The Librarians and the Town Called Feud – Director: Valerie Weiss/Writer: Tom MacRae
This one starts with a Civil War re-enactment. Some of the participants get a shock when a ghost shows up on their battlefield and ominously proclaims that “the brothers are rising”.
At the Annex, Jenkins is having more trouble adjusting to mortal life (it’s the whole “buying food and eating it” thing that has him stymied now) and the others are arguing about how many Librarians there should be.
Cassandra thinks all of them should stay, but Ezekiel and Jacob both think there should be one Librarian … and naturally each thinks it should be him. They’re interrupted by the Clippings Book telling them about the ghosts at the Civil War re-enactment, so Eve, Jacob, and Ezekiel head for the aptly-named town of Feud to investigate, with Cassandra offering to stay behind. The town of Feud was divided in half (literally) when two brothers, Carlton and Uriah Loveday, joined opposite sides in the Civil War. The Librarians head to the museum, which was once the Loveday home (and is also divided in half like the rest of the town). They hear a presentation (from museum director Janet Hedge) 
about how the Loveday brothers each got half a locket from their dying mother, who only wanted them to reconcile. One half of the locket has been in the museum for years, but the other half was only recently found. Pretending to be reporters, the three find out that the second locket half was found by chance and that the dividing line in the town was created recently when the re-enactment festival started.
The Librarians figure the locket must be what’s bringing the ghosts to town and worry that reuniting the halves (as Janet plans to do) will bring a hole
horde of spirits to the town. Their fears seem to be justified when the apparition of a woman appears and says “the brothers are rising”, showing them a very disturbing image of Jacob and Ezekiel pointing guns at each other’s heads. At the Library, Cassandra asks Jenkins about the Westphalian brothers, whose feud is what prompted Darrington Dare to insist there should be only one Librarian. Jenkins says they should check the Archives for the Westphalians’ 
possessions. In Feud, Janet isn’t eager to let the Librarians look at the locket, since it’s the main draw for the festival now. She mentions how the town (and museum) was dying until interest in the past was revived by her finding the locket. Ezekiel sees a ghost of a kid and is told by a local conspiracy nut that he can let him in on what’s really happening in the town.
The conspiracy guy (Chris) blames everything on alien robots sent to spy on them b the government. The re-enacters who actually saw the ghost think
Chris is nuts and make fun of him, but both sides agree that winning the re-enacted battle is like rewriting history and winning the actual historical battle (which the North did win in real life). Chris has a real life rivalry with Devin, one of the other re-enacters. The Librarians find out from Devin that the widow they saw was probably Carlton’s wife, Diana Loveday. At the Library, Jenkins and Cassandra have 
to go on a bit of a scavenger hunt to find the Westphalian brothers’ correspondence. Back in Feud, the Librarians check the museum and find out the kid Ezekiel saw was Uriah Loveday’s son, who was killed on the battlefield while looking for something he’d lost. The kid shows up again, followed by a whole host of ghostly soldiers.
They decide to steal the locket before things get out of hand, but the safe only has some old photos in it, including some from the dig where Janet uncovered the first locket half ten years ago. There’s also a photo of Diana
Loveday, but it’s so bad that Ezekiel has to use a facial reconstruction program to bring out some details (which will take about nine hours). Janet finds them in the museum and has them arrested. They break out so they can stop Janet from reuniting the locket halves. At he Library, Cassandra admits she wants multiple Librarians because he’s worried she won’t be chosen if there’s only one. She and Jenkins finally find the letters they’re looking for and read them. In Feud, Janet puts the locket back together and that brings the Loveday 
ghosts back. Their troops appear and possess the townspeople, who are immediately ready to kill each other. Janet can’t break the locket so Ezekiel and Jacob try, but they end up getting possessed by the Lovedays and pointing guns at each other, like we saw in the premonition. Eve does manage to break the locket, but that doesn’t end the possessions and everyone fires their guns.
Luckily, Jacob and Ezekiel miss their shots on purpose because the brothers didn’t really die hating each other. They did reconcile and died together on
the battlefield (from an explosion) trying to put the locket back together. (Because the brothers missed their shots, everyone else did too.) Turns out Janet found the locket intact and split it to get people more interested in the re-enactment. The death of Uriah’s son and the fact that Carlton’s widow was black pushed them to reconcile. Ezekiel gives the ghost kid his cap (which is what the kid lost) and the ghosts fade away. Jacob points out that the real story is much 
more compelling and will drum up even more business and Janet agrees, even considering changing the town’s name to Forgiveness. The adventure seems to have settled the argument between Jacob and Ezekiel, but Cassandra and Jenkins tell the others that the letters they read seem to indicate there should only be one Librarian … which means they still aren’t in agreement and the Tethering Ceremony is fast approaching.
This is a pretty good episode, with the divide between the Loveday brothers mirroring the divide between the Librarians. It’s interesting how everyone’s stance flips, with Cassandra and Jenkins deciding one Librarian would be
best after reading the Westphalian letters and seeing that their own selfishness is what split them apart and almost destroyed the Library, something that’s kinda been happening with Cassandra, Jacob, and Ezekiel. Of course, having the Loveday brothers reconcile all those years ago means the Librarians can do the same, but they don’t seem to have taken that message to heart … at least not yet.
Favourite Quotes:
- “Girls, quit it. You’re both pretty.” Eve’s way of stopping Jacob and Ezekiel from bickering.