The Librarians and the Silver Screen – Director: Jonathan Frakes/Writer: Noah Wyle
This one starts with Eve and Flynn going to a retrospective for a director named James Desmond Wheeler. Eve is a big fan of his work and knows it all by heart, including the movie they’re currently watching, a noir thriller called The Found, the Lost, and the Looking. Unfortunately, something weird happens, causing Eve and Flynn to vanish from the theatre and appear inside the movie up on the screen.
The other Librarians show up at the theatre and talk their way in, but Eve and Flynn are trapped inside the film (or on the screen) with no way to
communicate. Jenkins helps them figure out what’s going on and they conclude that there’s a build-up of magical energy at the site of the theatre. They already met the owner (Jade Wells, played by Gloria Reuben), who bought the place a few years ago and re-opened it as a revival house. Whatever artifact cause Eve and Flynn to get pulled onto the screen, Jenkins says they’ll have to see the movie through to 
its conclusion without any deviations in order to get back out. Inside the movie, Eve and Flynn figure that out for themselves, advancing the plot by meeting Madeline Kincaid, who wants to hire Flynn (who’s now Mac Doyle, a hard-boiled detective) to get back a ruby necklace stolen by a gangster named Tony. Flynn agrees but after Madeline leaves, Eve tells him the movie ends with Madeline being the guilty party.
At the Library, the others watch the original movie and see Madeline double-cross everyone, threatening to shoot Tony if she doesn’t get back
what he took from her, and getting shot in turn by Mac Doyle. The others want to use magic to go inside the movie and help Eve and Flynn, but Jenkins says it’s too dangerous. He does manage to rig up a way to phone Doyle’s office, but since they’ve already left he gets no answer. Cassandra, Jacob, and Ezekiel decide to go into the movie to help directly, but they end up in the wrong film, a Western called Chaps in Chaps. Jacob and Ezekiel are about to be hanged when Cassandra shows up to save them as an Annie Oakley-style sharpshooter. In the noir 
film, Eve and Flynn get aboard Tony’s floating casino liner and talk their way into seeing him (using Lady Gaga Van Damme and Dr. Julius Erving III as aliases, so I guess there’s a certain amount of deviation allowed from the script.) In the Western, Jacob really gets into character (singing and yodelling) At the theatre, Jenkins finds out that Jade is James Desmond Wheeler’s daughter and she still has all his original stuff.
In the noir, Flynn has to take a shit-kicking to follow the script while Eve investigates below decks and finds out Madeline has been playing them.
Jenkins manages to open a portal from the Western, but instead of getting back to the Library, Cassandra, Ezekiel, and Jacob end up in another movie, a sci-fi cheapie called Brain Robbers from Planet Alpha Xenon 6 (which Cassandra considers a classic). In the noir, Flynn takes his beating and gets tossed overboard, while eve finds 
the ruby necklace in a stateroom where a young girl is crying. Eve steals a rubber raft and rescues Flynn. At the theatre, Jenkins checks various objects belonging to James Desmond Wheeler, but none of them is magical. He does learn more about the man from his daughter. In the noir, Flynn and Eve enjoy the obligatory love scene (ruined by the fade-out), before being recaptured by Tony’s goons.
At the theatre, Jenkins and Jade figure out Wheeler’s typewriter is magical and when they check the script for The Found the Lost and the Looking, they find out that not only did someone else (E. Darnell) write it, but it has a
different ending to the movie currently being shown. In the movie, the final scene plays out, but Eve and Flynn wind up back where they started, in Doyle’s office. Jenkins calls to let them know about the original script, but the ending has been torn out so they have to figure out the original ending for themselves and see it through. They realize Madeline actually didn’t care about the ruby necklace, so she wants something else from Tony … their daughter, Pearl. They convince Madeline to apologize and beg Tony to let Pearl go, but he refuses 
and his men end up holding all of them at gunpoint. Luckily, Jenkins and Jade use the magic typewriter to get the others out of the sci-fi movie and bring them into the noir just in time to kick the crap out of Tony and his goons. Madeline is reunited with her daughter and everyone is released from the movie. In the theatre, an older woman named Eleanor (who’s been hanging around since the beginning of the episode) reveals she’s the one who wrote the original script and she’s Jade’s biological mother.
This is a pretty good episode, with the parallel between Eleanor/Jade in real
life and Madeline/Pearl in the movie. Apparently, when Eleanor got pregnant. Wheeler convinced her to let him and his wife raise the baby and she later wrote the script for The Found the Lost and the Looking and sent it to him, hoping the story would come out. Of course, he changed the ending and took credit for it (as he had with all 
the noir movies Eleanor had actually written), but the Librarians helped bring the story to a happy ending for everyone. It was cool to see them in various genres (who knew Cassandra was such a sci-fi fan?) and we got some of the usual humorous scenes (with Ezekiel not being impressed by any of it).
Favourite Quotes:
- “Yeah, it’s like the magic door, only it’s slower and smells like pee.” Cassandra explaining the metro system to the others.
- “Ah, I forgot that part.” Cassandra when she and the others are being taken to have their brains melted by aliens.