The Librarians and the Echoes of Memory – Director: Dean Devlin/Writer: Kate Rorick
This one starts with a flashback to six weeks ago when Flynn was about to leave. Apparently, he changed his mind and was ready to stay and tether to the Library (and Eve), but Nicole knocked him out and kidnapped him.
Back in the present (or what’s currently passing for it), Eve finds herself in a dystopian world run by The Company, where everything is bland and
lifeless, including the food and entertainment. This is obviously a comment on modern society … and one that’s hard to disagree with. Anyway, Eve tries to remember the Library (specifically the artifacts at the main entrance) and finds she has Flynn’s tethering ring. It activates a TV and she sees a prerecorded message from Flynn warning her about Nicole’s treachery and not to forget the 
Library or the world might stay like this. Eve sees Jacob on TV hawking used cars and heads over to see him. She tells him he’s supposed to be a Librarian and it turns out he’s been having dreams about that since he was a kid. He decides to come with her to look for the others (by consulting the Company directory).
They find Cassandra working as a filing drone and she reluctantly admits to having the same dreams as Jacob. The Thought Police show up and
Cassandra creates a distraction so they can all escape. They find Ezekiel working as a TV host on the most popular show (“I Fell Down!”), but he’s a bit more hesitant to join them since he likes his life as it is now. But he’s not completely content, as he keeps trying to push the parameters of the show and secretly practices lockpicking in his dressing room afterwards. He’s had the same dreams of 
the Library but is harder to convince (which is a nice parallel to the first season when Ezekiel resisted being part of the team). The Thought Police show up to grab Eve, so Jacob and Cassandra take off. Eve is taken to an asylum where she’s confronted by Nicole, who is pleased to find out Eve has forgotten all about the Library.
In the asylum, Eve meets Flynn, who’s been there as Nicole’s prisoner since she grabbed him. He has managed to retain pieces of his memories and lets
Eve know that, but Nicole has him taken for another “reset” … which is basically just brainwashing. At the studio, Cassandra and Jacob convince Ezekiel to help them rescue Eve. In the asylum, Eve finds Flynn’s room where he has a whole wall devoted to his memories of the Library (and her). They start making out and that brings 
back Eve’s memory of the Library and even kind of restores the Library itself … at least until Nicole comes along to screw things up. She orders the doctors to remove Flynn and Eve’s memories for good by lobotomizing them. By combining their special talents, the other three Librarians manage to get into the asylum and rescue Eve and Flynn just in time.
Unfortunately, they get trapped in a dead end, pursued by Nicole and her goons, plus a bunch of crazed inmates. Flynn and Eve help the others
remember the Library, which then manifests around them. Flynn decides to use the Toaster of Albuquerque (!) to rewrite history so Nicole never turns evil. The Toaster opens a portal to the moment Nicole became immortal and Flynn goes through to give her the journal of her life, urging her to do everything in it except this time do it for the Library instead of against it. Nicole accepts that (calling herself 
the Library’s Guardian instead of Flynn’s) and when Flynn gets back to the present, everything has reset to the Tethering Ceremony from the season opener, including Jenkins being alive (and immortal) again. Flynn and Eve are the only ones who remember the alternate timeline and they decide to immediately tether to the Library.
This is a really good episode and a fitting finale for the series. It’s nice to see Eve get the spotlight since she hasn’t had much to do this season. It’s also
cool that she’s the one who brings the Library back by reminding the others how much it means to each of them. It’s great to see Jenkins back, which I guess means we can assume Flynn’s plan worked and Nicole didn’t turn bitter and evil. I also like how everyone kind of recognized each other in the alternate reality. The world without the Library was interesting; Flynn said it came about because the Library represents the 
thirst for knowledge and curiosity and without those things, the world is just bland and intellectually lifeless. I liked the commentary on the blandness of our own society, with the tasteless food, the banal TV shows, and the whole “Medication makes you happy” mantra in the asylum. The depiction of the alternate world seems to have taken inspiration from numerous sources: the overall look and feel is straight out of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four; some of the imagery
(especially the office scenes with Cassandra) reminded me of Brazil; the Thought Police are like Agent Smith from The Matrix; Flynn’s freak-out at the asylum is straight out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and his re-education reminded me of A Clockwork Orange; and the scene where the inmates were trying to get at them through the cage had a vibe like Romero’s Living Dead movies.
Favourite Quotes:
- “You know, I never thought to ask.” Jacob showing no curiosity about the Company actually does.
- “We’re the Librarians.” Said in unison by Cassandra, Ezekiel, and Jacob to get past the guards … and for the first time, it actually works for them.