Plot
Flynn Carsen, a perpetual college student in his 30s with 22 academic degrees, [1] is kicked out of college by Professor Harris, who arranges for Flynn to get his 23rd degree mid-term. They have just completed a 1/20th scale model of the great pyramid, complete with a gold capstone. He and Flynn's mother, Margie, tell him that he lacks real-life experience and needs to experience life outside of college.
Flynn receives an invitation to a librarian job at the Metropolitan Public Library, where he is told that the position of "Librarian" has actually existed for thousands of years. His role is to protect historical and often magical items stored in a secret space far below the "real" library, including Pandora's Box, Tesla's Death Ray, the Holy Grail, the transmuted corpse of King Midas, and other things. He meets Judson, the head of the Library, who informs him that one of three parts of the Spear of Destiny is stolen by a cult known as the Serpent Brotherhood, led by the former librarian Wilde (Kyle MacLachlan), who had faked his own death. Flynn is the only one on Earth who can track down the remaining two pieces. He is sent to the Amazon rainforest, entrusted with a book written in the untranslated "Language of the birds.”
On the plane, Flynn is ambushed by members of the Serpent Brotherhood and is rescued by a woman who forces him out of the plane in mid-air. Once they land, he finds that his rescuer, Nicole Noone (Sonya Walger), has been sent by Judson as his Guardian. She fell in love with the last Librarian and blames herself for his "death". She resists any friendly feelings for Flynn. Together, they encounter waterfalls, local tribes, bridge collapses, and Maya death traps, which they survive with little difficulty thanks to Flynn's extensive knowledge and Nicole's physical prowess. They retrieve the second piece of the spear and are immediately captured by the brotherhood and Wilde, who is about to shoot Nicole when Flynn steps in front of her. He makes a deal to find the last piece of the spear in exchange for Nicole's life.
At Shangri-La, they learn that their arrival has been prophesied. Flynn retrieves the last spear piece, the blade, and the temple starts to collapse. The monks battle the Serpent Brotherhood and Flynn and Nicole escape in a helicopter. After they spend the night at a hotel, Flynn wakes up the next morning to find Nicole, the spear blade and his clothes missing. Judson contacts him through a TV in the hotel lobby, and when he describes the conditions necessary to join the spear parts together—a golden-cap-stoned pyramid, augmented by a powerful electromagnetic field during a full moon—Flynn realizes that Professor Harris is in on the scheme.
Judson meets him outside the university building where the pyramid was reconstructed. They watch as the Serpent Brothers, including Harris, assemble to watch Wilde call down the ancient powers and fuse the spear into one. Nicole is their prisoner. After Judson defeats a henchman, he reveals he was the original Librarian. Wilde stabs one of his men, absorbing his life force through the spear. Flynn frees Nicole before Wilde can stab her. Nicole and Judson take on the Brotherhood while Flynn follows Wilde, who tries to kill him. When the spear strikes stone, the Pyramid shakes. Flynn leads Wilde to damage the support stones, upsetting the precariously balanced structure. The capstone then falls onto Wilde, killing him. Judson and Nicole stand in a room full of unconscious people. Flynn reclaims the spear in the name of the Library, where it is displayed near Excalibur. Flynn draws the sword from its stone. Judson and Charlene show him the latest portrait in the gallery of Librarians: Flynn, holding the Spear.
Three months later, Flynn is at a café when Nicole informs him that the 'Deadly Scorpion League' has got their hands on a time machine.
Sequels
A sequel, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines , aired on TNT on December 3, 2006. It was released on DVD in December 19. The second sequel, The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice , was released on December 7, 2008. A one-hour TV series, The Librarians , premiered on TNT on December 7, 2014, with a ten-episode season. It ran for a total of four seasons. A second television series, The Librarians: The Next Chapter , premiered on May 25, 2025. [7] [8]
The character Nicole Noone does not appear in the other films. Her fate is explored in the TV series season 4, where she is portrayed by Rachel Nichols.
