The Librarians: The Next Chapter

You shouldn't be out after dark.

Don't you know what town this is?

Yes, run. We enjoy it.

Perhaps it is you who should not be out after dark.

Yes, run!

Well, well, well, well.

No, no, no, no, no!

Please, please, please!

It was just a joke. See? Eh?

Fake vampires? Tourists.

The festival has only begun.

There is a vampire in this town

and we are going to find him.

The Talisman of Ordo goes under jewelry.

And the Dancing Dragon's pearl flute,

file it under musical instruments.

This is the epitome of dullness.

We should be out there right now

fighting evildoers.

That pendulum

is going to go off any minute.

The pendulum hasn't gone off in over a week.

Look, I don't like doing this just as much as you do,

but we have to get it done.

And for the last time,

stop playing with the Golden Banshee of Kearny.

What happens if the banshee banshees?

Well, technically, heads could explode.

Which is why Mrs. Astolat wants everything safely stored in the main library.

Bleh! The artifacts are fine and Elaine can kiss my Astolat.

Wait, circle back. What do we do with the ones that could make your head explode?

Those are filed in the restricted section,

with fail-safes placed over them so they can't cause trouble if they get out.

Fail-safes? Like what?

Well, the Golden Banshee will go in a soundproof box.

Medusa's head will have a bag over it.

We're not idiots.

What's idiotic is that you promised that before the six months Stone gave you was over,

you'd catalog all these artifacts and put them back where they belong.

Almost over, but we've only been here...

Uh, can Connor and I take this to Mrs. Astolat in the main library?

- We've never been. - For good reason.

You are not a Librarian. Security will have your head.

Ah, remind me.

Down the left hall, third door on the right.

- Sorry, which door? Thank you. - Third door on the right.

Wow, has it really almost been six months?

Yeah, feels like we just got started.

And when it's over, you two will go back to your normal lives,

and Vik will just become another artifact in the Library.

Hmm. The future waits for no man.

That reminds me, I have to go wait for my broker.

You selling the castle?

Like your friend Suki suggested?

Uh, yeah.

I know she didn't express it the right way, but she had a point.

This can't go on forever.

So we have to plan. I have an IPO to launch.

It needs capital to get off the ground,

and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Got it. We'll stay out of your way when the broker's here.

Excuse me. Sorry.

I didn 't think you' d be so eager to break up the band.

Who said anything about breaking up the band?

I'm gonna need high-level security for my company.

I'm a Guardian.

Yeah, but who are you gonna guard if Vikram's stuck in the Library?

Think about it, okay?

You know you're setting that for a basement in Queens right now.

- It's not what it looks like. - It looks like after realizing

our time in the Library is limited,

you're using the door to go somewhere you'll never have a chance to go again.

Okay, it is what it looks like.

- You can't just run off somewhere. - Why not?

Lysa's off doing the broker thing. The pendulum's quiet.

You want to come? Once in a lifetime opportunity.

I can't. I have to make sure Vikram finishes cataloging.

- Finally making progress. -

Aah! Charlie! We have to do that last box again.

- - Last three, actually.

Curious, where'd you say you're going again?

- Welcome to Kisiljevo. - It's a village festival. Cute.

It's not just a village festival.

- It's a vampire festival. And here you will see

a large assortment of garlic pastries,

because nothing wards off a bloodsucker like bad breath.

Garlic, fangs, t-shirts that say 'I went to a vampire festival

and all I got was this neck wound and strange bout of anemia'?

Kisiljevo is the birthplace of vampires.

- The birthplace? - Yup.

This town has the first recorded sighting of a vampire

way back in the 1700s.

In fact, 'vampyr, ' no 'E',

is the most well-known Serbian word in the world.

I thought vampires were older than that.

- What about Dracula? - Yeah, he was a vampire.

But they didn't write about him until the 1800s as a fictionalized novel.

The first recorded newspaper article of a vampire was in Kisiljevo,

when a farmer, Petar Blagojavic died, was buried,

and then walked into his house and demanded his wife give him a new pair of shoes.

- It's quite a story. - I know. I wrote a paper on it.

The townsfolk dug him up the next day,

put a stake through his heart, chopped his head off

due diligence... and that was that.

No, it wasn't. Otherwise, the paper would be really short.

Yeah. I dug up records in the following months and years of deaths that fit a pattern.

I posited that Petar Blagojavic was still among us.

- And then? - And then I lost all credibility

and was laughed out of Stuttgart.

Bloody snow cones!

- Hey, blood snow cone? - Yeah.

- Actually, it's cherry. - It better be.

- For you? - Yes, please. Thank you.

- All right. Cheers.

Garlic! Garlic! Don't miss the garlic!

Hey, hey! My friend. Come, come, come, come. Come here.

- Ah. - Look, look, look. Look what I have.

- Ooh, it's pungent, yeah. - Do you know where...

Yeah, it's there.

Mm. No, sorry.

How much for this one? 5,000?

This book's, like, 50 years out of date.

That's how you kill a vampire.

- 500. - It's not even hardwood.

Come on, come on. 300? 300? It's a bargain.

You know, thanks for inviting me today.

It's been a really nice break.

- But... - Oh, there's a but? No buts, please.

But I don 't think you' re gonna find your vampire here.

At least not in the middle of the day amongst all these tourists.

Actually, there are rumors of a commune of day walking vampires in California.

But if you did find one, you could rub it in the face

of all those academics who booted you.

The thought had occurred to me.

And now we go to the Kisiljevo Keep. Please keep up.

They cut my pay if one of you gets eaten.

So is that what you're gonna do once the six months is up?

- Back to academia? - It would be amazing

if we could stay with the Library, but that's not gonna happen.

I burned my online following.

If Academia was forced to take me seriously, at least I'd have that.

You know? What about you? You gonna be Lysa's head of security?

To be honest, I hadn't even thought about leaving Vikram until she brought it up.

Even if Jacob Stone and the other Librarians stick him on a shelf?

If anyone could get in trouble just sitting on a shelf...

Speaking of.

It 's Mrs. A, and she' s using a lot of capital letters.

- Oh. - We should get back.

You know where we came in the door?

Yeah, just inside the castle keep

near the vampire memorabilia room.

Ooh. I'm gonna run back and get a snow cone. You want one?

Uh, yeah. Extra bloody, please.

I 'll text Lysa we' re on our way.

No way.

Aah! Aah!

- Connor? Connor? - There you are.

Mrs. A was getting rather piqued you weren't here to correct my alphabetizing,

even though the alphabet hasn't changed!

- Connor, is he here? - I thought he was with you.

He was. I lost him.

I knew he'd never come through the magic door without me.

But I've searched all of Kisiljevo. He's nowhere.

You've been to Kisiljevo?

I didn't know what it was until I got there.

But it was fun. There was snow cones and t-shirts.

And we got separated and now he's not answering his phone.

Are you telling me you went to the birthplace of vampires

- and did not take any vampire protection? - No.

A crossbow, a vial of holy water, a stake?

Ooh, I did buy this.

It's not even hardwood.

Where's Lysa?

She is selling off the last of her family inheritance.

You're stuck with me. Ah.

- Oh. - We still have a few hours of daylight left.

Hopefully we can get Connor before that town turns into a blood-soaked bacchanalia.

No.

Hmm. Ha!

Needs sharpening.

Well, we have a lot to do here.

- You're Lysa? - Uh, yeah.

I'm from the agency.

Um, do you know what this stone is?

Uh, no. I'm not sure.

Not a problem. We can just ask the builder.

It's a castle.

The builder's been dead for nearly a millennia.

Original stonework.

That 's how we' ll put it in the listing.

Yeah. Thank you so much for coming.

I can appreciate that there aren't many buyers for a castle,

especially one without modern wiring,

plumbing, heating, cooling, or insulation.

But don't forget what it does have.

Drafts, mold, a working museum

which is unique to say the least.

Don 't worry. We' ll turn every minus into a plus.

Shall we start with the turrets?

Uh...