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The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Promotional poster for The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Directed by	Jonathan Frakes
Produced by	Dean Devlin Michael S. Murphey Kearie Peak Marc Roskin Noah Wyle
Written by	David Titcher
Starring	Noah Wyle Bob Newhart Jane Curtin Olympia Dukakis Gabrielle Anwar Erick Avari Robert Foxworth
Music by	Joseph LoDuca
Editing by	David Siegel
Distributed by	TNT
Release date(s)	December 3, 2006
Running time	95 min.
Country	U.S.A
Language	English
Preceded by	The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
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The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines is a TNT original film starring Noah Wyle as a librarian who protects a secret collection of artifacts. It is a sequel to 2004's The Librarian: Quest for the Spear.

Tagline: New Continent. New Adventure. Still No Clue.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Filming trivia 4 External links

This time, Flynn Carsen is on a journey to uncover the fabled mines of King Solomon and a secret about his own family's past. He is joined by Gabrielle Anwar as a woman whose academic skills surpass even his own. Bob Newhart, Jane Curtin and Olympia Dukakis co-star.

Flynn Carsen, a year after his first mission as The Librarian, has been on many more death-defying missions to protect the world from evildoers, including a trip to Utah to recover a mystical crystal skull. More important, he has moved out of his mother's house into his own apartment. But he still feels held back by Judson, his supervisor, who tells him that "sometimes you have to give up what you want for the greater good".

Meanwhile, at Flynn's birthday party, his late father's friend "Uncle" Jerry tells Flynn about how Flynn's dad courted his mom, and Flynn remembers the "silly bedtime stories" and the amulet his father had, which his mom says came from a secondhand shop. When Flynn goes home, he discovers that someone has trashed his apartment; he gets ambushed and is robbed of a scroll he received in the mail that day with cryptic symbols on it.

It transpires that the scroll is a map containing clues to the location of King Solomon's Mines, and of course Flynn cannot allow the thief to find the rest of the clues and thus the mines themselves. Judson tells him that possession of Solomon's book, hidden in the mines, will give the reader of it control over time and space, so the secret must be kept hidden.

Flynn is off on the road to Morocco, to find part of the key to the scroll among some Roman ruins, where he meets Emily Davenport (Anwar), an archaeologist who, as it turns out, holds 3 more degrees than Flynn and can argue convincingly about ancient history, Bible texts, and geography. Flynn and Emily are attacked after finding the piece to the map legend and discovering a hidden meaning to Flynn's dad's supposedly cheap amulet -- it links him to the brotherhood of the Masons, one of whose members helps them escape and tells them where the rest of the map legend is. Emily, recognizing the code on the legend piece as being in the Akon language, insists on coming with Flynn to Gede Province in Kenya to find the other part of the map legend.

The men who attacked Flynn, led by a General Samir, turn out to be on the trail of the mines as well; they torture the man who helped Flynn escape until he tells them where Flynn was headed.

After a ride on a honeymoon tour bus -- where Flynn runs into a former blind date who reports their meeting back to Flynn's mother, with disastrous results -- and several days' hiking across the Serengeti, Flynn and Emily literally stumble across a man buried up to his neck in sand, as punishment for stealing a neighboring tribe's crops. The two adventurers dig him out, and he insists on being their guide in return.

Flynn shows Emily the drawings he made as a child to accompany his father's "silly bedtime stories", his mother having slipped them into his bag back home. They show scenes of laughing rocks, upside-down valleys, and other fanciful places. Emily, in turn, confides to Flynn her obsession since childhood with the mysterious Queen of Sheba, wife of Solomon.

Several more days of hiking, they finally reach a village where, their guide Jomo tells them, a fortune teller can help them. Unknown to them, the fortune teller's shop has been appropriated by the men chasing them, and just as Flynn finds the other piece of the map legend there, Emily spots the bad guys coming and they flee.

To their amazement, they run into Flynn's Uncle Jerry, in Kenya to pick up some stock for his import-export business, and he hustles them aboard a train on which he has reserved some space. Jerry wines and dines the pair, gives Emily a skimpy Maasai dress, and quizzes Flynn about his "secret life", while Flynn in turn shows Jerry the amulet his father left him. After dinner, Flynn checks Emily's cabin to find her tipsily analyzing the Akon code. It turns out to have a connection with the Biblical Song of Solomon, which leads to a romantic interlude, which is unfortunately ruined as the two argue over the translation of the love poetry.

Next morning, Flynn and Emily, having solved the code, make tracks for Three Witches Mountain near Mombasa, and find that the terrain reminds Flynn of his juvenile drawings. Eventually he realizes that his own father must have known about the mines' location and told Flynn stories to plant clues in his memory, giving him the amulet as well in case he ever needed to guard the secret and enlist the help of other Masons.

With the bad guys on their heels, the two manage to penetrate the caves where Solomon's treasure is hidden. Gold, jewels, and other treasures litter the caverns, and a huge head of Sheba carved out of the stone wall looms over all. Flynn spots a book resting on a pedestal, opens it, and realizes that this is the book Judson told him about. As he glances through it, the text seems to be attracted to his hand, beginning to glow in a sinister fashion.

Their pursuers come upon them and drag in a disheveled Uncle Jerry, who begs them to give General Samir the book before the bad guys kill him. Flynn complies, only to find that the General and his thugs work for...Uncle Jerry, who wants to turn back time so he can fulfill what he thinks was his destiny -- to win Margie Carsen, who he feels was stolen from him by Flynn's dad. It turns out Jerry is the unknown figure who shot Flynn's father, after Carsen refused to tell Jerry about the mines.

As Jerry enters a cave filled with hundreds of mummified bodies and a bubbling lava pit, he begins to read aloud the incantation that will give him power over space and time, stirring up ghosts as he does so. Flynn and Emily are flung into a pit which fills with water and features a slowly descending spike-laden ceiling. After Flynn experiences a vision of Judson on a white beach, he finds that he and Emily are being rescued by the faithful Jomo, who has followed them to fulfill his life debt.

Flynn confronts Jerry over the book, wrestling it from him with the incantation unfinished. As Flynn is about to throw the book into the lava pit, he begins to see visions of his father in the pit, and Jerry seizes the chance to try to convince Flynn that they can change time together. Flynn begins to finish the incantation.

Emily and Jomo burst into the cave to find Flynn uttering the incantation and an army of ghosts circling the cave. Emily uses a reflective spear to shine light on Flynn's amulet, which catches his attention and reminds him of his father's trust. Flynn pitches the book into the lava pit, he, Emily, and Jomo flee, and as the cave crumbles, Jerry and his fellow evildoers are crushed by falling rock.

In a brief epilogue, Flynn assumes Emily will be coming back to New York with him, but she decides to pursue her search for the Queen of Sheba in Tunisia, leaving Flynn with only fond memories. In a scene reminiscent of Casablanca, Flynn, in a trench coat and fedora, wanders toward his plane, musing, "Of all the gin joints in all the world, she had to walk into mine."

• Noah Wyle - Flynn Carsen
• Gabrielle Anwar - Emily Davenport
• Bob Newhart - Judson
• Jane Curtin - Charlene
• Olympia Dukakis - Margie Carsen
• Robert Foxworth - Uncle Jerry
• Erick Avari - General Samir
• Hakeem Kae-Kazim - Jomo

• Parts of this picture were filmed in the Smuts Hall men's residence at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In particular, the side hallways of the library were created in the Smuts Hall common room.

• The book Flynn finds in the mines is bound in a modern format, with pages and covers, and Jerry reads the text from left to right. Literature written in King Solomon's time would have been in Hebrew, which reads right to left, and most likely in scrolls or on clay tablets.

• The tune that Pan's flute plays near the beginning is the theme of the film.

• Jonathan Frakes makes a cameo, as Debra's husband Carl.

• The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines at the Internet Movie Database
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