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THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Recap: (S01E06) And the House of Cards
The steepest learning curve for the intrepid heroes of The Librarians: The Next Chapter has been learning to gel as a team. Lysa's (Olivia Morris) science-bound brain butts up against Connor's (Bluey Robinson) supernatural lore. Charlie's (Jessica Green) mission to protect Vikram (Callum McGowan) conflicts with his fast-and-loose approach to safety. In Season 1 Episode 6, 'And the House of Cards,' Vikram finds himself left out when the rest of the team is abducted. Suddenly, he realizes that he cares what happens to them. It's quite the emotional breakthrough. RELATED: Catch up with our recap of the previous episode of The Librarians: The Next Chapter , 'And the Memory Crystal' Meanwhile, the others must puzzle out their strange and cryptic new circumstances: a house they can't escape, full of characters who don't make sense, and a dangerous artifact gone missing. It's a supernatural murder mystery party to which no one accepted an invitation. Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the House of Cards' An explosion in the woods. The team stumbles out, coughing and spluttering. Lysa insists she could've set up a controlled detonation that wouldn't have required blowing up the entire rock formation. Vikram explains that her way would've taken too long. Lysa argues he destroyed all the information the formation held about the geology of the region. Charlie adds that he nearly blew his face off in the process. Connor's holding the artifact they retrieved. Vikram identifies it as the Dagger of Seraphim, fashioned from the ashes of a fallen star by the Devil, which 'can kill what does not live.' He tells Connor to let him carry it. Connor refuses, reminding Vikram that they're a team even though Vikram doesn't trust them. He relinquishes it, but Vikram repents and gives it back just before they return to the Annex through the magic door. Vikram is the last to walk through, noting the magic flickers slightly before he does. RELATED: Olivia Morris Shares How The Librarians: The Next Chapter Hooked Her From Page One Connor, Charlie, and Lysa emerge from the magic door into the foyer of a large house. The magic door disappears, leaving them confused and Vikram-less. Meanwhile, Vikram arrives in the Annex alone. Initially, he thinks they're pranking him, but realizes soon that something is wrong. In the mysterious house, Lysa tries to figure things out logically, while Connor concludes this is a test. Charlie's got a bad feeling about this. They walk into a cocktail party full of strangely dressed guests. Everyone turns to look at them when they enter, then resumes their mingling. There's a violent rainstorm outside. The team spreads out to look for clues. A Cast of Characters A sultry woman in a flashy dress talks with Connor, commenting that the storm knocked out the phone lines and that the roads are blocked off for miles. A smarmy man in a striped suit introduces himself to an older lady as the actor, Chauncy Cooper (Dominik Čičak), and offers an autograph. Phillip (Aleksa Ilić) and Vera (Annamaria Serda), newlyweds, walk by cooing affection at each other. Lysa and Charlie agree that the party is strange. The Librarians: The Next Chapter – Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic Connor approaches the woman in the dress and introduces himself. She is Yvette Laslo (Milena Radulović), a singer. A bell rings. The butler announces that Madam Visconti (Sam Bell) will begin her tarot reading shortly. Lysa pulls Connor away from Yvette. Charlie comments that the Dagger of Seraphim needs to be stored safely in the Library as soon as possible. She rifles through Connor's bag, finding cheesepuffs and a mystery novel, The Bollingsworth Affair , with the dagger. RELATED: On Location: The Belgrade Fortress on The Librarians: The Next Chapter Connor sees a magician performing tricks and walks over. The magician calls himself The Mysterious Mortadella (Stefan Bundalo), impressing Connor with a few tricks. A girl wearing a tiara, standing next to a nun in a habit, throws a tantrum. Chauncy Cooper tells them the girl is Princess Lucille (Una Škerović). He hints that her parents met with a tragic end. The nun is Sister Anabelle (Ana Mandić), Lucille's new nanny. The bell rings again, and the butler invites the guests into the next room. Magic Door Issues At the Annex, Vikram tries to activate the magic door. It doesn't work. His concern about the Dagger of Seraphim and the team grows. RELATED: It's Horses versus Magic Doors in The Librarians: The Next Chapter Episode 6 Sneak Peek Madam Visconti In the house, the team watches as the guests mill about the table. The butler insists Chauncy move seats, away from the one next to Vera. Lucille screams at a loud clap of thunder, and Connor steps over to comfort her by making her laugh. She hugs him. The bell rings, everyone finds a seat, and Madam Visconti gathers her cards. Connor admires the tarot cards, commenting that they look like the Sforza Tarot Deck. Madam Visconti draws and lays down The Fool, The Magician, and The High Priestess. The lights go out for a second. When they come back on, Chauncy is dead at the table, bleeding from a stab wound in his chest. Charlie examines it and realizes it looks like it was caused by the Dagger of Seraphim. Connor discovers the dagger is no longer in his bag. The Game Is Afoot Charlie announces that the murder weapon must be found and that they plan to question everyone. When asked why they should listen to her, Connor introduces her as Chief Inspector Poppy Bollingsworth of Scotland Yard, inspired by his novel. The guests buy the story. In the Annex, Vikram finds the Magic Door Instruction Manual. It's inscrutable. He rants at the door a bit more. RELATED: Dean Devlin Dishes on The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's Magical Homecoming Each member of the team questions some of the guests. Connor gets Mortadella, Vera, and Phillip. Lysa interrogates Yvette. After learning the priest has taken a vow of silence, Charlie sits down with Sister Anabelle, discovering that the nun doesn't know her biblical verses very well. Just as Anabelle is about to tell her about Lucille's parents, the clock chimes nine, and Anabelle jumps up to leave, insisting that she must see to Lucille. The Librarians: The Next Chapter – Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic Making Progress At the Annex, the pendulum becomes agitated. Vikram takes it off its hook, and it activates the magic door for him, then drags him through. RELATED: 5 Great Books About Libraries and Librarians In the house, the team meets to debrief. Connor still thinks it's a test, but Lysa and Charlie suspect the door was hacked by a powerful magician so they could steal the Dagger. They split up to look for The Mysterious Mortadella. The pendulum brings Vikram through a stone archway. It leads him up a flight of garden steps to a large mansion. In the house's foyer, the team reunites. None of them could find the magician. A scream rings out from the study. All the guests are gathered, shocked to find the magician dead on the ground, stabbed. Charlie directs everyone to return to their rooms and lock the doors. Once they're gone, Charlie, Lysa, and Connor inspect the room. Lysa notices dirt on the ground from a potted plant that was knocked over when Mortadella fell. It's been disrupted in a way that indicates a secret door. Secrets Opening the door, they follow a passageway in the walls, finding a jewel from the dagger's hilt. The passageway leads to another hidden door in the tarot room. Lysa recalls that Sister Anabelle stood right by this door with Lucille after Chauncy's murder. They decide to question her again. RELATED: TV Review: Resident Alien Season 4 The pendulum drags Vikram into the house, but it is a dusty and abandoned version. It leads him through the rooms until they end up in the tarot room where Madam Visconti sits at the table, waiting. Vikram demands to know who she is and where his team is. Silently, she taps a torn tarot card at the top of the deck, The Wheel of Fortune. He refuses to play cards with her, promising to tear the house apart to find his colleagues. She draws The Hermit, stating she sees a wise man of books, not of this world, out of time. The next cards are The World and The Temperance. Vikram concludes she must speak through the cards. She nods. He sits down and asks for a reading. Revelation In the house, the team can't find Sister Anabelle. When they return to the foyer, the chandelier falls, narrowly missing them. Suddenly, Lucille is there, screaming in fear. She says she was looking for Sister Anabelle. Connor asks if she saw the dagger. Lucille shakes her head and runs off. Charlie strongly suggests they leave, but Connor insists they stay to protect the guests and prove that Vikrim needs his team. When they try to open the house's doors and break the windows, they can't. Lightning reveals a cloaked, faceless figure waiting outside. Connor asks who that is. Madam Visconti appears behind them, telling them that the figure outside is Death and they cannot leave. She leads them to the tarot room. When she tells them she is a servant to the cards, Lysa sits down and asks for a reading. RELATED: TV Review: Leverage: Redemption Season 3 In both planes of existence, Madam Visconti reveals the same cards to Vikram and Lysa. First, the Eight of Swords. 'No cage can contain it. No shackles can constrain it. Not on this earth, anyway,' she says. Then, The Justice. 'Centuries ago, they constructed this place to confine it, disguised in plain sight.' Finally, The Devil. A Thing Is a Thing Vikram recalls that centuries ago, the Sforza family imprisoned the Devil. Simultaneously, Connor comes to the same conclusion, realizing the house is the Sforza manor, interpreting the revealed cards to mean that the Sforzas captured an aspect of the Devil in the 15th Century and trapped him in the house, guarded by three keepers. Visconti draws the same three cards as earlier that night — The Fool, The Magician, and The High Priestess. Those are the keepers. The Fool and The Magician disappear from their cards. Lysa concludes the Devil used the dagger to kill two of his three keepers already, Chauncy and Mortadella. Vikram realizes that if the last keeper, the High Priestess, dies, the Devil can escape. He asks how he gets into the prison. Visconti warns that he should worry more about getting out. She lays out the Death card. She warns him that if he enters the prison, Death will come for him. He shrugs. 'It's never stopped me before.' Holding the pendulum out, he tells it to take him to his friends. The pendulum drops to the table, pointing to the deck. RELATED: Read our Leverage: Redemption recaps In the house, Connor realizes they're inside the Sforza deck. Every guest is one of the Major Arcana. Because the High Priestess is often depicted wearing a diadem, they believe Princess Lucille is the last keeper, and Sister Anabelle must be the Devil. They go looking but can't find them until Lucille screams again. They run out to the foyer and find her struggling with Sister Anabelle. Charlie tells the nun to get away from Lucille. Anabelle turns to explain, then gasps and falls, the dagger buried in her back. Lucille transforms into the Devil, and her bracelets fall off. Devilishly Adorable She walks towards the trio. Exposition time: Her fear of the storm was fake, but effectively drew Connor to her for a hug when she stole the dagger. Using the dagger, she killed her keepers, the tarot cards, entities who weren't actually alive. A long time ago, the Devil set alarms when she hid the dagger. Blowing up the cave set them all off. She rerouted the magic door to bring them to her. The Librarians: The Next Chapter – Image Credit: Aleksandar Letic All she needs now is for the team to provide an exit. Just as Charlie vows they'll never help her escape, Vikram arrives via magic door. Once he gets the lay of the land, he offers the door to the Devil, but makes meaningful eye contact with Connor, who surreptitiously scoots closer to the dagger. The Devil becomes suspicious. Connor throws the dagger to Vikram, who stabs himself with it. When Vikram hits the ground, the front doors open, and Death enters. RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter Connor pulls Charlie away from Vikram's body, reminding her that tarot cards have multiple interpretations. Death grabs the dagger. The Devil screams. She changes back to Princess Lucille, complete with leather bracelets. The team disappears. In the parlour, the cocktail party begins from the beginning. Sister Anabelle tells Lucille the tarot reading is about to begin. Lucille is silently furious. Reset Back in the non-tarot world, the team lies unconscious on the floor of the tarot room, cards falling around them. Charlie sits up and wakes Vikram. They are all relieved when he opens his eyes. Madam Visconti sits nearby. Lysa reasons that the key to the manor is sacrifice. When a real person dies, Death can enter and reset the Devil's prison. Lysa gathers the cards and returns them to Visconti. She hands the deck to Vikram to store in the Library, then disappears. Back in the Annex, Vikram lets Connor store the deck and dagger. He clears the air with the team as well. Lysa shows him that Madam Visconti was a 15th-century Librarian who agreed to stay within the deck forever as part of the Sforza enchantment to watch over the Devil. New episodes of The Librarians: The Next Chapter air on TNT on Mondays at 9 pm ET. New TV Shows This Week (June 22 – 28) Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
It's Horses Versus Magic Doors in THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Episode 6 Sneak Peek
The trouble with being trapped in a time bubble for 200 years is that the learning curve on new technology is steep. Add to the mix the fact that on The Librarians: The Next Chapter , Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan) prefers to use magic anyway, and things get frustrating pretty fast. RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter In this sneak peek clip of next week's episode, 'And the House of Cards,' Vikram berates and scolds the Annex's portal technology, which, ironically, is a 'magic' door. We learn that he is desperate to retrieve the Dagger of Seraphim, an artifact too dangerous to be out in the open. Also, he and the rest of the team have been separated. Image Credit: Courtesy of TNT The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the House of Cards' Being a man out of his time and context must stick in Vikram's craw mightily. The entire foundation of his personality is that he knows stuff. And what he doesn't know, he makes very confident guesses about. Adjusting to working with a team is new, too. It probably helps that Lysa (Olivia Morris) looks so much like Anya. Connor's (Bluey Robinson) total adoration doesn't hurt either. The clip provides a glimpse at how much he's come to care for his team. He's genuinely worried. We have no idea how they were separated or why he returned to the Annex, but they didn't. What the Dagger of Seraphim does is also a mystery. If the magic door glitched, that's concerning. Were the other team members targeted? Or is Vikram being isolated for a reason? And if the Dagger is the artifact of the week, how does a House of Cards factor in? So many questions. RELATED: Dean Devlin Dishes on The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's Magical Homecoming The modern world triggers Vikram regularly. Trying to neg the magic door by stating horses were a better mode of transportation is pretty classic Vikram. However, when yelling at the device and making grand gestures doesn't work, Vikram turns to the lesser of two evils and tries his cell phone. And even that doesn't help. It does, however, open up a line of thought about voicemail inboxes and chamber pots. The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 6, 'And the House of Cards,' airs on TNT on Monday, June 23 at 9 pm ET. Olivia Morris Shares How THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Hooked Her From Page One Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Geek Girl Authority
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
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THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Recap: (S01E05) And the Memory Crystal
In The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's 'And the Memory Crystal,' the question of how much of who we are is because of who we've been is posed as a pseudo-academic, polymathic megalomaniac attempts to gain the future at the price of the past. Every team member's very existence depends on stopping the malefactor. RELATED: Catch up with our recap of the previous episode of The Librarians: The Next Chapter , 'And the Thief of Love' It's a real team-centered adventure. Like Charlie (Jessica Green) with her starry-eyed moment meeting Dame Anna (Arielle Dombasle) in The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the Dance of Doom!' Lysa (Olivia Morris) goes a bit fangirl when she meets one of her heroes here. For those keeping score, so far this season, Connor (Bluey Robinson) has climbed on top of a moving ghost train and the Eiffel Tower. He gets to show off those skills again, while Charlie's in the crosshairs of the artifact's powers, and Vikram (Callum McGowan) gets to beat up a bad guy. Photograph by Aleksandar Letic The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the Memory Crystal' Lysa takes Vikram to the College of Science Observatory to get him up to speed on modern science. They attend Rosalind Kirch's (Ana Sofrenović) lecture. Kirch developed a hypothesis on interstellar dust and active galactic nuclei while sitting under a tree on campus, watching the oil droplets in her tea. Dr. Stanaris (Paul Leonard Murray) introduces Dr. Kirch. RELATED: Olivia Morris Shares How The Librarians: The Next Chapter Hooked Her From Page One Dr. Kirch takes the podium and begins to speak about developing her hypothesis on X-ray emission as a predictor of an accreting black hole system. Reminiscing about the moment under the tree, she suddenly stops speaking. Her eyes flicker with a blank light. She becomes confused, and Dr. Stanaris helps her off the stage. A Sharp Mind Dulled Lysa and Vikram return to the Annex. Connor joins them. Lysa believes Dr. Kirch suffered a neuro-cognitive episode. Vikram thinks Kirch's memory loss is caused by a spell. Charlie comes in with the pendulum, having given it a tune-up. The pendulum flies out of her hand to the map table and indicates an event at the College of Science Observatory. They review Lysa's recording of Dr. Kirch speaking. Using Lysa's AI-enhanced 3D program, they're able to zoom in and freeze on the moment her eyes go blank. Lysa grudgingly admits the magical event had something to do with Kirch's memory loss. When the team finds Dr. Kirch, she is solving a hitherto unsolvable integral problem. RELATED: Read our Leverage: Redemption recaps Kirch tells them the solution came to her in a flash the night before. Lysa asks Kirch about her episode at the lecture. Kirch tells her that the famous moment under the tree has completely vanished from her memory. In its place, she now has the solution to a Millennium Prize Problem no one thought would be solved for decades. The Value of Memories After leaving Dr. Kirch, Vikram berates the younger team members, arguing that people in the modern world have stopped using their brains and hearts. As he finishes his tirade, a student walks by, describing how he couldn't remember how he got into the classroom, never mind what he needed to know to write the test. Vikram concludes the spell is spreading. After questioning the students who have lost their memories, the common thread is that they have all been to the observatory recently. Vikram vows violent vengeance on the spell-caster(s). Charlie reminds him that their mission is to contain the magic, not beat up bad guys. RELATED: TV Review: Leverage: Redemption Season 3 Vikram mistakenly addresses Lysa as Anya. He covers for the slip and quickly sends her and Connor to the Astronomy Department Office to suss out any artifacts. He and Charlie will try to figure out who is stealing the memories. Meeting the Suspects In the Astronomy Department Office, Connor and Lysa meet Dr. Stanaris's teaching assistant, Filip (Vukašin Jovanović), while Vikram introduces himself to Dr. Stanaris in the observatory. Charlie shadows Vikram and quietly examines the observatory setting and telescope. In the office, Lysa distracts Filip while Connor snoops in the back rooms. He finds an antique portfolio filled with papers and steals it. Connor finds Lysa having an unproductive conversation with a clearly uncomfortable Filip. Lysa gets Connor's hint that they should get going, and they leave quickly, to Filip's relief. RELATED: On Location: The Belgrade Fortress on The Librarians: The Next Chapter Outside, they meet up with Vikram and Charlie. Connor shows them the portfolio and explains that it contains documents kept by Nicholas Culpeper, a 17th-century artifact collector. Vikram connects Culpeper to the Crystal of Dr. John Dee. Photograph by Aleksandar Letic John Dee's Crystal John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I's court magician, used his crystal to see the future, but eventually saw something that made him lose his mind and memory. Among the Culpeper Papers, Connor finds John Dee's own papers on the crystal, an instruction manual. They're written in High Enochian, a language Dee invented, which Vikram can read. Back at the Annex, Vikram translates that the crystal is harmless when in its necklace setting. If taken out, it can grant a single, desired glimpse into the future in exchange for a memory. When the crystal is amplified to the point of clearing the past, the knowledge of the future is limitless. Some of Dee's papers are missing. RELATED: Dean Devlin Dishes on The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's Magical Homecoming Connor reports that the crystal and papers were stolen from the London Science Museum. Vikram leads the team back to the college, determined to confront Filip and Dr. Stanaris and force them to confess. Lysa and Charlie try to convince him that violence is the last resort. Suddenly, Lysa notices Filip in a very expensive car. Vikram sends Connor and Charlie to find Stanaris while he and Lysa question Filip. Suspicious Minds When Vikrim confronts Filip, the teaching assistant tries to make a getaway, but Vikrim jumps into the back of the convertible. Filip's eyes flicker blank as he's driving at top speed. He's forgotten how to drive. They swerve and careen around campus roads and plazas nonstop, somehow avoiding crashing into people, buildings, and trees. Also, not slowing down. Vikram calls Connor using his cell phone. Connor and Charlie run out of the observatory and spot Vikram and Filip on the plaza. Charlie grabs a bicycle and chases down Filip's car. Jumping into the passenger side, she pulls the emergency brake, bringing the car to a stop. She looks around, confused. When Connor and Lysa join them in the car, she doesn't know who they are. RELATED: 5 Great Books About Libraries and Librarians Vikram tries to remind Charlie of who they are and what they're doing, but she's lost the memory of Jacob Stone (Christian Kane) recalling her to be Vikram's Guardian. Elsewhere, Filip tells Lysa and Connor he bought the car with casino winnings after he had a vision of a roulette wheel. The Vault Since Charlie's memory gap is bigger than Filip's, Vikram concludes the crystal's power is growing. Connor reports that Filip told them that Stanaris traveled to England the weekend the crystal disappeared from the Science Museum. Filip believes the crystal might be in the vault in the basement. Charlie still doesn't trust the team. She suspects they are actually the Library's enemies, trying to corrupt her. Vikram sends the others on to the vault and briefs Charlie on everything she's done as part of their team in the past five weeks. In the basement, Lysa uses her AI-enhanced 3D program on her phone to enhance a still of Stanaris's face to fool the vault's retinal scan. RELATED: 10 Out-of-This-World Predictions for Resident Alien Season 4 Lysa goes outside to bring Vikram and Charlie in. As they pass through the office space, a portrait of Dr. Kirch morphs into a man. In the vault, Vikram finds the case the crystal was stored in, but it's empty. Lysa runs in with a copy of Dr. Kirch's book, only the cover image and authorship have changed to a man named Dr. Laszlo Maisch. Remembering the crystal's instructions, they realize the crystal's effect is erasing past events, not just the memories of them. Dr. Stanaris's desire for limitless knowledge of the future is costing actual historical events. Vikram deems Stanaris a 'remorseless monomaniac.' Lysa translates that as a modern-day sociopath. Magical Causality The team reasons that Stanaris must feed the crystal other people's memories to amplify its powers. Each time someone looks through the crystal, it takes more memories and grows in strength. Connor asks when Charlie would've looked through the crystal. Vikram remembers that she looked through the telescope when they visited Stanaris in the observatory. Filip and Dr. Kirch also looked through the telescope. The crystal must be in the telescope's viewer. Dr. Stanaris suddenly appears at the vault door and locks them in. Lysa tries to appeal to his conscience, but he proudly declares that he doesn't care about the effects of his plan and expresses his rage and disdain for those who have undervalued his intellect. RELATED: TV Review: Resident Alien Season 4 While they try to figure out a way to escape the vault, Lysa shares that erasing past events takes time to catch up to the present. So when Charlie's lost memory of joining the team catches up with the present, no one will save them from the drekavac (in The Librarians: The Next Chapter series premiere), and they'll be dead. Crystal Moments In the observatory, a magical bubble forms around the telescope's viewer. In the vault, Connor recalls that museum security systems like the vault's have a fire override failsafe. Lysa finds the sensor in the ceiling. Connor hands her a lighter to trigger it, opening the vault door. The magical bubble in the observatory grows to fill the room. Stanaris holds the necklace setting in his hand and steps inside. Connor and Lysa run into the bubble and immediately become confused. Charlie and Vikram reach through, pull them out, and drag them into a corridor. To get the crystal away from Stanaris, Vikram intends to enter the bubble himself, arguing that his mental discipline will protect him from the effects of the crystal. RELATED: Revival : The Dead Have Rejoined the Living in Official Trailer Vikram enters the bubble. Stanaris wonders how he can resist the crystal's effects. Vikram claims to be able to partition his memories from his active brain. He holds onto what he needs and gives away meaningless memories to the crystal's appetite for energy. It's still a struggle, though. He stumbles closer to Stanaris and the telescope's viewer. Stanaris suddenly asks what Vikram values most in the world. Involuntarily, Vikram thinks of Anya, and the crystal consumes his memory of her. An Upper Hand Losing Anya breaks Vikram mentally, and he falls to the ground. Stanaris smiles in victory, asking Vikram innocently if he forgot something. Downstairs, in the mechanical room, Charlie shows Connor and Lysa that her hand is phasing out of existence. Connor runs outside and climbs to the top of the observatory. In the bubble, Stanaris pulls out the John Dee papers he kept, which explain that wearing the crystal's necklace protects the wearer from the crystal's effects. Down in the mechanical room, Lysa holds Charlie as other parts of the Guardian's body begin to fade. She begs Charlie to fight the effects. RELATED: Revival : Check Out 9 First-Look Photos From Melanie Scrofano-Led Series Connor reaches the opening in the observatory's roof just as the crystal's bubble grows bigger than the observatory. Once engulfed, he forgets why he's up there and falls through, barely holding onto the ledge. Vikram looks up and sees Connor. This jolts his memory for a moment, and when Stanaris also sees Connor hanging from the observatory's opening, Vikram sneaks up and rips the necklace off him. Vikram throws the necklace to Connor. When Connor catches it, he remembers why he's there. He leaps onto the telescope and slides down it, breaking the viewer off and knocking the crystal loose. Photograph by Aleksandar Letic Magic Managed Stanaris picks up the crystal with no idea what it is. Vikram knocks it out of his hand with his cane at Connor. On the backswing, he knocks Stanaris to the ground. Connor pops the crystal back into the necklace, and the bubble disappears. Running down to the mechanical room, Vikram and Connor are relieved to see Charlie whole and happy. The next day, Lysa sits down with Dr. Kirch, who describes the sensation of disappearing, then remembering the moment when she developed her hypothesis. Lysa notes that Kirch has erased the solution to the Millennium Prize Puzzle equation. Kirch tells her she didn't trust the equation, not knowing how it popped into her head. 'Scientific advancement,' she tells Lysa, 'should come through replication of scientific method.' RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter Back at the Annex, the team debriefs on everyone affected by the crystal as Vikram packs it and John Dee's papers into a lockbox. Charlie reports she's feeling better. Vikram asks her what vision of the future she saw. She unconvincingly claims it disappeared once the crystal was contained. Connor wonders where Stanaris ended up. In a white room, Stanaris lectures on the reverse amplified view of the universe, claiming it proves that the great minds of science added nothing to the world compared to him and his glimpse into the future. He rants that he'd still be viewing the future if it wasn't for those meddling Librarians. New episodes of The Librarians: The Next Chapter air on TNT on Mondays at 9 pm ET. REVIVAL: Co-Creators Aaron B. Koontz and Luke Boyce on Crafting 'Weird' New Series Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Los Angeles Times
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Escape from reality with ‘The Librarians: The Next Chapter' this weekend
Welcome to Screen Gab the newsletter for everyone who needs a break from doomscrolling. If your brain needs a fantasy adventure to escape the realities of life, perhaps the escapades of a time-traveling librarian will suit your needs. 'The Librarians,' which started as a trio of TV movies that evolved into a four-season TV series, has built out its universe with the recent spinoff 'The Librarians: The Next Chapter.' Showrunner Dean Devlin stopped by Guest Spot to discuss how the new show connects to the wider franchise. And if you're into crime dramas as a form of escapist TV, this week's streaming recommendations include a new British detective drama that features a mismatched crime-solving duo and the prequel series in 'Dexter's' expanding serial killer universe. Must-read stories you might have missed 50 years after Marshal Matt Dillon's last draw, 'Gunsmoke' is a streaming hit: The adult western drama with James Arness is finding loyal fans and new audiences on Peacock, Paramount+ and Pluto TV. Commentary: Why on earth is Dr. Phil involved in immigration raids? Another made-for-TV event from a reality star president: Of all the alarming things that have happened in L.A., Dr. Phil hanging out with Trump's top border policy advisor during immigration raids was the weirdest. In 'Murderbot,' an anxious scientist and an autonomous robot develop a workplace-trauma bond: Alexander Skarsgård and Noma Dumezweni, co-stars of Apple TV+'s 'Murderbot,' discuss Episode 6 of the sci-fi series and the autism-coded robot at the center of the show. 'Materialists' is a smart and funny all-star love triangle with its own commitment issues: In Celine Song's rom-com follow-up to her Oscar-nominated 'Past Lives,' Pedro Pascal is rich, Chris Evans is poor and Dakota Johnson is a matchmaking mercenary. Recommendations from the film and TV experts at The Times 'Death Valley' (BritBox) Set not in our own dry desert but the verdant valleys of Wales, this adorable and comical mystery series from the great Timothy Spall, OBE — longtime favorite of director Mike Leigh and familiar to many as Peter Pettigrew in five 'Harry Potter' movies — stars as John Chapel, a former TV police detective living in small-town isolation after the death of his Welsh wife. Along comes Gwyneth Keyworth as the world's sweetest (actual) police detective Janie Mallowan, Chapel's biggest fan who knocks on his door in the middle of an investigation. 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The series premiered last year as a prequel spinoff of 'Dexter,' the popular drama/dark comedy that ran for eight seasons and later continued its story in the sequel series 'Dexter: New Blood.' Patrick Gibson uncannily captures the mannerisms, facial expressions and inflections of 'Dexter' star Michael C. Hall, who provides the trademark narration that was one of the signatures of the original series. The show is the perfect appetizer for the July 11 premiere of 'Dexter: Resurrection,' which brings the titular antihero back to life despite being 'shot to death' by his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) in the finale of 'Dexter: New Blood.' — Greg Braxton A weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they're working on — and what they're watching 'The Librarians' is back after more than seven years, but things are a little different from when we last visited this fantasy land, which spanned three films (starring Noah Wyle) and a four-season TV series. In its latest iteration, 'The Librarians: The Next Chapter,' we're introduced to a new librarian named Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), who time-traveled from 1847 and now finds himself stuck in the present. He returns to his castle in Belgrade, Serbia only to find that it's now a museum — but more notably, his arrival releases magic across the continent, leading to some strange occurrences. He has to clean up the mess, with some help in the form of guardian Charlie (Jessica Green), scientist Lysa (Olivia Morris) — who inherited the castle — and historian Connor (Bluey Robinson). For fans of the original series, Christian Kane makes a guest appearance as librarian Jacob Stone. Also returning is showrunner and executive producer Dean Devlin, who is carrying the torch on the series. He stopped by Screen Gab to talk about the new season, which currently airs on TNT and is also available for streaming on TNT's website and app, — Maira Garcia 'The Librarians' has amassed a legion of loyal fans over the years, first with the films and then with the series. What made you decide to return to it and how did you approach developing 'The Next Chapter' with a new cast? Honestly, I never wanted to stop telling stories in the world of the magical Library! When an opportunity came up to continue the franchise, I jumped at it. I didn't want to reboot the story, because in my mind (and the fans) the original team of Librarians are still out there doing missions. I wanted to focus on a different story that takes place in parallel. When the idea of a Librarian from the past appearing today, it felt like just the right 'fish out of water' story we needed to kick off a new series. The series features this push and pull of logic and magic, history and fantasy. How do you juggle history with the supernatural elements of the show? It's really important to us that viewers can Google things we talk about in our show. While we may not follow exactly the legends in the zeitgeist, we wanted there to be enough of a connection to deepen the enjoyment of our adventures. So history and mythology are at the heart of our show. Sometimes we'll give an alternate perspective or backstory, but there is always a nugget [of] connection to the stories we want to tell. Throughout your career, you've worked on a number of sci-fi and fantasy films and series like 'Stargate,' 'Independence Day' and 'The Ark.' What is it about these genres that appeals to you, and why do you think audiences gravitate toward them? Often 'escapist' entertainment is looked down upon as a lesser art form. But I find that audiences, especially after dealing with things like a pandemic, economic and personal hardships, [or] political divisions, have a real NEED to escape into a world of optimism and wonder and adventure. I'm no exception. What have you watched recently that you're recommending to everyone you know? It's not super recent, but I've loved watching 'Only Murders in the Building' [Hulu], 'Ted Lasso' [AppleTV+], 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' 'Star Trek: Picard' (especially season 3) [both on Paramount+] and the new 'Doctor Who' [Disney+]. What's your go-to comfort watch, the film or TV show you return to again and again? If 'Tombstone' or 'Enter the Dragon' is playing on late-night TV, then I'm not getting any sleep. And of course, the 10th and 11th Doctors on 'Doctor Who' are a constant fallback watch for me.
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11-06-2025
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- Geek Girl Authority
Sneak A Peek at THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER "And the Memory Crystal"
Are you hooked on The Librarians: The Next Chapter yet? We're only four episodes into the inaugural season, and our rag-tag found family of magic herders has already redeemed a drekavac, defeated a witch, solved a ghost story, and brought Cupid out of retirement. Talk about keeping busy. Next up is 'And the Memory Crystal,' and we've got a sneak peek clip for you! RELATED: Read our recaps of The Librarians: The Next Chapter For those of you not yet on this supernatural party wagon, The Librarians: The Next Chapter is the sequel series to The Librarians series, which spun off from the three The Librarian films starring Noah Wyle. In The Librarians: The Next Chapter, Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), a Librarian from 1847, inadvertently releases magic across the European continent in 2025 when he attempts to return to his own time. Banded together with a historian, a scientist, and a Guardian, he has six months to fix it. Photograph by Aleksandar Letic The Librarians: The Next Chapter, 'And the Memory Crystal' As teased by the TNT website, in the next adventure, ' the team goes to a college campus with a world-class observatory to discover who is using the Crystal of Dr. John Dee to steal people's memories, in order to own the future.' And — because who doesn't love a deep dive? — Here's the scoop on John Dee's Crystal: John Dee served as Queen Elizabeth I's court astronomer and alchemist. On his advice, England established colonies throughout the New World. He had one of the largest libraries in England (fittingly) and, like Connor (Bluey Robinson), left his comfortable court position to dig deeper into the occult and supernatural. He claimed the angel Uriel gave him his crystal in 1582 and used it for curing diseases, seeing the future, and spiritual communication. RELATED: Dean Devlin Dishes on The Librarians: The Next Chapter 's Magical Homecoming John Dee's story ends tragically, dying alone and impoverished, denied a return to court when James I succeeded Elizabeth I. His burial site is unknown. However, John Dee's Crystal currently resides in the Science Museum Group Collection in London. The Value of Memory In the sneak peek clip below, Vikram gets on a righteous soapbox about what he sees as the modern world's greatest failing — people's dependence on technology. Lysa (Olivia Morris) triggers the tirade by discounting the worth of memories. She postulates that they take up cognitive space in the brain that could be better utilized for something productive. Vikram scolds her, Connor, Charlie (Jessica Green), and all their contemporaries for giving away their humanity to the machines. 'No need to think, to know, to remember ANYTHING!' he chastises, shaking her cell phone at them. RELATED: Olivia Morris Shares How The Librarians: The Next Chapter Hooked Her From Page One He predicts technology will consume everything humankind has ever created. Eventually, it'll even take over human emotions. It's a grand, rousing speech, but it is immediately undercut by a passing student's description of his memory loss. The condition is spreading, and that can't be good. The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 5, 'And the Memory Crystal,' airs on TNT on Monday, June 16 at 9 pm ET . On Location: The Belgrade Fortress on TNT's THE LIBRARIANS: THE NEXT CHAPTER Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
