The Librarians - '...and the Infernal Contract'

"Now there's something not many motel rooms have these days."

Baird is called on by an old Army buddy when one of his mayoral campaign workers vanishes, only for the clipping book to direct the Librarians to the same case. A 17th Century witch mark reveals that this is likely a case of a deal with the Devil, an infernal contract overseen by an 'Executor' which ensures the success of its holder by manipulating luck and fate, and providing a massive crisis for them to exploit every 44 years.

With the next crisis due, the team sets out to steal the contract from the rival mayoral candidate. Their wily, undercover shenanigans are swiftly blown when the contract turns their luck bad in self-defence and the Executor recognises Jenkins as the great white whale of his profession, but they snatch the document, only for Baird's buddy Sam to snatch the contract and try to make good from bad; because he's a pillock.

We need someone to play a snarky, omnipotent... Never mind.

The Librarians risk their lives to prevent the coming disaster and end up trapped, with the Executor offering them a deal to save them. They all refuse, but when he suggests that one of them could make the deal to save the others, they start to wonder if maybe they could do it and then find a loophole. Fortunately, Baird has already recovered the contract and written in her own name. Jenkins goes in to get the team out, shrugging off the attacks of the contract because however unlucky he gets he is literally unkillable, while the Executor urges Baird to 'make a wish'; which she does, wishing him human, thus making him unable to complete his part of the bargain and rendering the contract void. BAM!

MVL of the Week
It's a tough draw this week, as '...and the Infernal Contract' is really Baird and Jenkins' show. Points go to Jake for his excitement at getting a smokehouse set up for Chupacabra jerky:

Jake: Get ready for Chupacabra jerky!
Cassandra: Ew, you're cooking it?!
Jake: [excited] No, he's making it! The Chupacabra, he's *awesome*!
Ezekiel: [dubious] Is that *safe*?
Jenkins: As long as we keep it away from the goats on Level Four.
Cassandra/Ezekiel: [simultaneously] We've got goats?!

"I like boats!"

Also to Ezekiel for his horror when Jake accuses him of becoming honest since he doesn't use the Library's magic for thieving:

"I said; it's easy. Ezekiel Jones doesn't do easy; he does impossible."

But in the end I'm going to give the prize to Cassandra for 'Sugar Bear', her tooth-grating undercover turn as Jenkins' arm candy (see left.)