Synopsis 02×03: No fictionals terrorizing anyone this week. The Librarian team went on their first mission back together without Eve or Flynn and learned a whole lot about Jake’s past. Oh, and there’s a shapeshifter.
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Over in Oklahoma, we were introduced to some sort of construction site where a rather snarly older gentleman was insistent they dig even without the permits. Naturally, it ended up being a terrible idea. After one of his workmen fell into a magical sinkhole, a shapeshifter began to wreak havoc on the construction site. It not only put the project at risk, but also the lives of those working for the company. To add insult to injury, there was a feisty group of protesters who believed the dig shouldn’t have even been started in the first place because of its location near an ancient tribal ground.
Back at the Library, Eve and Jenkins worked to make sense of the chaos that resulted from its return. Rooms were missing, artifacts weren’t where they should be, and they had to figure out how to get it back in order. It worried Jenkins, which in turn worried Eve, but they were soon distracted as the Librarians were given their next task. Eve made the executive decision to send the kids out by themselves this time around, because they were all fully trained Librarians and needed to be reminded what it was like to work together. They reluctantly went, and ended up in Oklahoma near the dig site. Go figure.
It turned out that the construction company overseeing the dig just so happened to belong to Jake’s family, specifically his dad. It was the family business he had run away from years and years ago in order to pursue his education. His reunion with his father was less than friendly after they tracked him down to a bar where he was drinking his sorrows away. Cassandra and Ezekiel both seemed to get a kick out of the exchange which was heartbreaking at best, when anyone really settled down to think about it.
Jake and his father had a bit of a blowout argument over the company, which his father blamed him for screwing up (even though it was quite the opposite).
The shapeshifter continued to wreak havoc on the team as it took on the appearance of Cassandra and said some rather cruel things to Jake before stealing a bunch of explosives. Cassandra and Ezekiel, meanwhile, spent time at the Library to try and figure out what it could be that’s causing the disturbances. They came to the conclusion that it was indeed a shapeshifter, and that they came in many shapes and sizes. Get it? Different shapes of shapeshifters… okay, I’ll stop. This show is astoundingly ridiculous sometimes. Regardless, they figured out they were dealing with some sort of “trickster god,” and went to find Jake to tell him the news.
The lie that had released it had been Jake’s father’s insistence that they had the permits to dig there in the first place. From there, it fed on the lies it created through casting doubt on people’s innocence. First Jake’s father, then one of the protesters after it orchestrated some car explosions. The Librarians went back down into the sinkhole to try and engage the being and ended up getting trapped inside a room with a locked door that could only open if people told the truth.
So the team did, in earnest, and embodied the theme of “family” that all the cast members spoke about at the New York Comic Con panel.
Yeah, folks, this show doesn’t mess around.
In the hole, facing the shapeshifter, he ended up coming face to face with his friends, and then finally himself, and had a knock-down drag-out fight the ended with him dragging the shapeshifter into the room that Cassandra and Ezekiel had kept open. He then shared the reason why he’d left the team after their last excursion together, before they were reunited in New York City. Cassandra, too, admitted her own hesitance in continuing to work as a team, and their truths bound the trickster, keeping him from being able to get out and torment anyone again.
One final touching scene about fathers and sons between Jenkins and Jake rounded out a heartfelt episode that gave everyone a deeper look into the man that is Jake Stone.
Best episode to date! but seeing that i am #ProudToBeAKaniac i don’t that would be a surprise. Christian Kane and Jeff Fahey as father and son great choice in actors! Hoping they bring Jeff Fahey back again and further the Jake Stone backstory! Thanks for sharing..♥
Great episode,loved everyone having to tell the truth. Librarians are my favorite show.
This was a very emotional episode, at least for me! There was the usual fun, amazement, and intrigue. But then waves of sorrow, love and hate! Happiness and shock. Like a roller coaster. Best episode of the entire series so far! Might have something to do with Christian Kane! ?