The Librarians

Good evening.

Dobriy vecher.

Good morning.

Dobroye utro.

Dobroye utro.

Thank you!

Spasibo.

Spasibo.

Lanthanoids, lanthanum,

Cerium, praseodymium.

During viral transcript...

During the influenza's viral transcription.

Jonah, you ready to head out?

All set!

During the viral...

Dad?

Da...

Jonah?

Jonah, are you all right in there?

Jenkins?

What are you doing here? It's our day off.

Is that a brain in a jar?

My research doesn't have a day off.

And it's a brain jar,

What else would one put in it?

What are you doing here?

Have access to every art portfolio in history.

Where else would i be?

Jenkins, do you have any more yellow pens?

Second drawer under the thing that looks

Like a space helmet but is not.

She's making her own map of the ley lines

Based on the observation you've made since

Taking up residence here, blighting my work.

Why are you blighting me today?

I'm researching magical threats,

Getting a little sick

Of blindly fighting minotaurs and giant trolls.

Why is everybody here?

Isn't this our day off?

- Yeah. - Yes.

What is this?

Someone left it on that doorstep.

Has it ever done that before?

No.

Must be a magical threat of truly epic proportions

Or something absolutely apocalyptic going on at the...

The chicagoland stem fair

Sponsored by the mccabe learning foundation.

What the hell is a stem?

Stem? Stem?

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics!

It's a science fair! Yes!

Jenkins, give this baby a spin, we're going to chi town.

Whoo!

Stem fairs are the cutting edge of the amateur research.

I'm just saying, what kind of magical world-ending apocalypse

Could possibly happen at a cheesy high school science fair?

Robotics.

These kids take science very seriously.

God, yes.

Blood on the floor, best mind wins.

Participants and spectators,

Welcome to the 6th annual chicagoland stem fair,

Brought to you by the mccabe learning foundation.

Please welcome our title sponsor and foundation president,

Science education expert lucinda mccabe.

Whoo-hoo!

- Hi. - Whoo-hoo!

Hello, everyone.

Our organization, the mccabe learning foundation,

Is committed to encouraging and rewarding academic excellence.

This is why, along with our corporate partners,

We support the chicagoland stem fair and other

Science events like it throughout the country.

We will not only be rewarding the winners today

With full college scholarships

But also internships and even research grants.

Like we always say in stem world, "science..."

"works!"

Whoo!

I love that.

I know.

Robots, semiconductors, virtual reality.

Whatever happened to a good old fashioned baking soda volcano?

Paper mache volcano with baking soda, a little vinegar, psss.

Okay, stem fairs are where the best and brightest

Come to show off the future.

They are so far beyond baking soda volcanoes.

I like a baking soda volcano.

Hello. Hi, there.

I'm lucinda mccabe.

Are you all parents or family members?

Oh, hi. How are you?

- Yeah. - Good.

We are the librarians.

Oh, you're the judges from the county library. Welcome.

I'm so glad you were able to find it okay with the directions.

Your welcome packs are right over with mrs. Schwager.

So enjoy.

Someday, that cover story is not going to fly.

All right. Split up.

Find something magical.

Climatological changes environmental impact

On shifting migratory patterns of enhydra lutris.

As you can see, i'm combining a multistage ultraviolet

Treatment with hybrid silicon nitrate materials

In the water filtration system.

So cool.

In molecular cloning, the dna of the target molecule...

By which she means the subject of the experiment,

Not the target replication molecule.

Mom.

That dna is treated with enzymes and broken down

Into smaller dna chains.

Both ergodic theory and statistical physics will be

Revolutionized by my approach to extremal combinatorics.

It's a baking soda volcano.

Finally!

Hello and welcome to the world of magma.

My project today is a... i can't do this.

What's wrong?

I'll tell you what's wrong.

He brought a paper mache volcano to a...

I'm not even supposed to be here.

I'm way out of my league.

Uh-uh, no way.

You know what you are, leonard?

You are an underdog.

I am?

Yes. And all the greats were underdogs.

Come on, show us what you got.

Good hustle on the nonradioactive isotopes.

Ooh, vibrational multidynamics, that's a little hacky.

You were one of these kids.

I don't mean to brag, but i was a monster.

I had this whole, like, wall full of trophies.

And i bet you still own every single one of them.

No, no.

You know, things change.

And some things never change.

- Look at all these. - Why are we even here?

Nice glasses.

Goths and geeks should be friends.

High school's like prison.

You find a crew to run with and keep all the other crews down.

Which crew were you in?

Hey, is that supposed to do that?

No, i mean were you a goth, a geek or a cool kid?

Well, is that magical enough for you?

All right, everything's fine.

Looks like one of our contestants got

A little too enthusiastic with his display and

Mixed his chemicals a little too strongly.

It's like we always say, it's not science until something's on fire.

Even now, that contestant is getting a firm talking to

By some librarians

Who are judges and also librarians.

Tell us what happened, leonard.

What happened?

My volcano freaking exploded. I mean, did you see that?

It was insane.

I need to sit down.

You are sitting down.

Leonard, you know what i think?

I think you created an amateur-looking project,

So no one would suspect you were actually competing

And then you used, let us say,

Unnatural means to create an amazing effect to win.

But we're not mad.

You're not?

No, leonard, we're not. We're here to help you.

I'm here to help you.

You are?

Yes, leonard.

I'm here to work with you to fix this.

I just need you to take a deep breath,

And tell me the absolute truth.

When you say my name, it's like a thousand angels singing.

About the volcano, leonard, i meant...

- Oh. - The volcano.

Hey, man.

Her eyes are like opals.

I know, buddy.

Now, what did you mean when you said you weren't supposed to be here?

I was, like, the fifth alternate.

I hate these fairs, but my dad made me enter.

What happened to the five students ahead of you?

I don't know.

When i got here this morning, i heard a bunch

Of freaky stuff happened to them.

Jonah gordon, he's like einstein.

He got paralyzed by a virus.

And this other kid, i heard that she got

An allergy so rare only like one in ten million people ever get it.

He's telling the truth.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

Hey.

Okay.