The Librarians: The Next Chapter – Season 1 Episode 3 Recap & Review

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And The Ghost Train
Episode 3 of The Librarians: Next Chapter begins with Vikram attempting to get up to scratch with real and fictional figures through history over the last hundred of years. While he and Charlie are working, the former is surprised when he finds Lysa and Connor working together and bringing in a computer to the Annex.
After moving the boxes, Connor broaches the idea of using the doorway to go and visit Caucaslyvia with Lysa. Charlie feels left out and wants to join them, and thus the group are split off on a new adventure.
While Lysa grills Charlie for info at a cafe, Connor and Vikram use the doorway and stop by a train parked up in a trainyard. Here, Connor reveals a story regarding someone called King Kavod. Apparently he went missing back in the day and as they explore, the clock turns anticlockwise, sending them back through time and onboard a ghost train.
The train is running on time energy, and there are numerous loops running across the train. They need to make sense of the order and try to figure out how to undo it.
This day happens to be the exact time that Kavod went missing. The ghost train seems to be following the ghost tracks that were laid at the time, and Vikram is convinced that these ghouls can do them no harm.
Now, King Kavod was doing dealings with a British spy by the name of Ava Ryba (real name Bella Goodridge) who happens to be having an affair with Kavod's double, Nikolai, onboard the train. Bella traded an artefact with Kavod called the Scythe of Time, allowing one to talk to their past self and change history.
This is a very powerful artifact, and Bella hid the scythe somewhere on the train but we're not sure where. The tale plays out with Nikolai shot when Bella refuses to reveal the scythe's whereabouts for this man, and unfortunately, she fell off the train while trying to move across the carriages.
Charlie and Lysa track down Bella in the real world (who is thankfully still alive) and bring her aboard the train. In doing so, it turns her back to her younger self. Time is of the essence here (no pun intended) and they need to stop the train. Bella retrieves the scythe, which is hidden in plain sight inside the clock face. As she grabs it, Kavod approaches and takes control.
Realities have started to bleed together, with Kavod now aware of the group onboard the train and determined to get this artifact once and for all. Kavod has control of the scythe but when Vikram steps forward, he manages to brush over the Scythe, which is enough for him to send a message back to his past self, grabbing a vial of the Nectar of Niobe.
Earlier in the episode we saw that Kavod froze a time sprite, turning it to rock and leaving it to its fate. With the Nectar in hand, Vikram manages to get the sprite back in working order again.
Time energy doesn't work against a time sprite and Kavod is defeated by this little Tinkerbell.
Bella goes to Nikolai and gets some closure from her long-lost love, saying goodbye properly and thus, stopping the train before anybody is hurt.
Back at the Annex, Connor speaks to Vikram and encourages him to open up sometime about his past dealings. Connor empathizes that it must be difficult to be displaced out of time and away from Anya. It's a nice moment, and one that's given a bit more gravity when we find out that Vikram actually has the Scythe of Time in his possession. What will he use it for?
The Episode Review
So another episode of The Librarians: Next Chapter rolls round and along with seeing a more vulnerable side of Charlie and her awkward demeanour, we also get a simple but effective chapter involving time and lost love.
This obviously has connotations for what's happening with Vikram. The chapter has just the right amount of comedy and drama, alongside the family-friendly fun. The episode itself is enjoyable, and splitting the team up is a nice idea to try and build the comradeship between characters.
This works reasonably well in the grand scheme of things, although there's not too much else here to write home about. A decent chapter but nothing too remarkable; hopefully the episodes ahead can pick up a bit.
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