Are you hooked on The Librarians: The Next Chapter yet? We’re only four episodes into the inaugural season, and our rag-tag found family of magic herders has already redeemed a drekavac, defeated a witch, solved a ghost story, and brought Cupid out of retirement. Talk about keeping busy. Next up is “And the Memory Crystal,” and we’ve got a sneak peek clip for you!
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For those of you not yet on this supernatural party wagon, The Librarians: The Next Chapter is the sequel series to The Librarians series, which spun off from the three The Librarian films starring Noah Wyle. In The Librarians: The Next Chapter, Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), a Librarian from 1847, inadvertently releases magic across the European continent in 2025 when he attempts to return to his own time. Banded together with a historian, a scientist, and a Guardian, he has six months to fix it.
The Librarians: The Next Chapter, “And the Memory Crystal”
As teased by the TNT website, in the next adventure, “the team goes to a college campus with a world-class observatory to discover who is using the Crystal of Dr. John Dee to steal people’s memories, in order to own the future.” And — because who doesn’t love a deep dive? — Here’s the scoop on John Dee’s Crystal:
John Dee served as Queen Elizabeth I’s court astronomer and alchemist. On his advice, England established colonies throughout the New World. He had one of the largest libraries in England (fittingly) and, like Connor (Bluey Robinson), left his comfortable court position to dig deeper into the occult and supernatural. He claimed the angel Uriel gave him his crystal in 1582 and used it for curing diseases, seeing the future, and spiritual communication.
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John Dee’s story ends tragically, dying alone and impoverished, denied a return to court when James I succeeded Elizabeth I. His burial site is unknown. However, John Dee’s Crystal currently resides in the Science Museum Group Collection in London.
The Value of Memory
In the sneak peek clip below, Vikram gets on a righteous soapbox about what he sees as the modern world’s greatest failing — people’s dependence on technology. Lysa (Olivia Morris) triggers the tirade by discounting the worth of memories. She postulates that they take up cognitive space in the brain that could be better utilized for something productive. Vikram scolds her, Connor, Charlie (Jessica Green), and all their contemporaries for giving away their humanity to the machines. “No need to think, to know, to remember ANYTHING!” he chastises, shaking her cell phone at them.
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He predicts technology will consume everything humankind has ever created. Eventually, it’ll even take over human emotions. It’s a grand, rousing speech, but it is immediately undercut by a passing student’s description of his memory loss. The condition is spreading, and that can’t be good.
The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 5, “And the Memory Crystal,” airs on TNT on Monday, June 16 at 9 pm ET.
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