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The Magnus Protocol 27 - Driven

🕑 Added 2024-08-20 15:00:11 +0000 UTC

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Khes

Trevor Herbert MP! I yelped and then cackled!

Shannon Mann

I immediately thought anglerfish

loregano

the universe's biggest joke yet was reincarnating Trevor Herbert into the MP

NedTheJellyBean

Oh yeah the timing of it was absolutely brutal lol

Gabi (Tao)

This is one of my favorites! Isn't it hilariously fitting that Jonah Magnus' case comes with a warning for "employer abuse"? Most alternates seem to be living their best lives, but Trevor wins the AU game. The rest can go home (if they can). Also, I grinned at how we get warnings for "mentions of: sex" and "misophonia (kiss)". I'm here to support the ace agenda.

MarlaBothBothIsGood

I screamed JONAH at a tone only dogs could HEAR Amazing episode

Reynard Du Maurier

Very Gertrude of him

Mini Moka

Truly this was haunty and eerie as shit..in the best way. I stg yalls writing is amazing XD I feel like I'm losing my dang mind...back to the red strings ig 😔✌🏻

Ace

gotta say the reveal of this case being jonah’s hit me like a truck

KitCat3

The Magnus Institute: Proudly feeding interns to monsters since 1845.

Trisidael

Yeah, that’s the only explanation I can think of, that the ending scene at Celia’s was somehow taking place on a different day, but it’s still odd.

jewelliffer

Hmmm i don’t remember one in that ep but it’s been a hot minute since I’ve listened to it… i need to be ready for a good cry when i go back to that one lol

DJ Badillo

I thought the same thing! I saw someone theorize it could be Isaac Newton. Maybe he learned to body hop like Jonah or Maxwell Rainer?

Betty

“I’m openly trans on the internet” I’m dead lmao

NedTheJellyBean

THIS WAS A LOT

NedTheJellyBean

There's one in Archives 200, unless that's not what you meant?

Rainstroll

Yeah I meant the canon dates for the episodes not the release schedule! I guess the ending of ep 26 could have happened much later than the rest of the episode? So, that could have been just before this and it’s just split between episodes for tension

Trisidael

In the original TMA universe, the Institute started in Edinburgh, and then was moved to London, to be where the Milbank Prison panopticon was. But yes, to OP, in the original universe, Trevor was originally from Manchester! That’s a fun detail! 😄

Trisidael

I think they’re referring to the dates stated in the podcast itself, rather than the podcast episodes being released a week apart. The last episode, in the podcast, took place on May 2nd, and this one took place on May 10th, so that is an interesting time gap. I’m wondering if it was intentional, or if it was an error of some sort in the episode dates. 🤔

blackblackberry

he ran into a vampire, but maybe in this universe it transformed him and now like all MPs, he's a vampire xD

turquoiseCobalt

Edinburgh I think it was actually? but MAG160 is indeed when he mentions moving to London after his first failed Crown

AJ Fernández

The Institute in the original universe was also originally in Manchester. Elias mentions moving it to London in MAG160 IIRC.

VAL

Fake Taxi

Persi parkinson

If you are not from the UK that makes sense, or maybe it’s a Northern thing… “growler” is slang for vagina where I live.

Gareth Green

Hmmmm… I don’t know that I do.

Gareth Green

Episodes don’t necessarily take place in real time.

Enya

The second I heard the "used my name for the institute" bit I got giddy. Loved this episode and can't wait for the next one, so many little hints and great character interactions! Also, Trevor is a minister?!😂

Gareth Green

OMG!!! I didn’t realize that!

Gareth Green

It was kind of obvious from the beginning.

Dina Lindemann

Who is N?

turquoiseCobalt

Trevor mention…. He’s the OIAR MP? This universes Magnus Institute was in MANCHESTER? Where TREVOR CAME FROM?? Am I connecting dots here????

Quinn Anderson

Heres the post where Alex confirmed it: https://www.tumblr.com/rqbossman/751892378383761408/thoughts-on-the-trans-alice-mtf-and-sam-ftm?source=share

jewelliffer

Whats the blog name? I’ve stumbled across jonny but havent found anyone else!

jewelliffer

HOW DID I MISS IT AHSHSGAHDJD thank you lol

Jimmy Mac

The Best Magnus Protocol episode yet. A giant payoff of Easter eggs, mythology building, crucial plot points, and forward driving action all contained inside a sinister transport springing from the depths of a Jonathan Sims' nightmare.

R4infall

WILD (also i thought the carriage guy might be breekon but it sounds more like an anglerfish equivalent)

Wondersmith

y'all I straight up HOOTED with delight like Tigger when I heard Trevor Herbert's name, sorry Alice but I am HYPED for the minister's visit!

Rainstroll

Anyone else notice that in the last episode Sam stays the night at Celia’s and they probably had sex but now in this episode both of them are acting like they had sex for the first time just yesterday (yesternight?) even though these two eps are a full week apart?

Zoëjo

WAS THAT JONAH MAGNUS??? Also TREVER HERBERT MENTION!!! AND ALSO HILLTOP???

Jacki Dreher

JONNY AND ALEX!! I am so INVESTED!!! First you eat up my life and all of my free time to get caught up in everything, and now you guys have been AMPING IT UP for protocol! It hurts me! It hurts me to need to wait a week!

Audrey R

The craziest thing about this show so far is TREVOR HERBERT IS AN MP???? BOOOIIII OUR FAVORITE SCAMP IS MOVING UP IN THE WORLD

Kim Void.

This episode really felt like a season finale so hard I’m worried what Jonny and Alex have planned for the next ones.

Quinn Anderson

I know we already had confirmation from Alex on tumblr about Alice being trans but I am so goddamn happy that we get an in-universe confirmation

Quinn Anderson

Assuming the ages of the characters stay the same I hope not (although for a British politician it'll be accurate)

Sam

i was literally thinking of michael shelley during the part when the guy got fed to the carriage!! the poor magnus institute employees can’t catch a break

Valerie Kaplan

TREVOR HERBERT WHAAAAAAT

Gareth Green

We ate GOOD this week.

Gareth Green

Soooooo… We have explicit confirmations of alchemy, Alice’s trans status, a statement from this universe’s JONAH BLOODY MAGNUS that clearly features a FEAR Power with an eerie resemblance to The Stranger, plans to visit Hilltop Road, AND Trevor is an MP and Minister! (I hope Julia is his trophy wife.)

Gremlyn

Oooo I was actually thinking of the charity shop at hilltop, but on relisten that one's not the right name. (A People's Trust, there.) I forgot about the doppelgänger episodes with the casual, potential Jon/Martin mentions! That's the outreach center. Just checked that episode's DPHW, it was in November 1997, so the timing sounds right.

Persi parkinson

For the record the episode was fantastic but you so knew what you were doing with that line!

Persi parkinson

Enter the growler? Really? 😂

Gareth Green

He actually said “alchemical”!

BuriedInTheArchives

I wonder if he never ran into a vampire and that set him on a totally different path.

Metin Coker

There was one at the end of last week’s

non-euclidian weasel

It was, that was the episode where she mentioned going to Oxford, which is also where the Magnus outreach center in the statement was located Implying she's been teleporting to old Magnus Institute properties Also probably why she's interested in going to that one first

Ryan Anderson

I blurted out "F*** off, Alice!" then had to rewind to be sure I heard her right

non-euclidian weasel

I really appreciate that as listeners we recognize a lot more names than Celia, her information is so much more limited by her apocalypse induced memory loss (original name and not remembering giving martin a statement) I am curious if she's looked for Melanie yet...

jewelliffer

Wait wait wait is this rusty quills first actual kiss on audio??? Has alex finally caved to the foley team?

ckseldon

hoooly shit. have loved the show so far but this one is my favorite hands down

RedDedZombie

Ah, J’adore Jonny’s writing style so much, this episode reminds me of listening to the Magnus Archives for the first time. Love Love Love!!

charliethevalkyrie

😂❤️

charliethevalkyrie

I loved that too!

Erica

I think it was Celia -- that was the one about the worse-doppleganger-who-was-actually-a-better-person, right?

mercury on the moon

for anyone wondering more specifically, cowley road is only a few streets away from… you know which

Cassie Seyer

also, Trevor Herbert? Fr? I was expecting people’s theories about it being Elias or someone else we know but not him lol.

Cassie Seyer

okay so far only Jonah Magnus and Helen have retained their personalities between universes, which is very interesting indeed

Kayla Martin

hilltop center 👀👀👀

charliethevalkyrie

I'm actually a bit shaky rn. We're getting hit with a "statement" from THE Jonah Magnus in earlier institute years; then with Hilltop; then with Trevor Herbert MP; THEN with Celia being peculiar about The Archivist!! I'm going nuts. (correct me if i am wrong, english is not my native language)

Kayla Martin

“STATUS AS FOUNDER” 👀👀👀

Gabe Neil

I guess Jonah Magnus is a horrible bastard in every reality. Amazing episode. Can't wait for the next one

AgentWGD

AUGH

Gremlyn

I'm sorry, the MP is WHO?!?🤣 I nearly lost it at work! Also, is this the Hilltop Outreach Center that triggered the last *Response*?! Which one of them was it heard that case? I was hoping for some in character recognition...

blackblackberry

I'm not usually for politicians, but I wish him well

Tor Walker

Yes I noticed that. Looking forward to seeing how that plays out

Tor Walker

The Extinction episode in season 5 has an umbrella as a.... well, not character exactly. But it's basically a useless umbrella in a pile of rubbish. Given that this episode is definitely more Flesh than Extinction it's likely not intentional, but the parallel struck me as weirdly appropriate.

blackblackberry

Trevor Herbert MP??? Excuse Me?

SentientBogOrb

this ones giving “he trusted her, and she fed him to me”

Reynard Du Maurier

Excuse me, I’ll just keep screeching for the rest of the day.

Nawal Fisher

Honestly I cannot form coherent thoughts when these come out. Aaaaahhhh!!!

Erica

I think the audio glitched when she said that 😅 I'm worried about her

Erica

I am so angry rn lmao

iceriel

I have been inappropriately laughing for 5 minutes imagining Jon, Martin and Jonah trapped together in the computer being hostile roommates 😂😂😂😂🥹

Milena

oh this casement was EXQUISITE

Reynard Du Maurier

Oh no. Not the Anglerfish.

Katherine McDermott (She-They)

I may be missing something… reference to what??

iceriel

I think you lost something 😂😂😂😂😂

Misty Martin

I'm at work listening and I have to contain my glee. The statement from Jonah and Hilltop road. I'm here for it.

SentientBogOrb

the parallels between the anglerfish and the coachman, luring prey in by disguising itself as a “person” but still physically connected to the thing that kills the prey i am SO pumped about this episode!!

Joshua manson

I think they realize they are being watched, they will try to find him. If for nothing else, to understand the surveillance. But since Lena is the only one who knows where he is, they will have to get Gwen to spy. So I’m so ready for next week

Erica

With all of Alice's threats about the MP and Parliament, Gwen's immediate use of blackmail, and Celia and Sam's willingness to act like noir detectives, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to break him out

Danneth Sanguis

Did no one else catch the name "Trevor Herbert"?!? 👁️👄👁️

James Rule

Gwen just casually destroying haunted information. She might survive after all.

Metin Coker

Anyone reminded of SCP-2068 when they listened to the case in this one? Maybe they share a common ancestor lol

Metin Coker

Im so stupid i just realised trevor herbert MP was our vamp hunter. Good for him!

Anthony

personally i hope they have to break him out of prison to assist them at some point

Metin Coker

CLOSE ENOUGH, WELCOME BACK 105 HILLTOP ROAD

Anthony

12/10 Augustus never fails me, Sam Jones never fails me, my ears are SO happy. Oh man that case was tasty… and the bickering between Gwen and Alice is so exquisite, ugh, best of all worlds with this episode, such good character interactions!!!! And more lore!!!! And SORRY *WHO* DID YOU SAY WAS THE MP???? Hell yes I can’t wait, cameo ahead I assume! :D I have soooo many thoughts about Celia… can’t wait for the inevitable Scooby gang episode now that they’re all in on this together…. aaaaaaah! three more weeks!!!!!!!!!!

Lisette

The joy this ep brought me!!!!

Erica

I wonder if he's still aligned with the Hunt (or a TMAGP equivalent), especially considering the inclusion of Lady Mowbray earlier

Mournful Night

JONAH MY BELOVED

Aiden Parziani

I'm sorry WHO is the mp???? amazing XD

_C4L4M1TY_

Sam n Celia haunting me one more ep! Yay!

Tor Walker

The umbrella in a pile of junk was a nice touch, intentional reference or not. Magnus will be Magnus it seems, regardless of universe. And Hilltop Road is back!! Bring on Annabelle.

Lucy

OH WE ARE BEING *FED* JONAH STATEMENT (I screamed) TREVOR BLOODY HERBERT

Joshua manson

OMG it needs to be next week now! Let’s remember the tape winding when they went to the actual Magnus Institute and now they are going to the place where Martin was held above a pit into nothingness! Also the fact Cassandra was the one behind basically everything about the archiving along with Elias. So if anything they’ll probably run into whatever she became! Please please RQ give us some bloody happenings. With the “Archivist” released and the way Celia was quietly disturbed by it, there has got to be some big bang 💥 next week. Also poor Colin, you know that man is either dead or so doomed I will be surprised if he pops up with sanity around anyone, again.

Violet

Someone please tell Tim Fearon he's a legend

Grace 'Gengar' Soria

"Do you ever receive weird emails?" "I'm openly trans on the internet!" Oh, Alice, you're a goddamn treasure XD

Violet

BRUV??????

Michaela

alice my beloved <3333 BUT ALSO THE AMOUNT OF STUFF WE GOT THIS EPISODE? Oh I’m shaking in my boots

esmeeeeeeee

god

SentientBogOrb

TREVOR HERBERT MENTION??????

Erica

"I believe his final lines were cursing me specifically" YEAH I AM TOO

Erica

MOTHERFUDGER

Honey Coffee

Jonah Magnus hunting a thing that eats people???! Hill top road mention!

mora!

TREVOR????????

frankie horrorboy

i think carriage is misspelled… just wanted to point it out before the ep is released to the public lol. so excited to listen 👁️👁️

Sugar-Brown

Always a delight to hear Alice and Gwen bickering. Plus, kudos to make Alice actually says she's trans <3

BuriedInTheArchives

WHAT, THIS EP IS INSANE OG JONAH STATEMENT? HOMELESS NO MORE? HILLTOP?! Also, just adore the coach. Super creepy.

Trisidael

I’M SORRY, WHOOOOO IS THE MINISTER?!!!! 😃 That is not a name I expected to see again! Good for him! 😄

Erica

If this is a statement from Jonah I'm going to lose it

Possumcat

Oh my BOY, IS BACK! DING-DONG DADDY J IS HERE!

SentientBogOrb

flesh coach!!

Erica

I saw carriage in the case designation and went, "haha I bet this is gonna be a Grandpa Augustus one," and then almost immediately saw Tim Fearon's name in the cast list