The Librarians... and the Apple of Discord

How do we follow up Bruce Campbell as Santa? How about Cary-Hiroyuki
Tagawa as a dragon? Yes please!

The world is in uproar, literally, with earthquakes, storms and volcanoes popping up anywhere that they can. Flynn Carson, actual Librarian, returns to the Annex to announce that the problem is dragons, only for Ezekiel to stumble into the role of the Library's arbiter, first in negotiation between the Eastern and Western dragons and then a full conclave of supernatural beings (thankfully with Jenkins as his Counsel.) As the other Librarians search for a stolen pearl to restore peace between the dragons, Dulaque throws his hat into the ring, asking the conclave to dissolve the Library entirely.

This episode allows Noah Wyle to come in and be incredibly manic at people (seriously, I don't think he pauses for a second ever,) and for everyone else to get the chance to do what Ezekiel did last week and play their character in reverse. The pearl is just a shell hiding the Apple of Discord, which brings out the worst version of you, so Jacob becomes a bullying know-it-all and trashes a gallery for organising its collection wrong, while Cassandra turns into a trampy, vampy maths ninja, dismissively disabling Dulaque's sidekick Lamia before attempting to create a catastrophic power grid failure that would plunge Europe into an effective dark age. Flynn and Eve both want to rule the world, while Ezekiel... is already the worst possible him.

Props to the series for having trampy, vampy Cassandra discard her floral print dress to reveal some of the weirdest sensible undies in TV history instead of uncharacteristic lingerie.

Also, my suspicions regarding Dulague are confirmed when the fey envoy at conclave vouches for 'the son of Ban.' It also confirms the link between him and Jenkins. I'm currently guessing Merlin for Jenkins, but he could be someone less pivotal. John Laroquette gives it his all in his 'nothing ever changes' speech to Ezekiel; it's moving and reveals a lot of the rationale behind his grumpy, misanthropic exterior.

The conclave itself provides a lovely teaser of the depth and order of the supernatural world, and hints at these various secret groups hungering for a taste of the magic that the Serpent Brotherhood returned to the world in episode 2 (and I still want to smack them for murdering poor Cal, the bastards.) Plus, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as a scheming dragon. Fuck yeah!