The Librarians and the Trial of the Triangle – Director: Jonathan Frakes/Writer: Noah Wyle
This one starts with a rather obsessed Flynn researching in the Library to find the Eye of Ra. He’s jumped and tied up by some sinister figures, but it turns out to be Eve and his fellow Librarians preparing for an intervention.
Eve points out that Flynn’s obsession with finding the Eye (and Charlene,
and stopping Apep) has gone beyond duty and is starting to harm him and those around him. They air various grievances: Ezekiel wishes Flynn would trust him more, Cassandra wants him to listen instead of being so dismissive, Jacob wishes he’d drop some of his emotional walls, and Eve points out that his insularity and secrecy aren’t making him a better person (or Librarian). None of it seems to register with Flynn, who tells them he’s looking for the Eye of Ra but has no clue where to find it. They show him the value of teamwork by deducing 
that the Eye probably went down in the Bermuda Triangle in a perfect storm aboard a ship called the Tibbar and that the Librarian at the time (Teddy Chislington) was most likely aboard. The Clippings Book gives them a glimpse of the future, showing that a Venezuelan airliner is going to disappear in the Triangle tomorrow, so they immediately start planning on how to get aboard.
Since the Bermuda Triangle is a wormhole (according to Flynn), they need a way to use it that won’t kill them. Turns out Jenkins can whip up a portable
Back Door to get back, but they might need some magic to get through in the first place, which Eve isn’t thrilled about. Jacob finds a pattern in the Triangle disappearances (the true disappearances, not hoaxes or otherwise explainable stuff) that correlates with Lewis Carroll’s poem The Walrus and the Carpenter. So the Triangle basically chooses the ships or planes that disappear so they fit the pattern of the poem. They head to Venezuela to get on the plane and Flynn 
and Eve have to stage a fight (and make up) to distract security so they can get the portable Back Door through undetected. It works and they board the plane, but don’t notice a DOSA agent watching them who also gets on board. Once on the plane, they realize the magic pills they brought will protect them, but all the other passengers will die … which doesn’t seem to bother Flynn all that much.
Eve’s not happy about Flynn’s indifference so she hauls him to the lavatory for a chat. (Naturally, the other passengers assume they’re joining the Mile High Club, especially when Eve twists Flynn’s arm enough to make him
scream.) Flynn admits he’s scared about what pure evil could do to his friends and the world in general and Eve reminds him he doesn’t have to face it alone. The plane hits turbulence and the first-class passengers vanish … followed quickly by the pilots. They set up the Back Door in the rear of the plane, but the DOSA agent pulls a gun and tries to stop them. They knock him out an Flynn (whose command of Spanish is somewhat medieval) hypnotizes the passengers 
into believing they’re pigs, making it easier to herd them through the portal to safety. But instead of following the others, Flynn takes the magic pill and disintegrates with the plane. He wakes up on a desert island beside the wreck of the Tibbar. He soon figures out that “Tibbar” is “Rabbit” spelled backwards and figures the Triangle isn’t a wormhole, it’s more of a rabbit hole that leads to a Lewis Carroll-inspired world.
He runs into a knight who looks like Jenkins and tells him he can find the Eye if he passes the tests, starting with a human chessboard. Flynn finds Cassandra (as the Red Queen) in charge of the game and she lets him know
he can cross the board if he answers four questions honestly. The questions force Flynn to admit to his shortcomings, which he does (reluctantly), successfully making it across the board. He’s dumped down another hole and ends up back on the beach, where he’s given the Eye of Ra by Teddy Chislington, who brought the Eye here (and presumably designed the Bermuda Triangle) to keep it safe. Teddy tells Flynn that the Eye demands a sacrifice when it’s used and Flynn has to choose who dies. Naturally, he’s unwilling to sacrifice anyone’s life … 
except his own. Back at the Library, Cassandra is un-hypnotizing the pig-people when Flynn re-appears and does it for her. He cautions Jenkins not to mention the sacrifice associated with the Eye and shows that he’s changed by trusting Ezekiel and Cassandra to handle the DOSA agent and wanting to hang out with Jacob and the others to have some fun. The DOSA agent is sent back hypnotized to think he’s a chicken, which pisses off the head of DOSA even more than she already was.
This is a pretty good episode that concentrates on Flynn and gives him a reason to come out of his shell and trust people. His experience in the
Triangle (or Wonderland if you prefer) show him that he needs the others to help him fight evil, but he also needs them as friends (or more, in Eve’s case). It was cool to see an ex-Librarian with Teddy Chislington and we get an explanation for the Bermuda Triangle. (Actually, each Librarian had their own theory on that: Jacob thought it had to do with the Hutchinson Effect/electric fog; Ezekiel was 
certain it was sea serpents; and Cassandra assumed underwater volcanoes setting off explosions of methane were responsible. Basing things on a Lewis Carroll poem gave everything an air of whimsy and there were plenty of the usual comedic touches as well (the hypnotized passengers, the intervention, and the fact that Ezekiel has apparently broken into Fort Knox twice).
Favourite Quotes:
- “Yeah, we didn’t forget.” Jacob letting Flynn know that they expected him to get out of his handcuffs, which is why they tied his shoelaces together and he fell on his face.
- “Remember when I said that you were dismissive?” Cassandra’s response when Flynn calls her Bermuda Triangle theory stupid.