The Magnus Protocol 3 – Putting Down Roots
Added 2024-01-23 16:00:10 +0000 UTCCAT2C8175-03042009-22012024
Infection (full body) -/- arboreal [journal entry]
Incident Elements:
· Temporal Distortion
· Compulsion/OCD
· Auditory Hallucinations
· Disorientation
· Hypochondria
· Paranoia
· Self-Injury
- Bugs
Transcripts: https://shorturl.at/gzF15
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Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall
Directed by Alexander J Newall
Written by Graeme Patrick (for more of his work visit https://www.aintslayednobody.com/)
Script Editing with Additional Materials 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)
Ryan Hopevere-Anderson as Colin Becher
Billie Hindle as Alice Dyer
Alexander J Newall as Norris
Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid
Anusia Battersby as Gwendolyn Bouchard
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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Comments
I am VERY nervous that our sweet Colin is going to be taking a long Kayaking trip with an old friend before all is said and done :(
FyreFlye23
2024-02-05 06:40:18 +0000 UTCSeconding (or thirding) this. I listen on earbuds in a noisy environment, and can understand most speaking but when it's pitched to be on the /other side of the room/ it's very difficult to make out. I understand the effect being something like a bug or hidden mic or even just their computers listening to them, but I think there's many who'd appreciate a bit clearer audio!
Ember
2024-02-01 15:17:43 +0000 UTCYou’re not the only one, even though it’s cool stylistically I’ve had a LOT of trouble understanding all the CCTV/phone call segments. A lot of people on the subreddit are also talking about it
TheMunsterMash
2024-01-26 16:55:28 +0000 UTCI strongly agree; we listen together so headphones are not really an option. I love the episodes and would really love to be able to enjoy them without reading the transcript.
The Starlight Family
2024-01-26 04:41:37 +0000 UTCI saw that Ushanka reference 👀 Back to the visceral body horror, I love it 🥰
Red
2024-01-25 22:44:41 +0000 UTCI think I spent the first two episodes trying to learn names and get oriented, but now I've got my bearings and am enjoying the heck out of TMP! Love all of the new recurring characters, can't wait to see all of the ways in which you're going to be horrible to them <3
Bremen J. Savage
2024-01-25 20:31:38 +0000 UTC“Like colours, but if colours hated me.” ~The Archivist, MAG 111
Newt Newton
2024-01-25 19:55:20 +0000 UTChot DAMN this episode's casement-statement was amazing! Not gonna lie, I was a bit worried about the cases being written by guest writers I don't know (vs already knowing I like Jonny's stuff), but this was completely my jam and gorgeous -- adding Ain't Slayed Nobody on my list to check out for sure!! Loved Ryan's performance in Cry Havoc!, and he was a show-stealer in this ep too, Colin's well on his way to earning a fan favourite spot >:D Though I really liked the final interaction too (intriguing!!). Gwen & Alice have such an interesting dynamic, on the surface they're at each other's throat but they're never actually as sharply <i>mean</i> as they could be, Gwen did remain patient and Alice did relent and do a nice thing eventually... I wonder how long they've each been working at the OIAR? If there's only 3 employees in the team, has it been just the two of them sticking through and watching their colleagues come and go for years? Will note that the break room soundscaping maks it quite hard to hear conversations, though :p thanks for the transcripts! And most importantly: so, Sam has little stick legs to go along with his canonical noodle arms. Duly noted.
sAZAndorable
2024-01-25 19:54:05 +0000 UTCLoved this episode so much as someone who's favorite alignment from Archives was Corruption! I agree that the previous categories probably won't be as applicable anymore but will still echo them. I saw a new theory circling that there may be a recategorization- instead of fears its "desires" or "hungers" since every episode so far has heavily revolved around the subject's personal wants and how it manifested into horror
Ashe
2024-01-25 15:26:01 +0000 UTCJust gonna say, this was probably the worst episode I could have chosen to listen to while eating dinner.
Marie
2024-01-25 07:18:05 +0000 UTCMy dude speed ran arguably every single fear
Alan Parmeter
2024-01-25 05:36:46 +0000 UTCspooked me when it started talking about werthers as i was unwrapping one haha
Emile
2024-01-25 03:53:34 +0000 UTCThis one gave Jane Prentiss vibes.
Gareth Green
2024-01-25 02:25:11 +0000 UTCOMG!
Gareth Green
2024-01-25 02:24:01 +0000 UTCListened again through headphones and it’s much clearer, but for those of us who listen while driving, have mercy on us! :-)
Jeff Miller
2024-01-25 00:21:55 +0000 UTCI can't help but notice how in two of the statements the person stops being scared of the things happening and starts embracing it rather heavily so. Also interested in how choice is being used in the serise so far. Great episode! Also I love Alice and Colin so much their dynamic is *chefs kiss*
Jons irate physical therapist
2024-01-24 22:33:08 +0000 UTCWas organizing at work but had to sit down for a minute while listening, really tense stuff. Amazing episode!
Mishiro
2024-01-24 18:23:56 +0000 UTCand after thinking on this more.... wouldn't Jonah make sense actually? since it's still, after all, the MAGNUS protocol... 🤔
SpookMouse
2024-01-24 15:34:38 +0000 UTCone thing i have been thinking with the incidents so far is that there seems to be a LOT of overlap and mixed influence of multiple entities.... maybe they have been a bit tangled together? or swirled, i guess, to maintain the colour metaphor
SpookMouse
2024-01-24 12:06:13 +0000 UTCAgreed on the character analysis! I didn’t have any issues hearing the breakroom conversation with or without headphones tbh. I wonder why.
Anthony
2024-01-24 10:20:09 +0000 UTCHis name is Sam, though; can’t be a recurring character. I’m surprised he made it here ;)
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-24 10:18:03 +0000 UTCDig
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-24 10:17:03 +0000 UTCI love this piece of the acting. It’s phenomenal. It produces a very different deal from the Archivist instantly switching. Yet because the lines leading up to the casement aren’t from Jonathan or Martin, that brief transition basically serves the same role as the switch flip with the statements. Which I find exceptionally cool. Same job, different feel.
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-24 10:14:44 +0000 UTCAlso: -Interesting to see the DPHW presented only extra-textually. This contributes to them being a completely optional puzzle to try and reverse engineer Alex’s system -We know Dr Webber can’t be recurring because his name is Sam -Yes, hi, jmj, I heard you there the first time, I’m just thinking about the new stuff, mkay? -Seriously Sam, don’t joke about eating keyboards.
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-24 10:07:33 +0000 UTCFantastic episode again. Really enjoyed it. The continued exploration of the different things the casements afford is a lot of fun to listen to. And a lot of details that may be incidental and well … well, I’ve been trained to listen closely to names of people and places. Interesting to see Gwen’s predicaments; it feels like she’s under parallel pressures and expectations to those Elias faced, but took the perfectionist route through them. It does make me feel for her, though I love Alice as well. Very interesting to keep seeing Alice in different contexts and how she feels different one-on-one with her colleagues. I’m looking forward to seeing what she’s after stirring things up with IT and her apparent frustration being stuck working all the time. A different vibe from her previous “time isn’t real” comment. Another commenter made a Gertrude comparison, which I’ll keep in mind. Several people have commented on the break room conversation. It was audible to me with headphones on, but it was up high enough that the music crashed in almost painfully loud. It’s clear you’re trying to communicate distance between the microphone and the characters, which seems to be a recurring scenario.
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-24 09:54:17 +0000 UTCRIGHT??
Kate McKiernan
2024-01-24 09:27:19 +0000 UTC/Exactly/ what I’m thinking
Callum Boyle
2024-01-24 07:01:15 +0000 UTCGreat episode! But I agree with some of the other comments that the sound in the breakroom scenes is very hard to comprehend, I had to rely on the transcripts. I hope that this gets fixed in later episodes :(
Pigeon
2024-01-24 06:30:05 +0000 UTC"and I'll die down here" FORESHADOWING MAYBE?!? Definitely not a smart thing to say if you find yourself in a horror series....not that they would know that.
GloriousGe0rge
2024-01-24 04:57:25 +0000 UTC(idk if Augustus is Jonah but well it's gotta be SOMEONE)
SpookMouse
2024-01-24 03:27:33 +0000 UTCJMJ error is when Jon, Martin and Jonah are fighting because three ghosts in the machine is just too many
SpookMouse
2024-01-24 03:27:01 +0000 UTCOh I love the concept of this one. Wish that could happen to me 😔
Tyler H
2024-01-24 03:26:35 +0000 UTCI just want to know when we're going to find out what the worst thing Sam's ever seen is. LEST WE FORGET about the teaser.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-24 01:48:22 +0000 UTCI do love the show, but the break room section was almost unintelligible to me. I could barely follow what was going on because the audio was so unclear. Could I humbly request to dial back the echo effect somewhat for future episodes?
Jeff Miller
2024-01-24 00:20:55 +0000 UTCagreed
Ocean
2024-01-23 23:17:05 +0000 UTCSimilar trappings, but the underlying themes are very different.
Valerie Kaplan
2024-01-23 21:55:16 +0000 UTCGOD AMAZING STATEMENT. Gwen's friend's surname IS Lukas and they are in a complicated situationship...*is dragged away*
MarlaBothBothIsGood
2024-01-23 21:27:13 +0000 UTCi love statements going from robot to emotion back to robot!! so ominous!! skin is CRAWLING
Undeadly
2024-01-23 20:55:07 +0000 UTCThis feels very Jared Hopworth Garden to me, fleshy
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 20:44:39 +0000 UTCIf it makes you feel better, my friend got to do fun letter patchwork for capitalization so it was consistent in their art. your mistakes brings new opportunities to pain the fans more :3
Nico DeStefano
2024-01-23 20:41:17 +0000 UTCI don’t know if I’m the only one but the sound design for the break room scenes so far has been borderline unintelligible. I’ve found myself having to read the transcripts to actually understand what happened.
Sabal (unlike cabal)
2024-01-23 20:36:33 +0000 UTCJust popping back to say it's all fixed now!
Aryn Jae
2024-01-23 20:35:23 +0000 UTCOh I agree, that's why I said flesh-adjacent because as Corruption-heavy as this one is, it still called up memories of Jared's Garden. ...and honestly I'm not expecting perfect categorization under the 14 anymore given how much emphasis was placed on them bleeding together/not actually being all that separate.
FriendlyCybird
2024-01-23 20:34:25 +0000 UTCfeels more corruption to me: sickness, rot, compulsions, doomed love, bugs
Geneva Wormy Wright
2024-01-23 20:31:41 +0000 UTCDon't know if the entity categorization is applicable to this series but I see anything corruption adjacent and I start foaming at the mouth. Thank you for this!!!
Geneva Wormy Wright
2024-01-23 20:31:10 +0000 UTCHoly crap I didn't even notice that it was so subtle and well done
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 20:06:37 +0000 UTCGoing back to the old Smirke's 14 Catigorization, does anyone else think it's *interesting* we're getting so many flesh or flesh-adjacent "statements" in a series where the information is being categorized *digitally*?
FriendlyCybird
2024-01-23 19:54:27 +0000 UTCHahaha I was looking to see if anyone else caught that
Emilia Perfetti
2024-01-23 19:42:08 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Also first time i did an internal heave. Good job.
Heather
2024-01-23 19:40:27 +0000 UTCHot damn this one was so good. And I still can't get over the transition between the TTS voices transitioning into more human performance and right back to robotic at the end. So damn good. Alex killed this one
OopsieDoodles
2024-01-23 19:02:44 +0000 UTC"force feed me my own keyboard" DON'T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT SAM
Helena McCoy
2024-01-23 18:49:55 +0000 UTCLoved the spooky body horror statement a certain Gardener would have been very proud of this one me thinks.
Mice and Moonbeams
2024-01-23 18:49:32 +0000 UTCI say this with love: this one was Foul
Helena McCoy
2024-01-23 18:49:10 +0000 UTCGetting an increasingly strong impression Alice is inclined to Gertrude-style mitigation tactics working in a position of less power. Absolute banger of a case this episode - human horror getting mulched for inhuman horror, peeling back the writer's drapery of 'objective' authoritative medical diction until that diction is the only skeleton left. *shivers*
JJ Hunter
2024-01-23 18:35:54 +0000 UTCokay now that i’ve listened again, SO GOOD and also if you guys like slow burn nauseating body horror then i recommend the film Contracted (2013)
Anthony
2024-01-23 18:16:34 +0000 UTCHappy birthday!
Emily Palomo
2024-01-23 18:04:53 +0000 UTCHappy Birthday!!
Fer is against the homophobic vase
2024-01-23 18:02:31 +0000 UTChappy birthday!
eugenia ivsean
2024-01-23 17:40:18 +0000 UTCI love it, but the audio quality outside the statements makes it really difficult to hear what’s going on.
Marilyn
2024-01-23 17:40:08 +0000 UTCHey, just wanted to say that for some reason I can see all 3 versions of the transcripts as PDFs under this post (i.e I can download the two with the incorrect name, and the most recent corrected one)? I'm on a Google Pixel + have tried refreshing + restarting the app. Not sure if there's anything that can be done from your end but just wanted to make you guys aware!
Aryn Jae
2024-01-23 17:23:40 +0000 UTCRight?! Everyone knocks on Gwen but she's a good employee and just wants to work without all the drama. Alice is a bully.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 17:21:24 +0000 UTCGot it, thank you!
HeavenlyBibi
2024-01-23 17:19:04 +0000 UTCoh thank you!!
genevieve
2024-01-23 17:18:54 +0000 UTCDon't click on transcripts, click the .pdf link at the bottom of the show notes.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 17:18:36 +0000 UTCDon't click on transcripts, click the .pdf link at the bottom of the show notes.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 17:18:27 +0000 UTCThe only birthday present I needed
Ocean
2024-01-23 17:12:31 +0000 UTCI dont trust that :(
Nico DeStefano
2024-01-23 17:04:25 +0000 UTCi cant see the transcript for this episode?
genevieve
2024-01-23 17:04:16 +0000 UTCAnyone else have it quit at 3:00 minutes here.
Possumcat
2024-01-23 17:02:21 +0000 UTCooh i LOVED this episode, incredibly good. I don't think I'll ever be over the orchestra, its incredible every time i hear it
Kristsune
2024-01-23 17:01:35 +0000 UTCyou guys might want to add a CW for bugs?
RaisedByHeathens
2024-01-23 16:56:57 +0000 UTChey, you might want to correct the first name entry, as it's uploaded now I believe only the second one is edited
eugenia ivsean
2024-01-23 16:56:13 +0000 UTCAlice is so mean to everyone all the time! What a snake!
Kstein19
2024-01-23 16:53:39 +0000 UTCDamn making food while listening to this wasn’t a great idea :0
DamianJ
2024-01-23 16:53:20 +0000 UTCor even, dare I say, dig up? 🤦🤦🤦
loregano
2024-01-23 16:52:16 +0000 UTCIs anyone else not able to see the newest transcripts? I can only see the first two
HeavenlyBibi
2024-01-23 16:48:54 +0000 UTCColin deserves the biggest stein for putting up with such haunted tech bs.🍻💀 and Alice is Queen of sass & I love it👸
Cas D
2024-01-23 16:48:46 +0000 UTCSmart move. You don't want to antagonize local IT.
James Rule
2024-01-23 16:47:51 +0000 UTCI love seeing the characters from each others perspective everyone’s so different except Gwendolyn😭
Max
2024-01-23 16:42:02 +0000 UTClove me a good body garden
loregano
2024-01-23 16:40:00 +0000 UTC😭😭😭
Kaelyn
2024-01-23 16:39:18 +0000 UTCHey folks! Please note that inconsistencies with character naming is more likely due to my personal human error rather than anything directly plot relevant. This has now been corrected. Sincerely, April (Executive Producer, tired transcript editor)
Rusty Quill
2024-01-23 16:37:17 +0000 UTCPutrefaction is never wrong 🌱
Stor Reke
2024-01-23 16:37:00 +0000 UTCthe intro song is freddy saying womp womp prove me wrong
Phoenix Tears
2024-01-23 16:36:34 +0000 UTCSamuel WEBber - the Web *full conspiracy mode activated*
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 16:34:49 +0000 UTCHey...the transcript doesn't list Norris as Norris and I may be having a cardiac episode over it soooo just a heads up, chickies.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 16:30:40 +0000 UTCI got goosebumps irl 😦
Emily Palomo
2024-01-23 16:29:56 +0000 UTCIt's so interesting how the final statement of each episode seems to cement the "themes" regarding the casement as a whole. Very fun and I can't wait for next week!
Ishmam
2024-01-23 16:26:42 +0000 UTCLoving it. So much.
artimas Newton
2024-01-23 16:24:35 +0000 UTCUM…. MUCH TO UNPACK😳
Anthony
2024-01-23 16:24:29 +0000 UTCHOPWORTH?! The flesh? Also...I don't like anyone blaming Colin for anything. Poor Colin is doing his best and Alice is suspicious af to me now.
FyreFlye23
2024-01-23 16:23:26 +0000 UTCJMJ??? HELLO????
Callum Boyle
2024-01-23 16:22:52 +0000 UTCThis episode makes me squeamish
Jacks
2024-01-23 16:19:22 +0000 UTCBRB losing my goddamn mind
Jo Millett
2024-01-23 16:14:43 +0000 UTCI need to go to get a board, tacs, and string imma go full conspiracy theorist this season
Aaron
2024-01-23 16:13:56 +0000 UTCI am already thrilled!
Kitsushi
2024-01-23 16:11:20 +0000 UTCuhhh whoever wrote the transcripts u got the name for norris wrong !!!!! u put down someone elses name, idk how to let someone know this buuut thought i should say something ^^
Willow Edwards
2024-01-23 16:10:42 +0000 UTCgahhhh the intro music gives me goosebumps
Kaelyn
2024-01-23 16:07:35 +0000 UTC
