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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) Anusia Battersby as Gwen BouchardBillie Hindle as Alice DyerTim Fearon as AugustusLowri Ann Davies as Celia RipleyMike Thoms as Brett Larz

Dialogue Editor – Nico VetteseSound Designer – Meg McKellarMastering Editor - Catherine Rinella

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

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Comments

RedDedZombie

This is the episode Anusia and April said they were anticipating so I am jumping in feet first!

RedDedZombie

Also ‘Pipelines’ as a title gives me 13 Storeys flashbacks 😆

evievile

STOP POSTING WHILE I’M AT WORK I’M FREAKING OUT

Avari

if I tried to scream about everything exciting in this episode I would exhaust the CHARACTER LIMIT. HOLY MOLY.

RedDedZombie

The title, the death, ooh you cheeky sods 🤣

josh

GUS MENTION ‼️

Pennywise

Not gonna lie completely forgot about Augustus 😂

charles

WHO 2012???????????? ???

Em

ELIAS

charles

‘lead piping’ ur so funny

josh

ELIASGOESHARD@HOTMAIL.COM 😭😭😭😭😭😭

BuriedInTheArchives

Nooooo 🥲 my love. OG Elias was a delight while we had him.

Ajax

OHOHOHOHOOH THIS IS DRIVING ME BONKERS

Matthew Mullins

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

Auto-Anne

ELIAS???? NOOOOOOOOOOO ALSO HOLY CRAP ELIAS ACTING NOT LIKE JONAH IS WILD

HeavenlyBibi

I knew the “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” inclusion in Gwen’s playlist meant something

Junebug

AHHHH THE LOREEEE!!! CONTEXT!!! ANSWERS!!!!! THIS IS SO FULFILLING!!!!!!!!

RedDedZombie

That was perfection. Also, I feel like we have a bit of a Chekov’s Toy Box situation, I wonder what Mr Bonzo would make of such a box?

RedDedZombie

Also, wouldn’t it be delightful if things being unbalanced (after Gwen telling the externals to kick rocks) led to a new kind of apocalypse. Though now Gwen has told externals and Starkwall to kick rocks I think she’s going to be begging for Starkwall to return soon 😅

mora!

Elias my shayla 💔

James Rule

I can just picture Alice rolling her eyes and about to yell "get on with it!" during the " re re re" parts of the email reading.

bell

HES BAAAAAAAACK

Meg

You're all SO pleased with yourselves, aren't you

Erica

THE WAY I THREW MY PHONE WHEN THEY MENTIONED ELIAS

Erica

"ttyl" 😔✊

silas spiers

REAL ELIAS❤️❤️❤️

Binx Kent

Ughhh I hate Gwen so much. Every time I think my opinion of her can’t go any lower she gets out a shovel and starts digging.

Erica

Wait, is this universe's Elias the same age as TMA's was? Is this a 40-50 year old guy saying, "Hey dude 😎🤙"? I love him so much, RIP king

Not!Jon

I had a gut feeling that Augustus specifically was manipulating Gwen and talking to her and I'm glad my gut suspicions have been vindicated. Also welcome back and goodbye again Elias. I already know Alex thought he was a genius for that title considering the casement giver in question.

Tea-Moth11

Just gonna stare at a wall for a while…

Avari

Augustus in that server system laughing and laughing and laughing you just KNOW it. oh Gwen, oh DEAR.

Avari

Part of the system is it being clunky and annoying and set in its ways, it's like. SO on point for it to just "RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE RE" the whole way through every email interaction like that.

Grace 'Gengar' Soria

Omg OG Elias was such a loser lol. I almost feel like being possessed by Jonah was the best thing that could happen to him 😅 And Gwen, baby, sweetheart, love... STOP BURNING BRIDGES

James Rule

Honestly, Starkwall was pretty calm about their operative getting dropped. They're probably more use to dealing with externals than that one guy demonstrated. Gwen is making a huge mistake.

James Rule

Now I need a time machine to steal the best email address of all time.

riese

as soon as i saw the title i KNEW omg i’m losing it

Victoria Lisbon

Elias pre-pipe Elias mid-pipe Elias post-pipe

Cammie

YESSS VINDICATION!!!!

Valerie Kaplan

If the prevalent theory regarding “Augustus” is correct, then this is the exact opposite of TMA in regards to whose words we’re hearing in whose voice!

NedTheJellyBean

i knew the repeating "re:"'s were going to add to the eerie vibes and i was right

Kalat

Wooohooooo

Bryttanie Eastman

The way I slowly grasped my face in my hands when I heard Gwen had been listening to "Augustus" the way I did so again when I heard 'Eliasgoeshard@hotmail.com' Gwen telling Alice she'd see if Starkwall could hold the doll then immediately cutting ties with them. Just continuing to be the worst.

RedDedZombie

These pipes are full of ghosts and spite.

Devon Reown

are these the sounds of brutal pipe murder?

chrisiii

Elias and the pipes: part two

Emma Penberthy

I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT (I have not yet been proven right I’m actually only 5 mins into the episode but things are clicking more and more)

Emma Penberthy

I was in fact right I fucking knew it

Pia K R

Augustus saying "lol" out loud is compressing my brain like a jpeg

Possumcat

Welp there goes my fanfic

Jana B

- [shaking fist toward sky like an old man] Elric Capital when I get you!!!!!!!! - Also LEAD you say??????? TRANSFORMATIONS you say??,???? 👀👀👀 - lets all raise a pipe for rich kid loser eli b. rip my dude

Cold Exile

Nikola - 'Can I call you Elias (Jonas)?' Mind blown Also The Buried getting a checky shoutout for Herculaneum was a nice touch

Malt!

What theory?

Patrick Hutsler

Honestly Gwen is the staff member I vibe with the least. She has (with a small push from Augustus), has backed herself into this position.

Diane Shleibak

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'm rooting for Gwen to succeed. For all her arrogance, she's kind of a lovable oaf in my eyes. And she's kind of steering the ship rn, so... I guess I don't want her to crash.

Anthrosect

A Roman ruins episode… read by a character called Augustus…probably a coincidence but I love the connection there

Jennica

Brutal Pipe Murder 2: Alchemic Boogaloo XD

Amari Vega

RealElias can I CALL you RealElias?

Amari Vega

Almost immediately went "oop!" With it too, haha

Amari Vega

They strike me as a particularly effective machine of Bureaucatically Dodging Responsibility and nothing else. Individually licensed subcontractors my ass

Amari Vega

Not FR3D1 telling on Brett

Tama Connatser

In another universe, our boy still lives. xD And the only pipe he is hitting has pot. xD

Tama Connatser

Honestly my brain came to the conclusion that this was the computer version of the horror violin sound effect of Ree Ree Ree Ree. But if an old man was voicing it in the flattest tone ever

Samantha Jay

Not “eliasgoeshard@hotmail.com” 🙃

Valerie Kaplan

The theory that ties together the “JMJ error” thing with the fact that there was only one other person at the top of the Panopticon with Jon and Martin in MAG 200, and it was someone whose real voice we had never heard…

Lyssa

Re:

Eryn Young

I choked on my food and I wasn't even eating

Eryn Young

Just over here having a Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Rave

flux

screaming crying im losing it over this. gonna go stare at a wall for an hour as i process

Ace

Augustus manipulating Gwen is crazy. He HAS to be Jonah, especially when it comes to sending Gwen something about Elias of all people???? Augustus also saying “LOL” took me out. AND THE ELIAS BRUTAL PIPE MURDERRR 😭😭

Valerie Kaplan

If the prevailing theory is right, then this episode was JONAH acting like ELIAS!

Sean McMahon

Maybe I’m focusing on a side note, but… how did the Starkwall rep already know that Alice had returned to the office when Gwen called them? Do they have surveillance devices in the building? Are those devices in the break room? Is that what has been giving us the break room audio?

Sean McMahon

In a universe where good luck exists, he might eat it and implode. Unfortunately for the characters, TMP is probably not that kind of universe.

Alec

Snooty Pothead Elias Bouchard gets laid out by a hard piping [EXPLICIT] [HARDCORE]

tim/sash

oh mygodddddd gwen is so fucked

Sorvelle

This was INSANE. Guess Jonah wants more than one apocalypse? Stay toxic king

Honey Coffee

Brutal pipe murder: Revenge of the Pipes

Honey Coffee

Not gonna lie the last email really hit me *Goosebumps*

Emerald Hawthorne

The screech I made when he first said "Elias" was unholy. Then when he got to "eliasgoeshard@hotmail.com" I almost choked to death on my tea.

Lyra Lemon

this episode is worth listening to multiple times. love u og Elias rip 2 a real one. fucking pour one out. LOL <— added 2 commemorate his LOL i love this fucking guy

KitCat3

Brutal Pipe Murder 2: Electric Boogaloo

Femchie7

Pretty sure it was FR3D1

Eryn Young

It took me way too long to process this in my mash potato noggin

Merlin3434

Has anyone tried emailing the email adresse in the statement?

Gareth Green

Remember the hidden passages in archives.

Alec

"I'm not an idiot!' Yes, you are, Gwen. Yes, you are.

Alec

Something that really bothered me though is that clearly Starkwall is SUCH a competent company often used as the tool to enact the Protocol (and often invokes the Slaughter). So WHY was the operative that Heinrich killed so completely and utterly irritating, useless, and completely played for laughs? I was so excited for a Starkwall operative to be something spooky, interesting, and important and he was just an overmilitarized characiature straight out of a LARP camp.

RedDedZombie

That's such an interesting point. It's almost like Gwen got her own equivalent in a Starkwall operative (as in, the operative's performance reminded me of Gwen's first interaction with Ink5oul). I can see several options: they deliberately sent an incompetent contractor as a test, and Starkwall doesn't think the OIAR are worth the effort; Starkwall simply aren't what they used to be, the last confirmed date they were involved was 2016 (8 years before the series begins), could have had changes to management which leads to; if Starkwall were working with the government, they may also be working to increase fear over time, and they do their own calculations.

James Rule

Maybe Starkwall found out that Alice was looking into FR3-d1 and wanted her to fail?

A abram

The system knows Gwen is the one who will allow the Dreads to become unbalanced because she's, simply put, inept. That will bring about this universe's apocalypse and the return of Magnus.

cypie

"Lead poisoning - if it's good enough for the Romans, it's good enough for us!" -Elias Brochard

cypie

Also, it took me three listens to realize that Elias mixed up Pompeii and Herculaneum

rowanoak

what a BANGER episode

Rurrie

Elias goes hard at hotmail dot com XD

Chell

If you right about Augustus being Jonah, then we got Jonah voicing Elias thoughts! When you know, (Spoiler for TMA), Elias was voicing Jonah's thoughts in TMA.