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00:01How was I supposed to know that he would eat all our clothes?
00:05It was a giant moth.
00:07I thought it was...
00:08What, Connor?
00:09A what?
00:10A goth butterfly?
00:11A vampire caterpillar?
00:12Not as hungry as it turned out to be.
00:14If you just waited like I said.
00:16Listened like I said.
00:17I know, I know.
00:18I shouldn't have opened the big moth-shaped box that said,
00:21do not open the big moth-shaped box written on it,
00:23but it was so big and moth-shaped.
00:25And it was fortuitous that we were able to acquire these
00:28emergency vestments from the Imperium of Inconspicuous Attire.
00:32It was a costume shop.
00:34You think this is inconspicuous?
00:37No, it isn't.
00:38Oh.
00:39You must have less interesting friends than I did.
00:41The point, sir, is that your recklessness is rubbing off on Connor,
00:44and I do not like it one little bit.
00:46Me? Reckless?
00:47No.
00:48Never.
00:49You gotta live a little, Charlie.
00:50And you know, occasionally open a giant moth-shaped box.
00:53Mmm.
00:54Oh, great.
00:55A bromance is forming.
00:57Incoming.
01:02Here we go again.
01:08Ruskin Convention Center here in Belgrade.
01:10Ruskin Convention Center?
01:14Well, we know where ConCon 25 is happening.
01:16And what is a ConCon?
01:18It's a conspiracy convention.
01:19It's in its 25th year.
01:21It is an international gathering of idiots with way too much time and internet on their hands.
01:27Hmm.
01:28Conspiracy theorists.
01:29You know, people who believe the earth is flat or the moon is a spaceship or the Loch Ness monster is real.
01:35The Loch Ness monster is real.
01:37Yeah, you'd fit right in.
01:39Intriguing.
01:40Shall we visit?
01:41No.
01:42You don't want to do that.
01:43Trust me.
01:44It's super dumb.
01:47This is your own crew, isn't it, Connor?
01:49Not really.
01:50No.
01:51No.
01:52Well, you know, maybe perhaps a smidge.
01:55Oh.
01:56Oh.
01:57Oh, a smidge.
01:58So then, hardly at all.
01:59Barely any yet.
02:00Crumb, like a tinge at best.
02:03Exactly.
02:04Just passing through, they barely knew me.
02:06Care to explain this?
02:08What ever happened to Connor Green?
02:11But Connor, you're Connor Green!
02:13Probably another Connor Green.
02:14No.
02:15This is a photo of you.
02:17Connor Green.
02:18Hmm.
02:20If, uh, the pendulum says we gotta go.
02:22No, no, sure, but...
02:23We gotta go.
02:24Guys.
02:25We gotta go.
02:26I'm gonna put on some underpants.
02:29Besides, it will give me a great opportunity to test my latest invention.
02:33Someone already invented a phone?
02:35Oh, ye of little faith.
02:37Mm-hmm.
02:52Your average smartphone is a mass of sensors and receivers.
02:55Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, radio, sound and light.
02:58I have harnessed all of them to create an app that transforms your average ordinary cell phone into an unknown science detector.
03:05You made a magic app?
03:06No.
03:07I have made an unknown science sensitive app.
03:09A magic app?
03:10And what's it telling you?
03:12That there is a massive energy spike here.
03:17You mean me?
03:18Ah.
03:19Having a librarian nearby is really screwing up my science.
03:22A poor workman blames their tools?
03:24Well, if anyone's a tool...
03:25And why is there a keynote speech about you disappearing, Connor?
03:28I didn't disappear.
03:29I joined the library.
03:30And secrecy's part of the deal, so I had to stop posting.
03:34And the Con-Cons notice because you're, what, a celebrity in the world?
03:39Kinda.
03:40I used to be a serious academic.
03:42I was doing my masters at Stuttgart.
03:44I was the rising star of the teaching staff.
03:46Just to be clear, you're talking about THE Stuttgart.
03:49And everything was going great until he wrote a paper on vampires.
03:52More specifically, that they're real.
03:54Vampires are real.
03:55Exactly.
03:57But this is Stuttgart.
03:58And so, I was laughed out of my job.
04:00But I still had research I needed to do, places to go, things to see, and illegally accessed and occasionally steal.
04:07So, I needed funding.
04:09Wait.
04:10That's why you did your conspiracy theory videos for the cliques?
04:13Partly, yes.
04:14But also, I wanted to give my Spectral Snoops the inside scoop.
04:18Spectral Snoops?
04:19My followers, don't laugh.
04:20But I only, only ever tried to spread the truth.
04:23There a way.
04:24As opposed to this guy.
04:28Harry Pope.
04:29The worst human being I ever met.
04:35Now I get it.
04:36You don't want us to know about your past life,
04:38because then we would realize that you were king of the nerds.
04:41I was not their king.
04:42All right?
04:43Oh, my God.
04:45King Con.
04:48It's you.
04:49King Con.
04:51You're back.
04:52Nah, mate.
04:53Nah.
04:54Sorry.
04:55You look like him.
04:56Honestly, it happens all the time.
04:58And I'm gonna need a disguise.
05:00Hello.
05:01500.
05:02Ah, whatever.
05:03King Con.
05:04Hmm.
05:05It was my handle back in the day, okay?
05:07Connor.
05:08But with King in front of it.
05:09Such grandiosity.
05:11I like it.
05:16Welcome to Con Con.
05:18That is a lot of alternative facts.
05:20It's like flypaper for freaks.
05:23I think I'm going to like this very much.
05:26All this nonsense that they're peddling, it's just a room full of lies.
05:29Hey, it's not all lies, okay?
05:31Like the Dracovac Believers Club.
05:33We could all join that one.
05:34Would it make me a liar now, would it?
05:36No one's saying you are.
05:38No, I'm just saying I cannot stand being called a liar.
05:41In this vehement aversion, can it be traced back to your dismissal from Stuttgart after your vampire paper?
05:47I lost my whole career because they said I was a liar.
05:50The whole time I was telling the truth.
05:51Go figure.
05:53Oh, I found something.
05:54Oh, no.
05:55It's still Vikram.
05:56And these people, did they think of you as their leader, did they not?
06:02Sorta?
06:03And a leader had responsibilities to his community.
06:06Like what?
06:07Like not to disappear.
06:08Okay, but how could I tell them about finding the library?
06:11Well, you never could.
06:14Well, exactly.
06:16The Earth is triangle, the moon landing, conspiracy, conspiracy.
06:21Ducks aren't real.
06:24I know.
06:25But if you're a french fry guy, you're gonna find yourself hanging out with a bunch of hamburger guys and nugget guys and...
06:31The Earth is flat, don't take the 5G vaccine guys.
06:33Okay?
06:34But in the end, I really became fond of them.
06:36Especially one guy, he was like a little brother to me.
06:38You know, we did everything together.
06:39What was his name?
06:40Pedro.
06:41Pedro Worth.
06:42And this Pedro Worth was here around yay high, 18 or thereabouts.
06:46Black hair, brown eyes, and always knew how to pull off a plaid shirt.
06:50Vikram, that's incredible.
06:51How did you do that?
06:52Well, there's a young man standing behind you right now who matches that description entirely, staring very intensely.
06:57Pedro!
06:58Connor!
06:59Oh, my God!
07:00Dude!
07:01I thought you were dead, or...
07:02You're okay.
07:03You...
07:04You...
07:05You lousy no good...
07:06Ow!
07:07Welcome home.
07:08Hey!
07:09What do you think you're doing?
07:10No, no, no.
07:11My high school.
07:12High schoolies.
07:13Pedro, why did you do that?
07:14That hurt.
07:15Did it hurt like it hurt when you abandoned me and I thought you were dead?
07:17No, it didn't hurt like that.
07:18It is an honor to make your acquaintance, Pedro Worth.
07:19My name is Vikram.
07:20And I...
07:21Not a word you should probably say in here, sir.
07:23Ah, good point.
07:24No, no, no.
07:25No, no.
07:26No, no.
07:27No, no.
07:28No, no.
07:29No, no.
07:30No, no.
07:31No, no.
07:32No, no.
07:33No, no.
07:34No, no.
07:35No, no.
07:36No, no.
07:37Good point.
07:38Too many true believers around, hmm?
07:41Hi.
07:42Hi, sir.
07:45Sorry.
07:46He's clean.
07:47I know he's clean.
07:48He's like my little brother.
07:49Was.
07:50And then you ran out on me.
07:52I didn't run out.
07:53You disappeared!
07:54Months ago!
07:55You didn't phone.
07:56You didn't message.
07:57You...
07:58I know, I know.
07:59I'm sorry.
08:00It's complicated.
08:01Okay.
08:02Fair enough.
08:03Your life has always been complicated.
08:04And it's easy to judge without knowing all the facts.
08:07So here's your chance to make it all good.
08:09Just...
08:10Tell me where you've been.
08:19I can't.
08:20I'm sorry.
08:21I trusted you.
08:22Pedro.
08:23You abandoned us.
08:24Us?
08:25Everybody respected you at ConCon.
08:27You know we did.
08:29I already had my real family walk out on me, but you...
08:32I thought you were different.
08:34Now?
08:35I wish I'd never met you at all.
08:41I did the right thing not telling him about the library.
08:44Right thing?
08:45I think this is one of those days where I don't really know what that means.
08:48Ladies and gentlemen.
08:49Humans and others.
08:50Please start making your way towards the main stage for ConCon's keynote speech.
08:55Whatever happened to Connor Green?
08:57Given by special guest, Harvey Pope.
09:00It's beeping.
09:01And he's not pointing at Vikram.
09:03It works.
09:04But it's beeping.
09:05That's bad.
09:06Come on.
09:09What's with the scary security?
09:11I don't know.
09:12That's new.
09:13I don't want him to see me.
09:19So who is Harvey Pope?
09:20Well, according to this reading material, Mr. Pope is a visionary.
09:24Hmm.
09:25A modern day philosopher.
09:26A truth spreader who tells him like it is.
09:28Harvey's got them all brainwashed.
09:30Whatever I did, no matter how crazy, I was only ever trying to tell them the truth.
09:33All Harvey wants is to gain status over people, bully them, sell them vitamins.
09:37Attendees, please welcome to the stage Mr. Pope's right-hand man, Pedro Wirth.
09:42Thanks for the applause, but I know it's not me you're here to see, so I'll keep it short.
09:51A few months ago, our community lost a shining light.
09:55Connor Green.
09:57I know a few of you knew Connor, but for me, the loss was deeply personal.
10:02We were his spectral snoops.
10:04And when he went up and disappeared, it was like the rug was snatched out from underneath us.
10:09Until this great man took us all under his wing.
10:15It is my honor to introduce to you now, Harvey Pope!
10:22How could Peter get involved with Harvey?
10:24Maybe because there was no one there to tell him not to.
10:28Hello, ConCon!
10:31Hello, ConCon!
10:36You're all far too kind.
10:42Whatever happened to Connor Green?
10:45It's a good question, isn't it?
10:47When he disappeared, when he stopped posting, I felt it like a bereavement.
10:53Didn't you?
10:54Yep.
10:55Then I learned the truth.
10:57Connor invented the library and his quest to find it.
11:00To con us out of our money.
11:03I bravely confronted Connor with this truth.
11:07And he ran!
11:08He took our money, our trust, and he ran!
11:13Leaving us with only his lies!
11:15I'm not a liar.
11:17No.
11:20That's not true.
11:21Connor, you have a defender.
11:26Connor believed in the library.
11:28The only liar around here is you.
11:31No?
11:32Hey, I like him.
11:33This is a public platform.
11:35Everyone has a voice.
11:36Even if we disagree, I respect that.
11:39Out of interest, show of hands.
11:42How many of you trust me as much as you trusted Connor?
11:47About a third.
11:48Please, give me the chance to change your mind.
11:52I will give you something Connor could never give you.
11:55I will provide proof that magic is real.
12:07That's a bad sound.
12:10Behold!
12:11The crown of Anansi.
12:13The West African Trace of God.
12:14The crown of Anansi.
12:17Miss Asalat, we need a way out. Fast.
12:20Get out of our way.
12:21Running away again.
12:22Connor Green.
12:23Always hiding from the truth.
12:24No, that's not what I'm doing.
12:25The crown.
12:26It's natching on a magical parasite.
12:27You trust me, don't you?
12:29You trust me as much as you trusted Connor Green.
12:30To the ends of the earth.
12:31Captain, my captain.
12:32How many of you trust me more than you trusted Connor Green?
12:34To the ends of the earth.
12:35Captain, my captain.
12:36How many of you trust me more than you trusted Connor Green?
12:38Trust me.
12:43Trust me.
12:47Trust me.
12:48You trust me as much as you trusted Connor Green.
12:50To the ends of the earth, Captain, my captain.
12:51How many of you trust me more than you trusted Connor Green?
12:56Trust me.
12:57Choose wie ma.
12:59Trust me.
13:00Douche!
13:01house.
13:02Bi wh ask your transfer.
13:03Great power is in the wrong hand.
13:04Yes, we need to leave now.
13:05in the wrong hands. Guys, guys, we need to leave now.
13:07Crown of Anansi, it's a mind-control device.
13:09Trust me.
13:10Trust me.
13:12Let's go.
13:16Come on, Hats. Run, run!
13:17Come on. Trust me.
13:20Trust me.
13:26What the hell is going on here?
13:32What the...
13:33Pedro?
13:34Where the...
13:35Pedro, calm down.
13:36How the...
13:36Calm down.
13:38Breaths. Deep breaths.
13:39You're safe. You're safe now.
13:41Is this the library?
13:42No.
13:44Sort of. It's the annex to the library.
13:46And what gave it away?
13:48Was it all the books?
13:49The library?
13:52You're telling me that the library is real?
13:57How could you let a civilian in here?
13:58Civilian? Wait.
14:00Are you the librarian?
14:01Oh, definitely not.
14:02I am the librarian.
14:04Charlie here is my guardian.
14:06Connor and Lyssa are, um...
14:08What are you, anyway?
14:10We never really nailed down the wording.
14:12Hmm.
14:13You're part of all this.
14:15All this time.
14:16You knew.
14:16I'm sorry.
14:17I couldn't tell you.
14:18I...
14:19There were rules.
14:20Yeah, because you've been so big on rules following.
14:22I had a responsibility to the library,
14:24to the literal safety of the actual world.
14:26You found the thing we were actually looking for,
14:28and you never told me.
14:29I can tell anyone.
14:31I'm not just...
14:32anyone.
14:33How do I get out of here?
14:35Out of here?
14:37Am I a prisoner, or...
14:38Yes.
14:39No, no, of course not.
14:40Connor, you're not even supposed to be here.
14:42What do you think this is, an open house?
14:44Oh, come now, Charlie.
14:44Can't you see the man has an honest face?
14:47Pedro.
14:48Okay, we'll just go back out of the magic door,
14:49which Charlie will open to somewhere safe, won't she?
14:51Hmm.
14:53Just saying, there used to be rules.
14:56Pedro, stay away from Harvey Pope.
14:59Stay away from...
14:59You just don't get it, do you, Connor?
15:02You're not the king of anything anymore.
15:05Do not tell me what to do.
15:12I like him.
15:21Okay.
15:22I found something.
15:25Uh.
15:27The crown of Anansi is made with a rare iron alloy
15:30painted in silver, and it thrives on chaos,
15:32feeding on rational thought
15:34and eating through any human mind it touches
15:36until that mind is no longer able to tell truth from lies
15:38or common sense from whack-job conspiracy woo-woo.
15:42I paraphrase the last bit.
15:43So it removes your BS detector?
15:45It makes you utterly convinced that BS
15:46is the purest possible truth.
15:48The crown's power lies in infusing
15:50the wearer's speech with magic.
15:52The stronger-willed you are,
15:53the easier it is to resist it,
15:54which gives us somewhat of an advantage,
15:56but not immunity.
15:57The crown turned invisible when Harvey put it on.
15:59I guess it's easier to control people's minds
16:01if you can hide the thing you're doing it with.
16:03So we just need to resist the crown's power
16:04and get close enough to Harvey to take it off.
16:07We could use noise-canceling headphones.
16:08Hmm.
16:09An exemplary suggestion.
16:10But do not forget that Harvey has an army
16:12of brainwashed believers around him.
16:14Just to get close enough to steal the crown
16:15requires a cunning strategy.
16:17So we're planning a magic heist?
16:20Indeed we are.
16:22And what say you, Connor?
16:26You keep hammering out the complicated plan,
16:28I'm gonna try the simple one.
16:30I'm gonna talk to him.
16:39Oh!
16:40Connor Green.
16:42You scared me halfway to death.
16:43You must have heard my little speech earlier.
16:46Oh, where you trashed my reputation
16:48and called me a liar?
16:49Yeah, I did.
16:51How's the Nazi's crown fitting?
16:53Locked on tight.
16:54Listen, Connor, don't take it seriously.
16:56It's all part of the game.
16:58I trash talk you, you trash talk me.
17:01At least it clicks to both of us.
17:04Like wrestling.
17:05It's all theater.
17:07Harvey, the crown is a parasite.
17:09It doesn't just feed on the people who hear it,
17:11it feeds on the person who wears it.
17:12At first it'll make you think you're king of the world.
17:14Then comes the paranoia, everyone's against you,
17:16and the crown nibbles away more and more
17:18until it's literally eaten your brain through your ears.
17:20Scared, are you?
17:22Now I finally got a taste of your power.
17:24I never wanted power.
17:26But you had it!
17:27Connor Green.
17:28So likable, so charismatic.
17:31And little old me scrambling around in the background for scraps.
17:33Well, not anymore.
17:35People followed me because I was telling you the truth.
17:38But you?
17:38You just want to push people around and sell them quack supplements.
17:42You think I'm only in this for the money?
17:44Of course I am.
17:46You don't care about them.
17:47No one cares about them.
17:47I cared about them.
17:48No, you looked down on them.
17:50I did not.
17:50Then why did you abandon them?
17:53Things got complicated.
17:54And yet maybe I got distracted and maybe I could have...
17:57Maybe I could have thought about them more.
17:59But I'm thinking about them now.
18:01Which is why I'm here to make you an offer.
18:03Give me the crown.
18:04And I'll give you what you really want.
18:07And what's that?
18:09My phone and my passwords.
18:11It's got all my contacts, all my notes, everything I ever found.
18:14All yours.
18:14You really can be the new me.
18:16And I won't stop you.
18:17But, Connor, I can just take that from you now.
18:21Can't I?
18:24Trust me.
18:28Voice canceling headphones.
18:30Clever.
18:30Let's go old school.
18:32Security!
18:33Remove his ear things.
18:35I want him to hear me clearly.
18:36Stay back!
18:39Magic fingers.
18:41Huh?
18:41There's no such thing as magic fingers, you idiots.
18:44Get him!
18:48Pedro?
18:49Shut up and run!
18:55Harvey showed me the crown last week.
18:57He must have used it to get inside my head.
18:59Made me think he was this great guy.
19:01But when I heard him talking back there, how are you saying he didn't care about any of us?
19:05Hearing him contradict his story broke his control over you.
19:08I just knew I had to get you out of there.
19:12I can see what's real now.
19:16So we're good now?
19:17No.
19:18You lied to me.
19:19You abandoned me.
19:20I'm just not going to forget all that.
19:22The only thing that's changed, Connor, is that we both agree.
19:26Harvey Pope needs to be stopped.
19:30So did you learn anything?
19:31One thing.
19:32Pedro broke Harvey's control over him when he heard Harvey contradict his own story.
19:36Yeah, so we just need to get Harvey to admit to his eyes publicly.
19:39Which he'd never do.
19:40So, plan B?
19:41Wait.
19:42Harvey's hold broke?
19:43That means you and Pedro are friends again.
19:45That's great.
19:45Yeah, no, uh, turns out the hitting-my-guts bit was all real.
19:50So, if we can't get Harvey to confess, what do we do?
19:53We must stop him speaking altogether.
19:56Guardian, with your permission, there is a spell of silence held within these vaults,
20:03which I employ with great success during the Battle of La Blocher.
20:06No.
20:07No magic.
20:08Absolutely not.
20:10Fine!
20:10Then I suppose your godless science has a way to freeze a man's own words within his mouth.
20:17Well, actually, they have.
20:19Oh.
20:20Oh.
20:22When I was a kid, I used to stutter.
20:24And I used this audio therapy to help me...
20:27Oh, I've heard about this.
20:28The feedback loop.
20:29Stutter would wear an earpiece, and their voice would be redirected back to them on...
20:34At a delay?
20:35Like a repeating echo of yourself.
20:37Your stutter forces your brain to focus on speaking properly.
20:39But if you're not, the effect can be so disorientating that it stops you from being able to speak altogether.
20:45So, we need to find a way to broadcast an oral feedback loop into Harvey's ears so that we may claim the crown from him.
20:54A sonic cannon.
20:55I could whip that up really quick.
20:56Right then.
20:57Ladies and gentlemen, we have a plan.
21:00Now we need to pour loin, some sophisticated audio equipment, an electromagnet, and of course, a Bigfoot costume.
21:09Ah, please, make yourself comfortable, Mr. Pope.
21:14You know, they say it's a real power move to sit with your back to a window, so we found you the biggest window we could find.
21:20I'm very grateful.
21:22Trust me.
21:24My pleasure.
21:25A big fan.
21:27Huge.
21:33Okay.
21:34Okay.
21:34Mark is on position.
21:35Oh, I got to see Mark.
21:37And Connor and Charlie?
21:38Ready and waiting.
21:40Right.
21:40Well, aim your sonic cannon and spring this trap.
21:45Who you can call.
21:46You must be my biggest fan.
21:51Be my biggest fan.
21:53Trust me.
21:55Be my biggest fan.
21:58Trust me.
22:00Trust me.
22:01Wait.
22:02Wait.
22:03What?
22:03What?
22:04What?
22:05I...
22:05Security!
22:06Security!
22:07Do something!
22:08Do something!
22:09I...
22:10I...
22:10Now.
22:12Can't...
22:13Can't...
22:14Can't...
22:15Can't...
22:15Can't...
22:19Wait.
22:21Gotcha.
22:24How did you...
22:25Harvey, it's called having friends.
22:31The scales have been lifted from my eyes.
22:34Shame on you, Harvey Pope.
22:36Shame.
22:37No.
22:39Come back.
22:39Follow me.
22:42Trust me.
22:44Make me your king.
22:46We did it.
22:47You were amazing.
22:48We all were amazing.
22:50Teamwork makes the dream work.
22:51Oh, God.
22:51That didn't sound right coming from me at all.
22:53And we have the crown.
22:55Charlie.
22:55So what do we do with it now, sir?
22:57Lock it away in the library.
22:58Neutralize it forever.
22:59I wholeheartedly agree.
23:01Yeah.
23:02Me too.
23:03Wait.
23:04Why are we all holding it like this?
23:06Vikram, I can't let go.
23:12Beware the crown.
23:13Shield your mind.
23:15Charlie Cornwall.
23:16I can hear it speaking to me.
23:18I can give you your heart's desire.
23:21You just put me on and I will guide you to becoming a full guardian.
23:26No.
23:27I won't let you trick me.
23:28Lisa Pascal, I will give you the insight you need to meld magic and science into a brand new technology.
23:35Get out of my head.
23:36Connor Green, with my help, you will regain your position at Stuttgart and never be called a liar again.
23:43Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.
23:44Vikram, Chamberlain.
23:45To you I offer the secrets of time.
23:48Put me on and you shall be reunited with Anya.
23:53Vik.
23:54Just put me on, librarian.
23:56Don't.
23:57And the past shall be your present again.
23:59No!
24:13It's so good to welcome you back, Connor.
24:16The department hasn't been the same without you.
24:20Of course, you were right.
24:21Vampires are real.
24:23And once we publish your excellent research, the whole world will know it too.
24:28In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you're running the entire anthropology program by the end of the year.
24:34Put me on, Connor.
24:36And this dream becomes reality.
24:45Put me on.
24:46Welcome to the department, Dr. Green.
24:55Connor.
24:56Is everything all right?
25:19Yeah.
25:20Yeah, it is now.
25:21Come on, let's go home.
25:22You go ahead.
25:25I'll catch you up.
25:39It tempted me so much.
25:41It took everything I had to rip it off me.
25:43What did it feel like wearing it?
25:45Like I could do anything.
25:46And everyone loved me, and I was right about everything all the time.
25:49So, wearing the crown made you feel like you were Bikram?
25:53And there is no finer feeling, let me assure you.
25:56Where have you been, Vic?
25:57Oh, just tying up a few loose ends.
26:00Now, has anyone seen my...
26:02What was that?
26:07Uh, what was what?
26:08Didn't you gasp, Connor?
26:10No.
26:11Not at all.
26:11No gasping here, Vic.
26:16But I do need to talk to Charlie and Lysa.
26:18Alone.
26:21Alone?
26:21Yeah.
26:22Uh, it's about my tax return.
26:25Do I need to declare library costs on the pink form if I...
26:28Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
26:30You lost me at taxes.
26:33Taxes.
26:36Connor, I literally sent you an email about this two weeks ago.
26:45Bikram's wearing the crown.
26:47What?
26:47He must have gone and got it when I threw it away.
26:49That's why he didn't come straight back here.
26:50Look, I know Bikram can be selfish, but he's not...
26:52You saw how tempted he was.
26:54Yeah, but he's still the librarian.
26:55He has the willpower of, like, 50 very stubborn ghosts.
26:59I knew you wouldn't believe me.
27:01Yeah, Vic says jump, and you say how high, but I say something, and...
27:04That is not true.
27:05Yeah, it's a double standard.
27:06It's like Vic.
27:07He uses magic all the time, but I make one little mistake with a moth...
27:09It ate our clothes.
27:11It's not a double standard.
27:12We don't give him a free pass with magic.
27:15This is crazy.
27:16I'm not crazy.
27:18No, I'm not saying that you're crazy.
27:19I'm saying...
27:20Whatever.
27:21I need to go find Pedro.
27:22And now they're saying that Harvey Pearl has run off to Tallahassee with the ticket money.
27:53I always knew he was a con man.
27:55Right, I'm going.
27:56I'm bored.
27:56Bye.
27:59Psst.
28:03Harvey's spell is broken.
28:05Everyone sees him for who he is.
28:07I can't believe we ever looked up to him.
28:08Be careful choosing your heroes, right?
28:10Like, maybe I've not been the best big brother or role model.
28:16I could have been.
28:17You think you were my role model?
28:19I tried to be.
28:22Yeah.
28:23You totally were.
28:25Wickham, the librarian?
28:27I always looked up to him, but now I just think he's a selfish ass.
28:30And I'm just a selfish ass, too.
28:32No, I get it.
28:33The library has to stay a secret.
28:35Blah, blah, blah.
28:36Yeah, but I should have contacted you.
28:38I should have contacted all of you.
28:40Made up a story.
28:41Said I went to Timbuktu or somewhere, you know.
28:44I could have followed the library's rules and still found a way to say goodbye.
28:46So why didn't you?
28:51I don't know.
28:53No, no.
28:55That's a lie.
28:56I do know.
28:59I never really wanted to be a part of this world.
29:01I don't think I realized it, but I guess I always wanted to be part of the library.
29:04You know, the library is like super Stuttgart.
29:07It's legitimacy.
29:08It's being believed and listened to again, being on the inside.
29:11And I guess I didn't want to do anything to risk being on the outside again.
29:14Like contacting me?
29:17You're embarrassed by all this, aren't you?
29:21You think you're too good for us.
29:24I mean, I get it.
29:26You'd want to be a conspiracy theorist, not job loser.
29:30Except so many of these people are people like me and you.
29:34And you were so busy running from Stuttgart and chasing the library
29:37that you never actually appreciated where you actually landed.
29:41I get it.
29:42Your life is so much better now.
29:45But actually, we're both pretty good as we were.
29:49You know, Pedro, the Crown promised me so many wonderful things.
29:52But the reason I was able to take it off is because it didn't offer me the one thing I really wanted.
29:56Truth is, I just want you to forgive me.
29:58Can you?
29:59Yeah.
30:00Great.
30:02Because as well as not feeling like a selfish ass anymore, I could really use your help.
30:07Hey!
30:20I am Vikram Chamberlain.
30:22You will obey me.
30:22Lysa, snap out of it.
30:24I am Vikram's been looping the Crown spell in your earphones.
30:26He knows how strong-willed you are.
30:27I am Vikram Chamberlain.
30:29You will obey me.
30:30Connor?
30:30I am Vikram Chamberlain.
30:31Oh my God.
30:31You will obey me.
30:32I remember Vik was wearing the crown.
30:34She's back with us.
30:36Now, we just got to find the scary one.
30:38You mean Charlie?
30:38Hey Charlie, my headphones have died.
30:43Do you have a spare charger?
30:44Hmm?
30:46Sorry.
30:47Charlie, it's all right.
30:49You're free.
30:50Listen.
30:50I am Vikram Chamberlain.
30:52You will obey me.
30:53Vikram.
30:54Connor, you were right.
30:55Vikram is wearing the crown.
30:56Where is he?
30:57He's in the main library looting magical artifacts, building an arsenal.
31:01What's he planning?
31:02He wants to weaponize the library's power.
31:04Use it to spread the crown's influence everywhere.
31:06He's going to be able to control the entire world.
31:08We have to save Vikram from the crown.
31:10A rogue librarian with all that power?
31:13He's too strong for us.
31:15Luckily, I used to have a lot of friends.
31:24Con Con 25.
31:25I have an amazing announcement.
31:28Connor Green is back.
31:30And he's doing a speech on the main stage now.
31:34You heard right.
31:36Connor Green is back.
31:38There's not as many spectral snoops as there used to be.
31:46Don't worry.
31:48It's enough.
31:53Hey.
31:53So, uh, I'm back.
31:57It's really me.
31:58I'm not dead.
31:59Yet.
32:06And I guess...
32:08I have a confession to make.
32:10These last few years, you've all known me.
32:13But if I'm being honest, I never really took the time to get to know you.
32:16Not properly.
32:18This is hard to say out loud, but I think a part of me, a big part of me, thought I was too good for all this.
32:24But I was wrong.
32:25And for that, I am truly, truly sorry.
32:28We're the same.
32:34We're not bad or wrong or stupid.
32:36We're just the kind of people that wish magic and the library was real.
32:39Well, I've got something to tell you.
32:43Really?
32:43For sure?
32:44It's not like we have another choice.
32:48Tell them.
32:51They are real.
32:53Magic, the library, it's all real, and it's right here in Belgrade.
32:56And it's good, and it's kind, and it cares, and it matters, and it's in trouble, and it needs your help.
33:02Our good friend has been seduced by dark powers, and I need my spectral snoops to come and save him.
33:07So I'm here to ask you again.
33:10Will you follow me one last time?
33:14Yes!
33:15We love you, Connor Green!
33:19King Kong!
33:21King Kong!
33:22King Kong!
33:24Well, that must feel pretty good.
33:27I'm not going to lie, it's kind of great.
33:30Connor 25!
33:32Are you ready to pay a visit to the library?
33:39They're quite noisy.
33:40Don't you think we should have used the magic door?
33:42Vikram may already have control of it.
33:44He wouldn't be safe.
33:46You won't expect a full-on attack.
33:48Remember, the crown makes the wearer extremely arrogant.
33:51And that the Vikram's already helped the ego?
33:53I think he's God.
33:54We are just ants.
33:56He never considered these guys a threat.
33:58But we're going to prove him wrong.
34:01Huh.
34:02I underestimated you, Connor.
34:03You're quite smart sometimes.
34:05Agreed.
34:05Now let's get this done.
34:13Halt!
34:15What's your name?
34:18Dixie Dean.
34:19Dixie Dean?
34:20I want you to hold everyone here a moment.
34:22Lysa, Charlie, Pedro, we're going in alone.
34:24Alone?
34:25Is that safe?
34:26I gave Harvey the chance to hand over the crown willingly.
34:28We can at least offer Vikram that same courtesy.
34:30Earphones?
34:31Whatever you say, I trust you.
34:39Okay, guys, we've got to be careful.
34:41Normal Vikram is slippery, but magic crown possessed Vikram?
34:46This could be the fight of our lives.
34:50If we're not back in ten...
34:51Send in the cavalry.
34:53Gotcha.
34:54Gotcha.
35:01Please do come in.
35:19I've been expecting you.
35:23You can take out the noise-cancelling headphones.
35:26They won't make a blind bit of difference.
35:31It has not been our finest day, has it?
35:35But, good news, everything is about to be all right.
35:38I just need to ask you one simple question.
35:42Don't trust him.
35:43He's tricksy.
35:44Pedro, why were you so angry with Connor this morning, hmm?
35:48Why would I be angry at Connor?
35:50Connor's the greatest.
35:51I love him.
35:54But you punched me.
35:56He did, didn't he?
35:57Big, fat punch, if I recall correctly.
36:01And Lysa, Charlie.
36:03Remind me how you felt when Connor released that giant,
36:05clothes-eating moth, hmm?
36:07You were rather angry, if I recall.
36:09Why would we be angry at Connor?
36:11Yeah, Connor's the greatest.
36:13We love him.
36:14They're just saying what I want to hear.
36:15That's not what happened.
36:16That's not how it went.
36:21Whoa.
36:22The crown makes the wearer convinced they were always right and always loved.
36:29Until the paranoia overtakes them, you are still in the always loved phase.
36:35Just a hint to paranoia regarding me.
36:37All this time?
36:39He's wearing the crown?
36:50Connor?
36:51Is everything all right?
36:55I suspected you at that moment.
36:56Charlie and Lysa, you weren't trying to control them.
37:02You were trying to warn them.
37:05Connor is wearing the crown.
37:06But your voice and their earphones.
37:12Those were noise-canceling earphones.
37:15To protect my team and give me enough time to figure out a solution.
37:18Anything else you think you observed or experienced was a trick of the crown.
37:22Like the people outside from ConCon, I thought they wanted to follow me.
37:26Your rousing speech was the moment the crown began to feed on them.
37:29They were as hypnotized by you as they were by Harvey Pope.
37:32No, Connor.
37:33I love you.
37:35I do.
37:36And I forgive you for abandoning me.
37:39As much as I want you to mean that, you don't.
37:41Not really.
37:42I guess the crown really did give me my wish.
37:44It made you forgive me.
37:46I do forgive you.
37:48I forgive you.
37:50They're under a spell, Connor.
37:52You have to break it.
37:53Break nothing, Connor.
37:55We love you.
37:56You're so smart.
37:57And so handsome.
38:00That's so weird.
38:01Okay, so I just have to contradict my story and we're good?
38:08Okay.
38:09Guys, I've been wearing the crown all along.
38:12I'm an idiot.
38:13No.
38:14You're a genius.
38:15A hero.
38:16A leader.
38:17Okay.
38:18Do one thing for me.
38:19Point your front at me, Elisa.
38:20Okay.
38:23Ouch!
38:25Bioelectric transfer.
38:27Power is in the wrong hands.
38:29Connor is wearing the crown.
38:30What just happened?
38:32Was I just complimenting you?
38:34Oh.
38:34Nice to have you back, Elisa.
38:36Uh-huh.
38:38It's stuck.
38:39It won't come off.
38:41The crowd outside is still enchanted by the crown.
38:44That enchantment holds the crown on your head.
38:47You must break its spell.
38:49Okay.
38:51I know what to do.
38:59My friends, I have a confession to make.
39:08Harvey Pope was right about me.
39:09I'm a low-down, no-good sleazeball who's only ever in it for the money.
39:16I lied.
39:17I lied about the library.
39:18I lied about being someone you should follow.
39:21I'm just, I'm a liar.
39:24Boo to you, Connor Green.
39:25Boo!
39:26Boo!
39:27Boo!
39:27Boo!
39:28Boo!
39:28Boo!
39:29Boo!
39:29Boo!
39:29Boo!
39:30Boo!
39:30Boo!
39:30Boo!
39:30Boo!
39:31Boo!
39:31Boo!
39:31Boo!
39:32Boo!
39:32Boo!
39:33Boo!
39:33Boo!
39:34Boo!
39:34Boo!
39:35Boo!
39:35Boo!
39:36Boo!
39:36Boo!
39:37Boo!
39:38Boo!
39:38Boo!
39:39Boo!
39:40Boo!
39:41Boo!
39:42Boo!
39:43Boo!
39:44Boo!
39:45Boo!
39:46Boo!
39:47Boo!
39:48Boo!
39:49Boo!
39:50Boo!
39:51Boo!
39:52Boo!
39:53Boo!
39:54There.
39:55You're free of it.
39:56You are an excellent role model, Connor.
39:59To all of us.
40:00Okay.
40:01Come on, guys.
40:04There's a Q&A with Mary Shelley's ghost at 7.30.
40:08We're out of here.
40:09We're out of here.
40:10Quick march!
40:11Step two!
40:12You know, something I lost when you disappeared?
40:29I forgot how to be amazed.
40:30I forgot how to be amazed.
40:32Everything got so mean and bitchy.
40:34But this last day with you, it's been amazing.
40:37Just like old times.
40:38And one thing I want you to know, I really do forgive you.
40:42No magic hijacking my brain this time.
40:45I mean it.
40:46I forgive you.
40:48Thank you, man.
40:50Because it was a crown.
40:53Or was it a bracelet?
40:56It's like I'm already starting to forget.
40:59Yeah, that's the library doing its clean-up job.
41:02Keeping its secrets secret.
41:04I'll forget all this.
41:06Will it mean I'll forget meeting you again, too?
41:11I hope not.
41:12But even if you do, I'll come find you again soon.
41:14Promise.
41:25See ya.
41:32So when our time's up, do we forget all this as well?
41:45See ya.
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