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CAT2RB2578-17081998-13052024Transmutation (human) -/- ceremony (academic)

Incident Elements:

Childhood Trauma

Graphic Injury

Ostectomy

Supernatural Transformation

Body Horror

Transcripts available at https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/the-magnus-protocol/

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Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall  Directed by Alexander J NewallWritten by Jonathan SimsScript Edited with additional material by 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) Sarah Lambie as Lena KelleyIan Hayles as Trevor Herbert MPAnusia Battersby as Gwendolyn BouchardLowri Ann Davies as Celia RipleyShahan Hamza as Samama KhalidBillie Hindle as Alice DyerBeth Eyre as Archivist

Dialogue Editor – Lowri Ann Davies and Nico VetteseSound Designer – Tessa VroomMastering Editor - Catherine Rinella

Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson) Art by April Sumner  

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SentientBogOrb

ooooooo trevor herbert here we goooooooooo

Ian

The shoutouts at the beginning of episodes are so freaking inspiring sometimes.

BuriedInTheArchives

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Oh my lord what an episode. The statement! My god that statement! And the "more" gave me shivers

Ian

And now that I'm finished... wow... just wow...

mora!

HELLO??????

Lord-LemonHead

THAT IS NOT WHERE IT ENDS YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME

Possumcat

Holy Mother of Skulls! I love this!

Katherine McDermott (She-They)

THE WAY I WAS KICKING MY FEET EXCITED WHEN I HEARD TREVOR. NOW I’M JUST SITTING HERE IN SHOCK AT THE END. NEED. MORE.

raine

OUHSGAHSHAHSH ?????

Zoëjo

TREVOR!!! Also HOLY SHIT that statement was spooky as hell!! Well done as always!!

Zoëjo

Also DAMN Gwen with the Lena exposure lol!

imogen

oh?? my god???

Molly Rose

This was a rollercoster of emotions!

Anthony&

GWEN WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!!!!!! I love the office crew so much I can’t wait for everything to go so horribly wrong for them <3 glad we finally got Sam’s lore dump, I’m feasting

Anthony&

that was very Wet. good job.

AgentWGD

Dude just fell over like jon "I need to lie down" sims

mich

OH MY GOD???????

Elijah Gray

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!?????

Erica

"You have no idea" CELIA I SWEAR

lolsies

GWEN IM GONNA SCREAM GIRLIE POP THIS WAS NOT THE MOVE U THOUGHT IT WAS

Violet

Oh my god this is the best one yet!!!! (← it says this every week)

mercury on the moon

oh that was horrible. that was so much worse than i expected /pos

ara

reading the comments before listening to the episode like "ha ha... i'm in danger"

Anthony&

the way i busted out laughing bc i also work for a small “diverse” government office haahhahshsh😂

Mournful Night

This episode was fantastic. Wow. Was that man this ‘Archivist’? Is that why it’s been looking for Sam? Someone else? Also… alchemy experiments? Rituals? Magnus Institute… I don’t have a good feeling about you.

Emmy

HEY UH GUYS

James Rule

My thoughts throughout the episode: Ha. Oh. Oh no. Oh no! OH NO!

NedTheJellyBean

Given the tape recorder, I am (as I've been) very tempted to think this is Jon, OUR Jon. I mean, has anyone seen the Archivist and Chester active at the same time? So many questions.

RedDedZombie

Welp, magnus institute figured out how to cast ‘Animate Dead’ on itself

RedDedZombie

Also, Gwen is absolutely biting off more than she can chew.

Erica

Eyyyy Sam describing the Institute as austere like Jon describes Elias

Anthony&

at least she’s consistent

Jesse Agins

The whole season has been amazing but this episode was so intense. Incredible work, y’all.

Honey Coffee

The cliffhanger!!!! Give me the next episode now 😭🙏

James Rule

Gwen is going to get the Minister disappeared.

charles

anyone else notice alice is an anagram of celia and fixated on that fact or just me

Jesse McGough

Am I missing something? did it skip something at 11:37.. From "absolutely brilliant" into the statement beginning.

Rainstroll

Baby boy, Sam. His panicked breathing and whispering what sounds like “it hurts” T-T

SpideyForest

Hell yeah Trevor, glad the vampire hunter got a job lmao

BuriedInTheArchives

I keep thinking it can't possibly be topped and then get surprised over and over again

Jo Millett

I WONDER WHO COMPELLED SAMAMA KHALID TO GIVE A STATEMENT LIKE THAT HUH??? HUH???? WHO WAS IT EH?????

Hart D.

YES! I've been trying to figure out what that might mean, all this time.

grace

atp it’s like gwen WANTS to get herself killed

Gremlyn

Nope, that's how it is in the transcript. He's suddenly Compelled, the Archivist is there, with a tape recorder.

Jesse McGough

Honestly I thought it was something like that considering the title. Thank you, though, for the clarification. I appreciate it.

MarlaBothBothIsGood

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK (I will elaborate more after the second listen on Thursday)

ShahanHamzaVO

I wonder what will happen this week- a lovely, charming, uneventful episode perhaps 🥰

Quinn Anderson

... i hope both sides of your pillow are warm (I love this episode so much)

Rhys

Holy SHIT

charles

considering they r both sam’s love interests 👀👀

Gareth Green

Except this universe’s Trevor is a SNOB!!!!

Gareth Green

That ritual was.. what was it?

Gareth Green

It’s voiced by a woman who appeared in Archives.

PyratePigeon

oh christ!! this was good!!!

Billie L Hindle

3:58 is one of my favourite lines I’ve done yet.

NedTheJellyBean

Ah! That doesn't necessarily refute anything, considering that you kinda.. have to inhale your words to get that sound (I've done it in dnd. it hurts.) and with something that's become as inhuman as Error/The Archivist, they don't really need the specific voice actor to get the point across. Because, even if this creature is a remnant of Archives Jon... how much of it really is him, anyway?

Athena

spooky scary skeletons (send shivers down your spine)

Athena

confirmation that this archivist isn't jon! I hope we hear her speak at some point

Tyler H

I hope some day we get to meet The Magnus Protocol Frog that croaks at the start of every episode :3c

anveysha_rk

holyshit ohmygod you were BRILLIANT i’ve relistened like 4 times

Duck!

I can't believe my Monster Inc universe theory has not only held up but has been repeatedly galvanized since its inception in episode 8.

Callum Boyle

yup I’m definitely on the response department’s side now. Kill it all with fire .

Erica

I think she'd be fine with that as long as she gets a promotion out of her death

Heather MacKenzie

HOLY CRAP! This episode was amazing! I'm terrified to see what's coming up.

Aaron Irvin

Dead Assistant to the Regional Manager

Mournful Night

“I should have known from the chanting inside that this place wasn’t for me.” Idk what else ominous chanting would be for if not some weird ritual stuff imo.

Gabi (Tao)

Brilliant episode. Given the (exciting!) choice of voice actor, I wonder if the Archivist is Lucia Wright from MAG 130 "Meat", and if so, how this version of her became the Archivist. Maybe she ended up working for the Institute? Maybe she's one of Sam's stern ladies? The original Lucia was from Gertrude's time, which would explain why she was locked up in the Institute's remains, has a tape recorder and is described by INK5OUL as a "manky old git." Also, if Sam and Gwen start having recurring nightmares with the Archivist, I'll be very pleased.

Anna Caitlin Hynson

yeah I’m gonna need a diverse photoshoot of the OIAR team promptly 😌

Hayley

First Fully Compelled Statement 👀 The visit was exactly how I wanted it, seemingly benign but behind closed doors the power plays happen! The visceral reaction I had at him saying "diverse", that was a very loaded Daily Mail style wording from Vampire Hunter MP. He definitely gives off Tory vibes, although Manchester does tend to vote Labour.... Gwen, oh Gwen.....I really want you to be ok but you girl boss too close to the sun! Nice to see nepotism, classism and bureaucracy is always the true horror of British society! Alice continues to be my favourite character, she is so underestimated by the others, so when she was like "I was right" I wanted to cheer "Yes you were!" Sam, poor kid Sam. As a mum, I just wanted to hug kid Sam and tell him he was special just as he was ❤️

Hayley

Just to say you're killing it as Alice ❤️ She is the best blend of sarcy defence mechanism hiding a genuinely kind soul and you bring that to life so well. She's my favourite 😁

Hayley

Nothing to see here, just a light trip down memory lane eh?

Aaron Irvin

Do we think Trevor Herbert, MP, survived the recent elections?

DoctorHam

Nnnnooooo!!!!!!! How could it end right there!!!! Also just it's so creepy how Sam's voice instantly shifts for the statement with no warning that it takes you a second to realize what's happening

MuddyHippy

CHRIST. This protocol is sure Magnusing real hard right now. AMAZING WORK RUSTY QUILL!

Trisidael

I doubt they’d kill him off this early, but he did pass out while out in the rain, so he’s probably not doing all that well. 😬

Valerie Kaplan

Interesting… this version of Trevor still seems a bit Hunty! And oh dear, I hope someone finds Sam and brings him inside soon; being unconscious in the rain on top of All That can’t be healthy.

Erica

The Terror Toad

mundanemagic

"The visceral reaction I had at him saying 'diverse'" I was in the lunch room at work listening on headphones and *literally* made a noise out loud at that. One of those 'Did you *seriously* say that out loud?' moments for the character. "Nice to see nepotism, classism and bureaucracy is always the true horror of British society!" I really like the theming of this show so far! I read the original show as being more about the way ordinary people can start doing harm when stuck in systems that are bigger than them. I read this one as more about the way that people do harm when they decide they're willing to do whatever it takes to get to their goals. A lot of the statements are around that, but then the framing sequences feature it a lot too.

mundanemagic

I think it would be weird to kill him a few episodes *before* the finale (since it would force a further escalation beyond killing a protagonist to get to a suitably climactic finale). If I had to guess, Celia will have brought him inside and will be very evasive about what prompted her to do that. Also possible that he's going to spend the rest of the time up to the finale in a coma and trapped in some sort of statement hellscape with the finale being a 'We have to rescue Sam' plot.

Trisidael

I just gotta say, I absolutely LOVE the sound design around the Archivist and their voice. It’s so bone-chillingly ethereal and inhuman, while also enthralling me completely! Amazing work on that! (Also, this is definitely one of my favorite episodes now, if not my new favorite! It’s just…so good!!! 😁)

Betty

Ice cream ice cream ice cream

Elizabeth Pemberton

Compelled statement, but I also thought perhaps defensive, throwing it at the Archivist to distract her before the compulsion kicked in to smooth it out.

_C4L4M1TY_

Damn. This one was GOOD AF

Valerie Kaplan

I am having the weirdest problem when trying to listen to this episode through the Overcast app specifically. The other episodes are fine, and this episode is fine here and on iTunes and in iPhone’s built-in Podcasts app, but on Overcast when I try to listen to or download this one, it says Not Authorized. Anyone know what could be up with that and how to fix it?

galaxysballad

the archivist sounds HELLO??????? also I fear my boy sam may have magnussed too far oh lord-

Rurrie

Nice to see Gwen seizing her opportunity to throw Lena under the bus. Gosh this Trevor Herbert is insufferable.