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This week, the Librarians are off to small town New York in search of aliens, after a UFO hunter goes missing. Jenkins insists that there is no such thing as UFOs - minotaurs, fairies, magic swords and Santa yes, but no UFOs - but Ezekiel is already working on his pitch to sell humanity down the river if it should become necessary. The truth, as ever, is stranger than the initial supposition can encompass, and it emerges that the town is occupied by the body-riding displaced energy waves of the population of Wardenclyffe who were knocked out of phase by Tesla's wireless energy experiments a century ago and that the archivist Jake takes a shine to is the semi-immortal human grounding wire keeping them stable.
This episode gets props for the Tesla, and for Ezekiel in goggles following energy signatures, and for its central dilemma: do the bodysnatching discorporated townsfolk of Wardenclyffe deserve the Librarians' help after a century of 'borrowing' the corporeal forms of the people of Collins to do their dirty work? For once, Ezekiel is taking the - or at least a - moral high ground.
Jake: "We're Librarians... doing research on... local histories."
Mabel: "That makes sense."
Cassie: "It does... for once."
Unfortunately, a lot of this one is very talky, not in the sparky snarky badinage way, but in the expository. There's usually a bigass plot dump round about the third act that slows everything down, but this week it's a mountain, not a hill. Jake's doomed romance is also hurt by the fact that it is so obviously doomed, which kills the tension in the otherwise very sweet denouement.
Next week (because UK SyFy may be messing around with running order, but it isn't running double episodes) we have the season finale. After that... Well, I'm hoping for a renewal, since even the less gripping episodes have had Tesla in them.
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