The former is positioned as the greater evil, attempting to use magic to destroy the world in order to remake it more to his liking. The second season offers up a pair of new villains, both from fiction: Prospero ( Richard Cox), from Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Moriarty (David S. Carsen, who spends the first season searching for the main Library (removed from time and space at the beginning of the series) appears in some episodes. In the first season, they battle the forces of the Serpent Brotherhood, led by the mysterious immortal Dulaque ( Matt Frewer). With the help of Jenkins/ Galahad ( John Larroquette), immortal manager of the Library’s Annex, they solve impossible mysteries, rewrite and fix key moments in history, recover powerful magical artifacts, fight against supernatural threats, and learn important things about themselves and each other. In a break with the concept established in the films that there can be only one Librarian at a time, the first episodes reveal that the state of the world is so dire that it needs a team of Librarians, with Baird serving as Guardian of all four. At the end of the second episode the Library reissues their invitations. Their lives are threatened in the first episode in the series. The latter three received invitations from the Library at the same time as the current Librarian, Flynn Carsen ( Noah Wyle), but for various reasons didn't show up for their interviews. The series follows four people newly recruited by The Library: Colonel Eve Baird ( Rebecca Romijn), of the NATO Anti-Terrorist Unit, destined to be the new Guardian Ezekiel Jones ( John Harlan Kim), a consummate thief who can hack an NSA computer as easily as he can steal a Fabergé egg Cassandra Cillian ( Lindy Booth), a brilliant scientist and mathematician who possesses a trace of magic and Jacob Stone ( Christian Kane), polymath, linguist, expert in architecture, art, art history, archaeology and world cultures of the past and present, including Native American cultures, and other fields too numerous to mention, including bar fighting.
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