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These do not appear to be serious scholars.

Smart people don't have to wear robes anymore.

Some of the sharpest kids in the city come here to study. I was only 15 when I

took my first course at Oxford.

I knew we'd get to you somehow.

I did think your campaign to bring me up to date in modern science was a little

bit silly.

I was considered quite the dimba -damba in astronomy circles.

As Galileo said, I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Yeah, well, we've learned a lot since your time. You may have shiny new facts

your disposal, but you will never know the thrill of living in an era of pure

scientific inquiry, the days of Maury and Dalton, when gifted amateurs lived

way. But science isn't about nostalgia.

It's about looking forward.

There have been huge discoveries in the last 170 years.

This is why this is a good opportunity for you. Rosalind Kirch is a genius.

Look over there.

That is where she developed her hypothesis on interstellar dust and

galactic nuclei.

Just sitting under a tree, watching the oil droplets in her tea.

And then boom.

Scientific inspiration.

It's a famous story.

And riveting, I'm sure.

She was at Stanford when I was doing my first Masters.

Her work on quasars was a real inspiration to me.

Quasars? Yeah, a supercluster of stars discovered in the 1950s.

Dr. Kirch found a way to use them to predict celestial events, like black

It's all about predicting with you, isn't it?

These are your seats, seven and eight, row three.

Thank you.

Thank you. You're welcome.

You did that charmingly.

All I did was show you your seats.

I think she fancies me.

Do you want to know another discovery in the last 170 years?

Creepy staring?

Not sexy.

This must be recent.

Thank you all for being here to celebrate the restoration of the Kutuzov

telescope.

Now, the committee that raised the funds for all of this was led by today's

speaker. So please welcome back to our campus one of the world's preeminent

astrophysicists, Dr. Rosalind Kirsch.

Thank you, Dr. Stenaris.

And thank you for the tour of the new observatory.

What a privilege to be back on campus as a visiting professor.

This is where I first developed my hypothesis on X -ray emission as a

of an accreting black hole system.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

I was sitting out on Observatory Hill and I...

Am

I still...

Where was I?

You were talking about the day that you formed your galactic nuclear hypothesis.

Oh.

You'll have to forgive me.

I don't think I'll be able to.

Dr. Kirsch is extremely jet -lagged.

Give it a moment, please.

She has one of the sharpest minds I've ever known. To see her have a

neurocognitive episode is just upsetting.

Yeah, we went through the same thing when my grandfather started off with him

forgetting to shut the refrigerator. Before you knew it, he didn't even

recognize us. You've got to appreciate being young.

Aging is no picnic.

This was not a product of age.

I believe that she was under a spell.

He's a librarian, therefore he thinks everything must be magic.

You know the saying, when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a

nail. She froze.

Then shuddered. A telltale sign of memory theft. There are powerful

that could cause this.

Talon of Hydroloth. That is one, but that is already in the library. I

that one myself.

Oh.

Perhaps a tally stick.

We don't have to ascribe everything to the supernatural or being possessed by

demons. Dementia is a normal and sad part of aging.

Or a Santage could have pronounced an incantation over that poor woman. Is

anyone gonna help me out here?

I've been so sluggish lately.

So according to Elaine's instructions, I gave it a tarnished bath and realized

it's mercury cup and ball weight.

Now why is it doing that?

The College of Science Observatory.

As I suspected.

Thanks a lot.

Though, magic in the neighborhood, huh? Let's not jump to conclusions.

This could be something else unrelated to Dr.

Kurtz. Kind of a coincidence, though, don't you think?

What I saw wasn't supernatural.

It was human and sad.

Some aberration has occurred to this woman. Now, I've trained myself to be

observant, to remember details.

Well, I don't need to remember.

I got it right here.

it was yesterday i was sitting on observatory hill and i would

wait a minute did you

see that uh use my ai enhanced 3d program very cool

don't

We need to talk to the victim and investigate what is happening at the

observatory.

That's it.

The solution to the Balkansky Millennial Prize problem. I believe it is.

It came to me in a flash last night.

Hi, Sir Pascal.

I was in your graduate seminar at Stanford.

Ah, yes, of course.

You did a thesis on applied predictive models based on galactic motion.

Yeah, that was me.

We came to see your lecture yesterday, but we were just a bit concerned when

had... Had my little brain cramp. Yeah.

Dr. Stenari said I was trying to tell a story of how I developed my quasar

hypothesis while drinking tea.

Apparently everybody knows that anecdote but me. I can't remember a thing about

it. But now this.

The solution to a problem proposed 25 years ago.

A solution that we all believed would still be decades in the future. And

That poor woman. Some sort of infernal malediction has robbed her of that

important memory from her past. She can't be that badly affected. She was

to solve the Bukowski problem.

Not badly affected. One of her most cherished memories gone.

Not to be rude or anything, but maybe you're overvaluing memory a little. I

mean, imagine all that brain space could be used for, I don't know, achieving

something. Do you know what your problem is? The problem with this whole modern

world is you don't give a tinker's damn what's going on in here.

Or in here.

No, you've given it away to your little machines.

No need to think, to know, to remember anything.

No, you're hollowed out. A list of achievements, and even that's in here.

And soon, very soon, these little contraptions will be...

Wheeling for you now I for one would not trade a single memory of mine for gold

nor glory I Sat down and I couldn't remember anything I Couldn't even

going to class What's your name again

My

lady We met last night

did we

You showed me to my feet.

We had a moment.

I'm sorry, but I honestly don't remember you.

Forget me.

Impossible!

This can only be some sort of foul necromancy. This spell, this curse is

spreading.

We have no time to lose.

We tracked down the students we saw and got statements.

A few more confusion cases popped up in the campus health clinic. We also spoke

to the usher. The ones who can remember have one thing in common with Dr. Kirch.

Y 'all been to the observatory lately?

Bullseye. We've identified the locus of this vile pestilential phenomenon.

Now we must root out the noisome, feculent, fetid, vile... You already

vile.

Yucky perpetrator.

He is on one.

Some bounder is obviously abusing magic.

Just remember, our purpose is the identification and retrieval of any

artifact. Not beating up bad guys. It may not be our purpose, but it's the

pudding of it. And my job is to keep you out of that.

I'm with Charlie. Let's get the lay of the land before we get confrontational.

And by confrontational, you mean violent.

I was not made for these times.

Hey, Vic.

Um,

I just wanted to apologize for earlier if I upset you.

I was not upset.

I wasn't sensitive.

Look, I can't imagine what it must be like to be in your shoes.

I mean, you're here, and memories are all that's left of your world.

I really am sorry.

My world still exists.

In here.

So, no need to apologize, Anya.

Liza.

That's what I said.

The astronomy department office is chock -a -block with rare curios. Any one

could be our artifact.

You and Connor reconnoiter what's in there.

See if any of the magical artifacts we're looking for are there.

And Charlie and I will try to root out the potential abusers.

Non -confrontationally. Of course.

May I help you?

We're just admiring the collection.

Do you work here?

I'm Dr. Stonaris' teaching assistant, as well as the astronomy department

archivist. Archivist?

Yeah. So you're responsible for finding and bringing in these pieces?

Who did you say you were again?

Dr. Stonaris!

Yes?

It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I was at the presentation

evening. Ah.

You're an astronomy buff. Or a professional in the field. Well, let's

I'm an accomplished amateur.

Have you heard of the Imperial Astronomical Society?

No, from the early 19th century.

Didn't they expand back in the early Victorian era?

Yes. Well, we've relaunched it. Oh.

Well, so you're a gentleman stargazer of the old school. Well, you appear to be

of the old school yourself.

This star cartography is from the 1500s. You have a fine eye.

It's for my pet project about Shakespeare's understanding of the

is not in the stars to hold our destiny.

But in ourselves.

Hmm.

But also a poet.

Poets and astronomers, we think the same thing.

Larger view of the universe.

Well said.

I must say, I find your Shakespeare project fascinating.

Well, it grew out of my belief that the Big Bang not only created matter and

antimatter, but he's also the source behind great art.

Hmm. Big Bang.

You have a way with a phrase, Professor.

Please, tell me more.

Well, it's really amazing, don't you think?

In my astrolabe and the Adelaide online community, we call them the smartphones

of antiquity.

Looking after all of these important objects must be a real responsibility.

Is that where you keep the paperwork?

Yeah.

I already told you. I'm a friend of Dr. Kirch's. I'm just interested in the

collection. Well, it just seems like you were looking for something.

No.

I am wondering why you're sweating so much.

Sweating? Me? No. Hey, I just remembered.

We have to go meet Uncle Vic.

What? Now.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry. We gotta go. Bye.

See you soon, baby.

Yeah, you run, run.

These are the Culpeper papers. The original. The Culpeper papers?

Nicholas Culpeper was a 17th century artifact collector. As soon as I saw

they were, I thought they might tell us something. Of course. The crystal of Dr.

John Dee.

Culpeper was once its owner.

Slow down. Yeah. Who is Dr.

John Dee?

He was the court magician to Queen Elizabeth I. A genius. A true

man. During the actual Renaissance.

And Dee used the crystal to communicate to the angels and divine the future. A

major magical artifact. I think it's in the London Museum.

So wait, what does this have to do with our case? Ah, the legend is that Dee saw

something that made him lose his mind.

He no longer knew who he was.

Didn't recognize his family. Couldn't function.

He lost his memory.

Well.

Why?

It's not just the Culpeper papers.

These are the writings of John Dee himself, dated 1588.

Culpeper says that they are always to accompany the crystal. It's basically an

instruction manual.

Right, so they're fragile. We need to go and take them somewhere and read them

carefully. There's just one problem.

It's written in Enochian.

You're losing me again.

It's a language Dee invented.

He got it from the angels.

Yeah, and it's not just basic Enochian. It's high Enochian. There are maybe

three people on Earth who know how to translate it.

Who?

There are four.

The crystal is rendered harmless at which hour it is contained in the

But once loose, it has the power to grant a single willed glimpse here.

has the single moment of the past.

21st century version, please.

The crystal is rendered harmless when it is contained in its necklace setting.

But once it is taken out, it has...

has the power to grant a single desired glimpse into the future, the cost being

a single memory.

And then it refers to amplifying or expanding the power of the crystal.

The crystal is behest amplified to the point where the past is cleared. Hence,

the knowledge of the future is limitless.

The past is cleared.

Does it say how the crystal can be amplified?

It can emit spectral particulates.

The rest of the instructions appear to be missing.

I just checked with my old contacts in the illegal procurement world, and the

word is that the D -crystal was stolen, along with those papers from the London

Science Museum a few weeks back.

They've been keeping it under wraps because of all the superstition.

Let us roll.

Right, no more namby -pamby.

The papers are here. The chrysalis has got to be here.

I'm going to confront these gentlemen and force them to acknowledge the core.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't know that they're both in on it. You said your man

was acting suspicious.

Yeah, he was sweating.

And not a Daenerys was as odd as a duck mole. At the very least, they know

something, and we are going to wring it out of them. We can't force them to do

anything. All right, we're not the police. But I'm the librarian, and they

abusing a very powerful magical artifact.

Now, we have tried your ever -so -fashionable non -confrontation belly

now we'll do things my way.

Once I put the screws to them, these fellows will be discouraged from any

further traffic of magical artifacts, not to mention robbery.

When you say put the screws to them, you don't really mean screws, do you? I

want information.

Violence is the last resort. Oh, we have tried the first resort. What, first

resort, last resort, second resort? We know it's them. We know they have the

crystal somewhere.

We still don't know what they're getting at.

That is a nice car for a teaching assistant.

This vehicle.

Expensive? Very.

You two, find Dr. Therneris and bring him to the office.

These gentlemen are about to receive a proper buffet.

Yeah, yeah.

My new car. Nice car.

It's really nice.

Have we been peering into the future? Maybe wagering a whist or a hazard deck.

Perhaps the trotters.

Are you with the police?

No, but you do have something that we're going to need back.

Hmm.

We are going to recover that Christmas crystal!

I don't know where...

If you don't have the crystal, then why are you running away?

I don't know.

The line of fire, you make this stop. I can't remember how to drive.

Tell me how to make it stop.

Okay, we'll pull back.

Not in here either.

Must have gone home for the day.

Hello, Connor.

So it's the man who hates cell phones.

Hello, Connor, yes!

It's Ricker.

Yes, I need advice.

How... How do you stop a motorized carriage?

We have an issue.

No, nothing that looks like a key!

Brilliant work, Charlie.

What were you thinking?

Who's so stupid like that?

Uh, I don't know.

He seemed to forget how to pilot the carriage.

He must be under the spell.

The spell.

What about you?

Are you okay?

Charlie?

Who are you people?

You are my guardian, sent by the library.

How do you know about the library? Because I'm the librarian.

Well, hey, librarian.

Do you remember how you got the money?

I've just had a clairvoyant moment.

I saw a roulette wheel with two numbers.

So I went to the casino and put all my money on those numbers.

I'm not a guardian.

I didn't make the cut.

Initially, but then Jacob Stone contacted you.

It was like I could see the future.

It felt like cheating. I was afraid someone was going to come after me.

So that is why you were acting so suspiciously. It seemed like you knew my

secret.

How's it going?

She has a complete blank from right before Stone called up until about an

ago. Hasn't met us.

Isn't sure how she got here. That's two months.

He only forgot how to drive.

Well, she was obviously exposed after him, so it's getting stronger.

What else did we learn?

Philip says that Stenaris traveled to London on the weekend of the 18th.

That's the weekend the crystal was stolen.

Can't be a coincidence.

So, Stenaris is the malefactor.

Where is the crystal?

He thinks he knows where it might be.

The vault is in the building.

Down there.

Let's go.

We're going to need you.

So you know about the library.

You could be an enemy.

You could be using magic to try and co -opt me. You know, Eve Baird may have

thought that I wasn't ready.

And maybe I'm not.

But I am still loyal to the library.

Take him inside.

See about this vault.

The fact that the library even considered you as a possible guardian

must have better instincts than that. I am not an enemy of the library.

A powerful spell has taken a portion of your memory, and that portion includes

us. I cannot give you back your actual memories, but what I can do, I can tell

you what you need to know, so you can be part of our team again.

I'm not allowed in here without Dr. Tanari.

It can only be opened with his retinal scan.

This is one I've never cracked before.

How do you know so much about breaking and entering?

Well, there isn't an app on the internet for discovering magical secrets.

Which brings me up to the moment that you saved me from a runaway vehicle.

That all happened?

For me?

You don't think that you are guardian material because you do not remember

you have done over the past five weeks.

But I do.

I'm the librarian.

And you are my guardian.

Even if on a trial basis.

Got it, sir.

Hey guys, come on.

Here's another one.

From London.

Seems to be from the court of Elizabeth.

Do you think he held the necklace and crystal?

Rose, look at this.

The picture is changing to someone else.

Does that mean what I think you mean?

What did the translation say again about the crystal being amplified?

Ah, um, the crystal is behest amplified.

To the point it's where the past is cleared hence.

And the knowledge of the future is limitless. The past is cleared hence.

Not memories. The actual past.

So Dr.

Kirsten didn't just lose the memory of coming up with her hypothesis.

It never happened. Someone else did it. You think actual events have been wiped

out? History's been changed?

Why would he want to do this?

Oh, he doesn't. He wants the other part.

The limitless knowledge of the future.

Oh, he doesn't care about consequences.

He is what we call a remorseless monomaniac.

Sociopath. How is he amplifying the crystal?

The question is, if his goal is to selfishly gain knowledge, then why would

involve other people?

Because he needs something from them in order to achieve his goal.

And memories.

Magical causality. It must get his power to look into the future by consuming

people's memories.

Correction, by consuming the past.

And the more people that look through it, the more powerful it becomes.

When did Charlie look through the glass?

Ah! When Cenaris and I were verbally jousting, she looked through the

I also looked through the telescope.

So did Dr. Kirch.

Of course.

Where else would you put a piece of glass people will look through?

It's just another lens.

Thank you for saving me the trouble of explaining all that.

You let us out of here, you bounder! Sorry to keep you here like this, but I

have 20 undergraduates arriving for a stargazing session.

And once they've all looked at the Andromeda Galaxy...

The crystal should be fully amplified.

Donaris, you have unleashed forces beyond your control.

Do you know what it's like for a man of my intellect to cast my pearls before

swiney undergraduates while people like Rosalind Kirsch get famous on stories of

cups of tea and picnics? Now this is the story, the greatest discovery of the

history of science.

And my name will go down with Copernicus, Galileo, and Sagan.

Sagan? Think about the consequences of erasing history.

As a remorseless monomaniac, let me just tell you, I don't.

It's not going to work.

The door in frame is case -hardened still.

But if the crystal is already overcharged...

Then imagine what would happen once he sucked the memory of 20 more people.

Zombie apocalypse?

It's actually worse than that.

When you change the past, it takes time for those changes to catch up with you.

The past changed when Dr. Kirch lost her memories, but it took time for the

causality changes to catch up with our timeline.

Which is why the book and the painting are only changing now.

Exactly. I don't understand.

Imagine time like a lake, and we exist on its shore, and the erased memory is

like a pebble dropped in the center.

It takes time for the ripples to reach us. When Charlie's timeline catches up

with us, she doesn't just forget.

But she never actually met us.

And if we never met her... No one saved you from the Dracovac. Which would mean

that on our current timeline, we would all be... Dead.

Thank you for coming.

Next week, we get to view the Triffid Nebula.

Thank you, Dr.

Fanari. That was incredible.

Yes, well, it can be overwhelming, so my advice is to go straight home.

Right.

Panic is the enemy.

Toujours l 'équilibre.

Toujours l 'équilibre. French isn't helping.

Pardon.

Who installed this vault?

A security company.

What kind of company? They specialize in banks, museums?

Museums, I think.

Yeah. Museum and art gallery systems usually have a fire override sensor to

allow firefighters to enter a burning vault without having a passport.

I don't know anything about that. Sorry. It wouldn't be out in plain sight like

a smoke alarm.

Over here.

Ah, we could use this lens and find a strong enough light source that perhaps

the focus beam could generate enough heat and then...

Nice.

You're not coming.

We could just use my lighter.

Oh, here.

Tiny, portable tinderbox.

Au revoir.

Here, you seem confused.

What just happened?

The D paper has mentioned the crystal emitting spectral particulates.

It must be overflowing with them. I remember running up the stairs and

it. But you know who I am. Yeah.

Then he pulled you out just in time. So when you were in it, you were rendered

completely impotent. But why doesn't it affect Daenerys?

I do not know.

But we have to get that crystal away from him.

There is only one choice.

I must go in there and get it.

What? Just like that?

What makes you think you won't be rendered completely impotent?

Me. I don't think you know what it's like, Vikram. I feel like I have a ten

-second hole in my brain. And who knows what it'll be like if you stay in there.

Are you, of all people, willing to risk your memory? My mental discipline is

unlike any other.

Not that you're ordinary and not a gloat or bluster, but I believe I am our best

chance. I don't like it.

And I'm responsible for you.

No.

I am responsible.

I'm the librarian.

And my memories mean no more than any of yours.

You three, go under the platform, see if you can lower the floor. Anything to

get him away from that telescope.

The nearest!

How are you able to?

I have trained my brain to silo thought away from my active mind.

I can lock away what I need and only give away useless memories to this

pestiferous hex.

Get the crystal.

What's the most important thing in the world to you?

India.

Stay with me.

Did you forget something?

The main controls are up there.

Okay, well, this looks like a pretty standard servo motor.

Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to hardware.

We should lower the floor to averse Daenerys from looking through the

Guys?

What's happening to me?

It's been a grating out of our timeline.

We've got no time for this now.

I could tell that you were different.

You seemed to have an esoteric knowledge almost from another time.

I heard you talking in the vault about translating high inokin.

Only a handful of people know High Enochian.

Unfortunately, I'm one of them.

So I didn't leave any of the important papers lying around in the office for

to read.

They explain how to amplify the crystal and how the necklace could give its

wearer immunity from the unfortunate side effect.

You've got to stay here, okay?

Okay,

just stay present. Okay, Charlie, stay present, okay?

You've got to fight this.

Fight!

Promise me, okay? Just stay here. We need you. We need you here. Please.

So what was it?

A woman.

It's very interesting.

You're in tremendous pain, but you can't seem to remember why.

That is nothing compared to what I'm about to experience.

For millennia, man has looked to the heavens to see the distant past.

And I will be the first man to peer into the heavens and to see the future.

I will know how the story of the universe ends.

And I will publish.

beautiful. What are you doing? I don't

know.

I can't remember.

Get away from there, you maniac. You're ruining everything.

Now I remember.

What have you done?

I'm not sure.

Where am I?

Watch it, babe.

I know it sounds crazy.

I don't think I was asleep, but I must have been dreaming because all of a

sudden it seemed as if I were disappearing.

And then it all came back to me.

The moment on Observatory Hill when I developed my hypothesis.

It's hard to explain.

And I feel as if you and your friends had something to do with it.

I'm so grateful.

That was one of my most important memories.

I never knew how much I valued my past until it was gone.

I see that you erased the equation.

You didn't think of writing it down somewhere?

I had to get rid of it.

I don't know where it came from. And there was something about it I just

trust.

Probably for the best.

Some mysteries need to be revealed in time.

And we can appreciate the implications.

And scientific advancement should come through application of scientific

And this answer came to me. Like...

Magic. Well, I'm glad to hear that she's all right.

Oh, we were able to check up on the students who'd been affected.

It was mind -blowing, but they're no worse for wear. Most of them have

their future visions.

Though four of them have formed a jam band.

Charlie, how are you feeling?

Uh, all squared away, sir.

You never told us your vision of the future.

Was that also forgotten when the effects were reversed?

Uh, yes.

Wiped out.

Completely.

Still impressed with how you were able to stave off the effects from the memory

bubble. I couldn't have done it. My mental discipline is highly attuned and

perfectly calibrated.

That, and I had no memories to lose for 178 years, save a few weeks.

I thought that might give me some advantage.

And you saw Khan struggling and you needed to help him?

Perhaps.

Well, whatever it was, you were willing to risk what matters most to save us.

As Descartes said.

I think, therefore I am.

But maybe I remember, therefore I am.

Maybe that's the truth of it.

Anyway, I feel safer knowing that this is all locked away and out of the hands

of a pseudo -academic polymathic megalomaniac.

Speaking of which...

What do you think will happen to Dr.

Daenerys?

The reverse amplified view of the universe provides us with a final

Copernicus and Galileo, they tell us nothing.

Stephen Hawking?

Hmm. Only I, Frederick Daenerys, have viewed the future.

And I'd still be viewing it now if it wasn't for the interference of a crypto

-cult organization called the Library.

and his fanatical, destructive operative, who calls himself the LIAR!