque falls out of the plane but Jenkins later says that he will survive. It falls to Eve, in spite of her lack of enthusiasm for Christmas, to complete Santa's task, as she was born of the last stroke of Midnight of Christmas Eve, and this is the reason why she is named Eve.
5	5	"And the Apple of Discord"	Marc Roskin	Paul Guyot & Geoffrey Thorne	December 28, 2014	4.10[6]
Flynn returns to address a crisis: a dispute between two groups of dragons threatens a destructive war. Through a legal technicality, Ezekiel is required to chair a conclave of several magical organizations. He and Jenkins must stop Dulaque's attempt to remove the Library from its historic role as arbiter among them. Meanwhile Flynn, Eve, Jake, and Cassandra travel to a dragon lair under Vatican City and encounter a golden apple that transforms people into the worst version of themselves while holding it. Pleased with Eve's success in leading the new recruits, Flynn offers her a long-term contract as Guardian and plans to stay in Portland with her. She signs the contract but reminds him of his duty to recover the main Library.
6	6	"And the Fables of Doom"	Jonathan Frakes	Kate Rorick	January 4, 2015	3.72[7]
Near a small town in Washington, a truck is thrown off a bridge and the clipping book sends the Librarians to investigate. They find that the event was caused by a troll, and that other strange events have been occurring in the town, each fitting into the pattern of a well-known fairy tale. The cause is traced to an ancient book that has recently come into the possession of the town's own mundane librarian (René Auberjonois), as part of a legacy of rare books. Ezekiel discovers that he is powering the book by reading it to a girl and draining her life-force. The Librarians begin to get sucked into the stories, with Cassandra becoming Prince Charming, Eve the Princess, Jacob The Huntsman, and Ezekiel Jack. Ezekiel is able to defeat the librarian by freezing him as the patient retells the fairy tales with a happy ending, capturing the town librarian inside fairy tale book. As the Librarians leave, Cassandra is revealed to the audience as having maintained some magical powers from her role as Merlin in the girl's final story.
7	7	"And the Rule of Three"	Marc Roskin	Paul Guyot & Kate Rorick	January 11, 2015	3.44[8]
The clipping book sends the Librarians to a Chicago-area science fair, where strange magical events are occurring. In the confusion, the fair's sponsor (Alicia Witt) goes through a portal to the Annex, where Jenkins identifies her as his longtime adversary Morgan le Fay. Morgan has given the contestants an app that lets them use magic to harm one another, counting on the inevitable magical backlash. Eve finds a way to harm Morgan physically, but Morgan gives her a choice between continuing their battle and saving the contestants and their families. With the help of a student (Bex Taylor-Klaus) the Librarians shield everyone from the backlash, but Morgan harvests the magical power and departs, to find a place to sit out what she says is an upcoming major disaster. She leaves Eve with a Latin warning for Jenkins (whom she calls Galeas): "Don't fear the villain, fear the hero".
8	8	"And the Heart of Darkness"	John Harrison	Geoffrey Thorne	January 11, 2015	2.86[8]
While inspecting ley lines in Slovakia, the Librarians suddenly come upon a teenage American girl named Katie (Lea Zawada) who is bleeding and claims that her three friends are in danger at a nearby house. Eve takes Jake and Ezekiel to investigate, leaving Cassandra (to her dismay) with Katie. Jenkins tells them by phone of a number of magical houses that travel from place to place; some are benign and some evil. Inside the house (which Stone identifies as 19th-century frontier American) they encounter menacing noises and sights including a huge shadowy figure. While the other three are magically trapped inside a small model of the house, Cassandra is able to solve the mystery. The house magically helps those who come upon it, but since Katie's family did so she has been using it to operate as a serial killer. Cassandra is able to overcome and apparently destroy Katie, and the house's cheerful guiding spirit wishes them well as Cassandra drives them away.
9	9	"And the City of Light"	Tawnia McKiernan	John Rogers & Jeremy Bernstein	January 18, 2015	3.27[9]
The Librarians visit a small town in upstate New York where a UFO researcher has disappeared. They eventually discover the town's secret: An experiment a century ago by Nikola Tesla led to the town's inhabitants being trapped in an adjacent dimension, from which they can influence our world only by temporarily taking over the bodies of others. One woman, Mabel (Haley Webb) remains ageless in her own body, and she and Stone bond over their shared history of confinement to their hometowns. Tesla started a project which might free the townspeople, and the Librarians help to bring it to completion, not least because Eve has also become trapped. Because they learn that this plan has an estimated 50-50 chance of causing mass destruction, they abort it at the last minute, when Eve is freed and Mabel dies. The other townspeople remain trapped; a new attempt to free them will take another century, but Jenkins and Eve put this on the Library's to-do list.
10	10	"And the Loom of Fate"	Jonathan Frakes	John Rogers	January 18, 2015	3.03[9]
Flynn returns with a plan to retrieve the main Library by using artifacts obtained in the earlier missions. However, Dulaque uses their work to access the "Loom of Fate", with which he attempts to reverse the historical fall of Camelot. This throws Eve into a succession of alternate realities, along with an alternate version of Flynn who never became Librarian. They successively find versions of Jake, Ezekiel, and Cassandra who each became Librarian of an alternate reality in Flynn's place. (Each has been unsuccessful in containing the evils released there ten years before.) The new Cassandra, a powerful sorceress, is able to assemble all three alternates and combine their abilities to access the Loom once more. There, while Jenkins/Galahad holds off a rejuvenated Dulaque/Lancelot with a sword, Flynn uses the thread from the Labyrinth to restore the original reality, find the Library, and heal Baird from being stabbed by Lancelot. The three new Librarians are each given their own version of the clipping book, but decide to carry out their first independent mission together. Flynn invites Baird on a "first date", consisting of taking the magic door into some unknown adventure.

Season 2 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
11	1	"And the Drowned Book"	Marc Roskin	John Rogers & Paul Guyot	November 1, 2015	2.25[10]
Eve and Flynn have been working together while the other three have been on solo missions. The Library calls them all to a museum in New York, sending each after a different artifact. It turns out they have been maneuvered by Professor Moriarty into helping him collect these artifacts on behalf of Shakespeare's Prospero, who needs them to recover the magic book he threw in the sea at the end of The Tempest. (Jenkins explains that some fictional characters come into existence of their own accord, but others can be summoned by spells. All are bound, to some extent, by the context of their narrative.) Prospero also needs his broken staff to achieve unlimited power. The Librarians work together to save New York from a hurricane caused by Ariel, but Prospero and Moriarty escape.
12	2	"And the Broken Staff"	Marc Roskin	Alexa Alemanni & Joe Boothe & Holly Moyer	November 1, 2015	1.95[10]
Prospero and Moriarty's scheme is actually not to recover the staff, but to replace it using wood from the Tree of Knowledge located in the heart of the Library. Eve and Flynn are able to reach this location despite problems with the Library's security system and the interference of other fictional characters summoned into existence by Prospero. Flynn destroys a tree that Prospero incorrectly believes to be the Tree of Knowledge and Prospero flees, while Moriarty (under threat of being sent off a cliff by Baird) agrees to withdraw from the dispute. Flynn later remarks that he is uncertain which tree of significance was destroyed in the ploy. Jenkins confesses that the Library has systemic problems he cannot explain, including several artifacts that have disappeared. Flynn leaves alone in search of these while the reunited Librarians prepare to help Eve with the Library's work.
13	3	"And What Lies Beneath the Stones"	Marc Roskin	Alexa Alemanni & Joe Boothe	November 8, 2015	1.95[11]
In Oklahoma, drilling for a new pipeline, being conducted by Jake's father Isaac, releases a shape-shifting entity that thrives on lies and chaos. Isaac has told lies in order to advance the project without authorization and chaos follows via opposition to the pipeline by Choctaw activists, who claim (correctly) that the site contains Native artifacts. The three Librarians arrive and are identified as archaeologists investigating these alleged artifacts. Jake, who has never told his father about his academic accomplishments, puts forward Ezekiel as their leader and claims to be his assistant. The shape-shifter sows dissension among the Librarians, steals explosives, and (as Isaac) orders the workers to destroy the underground cavern in which it was imprisoned and in which it has trapped the Librarians. However, they deduce that sharing difficult truths weakens the creature and opens the chamber and they are able to return it to captivity there. Jake places his own name on his latest academic article in place of one of his many pseudonyms.
14	4	"And the Cost of Education"	Courtney Rowe	Kate Rorick	November 15, 2015	1.89[12]
The disappearance of a college mascot brings the Librarians to Wexler University, founded by a 19th-century occultist and the model for H. P. Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. There, they meet Lucy, a precocious student who has built a novel particle accelerator and is conducting amateur explorations of magic. On campus, disappearances of students and faculty from the university appear to be routine. Stone visits a professor of architecture he admires to ask about the buildings' history, but the professor is taken through a dimensional rift by a giant tentacle monster. They determine that Lucy's experiments have opened the rift and devise a way to close it, but Lucy is also taken before they can do this. Since the monster is attracted by displays of hubris, Stone uses Jones to distract it while Cassandra enters the rift and retrieves Lucy. Before returning, Cassandra finds herself in an underwater space between dimensions where a woman (Beth Riesgraf) invites her to join "the Lake," a group of women who research science and magic and have been covertly aiding Lucy's work. She declines, professing loyalty to the Library. On her return, she and Jenkins argue over the Library's policy of containing and suppressing magic. Lucy leaves the university to explore magic on her own.
15	5	"And the Hollow Men"	Noah Wyle	Geoffrey Thorne	November 22, 2015	2.10[13]
As Baird, Stone, and Jones attempt a burglary in quest of the Orb of Zarathustra, they encounter Carsen on the same errand. But, it is a trap; all are rendered unconscious and Carsen and the Orb are taken. Carsen awakens to find that his captor is not Prospero, but a large man named Ray, an amnesiac who spontaneously pulls Library artifacts from his pockets. The others locate Ray's hideout, but only after Ray and Carsen have left in a bookmobile. Moriarty then arrives and tries to take Ray's amassed artifacts. The three Librarians escape, but Baird is left behind by a failure of the portal. Moriarty offers his (and Ariel's) help in locating Ray and Carsen. Meanwhile, Carsen has deduced that Ray is the embodied spirit of the Library, separated from it when it was rescued from the void four months before. Together, they use the Orb to first find a hidden Sumerian temple in Pennsylvania, then evade its traps to locate the Staff of Zarathustra within. Moriarty helps Baird evade the same traps and they arrive just as Ray seizes the Staff to regain his memory and is overcome by its power. Moriarty convinces them to give him the Staff so that they can restore Ray to the Library, which is near death from his absence. This done, Carsen goes off in search of Prospero, on less romantic terms with Baird than before.
16	6	"And the Infernal Contract"	Jonathan Frakes	Paul Guyot & Holly Moyer	November 29, 2015	2.02[14]
Baird's old military friend Sam Denning (Michael Trucco) is running for mayor of his New Hampshire town and asks for Baird's help when his campaign staffer goes missing. The three Librarians are sent to the same town by the clipping book. They discover that the family of Denning's opponent has made a contract with a demon (John DeLancie) whereby they have benefited for centuries at the cost of periodic disasters for the town. To avert the next disaster, they must steal the parchment contract document, but, when they do, Denning takes it from them and signs it himself, relying on the demon's promise that he will become a hero. The Librarians become trapped underground facing both certain death and the demon's tempting offers of safety in return for their own contract. After Baird saves both the day and her friend by outwitting the demon, Jenkins tells her that her main duty as Guardian is to protect not the Librarians' bodies, but their souls.
17	7	"And the Image of Image"	Emile Levisetti	Paul Guyot	December 6, 2015	2.24[15]
The Librarians investigate a popular London nightclub, where patrons have suffered the ill effects of partying despite not having been participants. The club turns out to be owned by Dorian Gray, who has modernized his magical painting to preserve his youth at the expense of the patrons. Jenkins, who knew both personally, says that Oscar Wilde based his character on a real person. Jenkins' plan to break the enchantment succeeds, at some personal risk to Baird.
18	8	"And the Point of Salvation"	Jonathan Frakes	Jeremy Bernstein	December 13, 2015	2.21[16]
DARPA has somehow obtained a magical material from Atlantis and built a powerful quantum computer which begins to malfunction. When the Librarians investigate, they become trapped in what appears to be a time loop where only Jones retains his memory across the iterations. It is thus up to him to determine the true nature of their situation and devise an escape. Meanwhile, Jenkins summons a faery who tells him when Prospero is planning to attack next: right now.
19	9	"And the Happily Ever Afters"	Rod Hardy	Geoffrey Thorne & Jeremy Bernstein	December 20, 2015	1.94[17]
Carsen returns from a mission to find Baird and the Librarians missing and Jenkins with no idea that they ever existed. The clipping book sends him to a small town on an island in Puget Sound where he finds all four in idyllic jobs and with no knowledge of the Library. Baird is the sheriff and dating Moriarty (the mayor), Stone is a professor, Jones is an FBI agent, and Cassandra is a retired astronaut. Carsen points out the implausibility of a university or FBI branch office in such a small town, to no avail. When Ariel (Hayley McLaughlin) shows up, Carsen and Jenkins are able to bind her to the extent that she agrees to cooperate in lifting Prospero's spell in exchange for their help in freeing her from Prospero. They are able to convince the four to choose their true narratives over the false ones, but, when they return after three weeks out of action, they find that, in the meantime, Prospero has "supercharged the ley lines" which, Carsen says, threatens to cause the end of the world.
20	10	"And the Final Curtain"	Marc Roskin	John Rogers & Paul Guyot	December 27, 2015	2.24[18]
Prospero's magic has eliminated all electrical technology and appears to be transforming the earth into an idyllic forest. Baird and Carsen use one of the Library's many time machines to travel to Wilton House in 1611, where Shakespeare is about to present a new play to King James. They prevent Moriarty from assassinating Shakespeare and watch as the playwright reads from his new work, The Triumph of Prospero, and becomes possessed by the spirit of his character. With some timely help from the Lady of the Lake, Carsen is reunited with Excalibur. They are able to break Prospero's staff and Carsen leaves clues for the other Librarians in the present, who perform an exorcism. Shakespeare is restored to himself in the present and is able to pass through a time rift, restoring the original history, but Baird and Carsen are trapped in the past. Fortunately, they are able to use the last of Prospero's magic to devise an appropriately Shakespearean means by which to return to the present where they are ready for new adventures.

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