The Magnus Protocol 26 - Catching Up
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2024
- CAT1RBC4463-14042024-02052024 Exhaustion (athletic) / compulsion (tape)
Incident Elements:MasochismCompulsion (supernatural)GriefParental DeathImplied sexual situations/innuendoSFX: Misophonia (kissing)
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Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall Directed by Alexander J NewallWritten by Muna Hussen, for more of her work visit www.thesiltver... Script Edited with additional material by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall
Executive Producers April Sumner, Alexander J Newall, Jonathan Sims, Dani McDonough, Linn Ci, and Samantha F.G. Hamilton Associate Producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius d’Raven, and Megan Nice Produced by April Sumner Featuring (in order of appearance) Lowri Ann Davies as Celia RipleyShahan Hamza as Samama KhalidBillie Hindle as Alice DyerAnusia Battersby as Gwendolyn BouchardJonathan Sims as ChesterImogen Harris as Helen Richardson
Dialogue Editor - Lowri Ann DaviesSound Designer - Tessa VroomMastering Editor - Catherine Rinella
Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson) Art by April Sumner
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"The Archivist, it's not acting how I expected." Celia, did you think all Archivists were sweet, grumpy, world-saving darlings like Jon??
Quick reminder to everyone that in tma distortion Helen tried to eat Celia
No bond stronger than the one between an entity incarnating the fear of losing your senses and your grasp on reality and one of its former victim ❤❤
Wait, which episode?! I need to revisit asap!
@sabrinamarquez1870 I don't know precisely, but it's the one in season 5 where Jon and Martin meet Georgie and Melanie and learn about their followers
@@ivangoldbloom4206 god forbid a girl has hobbies 🙄
@sabrinamarquez1870 I don't remember the exact episode, but it was either MAG 189 or 190
“Do you think I’m a realtor in every universe 🥺”
I hope they didn't put Helen in any danger by poking around. She didn't deserve what happened to her.
@sarakhaleghi9728 nah it was a glow up for the lil freak
LMAOOOOO
the fact that everyone from TMA so far has had a different life in the TMP universe and Helen still ended up as a realtor
transcript:
"She laughs. It's yery reminiscent of The Distortion. Celia is unsettled. Sam laughs nervously."
oh.. OH
You’d think her laugh would sound LESS sinister without the echo effect, but… 😰
@@theoneguyoverthere Right?!
I mean, the distortion worked really well for Michael, but Helen didn't really even need it.
@@patrickbailey2799 she's a tory, what do you expect? if anything the distortion probably added something more human to Helen to appear more human
oh no fucking way, I've completely forgot about helen being a distortion avatar and her voice! that laugh really unsettleled me tho
Which transcript are you guys using
"Magnusing" has become in hourly activity in my life for several years now...
magnussy.....?
@@user-sl1wt1dv4yCeaseless Watcher, look upon this WRETCHED THI-
i laughed so hard when i heard that, my partner and i have been referring to listening to tma and tmagp as magnusing for years as well lmao
I always magnus daily
@@user-sl1wt1dv4yceaseless watcher turn your game upon this *wretch*
hearing helen laugh was like feeling an emotion you haven't felt in a long time i missed you purple headache queen
HE SAID IT! HE SAID "STATEMENT OF"! HE SAID THE THING!!
“Who are you?” I asked it.
“An archivist,” it replied.
OMGGGGG???
AND HELEN OMG THIS EPISODE IS GREAT RAAAAAAA
bro is tweaking out
TIME CODE I NEED THE TIME CODE
I love how Celia is clearly uncomfortable around Helen, I mean if a sentient door taking up someone's identity tried to eat me in a different universe I would also be uncomfortable around that person.
“I have my reasons, but you’re one of them”
“Yes Martin, you are my reason”
why do I feel she's using him?
@@BeautifulEarthJa I'm getting Web vibes fr, it wouldn't be surprised if she was an Avatar
"I think I love you"
"I love you too"
i opened the comment section and saw like five of your comments in a row you're a modern day archivist🙏🙏
@@DiegoGonzalez-mc7mq this is the highest compliment 😩 in reality I am just hyperfixated and cannot be normal about this series
17:06 its so nice to hear her voice when she isn't being terrorized or maniacally occupied
19:45 I take it back, she definitely practiced that laugh
She did it on fucking purpose I can tell
You’re telling me we waited until episode 200 for a kiss in tma, but we got one on EPISODE 26 OF TMP?!? Alright, I’m gonna need Jon and Martin to kiss in the computers to make up for this.
Jon and Martin's kiss would just be a slight momentary buzz lmao
Edit: Celia and Sam get to have a relationship in a normal setting, so it makes sense they kiss much earlier unlike Jon and Martin who were busy trying to saving the world (I sometimes headcanon that #200 was their first proper kiss)
Oh, I don't think they were stopping at just one kiss.
I love how the audio cut out just as they kissed, its was like "NOPE, non of y'all need to hear the rest of this" lmaooo
The eye is not a smut liker
@@Чтоктокак
The Eye: "I see y'all and know y'all but that does not mean i want to see all of y'all"
HOLDING A TAPE RECORDER TO HIS MOUTH?!?! “AN ARCHIVIST, IT REPLIED?!?” Jonathan Sims you are SICK and TWISTED.
Nah I think it's one of the archivists from below the panopticon. Hence why it said AN archivist, not THE archivist
Very sick and twisted indeed
@@marinterry3055I remember jon referred to them as the servitors, I think they came through to this universe and are acting as agents of whatever the eye is now, perhaps even the web as well
like twisting a KNIFE
@@thecondescendinggoomba5552But how many of them were using the Webs tape recorders.
Jonathan Sims: ok so today's statement there's this guy--
Alexander Newell: is his name Jared
Jon: uh
Alex: what's his name Johnny
Jon: ...it doesn't matter
Alex: is it Jared
Jon: maybe I should rework this script
Alex: it's Jared isn't it. There's other names, you know
Jon: Jared is a GOOD name
Alex: why not "Louis" or "Maurice"
Jon: nobody is named Maurice
Alex: you named so many people Jared are we really discussing name frequency right now
@@kelseymiller7979 To be fair, this time his name is Jarrod! _Totally_ different name. lol 😅
You can hear Celia’s fear when Helen appears, I wonder if she knows exactly how dangerous the distortion really was…
With her laugh and Michael Shelley's laugh, do you think the distortion just exclusively targets people with naturally unsettling laughs?
Well Melanie did say that Helen tried to eat Celia, she was probably getting flashbacks.
@@robertlong9591 OMG I completely forgot about that. Maybe it’s time for another tma rewatch
Helen really was suitable indeed. She wants to be helpful. She wants to be sociable. She wants you to feel comfortable. She wants to be your friend.
@@felixrivera895 And then gobble you up
"Your baby is a Torrie"
*shocked silence*
The real horror of this episode
Where did she even get a baby? And what’s a Torri?
@@captianblitzTory
@@captianblitz I'm fairly certain a "Tory" is like the british way of saying a conservative? But I'm not super sure
Spoilers for tma and this episode
Edit: this also brings up an interesting detail as the only other time someone being a tory is mentioned, it is helen the distortion telling john that "he wouldnt have liked helen, she was a Tory," or something similar, which is interesting that it is brought up in the episode with helen
@@captianblitz tory is the British version of American maga types. mostly out of touch rich people that want to restore the empire to its "glory days" back in the Victorian era, you know that era where the government was a colonialist monster and also drinking the water in London would have probably killed you because germ theory was still considered controversial. They want to go back to that.
okay great we have a couple telling each other they're each other's reasons, they feel like they're being watched and they have a knife please dont put me through this again rusty quill
You know Johnny is gonna rip out our hearts with this one
It actually breaks my heart to think about Jon in the computer trying to warn Alice about his archivist form. He tried so hard to protect his old world from the powers, and now he’s being forced to protect this new world from himself. Ow.
I love that he’s still trying to, still cares. Means he’s still himself despite everything.
My poor little booglie wooglie. I wonder if he can literally feel what his body is doing. My theory is that his body and spirit have been literally separated from his soul (the two symbols in the TMP logo are literally the alchemical symbols for body and spirit, with the third one, soul, absent) so I wonder if he still has some sort of connection to his body and knows when/where/if it will hurt someone
I think the Archivist is Someone Else, we did see examples of other Archivists in TMA after all (see: TMAG 53: Crusader)
@@CoffeeCriminal Yes, but I don't see why any of them would use tape recorders. They're more associated with The Web than The Eye, as revealed in MAG197. The only archivist who'd use a tape recorder is John.
"I wanted to ask more questions."
Oh no, you got it all wrong it's the *Archavist* who is asking the questions
yea, you can only answear, hahahah
“Like a big knife or something”
*pulls out big knife*
👁️👄👁️
Its definitely a bowie knife. Go full Rambo on them entities
My headcanon is an axe because "it is surprisingly easy to buy an axe in central London"
@@LeonbutFrenchI kept thinking about that
I love the emoji face jump scare
Def a hatchet, they are so much easier to get in london
There is a dog in the archives (help I thought that's what the statement is gonna be about😂)
This is the perfect top comment
I saw an animatic of that and that was the thing that introduced me to TMA
Jon back on his tape recorder addiction.
"I could be on drugs"
Slurping up fear like spaghetti
Compulsion to “TELL SOME AWFUL STORY”?!?! JONNY WHEN I CATCH YOU
HELEN WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING LIKE THAT HELEN
Hellen getting spiraled makes more sense after that laugh.
helen being a real estate agent is her eternal hell
Okaaaay this episode had me freaking out.
One, the tape recorder monster thingy is mentioned again, and HELEN!? It’s so weird hearing her without being traumatized or being Spiral Helen. Also Alice getting more and more interested in the statements or whatever is intriguing.
Or is she?
The last 3 cases we've gotten (including this one) have been from 2024. I wonder if the computers are trying to tell us that something big is gonna happen soon...
I hope so because I want to hear some action! I'm too excited for when the horror catches them all, be it [ERROR] or Colin getting out of jail!
Remember plenty of the other cases were post 2020. I think the spelunker from episode 1 was from 2023 or 2024, the case of the speaking corpse was 2024, I want to say one of the Derrian cases was 2024, and others. Though I thought the lobotomy case was decades if not centuries old? That is the case when its regarding letters instead of electronic messages, and those were letters, right? Someone else's theory (you can find it in the comments of that episode) was that that was either Fr3-D1 or Norris, or Chester, or Augustus, telling the OIAR staff that they want out of the computer, like how that man's subconcious wanted out of his mind. So in any case (literally) you are onto something that they may contain messages betwren the computers and the staff.
@@eitakou (TMA spoilers)
that ceremonious two episode arc where everything's on the line and we're just on the edge of our seats hoping they all make it out.
I miss Sasha.
@@hamburgerdog25I miss her too 😞😞😞
@@hamburgerdog25 I miss everyone 😭
The way my heart skipped a beat when it said “Jared”, then settled back down at “Smith”… First it was the Michaels, now the Jareds are having a resurgence…
In the beginning I was worried things were going to start getting repetitive. I was very wrong, screamed out loud every 3 minutes for the rest of the episode
idk if it's just her doing a fake cheery salesman personality, but there was that weird audio distortion for lies when Helen said "I'm sorry to keep you waiting" and "Pleasure"
I think that might be FREDDY actually, voicing concerns again? But I like your angle, maybe FREDDY is piping up when Helen lies though coz of her previous spiral shenanigans??
@@solothequeerbard837I think Freddy just does that for all lies not to mention he has sass
I love that lol. She's still as much the face of the distortion in this universe as she was in the last.
Well well well, it's that time of the week again! Another episode, another analysis. First off, Celia pulling out a big knife has the same energy as Jon somehow getting his hands on an axe in central London.
Next, the Case seems to be largely End themed with the focus being on the victim's reaction to someone they're close with dying and not being sure how to react or handle it. The Case itself isn't too interesting but that ending is very juicy! ERROR (aka Almost-Certainly-Jon) calls itself an Archivist and suddenly screams for some reason, maybe he just wanted to jumpscare the poor guy. Nice to see Alice putting the pieces together and realising that she and Sam set ERROR free from beneath the Institute. Last thing on the Case, it takes place on 14 April 2024, which is two days after Gwen encountered Ink5oul and ERROR.
Before I dive into the bit with Helen, I just wanna acknowledge the transcript for a second: "A fancy real estate office. Swanky and soulless." Once again, Celia isn't being very subtle that she knows more than she's letting on. She also gasps upon seeing Helen, which is understandable if you remember that Distortion Helen tried to eat Celia in the tunnels.
Helen herself was a delight as always but uh "eco-warrior neighbours" and "GDPR rubbish"? Careful Helen, your Tory is showing. On a more serious note, a couple of things she says seem to trigger a response from Freddy "Sorry to keep you waiting" and "Pleasure". It's not the same sound as when the others tell a lie but it feels too intentional, especially since Distortion's whole shtick was that while it didn't lie it would tell half-truths and omit details. Hopefully we'll see her again and that will shed some light on what these sounds mean.
The last segment was both a little tense and hilarious. Celia feeling like she's being watched could refer to Freddy accessing her laptop to spy on them or ERROR watching them from afar. But holy moly, the "maybe I should put you to bed?" line had me cackling and the transcript made it better: "Sam is awkward. Celia is not."
That about does it for this week, seems like a confrontation with ERROR is what the season is building up to which I'm all for! SEE you next week everyone!
I genuinely despise that joke so much. Tell me more
When Helen laughed at the end of the interview, there's a bit of that deep resonance that would be present whenever Distortion!Helen would show up and in her version of the corridors.
*spoiler* *spoiler*
The Spiral was often represented by fractals, so perhaps when Jon was chasing her, it split part off, enough to fool Jon into thinking it was destroyed, and followed Annabel through the portal.
@@arielthacker4704 oooo, that’s such a cool theory I love it
@@arielthacker4704 There's also the possibility that the Fears can just make new versions of destroyed monsters. They aren't truly alive after all, they're just specific aspects of a Fear manifested in our world.
I'm pretty sure it was Jarrod who screamed not ERROR, since when the statement-giver referred to ERROR he always used "it" pronouns for them, but when he describes the screaming he says "he" screamed.
I love my emotional support Wub Wub Wubs please never let them leave the internet
Edit:
God I miss the distortion’s laugh
Now if only we can get this universe's Michael, I'd die happy 😂
@@BelbyB saaaaame
MY DOOR WIFE IS BACK
I'm happy to hear Helen again and I'm still full of hope to hear Michael of this universe at least pls I miss him 🥺
@@valeriyav2149 I would _love_ to hear non-Distortion Michael Shelly, happy and alive and living his best life, because he deserves it!!! 😭
I'm thinking that this Contact Helen has about the institute is one of Gertrude's former assistants!! My hopes are Up for Michael Shelley or Mary Keay!
YESSSSSS
Man. That sentiment of "I gave up that thing I love because what is it worth if it couldn't save the people I love" hit way too close to home.
WE'VE HEARD A HELEN TALK AND WE'VE HEARD A DISTORTION TALK THAT AINT HELEN THAT'S A DISTORTION
Helens laugh scared me more then it did in TMA
glad to hear helen’s laugh sound as charming as ever
Being completely caught up with both tma and tmp is so odd to me lmao
Now you have to wait like the rest of us 🙃
@@minuspi8372 unfortunately
omg there is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much foreshadowing lore from the TMA, im so fucking excited im gonna be sick
14:39 JON- JON? JON! JON?!? Not Jon 😭💔
Edits:
Woah we finally get to hear Helen's human laugh and that is CREEPY
Aww Sam and Jack bonding time, I want more of that 😭❤❤
It's so interesting how it introduced itself as "an archivist" instead of "The Archivist"! This makes me wonder, if it were to locate Jon, if Chester really is him, would it be able to do something to the computers? Like- make the 3 conscious again or something.
Would [ERROR] perceive Jon as like a higher being and would treat him as its master? Cuz he was The Important Figure of horror back in TMA I guess
There are other theories I’ve heard that ERROR may be one of the other archivists before Jon, hence why it calls itself an archivist instead of The Archivist
@@assuredpug Ohohohhooho~ a future friend perhaps?? 👀
Idk why but I really thought there was only 1 [ERROR] creature, guess there's more 🤷🏻 but why was only 1 in the magnus building? And locked in too...
I guess you could say, I’m 100 meters from your location and *catching up*- John “Magnus” Protocol
Edit: my favorite part was when he said it’s magnusing time and magnused all over the place (I’m so sorry)
John is being quite silly right now. I sure hope he doesn’t Magnus any archives.
I like that the Chester statements have to do with some kind of loved one
Ironically I spent so much time listening to this episode I almost missed the bus and had to run to the stop. No archivists behind me I’m pretty sure
19:44 I love that she still laughs like that
1:35 Pre-case
4:08 Case (Eye, Hunt) [Witness Statement: Chester]
15:05 Post-Case
You're a gem 🙏
15:30 Collector, librarian, LEITNER.
WELCOME BACK ARCHIVIST
It’s interesting that Helen is now a real estate worker who sells people houses. It’s oddly similar to the DISTORTION trapping people in supernatural spaces usually houses.
She aleeady was one, that's how Michael lured her in to then eat her after she Made her statement.
*hears the word tape recorder*
“Oh hey Archivist :D”
*’I’m an archivist’*
“WHAT-“
We're getting kisses THIS EARLY ON???? They are spoiling us
I think this archivist and the others were the ones waiting at the Watchers tower with the camera faces/giant eye balls. They all just want a statement, and they all may be waiting for JON (or working for him)
It is remarkably easy to buy a big knife in central London
Lots of stuff just happened
Alice and Sam have realized what they’ve released
Everyone knows they are being hunted
Celia clearly was uncomfortable around Helen, another point to the “Celia is from the TMA universe”
And we got the first kiss in the series now instead of the very end
All interesting things to consider
Every time there is any connection to TMA I freak out so basically I'm sitting here sitting here internally screaming while everyone in the room raises their eyebrows at me lol
it's so polite and so ace of the recording turning off at the, um... "right moment", haha
But I wanted to hear the ASMR banging 😔
I don't think there is anÿ doubt, this Jared "Smith" is actually Jared Hopworth. Without the Bone Turner's Tale, but still obsessed with perfection of the human body. Which makes me think that the other victims of "The Archivist" aka Jonah Magnus, may have also been some form of avatar or statemnt maker from the TMA universe.
After the episode Mixed Signals, there is definitely an underlying story of conscious vs. subconscious, and I believe the subconscious is allowing access across dimensions. The patient in Mixed Signals was surprised when the telegram started typing out messages, yet his subconscious was talking about "we" want out. As if it's the same subconscious entity, but multiple versions.
I got a huge theory about a lot of the history that seems to be going on in TMP universe. But i haven't decided if I want to make a video explaining it or type it out and post it here. What do you all think I should do?
Either! Both! Just make sure to send me the link! ❤
Interestingly I don't think that Mr. Jarrod is Jared Hopworth - noting the names are spelled differently, and the Mr. makes it sound like Jarrod is the victim's last name.
Of all people to show up in this universe as a relatively normal albeit creepy human, of course it's HELEN, and she's back in real estate!
im magnussing all over the place rn
we love Helen --- agent of chaos as always!
Up magnusing my archive
Spoiler
An archivist?!?! AAAAHHHHH!!!! Dude im losing it omfg
this week on the magnus protocol: sam gets LAID
genuinely this isn't a bit or something but I just woke up and opened my phone and it opened up to this new episode? which I'm so sure that I turned my phone off at the home screen last night, strange
*gasps* HELEN!! Distortion!Helen??! Ngl her laugh kinda creeped me out. Will we meet Michael, too?
AN Archivist?! Is it a character that had this title before Jon? Or is it Jon himself, with the eldrich Archivist part of him roaming around taking statements and the more human part of him being stuck in a computer? Does that even makes sense?
At the start when I heard Jack, I started to doubt that he's some kind of a monster. But when I found out that he's a Tory, all of my doubts evaporated immediately.
OMG it's Helen!
OH NO IT'S HELEN!
For like forty seconds I seriously thought Alice and Gwen were going to kiss, and I was really very much all right with that.
Straigt up Magnussing it. And by "it" well. Let's justr say. My archivs.
Beating my meat like it’s Jurgen Leitner and I’m Elias in the tunnels
TAPE RECORDER? AN ARCHIVIST? HELEN??? THE INSTITUTE???? MOM PICK ME UP IM GETTING SCARED
Helen is just doomed to be a real estate agent in every universe 💀true love ig
And a Tory
The dedidaction message was beautoful and so tender
After this one i stopped so weirdly i need to catch up
Insert moistcritikal scream here when i heard "An archivist."
The audio design is REALLY good in this episode. Massive improvement. Everything in the script comes across perfectly and then some!
I am going to be feral about this episode for YEARS
I gasped when Helen entered the room, also the laugh is chilling
Wait, do you think we will see Michael Shelley or one of Gertrude's former assistants as one of Helen's contacts about the Magnus Institute??????
Or perhaps a grandma named Gerty herself??
@@EduardoVazquez-hh5tz I mean, Gigi already made an appearance and from what it seems, I don't think she's going to be a recurring character
Man archivists build different here
LOL
Who up magnusing they archive
so this episode made me notice something. this world has versions of everyone from the og world in it right. not doing all the same thing but in about where they were in their lifes. same age and stuff right? so...what about jon and martin? from what i remember they died years ago and a decent while back. their versions dont line up with the time line . so something is ethier off or that was false info
Yeah, Jon and Martin's deaths are sus af
(helen richardson is walking by) hey guys remember how i cured cancer and saved all those orphans from that burning building and have a ripped body with an 8 pack
The fact that this statement happened literally yesterday is absolutely terrifying for some reason.
NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW ADORABLE SAM AND CELIA ARE. FUCK. I LOVE THEM!!
YAY HELEN!
"Speed" is an interesting fear to have. I want to say Vast. Giving me a sort of Michael Crew vibe
word of the day: magnusing
"its remarkably easy to buy a large knife in central london"
T H E A R C H I V I S T ?? AND THE DISTORTION LAUGH TM FROM OUR GAL? You cannot keep doing this to me TmagP my heart can only take so much
Just got caught up again (yes pun intended) this is getting pretty interesting! It's a lot heavier out the gate on the office vibe but the stories are still interesting. I appreciate that it's managed to keep me guessing as a fan of the original series, I'm very excited to see how it turns out.
It's so cool to see the Archivist as a proper monster. I can't wait for Sam to meet it face to face and to face the consequences for all his snooping.
Helen is already very similar to The Distortion. We never got to hear much of Michael Shelly, so I wonder if he was like that too.
JOHN NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING
Yay, Helen!
She's a trustworthy and upright person, I'm sure.
Michael Shelly next pls. I would like to hear my husband pls.
Alice and I said "Hrmmm" at the same time
Celia being rattled by Helen omgggg
the laugh never had anyfin to do with the distortion she was just like that/j
Me listening...
"....Helen..." WHAT
"....TAPERECORDER...CATCHING LAST WORDS..." Say what now
"...I'M AN ARCHIVIST..." AHHHHHHHH!!!!
14:10 "a figure, tall and lean"
Guys he said tall dw it's not jon
HELEN!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAHH I LOVE YOU!!!!!!
They kissed! yaaay! I am more happy on this than the reveal of the archivist! lmao!