MAG157 - Case #0131408 - Adelard Dekker
Statement regarding a potential pandemic originating in the town of Klanxbüll, Germany.
The Magnus Archives reads of the last endeavours of a well-known figure to combat a devastating disease and put an end to its vector once and for all.
Content Notes: Epidemic / mass infection, death & dying, extreme body horror, emotional trauma, physical threats, isolation
Starring: Martin Blackwood - Alexander J Newall; Peter Lukas - Alasdair Stuart; The Archivist - Jonathan Sims; Georgie Barker - Sasha Sienna; Melanie King - Lydia Nicholas; Helen Richardson - Imogen Harris
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Producer: Lowri Ann Davies
Editors: Alexander J Newall, Annie Fitch, Brock Winstead
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“regarding a potential pandemic” *sweats nervously, pulls at mask*
@Dr. Bright you’re banned from doing ½ of the things in the Foundation, of course you’d think it’s just a “bad cough”
when i heard that i had to pause for a moment, because of immediately thinking "Would the covid lock down count as an extinction ritual that failed?"
Covid's way more in the background now but as a German this was still v interesting lmao
@@dull_demon4717 It does, when you look at the fact it changes the whole society into something unfamiliar. But also corruption because, virus. The extinction is by far the one I had struggled to recognize
We lived through it it ok
Why is no one talking about the Admiral cameo? It is obviously the most important part of the episode.
indeed
i think you mean... ca*meow*
I agree.
it truely is
I feel like it was John's cat who ended up in the take so they just ran with it
Jonny (the man, not the moth) really went "not a straight character in sight"
"not the moth"!!! 😂
Thank you for specifying you didn’t mean the moth, I was confused for a second
And we love him for it
the moth 😭
What do u mean,"not the moth"😂😂😂😂
I need a magnus archives AU where Avatars of the Eye make eye puns subconsciously, like no matter the situation. Jon at Georgie's flat: "Listen Melanie, all I just need a fresh pair of eyes." Melanie: "bitch."
What's an AU?
@@notyou8508 alternate universe
@@calamity2383 ty
Just like the other Avatars and the cults.
16th fear: Bad Puns
Helen is sounding more and more like Michael used to
She is and it's concerning
I mean, she *is* the Distortion now
Glad I'm not the only one thinking that. Especially with how her laugh fades at the end of the episode - going from a more feminine/Helen-esqu sound, to what it sounded like towards the beginning of Micheal's laugh (but that actually might just be a purely DistortionTM characteristic lol)
another wonderful episode of the Everyone Hates Jon show
At least Melanie said Jon is welcome as a friend?
I dont like that show, however melanie was nice enough, sort of
@@germanerd6148 yeah that was nice
Poor john
I hate that show but to be fair Melanie wasn't that bad
Adelard was absolute king. he was proud of it, as he should. I will miss him everyday
Testify
True....sitting on a a thrown made by John Amherst who he buried under concrete and just went full on arsonist is an epic way to go....like saying " f* you Corruption"
Me: panick!! The admiral appears: calm :) That thing with Helen at the end: *PANICCCCCC*
he doesn’t care if Jon hears his voice but still leaves the tape on his desk.... OKAy Martin sure
I think he said he still cares...
this episode makes me fucking crazyyyy uhughghh the fact that the corruption is associated with the desire to be loved, adelards goodbye to gertrude doubling as martins goodbye to jon, jons desperation to help martin, "hes welcome as a friend", helen...
I didn't catch this as a goodbye episode until now. FUCK.
Oh, It's a GOODBYE EPISODE?!?!? jdfhsbsbnds My Gays can't die!!!
This statement hits different in 2020
felt this...... the corruption's at it again 😔
Bruh bomb
Bruh what it came out this year
@@mintchew2757 The script for s5 was written before the year began and the events that unfolded.
@@polyxenifoutsitsi8827 Ohhhhh okay. I didn't know that.
every main character is gay here, love it
Ironically, almost all of them are sad
I think they're mostly bisexual/biromantic, though?
@@this_empty_void8722 i mean as a bisexual I dont use the term gay to describe myself and dont know anyone who does ???
@@ita104 i personally do, depending on the context of what i'm saying The commenter was most probably going for a funny thought shortcut If you don't find it funny that's okay but no reason to search for deeper meaning, it was probably supposed to be just a funny comment
@@awl5451 i mean, the fact that it snowballed thru so many responses is what makes it seem like I didn't understand that + i never implied there was a deeper meaning...i just...pointed the representation....
God damn I never in my life thought we’d be at a place where Melanie is nicer to Jon than Georgie. Georgie I’m so disappointed
Georgie's been pretty clear about where she stands on all the Spooky. Melanie is not only out of it all, finally, but also more important to her than John, who was there to pull one or both back in. What I'm saying is, Georgie is being an entirely reasonable protective GF, doubly so when she's the only reason Melanie isn't being put in a psych ward.
@@pyrosianheir She's being a disgusting, selfish monster, who abandoned her best friend and won't even allow her girlfriend free will. Melanie WANTED to talk to Jon, who saved her life and sanity once and offered her a way out of the Archives, respecting her decisions. Georgie does not even think her girlfriend should be allowed to make her own choices about WHO SHE TALKS TO AND WHO SHE EVEN KNOWS IS AT THEIR APARTMENT. Georgie is unforgivable scum and so are you. I wish Melanie had found a girlfriend capable of love. I hope, once she inevitably becomes more inconvenient someday and Georgie throws her in the trash like she did to Jon, some person who can love others will find Melanie and she'll have an actual happy ending. As it is, I see a situation that will develop into the escalating abuse and abandonment of a traumatized disabled person. Trust me. I know what it looks like. This scenario only ends one way. I'd throw you both into the Buried if only I knew how.
Yeah, agreed that in this instance firmly telling Jon to leave is right. Melanie sacrificed a lot to get out. She made her choice and whether it's "right" or not it needs to be respected as it is her choice. Jon gave her the info and she used it.
Probably doesn't help that she sees Jon in her dreams about her encounter with The End
adelarde being incredibly proud of his concrete solution (ha!) is great. i'm happy that georgie and melanie are the lesbian couple with a cat now and im gonna hang on to that satisfaction for dear life like an anchor because im guessing not many good things will happen... for a while. this was much easier to listen to when i wasnt attached to these idiots, but we're here now, aren't we?
I'm happy for them as well, but I think Georgie is rather bi, having dated Jon and some other guy she went on a date once or something.
"His concrete solution" I *see* what you did there ;)
keep killing it in heaven, adelard -_-
I know he’s doing what he loved. Coming up with batshit effective solutions and cramming avatars into concrete graves.
I love how everyone involved with the archive is aware that Jon is actively working towards saving the world but they’re all like “good luck bestie 😙✌️. Can’t help you bc it’s bad for my mental health. Sorry :( “ Like you know what else is bad for you??? You and everything you love being destroyed in the apocalypse ffs
Also the fact the georgie did shit at all and now she'a supposedly hurt because of jon??? Bitch u didnt even see any paranormal happening, and the one you did see was before meeting jon. Melanie signed the contract at the institute, not jon, what rhe fuck do you want from him
Yeah agreed
I mean, they are also actively helping the Eye make the apocalypse by helping John, considering the best case is that he is helping his patron eliminate the competition. Besides pretty much everything they know is from unreliable sources at best.
I get what you are saying, but self preservation over the world preservation is pretty much going to override it. As callous as it sounds the human mind is simply not built to care about a worlds worth of people. We will care more about our friend spraining his ankle and forget about a tragic train wreck killing dozens in another country the next day.
by that logic wasnt it just as awful and immoral when jon tried to leave the world to go as it will while he had cute gay blind times with Martin instead of continuing to try and save it?
Can't wait for everyone to blame John for trying to do something in a future episode 🙃 Also, THE ADMIRAL BLESSED US WITH HIS PURRY PRESENCE 😭❤️
Man I hope they don't ask Jon for help later. Because if they do I'll be rooting for Jon to leave them high and dry.
I hope one of them comes to Jon for help about the other. So he can leave them feeling just as helpless as he is about Martin.
@@Sheena000 oh no, two people who are out of the chaos and Spooky chose to stay out instead of risk death when one of them is BLIND. Seriously, come on. If it were actual relationship problems instead of this, they'd be willing to help. Expecting otherwise and treating them as if they're being unreasonable is incredibly unfair.
we all know he would never but we can still dream
I'm honestly the same ngl.
@@pyrosianheir Jon didn't come to ask a blind person to go stumbling into a maze. He wanted advice. Melanie said he could reach out to her. Melanie just doesn't care about anyone getting hurt but herself and maybe Georgie anymore. She'll listen to the Apocalypse on the radio and not lift a finger. Georgie has no fucking excuse for anything since she was introduced. She'll go to The End in the most passive way possible.
I'm so happy for Melanie to have gotten out of this madness.. I really do love the series but this season has been rather hard to keep up on with depression. With no hope or wit thrown about and Martin becoming cold it's like a constant struggle to keep going, but thanks to my friend sending me spoilers without context I'm REALLY stoked to discover what they're about and I pull through. So if you're reading this, thanks bro!
I think one of my friends would have abandoned the show too, because of how grim it can be, but I kept sending context-less hints about what was going on to keep her coming back, hehe.
I think y'all's comments just saved me
When is Jon gonna be happy again I wonder
"When" implies that it's going to happen at all, and although I haven't listened past this point and don't know what will happen, I have to say I admire your optimism.
at least someone still has hope he will _not_ be miserable at some point in the future... give me some of that optimism plz
@@DerMoerpler Again implies there was ever a point where he was happy in the series
If Jon wasn't so rude with Helen when she first merged with The Spiral she might be helping him now, dammit Jon
That seems unlikely.
Actually I doubt it. She’s doing exactly what Michael did: help until it’s more entertaining not to. She was never on their side.
I mean considering what Michael was like and the Distortion/Spiral's nature I can't really blame him. At the time he hadn't even really come into his power so it's not like he could have easily forced true information out of her and as far as he knew the distortion was just wearing a new face.
he's so worried about Martin I might cry
The Extinction episodes are probably my favorite, if not for anything other than Adelard Dekker being so /damn/ competent in comparison to our lovey archivist.
ghys im serious stop hurting jon
Just as I was starting to like Helen she had to go and put my boi though more pain >:( also Rip Decker, you and your fun concrete solutions will be missed
NGL I completely understand Melanie and Georgie in this episode. I actually was baffled that Jon went to bother her with it when it is so obvious he shouldn't.
I completely understand their reactions, but I think Jon was just desperate. His first choices were Basira and Daisy but they weren't picking up, and he knew Martin needed help immediately. His other friends are dead, he doesn't trust Helen. He just needed *someone* and they were the only people available. Of course, they were completely right to tell him to fuck off. Melanie probably isn't even fully healed at this point, and she deserves to stay safe. But Jon probably wasn't thinking about that, he was thinking "the man I love is in danger and these are the only people I can reach out to for help right now".
@@mmori673 Melanie would be unharmed by giving advice, which is the help Jon wanted. It is baffling that people interpreted this as Jon wanting a blind girl to sidekick.
Well, that description of the disease's symptoms and the fate of its victims is easily the most disgusting and disturbing thing I've ever heard ever. Dekker definitely made the right move at the end,because I cannot imagine suffering through something half as bad as that. Just thinking about it is making my skin crawl, which is definitely not the feeling I want after hearing _THAT._
I'm really happy for Melanie, and I'm glad she's still open to Jon as a friend, but goddamn it someone help the fucking Archivist rn. For fucks sake, please literally anyone HELP him.
I'm so happy for melanie ')
I like how it is a happy smile without eyes )
@@tangible.7244 yeah! D
IT TOOK ME A SECOND I-
I love the eye-less emoticon lmao
Huh... Jon said Daisy and Basira might be underground.... and Martin and Peter were supposedly going into the tunnels at that same day.... 👀👀👀👀
"In the underground" = "in the tube" He means the train
The underground is a train in London...
@@StartOfTheYear omg okay HAHAHAHAHHA sorry i didn't know that was a term
@Paige Fuentes it’s ok! It’s entirely a British thing.
He said 'pandemic" and I was like.... real glad I don't ever leave my house
Hail to a Hero. Also, I suspect that whatever is behind the tape recorders appearing everywhere placed the tape there.
I can't abide the discussion of pandemic in 2020. Clearly, TMA can predict the future. "Horror-stricken stars" is a beautiful description The Admiral!!
I am crying ;_; Jon just needed anyone's help... anyone...
hell yeah helen you go girl give us nothing!!
The wheezing scream I made when he said the word "pandemic"-
for some reason i always kinda expect like... "todays episode was written by Jonathan sims, head archivist of the magnus institute.
More like :"Today's episode was written by Jonathan Sims, THE Archivist"
Me too, even after more than 150 episodes
Oh no, Adelard D: Klanxbüll is close to where I live. That's so weird.
Be careful! D:
Fellow norddeutscher Hörer haha
Helen calling Jon "Jonathan" warmed my heart
Okay but when peter said "if all goes well you wont" i tossed my phone at a pillow and ran away going "EVIL HORRIBLE I HATE IT" and refused to watch the episode for the next 30 minutes to an hour
Adelard was truely a good boi. He deserved better.
the admirals appearance had my friends kitten quite confused as to why my laptop was purring so loudly
I'm so glad The Admiral is doing well!
I hate how alone Jon is 😭😭😭 I'd be ur ally Jon 🥺🥺
Love the vibe that SCP articles remind me of a lot of what happens with TMA ah, Sacasism, horrible, horrible body horror hah hurg
oh yes this episode definitely sounds like it could be a sarkic SCP
@@f_mva It sounds like The Flesh That Hates
[INT. MAGNUS INSTITUTE, ????] [TAPE CLICKS ON. THE RECORDED CONVERSATION BETWEEN MARTIN AND PETER FROM MAG156 PLAYS. PETER’S DISTINCTIVE STATIC IS IN THE RECORDING AS WELL, VERY FAINTLY. THE ARCHIVIST’S AGITATED BREATHING CAN BE HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND.] MARTIN Will I be coming back? PETER You’re not going to die, if that’s what you’re asking, but- no. If all goes well, you won’t be. [MARTIN TAKES A LONG INHALE, THEN EXHALES.] PETER How does that make you feel? MARTIN Nothing. (short laugh) Nothing at all. PETER Excellent. I’m so proud of you, Martin. MARTIN I really don’t care. PETER Perfect. [TAPE CLICKS OFF.] ARCHIVIST This tape was left on my desk. I don’t know by who, but to my mind, there are three options. Martin has left it here to let me know that whatever the situation is with Peter Lukas, it is entering his final act and he needs my help. Alternatively, Peter may have left here to… Goad me into action? Or just to gloat, to highlight my helplessness at everything. (sighs) Or Annabelle Cane is trying to manipulate me into thinking it’s one of the other scenarios. Previously, the spiders have made their presence clear when they’ve sent me… hints… but I can’t take that for granted. I don’t know what to do. There’s a statement with it. It looks pretty recent. (hm) First time in a while I’ve been wary of reading one. Still, I guess… (deep breath) Statement of Alelard Dekker, regarding a potential pandemic originating in the town of Klanxbüll, Germany. Original statement given 14th August 2013. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, the Archivist. Statement begins. ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT) You must forgive me, Gertrude, for any typing and spelling errors that might be in this message. My hands are shaking quite badly and my fingers… aren’t what they were. Even so, just knowing where this is going, this statement… I can feel the Eye’s power on me, be it ever so slight. Steadying me. Helping the words flow. [A FAINT, DISTORTED BUZZING SOUND RISES IN THE BACKGROUND.] Is it strange that here, now, that seems almost a comfort? This is the last time you will hear from me. You must trust me on that and not come looking. Not that you would - I know you’re too smart for sentimentality, especially after what I have to tell you - but I feel it worth saying nonetheless. Perhaps I’m simply prevaricating. Trying to cling on to a few more precious minutes of life. But that’s not me. I know what awaits me, and must have no hesitation in going to my reward. I know you’ve never had much patience for my faith, but perhaps it will provide you some small peace knowing I face my death gladly, knowing I have done my duty before God. I have spoken to you before of Christabel, my contact within the ECDC. She had a run-in with the Crawling Rot some decades ago and has since then kept me up to date with any incidents they have encountered which display… unusual properties. Well, she alerted me to what was internally believed to be a potential pandemic originating in the small town of Klanxbüll on the German-Danish border. From what I understand it was a perfectly pleasant small town, remarkable mainly for a rail line running out to a large island off the mainland, but as it was, it had been completely quarantined. Christabel reported that the disease seemed to be artificial or man-made in origin, and her colleagues were keen to label it as a bioweapon, but its behavior didn’t follow any normal patterns or vectors. Combined with its extremely disturbing symptoms, which caused the skin and muscles to become loose and malleable until they sloughed completely off the body, leaving only a skeleton and organs… well, she was certain that it was the product of an otherworldly evil and called me. I’ve spoken before about how keenly I’ve watched news of possible pandemics, which is where I suspect the Extinction may pull away from the Corruption during its emergence. This alongside the possibility of the disease being man-made - though I am certain no human had anything to do with it - well, it was more than enough to draw me in. I had no interest in compromising Christabel’s position, so I made my own preparations for entry, borrowing a hazmat suit from one of the tents erected around the perimeter. I always despised trying to move in those things, but it seems they’ve made some real improvements in them over the last 15 years, so I was able to stay relatively quiet as I talked my way past the cordon and headed into infected Klanxbüll. I’m certainly glad this happened south of the border with Denmark, as my German is passable compared to my non-existent Danish. Once inside the town, it became rapidly apparent how bad the situation truly was. You and I, Gertrude, have seen more visions of Hell than anyone has a right to while living, but this was something else entirely. Thin trails of blood and skin crisscrossed to the streets, and the walls and windows of nearby buildings were coated in a fine sheen of discarded gore. It didn’t take me long to find my first victim wrapped around a lamppost. He had clearly tried to lean on it for support in his distress, but his flesh had begun to spread and fuse over it in thick, ropey tendrils. His bones were almost bare to the elements. But it was then that I saw the thing that, to my mind, is perhaps the worst of it. His heart was exposed. It was beating fast, so fast, despite the awful green decay that seemed to be eating at it. I knew at that moment there was nothing that could be done to save the town, but I could perhaps identify the cause. And identify it I did. I began by checking houses, looking for anything that might have been an unusual artefact or one of those dreadful books. Few doors were locked and many seemed to be swinging open in the breeze that I was deeply thankful I could not smell. Still, for all the quaint homes with their slanted roofs that I combed through, I found nothing that might qualify as an origin for the small town’s gruesome demise. But neither did I find many other victims. There were a few. A woman melted into her now crimson bed. An old man whose bright eyes still stared out of his skull, watching the television, though the rest of him lay pooled on the floor. And in all of them the frantic beating of their decomposing hearts. The state of these homes, however, would seem to indicate that many had begun to develop symptoms while still inside. Countertops in otherwise empty houses would be coated with blood, wooden floorboards peppered with flecks of gristle. Yet of these individuals there seemed to be no obvious sign except a line of viscera leading towards the front door. It was then I realized that I had been following the trails entirely the wrong way. They were not people returning home to die. The sick were pulling themselves out of their houses, crawling, dragging themselves towards some other place, leaving bits behind on the rough pavement as they did so. So I began to walk, slowly, both because of my bulky suit and the rising sense of dread in my stomach. I wondered, Gertrude, whether you are truly as fearless as you seem, or if you are simply a master of disguising your terror. I suppose I’ll never have a chance to find out. I rather hope it was the former. However much I disagree with some of your methods, it feels good to believe there are people in this world who can stare down the Devil without flinching. I found the source of this sickness in the parkplatz opposite the train station. The cars had been pushed to the side, clearly at great cost to the bodies of those that pushed them, and in the center was a figure from whom the rot clearly flowed. He was sat upon a most dreadful throne, formed from a dozen, two dozen bodies mixed together like putty. Eyes staring out like horror-stricken stars twinkling in the night, and their hearts beating for all to see. A moaning came from that awful seat: voices trying to scream through things that weren’t their throat. And it is a sound I shall be glad to leave behind me when I go to my rest. I will confess to being perversely disappointed when I saw the figure sat upon it - no pale spectre in a lab coat, or twisted golem of petri dishes and test tubes. No, he was lanky, wearing an ill-fitting brown suit and a smile. I’d never previously had the misfortune to meet him, but I knew the description well enough to recognize Jon Amherst. So it seemed it was not the Extinction as I had anticipated, but simply a new and awful strain of Corruption. Still, it was not something I felt I could leave to run its course unopposed.
At first I was struck almost with despair, having nothing to hand with which I might attempt a confrontation with this creature, but upon retreating some ways and considering my options, I realized I actually had almost the exact resources to hand that I might need. A few minutes spent scouting the surrounding streets even revealed a small construction site almost precisely suited to my requirements. I returned to the cordon and took what I needed: a stretcher, as many quarantine sleeves as I could carry, and a syringe. The medical staff appeared to have retreated to the large tent that served as their base of operations, and if anyone noticed me they didn’t interfere. I loaded the gear into a wheelbarrow I had taken from the building site along with a thick metal chain, and began to head back towards the parkplatz, stopping only to fill the syringe from a can of garden pesticide I had noticed during my earlier sweep of the houses. Finally I revealed myself. He approached me coyly, clearly believing me to be a foolish or lost ECDC medic. Perhaps he assumed I was frozen in terror at the sight of his work, and luckily my hazmat suit did much to hide my expression. He walked up to me with a smile so wide it tore the edges of his mouth, leaking a sick green liquid from the edges, and reached a hand out for my mask. It was then I gripped his hand and plunged the syringe into his spongy flesh, and pumped him full of the chemical cocktail. He staggered back, ripping the needle from my hand, and fell to the floor, shaking. I had no illusions of poison being sufficient to destroy an avatar of Filth, though from what I knew of his affinity to insects I hoped it would be at least temporarily effective. Regardless, I had to work fast. I dragged him to the stretcher and strapped him down, wrestling against his thrashing spasms. Even through the hazmat suit I could feel the diseased heat of his skin. I wrapped him round with the chain, which would I hoped hold him fast, as I pulled the plastic over the stretcher in layer after layer until I could barely see him through the thick clouded material. I hadn’t brought any of the supports with me, so in the end it looked less like the well-constructed tube of a quarantine stretcher and more like a lumpy vinyl sack. Still, it was sealed, and that was enough for my purposes. I dragged the thing over to the building site and with the last of my strength threw him into the hole that had been left. By this point, the concrete truck I’d turned on earlier had been mixing for some time, and it was a simple matter to open the pump and pour the contents of its hopper down on top of him. How much he had recovered by this time I couldn’t say for sure, but… he certainly moved around plenty as that thick gray sludge began to cover him. I can’t deny some pride in my solution, Gertrude. In all our discussions of how to contain a being that we could not destroy, I’m not sure we ever a hit on a method quite so neat. I am no builder, but by the end I think you would have been hard-pressed to criticize how well that concrete had been laid, and Amherst four feet beneath it. And now the part of my tale you must have anticipated from the beginning. During the altercation, the adrenaline had kept me from noticing the tear that Amherst had made in my hazmat suit while I wrestled him onto the stretcher, but as I sat to savor my victory it became clear that a great cut on my leg had gone clean through the material. There was no way that I was not infected, and indeed over these last few hours, I have felt the sickness working on me. My pace is sluggish and I can feel my skin begin to loosen. My heart is beating so fast it shakes my whole body. But I shall not wait for it to putrefy as the rot overtakes me. I have dragged those other afflicted I could find into the parkplatz, laid them at the feet of that appalling throne, and taken the last gift of that generous construction site: a dozen cans of petrol. I will sit upon that seat and release these poor souls from their suffering, and hopefully make things simpler for the ECDC cleanup crews. But it did not seem quite right to leave without letting you know what happened, and Herr Becker was kind enough to succumb to the sickness without signing out of his computer, so. Perhaps you were right about the Extinction. I’ve been hunting it for decades now and while I have seen evidence of its influence in other powers, I have never found anything to genuinely prove its emergence as a true power of its own. Perhaps it is an existential fear that flows through the others like a vein of ore, or perhaps the birth of such things is longer and more complicated than I believed. For all that, though, I cannot regret at the time I have spent seeking it. I have done my duty, and none may ask more of me. I am proud of the work we have done, and it has been an honor to do it alongside you. Goodbye, Gertrude. May you find your rest where no shadows are cast, and no eyes may see you slumber.
Statement ends. This, uh… this changes things. I - I think. if Martin found this, read it already, then perhaps he’s having second thoughts about - about Peter and the Extinction. This - this could be a cry for help, his way of asking me to follow him without Peter knowing, or… (sighs) or what? I don’t understand. Martin’s been quite clear he doesn’t want my help. Am I just hearing what I want to hear? I need a second opinion, but… Basira and Daisy are… out… somewhere. they left in a hurry and didn’t tell me why, now their phones are going to voicemail. Maybe they’re just on the Underground, and probably - that doesn’t help me now. I need someone I can trust. [THE ARCHIVIST SIGHS HEAVILY.] [CLICK] [CLICK] GEORGIE No, John, you’ve done enough! ARCHIVIST I just need to talk to - GEORGIE What don’t you understand? She mutilated herself to get out of that place, and there is absolutely no way I’m letting you involve her again. ARCHIVIST Look, is she here or not? She - she said she was staying with you. GEORGIE Yes, she’s here. ARCHIVIST Really? Where’s all her stuff? GEORGIE Bedroom. Why? ARCHIVIST No, I just… [TELLTALE STATIC CRACKLING OF THE EYE SOUNDS AS JOHN FITS THE PIECES TOGETHER.] Oh. Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t - I didn’t realize you were to - together. GEORGIE That’s cuz it’s none of your business. Now leave. ARCHIVIST Please, Georgie, it’s not - I just need to know I’m not overreacting to something. I need an outside perspective. GEORGIE Sure, well, here’s one. Get out of my flat. [JOHN’S RESPONSE IS CUT OFF BY A DOOR OPENING.] MELANIE (softly) Oh - what’s go… what’s going on? You - you woke the Admiral. GEORGIE (reassuring) Hey, hey, easy. It’s - it’s all right, he was just leaving. ARCHIVIST Melanie, I… MELANIE (surprised) John? ARCHIVIST Yeah. It’s me. GEORGIE It’s all right, Melanie. [THE ADMIRAL CAN BE HEARD PURRING SOFTLY IN THE BACKGROUND.] John, leave. ARCHIVIST I’m sorry, I just… it’s Martin. MELANIE John… don’t. Please. ARCHIVIST No, you’re right, I’m sorry. You alright? MELANIE Yes. I’m… I’m actually doing okay. ARCHIVIST That’s good. MELANIE (wry laughter) My therapist isn’t happy about it, you know. Unsurprisingly. Tried to have me put away, but they, um… they let me come here. It’s - it’s been good for me though I feel alright. I’m - I’m not scared anymore. GEORGIE Melanie, you don’t have to do this. MELANIE It’s - it’s okay. He’s welcome… as a friend. But that’s it. ARCHIVIST Right. MELANIE But you’re not after a friend, are you, John? ARCHIVIST (desperately) I need an ally. MELANIE Then I can’t help you. ARCHIVIST …I suppose not. [THE ADMIRAL MEOWS.] GEORGIE Okay. You’re done? ARCHIVIST Yeah. (sighs deeply) Yeah, I am. GEORGIE Come on, Melanie. Let’s get you back to bed. ARCHIVIST Look after yourself. Both of you. MELANIE You too. Good luck, I guess. [DOOR SWINGS SHUT] [CLICK] [CLICK] [HEAVY KNOCKING ON A DOOR. IT SWINGS OPEN.] ARCHIVIST Helen. HELEN Jonathan. ARCHIVIST I need - you said before you knew the tunnels, right? That you’d been a… part of them? HELEN Not my exact words, but close enough. ARCHIVIST I need to know what’s in there. What’s at the center? (urgently) I-it’s important, Martin - I need to know. HELEN (cheerfully) That’s a shame, because I’m afraid I’m not going to tell you! ARCHIVIST (aghast) What? Why not? HELEN Because I have a good enough sense of what’s going on to know that it will be much more fun without my involvement! (begins laughing) ARCHIVIST What? You - you said you were going to help! HELEN I am. ARCHIVIST I don’t have time for this. What is at the cen- [A SOUND LIKE A BLADE BEING DRAWN AS THE ARCHIVIST BEGINS CHOKING. A SHARP, UNSETTLING TONE BEGINS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND.] HELEN No. We’re not playing your game. Now don’t forget how sharp I can be, Archivist. Perhaps here, now, you’re powerful enough to learn what you want from me, but if you try, I promise you I will resist. And only one of us is going to survive the attempt. [THE BLADE WITHDRAWS.] ARCHIVIST (out of breath) Fine. Can you take me there? To the center? HELEN I honestly don’t know. But I’m not inclined to risk it. ARCHIVIST Damn you! HELEN Run home, John. Find a victim on the way. Chaos is coming and I think you’d best be ready. ARCHIVIST Just tell me what’s going on. Please. HELEN (gleefully) Bad things, Archivist. Really bad things. [HELEN’S LAUGHS ECHO AS HER DOOR SWINGS SHUT.] [CLICK]
Steven [Redacted] thank youu
I totally respect Melanie and Georgie's decision but Georgie could've been, yknow, nicer about it
Did no one else hear at the end when Helen laughed, there was a bit of Michael in the echo??? Also, dayummm Jon getting gayer
Yes, I thought I misheard it. Maybe he's coming back🙃
helen being chaotic neutral oh we have no choice but to stan
Jon's scramble for allies really shows how alone he is in this. the people & creatures he trusted have been pushed away in some form or another. i cant help but think that perhaps when Helen started using that name, he could have been their anchor. their tether to humanity. they were clearly more stable for a while, but their visible descent reaches it's pit here. i understand *why* Jon didn't reach out to Helen, but it's a thuught I've had for a while.
Helen was literally driven insane by a fear of madness entity, and is being worn like she's a glove. Nothing it says is truly Helen's choice.
ALL HAIL THE ADMIRAL!
me reading the episode description: looks at my mask: "oop"
Man, this was beautiful. Adelard's last message to GR. It's cool to see a character who actually came face to face with all this and held onto his faith until the end anyway and I say that as a "devoutly agnostic"(somewhat Buddhist leaning) person.
Just caught up with the series and a new episode appears! Edit: finished the episode and I can't wait! Big things are definately happening soon!
If you want to check up more, you can get episodes on their website. Episode 173 came out last week. Either way, you've got a treat ahead of you
Acast is a good way to get caught up too
@@TelenTerror yup, have done!
I usually listen to the episodes on Spotify but come to yt to see all the comments, I like seeing what everyone has to say
No wonder I felt so emotionally attached to Melanie and her over all character arc, it was lesbian solidarity all along
Funnily enough... i know of a small town with a very simillar name at a very simillar place
most locations mentioned in TMA are real places!
@@WeAreAirborne The only ones I've really heard is the one in colorado from the house of mirrors episode, and stokes on trent because Eddie hall is from there.
@@WeAreAirborne That's so cool!
Went through these a second time just recently and here is where there are new to me now... been an interesting ride...
I'm honestly having a bad time with this season, and listening to Martin cold-hearted "I don't care" is breaking me a little. While I was having... fun at the beginning with the statements and the jokes and the interractions, now everything taste sour. I used to laugh and scream gleefully when strange things were happening, but since Jon woke up I just want to punch my computer, catch the characters through the screen and strangle them. Martin, who was the heart of the Archives, not talking to anyone ? Basira, who left Tim and Daisy at the Unknowing, blaming Jon for everything ? And Georgie, who I loved so much for showing the kind side of Jon, turning her back on him just because he woke up ? This is depressing. And so freaking stupid. Just TALK. The group could give Jon some statements so he would be fed without getting nightmares since they signed for the Eye. They could work together so nobody feels like monsters anymore. I mean, all this secrecy and things not said... I guess the Lonely really got the best of me.
Gonna become the slaughter avatar atp because boy what I’ll do for Jon.
I'm sorry Jon, but the _Eye_ had to tell you they were together???
It's nice to hear Melanie is okay.
I really wanted us to meet Adelard Decker Edit: MELANIE😭😭 I’ll miss you ms Fierce.
Okay, not a huge fan of the “let’s all not help Jon and pretend like he isn’t worth it” train that Melanie and Georgie (and tbh almost everyone else) are on, but I know I’d be selfish like that too so I guess it isn’t my place to judge. I do love the lesbian love + cat they’ve got going on there, and I hope it’s their happy ending. But I can’t stand the idea of them being able to help, of Jon failing because he had no one on his side anymore.
i am genuinely making noises of disgust and distress at this episode!!! well done!!! there are some episodes i've skipped because they're triggers, but this!!! it's so disgusting but it's just. it's mostly just sad
godspeed, adelard, godspeed
Me: ok, just one more statement before bed :) The statement:
WTF happened to the season 4 playlist?! It ended with "Reflection" and, thinking THAT was the season finale, I had to hunt this episode down AFTER spoiling myself with the Season 5 intro...😭😭😭
Hi Alex!
Rip adelard :(
Uh. Me, washing my mask as this starts playing.
Hot damn we all know quite a bit about pandemics now, and the lonely for that matter
Was this episode made specially for 2020 because damnnn
The one dislike is from John Amherst
Okay you know how everyone has the ep that gets to them? This one. This one right here is mine.
Honestly this episode really makes me resent Georgie and especially Melanie How DARE you even glare at Jon when you actually REFUSE to even listen to whats going on. Jon makes his mistakes but you lost your moral high ground when you RAN AWAY and refused the call entirely
To be fair Melanie wasn't actually glaring at Jon considering that she ripped her eyes out.
Jon was trying to run away literally just a few episodes ago, and the only reason he didn't wasn't that he was too devoted to "the call" but that he was too terrified to blind and possibly kill himself If he knew it would be fine he absolutely would have done exactly what Melanie did
@@Idran He tried to save other people while planning it. Melanie has always been incredibly selfish. She remains true to that. She's the embodiment of "I've got mine, so other people don't matter." She wasn't even close to Georgie until Georgie became one of the last people she could talk to. In the relationship world, we don't call that true love. It's settling.
Ahhhhh! I hate this season, but love it at the same time
As frustrating as it is I understand why georgi and melanie didn't want to help, they finally got out and they can't be dragged back in. Helan is definitely becoming less nice though, more like the old spiral we know.
Someone save Martin!!
I paused this and scrolled down to read the comments. I had to. 2020's really been that year, huh?
THE CAT NOISESJNJFNJKRNEK I'M DEAD--
Now they're roommates
This just sounds like Resident Evil....
"Who was phone?" You cheeky bastards...
omg Melanie and Georgie 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 what so cute
Oh the admiral. Such good times.
That echo voice gets me every time
Magnus Archives meets the Flesh that Hates.
Love this series.
Same
Same
I can't feel bad for meline. After all they did warn her not to join.
Yeah everyone sorry of conveniently forgets that part. Most especially Melanie who's all like, "fuck you, John"
Crazy the jons spent this whole time teying to help.. to the point where he removed his own rib but now that he needs help, everyone is tyrning him away. :(
REP REP REP REP- YES THANK YOU RUSTY QUILL- THANK YOU FOR THE LESBIAN REP!!! (also Helen is sounding a bit more like Michael- and I'm *loving* it!)
I think Georgie is bi or pan (we know she went out with Jon and that other guy), but yes to WLW characters!
@@rosemarycat5 I was more referring to Melanie but yeah!!! WLW rep!!!
On a second listen... Yeah, Im sorry about the "friends" you made, Jon.
Corruption really said what if I made mmmmm.... Super leprosy
Hearing Georgie yell at Martin hurts. ;-; Admiral's purr sounded nice.
Okay this statement isn't scary, it's just nasty.
ok, i know, i know, the dreaded ep 160 is coming but can we just talk about how sweet mel and George are??
Don't make me get sharp with you.
Me laughs in COVID
duuuude wait i just realized like this dekker statement and the first one martin read this season, while yes dekker is talking to gertrude, it also sounds like martin talking directly to john at least in the first few sentences
15:06 doing this the Briggs way I see XD *happy FMA:B noises*
General Armstrong would be proud.