The Librarians (2014–2018): Season 4, Episode 11 - And the Trial of the One - full transcript

Eye of newt, wing
of bat, leg of toad,

tofu alternatives.

(GLASS CLINKING)

- (BELLS CLANGING)
- (SCREAMING)

It's an interesting strategy.

However, I probably
would go with the bishop.

But you've always
favored the knight.

(SIGHING)

- (BELLS CLANGING)
- (SCREAMING)

(GASPING)

Oh, I do love a challenge.



- (BELLS CLANGING)
- (SCREAMS)

Well, Flynn quit, so, yeah, I guess
you could say we've broken up.

It's complicated.

No, Mom, it wasn't
because of another woman.

Well, it wasn't because
of another woman.

(BELLS CLANGING)

Mom, I'll call you back!

(CLANGING CONTINUES)

What is that ringing? It hurts!

Where's it coming from?

- Jones, what did you do?
- Nothing!

It's like the Library's
screaming at us!

(RUMBLING)

The Library, it's collapsing!



JENKINS: Please,
everyone! Come, come!

Grab a wire, each of you.

Hold. Hold it,
don't let go. Hold it.

(RUMBLING STOPS)

Good. Temporary tethering.

That should buy us a few
hours' grace at the most.

Jenkins, what just happened?

Exactly what I said
would happen, Colonel,

if the Tethering Ceremony
did not take place.

The Library is
uncoupling from reality.

Can we let go of the wires now?

Yes, yes, the deed is done.

Well, what deed, exactly?

The only thing bonding the
Library to the world at this point

are the four of you.

So I fashioned, for
want of a better word,

could be called an anchor.

This is the first book
ever in the Library.

It was the first on the shelf

at the Library of
Alexandria, third century BC.

It has seniority over all
books and artifacts here.

By connecting them
to it through you,

we've created a bond
with the Library and reality,

but only temporarily.

Colonel, we have to perform
the Tethering Ceremony today.

Okay, but tether with who?

You have three excellent candidates
in front of you. Please pick one.

Well, I don't know if I
want to be immortal.

You can't just rush that
kind of eternal decision.

Magic? I've already got
stuck with a magic tattoo,

I don't know if I want to spend
infinity powered by the stuff.

I have no problem
with the magic at all,

but immortality is
a really long time.

Why don't you just tether
to the Library, Jenkins?

I cannot! I am not a Librarian.

Now, please... Oh, sorry.

Best not to touch
that, Cassandra.

The reason why it has
survived as long as it has,

it is replete with
crazy, wild magic.

It is best left rolled as it is.

And the bells were...

The bells. Follow me, please.

This is what you heard chiming.

- The bells of Notre-Dame came from that?
- Mmm.

The Horologe of the Equinox.

It measures the movement
of key celestial bodies.

And it has one hell
of a security system.

Ashkar, Ganymede, Medusa's
Tears, many unnamed planets,

one dwarf star whose name
should never be translated

in polite company,

all combining to make
the Equinox of Binding.

The Equinox has begun.

We have a window of 24 hours,

after which our chance
for tethering will be over,

and the Library will revert
to what it was originally.

Which is?

An institution caring only for
the protection of its artifacts.

Without a link to humanity,
without a greater cause,

the Library will
care only for itself.

Please let this
focus your minds.

The next time the
Horologe chimes,

it will be game over.

This is a matter for the
Librarians and their Guardian.

I will retire and
await your decision.

Jenkins is right.
We've left it too long.

One of you has to tether with
me. Draw straws or something.

There's got to be a more
rational way to figure this out.

I hate to say it, but Flynn
would know what to do.

No, Flynn would know
how to run away from this.

We're not leaving
till we're done.

Guys?

I know Jenkins
said not to, but...

You just unrolled the scroll?

"Don't unroll the
scroll," is what he said!

- "Don't"!
- I know, I know,

but it was just so tempting,
and old, and scroll-y,

and I just took one
little look, and look.

It says, "The Selection of One."

The selection of one what?

One Librarian.

It's instructions?

No, it's a spell.

And I know, I know, I
know that magic is bad,

but, I mean, what
are the chances?

It's like the Library
wanted us to see this.

A spell which tells us which
one of us is the best of us?

- Exactly.
- It's the best plan I've heard so far.

This is better than
drawing straws.

As much as I hate magic,
I hate luck even more.

Well, if we're all
agreed, let's do it.

Okay, it says we
need to link hands.

Stone, will you...
Can you read the rest?

I...

(STONE READING IN
OTHER LANGUAGE)

Did we do it right?

My Ancient Greek
is a little rusty, okay?

It's hard to hold a conversation
in a dead language.

I'll go check out some pronouns.

Everyone take a break,
meet back in here in an hour.

CASSANDRA: (SIGHS) Okay.

What have I told them about
bringing things down here?

Not checking with me
so that I can catalog it?

What is this?

The magic mirror?

What is it doing down...

Okay, Dr. Freud, tell me
what I should be thinking.

(BUZZING)

(SIGHS)

I know how you feel, buddy.

Jenkins, are you in here?

(BUZZING CONTINUES)

Little bit of crime
calms the mind,

gives a thief perspective.

Very tempting

pressing a big red button.

Whoa!

Where are we?

These are the Testing Grounds.

Welcome to The Trial of the One.

The Trial of the One? I thought
it was The Selection of One?

Lazy translation.
Now please be quiet.

No, that's a holdover
from Jenkins.

Be quiet!

Holdover? What do you mean?

I have taken control of Jenkins'
body so I may speak to you.

I am the Library.

Jenkins... Library,

please just tell us
our Jenkins is safe.

Jenkins warned you
not to touch the scroll.

You ignored him.

And now you must compete
in The Trial of the One.

Which is?

Fight to the death
between Librarians.

- No way! Absolutely not!
- What! No?

You think that we're
gonna try to kill each other

just 'cause you say "jump"?

No, I don't.

I think you will kill each
other because, if you don't,

I will kill Jenkins.

The Kiss of Mahakali,

poised directly over
Jenkins' mortal heart.

If you disobey my instructions,

I will kill Jenkins.

No, no, the Library
would never do this.

You can't be the
Library. I don't believe it.

Jenkins is your Custodian.
Why would you want to hurt him?

Has being untethered
changed you so much?

I was born in the
third century BC.

I was built to protect my
artifacts above all else.

What about your Librarians?

They are not artifacts.

Put these on.

Why? What is it?

Okay.

No. No, please, stop.

I'll choose one of them
to tether with, right now.

What has begun, has
begun. It cannot be stopped.

Cassandra Cillian, Jacob
Stone, Ezekiel Jones,

you now each wear
a Ring of Nightmares.

It will transport you to the
heart of your deepest fear.

Confront that fear and
you'll be strong warriors

fit to compete in
the Testing Grounds.

Oh, and you're right.

Librarians will not
fight their friends.

Your fears will change that.

Now press the buttons,

go into your nightmares,

fight to the death.

No. No, don't do it.

I don't care what happens
when I push this button,

I will never hurt you.

Nothing will ever change that.

Nothing.

Librarians together,
Librarians forever.

Wait, why do I know this?

GUARD: Eyes down, princess.

Break rocks or I'll break you.

Let's go.

(STONE GRUNTING)

It's the school trip.

STUDENTS: (SINGING) She's
the suckiest She's the yuckiest

She's the worst
girl times a million

No. No, not this.

She's so icky And
she gives hickeys

And we all hate
Cassandra Cillian

(BOYS LAUGHING)

BOY: There she is! ALL: Get her!

- No. No!
- (STUDENTS CLAMORING)

No!

WOMAN: Come in, Jacob Stone.

CONVICT: We're
gonna die here, man.

We're all gonna die here.

No, we're not.

You know how I know that?

Because you're not real.

Hate to break it to you,
mate, but none of this is.

You know how I
know you're not real?

Because if this was real,
that means I got caught,

and I never get caught.

GUARD: Bring them out.

Oh, God, it's him.

Oh, God.

(GROWLING)

GIRL: Go! Get her!

COLONEL BAIRD: Jenkins.

Jenkins, I know you're in there.

Please fight back.

Our friends need you.

You're issuing orders to me?

The Guardian who failed in her
sole duty of protecting her Librarians?

I didn't fail, Flynn quit.

That was your greatest failure.

No. No, I cannot, I
will not accept that

this is how our
Library would behave!

Accept, do not accept.

I'm not seeking your permission.

(SIGHS)

This is all our fault.

We should have tethered sooner.

I am as I've always been.

We can still help you.

Please, please, let us help you!

I am doing my duty.

Your duty is to bear
witness to these Librarians.

You can watch, but
you cannot intervene.

So rise and watch.

(STUDENTS CLAMORING)

This looks like...

What was the name of that place?

BOY: We're gonna find
you! GIRL: Cassandra!

(CASSANDRA PANTING)

CASSANDRA: No, no,
no, it's not real. It's not real.

GIRL: She's trying to get away.

BOY: Where's she hiding?

- Come on, let's move.
- GIRL: Where is she?

- Go!
- BOY: Spread out!

BOY 2: Cassie! GIRL
2: Eddie, anything?

GIRL 1: Cassandra!

BOY 3: Come out, come
out, wherever you are.

GIRL 1: Cassie!

It's not real.

(WOMAN GROANING)

WOMAN: Show me.

Show you what?

WOMAN: Your curse.

Show me.

Such power.

To remove it, you
will pay a price.

What price?

It will hurt.

(WOMAN LAUGHING)

Hey! Hey!

CONVICT: Don't!

You never look him in the
eye. Do you understand me?

Yeah, sure, whatever.

Huh?

(BLOWS)

Oh!

Yeah, I know I'm not
supposed to look you in the eye,

but in my defense, you
looked at me first! (SCREAMS)

No. No, I am their Guardian.

For God's sake,
let me help them!

- BOY: Where are you, Cassandra?
- (SOBBING)

- Cassandra?
- GIRL: Come out, come out!

Cass?

You lost the right to
guard them a long time ago.

Now can only
witness their suffering.

They can neither
see you nor hear you.

Cass...

(SOBBING)

- It's not fair.
- It is fair.

It is just not kind.

The Library is always kind.

I do not believe
you're the Library.

GIRL: Cassie!

COLONEL BAIRD: What if she
takes her Nightmare Ring off?

Then her nightmare would end.

But she will not take it off.

Cass isn't stupid.
She'll see it.

Cassandra Cillian?

Who is it?

Oh, dear, you know who it is.

It's me, Miss Pope,

your teacher who didn't protect
you the day the bullies came.

Miss Pope, the
other kids, they're...

Yes, I know, but
not right now, dear.

Oh, what is that on your
hand? What are you wearing?

Nothing. I'm not
wearing anything.

Those stuck in their nightmares
cannot see their Nightmare Rings,

nor even remember
putting them on.

And also, she's over here!

COLONEL BAIRD:
Why would you do that?

Why would I not?

BOY: There she
is! GIRL: Get her!

(STUDENTS SHOUTING)

COLONEL BAIRD:
Okay, I get it! I get it.

They're trapped in nightmares
they don't know are nightmares,

but they won't kill each
other. They're too loyal.

An admirable quality,

but they must be loyal to
the Library above all else.

You won't turn them
against each other.

Their nightmares will
alter their memories.

Their friends will not
be remembered as such.

(PANTING)

Jake. Ezekiel.

Cassandra?

(GROWLS)

Jones!

Stone?

Prisoner Jones,
causing trouble again?

EZEKIEL: Cassandra?

Wacky Cassie tried to run.

Wacky Cassie, you're no fun.

CASSANDRA: What? No!

(SCREAMS)

What did you do?

Cut, cut, snip, snip.

Ouch! Ouch!

It's time you get the
punishment you deserve.

No.

No, I can't watch this.

- JENKINS: You must watch.
- Or what, you'll kill Jenkins?

How do I know you are Jenkins?

How do I know
you're the Library?

You could be a clone
or an illusion or...

You can't escape.

I'm not trying to.

No! Ezekiel, Jacob, please!

Don't use our names
like you know us.

But I do know
you, we're friends!

We're friends? I
would rather kiss a slug.

EZEKIEL: Oh, a
slug! Good one, Jake.

Oh, look at what we have here.

Wacky Cassie's found a friend.

STONE: Eat it.

STUDENTS: Eat it, eat it,
eat it! CASSANDRA: No!

Skin, skin, snip, snip.

Ouch! Ouch!

Break his fingers so
he can never steal again.

The Eye of Ampyx,
the Seer of Titaresia.

Seems you learned something
from your Librarian after all,

when you bothered
to listen, that is.

Okay. (CHUCKLES)

Flynn told me the Eye of
Ampyx always reveals the truth.

Now show me the truth.

Help me!

COLONEL BAIRD:
You really are trapped.

Eat it, Wacky Cassie, eat it!

No! You're just bad memories!

Then forget about
us. We'll go away.

All you got to do
is push the button.

Wait, wait, we're friends.

We're not friends.

We are friends, okay?

At least, we were friends.

What's my name?

Your name is...

I can't remember.

It's so much easier to forget.

Push the button.

You'll never steal again
unless you fight back.

I'm not gonna fight my friends!

Well, then forget we're
your friends and fight back.

Push the button!

COLONEL BAIRD: The nightmares.

You made them forget
that they were ever friends.

And so, they shall kill
each other as strangers.

STUDENTS: Push
the button and forget!

Push the button and forget.

Push the button and forget.

- Push the button!
- Push the button!

- Push the button!
- Push the button!

- Push the button!
- Push the button!

(SCREAMING)

JENKINS: Mr. Stone.

Mr. Stone, can you hear me?

Jenkins.

- Where are you?
- Trapped and, I'm afraid,

very close to death. Dark
forces have taken me.

There is a dagger
pressed to my heart.

Wait, wait, wait, the dagger.

I remember.

Why can't I remember
anything else?

You have been taken
to the Testing Grounds,

a place where memory
dies, yet heroes survive.

What am I supposed to do here?

JENKINS: I beg of you, cross the
Testing Grounds and hit the gold button.

You will be returned home
and my life will be saved.

Looks too easy.
What's the catch?

JENKINS: You are not alone.

Two others are here

and they will stop at nothing
to get to that button first,

even killing you in the process.

EZEKIEL: Who are they? JENKINS:
The most worthy adversaries.

Cunning and dangerous.

They are smart,
skilled and motivated.

I don't recognize
either one of them.

JENKINS: Stone, my
life is in your hands.

Can I rely on you?

Jenkins, of course.

I won't let you down.

Whatever it takes. You're
not gonna die today, Jenkins.

JENKINS: You've
been given tools.

Construct them, use them wisely.

But the clock is ticking.
My life hangs in the balance.

He's turned you into enemies.

JENKINS: That is an
excellent bow, Mr. Stone.

(SPITS) That's 'cause
it's not my first time.

All right, tell me, how
smart are these cats?

JENKINS: Their intelligence is
precisely what makes them so deadly.

Good.

Then I know I'll be
up against the best.

Let's light them up.

Oh, no, you don't.

(GRUNTS)

That is some dangerous math.

(PANTING)

All I can do is watch.

My nightmare.

Those trapped in their nightmares
cannot see their Nightmare Rings,

nor even remember
putting them on.

Show me the truth.

JENKINS: Each take
a ring and put it on.

(CASSANDRA COUGHS)

(GRUNTS)

- Stop!
- CASSANDRA: Stop!

JENKINS: Don't let him press
the button. My life depends upon it!

Don't take another step. I
can't let you touch that button.

Drop your weapon.

You have no idea
what's at stake here.

I don't have a choice.

I'm giving you till
a count of three.

I'm giving you to
the count of three!

My nightmare is
that I can't help them.

Time to wake up!

Stone, Cassandra,
Ezekiel, stop! Stop.

I know you.

- Your name's...
- Eve.

Eve Baird.

You're our Guardian.

Stone, Cassandra.

I remember,
we're all Librarians.

The rings, look.

You stopped us.

You saved us.

Yeah.

JENKINS: No.

She did not.

Only one Librarian
can leave the Trial alive.

Your predicament
remains unchanged.

I will not let you
get away with this!

- Oh, please.
- (GRUNTS)

Foolish Guardian,

the Harness of Mahakali
cannot be broken.

Then it should be me.

I don't want to live in a
world without Jenkins.

Jake, shoot me.

(STAMMERING) No.

You might as well
shoot me too, then, mate.

You'd make a great Librarian.

And Jenkins is a million times
more than what I'll ever be.

STONE: Listen to me...

I'll take this one.

You both deserve
to be Librarians.

Do it for Jenkins.

JENKINS: No.

Three dead Librarians
are of no use to me.

Only two must
die, one must live.

So choose, choose
now which two die.

Me.

It should be me, take my life.

Me. I'm completely expendable.

- It should be me.
- COLONEL BAIRD: Stop, stop, stop, stop!

- Everybody stop!
- No!

Choose which two die.

Choose, or I will end Jenkins.

- JENKINS: Choose!
- Wait, wait, wait.

Before you do this, there's
one thing I have to know.

What?

This morning, when
Jenkins was still Jenkins,

he made an anchor out of
the first book of the Library,

he said it would lock
any artifact into place.

My question is this,

is this harness an artifact?

Yes.

But what does that
have to do with...

I will not let you
get away with this!

The first book.

Your harness stays here,
and you come with me!

(SIGHS)

Jenkins?

Is that you?

(LAUGHS) Yes, it is me.

You brought me back.

You brought them all back.

You wonderful woman!

You brought us all home.

You'll make me cry.

I'm just a Guardian.
Just doing my job.

No, you are the Guardian.

You are my Guardian.
Our Guardian.

We all owe you our lives.

Everybody good?

We are now.

I'm sorry about the
whole scroll spell thing.

Hey, it's water
under the bridge.

So what do we do now?

Well, we move on
from this awful day

to something
better and brighter,

something more
becoming of who we are.

Or, to put it another way,

Librarians together,
Librarians forever.

(DEVICE BUZZING)

(JENKINS MUTTERING)

(SCREAMS)

Clear the table!

Get him up on the table!
Get him on the table!

He's bleeding out.

The knife's gone
straight into his heart.

Cassandra, magic, medicine.

- Anything.
- No.

We have to get this off of him.

Listen, but, Baird,
there's no way...

I will not lose him!

Ezekiel, you've got
the steadiest hands.

Ezekiel?

Easy, easy.

Cassandra? Cassandra?

Okay.

The Shroud of Lazarus has
the ability to heal any wound.

I hope.

Jenkins, can you
hear me? Jenkins!

It's working. It's working.

Hello.

- STONE: It worked.
- Hi.

- (CHUCKLES)
- Oh.

The Shroud of Lazarus. I was
wondering where I'd put that.

I found it when we had high tea.

Your cucumber sandwiches.

"Worth becoming mortal
for," as I recall saying.

You'll have plenty of
cucumber sandwiches.

Eve Baird.

No, this wound, caused
by the Kiss of Mahakali,

no magic can
undo what it's done.

You're getting
better, look at you.

No, it's just allowing me to die

a little more slowly.

Jenkins...

JENKINS: I have
had so much life.

Measured in centuries,

millennia
stretching to infinity.

Now, measured in heartbeats,

decreasing heartbeats.

Time finally running out.

You all must know,
serving you has been

the greatest
pleasure of my life.

I may have been immortal,
but you brought me to life.

Cassandra Cillian,

your cucumber sandwiches,

good enough to die for.

(DISTANT RUMBLING)

(STONE GRUNTS)

(CASSANDRA SOBBING)

- Cassandra...
- I don't want to say anything.

We played the game,

just like the Library
wanted us to.

We beat it.

Yet, it still...

I don't want to be here.

I'm sorry. I can't
be here ever again.

Cassandra...

No, I gave everything
I had to the Library,

I gave it my love,
I gave it my trust,

and it took Jenkins!

And I hate it!

I hate it!

It took Jenkins.

I don't trust this
place anymore.

It took Jenkins.

It crossed a line.

I'm done.

STONE: I, Jacob Stone, hereby
resign from the post of Librarian.

EZEKIEL: I, Ezekiel Jones, hereby
resign from the post of Librarian.

CASSANDRA: I, Cassandra Cillian,
hereby resign from the post of Librarian.

(SCREAMING)

That's seven years' bad luck.

No.

No.

How?

How? Who? What? Where?

When? Why?

Oh, look at your
poor little face.

This was you?

This has all always been me.

Flynn's resignation,
Jenkins' death,

and now, the end
of the Library itself.

(GRUNTS)

(LAUGHING)

- Come on, Eve.
- (BREATHING HEAVILY)

You think I came here to fight?

Look at how I'm dressed.

Please, you're
creasing the couture.

Tell me what you've done.

Why should I?

Because I am on the edge, and you
do not want to push me any further.

You know, you actually
look like you could kill me.

Please, don't hurt me.

I'm just a poor, weak, little...

(YELLING)

500-year-old Guardian.

I don't know what
you're doing, but...

No. No, you don't.

You never have.

Nicole, I will stop you.

Stop me?

You've been helping me.

I could never have tricked
Jenkins into turning mortal

if it weren't for you.

Jenkins could never have
died if it weren't for you.

He was right about me all along.

(GASPS)

You were gathering
artifacts to attack the Library.

No, I was gathering artifacts

to make it look like I
was attacking the Library,

to force Jenkins to imprison me.

I knew the map would be
uncovered in exactly 100 years.

I knew that you'd need my help.

And when Flynn
discovered my imprisonment,

I knew he would begin to
question the legitimacy of the Library

and his doubt
would be infectious.

You planted the map
to the cornerstone.

One of the great advantages
of being from the future,

I knew where to leave
it and who would find it.

And, when I saved the day,

you believed me to be innocent
of the crimes against the Library.

And so the seeds of doubt
and distrust were sown.

You could have
destroyed the Library then,

why didn't you?

The Library's existence

depends on man's belief in it.

It's their faith in
it that gives it life.

But...

Make every librarian quit...

If you want to
destroy the Library,

you must destroy
man's belief in it.

That's why you didn't kill them.

You had to break them.

They say you can kill a
man, but you can't kill an idea.

I proved the contrary.

I set in motion a series
of events that did just that.

I killed the idea
of the Library.

Where's Flynn?

You're his Guardian,

his immortal tethering partner,

shouldn't you know where he is?

Unless... Ooh.

Did you drop the ball again?

Where is Flynn?

He's my guest.

Sort of.

Put it this way,

he's in no position to
refuse my hospitality.

Why are you doing this?

Revenge.

Payback.

Your pathetic ex-boyfriend
trapped me 500 years in the past,

trying to show
how clever he was,

and then entirely
failed to rescue me.

First, I waited,

like you do.

My prince will come someday.

Until, someday, he didn't.

After the first 100 years or so,

I got bored of waiting.

I got bored of Flynn, too.

And don't get me started on
how I feel about the Library.

(BELLS CLANGING)

Here it comes.

The Equinox of Binding!

Hurry, Eve, find a Librarian
to tether with or... Hmm.

Too late.

They won't even remember
they were Librarians now.

- You can't do this!
- But I have.

The only place the Library
exists now is in your memories.

And soon, those too
shall begin to fade.

No. No, I will never forget!

Whose ashes are
in that urn, Eve?

Judson...

Jenkins. Jenkins!

One name, and you
could barely hold onto it.

How are you going to keep the
whole of this alive in your mind?

You have failed in
every way imaginable.

Your stupidity, your arrogance.

Thank you for making
them my greatest allies.

(SOBBING)

That's it, on your knees.

Know your place.

Do you like my
dress, by the way?

I've been saving it
for a special occasion.

It's for watching
the world burn.

(MUSIC PLAYING)