1 00:00:30,897 --> 00:00:32,532 Miss, are you okay? 2 00:00:32,632 --> 00:00:34,134 Can you hear me, miss? 3 00:00:55,221 --> 00:00:56,656 What are you smiling about? 4 00:00:57,824 --> 00:00:58,758 It's amazing. 5 00:00:59,225 --> 00:01:01,594 Atlas lifting up the world. 6 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:03,630 Or it's weighing on his shoulders. 7 00:01:09,969 --> 00:01:11,704 Well, I haven't seen you before. 8 00:01:14,808 --> 00:01:16,409 Well, that's disappointing. 9 00:01:21,681 --> 00:01:23,983 Lefty-loosy, righty-tighty. 10 00:01:24,084 --> 00:01:25,485 Word to the wise, don't speak 11 00:01:25,585 --> 00:01:27,353 while the Chinese Gourd Vessel is opened. 12 00:01:27,454 --> 00:01:29,656 Unless you want to end up in a stew of your own blood. 13 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:30,790 Why-- 14 00:01:30,890 --> 00:01:32,859 Does a thing like this exist? 15 00:01:33,126 --> 00:01:34,661 I can only imagine there was once someone 16 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:36,696 who talked too much. 17 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:45,605 A Voynich manuscript decoder. 18 00:01:46,606 --> 00:01:49,275 A Thorough History of Dragon Culture. 19 00:01:50,276 --> 00:01:52,846 Slavic Spells and Sorcery. 20 00:01:52,946 --> 00:01:54,581 Say that five times. 21 00:02:08,728 --> 00:02:09,929 Just a reminder, dear, 22 00:02:10,196 --> 00:02:12,098 modern devices cannot record or photograph 23 00:02:12,198 --> 00:02:13,366 whilst on Library grounds. 24 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:16,636 And that includes all Annexes and outer doors. 25 00:02:17,504 --> 00:02:19,172 - Ta. - Who are you? 26 00:02:23,643 --> 00:02:25,545 Be sure to keep your wrists locked. 27 00:02:25,645 --> 00:02:27,614 You won't be able to fight so much as a kelpie 28 00:02:27,714 --> 00:02:29,616 with a sprain. 29 00:02:34,654 --> 00:02:35,722 Practice a bit more, 30 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:38,158 and then have your charges meet me in the main room. 31 00:02:38,258 --> 00:02:39,559 Ta very much. 32 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:43,530 Did she? 33 00:02:43,763 --> 00:02:44,831 Yeah, but who... 34 00:02:45,098 --> 00:02:46,533 I've seen her before. 35 00:02:46,933 --> 00:02:47,967 Manners. 36 00:02:48,067 --> 00:02:49,836 Deeply rude to speak about someone 37 00:02:49,936 --> 00:02:51,004 instead of to them. 38 00:02:51,104 --> 00:02:52,105 You work at the gift shop. 39 00:02:52,572 --> 00:02:55,441 You showed me down here before the Annex reappeared. 40 00:02:55,808 --> 00:02:56,943 What are you doing here now? 41 00:02:57,043 --> 00:02:59,746 Besides planning to implement the dewey decimal system? 42 00:02:59,846 --> 00:03:01,714 No one knows about the Annex. 43 00:03:01,814 --> 00:03:04,484 But you do, so who are you? 44 00:03:04,584 --> 00:03:06,252 Mrs. Astolat! 45 00:03:07,754 --> 00:03:10,857 Stop touching my things! 46 00:03:10,957 --> 00:03:12,125 They're in my way. 47 00:03:12,225 --> 00:03:13,560 Or in the wrong place altogether. 48 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:16,362 Certainly this should be in the main library. 49 00:03:16,462 --> 00:03:17,530 Or did you not turn in 50 00:03:17,630 --> 00:03:19,666 the Golden Banshee of Kearney for a reason? 51 00:03:19,766 --> 00:03:21,434 I was getting to it. 52 00:03:22,569 --> 00:03:25,972 You collected that three years before your disappearance. 53 00:03:26,072 --> 00:03:28,308 When precisely were you getting to it? 54 00:03:28,408 --> 00:03:31,444 Wait, you knew Vikram in the past? 55 00:03:31,544 --> 00:03:34,113 Before he got frozen in a time bubble? 56 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:36,783 Now that is an interesting way of saying it. 57 00:03:36,883 --> 00:03:38,251 It avoids all responsibility. 58 00:03:38,351 --> 00:03:40,987 Connor, Lysa, Charlie. 59 00:03:41,087 --> 00:03:43,256 Please meet this unholy creation, 60 00:03:43,356 --> 00:03:44,657 Mrs. Astolat. 61 00:03:44,757 --> 00:03:48,595 Caretaker of this Annex, and general thorn in my side. 62 00:03:48,695 --> 00:03:52,365 A thorn that was told by The Library to wait here 63 00:03:52,465 --> 00:03:54,367 in case you or the Annex returned. 64 00:03:54,867 --> 00:03:55,935 So I did. 65 00:03:56,035 --> 00:03:59,405 Wait, you've been waiting here for nearly 200 years? 66 00:03:59,505 --> 00:04:00,573 Yes. 67 00:04:00,673 --> 00:04:02,742 I've held almost every job this castle has to offer. 68 00:04:02,842 --> 00:04:04,477 But, but that's impossible. 69 00:04:04,577 --> 00:04:06,212 That would make you immortal. 70 00:04:07,647 --> 00:04:08,348 Awesome. 71 00:04:08,448 --> 00:04:09,716 And now that we are back, 72 00:04:09,816 --> 00:04:13,119 you can return to selling trinkets to the tourists. 73 00:04:13,353 --> 00:04:14,621 Now that you're back, 74 00:04:14,721 --> 00:04:17,991 and improbably allowed to function as a Librarian again 75 00:04:18,091 --> 00:04:20,693 with civilians under your charge, 76 00:04:20,793 --> 00:04:22,829 I would be remiss if I did not assist. 77 00:04:24,731 --> 00:04:25,765 Starting... 78 00:04:28,234 --> 00:04:29,402 with this. 79 00:04:30,169 --> 00:04:32,305 That is so cool. 80 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:34,507 I thought we weren't supposed to use magic. 81 00:04:34,607 --> 00:04:35,575 Is it magic? 82 00:04:35,675 --> 00:04:36,643 Or is it science 83 00:04:36,743 --> 00:04:38,645 that humanity does not yet comprehend? 84 00:04:38,745 --> 00:04:39,512 Thank you. 85 00:04:39,612 --> 00:04:41,514 Understanding historical phenomena 86 00:04:41,614 --> 00:04:43,683 through the lens of science is why I'm here. 87 00:04:43,783 --> 00:04:44,651 Really? 88 00:04:44,751 --> 00:04:46,686 I'm here because there's a magical library. 89 00:04:46,786 --> 00:04:49,722 And I get to hang out with a guy who's 200 years old. 90 00:04:50,356 --> 00:04:54,994 When you reopened the well, magic seeped out, 91 00:04:55,094 --> 00:04:56,429 activating dormant artifacts 92 00:04:56,529 --> 00:04:58,431 as well as, no doubt, igniting new ones. 93 00:04:58,665 --> 00:05:00,533 The magic permeated greater Belgrade, 94 00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:02,201 but it's also got into the rivers, 95 00:05:02,302 --> 00:05:04,203 and has now gone who knows where. 96 00:05:04,304 --> 00:05:05,338 I'm sorry. 97 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:06,639 I didn't know it was going to do that. 98 00:05:06,739 --> 00:05:09,142 What a wonderful justification 99 00:05:09,242 --> 00:05:10,910 for every wrong thing. 100 00:05:11,010 --> 00:05:12,145 Connor, be a dear, and get 101 00:05:12,245 --> 00:05:14,247 the pendulum out of that clock, would you? 102 00:05:20,787 --> 00:05:21,721 Ta. 103 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:28,027 Is it somehow magnetized? Reverse polarity-- 104 00:05:28,127 --> 00:05:29,829 Cool. We can put it on the fridge. 105 00:05:29,929 --> 00:05:31,597 You're so deeply unserious. 106 00:05:31,698 --> 00:05:32,832 Such theatrics. 107 00:05:34,801 --> 00:05:35,868 It's a tracker! 108 00:05:35,968 --> 00:05:39,072 It traces residual effects from the well on this map. 109 00:05:39,472 --> 00:05:41,374 Or indeed any other map that appears beneath it. 110 00:05:41,474 --> 00:05:43,376 Wait, does this mean a magical event 111 00:05:43,476 --> 00:05:45,411 occurred at Republic Square? 112 00:05:45,511 --> 00:05:47,313 There are dozens of buildings on that square. 113 00:05:47,413 --> 00:05:49,315 How on Earth are we gonna find out what happened? 114 00:05:49,649 --> 00:05:50,383 We don't. 115 00:05:50,750 --> 00:05:52,719 We let the world do it for us. 116 00:05:54,387 --> 00:05:55,855 Dancer, classically trained, 117 00:05:55,955 --> 00:05:57,223 but can't stop herself. 118 00:05:57,490 --> 00:05:58,758 What happened to her? 119 00:05:58,858 --> 00:06:00,593 The comments say she was taken to Francuska Hospital. 120 00:06:00,693 --> 00:06:03,529 Right. To the hospital I shall go. 121 00:06:04,397 --> 00:06:06,432 I shall return in quarter of an hour. 122 00:06:06,532 --> 00:06:08,935 - Artifact in hand. - Hold on. 123 00:06:09,402 --> 00:06:10,937 You're not going anywhere without protection. 124 00:06:11,170 --> 00:06:13,906 A lone wolf does not need the pack to protect him. 125 00:06:14,006 --> 00:06:15,074 Very funny, sir. 126 00:06:15,174 --> 00:06:18,277 But since it's my job to keep you alive, I'm coming. 127 00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:19,579 Me too. 128 00:06:21,647 --> 00:06:23,783 You're not going to get far without someone who has GPS. 129 00:06:23,883 --> 00:06:25,885 Yeah, and me, because... 130 00:06:26,352 --> 00:06:27,220 Just because. 131 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:28,721 Fine. Mrs. Astolat, 132 00:06:28,821 --> 00:06:30,390 would you like to join this jolly brigade? 133 00:06:30,490 --> 00:06:31,791 Goodness, no. 134 00:06:31,891 --> 00:06:33,259 I have trinkets to sell. 135 00:06:33,359 --> 00:06:35,061 Then don't let us keep you, adieu! 136 00:06:45,938 --> 00:06:48,441 We still have no idea what happened. 137 00:06:48,775 --> 00:06:51,477 She was so excited to dance. 138 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:54,647 In the flash mob? 139 00:06:54,747 --> 00:06:57,950 That was a promotional stunt for the National Ballet Company. 140 00:06:58,384 --> 00:07:00,520 She had just gotten her first solo. 141 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:02,622 It's been her dream since she was six. 142 00:07:03,356 --> 00:07:04,690 Now look at her. 143 00:07:08,528 --> 00:07:10,329 Has she always had that in her hair? 144 00:07:10,430 --> 00:07:12,265 I just don't remember seeing it on the video. 145 00:07:12,365 --> 00:07:14,400 I pointed it out to the doctors. 146 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:16,068 But they just shrugged. 147 00:07:17,069 --> 00:07:18,438 Who are you again? 148 00:07:20,139 --> 00:07:21,474 -Interns. -Friends. 149 00:07:21,808 --> 00:07:22,909 Interns. 150 00:07:23,543 --> 00:07:24,877 -Who are friends. -Friends. 151 00:07:26,579 --> 00:07:28,314 Your big cover was we're interns? 152 00:07:28,414 --> 00:07:30,383 Technically, I am a doctor. Come on. 153 00:07:30,483 --> 00:07:31,751 How could we be her friends 154 00:07:31,851 --> 00:07:33,519 if we were asking where she works? 155 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:35,388 Will you two please stop squabbling? 156 00:07:35,488 --> 00:07:36,989 And where does she work? 157 00:07:37,089 --> 00:07:38,724 The National Ballet Company. 158 00:07:38,825 --> 00:07:40,793 She's a principal dancer, just got her first lead role. 159 00:07:40,893 --> 00:07:42,495 She probably went out to celebrate, 160 00:07:42,595 --> 00:07:44,297 got slipped a hallucinogen or something? 161 00:07:44,397 --> 00:07:45,465 Nah, she wouldn't have gone out. 162 00:07:45,565 --> 00:07:46,766 Just gotten her first lead role? 163 00:07:46,866 --> 00:07:48,801 She would have been living at that theater. 164 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:03,015 The stage! 165 00:08:03,382 --> 00:08:04,750 Treading the boards. 166 00:08:05,051 --> 00:08:08,020 Has there ever been a greater invention than the theater? 167 00:08:08,688 --> 00:08:11,290 Provoking thought, eliciting feeling. 168 00:08:11,557 --> 00:08:13,025 I can't believe we're here. 169 00:08:13,659 --> 00:08:15,695 I know. Our first proper case. 170 00:08:15,795 --> 00:08:17,497 I've done countless investigations like this. 171 00:08:17,597 --> 00:08:18,798 I could do it in my sleep. 172 00:08:18,898 --> 00:08:20,600 Principal dancer sounds like a pretty sweet deal. 173 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:22,602 Hey, maybe she was targeted. 174 00:08:22,702 --> 00:08:24,170 Maybe someone did this to her. 175 00:08:24,270 --> 00:08:25,471 Well, if it was a random object, 176 00:08:25,571 --> 00:08:27,273 it'd be like looking for a needle in a haystack. 177 00:08:27,373 --> 00:08:29,375 But there are only so many people 178 00:08:29,475 --> 00:08:30,843 that work in the ballet. 179 00:08:39,185 --> 00:08:42,688 If I didn't know any better, I would call that a haystack. 180 00:08:46,259 --> 00:08:47,493 ple than expected, but we shall overcome. 181 00:08:47,593 --> 00:08:48,561 I read that quote. 182 00:08:48,828 --> 00:08:50,029 I find it appropriate to the moment. 183 00:08:50,129 --> 00:08:53,065 Yeah, we'll parse the nuance of that later. 184 00:08:53,833 --> 00:08:54,867 You can't be here. 185 00:08:54,967 --> 00:08:57,470 - Yes, Miss... - Yelena. 186 00:08:57,737 --> 00:09:00,406 Yelena Tarkoff? The choreographer? 187 00:09:00,506 --> 00:09:03,543 As you can see, we are trying to mount a technical rehearsal 188 00:09:03,643 --> 00:09:07,280 without a prima ballerina mere few hours before premiere, 189 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:09,715 and have no time for tourists. 190 00:09:09,815 --> 00:09:11,083 That's precisely why we're here. 191 00:09:11,183 --> 00:09:12,785 We're here to investigate the tragedy. 192 00:09:12,885 --> 00:09:14,487 But police has already been here. 193 00:09:14,587 --> 00:09:16,055 Not police investigators. 194 00:09:16,155 --> 00:09:18,658 We're insurance investigators. 195 00:09:19,091 --> 00:09:20,693 Yeah, there's a possibility 196 00:09:20,793 --> 00:09:24,597 that your prima ballerina was exposed to a toxin 197 00:09:24,697 --> 00:09:26,165 that caused the incident. 198 00:09:26,532 --> 00:09:29,835 And it raises concern about, workplace safety. 199 00:09:29,936 --> 00:09:32,471 - The tempo. The tempo. - No. No. 200 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:34,907 It has to be Allegro! 201 00:09:35,007 --> 00:09:37,410 Allegro is too fast! 202 00:09:37,677 --> 00:09:39,345 And here they go again. 203 00:09:39,612 --> 00:09:41,280 Just don't get in the way. 204 00:09:41,581 --> 00:09:43,516 Especially not hers. 205 00:09:44,417 --> 00:09:48,955 Well, in Allegro moderato , it's unrecognizable. 206 00:09:49,055 --> 00:09:52,291 Dame Ana, you can't be really mounting a production today 207 00:09:52,391 --> 00:09:53,826 with all the recent tragedy. 208 00:09:53,926 --> 00:09:55,761 We have an understudy. 209 00:09:55,861 --> 00:09:57,196 That's Dame Ana Mirinoff, 210 00:09:57,296 --> 00:09:59,498 Artistic Director, legendary dancer. 211 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:01,300 No one had extension like her. 212 00:10:01,867 --> 00:10:03,269 You know a lot about ballet? 213 00:10:05,204 --> 00:10:07,340 I've trained in multiple athletic disciplines. 214 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,208 Ballet's great for strength and stamina. 215 00:10:12,511 --> 00:10:14,046 Mr. Arts Critic, 216 00:10:14,146 --> 00:10:16,582 I have a statement for your blog. 217 00:10:16,682 --> 00:10:19,952 The performance will go as scheduled. 218 00:10:20,486 --> 00:10:23,723 The finale will be allegro. 219 00:10:23,823 --> 00:10:25,858 It will go as I say. 220 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:28,494 Or I will do without you. 221 00:10:28,794 --> 00:10:31,197 And that goes for everyone. 222 00:10:34,967 --> 00:10:36,869 The intrigue of the theatre. 223 00:10:37,169 --> 00:10:38,571 Should we divide and conquer? 224 00:10:38,671 --> 00:10:40,006 I'll take Dame Ana. 225 00:10:40,272 --> 00:10:41,807 -Charlie, why don't you-- -I'm sticking with you. 226 00:10:41,907 --> 00:10:44,610 Connor and Lysa, you take music and choreography. 227 00:10:44,710 --> 00:10:46,278 -Choreography. -Music. 228 00:10:46,912 --> 00:10:48,047 Do you not trust me? 229 00:10:48,347 --> 00:10:51,484 Or do you just want to meet the estimable Dame Ana? 230 00:10:51,784 --> 00:10:53,252 Maybe I do. 231 00:10:56,088 --> 00:10:58,424 Sofia, keep your shoulders back. 232 00:11:00,726 --> 00:11:03,229 This show is going to be a fiasco. 233 00:11:04,196 --> 00:11:06,165 And we should all be at the hospital praying 234 00:11:06,265 --> 00:11:07,199 for our friend. 235 00:11:07,867 --> 00:11:09,802 Why hasn't it been cancelled? 236 00:11:10,770 --> 00:11:11,837 Dame Ana. 237 00:11:12,138 --> 00:11:13,939 She's been forced into retirement, 238 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,142 and refuses to let go. 239 00:11:22,615 --> 00:11:23,816 What can I do for you? 240 00:11:23,916 --> 00:11:26,385 Well, actually, we are here to help you. 241 00:11:26,485 --> 00:11:27,286 To help me? 242 00:11:27,620 --> 00:11:31,791 You mean to help me salvage this cursed production? 243 00:11:31,891 --> 00:11:34,493 And when you say cursed, do you mean-- 244 00:11:34,593 --> 00:11:35,895 I mean cursed. 245 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:37,763 What I went through 246 00:11:37,863 --> 00:11:40,866 just in order to get an approval from the board. 247 00:11:40,966 --> 00:11:43,703 To have a retirement dance at all. 248 00:11:43,803 --> 00:11:46,939 And now our prima ballerina is in hospital. 249 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:50,042 Under very strange circumstances. 250 00:11:50,142 --> 00:11:51,477 We haven't understudy-- 251 00:11:51,577 --> 00:11:54,480 The board of directors won't honor your decades of work? 252 00:11:54,580 --> 00:11:55,881 Of course not. 253 00:11:55,981 --> 00:11:58,050 They want new, new, new. 254 00:11:58,150 --> 00:11:59,218 I want to show them 255 00:11:59,318 --> 00:12:02,121 I'm still capable to do something 256 00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:04,223 they've never seen before. 257 00:12:05,057 --> 00:12:08,661 She acts like she's reinventing the wheel. 258 00:12:08,994 --> 00:12:10,730 Micro-managing. 259 00:12:10,830 --> 00:12:11,964 You saw her. 260 00:12:12,064 --> 00:12:15,201 "Allegro , not allegro moderat" 261 00:12:15,601 --> 00:12:18,738 She even noted her own score. 262 00:12:19,205 --> 00:12:22,208 I was conducting in Berlin before this. 263 00:12:22,808 --> 00:12:24,343 Um, what ballet is it? 264 00:12:24,443 --> 00:12:28,114 That's why these notes are so ludicrous. 265 00:12:28,547 --> 00:12:30,249 Everyone knows this show. 266 00:12:30,349 --> 00:12:31,984 We've done it a million times. 267 00:12:32,084 --> 00:12:34,954 You are staging Giselle? 268 00:12:35,054 --> 00:12:36,689 You saw it, I presume? 269 00:12:36,789 --> 00:12:39,158 No, no, no. I wasn't able to see it 270 00:12:39,258 --> 00:12:40,726 when it debuted in Paris in 41-- 271 00:12:40,826 --> 00:12:42,027 In 41 cities. 272 00:12:42,128 --> 00:12:44,463 A touring production that kicked off in Paris... 273 00:12:44,830 --> 00:12:46,031 Texas. 274 00:12:47,666 --> 00:12:48,534 Yes. 275 00:12:48,634 --> 00:12:50,603 My friend Anya saw it. 276 00:12:50,703 --> 00:12:52,371 Said it was splendid. 277 00:12:52,471 --> 00:12:53,272 Yes, it is. 278 00:12:53,506 --> 00:12:56,041 I danced it several times when I was young. 279 00:12:56,142 --> 00:12:59,945 Am I silly to think that this feels personal? 280 00:13:00,045 --> 00:13:03,916 As if someone wants to stop my dance from happening. 281 00:13:04,016 --> 00:13:05,818 And has there been any threats? 282 00:13:05,918 --> 00:13:07,820 No, no, no. But-- 283 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,588 But it's always been an uphill battle. 284 00:13:11,824 --> 00:13:13,259 To get to where you are. 285 00:13:13,592 --> 00:13:16,629 You have such a strong bearing, my girl. 286 00:13:16,729 --> 00:13:19,198 Yes, I had to focus 287 00:13:19,298 --> 00:13:21,534 to remain a prima ballerina. 288 00:13:21,767 --> 00:13:26,172 It was so difficult to make them accept my style. 289 00:13:26,272 --> 00:13:28,707 My entire career is in this book, 290 00:13:28,808 --> 00:13:32,111 and it's filled with people doubting me. 291 00:13:32,211 --> 00:13:36,415 I want my last page to be one of triumph. 292 00:13:37,883 --> 00:13:38,984 Will you help me? 293 00:13:39,385 --> 00:13:41,987 Dame Ana thinks she has the power. 294 00:13:42,087 --> 00:13:44,523 Do you want to know what is the real power 295 00:13:44,623 --> 00:13:45,658 in this theater? 296 00:13:46,025 --> 00:13:47,960 It is this baton. 297 00:13:48,427 --> 00:13:51,030 It is the heartbeat of the show. 298 00:13:51,130 --> 00:13:54,500 And therefore the heartbeat of all those watching. 299 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:57,670 This is the real control. 300 00:13:59,939 --> 00:14:01,240 So, be honest. 301 00:14:01,340 --> 00:14:03,075 You want the artistic director job? 302 00:14:03,375 --> 00:14:04,910 I'm not likely to get it. 303 00:14:05,144 --> 00:14:07,580 When I haven't shown my work in months. 304 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,249 But you're the choreographer. 305 00:14:11,817 --> 00:14:13,052 Hardly. 306 00:14:13,152 --> 00:14:16,155 I did a little more than take Dame Ana's dictation. 307 00:14:20,125 --> 00:14:21,694 That's a lot of pharmaceuticals. 308 00:14:21,794 --> 00:14:23,062 Dancers get hurt. 309 00:14:23,162 --> 00:14:24,263 And if there is nothing else, 310 00:14:24,363 --> 00:14:26,599 I have to go rehearse the new understudy. 311 00:14:33,072 --> 00:14:34,840 It's the baton. It has to be the baton. 312 00:14:34,940 --> 00:14:36,108 Or it's pharmaceutical. 313 00:14:36,208 --> 00:14:38,911 There is medicinal fungi, ergot, Ophiocordyceps. 314 00:14:39,011 --> 00:14:41,280 They can be used to compel people to do things. 315 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:42,481 He literally said 316 00:14:42,581 --> 00:14:43,883 it's the most powerful thing in the theater. 317 00:14:44,283 --> 00:14:46,051 Where is the new understudy? 318 00:14:50,222 --> 00:14:51,924 - Natalia! - I'm here. 319 00:14:52,024 --> 00:14:53,826 Thank you so much for this opportunity-- 320 00:14:53,926 --> 00:14:56,195 Just show us you know the steps. 321 00:14:56,695 --> 00:14:57,796 Music! 322 00:15:08,941 --> 00:15:09,942 How could it be the baton? 323 00:15:10,042 --> 00:15:11,744 You just can't explain the baton 324 00:15:11,844 --> 00:15:13,712 the way you can poisoning someone with fungi. 325 00:15:13,812 --> 00:15:14,914 Generally speaking, 326 00:15:15,014 --> 00:15:17,082 being able to explain things is a good thing. 327 00:15:17,182 --> 00:15:18,617 Lysa has a point. 328 00:15:18,717 --> 00:15:19,818 Things have a reason. 329 00:15:20,452 --> 00:15:22,154 Who has a reason to hurt the prima? 330 00:15:22,254 --> 00:15:23,489 -Yelena. -Gustav. 331 00:15:25,024 --> 00:15:26,058 What about her? 332 00:15:29,061 --> 00:15:30,095 The understudy. 333 00:15:30,596 --> 00:15:32,531 Where I'm from, the understudy advances, 334 00:15:32,631 --> 00:15:33,365 not by malice, 335 00:15:33,465 --> 00:15:35,000 but by becoming very good friends 336 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:36,135 with well-heeled gentlemen. 337 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:38,337 We'll parse the nuance of that later. 338 00:15:39,171 --> 00:15:40,506 She's good. 339 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:42,441 No, she's more than good. 340 00:15:43,042 --> 00:15:44,376 Look at that extension. 341 00:15:49,315 --> 00:15:51,684 And she did just get a chance to shine. 342 00:15:55,087 --> 00:15:56,488 That's not shine. 343 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:57,856 That's smoke. 344 00:15:57,957 --> 00:15:59,158 Help me! Help me! Help me! 345 00:15:59,258 --> 00:16:00,326 Get them off! Get them off! 346 00:16:00,426 --> 00:16:02,795 Help me! Help me! Help me! 347 00:16:07,933 --> 00:16:09,034 Are you all right? 348 00:16:09,134 --> 00:16:10,369 What happened? I couldn't stop. 349 00:16:12,404 --> 00:16:13,973 It's not you that couldn't stop. 350 00:16:23,482 --> 00:16:26,552 You would think that with all the fairy tales, 351 00:16:26,652 --> 00:16:29,421 Cinderella, the red shoes, the chick in the boot 352 00:16:29,521 --> 00:16:30,756 with child labor violations, 353 00:16:30,856 --> 00:16:33,058 that there would be more about curses on footwear. 354 00:16:33,158 --> 00:16:34,360 Maybe there's something in these. 355 00:16:34,693 --> 00:16:37,196 There's no wiring for remote control. 356 00:16:37,296 --> 00:16:40,065 Nothing out of the ordinary. They're just shoes. 357 00:16:40,165 --> 00:16:42,101 Maybe you're not looking properly. 358 00:16:42,201 --> 00:16:43,268 I know how to use a microscope. 359 00:16:43,369 --> 00:16:44,970 And I know how to use this one. 360 00:16:45,237 --> 00:16:46,872 Special lenses. 361 00:16:46,972 --> 00:16:49,108 Touched by the Waters of Malfi, 362 00:16:50,409 --> 00:16:53,245 which allow us to see things in a new light. 363 00:16:53,345 --> 00:16:55,347 Ooh. Yes. 364 00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:00,085 Wait, whoa. 365 00:17:00,185 --> 00:17:02,021 There's a powdery substance on the shoe. 366 00:17:02,421 --> 00:17:03,489 Yeah. It's rosin, 367 00:17:03,589 --> 00:17:05,157 a sticky powder dancers dip their toes in. 368 00:17:05,257 --> 00:17:06,325 Helps with stability. 369 00:17:06,425 --> 00:17:08,494 Yeah, but this has got the same signature 370 00:17:08,594 --> 00:17:10,329 as the stuff coming out of the well. Look. 371 00:17:10,429 --> 00:17:11,864 You mean magic? 372 00:17:12,297 --> 00:17:13,632 Agree to disagree. 373 00:17:16,268 --> 00:17:17,336 The rosin box. 374 00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:20,105 Natalia dipped her shoes in it before she went on stage. 375 00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:21,540 I'll go to the theater and grab it. 376 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,208 You know a lot about ballet. 377 00:17:23,308 --> 00:17:24,376 We don't know a lot about you, 378 00:17:24,476 --> 00:17:26,645 so everything we do learn is new. 379 00:17:27,112 --> 00:17:28,113 And interesting. 380 00:17:28,414 --> 00:17:30,382 My job is to keep you alive, not to share. 381 00:17:32,551 --> 00:17:34,720 So, what should we do? 382 00:17:34,820 --> 00:17:38,190 We turn ourselves to the task of research, 383 00:17:38,290 --> 00:17:39,458 Someone put that rosin there. 384 00:17:39,558 --> 00:17:41,460 So if we find where the rosin comes from, 385 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,528 we find the culprit. 386 00:17:42,628 --> 00:17:43,595 Well... 387 00:17:43,695 --> 00:17:46,198 I recommend narrowing your search. 388 00:17:46,298 --> 00:17:48,700 Why must you sneak up on me? 389 00:17:49,101 --> 00:17:50,569 It's one of my few pleasures. 390 00:17:50,903 --> 00:17:52,337 That and BMX biking. 391 00:17:55,140 --> 00:17:56,975 Let's transfer some rosin. 392 00:17:57,242 --> 00:17:58,944 Dormant now, so no need to worry. 393 00:18:04,316 --> 00:18:05,451 And our dog, 394 00:18:05,551 --> 00:18:07,820 for want of a better metaphor, is on the scent. 395 00:18:10,856 --> 00:18:13,392 - The old forest. - I mean, it makes sense. 396 00:18:13,492 --> 00:18:15,294 There's lore that says trees 397 00:18:15,394 --> 00:18:17,229 can have special medicinal properties. 398 00:18:17,329 --> 00:18:18,397 I can go get a sample. 399 00:18:18,497 --> 00:18:20,132 Or I could just go and take a photo of it 400 00:18:20,232 --> 00:18:21,266 and tell you it's freaking magical-- 401 00:18:21,366 --> 00:18:23,202 We shall all go. 402 00:18:23,302 --> 00:18:24,603 I'd like a word first. 403 00:18:25,170 --> 00:18:26,972 Connor, Lysa, you go on ahead. 404 00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:28,640 Now. 405 00:18:47,659 --> 00:18:48,961 Where is she? 406 00:18:49,661 --> 00:18:51,163 I cannot find Natalia. 407 00:18:51,263 --> 00:18:54,166 No, you must! Before the show. 408 00:18:54,533 --> 00:18:55,868 There is no way I'm letting 409 00:18:55,968 --> 00:18:58,070 this farce of a performance to happen. 410 00:18:58,170 --> 00:18:59,838 No, no, please. 411 00:19:02,207 --> 00:19:03,542 I should be out there with them. 412 00:19:03,642 --> 00:19:05,377 You need to let them succeed on their own. 413 00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:07,012 How do you expect them to succeed 414 00:19:07,112 --> 00:19:08,180 when they aggravate each other? 415 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,382 Same way you and I did, I expect. 416 00:19:10,916 --> 00:19:11,717 Right. 417 00:19:11,817 --> 00:19:13,919 Why did you bring the Annex back? 418 00:19:14,286 --> 00:19:15,554 Because I'm The Librarian. 419 00:19:16,088 --> 00:19:17,256 I have work to do and I need-- 420 00:19:17,356 --> 00:19:18,757 You can't go back. 421 00:19:19,391 --> 00:19:20,659 What do you mean? 422 00:19:21,059 --> 00:19:22,194 You have a reputation. 423 00:19:22,294 --> 00:19:24,530 One that's earned. The Rogue Librarian. 424 00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:28,066 So if anyone was going to try and travel back through time... 425 00:19:29,468 --> 00:19:30,736 And you can't. 426 00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:32,971 Well, not to argue your point, but, actually, I could. 427 00:19:33,972 --> 00:19:35,040 It's possible. 428 00:19:39,611 --> 00:19:41,246 I came through time to be here. 429 00:19:41,780 --> 00:19:43,482 I can find a way to reverse it. 430 00:19:43,582 --> 00:19:46,251 You did not travel through time. 431 00:19:46,652 --> 00:19:49,354 Time happened while you were standing still. 432 00:19:49,888 --> 00:19:51,623 Your being here is a fixed point. 433 00:19:51,723 --> 00:19:53,458 It's not a mistake to be reversed. 434 00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:54,626 And if you tried... 435 00:19:54,726 --> 00:19:57,196 Well, you already know the consequences. 436 00:19:57,563 --> 00:19:58,864 There are things... 437 00:19:59,231 --> 00:20:00,599 people, I left alone. 438 00:20:00,699 --> 00:20:02,534 You did not leave her alone. 439 00:20:02,634 --> 00:20:05,537 She had a good life. A full one. 440 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:07,873 And she had it without you. 441 00:20:10,576 --> 00:20:11,877 That's not fair, Elaine. 442 00:20:11,977 --> 00:20:14,213 For you, it was nearly 200 years ago. 443 00:20:14,513 --> 00:20:16,148 But, for me, it was last week. 444 00:20:17,015 --> 00:20:19,718 So do not tell me that Anya is beyond my reach. 445 00:20:20,953 --> 00:20:22,120 It's not fair. 446 00:20:24,723 --> 00:20:26,858 It was never going to be fair. 447 00:20:51,049 --> 00:20:52,117 Natalia? 448 00:20:52,551 --> 00:20:53,518 Are you all right? 449 00:20:53,852 --> 00:20:55,420 Have you ever wanted something so much, 450 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,655 and now it feels impossible? 451 00:20:57,022 --> 00:20:59,324 When Dame Ana brought me to understudy. 452 00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:01,526 I thought, "This is my chance." 453 00:21:06,198 --> 00:21:07,599 I can relate. 454 00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:09,601 My job... 455 00:21:09,701 --> 00:21:12,738 And I know it's what I'm supposed to be doing, 456 00:21:13,372 --> 00:21:14,773 but what if I mess it up? 457 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,375 But what if I mess up? 458 00:21:16,475 --> 00:21:17,876 What if my shoes are possessed again, 459 00:21:17,976 --> 00:21:19,244 and I can't stop? 460 00:21:19,344 --> 00:21:21,813 They won't be. I promise. 461 00:21:27,219 --> 00:21:28,553 You know ballet, right? 462 00:21:31,990 --> 00:21:34,126 I used to love dancing when I was younger. 463 00:21:34,926 --> 00:21:37,896 But then I started training for my job and let it go. 464 00:21:39,064 --> 00:21:40,599 - I'm sorry. - Don't be. 465 00:21:40,699 --> 00:21:42,167 I love my job. 466 00:21:42,801 --> 00:21:44,703 I want to do it well. 467 00:21:45,370 --> 00:21:47,773 And I want you to have your chance. 468 00:21:52,444 --> 00:21:54,212 What can you tell me about Yelena? 469 00:21:55,247 --> 00:21:56,448 Our choreographer? 470 00:21:56,548 --> 00:21:57,683 I overheard her talking. 471 00:21:57,783 --> 00:21:59,017 She said there's no way 472 00:21:59,117 --> 00:22:01,553 she'd let this "farce" of a performance happen. 473 00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:04,523 I don't even know what we're looking for. 474 00:22:04,623 --> 00:22:06,425 It's called flying by the seat of your pants. 475 00:22:06,525 --> 00:22:07,626 Works well for me. 476 00:22:08,126 --> 00:22:10,696 So what? You just go along with anything. 477 00:22:11,396 --> 00:22:13,165 You mean like magic? 478 00:22:13,265 --> 00:22:14,333 Why does it make you so upset 479 00:22:14,433 --> 00:22:15,634 that I can take magic at face value? 480 00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:17,369 Because it proves that you're not serious 481 00:22:17,469 --> 00:22:18,870 about learning. 482 00:22:18,970 --> 00:22:19,705 No. 483 00:22:19,938 --> 00:22:22,307 It's because, if magic is real, 484 00:22:22,541 --> 00:22:23,675 your life's work, trying to control 485 00:22:23,775 --> 00:22:25,410 and predict everything, is impossible. 486 00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:28,113 And you can't accept that magic might have a scientific cause. 487 00:22:28,213 --> 00:22:30,082 Because, if it does, you would have thrown away 488 00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:31,483 your career for a podcast 489 00:22:31,583 --> 00:22:32,851 about something that is explainable. 490 00:22:32,951 --> 00:22:34,319 Haven't found what we're looking for yet? 491 00:22:34,419 --> 00:22:35,487 God! 492 00:22:35,587 --> 00:22:37,089 Perhaps this will help. 493 00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:39,358 What, this has got the Waters of Malfi in it too? 494 00:22:39,458 --> 00:22:40,459 In a way. 495 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:42,794 I took the lens from the microscope. 496 00:22:44,629 --> 00:22:45,864 You okay? 497 00:22:46,765 --> 00:22:48,734 Nothing solving a magical case can't cure. 498 00:22:50,235 --> 00:22:53,905 However, you are not going to need that telescope. 499 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,376 That's it? You sure? 500 00:22:57,476 --> 00:22:58,877 Lysa can confirm it, 501 00:22:59,244 --> 00:23:00,479 but I can smell it. 502 00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:01,480 This tree is ancient. 503 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:03,482 This is not just an ancient tree. 504 00:23:03,915 --> 00:23:06,184 This is a Dance Tree. 505 00:23:06,284 --> 00:23:07,352 A what now? 506 00:23:07,452 --> 00:23:09,187 Of course. Dance trees. 507 00:23:09,287 --> 00:23:11,523 Long ago, people would dance under their branches 508 00:23:11,623 --> 00:23:14,793 to pay homage with their energy, vitality. 509 00:23:15,861 --> 00:23:17,629 Mass movement hysteria. 510 00:23:18,497 --> 00:23:19,498 Like a rave? 511 00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:22,367 Hold on. Look at these scars. 512 00:23:22,701 --> 00:23:25,137 Someone has tapped this tree dry, but... 513 00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:26,905 Lysa, you idiot. 514 00:23:27,005 --> 00:23:29,441 Rosin is a solid form of tree resin. 515 00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:30,909 This tree's resin smells like magic. 516 00:23:31,009 --> 00:23:31,810 Yeah. 517 00:23:32,043 --> 00:23:34,146 So, someone's been spiking the rosin. 518 00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:36,815 Someone who has done this for years. 519 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:38,950 But what is the reason for the resin in the rosin? 520 00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:40,919 I'm not ready for the reason the resin is in the rosin. 521 00:23:41,019 --> 00:23:42,854 The resin in the rosin must have a reason. 522 00:23:42,954 --> 00:23:43,889 Stop. 523 00:23:43,989 --> 00:23:47,292 Why would you use a Dance Tree to stop a dance? 524 00:23:47,392 --> 00:23:49,261 The Dance Tree gives vitality. 525 00:23:51,229 --> 00:23:52,364 Of course. 526 00:23:52,998 --> 00:23:55,801 It was the first thing we saw. The dancer. 527 00:23:55,901 --> 00:23:58,036 In the hospital. The grey in her hair. 528 00:23:58,136 --> 00:24:00,005 She wasn't just injured. She had aged. 529 00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,240 It sapped her vitality, her life. 530 00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:04,876 So the purpose isn't to stop the ballet. 531 00:24:05,343 --> 00:24:06,778 To suck away its vitality. 532 00:24:06,878 --> 00:24:08,647 And they're using the resin on the shoes 533 00:24:08,747 --> 00:24:09,948 to control the dancers. 534 00:24:10,048 --> 00:24:11,516 The raving that you mentioned. 535 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:14,252 Draining them of their life. 536 00:24:17,088 --> 00:24:19,791 There is only one who would do that. 537 00:24:20,125 --> 00:24:21,293 Could do. 538 00:24:24,830 --> 00:24:26,331 Is a witch. 539 00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:29,000 A witch? 540 00:24:29,401 --> 00:24:30,235 What kind of witch? 541 00:24:30,335 --> 00:24:31,670 I can't believe I just said witch. 542 00:24:31,770 --> 00:24:32,971 Me neither. 543 00:24:33,438 --> 00:24:34,372 But which witch is which? 544 00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:36,107 - Would you stop it? - Come on. 545 00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:39,544 No, Lysa is correct. This is no laughing matter. 546 00:24:40,045 --> 00:24:42,981 You have never faced a witch. But I have. 547 00:24:44,316 --> 00:24:46,218 And you won, right? 548 00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:48,453 Witches use old magic. 549 00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:49,554 Magic that lives on 550 00:24:49,654 --> 00:24:51,256 because it is powerful and dangerous. 551 00:24:51,356 --> 00:24:52,924 And they have been perfecting their craft 552 00:24:53,024 --> 00:24:55,293 for decades, centuries even. 553 00:24:55,727 --> 00:24:58,563 We have stumbled in on a witch's plot 554 00:24:58,663 --> 00:25:00,031 and dancing to their tune. 555 00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:02,234 So they know exactly what they're doing, 556 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:04,336 and we don't even know who they are. 557 00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:05,470 Great. 558 00:25:05,937 --> 00:25:07,372 We will find out. 559 00:25:11,109 --> 00:25:12,911 Vikram, these dancers are at risk 560 00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:14,279 of having their life drained away. 561 00:25:14,379 --> 00:25:16,448 -You have to let us help them. -No. 562 00:25:16,748 --> 00:25:18,650 It's safer if I do this on my own. 563 00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:19,918 Together we can-- 564 00:25:20,819 --> 00:25:23,255 On your own, you know incredible things, 565 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:25,056 things that I can't even contemplate. 566 00:25:25,156 --> 00:25:26,791 But, together, you are fractious. 567 00:25:27,292 --> 00:25:29,861 And a witch will use that weakness against you. 568 00:25:29,961 --> 00:25:31,029 Well, what are we supposed to do? 569 00:25:31,129 --> 00:25:33,698 This is a Library! 570 00:25:33,798 --> 00:25:34,833 Research. 571 00:25:34,933 --> 00:25:36,568 Discover the witch that I'm up against. 572 00:25:39,037 --> 00:25:41,039 Well, there is no time to lose. 573 00:25:41,139 --> 00:25:42,741 That dance cannot happen. 574 00:25:42,841 --> 00:25:44,843 We are gonna find and stop a witch. 575 00:25:45,343 --> 00:25:47,145 And all before today's performance at noon. 576 00:25:51,116 --> 00:25:52,484 Well, you heard him. 577 00:25:53,151 --> 00:25:55,820 We need to find which witch will switch the resin with the rosin. 578 00:25:56,721 --> 00:25:58,423 I will straight-up murder you. 579 00:26:11,870 --> 00:26:13,405 Has anyone seen Yelena? 580 00:26:28,753 --> 00:26:30,322 A witch? 581 00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:32,290 You mean a real witch? 582 00:26:32,390 --> 00:26:34,359 Dame Ana, if you want to stop this horror 583 00:26:34,459 --> 00:26:36,027 and save your dancers, 584 00:26:36,127 --> 00:26:37,495 I need your help. 585 00:26:37,862 --> 00:26:40,599 I must cancel the entire performance. 586 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:41,866 Yes. 587 00:26:41,967 --> 00:26:43,435 But first you must tell me who among the staff 588 00:26:43,535 --> 00:26:45,904 of the theatre has been there for over a decade. 589 00:26:46,004 --> 00:26:48,139 This witch has been gathering magical resin 590 00:26:48,239 --> 00:26:51,776 and she has been planning this for a very, very long time. 591 00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:54,846 Yelena was here quite a long time. 592 00:26:54,946 --> 00:26:56,281 Gustav, some others. 593 00:26:56,381 --> 00:26:58,483 I have records. Give me a moment. 594 00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:01,920 Well, at least this is happening in the middle of the day. 595 00:27:02,020 --> 00:27:03,088 Why? 596 00:27:03,188 --> 00:27:05,523 In general, witches are not as powerful. 597 00:27:08,493 --> 00:27:09,594 Yelena? 598 00:27:11,363 --> 00:27:13,331 Yelena, I have some questions for you. 599 00:27:23,541 --> 00:27:25,910 -Only dancers allowed here. -What? You... 600 00:27:26,444 --> 00:27:28,246 Put me down! 601 00:27:28,513 --> 00:27:29,648 Put me down! 602 00:27:33,618 --> 00:27:37,122 What I wouldn't give for a search function. 603 00:27:37,889 --> 00:27:39,591 The discovery is in the search. 604 00:27:40,125 --> 00:27:42,260 Who knows what you might glean while perusing the pages. 605 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,095 What I would like to glean is 606 00:27:44,195 --> 00:27:46,998 who this witch is and how to stop them. 607 00:27:47,098 --> 00:27:49,501 Yeah, all before noon. 608 00:27:52,537 --> 00:27:53,938 Noon. 609 00:27:54,272 --> 00:27:55,140 Noon! 610 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,275 Slavic Spells and Sorcery. 611 00:27:57,609 --> 00:27:59,811 Slavic Spells and Sorcery. Come on. 612 00:27:59,911 --> 00:28:01,279 I knew I had it. 613 00:28:02,113 --> 00:28:03,281 When I tried to take a photo earlier 614 00:28:03,381 --> 00:28:04,849 and the Annex got mad at me, 615 00:28:04,949 --> 00:28:06,317 I read... 616 00:28:06,918 --> 00:28:07,986 this. 617 00:28:08,086 --> 00:28:10,522 Lady Midday, aka the Noon Witch. 618 00:28:10,822 --> 00:28:13,091 She used to prey on people who worked through midday. 619 00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:14,959 Farmers who wouldn't break for lunch, etcetera. 620 00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:16,261 She appreciates work ethic. 621 00:28:16,361 --> 00:28:18,663 She would force them to dance, 622 00:28:18,763 --> 00:28:19,931 and drain some of their life force 623 00:28:20,031 --> 00:28:21,099 as she did so. 624 00:28:21,199 --> 00:28:23,802 Every 70 years during the summer solstice, 625 00:28:23,902 --> 00:28:25,003 she would go to a village 626 00:28:25,103 --> 00:28:27,272 and dance for the solstice celebration. 627 00:28:27,539 --> 00:28:30,175 The adulation combined with the actual day and time 628 00:28:30,275 --> 00:28:32,343 when she was most powerful 629 00:28:32,610 --> 00:28:34,512 would restore her youth. 630 00:28:34,846 --> 00:28:37,015 Con, today is the solstice. 631 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:42,353 Which means the witch isn't just gonna steal the vitality 632 00:28:42,454 --> 00:28:44,422 from the dancers at today's show. 633 00:28:45,924 --> 00:28:47,158 She's gonna be the one dancing. 634 00:28:58,470 --> 00:29:00,638 Have you spoken to your understudy? 635 00:29:01,773 --> 00:29:03,007 Natalia? 636 00:29:03,308 --> 00:29:04,943 Yes. Poor thing. 637 00:29:05,043 --> 00:29:06,211 She will be heartbroken 638 00:29:06,311 --> 00:29:09,447 when she hears that we cancelled everything. 639 00:29:10,415 --> 00:29:12,317 And where did you find her? 640 00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:16,888 I'm not so sure. Why do you ask? 641 00:29:16,988 --> 00:29:19,457 Because she looks exactly like you. 642 00:29:19,557 --> 00:29:23,828 It took you long enough. 643 00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:26,831 I thought Librarians were smarter. 644 00:29:27,198 --> 00:29:28,566 You knew that I was a Librarian? 645 00:29:28,666 --> 00:29:31,202 Yes, we heard about The Rogue Librarian 646 00:29:31,302 --> 00:29:32,937 popping up in Belgrade. 647 00:29:33,037 --> 00:29:34,973 But it's very interesting to meet you 648 00:29:35,073 --> 00:29:36,841 so far out from your time. 649 00:29:36,941 --> 00:29:38,109 Well, if you've heard of me, 650 00:29:38,576 --> 00:29:40,645 you've been playing this game a while. 651 00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:43,515 I don't usually let myself get this old, 652 00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:46,885 but I've been saving for the solstice. 653 00:29:46,985 --> 00:29:49,187 The solstice? Of course. 654 00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:51,189 You are Lady Midday. 655 00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:53,725 The Prima gave you enough power so you could take on 656 00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,059 a younger form, intermittently. 657 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,528 No way, don't tell me. 658 00:29:57,262 --> 00:29:58,730 And to sustain it, 659 00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:01,232 you need more adulation. 660 00:30:01,332 --> 00:30:03,902 That's what feeds you, the audience. 661 00:30:04,002 --> 00:30:05,036 Exactly. 662 00:30:05,136 --> 00:30:07,806 The dance culminates at midday. 663 00:30:08,173 --> 00:30:09,808 When you are most powerful. 664 00:30:09,908 --> 00:30:11,643 Now, that is very clever. 665 00:30:11,743 --> 00:30:14,379 Too bad that we've confiscated your resin. 666 00:30:14,479 --> 00:30:16,147 Can't ensorcel anybody without it. 667 00:30:16,247 --> 00:30:19,150 Not your dancers, or the audience. 668 00:30:19,684 --> 00:30:22,854 I've been dowsing this place for ages. 669 00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:25,390 There is dust in every surface. 670 00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,759 Just to get some little vitality. 671 00:30:27,859 --> 00:30:32,297 You know, most people won't mind losing a year or two. 672 00:30:32,397 --> 00:30:34,265 - That is not for you to decide. - No? 673 00:30:34,365 --> 00:30:36,768 -Who's gonna stop me? -Not who 674 00:30:37,535 --> 00:30:38,636 but what. 675 00:30:38,870 --> 00:30:40,538 I have the Rings of Absolution. 676 00:30:40,638 --> 00:30:44,175 The Talisman of Petrovich and the Banshee of Kearny. 677 00:30:44,275 --> 00:30:47,111 No witch's spell could ever get through these. 678 00:30:47,212 --> 00:30:49,547 And what about a taser? 679 00:30:54,552 --> 00:30:57,922 Welcome to the 21st century, Librarian. 680 00:30:58,723 --> 00:31:01,092 You're not gonna get to the theater on time for the show 681 00:31:01,192 --> 00:31:02,427 unless you take the magic door. 682 00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:04,529 -Charlie's not answering. -Neither is Vik. 683 00:31:04,629 --> 00:31:06,731 Not a surprise he still thinks the phone I got him 684 00:31:06,831 --> 00:31:08,166 is a mini obelisk of evil. 685 00:31:08,266 --> 00:31:09,868 You need to get to the theater now! 686 00:31:09,968 --> 00:31:11,502 -Hurry! -Ready? 687 00:31:15,673 --> 00:31:16,808 No. 688 00:31:17,408 --> 00:31:18,710 It's worse than I feared. 689 00:31:19,143 --> 00:31:20,979 Magic bumping up against other magic 690 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:22,413 can create a sort of blowback. 691 00:31:22,513 --> 00:31:24,415 The dance must be just about to start. 692 00:31:24,515 --> 00:31:26,251 With it, the Noon Witch's spell. 693 00:31:26,351 --> 00:31:28,186 And since we're all linked back into the area... 694 00:31:28,286 --> 00:31:29,454 It's gone into overload, 695 00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:31,222 and we can't go through the door? 696 00:31:31,489 --> 00:31:32,857 It's worse than that. 697 00:31:32,957 --> 00:31:34,225 When she dances, 698 00:31:34,325 --> 00:31:36,761 she won't just take some of the audience's vitality. 699 00:31:37,428 --> 00:31:38,897 She'll be able to gather all of it. 700 00:31:39,631 --> 00:31:41,733 So that means everyone in the theater will die 701 00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:44,335 if we don't stop her. 702 00:31:50,541 --> 00:31:52,143 Connor! That's a bike! 703 00:31:52,543 --> 00:31:54,879 Connor, that's a bike. A bike for one! 704 00:31:54,979 --> 00:31:56,281 Where am I gonna sit? 705 00:32:13,498 --> 00:32:14,866 That's my cue. 706 00:32:25,143 --> 00:32:26,210 This is so dangerous. 707 00:32:26,311 --> 00:32:28,947 -Fun but so, so dangerous. -Just hang on. 708 00:32:29,047 --> 00:32:29,981 Okay. 709 00:32:49,667 --> 00:32:51,035 Let me go! 710 00:32:58,343 --> 00:32:59,911 Hey! 711 00:33:01,946 --> 00:33:03,881 Hey. Hey, the witch is the Noon Witch. 712 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:06,184 She's gonna drain everyone at the theater when she dances 713 00:33:06,284 --> 00:33:07,719 on the solstice at noon. 714 00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:09,087 Aka today. Now. 715 00:33:09,187 --> 00:33:10,121 But you're skipping the bit 716 00:33:10,221 --> 00:33:11,356 where, since Vic spilled the well, 717 00:33:11,456 --> 00:33:12,657 the whole theater is supercharged. 718 00:33:12,757 --> 00:33:14,392 So she's not just gonna take a little life force, 719 00:33:14,492 --> 00:33:15,426 she's gonna kill them all. 720 00:33:15,526 --> 00:33:16,828 Yeah, just like Yelena. 721 00:33:17,295 --> 00:33:18,763 She was drained down to a corpse. 722 00:33:18,863 --> 00:33:19,764 What? 723 00:33:19,864 --> 00:33:21,566 Wait, did you say the dancer is the witch? 724 00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:23,668 It must mean she's Natalia! 725 00:33:23,768 --> 00:33:25,903 She'd be on stage right now! 726 00:33:26,004 --> 00:33:27,071 We have to get inside! 727 00:33:56,634 --> 00:33:57,935 No sign of Vic. 728 00:33:58,036 --> 00:33:59,170 So what do we do now? 729 00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:01,172 Okay, well, she needs the show to go off without a hitch 730 00:34:01,272 --> 00:34:03,174 because she needs adulation 731 00:34:03,274 --> 00:34:04,742 from the audience for her spell to work. 732 00:34:04,842 --> 00:34:07,645 So if we stop her dancing, we stop the spell? 733 00:34:07,745 --> 00:34:08,613 Yeah. 734 00:34:08,713 --> 00:34:10,214 Reckon we can put our differences aside, 735 00:34:10,314 --> 00:34:11,215 and manage that? 736 00:34:11,315 --> 00:34:12,984 -Say we give it a shot. -Okay. 737 00:35:04,235 --> 00:35:05,470 Now! 738 00:35:06,971 --> 00:35:08,005 Not that one! 739 00:35:10,341 --> 00:35:11,642 Now! Now! 740 00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:17,782 Natalia! 741 00:35:19,484 --> 00:35:20,551 If you don't stop dancing, 742 00:35:20,651 --> 00:35:22,487 you're not just gonna hurt these people 743 00:35:23,387 --> 00:35:25,756 -You're gonna kill them! -I am? 744 00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:27,558 Well. 745 00:35:52,617 --> 00:35:54,819 Okay. Not that one! 746 00:35:54,919 --> 00:35:56,053 That one! 747 00:36:04,328 --> 00:36:05,963 Hey! 748 00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:38,796 Bravo! 749 00:36:38,896 --> 00:36:41,832 Nice try, but you're too late. 750 00:36:45,369 --> 00:36:46,804 Bravo! 751 00:37:08,426 --> 00:37:09,660 So much power. 752 00:37:10,294 --> 00:37:12,463 I'm not only going to be young forever, 753 00:37:12,863 --> 00:37:14,832 I'm going to live forever. 754 00:37:24,709 --> 00:37:26,077 Vikram? 755 00:37:26,544 --> 00:37:27,511 You see, 756 00:37:27,612 --> 00:37:29,680 in your quest for power, I'm afraid, 757 00:37:29,780 --> 00:37:32,416 you forgot the most powerful thing 758 00:37:32,516 --> 00:37:34,285 in the entire theater. 759 00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:35,853 This. 760 00:37:35,953 --> 00:37:38,689 It starts the dance and stops it. 761 00:37:38,789 --> 00:37:40,758 You're too late. My spell is complete. 762 00:37:40,858 --> 00:37:43,227 Well, it can also speed things up, 763 00:37:43,861 --> 00:37:45,229 and slow them down. 764 00:37:45,663 --> 00:37:47,098 Changing the tempo 765 00:37:47,198 --> 00:37:50,334 from allegro to allegro moderato was just enough. 766 00:37:50,735 --> 00:37:53,104 That means your finale, 767 00:37:53,204 --> 00:37:57,375 and applause are 53 seconds behind schedule. 768 00:37:57,475 --> 00:37:58,643 You missed the window. 769 00:37:58,743 --> 00:38:01,846 The applause was too late. 770 00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:03,180 The ritual's ruined. 771 00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:04,348 No! 772 00:38:04,448 --> 00:38:05,716 No! 773 00:38:06,917 --> 00:38:11,489 No! No! No! No! No! 774 00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:21,198 Bravo! Bravo. 775 00:38:32,176 --> 00:38:34,512 No, no, Connor. Connor, Connor! 776 00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:44,955 Right, so, what's a taser? 777 00:38:53,164 --> 00:38:54,665 Got word from the hospital. 778 00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:57,234 The prima ballerina woke up just after noon. 779 00:38:57,335 --> 00:38:59,503 She's expected to make a full recovery. 780 00:38:59,603 --> 00:39:03,541 But, unfortunately, Yelena couldn't be revived. 781 00:39:04,709 --> 00:39:06,977 Dame Ana needed to drain her completely 782 00:39:07,078 --> 00:39:08,446 to perform the ritual. 783 00:39:08,546 --> 00:39:10,481 And everyone in that theater would have shared the same fate 784 00:39:10,581 --> 00:39:12,049 had we not intervened. 785 00:39:12,950 --> 00:39:15,086 The other dancers were questioned by police. 786 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:17,488 But they couldn't remember anything. 787 00:39:17,588 --> 00:39:19,123 Is that an effect of magic? 788 00:39:19,223 --> 00:39:20,758 That's an effect of humanity. 789 00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:23,260 Our brains cannot reconcile the unbelievable. 790 00:39:23,728 --> 00:39:25,563 It's easier to forget sometimes. 791 00:39:28,432 --> 00:39:31,035 See, if we did it that way, it would have fallen first. 792 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:32,870 And hit Charlie. 793 00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:35,139 -Ergo, we went backdrop first. -No. 794 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,007 What are you two arguing about now? 795 00:39:37,108 --> 00:39:38,175 We should have been better. 796 00:39:38,509 --> 00:39:40,378 At the theater, we were trying to stop the dance, 797 00:39:40,478 --> 00:39:43,180 but everything we did was ineffective. 798 00:39:43,647 --> 00:39:46,417 What are you talking about? You were remarkably effective. 799 00:39:46,984 --> 00:39:48,052 The witch would have spotted 800 00:39:48,152 --> 00:39:49,787 that I had slowed the tempo immediately 801 00:39:50,087 --> 00:39:52,256 had you not distracted her with all your tricks. 802 00:39:52,757 --> 00:39:54,125 You both did brilliantly. 803 00:39:55,192 --> 00:39:56,360 Together. 804 00:39:57,561 --> 00:40:00,765 Maybe we don't need to agree on everything to make it work. 805 00:40:01,098 --> 00:40:03,067 You're still not gonna call it magic, are you? 806 00:40:03,167 --> 00:40:04,168 No. 807 00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:06,404 Yeah. 808 00:40:11,776 --> 00:40:13,911 Look at you. Leading a team. 809 00:40:14,011 --> 00:40:15,913 You're less and less a Rogue Librarian every day. 810 00:40:16,013 --> 00:40:17,448 Bite your tongue. 811 00:40:18,048 --> 00:40:19,583 What on Earth are you wearing? 812 00:40:19,683 --> 00:40:22,620 I had a lot of time to develop a wide range of interests. 813 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,255 Anyway, I'm off. 814 00:40:25,122 --> 00:40:26,724 Where are you going, Mrs. Astolat? 815 00:40:26,824 --> 00:40:28,092 Well, remember I said 816 00:40:28,192 --> 00:40:30,060 I'd held almost every job this castle had to offer? 817 00:40:30,294 --> 00:40:32,797 Turns out I've accrued a lot of vacation time. 818 00:40:33,063 --> 00:40:35,599 Don't worry, I should be popping back every now and then. 819 00:40:35,699 --> 00:40:37,334 To keep my eye on you. 820 00:40:38,302 --> 00:40:40,037 TTFN. 821 00:40:41,705 --> 00:40:44,675 So, I couldn't help but notice 822 00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:46,410 you're a really good dancer. 823 00:40:46,510 --> 00:40:48,412 I used to dance when I was younger, 824 00:40:48,512 --> 00:40:49,480 but I gave it up. 825 00:40:49,580 --> 00:40:51,081 Too frivolous for a Guardian. 826 00:40:51,916 --> 00:40:53,951 But I admit, it came in handy today. 827 00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:57,288 Maybe this mission requires more than just combat training. 828 00:40:57,855 --> 00:40:59,123 Maybe we need you. 829 00:40:59,657 --> 00:41:00,691 Not just any old Guardian. 830 00:41:00,791 --> 00:41:04,028 Because of all of who you are. 831 00:41:04,829 --> 00:41:05,896 So, 832 00:41:06,163 --> 00:41:07,898 did you ever wear those ridiculous tutus, 833 00:41:07,998 --> 00:41:09,400 and is there video? 834 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:11,735 Your life is in my hands. 835 00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:14,271 All I have to do is not save you. 836 00:41:16,106 --> 00:41:17,241 Don't worry. 837 00:41:17,341 --> 00:41:19,677 We'll parse the nuance of that later on,