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* YouCantThwartStageOne: Despite all the efforts of the Librarians, the crown ends up stolen by the Serpent Brotherhood.
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* MacGyvering: Flynn makes a blowtorch out of an oxygen tank and some prosciutto.

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* MacGyvering: Flynn makes a blowtorch out of an oxygen tank and some prosciutto.prosciutto stuffed into a cucumber.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Lucifer2016 Mazikeen]] plays TheDragon with a penchant for katanas and throwing knives

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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Lucifer2016 [[Series/Lucifer2016 Mazikeen]] plays TheDragon with a penchant for katanas and throwing knives
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Lucifer2016 Mazikeen]] plays TheDragon with a penchant for katanas and throwing knives
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* ClapperGag: Jenkins tries to shut off the magical hologram of the planet with a clapper action. It doesn't work.

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* AltumVidetur: The Latin text in Lamia's tattoo is a line from the "Literature/TheSecondComing," which was written in English. Jacob helpfully translates it back to English, but there's no reason for it to be in Latin to begin with except to make it sound more portentous (or pretentious).


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* GratuitousLatin: The Latin text in Lamia's tattoo is a line from the "Literature/TheSecondComing," which was written in English. Jacob helpfully translates it back to English, but there's no reason for it to be in Latin to begin with except to make it sound more portentous (or pretentious).
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Not a plot hole, after all. Eve took out one of the gunmen, so there was only one guy to count bullets for.


* PlotHole: Even if he was CountingBullets, how was Flynn able to tell which shots were fired by which gunmen when he wasn't looking at them?
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* PlotHole: Even if he was CountingBullets, how was Flynn able to tell which shots were fired by which gunmen when he wasn't looking at them?
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* AltumVidetur: The Latin text in Lamia's tattoo is a line from the "Literature/TheSecondComing," which was written in English. Jacob helpfully translates it back to English, but there's no reason for it to be in Latin to begin with except to make it sound more portentous.

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* AltumVidetur: The Latin text in Lamia's tattoo is a line from the "Literature/TheSecondComing," which was written in English. Jacob helpfully translates it back to English, but there's no reason for it to be in Latin to begin with except to make it sound more portentous.portentous (or pretentious).
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* AltumVidetur: Lamia has a tattoo of "Literature/TheSecondComing" translated into Latin, which Jacob helpfully translates back into English.

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* AltumVidetur: Lamia has a The Latin text in Lamia's tattoo of "Literature/TheSecondComing" translated into Latin, is a line from the "Literature/TheSecondComing," which was written in English. Jacob helpfully translates it back into English.to English, but there's no reason for it to be in Latin to begin with except to make it sound more portentous.
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* BoobyTrap: In Flynn's introductory scene, he sets off an ancient booby trap protecting the artifact he's going for, and then has three minutes to disarm it before it sets off a ZombieApocalypse.


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* CountingBullets: In the opening scene, Flynn manages to keep track of the fact that the bad guy's AK-47 has fired 31 times, allowing Eve to have an ItWorksBetterWithBullets moment.
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* MacGyvering: Flynn makes a blowtorch out of an oxygen tank and some prosciutto.


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* ShoutOut: Flynn says that Librarians [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer save the world... a lot]].

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Col. Eve Baird, working with a counter-terrorism task force, runs into a strange man while tracking down terrorists. he helps her disarm a nuclear bomb (while disarming a... thing). A few days later she gets a letter in the mail from The Library. She has been recruited as the Guardian to the Librarian.

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Col. Eve Baird, working with a counter-terrorism task force, runs into a strange man while tracking down terrorists. he He helps her disarm a nuclear bomb (while disarming a... thing). A few days later she gets a letter in the mail from The Library. She has been recruited as the Guardian to the Librarian.



* LiteralMetaphor: Judson died five years ago, but is still with them in spirit. Meaning, his actual spirit is haunting a mirror in the Library.

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* AltumVidetur: Lamia has a tattoo of "Literature/TheSecondComing" translated into Latin, which Jacob helpfully translates back into English.
* BombDisposal: Eve has to disarm a nuclear bomb at the beginning of the episode. Flynn tells her there's a [[WireDilemma blue wire]]... which she should not touch.
* CircleOfStandingStones: The Librarians recover Arthur's crown from a henge in the middle of the Black Forest.
* LiteralMetaphor: Judson died five years ago, but is he's still with them in spirit. Meaning, his actual spirit is haunting a mirror in the Library.Library.
* RunningGag: Ninjas? In Oklahoma? Don't be ridiculous.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: {{Subverted}}. The henge is designed to reveal the location of the crown only on a specific date, when the sun shines in just the right place. They get there on the wrong date, but Cassandra can do the math to figure out where the sun would be shining, so it's okay.

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* LiteralMetaphor: Judson died five years ago, but is still with them in spirit. Meaning, his actual spirit is haunting a mirror in the Library.
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Col. Eve Baird, working with a counter-terrorism task force, runs into a strange man while tracking down terrorists. he helps her disarm a nuclear bomb (while disarming a... thing). A few days later she gets a letter in the mail from The Library. She has been recruited as the Guardian to the Librarian.

Then it turns out that a mysterious group is tracking down and murdering former candidates to the Librarianship. The Guardian and the Librarian track down the remaining candidates and learn that the mysterious group are seeking a magical artifact, for nefarious ends.

This episode, along with the next, forms a two-part duo.

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