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A sepia flashback of a well-meaning girl out with a male friend, who clearly has a crush on her and low self-esteem. She goes to watch a magic show and he takes that as complete rejection and abandons her. This is despite the fact that he actually hasn't said or done anything yet to show the poor girl that to him it's a date. Man! I'm frustrated - girls aren't mind readers. I'm guessing this small imagined slight is what makes him into a douschebag as an adult... Flash forward - Iowa and Sean Astin is dressed as a magician and holding the hand of an unconscious girl as she is led away on a stretcher. Yup. An angry man appears and yells at him to get lost. The magician informs the angry man that they will be friends. Everyone is friends here. Coz that's not at all menacing. Whammy magic and suddenly the man is forced to juggle at tornado speed. Yup. Douschebag. Camera pans across a seemingly innocuous carnival. Jenkins is eating popcorn and searching for Miss Cillian. Clearly our team is missing. And the clowns appear to be the carnivals' menacing muscle. Jenkins looks at his phone and re-watches Eve's video which tells him to stay away and not come after them even as two clowns close in on her. Not good guys! These clowns have masks that are seriously scary too. All the ride attendants are zombies - welcome to the greatest carnival on earth. Jenkins hasn't found anyone yet. A locked door means he pulls out a lock pick set, 'And thank you for the Christmas present Mr Jones' - aww. Jenkins is surrounded by the menacing clowns who are growling. Jenkins grabs a random kid and pretends he is his nephew to get away. Then the kid proves to be a fount of info. The kid clearly isn't going anywhere. He assumes Eve is Jenkins' daughter - awww. She kinda is. The kid proves that the carnies are zombies. Only the clowns will come after you. Jenkins observes the clowns answering to our Sean Astin magician. They are flicking through some photobooth pics. Jenkins grabs one and see Ezekiel. Jenkins: 'I presume you were raised on electronics.' Boy: 'yes I was.' Best exchange. This kid is a delight. The people in the pics look weird. Something very bad happened here - understatement of the century. Jenkins tries to get the kid to leave to keep him safe. He actually manages to scare him enough to leave. Go Papa Jenkins. Looking around an empty stage Jenkins pulls a chord-!!!-and find Eve with two heads. Like two separate heads. Then the lights on the stage go on to reveal: Muscle man Jake, Snake charmer Ezekiel and Mermaid Cassie - all chanting, 'welcome to the greatest carnival on earth' like the other mindless carnies. Not good!! Can I just say Cassie is a beautiful mermaid. Jenkins gets Eve to breathe in something stinky and it brings her out of it. Eve's second head is a bit horny. The gang is out and Jake is pushing Cassie in a wheelbarrow. ' Are you ok, Cassandra?' He asks and all the fan girls sighed. Cassie sounds a bit dolphinesque. 'I'm never eating sushi again.' Awww! I feel Jake's irritation stems from his worry over Cassie more than anything else. Ezekiel can't stop the flute playing. Jenkins says that the guy in charge is either very powerful at magic or very new to it or worse - both. I'm guessing the magician will prove to be both. Meanwhile their disappearance has been noted and the magician is throwing a hissy. The clowns appear to be mute and totally cow towed to the magician. The clowns are coming and Jenkins suggests that the strong man Jake do some heavy lifting. He throws a couple of dodgems 59 block them. As soon as they enter the Annex they return to normal. Yay! Meanwhile Charlotte the poor girl from the sepia flashback arrives and the magician has a flip out. She doesn't remember him. She is wearing a waitress uniform and she says she can't miss her shift. The magician refuses to allow her to leave, which isn't creepy at all. He is trying for mysterious and not quite pulling it off. Creep. Stalker. Run girl!

Meanwhile back in the Annex, the effects of the transmutation on our gang is real. Jake’s muscles hurt. Cassie is guzzling water like a fish. Ezekiel is missing his abs. Eve wants to go back and Ezekiel wants to know if Eve kep the righ thead. Jenkins offers them memory loss elixirs and down the hatch! It tastes awful - a hangover in reverse, with colours that don’t exist in real life.

They went to visit the Jane Doe at a hospital - open sores on her hands, perfect manicure. She was wearing a ring with a unique symbol. A coveted award for a law firm - the girl gave up a high paying job to work at a carnival. They met the douschebag Magician. He likes waving his cape around. “Two heads are better than one,” he says with enigmatic presence. Policemen were physicaly pulled into the house of horrors where the magician turned him into a clown. Clowns are bad. Got it guys. Cassie is laughing hysterically at a mirror - concave, convex. The magician can do whatever he wants. More power in one person than Jenkins has seen in a long time. Not good. Not good at all.

Jenkins is feeling sensitive about Eve warning him to stay away. He thinks it’s because of his lack of field experience. She tells him that’s not it. He needed to be ok for the coming battle against Evil. Jenkins agrees that her logic is sound but assures her that there is nothing that would stop him from coming after her. Awww! Loving the Jenkins’ development here. If they were two other people, they would have hugged right there.

There is no information on the internet. Cassie noticed the unique awesomeness of the magician’s cape - Jake chimes in, Fabric of the Gods. Only one company made it for a Kirby Goulding. Up until 6 months ago he was terrible. The terrible man became great overnight - an artefact. Jenkins swears that the artefacts are all here. Why does the artefact have to be ancient? Ezekiel asks. Good point, Ezekiel. Magic is back with a bang after all. Jenkins produces some artefacts to get the people out of the carnival. The new artefact they are looking for needs to be an object of emotional signifcance to the creepy Kirby. His wand? Jake says. Too obvious. I’m going with the prize Kirby won way back when in the sepia flashback for Charlotte.

Cassie comes in with bags for them all containing, not magic (as a nod to Jake’s unwillingness to use magic) but whimsy. I love how Jake looks at Cassie. Of course they go for it - they are now dressed as punk funky clows and fairies. It’s girl/ boy teams to search for the artefact. The boys sneek into the cabin - The magician has kept his old high school yearbook. He kept pictures of them all - serial killers keeping trophies except he calls them “Special friends.” The boys run into trouble and lose their magic finder scope thingy to the crazy clowns.

Meanwhile, the magician is trying his darndest to hit on poor Charlotte - whose instincts are telling her that he’s a creep - but she can’t seem to get away. He takes her back to the same game they were playing in the sepia flashback. Eve and Cassie are observing the two of them and Cassie wants to know why Kirby hasn’t put the whammy on her yet. Eve points out that he has feelings and Cassie looks confused but attempts to pretend that she saw it to. - Aha! So she can’t see Jake’s feelings for her! Eve explains that 80% of communication is non-verbal. Nervouse - run fingers through hair, adjust clothing. Intrigued - raise eyebrows. Smile. Cassie is impressed. Please tell me that this will come up when she and Jake next interact!! Please, Please! Cassie wants to know if that is how Eve knew that Flynn liked her. Eve says, “No, he sent me a note - do you like me? Check yes or no.” Cassie calls that a classic move. Oi! Jake will have his work cut out for him.

Eve wants to know who the girl is. Ezekiel and Jake confirm its a Charlotte Holloway - same name as the Jane Doe in the hospital room. Kirby sent out gold tickets to all Charlotte Holloway - when they are the wrong girls, he punishes them. The magician flips out and Charlotte tries to leave again. She realises that she can’t leave the crazy man. He says ominously tonight after the ascension the carnival won’t end ever. Not good - he is planning on sending the carnival into a new dimension. 

Charlotte is crying - not great. She is tied up to a chair and he’s attempting to have fun with her. Man, he is crazy. He wants to her affection to be real. Ezekiel and Cassie suggest that it has to be the wand. Jake is annoyed - he said that ages ago. He is so delusional he doesn’t even realise that the wand is where his power is. Eve and Jake take out the clowns. Ezekiel and Jake take the place of the clowns. The magician wants her to laugh. He makes the two men physically hit each other - how is this funny, crazy dude? He makes them try to kill each other. He says that the friends are dying to entertainment. Cassie is working on freeing the woman.

The gang just make fun of him. They have wrongly assumed the wand was the artefact. Guys, it’s the prize he won 20 years ago! Just saying.

He is going to turn them into a permanent part of the house of horrors. Jake corrects the magician’s quote from Hamlet. Aww! Charlotte still can’t remember him. He made no impression on her at all. Cue the rant about how badly done by he was by the poor Charlotte. Yup, he be crazy.

Charlotte can’t even remember. A huge emotional response - 1996. It is all the same except the flower on the lapel. Charlotte remembers Kirby Goulding now - maths together. So far so good - she is saying all the right things. Charlotte points out that they can’t be friends again - because he is a psychopath. A quick game of keepings-off ends with Ezekiel throwing the flower into the plastic pit - or faking it and Kirby jumps in after it.

We start this week with the snowcapped mountains of Sweden and then some chanting, which turns out to be Cassie practicing her Swedish. And sigh! Cassie and Jake are off on a “nice, normal artefact retrieval.” And Jake isn’t happy that Flynn left this up to them! They are off looking for a crystal steeped in magic. Cassie has recalibrated the goggles to help them figure out which formation they need to take back with them. Jake accidentally leans against the crystal they are looking at and it’s a LITTLE bigger than they intended. Ezekiel is chillin’ on his phone. Eve is ready to bark some orders at him to help him reach his potential. She has set up booby traps and plans to blindfold herself and get Ezekiel is supposed to guide her but - big surprise! He’s already out of here.

Cassie and Jake are disagreeing about the use of magic. Aw! Is Jake worried about Cassie using magic? Jenkins is looking to build a new incubator since the last one is overheating. Ezekiel Jones is being told to step up - the egg of the Loch Ness monster! Nessie asked Jenkins to watch the egg while she dealt with problems at the Lake - lol. 

Suddenly Jake and Cassie are under attack and the guy is wearing a balaclava. Jake goes all muscle man to protect Cassie- love it. Then Cassie uses her time alone to use magic to confuse the consciousness within the crystal. “Damn it, Cassandra, I told you-” Jake says. Before Cassie gets stabbed by the crystal and Jake is rushing her out of the mountain to get her back home. A mysterious village appears - and they head straight for it. Probably a bad idea!

Jake says he has to “get you home” to Cassie. The main hall has people with name tags who stare as the two librarians enter. Not suspicious or uncomfortable at all. No phone and no reservation - there is a private reunion. Jake points out there is a huge storm. They are having none of it. Jake pretends to be Finkelstein - Cassie uses the goggles and see that every normal person is actually a demon in disguise. Cassie is freaking out. Jake doesn’t know what’s going on but is trying to go ahead with it.

So, is this your girlfriend? they are asked. “No,” they reply in unison, “No!” Aha! We don’t believe you, guys. Cassie pretends to be his sister. The demons talk about ripping off people’s heads who are interlopers. Cassie is forced to orientation. Eve is wearing goggles and rugged up - she is going off after Cassie and Jake.

Ezekiel meanwhile put the egg on top of a bunsen burner. Jenkins is worried about leaving the egg with Ezekiel. Nessie only lays an egg every 100 years. If the egg doesn’t survive, Nessie will be angry. Jenkins fires up the door and the ice comes pouring in.

The festivities include drinking, gaming and pathological one-upping of what they have been doing for the last however many years... Demons are funny when they catch up. Jake hasn’t given anything away just yet. “Hollytoffle” - a norse name for a game. The ceremony is too important and they leave their magic at the door... Cassie is still pretty freaked. Jake is faking his way through the games.

Cassie finds herself comforting a female demon about Jake but winds up getting hit on by the female demon. Olaffsson demon has specialised in plagues. Cholera is delightful! A phrase I never thought I hear said in this show. What is your favourite natural disaster, Jake? Huh? Global warming. Woh! The demons are impressed. Brutal, they agree. Cassie needs to find Jake and clue him in.

Meanwhile, Eve is still trying to hack her way through an ice wall. Ezekiel is now hugging the giant blue egg. I’m reminded of his time with Stumpy. “Don’t worry, you are going to stay  nice and warm.” Cassie gets followed into the bathroom by the female demon. The ceremony involves the consuming of the crystal - you know the crystal that’s now inside Cassie’s heart. Cassie’s heart starts glowing immediately. Not good! The demons used to fight each other to get their hands on it. Now there is a problem. Jake is drunk and thinks he is making the best of a bad situation. Cassie shoves the goggles on Jake and pushes him out the door to look at them. And now Jake is on board! Cassie’s chest glows and Jake’s eyes focus in on Cassie’s chest - and she actually moves his chin up to meet her eyes - lol. Cassie thinks that they should use magic - Jake does not.

Ezekiel was tracking weather patterns on his phone all day, which was actually not him goofing off. The storm that is affecting Jake and Cassie came out of nowhere. Not good so they check the appointment book that had the notation. Meanwhile Cassie and Jake are arguing in the closet about magic. Jake is convinced that magic is bad. He doesn’t want anyone to get hurt. Cassie says that no one has gotten hurt. Jake says, “you did.” Cassie tells him that she is not fragile. She is just trying to make the best of a bad situation - phew! Tempers are running hot, guys, and I’m loving it - Jake says, he doesn’t think she’s is fragile. He thinks she is too smart to be this reckless. Jake says they have to brace the storm. Cassie disagrees. Jake puts a huge thick scarf around her. Not everything needs to be solved with magic, he says as he says the magic words to make the point that her chest is not glowing anymore.

Frosty... Jake realises who they are. They aren’t demons. They are Frostgiants - Norse Gods. Their most famous ancestor, Loki. I’m familiar with Him. These guys have segued into the mischief business. Weather control capabilities. Jake and Cassie are trying to get out of the bar. But just as they get to the door they see the men bringing in the crystal. They are going to partake in the angerbote crystal - it re-grows every 600 years. Cassie and Jake are trying to escape but the real Finkelstein shows up. Interloper! A false Finkelstein. Jake tries to shift blame to the other guy. All of them get seized and Cassie has lost her large scarf. 

The head guys has known them for 10,000 years - Olaffsson. The real Finkelstein actually does have a sister - Jake does quite well at faking the questions. 150 years ago - cholera outbreak - Jake does amazing at faking it. How long has we been friends? And here is where Jake loses. Finkelstein and Olaffsson were never friends. They end up fighting. Jake and Cassie start running but it’s not looking good.

Ezekiel wants to know if the computer will track magic. DOSA - do they have military grade tech that tracks magic? Jake and Cassie - the Librarians - they announce that to everyone else. They let everyone know that Finkelstein was trying to take the crystal on his own. Cassie said the real name of the crystal and made her own chest glow in front of everyone - bad!!

Ezekiel is now carrying the egg in a baby carrier on his chest. Ezekiel thinks he can narrow it down to locate Cassie. The egg was the last thing that Cassie used magic on. Cassie and Jake communicate with their eyes. Jake effectively tells her to use magic to set him free because he trusts her. Jake defends Cassie - a cute moment when Cassie rushes to him. 

Ezekiel is talking to the egg like it’s a baby. “You’re doing great. It won’t hurt a bit.” Eve wants to get her guardian on but the connection is unstable. She can’t go through. Cassie is following jake up the stairs as quick as possible. They lock the doors with an axe. Jake tells Cassie to go. She says, no, we go together. They run toward the window. It moves. They run back towards the elevator. Jake and Cassie jump down the elevator shaft and into the Annex.

Ezekiel is now rocking the egg like it’s a baby. The Frost Giants now declare the truce is over and the village disappears. Jake has rope burns. Ezekiel is smiling at the egg like a proud mama - Aw! Cassie has to pass the crystal - ouch! She wants to know if Jake is still mad that she used magic. He looks a bit put out by the question. Cassie make the point that they step through a broom closet and end up in Sweden. Magic is a part of what they do! It can’t be all that bad. Jake says, he knows that. He’s amazed by how much she’s learned and what she can do - this is a big Jassandra moment, guys - but it’s the not-bad parts that make people think that the bad parts are not that bad. Yes, magic got them out of trouble today but it was also what put them in it. Cassie says, Point taken. Jassandra smile - sigh. 

Ezekiel declares, it’s happening. The egg hatches and a baby nessie is born. It imprints on Ezekiel, who is grinning like a proud mama. Awww! Another cute moment for Ezekiel.