THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #73 - Police Lights
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2018
- MAG073 - Case #0171102 - PC Basira Hussain
Statement regarding a police operation to recover a kidnapped child.
The Magnus Archives recounts PC Hussain’s tale of a Section 31 operation that ventured into darkness to rescue a child from the hands of a potential cult.
Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims; Basira Hussain - Frank Voss
Writer: Jonathan Sims
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Not to be a killjoy, but based on this series's track record, I don't think retiring will keep Basira safe.
I agree
Basira: * kinda shocked, traumatized, but tells John her story anyway *
John: But what about the tapes
Next episode : Supplemental. So I broke into the police station to get the tapes !
@@roxasxiii4454 "It was easier than you would think!"
@@roxasxiii4454 is this a spoiler? I haven't watched the next episode yet but I really hope that hasn't just been given away
@@madiham4735 Nobody knows...
ikr i was just like "jon, buddy, that's NOT what you should be saying rn"
Natalie!!! She’s the crazy ex-Christian who kept unscrewing the light bulbs!! Oh rip in peace...
Thanks for the info :)
Huh. Good thing Jon told her to bring more torches.
It’s grimly amusing that the officers assigned to supernatural cases are “sectioned officers.” On my side of the pond, “sectioned” means “involuntarily sent to a mental hospital.”
I think that's a deliberate nickname. Cops are into black humour
yeah, they point it out in her first episode. it's the same here, in england
ah yes, 3, 2, 136 etc.
they're in the UK it means the same thing here
@@spiritussancto yeah theres no way Simms didn't intend that double entendre
Damn, why y’all gotta go and shoot Reiner, he was just tryna show the kid his cool vape tricks
Dank
Reiner: Vape the darkness young child and you shall finally become Tru Emo 🖤✨
@@azulBjort_1406 'vape the darkness' lowkey sounds like a band or album name lol
@@broblerone413 a soundcloud emo gen z punk band
With the power of gun, defeat the darkness
"I will kill you with the power of friendship and this gun I found"
Guns don't kill people, people kill guns.
The power of gun compels you
Don't bring a horror magic to a gun fight
@@tearez13 Guns don't kill people, it is impossible to be killed by a gun. We are all invincible to bullets and it is a miracle.
Night Vale
Me listen to this podcast who struggles with differentiating voices and can’t remember names of people or anything else for that matter: I’m spinning like a ballerina
same i thought martin was sahsa and shasha was martin more than id like to sdmit
The only voice I can differentiate from any of the others is Martin. Tim, Elias, and Jon all sound the same to me, and I never noticed the difference between Sasha and not Sasha but also the rest of the female voices.
Same, i always keep a tab open of the tma wiki to look up names cause im like "wait what's that about". Like here i had no idea what the people's church of the divine host was, and apparently it's linked to the serial killer who took pictures of his victims? Idk im lost 50% of the time
same this is why i always have to read the transcripts and then the podcast for supplemental
SHIT DUDE SAME HERE!!! I love the whole storyline and mystery pieces but I struggle so much with differentiating voices ;-;
again, jon getting sloppy, mentioning getting gertrudes tapes on the main recording instead of the supplement
i assume this entire statement is off the books considering they imply theyve been working together a looot throughout
the whole thing was a supplement, he says "End supplement" at the end
I wonder if Robert Montauk's killings way back in "A Father's Love" were actually to mystically protect Julia from what would have been a similar abduction.
Wasn't he also a police officer for a while? Maybe he saw something he shouldn't have seen and then his wife got killed and then he couldn't get out of there to keep his daughter safe?
Yeah or close enough, his wife had the medallion with Reinier's church symbol so his wife was maybe rescued then taken again. He may have been extorted into doing Rainiers dirty work to prevent him from taking his daughter too
Spoilers for anyone who hasn’t gotten far enough yet:
Robert’s wife was a member of The People’s Church Of The Divine Host and was killed by The Dark when she expressed she wanted to leave. Rayner took this opportunity to blackmail Robert into committing his murders for The Dark in exchange for Rayner not killing Julia and because he led Robert into believing he may be able to get his wife back. Robert Montauk did nothing wrong frankly he’s literally just trying to protect his wife and daughter from a horrific eldritch monster made of darkness and fear :(
@@emilybarclay8831 "Robert Montauk did nothing wrong" *was the UK's worst in-universe serial killer to date*, but fair point.
@@biancamlf288 I mean yeah he killed people but it wasn’t by choice, I’m pretty sure legally he wouldn’t be considered a serial killer cause it was by coercion
I loved Basira so much but I'm lowkey happy she quit. She deserves betterrrr
I will miss her on the podcast tho T.T
@@b-blythe6763 good news, no you won’t
@@emilybarclay8831 Please label your spoilers.
The only good cops...
I get the feeling that even though Basira might quit the police, there's no escaping the supernatural... but at least she won't be duty-bound to seek it anymore :s
In soviet Russia you don’t quit the job, the job quits you
Jon just like: wait you can actually QUIT if you want to? Wack.
I do think John is right that something about being a part of the institute protects him, because I remember from the Prentis attack the worms got significantly slowed in the archive. Maybe Elias’s “I really don’t want to have to fire you” was also a “I really don’t want for you to end up dead”. Also pretty sure the supplemental is somehow related to the hidden battle that seems to be going on under the surface. Actually maybe the protection given to the Archive is related to one of the supernatural sides being heavily involved with it, and is using it to combat the other sides. (I’m a new listener btw, no spoilers).
I really hope Jon finds a new contact from the police. I want to hear more from Gertrude
I'd like it if he used his knowledge from the archives to help future police investigations. I was kinda hoping that was the way it'd go with Basira.
he could use daisy instead
Basira: we had firearms officers on the scene.
American listeners: hehh. *Uncomfortable laughter* heh heh.
hahdhahhaha heh yea... -uncomfortable american
I kept on thinking the 'firearms team' was some sort of military branch or something until I read your comment and realized it must mean police officers with guns.
@@allenl5960 wait.... Fuck kinda Police officer don't have a gun?
@@jeremiahjoseph2413 Most police everywhere not in America?
@cak01vej Above and beyond training with batons, pepper spray, and basic training with riot gear, anything specialist like a taser or something requires additional training. Most police officers are not trained with firearms, and, beyond moving them to safe location, aren't really supposed to handle firearms in the field. If one is recovered in a crime scene, an armed response, or firearms-certified officer is required to sign off on it. At least that's as far as I know.
Guns be rare over here.
I’ve been listening to this while doing school… I just now realized how dramatic my essays sound lol oh well it’s a small price to pay for entertainment
same!! I didn't even realize how dramatic my style of writing had become after listening to this until it was pointed out, and after reading back I realized they had a similar feel to the statements, lol
That's so cool! I hope you both roll with it :D
Lol I hope your teachers enjoyed the essays, they won't be monotone like everyone else's
Same!! I been writing stories and realized that sounded really dramatic and spooky.
same lol since i've started listening to this my writing, thoughts, and speech have taken on a mildly grim and dramatic tone
Advanced Darkness
This made me laugh more than it should and I just-
So I'm a bit late to the party, but I've been listening to each season and then going back and listening again to make a big long list of everyone ever mentioned in the series, and I think Callum Brodie is probably the son of Caroline Brodie. Who might she be? The ex-wife of Philip Brown who guarded Robert Montauk and saw Rayner when he visted.
HOLY SHIT you may be right
So that's how they know the location of the kid
Im sorry i cant help but laugh at the image of some guy running around in some black latex body suit and screaming 😹😹
When he said “end supplement” without us having heard anything from Martin I yelled “WHERE IS MY SPECIAL BOY” and my dog came running 😂
so Basira was involved with this stuff but could quit. ppl in the magnus institutes or the archives can't, though, it seems
everyone in the magnus cant quit.
She can't quit either but its not the archives that have a hold
Natalie Ennis, the girl who disappeared in Growing Dark
I love Basira so much I can’t even put it into words
Sameee :33
This is the fifth time i slept through 10 episodes, damn i love hoW good this series is for my sleep.
Literally me. They’re all marked as watched but I have to go by which one I last remember. Sometimes I’ll start one and realize I’ve heard it already. 😫
me frfr
Relatable. I had to stop listening to these on autoplay cuz my phone always be dead in the morning lmao. But I usually don't even make it through one episode before I'm sleeping
Yup! ^^ Jon's voice is just TOO relaxing!
This one really gave me chills, like the way she describes the darkness?? That's Next Level Creepy for someone who's still lowkey afraid of the dark x)
This reminds me of that one season 1 episode where that person was in almost like another dimension or something like in total darkness
Pretty disappointed that Maxwell died just like that. He seemed interesting and I am really craving to know the storyline of Robert, the Cult Hunter. I am sure it will be entertaining when we find out about the cult's past but knowing how it will end is a bit of a bummer.
Knowing what I know listening up to this point, I'd say the chance Maxwell is not actually dead is about 50/50.
well Maxwell's body might be dead but I doubt that whatever was inside of him is
"If you find easy killing the necromancer then you didn't kill him"
Bastira: You should quit Jon.
Jon: Haha...about that
Ho-kay, good... Basira's alive. Dunno how okay she is, because Close Encounter of the Weird Kind, but still.
My theory from this episode and what we know so far:
I believe what was happening was not just an abduction but actual a ritual of moving one's consciousness to another body. The kid was selected because that way Rayer would have alot more years to use the body, though there should also be some requirements that the young kid had in order to be "selected" as the next body Rayner, someone working for the dark, would use. The black fog was Rayner, who was also a part of the dark entity (hence why the fog was black) and the other cop who got some of that black on its face had its eyesight taken away because the dark is also the close eye entity, and once that stuffed touched his skin he was affected by the dark. I'm assuming Natalie killed the cop probably because he was "unworthy" to be associated with the dark maybe? Or she just didn't see the black on his face at the time. Rayer might be dead indeed but the dark is still out there, and it's cult also, and it won't be long until someone else take Rayer's place. If, again, Rayer in in fact dead.
Someone tipped off the police, obviously someone related to another supernatural entity. But I don't believe it was to save the young boy. It was simply to stop the dark's plan, in order for their own plans to go forward, whatever that may mean for our heroes in the future.
Basira quitted the force but I don't think this will mean she won't be encountered with supernatural incidents in the future too. She knows far too much from a normal person to not be useful to be used as a pawn by any of the supernatural entities on play. Especially since there is a war happening between them.
As for John, I too also believe that the archivists have a protection, and it is from the open eye entity. Mary said saw herself, her family has been protected by it for generations. Maybe their feel of not being able to quit their job from the archive is the open eye trying to prevent them to leave its protection? But that would mean it affirms a previous statement of mine: that Gertrude trying to stay away from the open eye is what eventually led to her death.
The open eye? Wait what?
@@NerveUnderscore I didn't know the names of the entities by then, so in order to differentiate these two entities which both have a symbol about an eye (one entity has as a symbol an open eye while the other entity has a closed eye) I was reffering to these entities as "open eye entity" and "closed eye entity"/"dark entity"
Kind of sad Jon didn't say "Supplemental", it gives me the same feeling as Picard saying "Captains Log". And normally I know it's about to happen and say it, kind of like I say captain's log when I watch star trek.
That's a great comparison, I got that vibe without realising it.
That's cause the whole statement is supplemental
someone else who likes star trek and horror podcasts, nice
thats because the whole thing was a supplement
magnus archive is star trek but twisted
Basira is alive, thank gods!
Was Raynor a witness of Gertrude's murder? Was he being "taken care of" ? Or is it a convenient coincidence he was caught during a kidnapping now?
[CLICK]
ARCHIVIST
Here.
BASIRA
Thanks.
ARCHIVIST
I assume it didn’t go well, then?
BASIRA
[Swallows drink] We lost Altman. Just… wasn’t… paying attention. Don’t know what they’re going to tell his family. Guess it could have been worse, though, if I hadn’t talked to you first. So thanks.
ARCHIVIST
I’m surprised you’re here. Surely you have a lot of paperwork after something like that? A lot of forms to sign?
BASIRA
They’ve given us a few days ‘compassionate leave’. I think they just want us out of the way while they figure out the official version of what happened.
ARCHIVIST
Well, I’d like to hear the real one, if you’re ready?
BASIRA
Yeah. How much context do you need?
ARCHIVIST
You said it started with a kidnapping case?
BASIRA
Yeah. Callum Brodie. Twelve… twelve years old. Disappeared from his home in Dalston three weeks ago. Sitter was asleep when the mother came home, the front door was open, there was no sign of him. There was no forced entry, so it started out as a missing persons case, but they got a witness claiming he’d seen three unknown figures entering the Brodies’ home that night, so it was kicked up to Serious Crime. There was some back and forth with Kidnap Squad since no ransom demand had been made, but not much progress in terms of finding the kid.
I only found out about all this when we were suiting up yesterday. The Brodie case had nothing to do with my department or my borough. When me and Daisy got the call that we were being brought in for an operation to recover the kid, it was… it was totally out of the blue. The sergeant in charge had to brief us in the van.
I had no idea why we’d been called in until I looked at the other officers involved and saw a good few of them… they were fellow signees of a Section 31. Whatever we were heading towards, it was going to be weird. I think the sergeant in charge must have been sectioned as well, but I didn’t know him. It’s not too surprising, though. I mean, it’s not like any of us have a full list of sectioned officers but one must exist somewhere.
It looked like most of the others had made the same connection, and none of us were feeling right about it. I mean, we had a counter terrorist firearms squad with us, which didn’t exactly put my mind at ease.
That said, I wasn’t exactly sad we might be getting some sectioned firearms officers, but it was just a lot, you know? The briefing was pretty short. We were told that Callum Brodie had been found and it was suspected he was being held by a man named Maxwell Rayner, with an unknown number of accomplices. There were suspicions that there might be cult involvement. That’s when I phoned you.
ARCHIVIST
And did the lights help at all?
BASIRA
Oh, I’m… I’m getting to that. I told the sergeant, and he didn’t even ask me where I’d gotten the information. He just nodded and told everyone to load up on torches. The firearms team wasn’t short on tactical gear so, by the time we headed inside, we had two or three heavy duty flashlights each. I had four.
The building was in an industrial complex up in Harringay. It was a two storey brick building with a weathered sign claiming it belonged to Outer Bay Shipping. We were instructed to go inside in teams of two, with one armed officer paired with one sectioned. You… you have to understand, that was massively against protocol, but I guess they wanted to be sure that none of the firearms team encountered anything weird without being accompanied by anyone experienced. I looked around to see if the others were going to make anything of it, but no-one made a peep. I think everyone knew that this was about as far from a normal operation as they came.
I was paired with an older guy. Goodman, I think his name was, though we didn’t really talk. The way he carried his weapon in the van, I could tell he’d been handling it awhile, but I couldn’t help but notice his hands were shaking slightly as we made our way around the building.
We were going in through the loading dock at the rear, and as we approached the security lights that lit the rest of the estate seemed to get dimmer. Well, not dimmer, really, they just didn’t illuminate the place as much as they should have. Aside from a small pool of white light directly below, the darkness around them didn’t seem to be affected. I didn’t have much time to think about it before the order came down and we were going in.
I cut the padlock on the metal gate and slid it up while Goodman gave me some cover. The inside seemed normal. Pallets of boxes were neatly lined up on shelves around the loading bay, and the heavy lamps overhead gave us plenty of light. We started to make a sweep of the area, eyes peeled for anything that looked out of place. I took a second to check a few of the larger boxes but they didn’t contain anything remarkable. Mostly sheets of plastic for manufacturing, although some were full of copper piping or paint. And that’s when I heard the scream.
It came from behind one of the shelves to my left and it didn’t sound like a cry of fear or pain. It was a scream of rage, almost animal-like, and when I turned I saw a figure moving behind me. It was only for a second, but it seemed to be dressed head to toe in black, like a leotard or one of those morphsuits. It was hard to say for sure, as it was less than a second before it darted back behind the shelves and Goodman opened fire.
I hadn’t prepared myself for it, and the sudden gunshot sent a jolt of pain shooting through my head as my eardrums rang with the noise. Goodman called something to me but I couldn’t make out a word of it. I just followed him as he ran around to where the figure had disappeared to. There was no sign of it, although a small spray of fresh blood told me that my jumpy new partner’s aim had been too wide of the mark.
We… we started to hear sporadic gunfire from the rest of the building. I mean, it was basically all I could hear at that point as everything else was still a muffled, high-pitched whine. I was worried Goodman might panic at this, but to his credit he seemed to have pulled himself together and we finished the sweep of the loading bay before heading through to the rest of the building.
I saw a handful of armed officers heading up the stairs to the upper floor, and I was going to follow them when I felt a tug on my arm. Goodman was… he was saying something and pointing towards the other direction. I saw a pair of uniforms and a face I recognised. Leo Altman, one of the sectioned officers from up in Waltham Forest. I had met him once before, when Daisy took me out for some very quiet drinks with a few other sectioned cops she knew. I remembered him being one of the friendlier ones, though he still stopped short of telling any stories.
Leo was stood with an armed officer that I didn’t know. From her lack of trigger discipline it looked like she was either very new or seriously rattled. They were staring down a long metal staircase that seemed to lead into what must have been the building’s basement. The briefing hadn’t mentioned anything about a basement, and it was clear they weren’t entirely sure how to proceed.
When me and Goodman joined them it seemed to make up their minds and, with a quick nod to us, Leo and his partner started to head down. I didn’t want to follow, and I could see that Goodman wasn’t too keen either, but we weren’t just going to leave them without backup, so down we went.
At the bottom of the stairs was a door. It was old and made of steel that had started to rust around the edges. But… it wasn’t right. You know how when the lights are turned on in a room and you can see it from outside? Like, a thin line of light leaking under the doorway? Well, it was like that, except what seemed to seep out from underneath it wasn’t light.
It was shadow. Like, if darkness was somehow shining from behind it. As I got closer I started to hear something. I couldn’t really tell what it was under the buzzing in my ears, but the best way I could describe it is that it sounded like a waterfall, but slowed right down. A steady, flowing crash and churn, but deep and drawn out. I wanted to ask the others if they heard it as well, but Leo was already moving to open the door. I barely had time to get my torch out.
I’m glad I did, though, because as the door opened, every light in the building went dark.
That moment I was in complete darkness had to be one of the longest seconds of my life. I felt like I’d gone blind. Not just my eyes but everything. Like every sense I had was severed and the only thing I could feel was a wave of nausea. It seemed like, for that second, I wasn’t anywhere that light had ever reached. Then, I clicked the button on my torch and the beam cut right through it.
The flashlight was weak, nothing like the power I would have expected from the heavy bulb, but the faint glow was enough to bring me back to myself. I shone it behind me, over the pale, panicked faces of the others and, as it touched each of them, I saw them start and reach for their own torches. Soon four pale beams were struggling out into the thick, aggressive gloom.
I turned around, trying to shine the light on the wall or even the door we came in from, anything that would give me a sense of the room we were standing in, but it just disappeared into the pitch dark in all directions. Thinking about it now, I realise, we never actually walked through the door.
Small flecks of black dust floated in the air, like… like inky snow. They moved gently through the torchlight and they never seemed to settle on the ground, and I began to realise how cold it was. Everything was so still, and the only sound was the same dull roar from up ahead of us. I don’t know how long we stood there, but when my torch sputtered and died, I knew we didn’t have long.
I took out another and turned it on. The light seemed even fainter than the first one. Still, it was something, and we started to walk forward, or at least what we assumed was forward. If anyone said anything I didn’t hear it. The black dust danced in front of us, but it never seemed to actually touch us or land on our clothing. There was no smell at all here. The building above us had smelt of sawdust, old metal and industrial cleaner, but down here there was nothing. I didn’t… I didn’t shine my torch upwards. I didn’t want to see if there was a roof over our heads.
By this point we had easily walked the whole length of the building several times and still hadn’t seen anything. The roar was getting louder and louder, until it was all that was in my head. The four of us were all on our second or third torches by that point, and I could feel that I was starting to panic. There was a scream building up inside of me, clawing its way up my throat. Actually, you know what? I might have been screaming. I don’t know. It was… it was impossible to tell over the noise and the thick, choking darkness. Then Goodman’s flashlight beam hit something ahead of us and it… it all went to hell.
I think it took about five seconds. Everything seemed to happen at once, and only going over it in the reports afterwards was I able to process what I saw. Five seconds and everything was over, but I’ll try and describe it in as much detail as I can.
Goodman’s torch beam had landed on an old man. He was tall, but I couldn’t say much more than that. His body was hidden in the folds of a robe of some sort. It was the same colour as the dust that had filled the air and seemed to move and shift in the same way. His white hair was thin and wild, covering an unkempt face and a scraggly beard. His eyes were milky white. I think he was blind. From the description the sergeant had given us, I was sure this was Maxwell Rayner.
Next to him was an old chair that looked like it could have come from a dinner table. The wood was stained, covered in dark mould, and tied to it with thin metal wire was Callum Brodie. The kid’s eyes were blank, though not clouded like the old man’s, and his face was locked in a silent scream.
Rayner was facing him, thin, bony hands raised to his face. Something was… something was flowing out of his mouth. It looked like ink, but it flowed more like a heavy fog than any sort of liquid. It drips down his forearms and onto the floor, where it… it rolled towards Callum, climbing up the chair and oozing across the boy’s body towards his face. It was moving slowly, and had just reached his chest. The roaring sound seemed to come as it convulsed out of the old man’s mouth.
Then Goodman opened fire. The muzzle flash seemed impossibly bright as it cut through the dark and… I could swear that, for a second, the room it lit up was not a basement but a cathedral. He let off three shots in a quick burst, and every one of them hit Rayner square in the chest. His robe twitched violently as he staggered backwards, and all the dark liquid suddenly washed down onto the floor in a single movement, leaving Callum untouched. It still gushed from his mouth, though, and as the shots tore through him he spun about and an arc of the dark substance flew through the air.
Altman had started running towards them as soon as he had seen the kid, and was almost at the chair when the wave of it spewed out. A few droplets hit him on the cheek and he started to howl and claw at his face. Goodman fired again at Rayner, dropping him to the ground, and the horrendous noise stopped suddenly, leaving only Leo’s cries of pain.
The lights came on all at once, and in the sudden painful brightness none of us had time to do anything as a woman who hadn’t been there a moment ago ran up to Leo. She wore a robe similar to the old man’s, and by the time any of us had seen the knife in her hand she had buried it in Altman’s throat. More gunshots, this time from the officer who had partnered with Leo, but she was too slow. By the time the woman with the knife had been dropped, he was already bleeding out on the floor.
Five seconds. Two dead kidnappers, one dead police officer… and silence. We were standing in a small basement room lit by dingy fluorescent bulbs, no sign of the black liquid or any sort of dust. The kid seemed fine. I mean, I’m sure he’ll need a lot of counselling, but he didn’t seem physically any worse for wear.
Goodman went to untie him while I ran to check on Altman. It was too late, of course, but as I looked at his still, cold face, I saw his eyes were a milky white.
The rest of the squad arrived a few seconds later and helped to take us back out to the van. After that it was all questions, debrief cups of coffee I never quite got around to drinking. And Section 31 forms. Lots of them.
All in all there were five people killed in that building, including Leo Altman. Aside from Rayner and the woman, who was identified from an old report as Natalie Ennis, two more were shot and killed when they attacked some of the other officers. Three more were subdued and arrested, but as far as I know they still haven’t said a word. God knows how they’re going to process them with all the secrecy around the operation, but thankfully that’s not my problem. I think they were connected to that cult group from way back, the Church of the Divine whatever.
ARCHIVIST
The People’s Church of the Divine Host. Rayner was their leader back in the early Nineties. I have a few statements related to them if you’re interested. Natalie Ennis was actually one of the…
BASIRA
No. I’m not interested. Not even a little. I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few days, and I’m done. With the police, with Section 31, all of it. I wanted to tell you in person. And give you the statement. It seemed the least I could do.
ARCHIVIST
You’re really quitting?
BASIRA
Yeah. And you should too. This place… It’s not right. Goodbye, John.
[DOOR OPENS]
ARCHIVIST
Basira, wait. What about the tapes?
BASIRA
What?
ARCHIVIST
The tapes. Fr… from Gertrude’s case. Is there any way I can-
[DOOR CLOSES]
No, I suppose not.
[CLICK]
Well, that seems to close the book on Maxwell Rayner. Maybe the whole People’s Church of the Divine Host. I can’t help but feel I’ve got the last chapter of a story and I don’t even know the title. At least I hope it’s the last chapter. I still can’t find much about the company Outer Bay Shipping. Looks like a shell corporation, but tracking corporate ownership is not something I’m skilled at.
I’m disappointed with Ms. Hussain’s decision. It’s not exactly a surprise, though. I’ve… thought about quitting myself. It’s not an option, of course. I’m in far too deep now. I get the impression that to quit would be giving up whatever small protection I seem to have here. I just wished… I don’t know.
Oddly enough, all I can think about is: how did the police know where Rayner was keeping the boy? Basira didn’t seem to know, and the Church clearly wasnn’t expecting the police to arrive. With a few exceptions, Rayner managed to stay off the grid for two decades. How did they find him now? Someone must have known what was happening and tipped them off. And I don’t think it was anyone inside that building.
End supplement.
Yall are angels
Thanks
Petra Iván thank you bro
You are welcome bro!
Where did I heard the name Natalie Ennis before?
She's the protagonist's girlfriend's roommate from Growing Dark who joined a cult
FrozenFyreSpark omg yeah!! That’s the episode that this reminded me of!!!
@@fyrefrost1898 oh shiiiit
*[spoilers for later in the series]*
im impressed Basira was able to avoid answering a question from Jon. "what about the tapes" should've at least made her respond with "i will not get you them." we know this power is already in effect because of Daisy's episode, where even though she's not the sharing type she still answered all of his questions without hesitation. i think that gets brought up later too... Well, anyway, perhaps Basira's closing of the door was enough of a response to satisfy the Eye
**spoiler for anyone listening for the first time**
If I remember right, we learn that Elias is the one who called the tip in about where Callum Brodie was. But I'm trying to figure out why - was it meant to push Jon more into learning about the entities through someone giving him another statement, or was he just not a fan of Rayner/the Dark and wanted to Get him?
Honestly...might be both
I hope Basira doesn't end up a side note on a future statement. Like her character a lot.
Jon's little 'oh' after she says she doesn't want the other statements was so funny to me for some reason
he doesn't understand how anyone could not want knowledge 0.0 XD
Did anyone else hear something like a landline ringing sound during the end? After Martin stops talking and the (I assume) lights shut off?
Wait.....
Natalie?!?!
The gf from "Growing Dark" whose friend joins this cult
And the plot thickens! wow I love this podcast fjsjdjgkhk
Ok, so, I have properly met/memorized 4 people of fears,
Max --max darkness
Jarad -- children, may I have your bones?
Aneada-- she hot! (hot damn)
and Jon 'I must know everything' simons-- the man of eyeballs
oh, and not-sasha and Micheal-- the chaos-crazy swirl mofos. but Im... not sure? they count? as People???.
And mcfricked dead Jane. Wonder who the corruption will replace her with?
Annnnd that number drops to three, because Mr.Max is most likely a dead man.
Who is Anadea? Is that Agnes? Idk, Im having trouble remembering the names.
@@bar3450 I think is the woman who set a man's face on fire
i believe Natalie was also the creepy roommate of the guy who noticed someone unscrewing the lightbulbs in his gf's apartment. she was mentioned to have ended up in a cult, pretty sure it was the divine host?
simon fairchild - have a nice trip
Explains why the dad murked them fools to save his daughter
Jon is getting better with women than with men. He hates Tim, thinks Martin is stupid, but police officers and Sasha are his friends
oh no john and basira split up? tim will be devestated
Hahaha
ah yes, a Dark episode. perfect to listen to at midnight right before going to sleep.
Why do I get the feeling that Elias tipped them of?
it was so gooooooooooood
I dont feel like its over. That kid...
This darkness that dims the light reminds me of the Ways from Wheel of Time .
The writing was pretty good for a while, but this episode came back to a writing style that doesn't sound like someone speaking naturally. It's too descriptive. "I shone it behind me, over the pale, panicked faces of the others". But, I'm still listening, so it's clearly not a big enough deal to stop me listening.
Edit: There's actually a reason for the strangely detailed and well spoken accounts! Keep watching!
Jeff Goode It's a good explanation
I always found it weird that every person spoke like an audiobook and gave very similar descriptions to very different events. I assumed some of it is related to paranormal- like the 2 delivery dudes looking "normal"- and some of them are limited by Jon's writing. You can't expect him to use a wildly different writing style each episode, it doesn't break my suspension of disbelief that much.
THERE'S A REASON?! now im even more invested in this story :O
@@beltaya276 same lmao, this show is tying up all the loose ends
Thanks for the spoiler... Not.
Guess that raid was... child's play
*yeAHHHHHH*
I THINK IT WAS SASHA WHO TIPPED EM OFF
a bit rude of basira to refuse giving jon more tapes, given that he kinda saved her life
not sounding rude but it is kinda his job
He got her in trouble at her job, where sneaking away evidence is kinda illegal, so she wasn't secure enough to give him tapes at the time. Basira was a little cold when Jon pushed her, but her frustration makes sense.
This sounds like some Silent Hill, Outlast, Fatal Frame story
I can't blame Basira for quitting, I would too.
NO SUOLEMENTBAL AGAGĢHGGAH
in love w basira tho. not only is she potential muslim/arab representation, but she's also like,, the smartest character here
This sounds like a job for an MTF
Was Rayner mentioned before "Exceptional Risk" and "A Father's Love"?
How did they find him?
SPOILER FOR S5!!!
I'm just curious, this is for people who are listening again
Is Callum Brodie the avatar kid??
Yep, same kid!
I have to assume some other supernatural thing or group gave the tip.
S5 SPOILERS
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Wait so this is the same kid that became a darkness avatar in S5, right? Damn that's cool how it all connects upon relistening
Yep
Start 1:05
Magnus Archives meets Alan Wake.
I thought of the same thing hahahaha
Was there a spiral on that door?
The Dark?
Yup. When Rainer is involved it's a good sign.
ooh mag 173 spoilers!
callum brodie ended up becoming an avatar! hes the kid that owns the dark domain, where he scares the other kids. i didnt notice it until now...
The most supernatural thing in this statement was British officers with guns
8:14 well, I tried slowing down the waterfall asmr video... I don't think it was the sound like in the case, but still it was fucking creepy
Natalie?
Ayo is it that girl that made that weird spinach in ep 14?
Cidade alerta