The Librarians and the Loom of Fate – Director: Jonathan Frakes/Writer: John Rogers
This one starts with Eve waking up … somewhere. She’s kinda out of it and has blood on her hand that appears to be her own blood. Instead of freaking out, she just smiles as she closes her eyes. Eve wakes up again in an Egyptian tomb where Jacob, Cassandra, and Ezekiel are fighting mummies and trying to open a sarcophagus. Flynn shows up just in time to help defeat the mummies and tells them the sarcophagus might hold the key to bringing back the Library.
At the Annex, they use various relics they’ve gathered (the magic storybook, Morgan Le Fay’s wishing app, Tesla’s stabilizer) to channel magical energy
through the sarcophagus and anchor the Library to the Annex. Unfortunately, Dulaque has booby-trapped the sarcophagus and shows up with Lamia to take control. He’s not after the Library this time, but something much more significant … so significant it takes a blood sacrifice. Lamia prepares to kill Flynn, but Dulaque kills her instead (because the blood has to come from someone who loved him). Dulaque goes through the Back Door to find the Loom of Fate, followed 
closely by Eve and Flynn. Dulaque finds the Loom of Fate and cuts the threads at the moment Camelot fell, which he figures is where history went wrong. Eve tries to stop him but suddenly finds herself in a forest in the Ukraine. She runs into Flynn (actually he runs into her … literally), but it soon becomes clear this isn’t the Flynn she knows … and he doesn’t recognize her at all.
They’re captured by soldiers who are wary of any strangers because of an ongoing border dispute. It soon becomes obvious that Flynn isn’t the Librarian and has no real sense of adventure. He’s just a professor on an
archaeological dig, but he does stand up for Eve (and almost gets killed) when a soldier starts roughing her up because of her NATO credentials. They’re saved by someone dressed like Nathan Drake from Uncharted, who comes in and kicks the shit out of all the soldiers. It turns out to be Jacob, and if we needed any more proof that we’re in a parallel universe, he introduces himself as the Librarian and greets Eve with a big kiss. Flynn’s team is there researching some ancient stones which Jacob says are located over Ley lines (although Flynn scoffs at the very idea of magic). Jacob tells Eve he’s been the Librarian for over a 
decade and that she died stopping Dulaque from stealing the Library. But without the Serpent Brotherhood controlling the magic they brought back, it’s gone wild and Jacob has just been trying to contain it. Flynn notices that the trees surrounding them aren’t native species and some of them have metal spikes in them. Jacob realizes that’s something he missed and says it’s Fate that Flynn was there to spot it. The spiked trees form a teleportation circle that Jacob powers up to send Eve and Flynn back to where they came from, but (naturally) they end up somewhere else … where they soon run into Ezekiel Jones, the Librarian.
In this reality, Ezekiel has been the Librarian since he was a teenager and looked on Eve as a mother-figure (which doesn’t make her too happy), until she was killed fighting Dulaque (the same as she was in the alternate
Jacob’s reality). Ezekiel is glad to see her because he needs help with a ghost problem … one caused when the problem of the haunted wishing house wasn’t resolved quite as neatly as it was in Eve’s reality. Now most of the world’s population are possessed by dead spirits. Flynn really isn’t into the whole ghost thing and Eve has to explain the concept of the Library to him. Turns out this version of Flynn ignored the letter he got from the Library because he felt comfortable just 
working at the university. He uses the term “random thread on the Loom of Fate” which makes Eve think Fate really is at work here, especially when Flynn helps solve the ghost problem with knowledge that Ezekiel doesn’t have. Flynn uses the old theory of Odic Force to zap the possessed people and drive the spirits out of them. He and Eve can’t hang around to savour their victory though, as they start fading and pop up in another reality … one populated by dragons.
They’re quickly captured by Lamia and some thugs and taken to see her boss, who isn’t Dulaque but (you guessed it) Cassandra, the Librarian. Cassandra is looking a bit different from her usual self (rather witchy) and
can control magic, which has made her a hero to people who she’s saved from the dragons. (Cassandra says Eve wasn’t a mother figure to her, but doesn’t elaborate on their relationship. Maybe I’ve seen too many Xena episodes, but I think there might be a romantic vibe there, at least on Cassandra’s part.) Lamia is her Guardian (having killed Dulaque soon after he killed Eve) and Cassandra soon realizes Eve and Flynn are bouncing through alternate realities. When Eve mentions Dulaque cutting the Loom of Fate’s thread, Cassandra says 
the thread must be fraying and Eve and Flynn are skipping from piece to piece, which will eventually rip time itself apart. Cassandra is ready to give up until Flynn gives her a pep talk, saying he’d choose to be Librarian if he had his life to live again, and pointing out that they can reweave the threads of Fate to fix things. They need a very magical thread for the Loom, so Eve suggests the twine from the Labyrinth, but when they go to the Annex to get it, the twine isn’t there (nor is Jenkins) and the place looks deserted.
Obviously, the twine wasn’t recovered in this reality, so Eve needs to get back to her own world. Cassandra says that’s impossible until Flynn
suggests splicing the threads of Fate together temporarily so they can get back. Cassandra says it’s possible but will need help from the other Librarians, since they exist in all the timelines. She pulls Jacob and Ezekiel into the Annex and moves everyone back into Eve’s reality, where the Labyrinth twine is waiting. Eve and Flynn prepare to head back to the Loom, but Flynn points out that if they’re successful, the alternate Librarians will cease to exist. They give him and Eve their 
blessings and send them to the Loom. While Flynn starts reweaving the threads, Eve waits for Dulaque to show up. He does but he’s not what she was expecting … instead the older dude she knows, he young and strong (and played by Rebecca Romijn’s real-life husband Jerry O’Connell). Dulaque (who Flynn realizes is Lancelot) wants to undo the damage he did in Camelot the first time around and make things better, so he starts by stabbing Eve.
Flynn tries to fight Dulaque with Excalibur, but doesn’t get far. Just as Dulaque is about to kill Flynn, Jenkins shows up to face him … and Jenkins turns out to be Galahad. As Flynn repairs the Loom, Jenkins and Dulaque duel and Jenkins tells him the time for kings and magic is long past. Flynn
succeeds, making Dulaque vanish and turning himself back to normal. Eve is still dying because it’s her Fate to die for her Librarian in every timeline. Flynn and Jenkins take her back to the real Annex and Flynn uses her blood to open a portal to the Library, where he finds the magic elixir that healed him and uses it to save Eve. Later, Flynn “graduates” the other Librarians, giving them each a small version of the Clippings Book so they can go out and solve mysteries on their own. Ezekiel and Jacob are ready for a break, but Cassandra wants 
to go try a case on her own. The other two quickly decide to join her. Flynn and Jenkins say they don’t remember anything that happened near the Loom, but Eve does because she was fractured before (by Santa Claus) and could handle it better. She says that’s quite the coincidence, but Jenkins says it was probably Fate taking a hand … again. Eve points out that the Clippings Book didn’t send them to Santa, Jenkins did, which he passes off as … coincidence. The Clippings Book goes nuts and Flynn asks Eve to go investigate with him, which he passes off as a date. Strangely, she’s cool with that.
This is a really good episode and a great way to end the first season. I like how all their previous adventures tied into this one and it cool to finally find out that Jenkins is really Sir Galahad. The alternate Librarians were cool
(and I’m still rally curious about Cassandra and Eve’s relationship in that timeline) and it was nice to see how Flynn’s knowledge filled gaps in the other Librarians’ skill sets, kind of the reverse of how they complimented him in the first episode. I don’t mind the Flynn/Eve romance, but I’m not sure if I like the idea of the Librarians splitting up to solve cases (although I’m pretty sure that idea doesn’t last). I sure hope not because I love the interplay between Jacob, Cassandra, and Ezekiel.
Favourite Quotes:
- “One is aware, sir.” Jenkins reacting to Flynn calling him a genius.
- “Hi, we’re on an adventure … or I’ve lost my mind … or both.” Flynn on meeting the alternate Ezekiel.
- “Sod off, Deadites!” Alternate Ezekiel showing his frustration with the possessed mob.