I've been re-watching The Librarians. At the end of the two-parter opening, there's a brief conversation between the members of this new group that has formed and will go on to have adventures together through the rest of the series.
Stone has been hiding his light under a bushel, too loyal to his mine-worker family to go somewhere where his intellectual talents can be appreciated. When in any sort of unfamiliar or stressful situation he reverts to a blunt midwestern behavior, accent and all.
John Larroquette's character dismissively calls him a cowboy. John is unhappy about all these people invading what was his private workshop anyhow; he has the familiar role and arc of the team grump who gradually and grudgingly becomes their mentor. But he's still falling for Stone's act.
Stone doesn't trust Cassandra. She put the world in danger when offered a cure for her fatal brain tumor. She turned down the cure offered by Flynn (the original Librarian) in order to heal him instead. Everyone else is willing to forgive her, putting Stone at odds with them.
Nobody trusts Ezekiel. Who is fine with that, and openly tells them he's only working with them because it gives him more chances to steal even better stuff. But he's already admitted that he isn't happy in being a thief -- but since he is very good at it, he's going to use it and be proud of it.
Some of Ezekiel's story, only Eve knows. Eve is willing to keep those secrets hidden, and believes all of them have potential. They all know in turn that she is their guardian but they don't otherwise know anything about her.
This isn't a straight-forward map of A and B have a conflict, C and D have a conflict. This is A had a problem with B who has a relationship with C who is in conflict with D who has a conflict with A. And these alliances and mistrusts will shift through at least the early parts of the series.
Yeah. That's how you do it.
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