The Magnus Protocol 15 - Well Run

CAT1RB-6451-22062023-22032024Hunt (aristocratic) / compulsion
Incident Elements:- Graphic Violence/Murder- Futility- Being Hunted- Classism- Dehumanisation- Hostile work environment- Drowning- Mentions of: blades, guns, military service- SFX: Gunfire, loud music, suffocation
Transcripts: shorturl.at/gzF15
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Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall Directed by Alexander J NewallWritten by Alexander J NewallScript Edited with additional material by Jonathan Sims 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 DyerJesse Hawke as VoicemailDanny Scarre as CatererEllie Dickens as Lady MowbrayAnusia Batterby as Gwendolyn BouchardYanick Ghanty as Luke DyerLara Sawalha as Drowning Victim
Dialogue Editor - Nico Vettese Sound Designer - Meg McKellar Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella
Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson) Art by April Sumner
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[@Methus3lah]

From the transcript: “The dogs sit. They are not fur babies, they are what turns up when someone says “release the hounds”.”

[@jackeldridge4225]

So I guess I am REALLY late to the show thinking... I should look at the transcripts lol

[@shipmcgree6367]

The last time I was this early, a strange man asked me for a cigarette...

[@Ech_The_Sentiant]

Well, do you have one?

[@dthebworm]

can i have a cigarette?

[@Ech_The_Sentiant]

@@dthebwormare you okay with a roll up?

[@ineffabley_chaotic]

can i have a cigarette?

[@robdean6893]

Can I have a cigarette?

[@poxl9222]

dogs in the archives………

[@Archiv1st]

WAIT-

[@bluecloud5543]

oh no... not this s#¡t again

[@sashacampbell3513]

The way Gwen perks up when the eldritch monster acknowledges her esteemed family "the Cheshire Bouchards" 😂

[@kindateia]

Let her have this🤧 edit: okay now that i actually listened and not just read the transcript i also want to add that i actually think she might have been meaning to say something that went against lady hunts assumption before we got cut off.

[@zypalitra8080]

Imagining that the big lady is just Lady Dimitrescu and no one can convince me otherwise.

[@thedistinguished5255]

i couldnt help being influenced by that image as well ..a bit of white diamond too..

[@TheAntiChristsPlusOne]

The sarcastic character written by Jonny sims who hides their feeling with jokes is seeing their brother on a stage? Dear god I don’t want to see what happens to Luke Edit: this is my favourite statement oh my god

[@dthebworm]

yeah, me too 😢

[@dawnwayfinder]

...Guess I'll prepare the C4 and a couple of kayaks.

[@waffleaffle231]

An old woman with a huge gun being one of the (probably) avatars in this makes me so happy, I love her so much

[@SamKSavage]

Avatar of the hunt 🐺

[@jackeldridge4225]

She was cool. And great idea for using The Most Dangerous Game premise

[@thedistinguished5255]

not to be a lesbian but-

[@TheJazzy1704]

@@thedistinguished5255 Wdym not to be a lesbian? I am lesbianing all over the place over here.

[@marinterry3055]

“Hunt- compulsion”?!?!? Died 2020, born 2024: welcome back The Hunt.

[@LeonbutFrench]

What in the Bloodborne is this episode Very cool though

[@nox_lumiere_archive]

I did not miss the hunt can it go back pls /j

[@Ihatethefrench11]

My beloved is back

[@The-Eye866]

Dear rusty quill: please make it so that the next April fools episode is just Micheal Shelley getting run over by a car

[@nox_lumiere_archive]

SLKDJDHDHDHDHDJHE PLEASE DO LMAO SAYING THIS AS MICHAEL SHELLEY KINNIE IT WOULD BE THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER

[@TheNitpickChick]

4:07 “A baby. Human.” Gotta specify, can’t be too sure around here. 😅

[@hamburgerdog25]

Sam: I mean, WHO would interrupt a cliche romantic conversation at three in the morning? Alice Dyer: oh boy, 3AM!

[@azcdtixs]

The way the caterer speak reminds me so much of the way Tim speaks 😭 i miss him sm

[@Ren_zilla-dh8uz]

THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING!!!! I heard his voice and had to do a double take

[@Lea-de7fy]

I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME

[@darkmoon137]

I had the same thought 😅

[@TheNitpickChick]

I literally had to double check the credits, to make sure he wasn’t the same voice actor! They sound so much alike! 🥲

[@kaitlynmorgan4613]

@@TheNitpickChick damn i cant hear it at all 😭😭 like maybe the way in which they speak, but not how their voices sound ?

[@LovecraftsFear]

So many mentions of bands has me reaaaally waiting for a Grifters Bone appearance

[@happymystake4123]

I'm thinking maybe Alice's brother will have something to do with the hungry violin, maybe it's the reason he's gotten a great deal with his band? (Just a theory)

[@maximusthedude8305]

⁠@@happymystake4123or he’s just a normal, non-supernatural musician…… who gets devoured by a creature of horror beyond human understanding later on. Who knows?

[@BlueCat201X]

Personally I'm waiting for a reference to The Mechanisms, somehow

[@nox_lumiere_archive]

grifter's bone my beloathed

[@kellydavis3219]

Jonny and Alex: (are British) Jonny and Alex: (create an entity dedicated to the concept of hunting things down which is literally called The Hunt) Jonny and Alex 215 episodes into their series: wait a minute...

[@christopheraaron1255]

Huh?

[@kellydavis3219]

@@christopheraaron1255 I'm saying it's funny that we went through an entire series with The Hunt (the entity) and this is the first episode that actually involves the Hunt (the British sporting pastime)

[@christopheraaron1255]

@@kellydavis3219 it's not sport.

[@kaitlynmorgan4613]

@@christopheraaron1255 "hunting, sport that involves the seeking, pursuing, and killing of wild animals and birds, called game and game birds, primarily in modern times with firearms but also with bow and arrow." its sport, hence the words "they like to hunt for sport" as opposed to hunting for food and materials. unless you mean its cause theyre hunting humans? but regardless, this was (forced) hunting for sport lawl

[@elliesteele2027]

In case you were wondering what the woman at the end (credited as drowning victim) was saying, I've copied it out here: The second time is up. I try to grasp the air and fill my lungs that burn and rattle full. I can’t. There’s so much air, but none inside as I go down. Again, the cold surrounds and drags me down, the blue, the black, the weight of all the sodden fates awaiting me below the line of sea and sky... I kick, I lunge, I flail, towards the brightened blue and break the third and final time. I know I’m spent. There is no more within me save the salt-spun death that reaches down my throat and spasms in my chest, that cannot breathe. Inside me coughs and sputters and tries to push it out but more comes in and down I go the third and final time. I know it’s done. I’m done. The water is... is... dark. Deeper... Deeper... Down among the dead and swollen flesh so pale within this lightless place where eyes are open cloudy white. And all the water pushes down upon a lifeless form that sinks and sinks down to the bottom that is not there. No sandy grave below the swell, no rest among the coral and the depths I feared so much. But reached up and over land. To claim me still.

[@ziasteele9332]

Bless you

[@cecilkeith1951]

That's The Dark, all day.

[@hannarekhavi3478]

@@cecilkeith1951 The vast more so with the poem about drowining in a deep ocean

[@justintonytoney]

... I thought of The Burried. All suffocation and no escape.

[@boatingbrookcosplay7447]

The way she was speaking was reminiscent of Elias in Season 5 so I can't help but wonder if she's an Archavist

[@elliesteele2027]

Lady Mowbray is one of the characters that first appeared in the ARG (alongside Mr Bonzo and a few others). This, combined with the fact that she appears to be one of the externals means she's likely to be a fairly important character going forward.

[@knelly7132]

Feels like she almost had a Peter Lukas entrance

[@CandyLover556]

Where did she appear in the ARG? might have to look into her while waiting for episode 16

[@blueup7552]

Love hearing the sweet sponsorship messages at the beginning be immediately followed up by the most gut wrenching, horrifying, traumatizing, graphic descriptions ever uttered in the history of mankind

[@nox_lumiere_archive]

basically the michael quote "the wanderer had brief respite, but it's over now" ksjdjdhdhgd

[@Rolld20]

My favorite is getting ads for BetterHelp therapy. Bless your heart, but these folks need the kind of help you can't provide...

[@fruitygarlic3601]

Okay, just follow me on this one. Here we see Sam do something very questionable in the attempt to do good. He wants to spontaneously gift his girlfriend evening theatre tickets. However, she’s a single mother with a very young son. But he jumps into plans before knowing that she can make it, and if she couldn’t, this would create a ‘me or the son' conflict Sam would have to lose; rejection has been the constant in his life and I don't know if he can accept winning. But even weirder, it’s The Pillowman - the kind of play you only suggest if you know the other person’s mileage. If memory serves, the ARG says that the Magnus Institute gave the kids a Milgram test, and that Sam had a very high score: high obedience. Dr. Milgram's first trials were in prestigious academic settings, and had participants deceived into expecting regular learning tests until an authority figure would command them to give electric shocks (secretly fake) to a peer (secret researcher) who would cry, beg, and complain about a heart condition before going quiet as if they had died. Sam’s high score indicates dangerous levels of obedience. It was traumatic for the adults, so imagine the lasting effect on children. Expect Sam to do something deeply, deeply troubling with good intentions at some point in the series.

[@CheziahKatt]

gives me a weird nice guy tpe of vibes that like... some guys will pull to be like hey wheres my hug? ddfensively waiting for the rejection to be upset about? idk. (like when she says she needs time to scheedule? he is JUMPING to Oh well IF YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR MIND..." instead of just waiting to see what shes saying?)

[@maximusthedude8305]

On a note unrelated to the story, the Milgram test sounds severely fucked up. I mean, what is that even supposed to measure anyway? Seems like something you devise specifically to create trauma, not a scientific study

[@rubyreeds8931]

@@maximusthedude8305 Oh, I can answer this! While the version in Magnus is using children as the test subjects, the original Milgram experiment in 1961 was determining how obedient people will be when an authority figure instructs them to do something morally wrong. In this experiment, willfully giving someone up to a 450-volt shock for not being able to remember and recite the words said to them. It was a double-blind experiment advertised as a test about memory. Of course, the shock was fake, there was always an actor on the receiving end who had to make it real that they were actually being tortured. Even if the actor tells the subject that they have a heart condition, the subject was strictly instructed up to four times by the experimenter that the experiment must continue. ... the fact that Sam was one of the most obedient subjects they 've had _scares_ me more than any of the monsters. Given that it was conducted by the Magnus Institute, a hotspot for compulsion, I don't doubt they were weeding out children who could become easy toys for the Eye being most susceptible to compulsion and least resistant to it. I even theorize that this episode was the first time we witnessed Sam's own subtle compulsion.

[@fruitygarlic3601]

@@CheziahKatt This is the hottest Magnus Protocol take so far, but I believe you.

[@inkycorvid3248]

I might be crazy but the woman at the end *almost* sounds like she's describing a case Jon read out during the fifth season but from a different perspective..??

[@TheNitpickChick]

I think you mean 5th season, not 6th? (There were only 5 seasons of TMA) But I agree that the women’s statement reminded me a lot of MAG 195: Adrift, but it was focused on different aspects; more focus on the drowning, rather than the sheer vastness of the ocean and sky around her.

[@inkycorvid3248]

@@TheNitpickChick I DID INDEED MEAN FIFTH THANK YOU OOps

[@chs9999]

Oh golly gee gosh I wonder what entity this one could be about I sure am perplexed

[@chs9999]

And I just cannot figure out what this is supposed to be a metaphor for

[@benjaminjenkins2384]

​@@chs9999oh I get it, the workers are already being killed by their bosses to be fed to the uber wealthy metaphorically, this is just it happening literally.

[@patrickbailey2799]

So many things happened! The way the drowned woman was talking at the end of the episode reminded me of when Elias had become the focal point of The Eye and was just witnessing people's fears. Unable to do more than talk in a trance-like state.

[@cecilkeith1951]

Me too, but for The Dark. Blackness, sodden, blank white eyes ...

[@AlexDeMiro]

Perhaps for the Buried, or Dark

[@thecoralcat2247]

Perhaps she was compelled and couldn’t stop, the tape recorder drinking her statement

[@glumbortango7182]

Maybe the Dark, maybe the Buried, maybe some Vast in there, but definitely compelled by the Institute to tell her final thoughts to a tape recorder that shouldn't even be running.

[@marinterry3055]

Do I spy another Magnus monster woman to obsess over?!

[@krishadyn5211]

Hunt Mommy?

[@nox_lumiere_archive]

SAMEEE IM SCARED AF BUT WOMEN!!!!

[@FiendishAura438]

Just something I noticed: lady mowbray said that Celia felt weird. It could be related to the “Celia is the same one as the Celia in TMA” theory. Being from an alternate reality would do that…

[@UlimiteinemL]

Yes!! I'm gonna hold on to this theory until proven otherwise. Love seeing I'm not alone with this.

[@fireking6308]

Wasn't previous Celia incapable of feeling fear or am I getting my characters mixed up? Cause if so her shaky breaths this episode tell us this ISN'T the same celia. Or maybe it is and since terminius left she can feel fear again? idk

[@FiendishAura438]

@@fireking6308 I believe it was Georgie who was incapable of feeling fear. Celia was one of the cultist in season five. (I think she was a spiral victim?)

[@fireking6308]

@@FiendishAura438 Oh yeahhh right, thank you

[@UlimiteinemL]

Celia was a Desolation victim, the Desolation took her name which was Lynn in episode 100. She was the one with the "I saw a ghost" story :D She named herself Celia after she was rescued - another reason for me believing it is the same Celia. Because if all the names are the same in Protocol, Celia's name would in fact be Lynn.

[@matthewgeorge9051]

The Hunt chases on! Nice to see someone who has fully embraced the Hunt without fear or shame. Reminds me of meeting Peter Lukas or Simon Fairchild

[@thedistinguished5255]

they said they wanted more fear families didnt they

[@Benjamin-mj9pd]

THE TAPE RECORDER CLICKS AGAIN!!!! It’s at the last bit with Alice.

[@_fishstars]

AS A SAPPHIC I CAN SAY IM VERY MUCH SATISFIED WITH THIS EPISODE THANK YOU

[@elliesteele2027]

Fr, like what does a girl have to do to get hunted for sport by a hot monster lady?

[@poxl9222]

FOR REAL. does she need a new hound i can bark

[@cantaloupegodling352]

I could tolerate simping for a cop but I draw the line at a rich woman.

[@Fpink202new]

@@cantaloupegodling352you could tolerate simping for a cop?

[@robertlong9591]

Based on the voice we heard i hope you like grandmas. It’s basically Maggie Smith with a Glock.

[@jacobjohnston3983]

I’m calling it now, the fears got mixed up and rearranged after the great change, maybe some stay the same, others split in two and other merge together. The Deep is the paradoxical combination of the vast and the buried

[@tretizzle]

Absolutely agree 💯💯

[@aubbrew6130]

yeah agree with this so far

[@maximusthedude8305]

That sounds pretty cool tbh. Personally, I do think the fears have blurred somewhat in TMP as the majority of statements are really hard to pin down to just one power. I do wonder though, if the fears seem merged, but only because they’ve actually been split into much smaller segments, many of which make up a lot of the overlapping space between the 15 powers. However, if this is true then I’m not sure it’s entirely a natural thing. This is big claim, but my theory at the moment is that the OIAR and it’s weird and specific filing system which supposedly serves no purpose, is actually supposed to be dividing the fears via classification. We know fears in TMA were shaped by humans’ comprehension of them, but if in TMP they are purposefully being defined and boxed into such small categories then none of them will ever be able to emerge as a full power - which would naturally lead to all the faction-based conflicts and rituals that we saw in TMA. A little bit like what Smirk failed to do when he built the panopticon to “balance” the fears against each other. At least, that’s what I think the OIAR is trying to do. But I don’t know how well it’s working, and I don’t know why they’d be also working directly with the ‘externals’ if they were supposed aligned against the fears.

[@aubbrew6130]

@@maximusthedude8305 oh that a real good theory about OIAR trying to separate the entities

[@matthewgeorge9051]

I think the vast and the buried have always been strangely tied together

[@marinterry3055]

“It’s a good place to canoodle” is my new favorite saying

[@caramel9154]

Alice "babies are cool" Dyer

[@marinterry3055]

Not only can rusty quill write incredible suspense in their horror, but the dread they are able to create in the interpersonal dynamics is amazing. Sam and Alice are a pot ever closer to boiling over every episode, and it makes me just as nervous as the statements.

[@krishadyn5211]

Alice is coming off stalkery. I know she was focused on her brother but she seems to lack all social instinct.

[@sashacampbell3513]

Alice has a bad case of foot in mouth disease and it keeps getting worse 🙃

[@melodiesblue2442]

20:28 RETURN OF THE TAPE RECORDER MY BELOVED

[@nox_lumiere_archive]

AYOOOO TAPE RECORDERS BACK ALRIGHT 📼

[@marinterry3055]

The Cheshire Bouchards? As in Cheshire England? We’re learning so much.

[@TheNitpickChick]

Another banger of an episode!!!! 😃 1. Sam and Celia are cute. I appreciate that they’re still in the awkward beginning stages of a relationship, just feeling things out to see if they’re a good fit, without it being this instant, deep, meaningful connection that a lot of media likes to portray. ☺️ 2. I love how supportive big sister Alice is of her brother! It’s sweet. ❤️ 3. LADY M!!!! She has arrived, and she is terrifying and _glorious!!!!_ Like Gertrude, if she weren’t into toppling other Avatars’ plans, but just became consumed by the Hunt itself. (Also, it’s nice to have a straightforward Hunt case. 😊) 4. Lady Mowbray can tell that Celia is _different!!!_ And Celia knows how to face up to an Avatar, to show no fear! Either she’s a badass, or she ended up like Georgie, with her fear cauterized. My guess is that she’s already seen so much horror, during the Eyepocalypse, that any singular Avatar just isn’t enough to scare her properly, anymore. 5. It’s great to finally hear Luke’s voice, rather than just hearing Alice’s side of the conversation over the phone! 😊 6. Oof! That ending!!! First, the _Tape Recorder,_ seemingly compelling a statement of some kind; seems buried related? (Drowning on land, and all that?) Then there’s Alice, trying to save this poor person who’s dying from supernatural horrors! Poor girl is traumatized now (if she wasn’t already). 😢 The victim’s statement reminded me somewhat of MAG 195: Adrift, but more focused on the drowning aspect, rather than the sheer vastness of the ocean and sky around them.

[@maximusthedude8305]

I wonder if this incident will have an effect on Alice’s skepticism in the future. Maybe she’ll have a harder time not taking this all seriously now. I can’t help but think as well about how unlikely it is to be a coincidence this happened to her. I mean, I’m pretty certain she got marked by the eye in episode ten, maybe she’s drawn attention to herself now to other powers?

[@blueberriesburn]

@@maximusthedude8305 I doubt Alice is truly a skeptic. I thought that she just does Not want to get involved into anything spooky, and is aware that ignorance can be bliss while working at the O.I.A.R.

[@emilyotter6288]

really cool to see the hunt getting involved, loved the visuals in this ep! didn't notice until reading the transcript that the drowning victim at the end was recorded on a tape recorder... and interesting to note that lady mowbray noticed that celia was "different" in some way too. someone smarter than me needs to connect all the dots in this episode lol

[@krishadyn5211]

Celia reminds me of Georgie in her lack of fear. So perhaps all her fear was drained from her, along with her name.

[@benjaminjenkins2384]

​@@krishadyn5211Lady M said Celia is braver than she looked, but she didnt say fearless, and she definitely seemed a bit freaked in that scene

[@cantaloupegodling352]

Adore Sam, the rizzless king.

[@a_kenai2923]

Drowning victim sounds like she was jumped by the vast and buried. Considering how much she mentions the ocean, what if she is a victim of Gordan J from ep 11 since he basically became a vast avatar by the end of his case.

[@cecilkeith1951]

Nah, the End and Dark. Can't die. Keeps drowning but talking about the blackness

[@hannarekhavi3478]

​@@cecilkeith1951 No! Vast. the ocean is described to be blackness and she mentioned somthing akin to drowning

[@vetorandom]

i dont think the entities framework works anymore guys.. exactly why everyone is always disagreeing over what entities appear in individual cases

[@jacobjohnston3983]

I think some of the entities got mixed together, separated or joined into new fears. This is the second time “the deep” has been mentioned, and I think it’s a paradoxical combination of vast and buried

[@a_kenai2923]

The vast can also be ocean related, ep 51 of TMA has Simon Fairchild hiring a dive team to find "treasure", the buried seems to include choking a lot and maybe the dark and end were involved too

[@anujinenkhzorig7679]

Holy crap their gonna find out that the cases are real one by one. Alice is gonna hear what happened after she called the ambulance on a shift, and its gonna mess her up, i just know it.

[@anaclaramartins2888]

WE'RE BACK WITH LIVE STATEMENTS BABEYYYYY TIME TO FEAST

[@allacaya2423]

The fact that I get so excited I end up with goosebumps all over my body over the sound of a tape recorder has me a bit worried.

[@Yumeki-san]

A tape recorder?! 👁👁

[@violetaflorecita]

AH!! I didn’t catch that the last piece is on tape recorder 😨 did the drowning lady bring it with her from wherever she came from?? (Aka tma original timeline)

[@Cangeltibon]

Well the Hunt is a primal fear so it being here in its full glory makes perfect sense 😅

[@Vicky-uv8ri]

The audiodesign was great in this one! Doing a club setting but still having dialogue that is neither drowned out nor unrealistically legible is an impressive feat!

[@sebasoler5347]

With everything that happened in the episode, this is a weird and probably stupid thing to focus on, but something about the emergency operator that Alice talks to at the end felt...off. I know it probably is because the call is meant to be a bit inaudible, but their voice gave me the creeps and i cant put my finger on why.

[@hiddeninshadows9139]

I was thinking the same thing!!! something about it just felt not quite right but in a way I can't explain, off somehow. maybe it's just how calm they were, but they have to be calm that's their job, I don't know, but it was strange...

[@krishadyn5211]

Same. Their voice was creepy.

[@SaYhITOme253]

I think its because it wasn't words. Even somthing inaudible should have some kind of resemblance to word, that was just sound. A meaningless gargle. At the beginning of the call it said the proper lines, and it said thank you but other then that it's just gibberish.

[@valeriyav2149]

Celia is a badass, even avatars know this. But honestly, Celia is different because she's from a different universe imo

[@codenamejinza]

Ladies and gentlemen, The Hunt has landed.

[@Yumeki-san]

Babies are cool!

[@gavingreenhorn]

"Sam as ever". This is so bad and so good. :D

[@AlexDeMiro]

02:30 The Pillowman? Seriously?! A writer investigated because his stories were eerily similar to the murders in his town? 05:05 The Sentinel, otherwise called The Watcher 10:06 it was her domain - oh definitely 16:30 Lady Mowbray, I presume 16:46 I BEG YOUR PARDON?! 17:05 Wait, Celia can withstand that presence?! Is Celia an avatar? 23:44 no, alright, that's an avatar for the Buried alright that's two (three?) avatars introduced in ONE episode something is happening

[@dragonicdoom3772]

WELL SHIT! That was an intense episode. Never let it be said that The Hunt is subtle. So it seems like we can add Lady Mowbray to our lists of "Externals" and future enemies alongside Mr Bonzo. The statement itself doesn't have much to dissect, very clearly a club of rich arseholes who also happen to be Hunters lead by this Lady Mowbray. Based on what Lady Mowbray says, it seems like she can tell Celia has past experience with the supernatural (calling her "fine" and "strong") and can probably tell something's up with her (calls her "different). I have a feeling she's making her own plans that involve Celia based on her reply to Celia asking if she can help her: "I rather think you might". Notice she didn't say "Yes you can help" she seems to think Celia WILL help her as if she doesn't have a choice. Celia also seems to know she's a Hunter based on how she responds to Lady Mowbray's goodbye ("Catch you next time dearie" "No you won't"). She knows Mowbray's a Hunter and means "catch" in a very literal sense. Now, there's a lot to unpack from that ending. Let's start with what the Victim (as they're called in the transcript) was talking about. Clearly revolves around the ocean and seems to be a combination of The Buried and The Vast, what with the emphasis on drowning (Buried) but also on the constant feeling of sinking ever deeper without reaching the seafloor (Vast). What sticks out to me is how they're speaking: it sounds less like a classic statement and more like the ones from the post Change world. Those statements weren't formatted as someone recounting a horrible event that already happened and more like a person describing the event as it's happening and how its making them feel in the moment. Plus the way the Victim seems to be in a trance reminds me of how the people trapped in Domains would be completely unaware of anyone not a part of that Domain. Now to unpack the big reveal: the fucking tape recorder. Clearly a connection to The Web (back to scheming and plotting already) and the Archives. Not sure why they're carrying a tape recorder but Alice clearly knows more about them, the supernatural and the Institute than she's telling Sam since the tape recorder makes her freak out and realise something about the Victim before running off. I wonder if there's another Eye avatar using the recorders to feed on Fear, maybe the OIAR has their Externals use the recorders so that way Eye avatars can leech off their fear (The Eye has been called a parasite that feeds on second hand terror before).

[@thecondescendinggoomba5552]

HOLY SHIT THE FASCINATING AND GROWLING GOT ME

[@emilyotter6288]

so much going on in this one omfg

[@FiendishAura438]

On a previous episode I said I thought Alice would die first… I’m really hoping that’s not the case, especially after we just saw her with her brother. We’ll see how it goes though

[@lemon8283]

Well that was a little insane- yet another very good ep. So excited to see Lady M and more of the sea entity, both seem like story aspects I will quite enjoy.

[@elliesteele2027]

1:26 Pre-case 5:04 Case (Hunt) [Voicemail: Unidentified Caterer] 16:42 Post-case

[@MaksSladic]

I only just realized that the end bit was not recorded through a phone, but another familiar and tenacious piece of equipment

[@_shoom]

Luke seems cool, going to miss him when he inevitably dies tragically

[@etienneporras7252]

Guess the Hunt has finally made it to England. It was still pretty firmly in America during TMA.

[@marinterry3055]

Alice’s character development makes me want to scream and cry in the best way possible.

[@jennifermems1111]

OMG, this is going to make her obsessed with investigating the cases again, just like Samama and Celia.

[@laughingooooo]

ah yes i love the eldrich horror hunger games

[@existenceherself4271]

Can we just take a sec to appreciate that sound design? It's been so so good every episode.....

[@ZatWonGuy]

I need an entire book of Fear poetry like from MAG119 and this episode like please it's so good

[@prezombiee702]

Pillowman is certainly… a choice for a date 😅

[@kelseymiller7979]

Glad someone else clocked that as well! 😅

[@a_kenai2923]

Since Alice's brother plays in a band the seems to be pretty popular, do yall think there's a chance grifter's bone hijacks one of their shows. We did get GB origin story already so maybe they'll pop up again

[@roksolanatsyatsko3536]

Can I just say ITS A GOOD DAY TO BE A GWEN FAN 🔥

[@user-vn8eo1jl6e]

I am so gay for lady Mowbray its insane

[@Benjamin-mj9pd]

The second time is up. I try to grasp the air and fill my lungs that burn and rattle full. I can’t. (a long inhale) There’s so much air, but none inside as I go down. Again the cold surrounds and drags me down, the blue, (inhale) the black, the weight of all the sodden fates awaiting me below the line - of sea and sky… I kick, I lunge I flail, towards the brightened blue and break the third and final time.I know I’m spent. There is no more within me save the salt-spun death that reaches down my throat - and spasms in my chest, that cannot breathe inside me coughs and sputters and tries to push it out but more comes in and down I go the third and final time I know it’s done. I’m done. The water is… is… dark Deeper… Deeper… Down among the dead and swollen flesh so pale within this lightless place where - eyes are open cloudy white. (louder)And all the water pushes down upon a lifeless form that sinks and sinks down to the bottom……that is not there. No sandy grave below the swell no rest among the coral and the depths I feared… so much. But reached up and over land. To claim me still. Catchy.

[@Spindizzy.izzy69]

Is no one else seeing the parallels with MAG15-lost John’s cave?😭😭

[@azcdtixs]

...wait you have a point what if this is the sister that was taken by the buried and is now back as an avatar

[@UlimiteinemL]

The band names translate to me as "Dig" and "This is about fortune, desires, luck and sacrifices" ^^

[@violetjan7291]

Dig

[@BillErak]

Mommy? Sorry- Mommy? Sorry- Mommy? Sorry-

[@valentinewhite9298]

Wait a minute. Celia is just a mixed around Alice. I am so suspicious rn

[@randomdoodlesandye5922]

Oml how do you mean?

[@valentinewhite9298]

@@randomdoodlesandye5922like. It’s all the same letters.

[@randomdoodlesandye5922]

​Oh gosh ur right!!

[@LoveisStoredInTheLain]

TAPE RECORDER.

[@michaelrobinson996]

The Hunt is so straight forward

[@allioth1266]

A new Avatar for the Hunt?

[@cecilkeith1951]

And the lady at the end is Undying but ranting about The Dark

[@hannarekhavi3478]

@@cecilkeith1951 VAST

[@CandyLover556]

I reeally hope next week does not start with the emergency call from the end of this week... Relistening to Introductions it really seemed like Alice was tempting fate.

[@bsoleimanieh2]

Is it just me or did this one end on the sound of a tape recorder stoping

[@rubyreeds8931]

You'd be right! In the transcript, it indicated that the victim's statement and Alice's interaction was through a tape recorder.

[@thelivingtrebuchet6180]

this episode on magnus: gwen is sniffed by an old lady

[@TheNitpickChick]

Slight correction: Celia is sniffed, not Gwen. 😅

[@thelivingtrebuchet6180]

@@TheNitpickChick little bit slow srry

[@mcr00kes]

I'm wondering if the drowned woman (guess that's most apt for her) is another avatar for what an earlier episode described as "The Deep".

[@adrianzapata8068]

So they manage the monsters and send them after people and we’ve seen names of the fears mentioned as well as the Magnus institute I wonder if this is the world post Magnus archives or the world the fears were sent to

[@TheNitpickChick]

It’s definitely not the original universe from TMA, post-Change. There are too many inconsistencies for that to be the case, even if everyone somehow forgot all the horrors they witnessed. (The Magnus Institute being in Manchester, rather than London, for example. Or Gerry and Gertrude being alive and well here.) It’s almost certainly an alternate universe, where the Fears (as well as Jon, Martin, and Jonah it seems), were sent to at the end of TMA.

[@weirdo4495]

Whoo, what an episode! One of the best so far

[@larzanthony2275]

Now listening to magnus archives. Glad to see you guys are still making videos. First podcast I actually listened to for more than 2 podcasts.

[@quelreve]

I wonder if that woman at the end just became a new avatar. The way she seems to expire, I can't help but remember when Oliver Banks let the ship sink to become an avatar of the end, or how Jon fully became an avatar after The Unknowing and almost expiring himself. It's as if she herself made a decision to fully become one and came back as a result... But an avatar of what is sooooo vague because of blended everything is... And I'm hyperfixated on this being the second tape recorded moment...

[@unfelinoerudito419]

To me she is a victim of the thing that was locked in the ruins of the institute. Like when Jon forced people to relate their traumatic experiences, but in a more intense way.

[@radordekeche947]

Hm.... Is that 911 call going to come up later as a case? I'm pretty sure it will.

[@reaperassasin11]

tape recorder mention in the subtitles oh we are so back

[@cleosong5394]

The music of this episode is awesome!

[@darkmoon137]

Oooooooooh a hunting we will goooooo

[@crypticfelines9750]

Lady Mowbray really got me feeling gay as fuck this statement, I hope we continue to see or hear of her in future episodes especially when on another hunt

[@dizzydawn862]

Great title pun

[@owenr-m4619]

20:24 What the fuck

[@cassiemoyles4177]

Oh fuck dude this episode is intense

[@cassiemoyles4177]

Alice kinda losing her composure here a little

[@crazebear]

I’ve had a theory. I think they serve the Extinction. Extinction is extreme change, not just mass death. Perhaps changing the status quo, eliminating the other powers and feeding off of their destruction, allowing humanity to develop new fears in their place? It seems those unable to be afraid are immune/resist the powers, which could be described as subverting humanity in a way- fear is natural, after all. I think the forums he’s been filling out are to join that initiative.

[@crazebear]

My guess is they may be training an AI to eliminate entities by feeding it information and knowledge that the eye cannot feed on, hence the digital voices. Them sending out known entities like the clown would also be useful knowledge to eliminate them later. I mean, if the database isn’t feeding the eye, maybe it’s feeding something that can LEARN from it.

[@bluealien7261]

LETS GO SAM MY BOY ❤️

[@denisehuston2573]

Jfc Sam has no rizz.

[@_DragonHero_]

TAPE RECORDER ALERT TAPE RECORDER ALERT THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT- also...Mommy?-I mean..sorry! Mommy? sorry!...uhm Mo-...hmmm...cool new Hunt Avatar i guess

[@chancepasteque]

well ... That was a creeptic episode ! :D

[@edmcsteve2156]

20:16 Doombar! Alice has great taste

[@darkmoon137]

Babies ARE cool alice

[@basilisk5855]

Hunt.

[@cassiemoyles4177]

Is this a two avatar episode possibly?

[@thecondescendinggoomba5552]

AHHH THAT ENDING

[@Itotallydidit]

This day just got waaay better