1 00:00:17,934 --> 00:00:20,853 These do not appear to be serious scholars. 2 00:00:20,978 --> 00:00:22,896 Smart people don't have to wear robes anymore. 3 00:00:23,064 --> 00:00:25,209 Some of the sharpest kids in the city come here to study. 4 00:00:25,233 --> 00:00:28,111 Mm, I was only 15 when I took my first course at Oxford. 5 00:00:28,236 --> 00:00:29,528 I knew we'd get to you somehow. 6 00:00:29,696 --> 00:00:31,698 I just think your campaign to bring me up-to-date 7 00:00:31,864 --> 00:00:33,908 in modern science is a little bit silly. 8 00:00:34,075 --> 00:00:36,326 I was considered quite the dimber-damber 9 00:00:36,453 --> 00:00:37,454 in astronomy circles. 10 00:00:37,579 --> 00:00:40,622 As Galileo said, "I have loved the stars too fondly 11 00:00:40,749 --> 00:00:41,875 to be fearful of the night." 12 00:00:42,042 --> 00:00:44,210 Yeah, well, we've learned a lot since your time. 13 00:00:44,335 --> 00:00:46,212 You may have shiny new facts at your disposal, 14 00:00:46,337 --> 00:00:48,590 but you will never know the thrill of living in an era 15 00:00:48,756 --> 00:00:50,466 of pure scientific inquiry. 16 00:00:50,591 --> 00:00:52,218 The days of Morey and Dalton 17 00:00:52,343 --> 00:00:54,054 when gifted amateurs lit the way. 18 00:00:54,219 --> 00:00:56,014 But science isn't about nostalgia. 19 00:00:56,139 --> 00:00:57,390 It's about looking forward. 20 00:00:57,557 --> 00:01:00,560 There have been huge discoveries in the last 170 years. 21 00:01:01,101 --> 00:01:03,063 This is why this is a good opportunity for you. 22 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:05,439 Rosalind Kirch is a genius. 23 00:01:06,441 --> 00:01:08,066 Look over there. 24 00:01:08,233 --> 00:01:10,028 That is where she developed her hypothesis 25 00:01:10,153 --> 00:01:12,864 on interstellar dust and active galactic nuclei. 26 00:01:12,989 --> 00:01:14,114 Just sitting under a tree, 27 00:01:14,281 --> 00:01:16,284 watching the oil droplets in her tea. 28 00:01:16,992 --> 00:01:18,870 - And? - And then boom! 29 00:01:19,662 --> 00:01:21,498 Scientific inspiration. 30 00:01:21,623 --> 00:01:23,123 It's a famous story. 31 00:01:23,750 --> 00:01:25,543 And riveting, I'm sure. 32 00:01:31,049 --> 00:01:33,927 She was at Stanford when I was doing my first master's. 33 00:01:34,052 --> 00:01:36,721 Her work on quasars was a real inspiration to me. 34 00:01:36,846 --> 00:01:38,055 Quasars? 35 00:01:38,180 --> 00:01:40,808 Yeah, super cluster of stars discovered in the 1950s. 36 00:01:40,974 --> 00:01:42,254 Dr. Kirch found a way to use them 37 00:01:42,310 --> 00:01:45,021 to predict celestial events, like black holes. 38 00:01:45,146 --> 00:01:47,147 It's all about predicting with you, isn't it? 39 00:01:56,658 --> 00:01:59,743 These are your seats, seven and eight, row three. 40 00:01:59,868 --> 00:02:01,245 Thank you. 41 00:02:01,829 --> 00:02:03,456 - Thank you. - You're welcome. 42 00:02:04,331 --> 00:02:07,126 You did that, um, charmingly. 43 00:02:07,918 --> 00:02:10,629 All I did was show you your seats. 44 00:02:17,177 --> 00:02:19,180 I think she fancies me. 45 00:02:19,347 --> 00:02:22,140 Do you want to know another discovery in the last 170 years? 46 00:02:22,307 --> 00:02:25,478 - Mm. - Mm. Creepy staring? Not sexy. 47 00:02:27,187 --> 00:02:28,480 This must be recent. 48 00:02:31,359 --> 00:02:32,836 Thank you all for being here 49 00:02:32,860 --> 00:02:35,697 to celebrate the restoration of the Kutusov telescope. 50 00:02:36,197 --> 00:02:38,397 Now, the committee that raised the funds for all of this 51 00:02:38,491 --> 00:02:40,242 was led by today's speaker. 52 00:02:40,367 --> 00:02:42,036 So please welcome back to our campus 53 00:02:42,203 --> 00:02:45,455 one of the world's preeminent astrophysicists, 54 00:02:45,581 --> 00:02:47,167 Dr. Rosalind Kirch. 55 00:02:51,003 --> 00:02:52,796 Thank you, Dr. Stanaris. 56 00:02:53,256 --> 00:02:55,508 And thank you for the tour of the new observatory. 57 00:02:55,925 --> 00:02:57,509 What a privilege to be back on campus 58 00:02:57,676 --> 00:02:58,844 as a visiting professor. 59 00:02:58,969 --> 00:03:01,931 This is where I first developed my hypothesis on X-ray emission 60 00:03:02,056 --> 00:03:04,433 as a predictor of an accreting black hole system. 61 00:03:05,058 --> 00:03:06,603 I remember it like it was yesterday. 62 00:03:06,728 --> 00:03:09,605 I was sitting out on Observatory Hill and I... 63 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,539 Am I still... 64 00:03:27,664 --> 00:03:29,250 Where was I? 65 00:03:30,335 --> 00:03:32,135 You were talking about the day that you formed 66 00:03:32,211 --> 00:03:33,712 your galactic nuclei hypothesis. 67 00:03:33,879 --> 00:03:35,256 Oh. 68 00:03:36,341 --> 00:03:38,092 You'll have to forgive me. 69 00:03:38,258 --> 00:03:40,177 I don't think I'll be able to. 70 00:03:42,388 --> 00:03:44,556 Dr. Kirch is extremely jet-lagged. 71 00:03:44,890 --> 00:03:46,725 Give us a moment, please. 72 00:04:04,242 --> 00:04:06,202 She has one of the sharpest minds I've ever known. 73 00:04:06,287 --> 00:04:08,914 To see her have a neurocognitive episode is just upsetting. 74 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:11,209 Yeah. We went through the same thing 75 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:12,585 when my grandfather started off 76 00:04:12,752 --> 00:04:14,228 with him forgetting to shut the refrigerator. 77 00:04:14,252 --> 00:04:16,105 Before you knew it, he didn't even recognize us. 78 00:04:16,129 --> 00:04:17,714 You gotta appreciate being young. 79 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:18,882 Aging is no picnic. 80 00:04:19,007 --> 00:04:20,927 This was not a product of age. 81 00:04:21,093 --> 00:04:23,303 I believe that she was under a spell. 82 00:04:23,471 --> 00:04:26,432 He's The Librarian, therefore he thinks everything must be magic. 83 00:04:26,598 --> 00:04:28,976 You know the saying, when all you have is a hammer, 84 00:04:29,142 --> 00:04:30,435 every problem looks like a nail. 85 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,399 She froze, then shuddered, a telltale sign of memory theft. 86 00:04:34,524 --> 00:04:37,276 There are powerful artifacts that could cause this. 87 00:04:37,401 --> 00:04:38,735 Talon of Hydroloth. 88 00:04:38,860 --> 00:04:42,949 That is one, but that is already in The Library. 89 00:04:43,074 --> 00:04:44,408 I recovered that one myself. 90 00:04:45,492 --> 00:04:46,619 Ooh. 91 00:04:47,077 --> 00:04:48,829 Perhaps a Tally Stick. 92 00:04:49,329 --> 00:04:52,125 We don't have to ascribe everything to the supernatural 93 00:04:52,250 --> 00:04:54,168 or being possessed by demons. 94 00:04:54,334 --> 00:04:57,338 Dementia is a normal and sad part of aging. 95 00:04:57,504 --> 00:04:58,630 Mm. 96 00:04:58,755 --> 00:05:01,968 Or a sand targe could have pronounced an incantation 97 00:05:02,093 --> 00:05:03,177 over that poor woman. 98 00:05:03,343 --> 00:05:04,887 Is anyone gonna help me out here? 99 00:05:08,182 --> 00:05:09,684 It's been so sluggish lately. 100 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:11,978 So according to Elaine's instructions, 101 00:05:12,144 --> 00:05:13,228 I gave it a tarnish bath 102 00:05:13,353 --> 00:05:15,314 and re-aligned its mercury cup and ball weight. 103 00:05:17,442 --> 00:05:19,151 Now, why is it doing that? 104 00:05:29,454 --> 00:05:31,288 The College of Science observatory. 105 00:05:32,290 --> 00:05:33,915 As I suspected. 106 00:05:34,041 --> 00:05:35,209 Thanks a lot. 107 00:05:35,375 --> 00:05:37,295 So, magic in the neighborhood, huh? 108 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:38,754 Let's not jump to conclusions. 109 00:05:38,879 --> 00:05:40,899 This could be something else unrelated to Dr. Kirch. 110 00:05:40,923 --> 00:05:42,841 Kind of a coincidence, though, don't you think? 111 00:05:42,966 --> 00:05:44,927 What I saw wasn't supernatural. 112 00:05:45,052 --> 00:05:46,387 It was human and sad. 113 00:05:46,553 --> 00:05:48,389 Some aberration has occurred to this woman. 114 00:05:48,555 --> 00:05:50,600 Now, I've trained myself to be observant, 115 00:05:50,725 --> 00:05:52,017 to remember details. 116 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:53,935 Well, I don't need to remember. 117 00:05:54,062 --> 00:05:55,646 I got it right here. 118 00:06:02,487 --> 00:06:04,327 I remember it like it was yesterday. 119 00:06:04,404 --> 00:06:07,367 I was sitting on Observatory Hill and I was... 120 00:06:12,204 --> 00:06:13,622 Wait a minute. 121 00:06:13,747 --> 00:06:15,165 Did you see that? 122 00:06:15,290 --> 00:06:17,834 Uh, use my AI enhanced 3D program. 123 00:06:20,004 --> 00:06:21,213 Very cool. 124 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:31,723 Hmm. 125 00:06:31,848 --> 00:06:32,848 Don't. 126 00:06:32,934 --> 00:06:35,060 Mmm. 127 00:06:36,437 --> 00:06:38,122 Well, we need to talk to the victim 128 00:06:38,146 --> 00:06:40,565 and investigate what is happening at the observator. 129 00:06:52,245 --> 00:06:53,913 That's it. 130 00:06:58,209 --> 00:07:01,045 The solution to the Bolkonsky Millennial Prize problem. 131 00:07:01,170 --> 00:07:02,422 I believe it is. 132 00:07:02,588 --> 00:07:04,382 It came to me in a flash last night. 133 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:08,093 Uh, Lysa Pascal. 134 00:07:08,218 --> 00:07:10,178 I was in your graduate seminar at Stanford. 135 00:07:10,303 --> 00:07:11,680 Ah, yes, of course. 136 00:07:11,805 --> 00:07:14,100 You did a thesis on applying predictive models 137 00:07:14,225 --> 00:07:15,392 based on galactic motion. 138 00:07:15,517 --> 00:07:17,019 Yeah, uh, that was me. 139 00:07:17,769 --> 00:07:19,771 Uh, we came to see your lecture yesterday, 140 00:07:19,896 --> 00:07:22,315 uh, but we were just a bit concerned when you had... 141 00:07:22,483 --> 00:07:24,401 - Had my little brain cramp? - Yeah. 142 00:07:24,526 --> 00:07:26,612 Dr. Stanaris said I was trying to tell a story 143 00:07:26,778 --> 00:07:29,740 of how I developed my quasar hypothesis while drinking tea. 144 00:07:29,865 --> 00:07:31,992 Apparently, everybody knows that anecdote but me. 145 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:33,619 I can't remember a thing about it. 146 00:07:33,995 --> 00:07:35,120 But now this. 147 00:07:35,663 --> 00:07:38,665 The solution to a problem proposed 25 years ago. 148 00:07:39,166 --> 00:07:41,252 A solution that we all believed 149 00:07:41,377 --> 00:07:43,129 would still be decades in the future. 150 00:07:43,295 --> 00:07:44,629 And yet. 151 00:07:47,132 --> 00:07:48,259 That poor woman. 152 00:07:48,384 --> 00:07:49,886 Some sort of infernal malediction 153 00:07:50,011 --> 00:07:52,430 has robbed her of that important memory from her past. 154 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:53,835 She can't be that badly affected. 155 00:07:53,930 --> 00:07:56,141 She was able to solve the Bolkonsky Problem. 156 00:07:56,266 --> 00:07:57,350 Not badly affected? 157 00:07:57,517 --> 00:08:00,353 One of her most cherished memories gone. 158 00:08:00,521 --> 00:08:01,646 Not to be rude or anything, 159 00:08:01,771 --> 00:08:03,649 but maybe you're overvaluing memory a little. 160 00:08:03,815 --> 00:08:05,836 I mean, imagine all that brain space could be used for, 161 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:07,170 I don't know, achieving something. 162 00:08:07,194 --> 00:08:08,474 Do you know what your problem is? 163 00:08:08,528 --> 00:08:11,324 Hm? The problem with this whole modern world 164 00:08:11,615 --> 00:08:14,494 is you don't give a tinker's damn what's going on in here. 165 00:08:15,076 --> 00:08:16,161 Or in here. 166 00:08:16,329 --> 00:08:18,872 No, you've given it away to your little machines. 167 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,834 No need to think, to know, to remember anything. 168 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:24,461 No, you're hollowed out. 169 00:08:24,586 --> 00:08:26,880 A list of achievements, and even that's in here. 170 00:08:27,048 --> 00:08:29,800 And soon, very soon, these little contraptions 171 00:08:29,925 --> 00:08:31,009 will be feeling for you. 172 00:08:31,134 --> 00:08:33,513 Now, I for one will not trade a single memory of mine 173 00:08:33,638 --> 00:08:35,306 for gold nor glory. 174 00:08:36,599 --> 00:08:38,768 I sat down and I couldn't remember anything. 175 00:08:39,936 --> 00:08:41,770 I couldn't even remember going to class. 176 00:08:43,648 --> 00:08:44,981 What's your name again? 177 00:08:52,030 --> 00:08:53,073 My lady. 178 00:08:55,326 --> 00:08:57,370 We met last night. 179 00:08:58,078 --> 00:08:59,246 - Did we? - Yes. 180 00:08:59,413 --> 00:09:01,331 Yes. You showed me to my seat. 181 00:09:02,082 --> 00:09:03,125 We had a moment. 182 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,921 I'm sorry, but I honestly don't remember you. 183 00:09:12,051 --> 00:09:13,052 Forget me? 184 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:14,760 Impossible! 185 00:09:15,136 --> 00:09:17,597 This can only be some sort of foul necromancy. 186 00:09:17,932 --> 00:09:20,558 This spell, this curse is spreading. 187 00:09:22,102 --> 00:09:23,437 We have no time to lose. 188 00:09:27,107 --> 00:09:29,267 We tracked down the students we saw and got statements. 189 00:09:29,317 --> 00:09:30,317 Hmm. 190 00:09:30,443 --> 00:09:31,754 A few more confusion cases popped up 191 00:09:31,778 --> 00:09:32,904 in the campus health clinic. 192 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:34,152 We also spoke to the usher. 193 00:09:34,282 --> 00:09:35,323 The ones who can remember 194 00:09:35,448 --> 00:09:37,326 have one thing in common with Dr. Kirch. 195 00:09:37,451 --> 00:09:39,011 They all have been to the observatory lately? 196 00:09:39,035 --> 00:09:39,662 Bull's-eye. 197 00:09:39,787 --> 00:09:40,827 We've identified the locus 198 00:09:40,870 --> 00:09:42,414 of this vile pestilential phenomenon. 199 00:09:42,581 --> 00:09:43,791 Now, we must root 200 00:09:43,957 --> 00:09:46,251 out the noisome, feculent, fetid, vile... 201 00:09:46,418 --> 00:09:47,628 You already said vile. 202 00:09:48,296 --> 00:09:50,380 Yucky perpetrators. 203 00:09:51,173 --> 00:09:52,924 Hmm. Ow! 204 00:09:54,844 --> 00:09:56,761 He is on one. 205 00:10:00,390 --> 00:10:01,576 And, just remember, our purpose 206 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:02,910 is the identification and retrieval 207 00:10:02,934 --> 00:10:04,144 of any potential artifacts. 208 00:10:04,312 --> 00:10:05,395 Not beating up bad guys. 209 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:06,560 It may not be our purpose, 210 00:10:06,605 --> 00:10:07,885 but it's the figgy pudding of it. 211 00:10:07,981 --> 00:10:10,021 And my job is to keep you out of that kind of thing. 212 00:10:10,150 --> 00:10:11,277 I'm with Charlie. 213 00:10:11,443 --> 00:10:13,504 Let's get the lay of the land before we get confrontational. 214 00:10:13,528 --> 00:10:15,114 And by "confrontational," you mean? 215 00:10:15,239 --> 00:10:16,365 Violent. 216 00:10:16,490 --> 00:10:18,366 I was not made for these times. 217 00:10:18,783 --> 00:10:20,452 Hey, Vik. Just a sec. 218 00:10:21,077 --> 00:10:22,163 Um... 219 00:10:22,871 --> 00:10:25,666 I just wanted to apologize for earlier if I upset you. 220 00:10:25,832 --> 00:10:28,001 I was not upset. 221 00:10:28,336 --> 00:10:29,503 I was insensitive. 222 00:10:30,004 --> 00:10:31,644 Look, I can't imagine what it must be like 223 00:10:31,797 --> 00:10:33,090 to be in your shoes. 224 00:10:33,215 --> 00:10:34,216 I mean, you're here, 225 00:10:34,341 --> 00:10:36,421 and memories are all that's left of your world, so... 226 00:10:37,177 --> 00:10:38,346 I really am sorry. 227 00:10:38,511 --> 00:10:40,514 My world still exists. 228 00:10:41,182 --> 00:10:42,390 In here. 229 00:10:42,682 --> 00:10:45,144 So, there's no need to apologize, Anya. 230 00:10:46,437 --> 00:10:47,855 "Lysa." 231 00:10:48,188 --> 00:10:48,980 That's what I said. 232 00:10:49,105 --> 00:10:50,465 Um, the astronomy department office 233 00:10:50,524 --> 00:10:52,234 is chockablock with rare curios. 234 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,568 Any one could be our artifact. 235 00:10:53,693 --> 00:10:55,821 You and Connor, reconnoiter what's in there. 236 00:10:55,946 --> 00:10:57,322 See if any of the magical artifacts 237 00:10:57,447 --> 00:10:58,615 we're looking for are there. 238 00:10:58,740 --> 00:11:00,493 And Charlie and I will try to root out 239 00:11:00,658 --> 00:11:02,119 the potential abusers. 240 00:11:03,745 --> 00:11:06,581 Non-confrontationally. Of course. 241 00:11:23,057 --> 00:11:24,057 Ah! 242 00:11:24,225 --> 00:11:25,518 May I help you? 243 00:11:25,893 --> 00:11:27,602 Uh, we're just admiring the collection. 244 00:11:27,727 --> 00:11:28,770 Do you work here? 245 00:11:29,062 --> 00:11:30,648 I'm Dr. Stanaris' teaching assistant, 246 00:11:31,065 --> 00:11:33,650 as well as the astronomy department archivist. 247 00:11:33,775 --> 00:11:35,695 - Archivist? - Yeah. 248 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:37,779 So, you're responsible for finding 249 00:11:37,904 --> 00:11:39,532 and bringing in these pieces? 250 00:11:42,326 --> 00:11:44,035 Who did you say you were again? 251 00:11:47,664 --> 00:11:50,458 - Dr. Stanaris. - Yes? 252 00:11:51,085 --> 00:11:53,125 It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. 253 00:11:53,211 --> 00:11:55,047 I was at the presentation last evening. 254 00:11:55,172 --> 00:11:57,383 Ah. You're an astronomy buff? 255 00:11:57,508 --> 00:11:58,748 Or a professional in the field? 256 00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:00,736 Well, let's just say I'm an accomplished amateur. 257 00:12:02,138 --> 00:12:04,073 Have you heard of the Imperial Astronomical Society? 258 00:12:04,097 --> 00:12:05,682 Yeah, from the early 19th century. 259 00:12:06,057 --> 00:12:09,019 Didn't they disband back in the early Victorian era? 260 00:12:09,894 --> 00:12:10,604 Yes. 261 00:12:10,770 --> 00:12:12,273 Well, we've re-launched it. 262 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:13,731 Oh. 263 00:12:13,857 --> 00:12:15,961 Well, so you're a gentleman stargazer of the old school. 264 00:12:15,985 --> 00:12:18,738 Well, you appear to be of the old school yourself. 265 00:12:19,113 --> 00:12:22,240 This star cartography is from the 1500s. 266 00:12:22,365 --> 00:12:23,826 You have a fine eye. 267 00:12:25,619 --> 00:12:26,912 It's for my pet project 268 00:12:27,037 --> 00:12:28,724 about Shakespeare's understanding of the cosmos. 269 00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:32,333 Ah. "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny." 270 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:34,336 - "But in ourselves." - Hmm. 271 00:12:34,711 --> 00:12:35,921 But also a poet. 272 00:12:36,297 --> 00:12:38,506 Well, poets and astronomers, we seek the same thing. 273 00:12:38,631 --> 00:12:40,176 A larger view of the universe. 274 00:12:40,551 --> 00:12:41,759 Well said. 275 00:12:41,927 --> 00:12:44,679 I must say, I find your Shakespeare project fascinating. 276 00:12:44,971 --> 00:12:47,158 Well, it grew out of my belief that the Big Bang 277 00:12:47,182 --> 00:12:48,808 not only created matter and antimatter, 278 00:12:48,975 --> 00:12:50,602 but is also the source behind great art. 279 00:12:50,769 --> 00:12:52,772 Hmm. Big Bang. 280 00:12:54,148 --> 00:12:56,024 You have a way with a phrase, Professor. 281 00:12:56,149 --> 00:12:59,653 - Please, tell me more. - Well... 282 00:12:59,820 --> 00:13:01,614 It's really amazing, don't you think? 283 00:13:01,739 --> 00:13:03,823 In my astrolabe and theodolite online community, 284 00:13:03,990 --> 00:13:05,993 we call them the smartphones of antiquity. 285 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:08,245 Hmm. 286 00:13:09,330 --> 00:13:13,458 Uh, looking after all of these important objects 287 00:13:13,625 --> 00:13:16,086 must be a real responsibility. 288 00:13:19,548 --> 00:13:22,301 Is this where you, uh, keep the paperwork? 289 00:13:25,095 --> 00:13:29,807 Well, yeah. 290 00:13:59,504 --> 00:14:02,258 No, I already told you. I'm a friend of Dr. Kirch's. 291 00:14:02,383 --> 00:14:04,342 I'm just interested in the collection. 292 00:14:04,467 --> 00:14:07,221 Well, it just seems like you were looking for something. 293 00:14:07,388 --> 00:14:08,264 No. 294 00:14:08,389 --> 00:14:10,390 But I am wondering why you're sweating so much. 295 00:14:10,557 --> 00:14:11,892 Sweating? Me? No. 296 00:14:12,058 --> 00:14:14,562 Hey, I just remembered. 297 00:14:15,062 --> 00:14:16,813 We have to go meet Uncle Vik. 298 00:14:16,938 --> 00:14:18,774 - What? - Now. 299 00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:20,567 Oh, yeah. 300 00:14:20,734 --> 00:14:22,403 Sorry. We gotta go. Bye. 301 00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:23,863 See you soon, maybe. 302 00:14:23,988 --> 00:14:25,405 Yeah, you run. Run. 303 00:14:28,158 --> 00:14:29,826 These are the Culpepper Papers. 304 00:14:29,951 --> 00:14:31,551 - The originals!? - The Culpepper Papers? 305 00:14:31,620 --> 00:14:33,913 Nicholas Culpepper was a 17th century artifact collector. 306 00:14:34,081 --> 00:14:35,350 As soon as I saw what they were, 307 00:14:35,374 --> 00:14:36,684 I thought they might tell us something. 308 00:14:36,708 --> 00:14:38,586 Of course. The crystal of Dr. John Dee. 309 00:14:38,751 --> 00:14:40,421 Culpepper was once its owner. 310 00:14:40,587 --> 00:14:41,587 - What, slow down. - Yeah. 311 00:14:41,714 --> 00:14:43,048 Who is Dr. John Dee? 312 00:14:43,173 --> 00:14:45,926 He was the court magician to Queen Elizabeth I. 313 00:14:46,092 --> 00:14:47,677 A genius. A true Renaissance man. 314 00:14:47,802 --> 00:14:49,013 During the actual Renaissance. 315 00:14:49,138 --> 00:14:51,073 And Dee used the crystal to communicate to the angels 316 00:14:51,097 --> 00:14:52,265 and divine the future. 317 00:14:52,432 --> 00:14:53,642 A major magical artifact. 318 00:14:53,767 --> 00:14:55,047 I think it's in a London museum. 319 00:14:55,101 --> 00:14:56,913 So, wait. What does this have to do with our case? 320 00:14:56,937 --> 00:14:58,730 Ah, the legend is that Dee saw something 321 00:14:58,898 --> 00:15:00,106 that made him lose his mind. 322 00:15:00,481 --> 00:15:01,817 He no longer knew who he was. 323 00:15:02,275 --> 00:15:04,086 Didn't recognize his family. Couldn't function. 324 00:15:04,110 --> 00:15:05,486 He lost his memory. 325 00:15:06,238 --> 00:15:07,280 Ah. 326 00:15:09,616 --> 00:15:10,868 Whoa. 327 00:15:11,368 --> 00:15:12,410 What? 328 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:14,455 It's not just the Culpepper Papers. 329 00:15:14,621 --> 00:15:17,625 These are the writings of John Dee himself, dated 1588. 330 00:15:17,791 --> 00:15:20,144 Culpepper says that they are always to accompany the crystal. 331 00:15:20,168 --> 00:15:21,921 It's basically an instruction manual. 332 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:23,254 Right. So, they're fragile. 333 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:24,902 We need to go and take them somewhere, 334 00:15:24,965 --> 00:15:26,008 and read them carefully. 335 00:15:26,133 --> 00:15:27,801 There's just one problem. 336 00:15:27,967 --> 00:15:29,970 It's written in Enochian. 337 00:15:30,553 --> 00:15:31,639 You're losing me again. 338 00:15:31,804 --> 00:15:34,099 It's a language Dee invented. He got it from the angels. 339 00:15:34,224 --> 00:15:35,744 Yeah, and it's not just basic Enochian. 340 00:15:35,808 --> 00:15:36,808 It's high Enochian. 341 00:15:36,851 --> 00:15:38,163 There are maybe three people on Earth 342 00:15:38,187 --> 00:15:39,355 who know how to translate it. 343 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:40,813 No. 344 00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:43,484 There are four. 345 00:15:45,818 --> 00:15:47,418 The crystal is rendered harmless 346 00:15:47,528 --> 00:15:50,073 at which hour it is contained in the necklace. 347 00:15:50,198 --> 00:15:52,451 But once loose, it hath the power to grant 348 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:54,285 a single willed glimpse here. 349 00:15:54,452 --> 00:15:56,455 Cost behest a single moment of the past. 350 00:15:56,621 --> 00:15:58,081 21st century version, please. 351 00:15:58,206 --> 00:16:00,292 Mm-hmm. Uh, the crystal is rendered harmless 352 00:16:00,417 --> 00:16:02,794 when it is contained in its necklace setting. 353 00:16:02,961 --> 00:16:05,714 But once it is taken out, it hath... 354 00:16:05,839 --> 00:16:10,427 Has the power to grant a single desired glimpse into the future. 355 00:16:10,552 --> 00:16:11,928 The cost being a single memory. 356 00:16:12,053 --> 00:16:14,431 And then it refers to amplifying or expanding 357 00:16:14,556 --> 00:16:15,556 the power of the crystal. 358 00:16:15,599 --> 00:16:18,726 Um, "Crystal is behest amplified to the pointeth" 359 00:16:18,851 --> 00:16:20,437 where the past is cleared hence 360 00:16:21,020 --> 00:16:23,106 "and the knowledge of the future is limitless." 361 00:16:24,191 --> 00:16:25,484 The past is cleared. 362 00:16:25,942 --> 00:16:28,320 Does it say how the crystal can be amplified? 363 00:16:28,486 --> 00:16:31,948 Hm. It can emit spectral particulates. 364 00:16:32,533 --> 00:16:35,159 But the rest of the instructions appear to be missing. 365 00:16:35,702 --> 00:16:37,162 I just checked with my old contacts 366 00:16:37,287 --> 00:16:38,567 in the illegal procurement world. 367 00:16:38,621 --> 00:16:41,166 And the word is that the Dee crystal was stolen, 368 00:16:41,291 --> 00:16:43,501 along with those papers from the London Science Museum 369 00:16:43,668 --> 00:16:44,668 a few weeks back. 370 00:16:44,711 --> 00:16:45,813 They've been keeping it under wraps 371 00:16:45,837 --> 00:16:47,117 because of all the superstition. 372 00:16:47,214 --> 00:16:48,381 Hmm. 373 00:16:50,466 --> 00:16:51,592 Let us roll. 374 00:16:54,221 --> 00:16:55,847 Right, no more namby-pamby. 375 00:16:56,014 --> 00:16:58,054 The papers are here. The crystal has got to be here. 376 00:16:58,142 --> 00:16:59,726 I'm going to confront these gentlemen 377 00:16:59,893 --> 00:17:01,328 and force them to acknowledge the core. 378 00:17:01,352 --> 00:17:03,373 Whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't know that they're both in on it. 379 00:17:03,397 --> 00:17:04,832 You said your man was acting suspicious. 380 00:17:04,856 --> 00:17:05,898 Oh, yeah, he was sweating. 381 00:17:06,066 --> 00:17:07,859 And Dr. Stanaris was as odd as a duck mole. 382 00:17:07,984 --> 00:17:09,379 At the very least, they know something 383 00:17:09,403 --> 00:17:11,003 and we are going to wring it out of them. 384 00:17:11,113 --> 00:17:12,530 We can't force them to do anything. 385 00:17:12,698 --> 00:17:13,882 All right, we're not the police. 386 00:17:13,906 --> 00:17:15,075 But I'm The Librarian. 387 00:17:15,241 --> 00:17:17,536 And they are abusing a very powerful magical artifact. 388 00:17:17,702 --> 00:17:18,953 And we have tried 389 00:17:19,078 --> 00:17:22,039 your ever-so-fashionable non-confrontation belly-wash. 390 00:17:22,165 --> 00:17:23,916 For now, we'll do things my way. 391 00:17:28,797 --> 00:17:30,024 These fellows will be discouraged 392 00:17:30,048 --> 00:17:31,924 from any further traffic of magical artifacts, 393 00:17:32,092 --> 00:17:33,384 not to mention robbery. 394 00:17:33,509 --> 00:17:35,054 When you say put the screws to them, 395 00:17:35,220 --> 00:17:36,572 you don't really mean screws, do you? 396 00:17:36,596 --> 00:17:39,016 - I want information. - Violence is the last resort. 397 00:17:39,141 --> 00:17:40,642 Oh, we have tried the first resort. 398 00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:43,060 What, first resort? Last resort? Second resort? 399 00:17:43,186 --> 00:17:44,229 We know it's them. 400 00:17:44,354 --> 00:17:45,665 We know they have the crystal somewhere. 401 00:17:45,689 --> 00:17:47,542 We still don't know what they're getting out of this. 402 00:17:52,988 --> 00:17:55,531 That is a nice car for a teaching assistant. 403 00:17:55,656 --> 00:17:57,284 This vehicle, expensive? 404 00:17:57,451 --> 00:17:58,493 - Very. - Mmm. 405 00:17:58,618 --> 00:18:01,038 You two, find Dr. Stanaris and bring him to the office. 406 00:18:01,497 --> 00:18:05,250 These gentlemen are about to receive a proper buffeting. 407 00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:11,589 Yeah, yeah. 408 00:18:11,964 --> 00:18:13,549 - It's my new car. - Nice car. 409 00:18:13,674 --> 00:18:14,968 It's really nice. 410 00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:18,430 Have we been peering into the future, hm? 411 00:18:18,596 --> 00:18:21,016 Maybe wagering a whist? Or a Hazard deck? 412 00:18:21,307 --> 00:18:22,683 Perhaps the trotters? 413 00:18:24,853 --> 00:18:26,105 Are you with the police? 414 00:18:26,270 --> 00:18:27,355 No. 415 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,626 But you do have something that we're going to need back. 416 00:18:29,650 --> 00:18:30,650 Mm. 417 00:18:51,547 --> 00:18:53,757 We are going to recover that crystal. 418 00:18:53,882 --> 00:18:55,299 What crystal? 419 00:18:55,424 --> 00:18:56,945 I don't know anything about any crystal! 420 00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:58,111 Well, if you don't have the crystal, 421 00:18:58,135 --> 00:18:59,155 then why are you running away? 422 00:18:59,179 --> 00:19:00,638 I don't know! 423 00:19:03,267 --> 00:19:05,018 Then I demand you make this stop! 424 00:19:05,184 --> 00:19:07,479 I can't remember how to drive! 425 00:19:11,567 --> 00:19:12,651 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 426 00:19:12,817 --> 00:19:14,653 Tell me how to make it stop! 427 00:19:14,819 --> 00:19:16,153 Oh, okay. 428 00:19:16,279 --> 00:19:18,639 Well, pull back with your hands and push down with your feet 429 00:19:18,699 --> 00:19:19,699 like a horse. 430 00:19:19,907 --> 00:19:22,827 - Ah! - Whoa! 431 00:19:27,958 --> 00:19:29,500 He's not in here either. 432 00:19:35,298 --> 00:19:37,467 Must have gone home for the day. 433 00:19:41,846 --> 00:19:43,640 Call Conner. 434 00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:52,316 So it's the man who hates cell phones. 435 00:19:52,441 --> 00:19:54,651 Hello, Connor. Yes, it's Vikram. 436 00:19:54,776 --> 00:19:56,361 Yes, I need advice. 437 00:19:56,528 --> 00:19:59,698 How do you stop a motorized carriage? 438 00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:02,075 We have an issue. 439 00:20:09,708 --> 00:20:11,417 No, nothing that looks like a key! 440 00:20:11,585 --> 00:20:13,211 Do something! 441 00:20:35,901 --> 00:20:37,318 What is going on? 442 00:21:00,549 --> 00:21:03,135 Brilliant work, Charlie. 443 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,017 What were you thinking? Doing something stupid like that? 444 00:21:09,142 --> 00:21:10,394 Uh, I don't know. 445 00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:12,330 He seemed to forget how to pilot the carriage. 446 00:21:12,354 --> 00:21:13,855 He must be under the spell. 447 00:21:14,522 --> 00:21:15,648 The spell? 448 00:21:18,026 --> 00:21:19,736 What about you? 449 00:21:20,903 --> 00:21:22,196 Are you okay? 450 00:21:22,321 --> 00:21:23,824 Charlie? 451 00:21:28,912 --> 00:21:30,872 Who are you people? 452 00:21:38,171 --> 00:21:39,756 How do you know about The Library? 453 00:21:39,881 --> 00:21:41,090 Because I'm The Librarian. 454 00:21:41,508 --> 00:21:42,968 Well, a Librarian. 455 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:45,095 Do you remember how you got the money? 456 00:21:45,220 --> 00:21:47,346 I've just had a clairvoyant moment. 457 00:21:48,597 --> 00:21:51,934 I saw a roulette wheel with two numbers. 458 00:21:52,059 --> 00:21:56,565 So I went to the casino and put all my money on those numbers. 459 00:21:57,982 --> 00:21:59,192 I'm not a Guardian. 460 00:21:59,358 --> 00:22:00,402 I didn't make the cut. 461 00:22:00,527 --> 00:22:02,903 Initially, but then Jacob Stone contacted you. 462 00:22:05,699 --> 00:22:07,576 It was like I could see the future. 463 00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:10,327 It felt like cheating. 464 00:22:10,453 --> 00:22:12,333 I was afraid someone was going to come after me. 465 00:22:12,538 --> 00:22:14,458 So that is why you were acting so suspiciously. 466 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:17,501 It seemed like you knew my secret. 467 00:22:25,384 --> 00:22:26,678 How's it going? 468 00:22:26,928 --> 00:22:29,181 She has a complete blank from right before Stone called 469 00:22:29,306 --> 00:22:30,598 up until about an hour ago. 470 00:22:30,723 --> 00:22:33,184 Hasn't met us. Isn't sure how she got here. 471 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:35,354 That's two months. He only forgot how to drive. 472 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:36,997 Well, she was obviously exposed after him, 473 00:22:37,021 --> 00:22:39,441 so it's getting stronger. What else did we learn? 474 00:22:39,566 --> 00:22:41,246 Filip says that Stanaris traveled to London 475 00:22:41,358 --> 00:22:42,443 on the weekend of the 18th. 476 00:22:42,568 --> 00:22:44,695 That's the weekend the crystal was stolen. 477 00:22:44,863 --> 00:22:45,864 Can't be a coincidence. 478 00:22:45,989 --> 00:22:48,157 So, Stanaris is the malefactor. 479 00:22:48,282 --> 00:22:49,534 But where is the crystal? 480 00:22:49,785 --> 00:22:51,470 He thinks he knows where it might be. 481 00:22:51,494 --> 00:22:53,288 The vault is in the building. 482 00:22:53,788 --> 00:22:54,788 Downstairs. 483 00:22:54,914 --> 00:22:56,458 Let's go. 484 00:22:57,084 --> 00:22:58,585 We're going to need you. 485 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:00,711 So you know about The Library. 486 00:23:03,589 --> 00:23:04,758 You could be an enemy. 487 00:23:05,049 --> 00:23:06,968 You could be using magic to try and co-opt me. 488 00:23:07,094 --> 00:23:09,721 You know, Eve Baird may have thought that I wasn't ready, 489 00:23:10,012 --> 00:23:11,263 and maybe I'm not, 490 00:23:11,847 --> 00:23:14,226 but I am still loyal to The Library. 491 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:17,561 Take him inside. See about this vault. 492 00:23:21,650 --> 00:23:23,378 The fact that The Library even considered you 493 00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:24,528 as a possible Guardian 494 00:23:24,653 --> 00:23:26,254 means you must have better instincts than that. 495 00:23:26,278 --> 00:23:27,989 I am not an enemy of The Library. 496 00:23:29,449 --> 00:23:31,468 A powerful spell has taken a portion of your memory, 497 00:23:31,492 --> 00:23:33,077 and that portion includes us. 498 00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,132 I cannot give you back your actual memories, 499 00:23:35,247 --> 00:23:36,748 but what I can do... 500 00:23:37,124 --> 00:23:38,916 I can tell you what you need to know, 501 00:23:39,291 --> 00:23:41,420 so you can be part of our team again. 502 00:23:43,003 --> 00:23:46,258 Uh, I'm not allowed in here without Dr. Stanaris. 503 00:23:46,383 --> 00:23:48,218 It can only be opened with... 504 00:23:48,551 --> 00:23:50,261 His retinal scan. 505 00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:51,930 This is one I've never cracked before. 506 00:23:52,055 --> 00:23:54,348 How do you know so much about breaking and entering? 507 00:23:54,473 --> 00:23:56,033 Well, there isn't an app on the Internet 508 00:23:56,101 --> 00:23:57,644 for discovering magical secrets. 509 00:24:05,818 --> 00:24:07,612 Hm. Move. 510 00:24:12,491 --> 00:24:13,785 Which brings me up to the moment 511 00:24:13,910 --> 00:24:16,121 that you saved me from a runaway vehicle. 512 00:24:16,246 --> 00:24:18,582 That all happened? To me? 513 00:24:19,499 --> 00:24:21,417 You don't think that you are Guardian material 514 00:24:21,542 --> 00:24:23,627 because you do not remember what you have done 515 00:24:23,752 --> 00:24:25,547 over the past five weeks. 516 00:24:25,922 --> 00:24:27,214 But I do. 517 00:24:27,507 --> 00:24:29,092 I'm The Librarian. 518 00:24:29,509 --> 00:24:31,595 And you are my Guardian. 519 00:24:32,429 --> 00:24:34,431 Even if on a trial basis. 520 00:24:37,433 --> 00:24:38,768 Got it, sir. 521 00:24:39,435 --> 00:24:41,438 Hey, guys. Come on. 522 00:25:15,221 --> 00:25:16,681 Here's another one. 523 00:25:17,432 --> 00:25:18,974 From London. 524 00:25:21,728 --> 00:25:22,728 Ah! 525 00:25:22,770 --> 00:25:24,730 Seems to be from the court of Elizabeth. 526 00:25:25,147 --> 00:25:27,025 Do you think it held the necklace and crystal? 527 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:28,192 Hmm? 528 00:25:28,234 --> 00:25:30,319 Guys, Look at this. 529 00:25:30,444 --> 00:25:32,614 The picture is changing to someone else. 530 00:25:35,866 --> 00:25:37,512 Does this mean what I think it means? 531 00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:38,763 What did the translation say again 532 00:25:38,787 --> 00:25:40,204 about the crystal being amplified? 533 00:25:40,372 --> 00:25:44,375 Ah! Um, the crystal is behest amplified 534 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:47,045 to the pointeth where the past is cleared hence 535 00:25:47,211 --> 00:25:49,838 and the knowledge of the future is limitless. 536 00:25:49,964 --> 00:25:51,840 The past is cleared hence. Not memories. 537 00:25:51,967 --> 00:25:52,967 The actual past. 538 00:25:53,093 --> 00:25:54,719 So Dr. Kirsch didn't just lose the memory 539 00:25:54,885 --> 00:25:56,387 of coming up with her hypothesis. 540 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:58,075 It never happened. Someone else did it. 541 00:25:58,181 --> 00:26:00,224 Are you saying actual events have been wiped out? 542 00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:02,059 History's been changed? 543 00:26:02,184 --> 00:26:03,353 Why would he want to do this? 544 00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:06,230 Oh, he doesn't. He wants the other part. 545 00:26:06,605 --> 00:26:08,567 The limitless knowledge of the future. 546 00:26:08,857 --> 00:26:10,484 Oh, he doesn't care about consequences. 547 00:26:10,609 --> 00:26:13,320 He is what we call a remorseless monomaniac. 548 00:26:13,445 --> 00:26:14,445 Sociopath. 549 00:26:14,573 --> 00:26:15,990 How is he amplifying the crystal? 550 00:26:16,115 --> 00:26:18,826 The question is, if his goal is to selfishly gain knowledge, 551 00:26:18,951 --> 00:26:20,744 then why would he involve other people? 552 00:26:22,955 --> 00:26:24,415 Because he needs something from them 553 00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:25,959 in order to achieve his goal. 554 00:26:26,417 --> 00:26:27,501 And memories. 555 00:26:27,794 --> 00:26:28,920 Magical causality. 556 00:26:29,045 --> 00:26:30,731 It must get its power to look into the future 557 00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:31,940 by consuming people's memories. 558 00:26:31,964 --> 00:26:33,592 Correction, by consuming the past. 559 00:26:33,717 --> 00:26:35,277 And the more people that look through it, 560 00:26:35,301 --> 00:26:36,445 the more powerful it becomes. 561 00:26:36,469 --> 00:26:37,822 When did Charlie look through the glass? 562 00:26:37,846 --> 00:26:40,222 Ah, when Stanaris and I were verbally jousting, 563 00:26:40,347 --> 00:26:41,766 she looked through the telescope. 564 00:26:41,891 --> 00:26:43,535 I also looked through the telescope. 565 00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:44,894 So did Dr. Kirch. 566 00:26:45,019 --> 00:26:47,188 Of course. Where else would you put a piece of glass 567 00:26:47,314 --> 00:26:48,331 people would look through? 568 00:26:48,355 --> 00:26:49,606 It's just another lens. 569 00:26:49,857 --> 00:26:52,693 Thank you for saving me the trouble of explaining all that. 570 00:26:55,029 --> 00:26:56,029 No! 571 00:26:56,114 --> 00:26:58,282 You let us out of here, you bounder! 572 00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:00,160 Sorry to keep you here like this, 573 00:27:00,326 --> 00:27:01,744 but I have 20 undergraduates 574 00:27:01,869 --> 00:27:04,122 arriving for a stargazing session. 575 00:27:04,663 --> 00:27:07,334 And once they've all looked at the Andromeda Galaxy, 576 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:09,169 the crystals should be fully amplified. 577 00:27:09,336 --> 00:27:11,962 Stanaris, you have unleashed forces beyond your control! 578 00:27:12,130 --> 00:27:14,173 Do you know what it's like for a man of my intellect 579 00:27:14,340 --> 00:27:17,634 to cast my pearls before swiny undergraduates? 580 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,388 While people like Rosalind Kirch get famous on stories 581 00:27:21,513 --> 00:27:23,223 of cups of tea and picnics? 582 00:27:23,516 --> 00:27:24,808 Now this is the story. 583 00:27:25,059 --> 00:27:28,145 The greatest discovery of the history of science. 584 00:27:28,688 --> 00:27:30,940 And my name will go down with Copernicus, 585 00:27:31,066 --> 00:27:32,483 Galileo, and Sagan. 586 00:27:32,608 --> 00:27:33,984 Sagan? 587 00:27:34,109 --> 00:27:36,779 Think about the consequences of erasing history! 588 00:27:36,904 --> 00:27:39,449 As a "remorseless monomaniac," 589 00:27:39,574 --> 00:27:41,159 let me just tell you, 590 00:27:41,534 --> 00:27:45,204 I don't care. 591 00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:53,421 Mm. 592 00:27:55,882 --> 00:27:56,924 It's not going to work. 593 00:27:57,049 --> 00:27:59,134 The door and frames are case hardened steel. 594 00:28:00,511 --> 00:28:03,181 But if the crystal is already overcharged, 595 00:28:03,597 --> 00:28:04,797 then imagine what would happen 596 00:28:04,848 --> 00:28:06,976 once he sucked the memory of 20 more people. 597 00:28:07,352 --> 00:28:08,352 Zombie apocalypse? 598 00:28:08,394 --> 00:28:09,854 It's actually worse than that. 599 00:28:09,979 --> 00:28:12,207 When you change the past, it takes time for those changes 600 00:28:12,231 --> 00:28:13,273 to catch up with you. 601 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,527 The past changed when Dr. Kirsch lost her memories, 602 00:28:15,692 --> 00:28:18,153 but it took time for the causality changes 603 00:28:18,278 --> 00:28:19,478 to catch up with our timeline. 604 00:28:19,571 --> 00:28:21,883 Which is why the book and the painting are only changing now. 605 00:28:21,907 --> 00:28:23,701 - Exactly. - I don't understand. 606 00:28:23,826 --> 00:28:27,538 Imagine time like a lake, and we exist on its shore. 607 00:28:27,704 --> 00:28:29,665 And the erased memory is like a pebble, 608 00:28:29,790 --> 00:28:31,000 dropped in the center. 609 00:28:31,250 --> 00:28:33,377 It takes time for the ripples to reach us. 610 00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:34,711 So when Charlie's timeline 611 00:28:34,878 --> 00:28:36,798 catches up with us, she doesn't just forget. 612 00:28:36,923 --> 00:28:38,590 But she never actually met us. 613 00:28:38,883 --> 00:28:40,426 And if we never met her... 614 00:28:40,593 --> 00:28:42,429 Then no one saved you from the Drekavac. 615 00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:44,721 Which would mean that, 616 00:28:44,847 --> 00:28:47,182 on our current timeline, we would all be... 617 00:28:47,683 --> 00:28:49,059 Dead. 618 00:28:50,644 --> 00:28:51,924 Thank you for coming. 619 00:28:52,146 --> 00:28:54,731 Next week we get to view the Triffid Nebula. 620 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,067 Thank you, Dr. Stanaris. 621 00:28:57,192 --> 00:28:58,486 That was incredible. 622 00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:00,488 Yes, but it can be overwhelming, 623 00:29:00,613 --> 00:29:02,656 so my advice is to go straight home. 624 00:29:38,442 --> 00:29:39,486 Wait! 625 00:29:39,986 --> 00:29:41,778 Panic is the enemy. Hmm? 626 00:29:45,491 --> 00:29:46,492 French isn't helping. 627 00:29:48,368 --> 00:29:49,703 Who installed this vault? 628 00:29:49,828 --> 00:29:51,588 - A security company. - What kind of company? 629 00:29:51,705 --> 00:29:53,065 They specialize in banks, museums? 630 00:29:53,124 --> 00:29:55,335 Um, museums, I think. Yeah. 631 00:29:55,501 --> 00:29:56,836 Museum and art gallery systems 632 00:29:57,002 --> 00:29:58,712 usually have a fire override sensor 633 00:29:58,837 --> 00:30:00,608 to allow firefighters to enter a burning vault 634 00:30:00,632 --> 00:30:01,965 without having the passcodes. 635 00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:04,013 I don't know anything about that. Sorry. 636 00:30:04,176 --> 00:30:06,637 It wouldn't be out in plain sight like a smoke alarm. 637 00:30:10,349 --> 00:30:11,683 Over here. 638 00:30:13,185 --> 00:30:13,894 Ah! 639 00:30:14,019 --> 00:30:15,814 We could use this lens 640 00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:17,941 and find a strong enough light source 641 00:30:18,066 --> 00:30:19,608 that perhaps the focus beam 642 00:30:19,733 --> 00:30:21,611 could generate enough heat and then... 643 00:30:25,531 --> 00:30:26,825 Hmm. 644 00:30:28,535 --> 00:30:29,826 Nice. 645 00:30:31,037 --> 00:30:32,454 You're not coming. 646 00:30:32,579 --> 00:30:33,914 We could just use my lighter. 647 00:30:34,499 --> 00:30:35,750 Oh, here. 648 00:30:38,294 --> 00:30:40,003 Tiny portable tinderbox. 649 00:30:40,505 --> 00:30:42,006 Hm. 650 00:31:01,692 --> 00:31:03,193 There it is. 651 00:31:15,789 --> 00:31:17,375 Can I help you? 652 00:31:17,541 --> 00:31:19,335 Why are we here? 653 00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:20,836 You seem confused. 654 00:31:26,675 --> 00:31:29,053 What just happened? 655 00:31:29,596 --> 00:31:30,762 The Dee papers mentioned 656 00:31:30,930 --> 00:31:32,932 the crystal emitting spectral particulates. 657 00:31:33,098 --> 00:31:34,392 It must be overflowing with them. 658 00:31:34,517 --> 00:31:36,394 I remember running up the stairs and that's it. 659 00:31:36,769 --> 00:31:38,289 - But you know who I am? - Yeah. 660 00:31:38,354 --> 00:31:39,771 Then we pulled you out just in time. 661 00:31:39,939 --> 00:31:40,939 But when you were in it, 662 00:31:41,065 --> 00:31:42,167 you were rendered completely impotent. 663 00:31:42,191 --> 00:31:43,734 But why doesn't it affect Stanaris? 664 00:31:43,859 --> 00:31:44,986 I do not know. 665 00:31:45,111 --> 00:31:46,911 But we have to get that crystal away from him. 666 00:31:47,446 --> 00:31:48,990 There is only one choice. 667 00:31:49,615 --> 00:31:51,075 I must go in there and get it. 668 00:31:51,659 --> 00:31:52,911 What? Just like that? 669 00:31:53,411 --> 00:31:55,639 What makes you think you won't be rendered completely impotent? 670 00:31:55,663 --> 00:31:56,748 Me? 671 00:31:56,873 --> 00:31:58,141 I don't think you know what it's like, Vikram. 672 00:31:58,165 --> 00:31:59,976 I feel like I have a ten-second hole in my brain. 673 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,120 And who knows what it'll be like if you stay in there. 674 00:32:02,211 --> 00:32:04,713 Are you, of all people, willing to risk your memories? 675 00:32:04,838 --> 00:32:06,438 My mental discipline is unlike any other. 676 00:32:06,548 --> 00:32:09,259 Not that you're ordinary, and not to gloat or bluster, 677 00:32:09,426 --> 00:32:11,596 but I believe I am our best chance. 678 00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:14,807 I don't like it. And I'm responsible for you. 679 00:32:15,474 --> 00:32:16,851 No. 680 00:32:17,352 --> 00:32:18,853 I am responsible. 681 00:32:19,394 --> 00:32:20,771 I'm The Librarian. 682 00:32:21,146 --> 00:32:23,273 And my memories mean no more than any of yours. 683 00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:25,026 You three, go under the platform. 684 00:32:25,151 --> 00:32:26,337 See if you can lower the floor. 685 00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:28,121 Anything to get him away from that telescope. 686 00:32:28,195 --> 00:32:29,404 Okay. 687 00:32:41,084 --> 00:32:42,585 Stanaris! 688 00:32:55,972 --> 00:32:57,349 How are you able to... 689 00:33:00,853 --> 00:33:02,855 I have trained my brain 690 00:33:03,021 --> 00:33:05,817 to silo thoughts away from my active mind. 691 00:33:06,150 --> 00:33:08,653 I can lock away what I need 692 00:33:08,778 --> 00:33:11,655 and only give away useless memories 693 00:33:12,073 --> 00:33:13,990 to this pestiferous hex. 694 00:33:30,549 --> 00:33:33,385 Get the crystal. 695 00:33:44,230 --> 00:33:46,441 What's the most important thing in the world to you? 696 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,367 Anya. 697 00:33:58,577 --> 00:33:59,953 Stay... 698 00:34:00,413 --> 00:34:02,123 Stay with me. 699 00:34:06,836 --> 00:34:08,880 Did you forget something? 700 00:34:12,340 --> 00:34:13,634 The main controls are up there. 701 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,054 Okay, well this looks like a pretty standard servo motor. 702 00:34:16,219 --> 00:34:17,859 Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to hotwire. 703 00:34:17,929 --> 00:34:19,450 We should lower the floor to avert Stanaris 704 00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:20,891 from looking through the telescope. 705 00:34:21,016 --> 00:34:22,434 Guys? 706 00:34:28,273 --> 00:34:29,900 What's happening to me? 707 00:34:32,778 --> 00:34:35,072 She's disintegrating out of our timeline. 708 00:34:38,367 --> 00:34:40,202 We got no time for this now. 709 00:34:54,132 --> 00:34:55,927 I could tell that you were different. 710 00:34:56,302 --> 00:34:57,929 You seem to have an esoteric knowledge 711 00:34:58,054 --> 00:34:59,429 almost from another time. 712 00:34:59,554 --> 00:35:02,114 I heard you talking in the vault about translating high Enochian. 713 00:35:02,266 --> 00:35:04,601 Well, only a handful of people know high Enochian. 714 00:35:04,768 --> 00:35:06,938 Fortunately, I'm one of them. 715 00:35:07,563 --> 00:35:09,565 So I didn't leave any of the important papers 716 00:35:09,690 --> 00:35:12,443 lying around in the office for you to read. 717 00:35:12,985 --> 00:35:15,320 They explain how to amplify the crystal 718 00:35:15,487 --> 00:35:19,032 and how the necklace could give its wearer immunity 719 00:35:19,157 --> 00:35:21,744 from the unfortunate side effects. 720 00:35:23,871 --> 00:35:25,414 You just gotta stay here, okay? 721 00:35:25,956 --> 00:35:27,236 Oh, my God. 722 00:35:27,333 --> 00:35:28,416 Okay, just stay present. 723 00:35:28,543 --> 00:35:30,085 - Okay, Charlie, stay present, - okay. 724 00:35:30,210 --> 00:35:32,295 You've gotta fight this. Fight! 725 00:35:47,143 --> 00:35:48,688 What am I doing up here? 726 00:35:49,856 --> 00:35:52,023 Ah! 727 00:35:54,527 --> 00:35:55,945 'Vtt? 728 00:35:56,778 --> 00:35:59,114 You've gotta stay. You've gotta promise me, okay? 729 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,032 Just, just stay here. We need you. 730 00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:02,659 We need you here, please! 731 00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:12,128 So what was it? 732 00:36:12,711 --> 00:36:14,338 A woman? 733 00:36:15,547 --> 00:36:18,550 It's very interesting. 734 00:36:18,885 --> 00:36:20,052 You're in tremendous pain, 735 00:36:20,219 --> 00:36:21,929 but you can't seem to remember why. 736 00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:25,724 That is nothing compared to what I'm about to experience. 737 00:36:26,391 --> 00:36:28,561 For millennia, man has looked to the heavens 738 00:36:28,728 --> 00:36:29,896 to see the distant past. 739 00:36:30,563 --> 00:36:32,690 And I will be the first man to peer into the heavens 740 00:36:32,856 --> 00:36:34,025 and to see the future. 741 00:36:34,775 --> 00:36:37,235 I will know how the story of the universe ends. 742 00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:39,237 And I will publish. 743 00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:54,378 The colors. 744 00:36:55,086 --> 00:36:57,047 Even more beautiful than ever. 745 00:36:57,215 --> 00:36:58,715 Ah! 746 00:36:58,882 --> 00:37:00,259 Help! 747 00:37:01,802 --> 00:37:02,929 What are you doing? 748 00:37:03,094 --> 00:37:06,932 I don't know! I can't remember! Ah! 749 00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:10,811 Get away from there, you maniac! You're ruining everything! 750 00:37:10,936 --> 00:37:12,605 Somebody help me! 751 00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:24,574 Catch! 752 00:37:30,121 --> 00:37:31,456 Now I remember. 753 00:37:36,295 --> 00:37:37,880 What have you done? 754 00:37:39,005 --> 00:37:40,423 I'm not sure. 755 00:37:43,135 --> 00:37:44,804 Where am I? 756 00:38:01,445 --> 00:38:02,862 What is this? 757 00:38:34,478 --> 00:38:35,813 I know it sounds crazy. 758 00:38:35,938 --> 00:38:38,898 I don't think I was asleep, but I must have been dreaming 759 00:38:39,025 --> 00:38:40,025 because, all of a sudden, 760 00:38:40,150 --> 00:38:42,445 it seemed as if I were disappearing. 761 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,822 And then it all came back to me, 762 00:38:44,947 --> 00:38:48,659 the moment on Observatory Hill when I developed my hypothesis. 763 00:38:50,202 --> 00:38:51,746 It's hard to explain. 764 00:38:52,121 --> 00:38:53,561 And I feel as if you and your friends 765 00:38:53,621 --> 00:38:55,166 had something to do with it. 766 00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:56,666 I'm so grateful. 767 00:38:56,833 --> 00:38:59,170 That was one of my most important memories. 768 00:38:59,711 --> 00:39:02,757 I never knew how much I valued my past until it was gone. 769 00:39:04,925 --> 00:39:07,719 I see that you erased the equation. 770 00:39:08,804 --> 00:39:10,681 You didn't think to write it down somewhere? 771 00:39:14,059 --> 00:39:15,226 I had to get rid of it. 772 00:39:15,769 --> 00:39:17,355 I don't know where it came from. 773 00:39:17,521 --> 00:39:19,898 And there was something about it I just didn't trust. 774 00:39:21,233 --> 00:39:22,777 Probably for the best. 775 00:39:23,402 --> 00:39:25,362 Some mysteries need to be revealed in time 776 00:39:25,528 --> 00:39:28,032 when we can appreciate the implications. 777 00:39:28,157 --> 00:39:31,034 And scientific advancement should come through application 778 00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:34,038 of scientific method. And this answer came to me... 779 00:39:34,204 --> 00:39:35,706 Like magic. 780 00:39:35,873 --> 00:39:37,708 Well, I'm glad to hear that she's all right. 781 00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:39,835 Oh, we were able to check up on the students 782 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:40,960 who'd been affected. 783 00:39:41,086 --> 00:39:42,981 It was mind-blowing, but they're no worse for wear. 784 00:39:43,005 --> 00:39:45,048 Most of them have forgotten their future visions. 785 00:39:45,548 --> 00:39:48,052 Though, four of them have formed a jam band. 786 00:39:49,094 --> 00:39:50,804 Charlie, how are you feeling? 787 00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:52,722 Uh, all squared away, sir. 788 00:39:52,889 --> 00:39:55,309 You never told us your vision of the future. 789 00:39:55,684 --> 00:39:58,686 Or was that also forgotten when the effects were reversed? 790 00:40:00,146 --> 00:40:01,356 Uh, yes. 791 00:40:01,481 --> 00:40:03,608 Wiped out. Completely. 792 00:40:07,612 --> 00:40:09,090 Still impressed with how you were able 793 00:40:09,114 --> 00:40:11,074 to stave off the effects from the memory bubble. 794 00:40:11,199 --> 00:40:12,284 I couldn't have done it. 795 00:40:12,451 --> 00:40:14,411 My mental discipline is highly attuned 796 00:40:14,577 --> 00:40:16,246 and perfectly calibrated. 797 00:40:16,621 --> 00:40:19,500 That, and I had no memories to lose for 178 years, 798 00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:21,085 save a few weeks. 799 00:40:21,585 --> 00:40:23,187 I thought that might give me some advantage. 800 00:40:23,211 --> 00:40:26,632 And you saw Con struggling and you needed to help him? 801 00:40:27,132 --> 00:40:28,342 Perhaps. 802 00:40:29,050 --> 00:40:30,552 Well, whatever it was, 803 00:40:30,677 --> 00:40:33,764 you were willing to risk what matters most to save us, so... 804 00:40:33,889 --> 00:40:37,601 As Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." 805 00:40:40,521 --> 00:40:41,938 But maybe... 806 00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,065 "I remember, 807 00:40:44,567 --> 00:40:46,110 therefore I am." 808 00:40:47,152 --> 00:40:48,778 Maybe that's the truth of it. 809 00:40:51,699 --> 00:40:52,699 Anyway, 810 00:40:52,824 --> 00:40:54,952 I feel safer knowing that this is all locked away 811 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:57,288 and out of the hands of a pseudo-academic, 812 00:40:57,454 --> 00:40:59,914 polymathic megalomaniac. 813 00:41:00,666 --> 00:41:01,791 Hmm. 814 00:41:02,626 --> 00:41:03,918 Speaking of which, 815 00:41:04,043 --> 00:41:06,630 what do you think will happen to Dr. Stanaris? 816 00:41:07,338 --> 00:41:08,382 Hm. 817 00:41:08,507 --> 00:41:10,634 The reverse-amplified view of the universe 818 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,760 provides us with a final answer. 819 00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:16,599 Copernicus and Galileo, they tell us nothing. 820 00:41:17,182 --> 00:41:19,101 Stephen Hawking? Hm. 821 00:41:19,226 --> 00:41:23,021 Only I, Frederic Stanaris, have viewed the future. 822 00:41:23,646 --> 00:41:26,025 And I'd still be viewing it now if it wasn't 823 00:41:26,192 --> 00:41:29,320 for the interference of a crypto-cult organization 824 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:30,987 called The Library 825 00:41:31,155 --> 00:41:33,489 and its fanatical, destructive operative 826 00:41:33,657 --> 00:41:37,661 who calls himself The Librarian!