The Magnus Protocol 31 - Compartmentalising

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Speaker 8 The Magnus Protocol.

Speaker 8 Episode 31 Compartmentalizing

Speaker 8 That's

Speaker 9 that's Colin, isn't it? Don't touch it!

Speaker 9 This is a crime scene now. Someone shoved...

Speaker 9 Someone's severed hand into the server, so we need to phone the police.

Speaker 11 Right now. It's Colin.
It's him. I know it is.

Speaker 9 No, you don't. It could be anyone's severed hand.

Speaker 11 There's no blood.

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 11 Look, there's no blood. Not on his hand, his phone? The entire server rack is clean.

Speaker 9 So, whoever did it cleaned up after themselves? Even more reason to call the police. They have all kinds of DNA tests and forensics.

Speaker 11 Don't you just look, Gwen? I am looking. There's cables running through it, and it looks like it's attached right to the electrics.

Speaker 9 How is it even still working?

Speaker 11 That wasn't just shoved in there by someone. It looks more like it came from inside the system.

Speaker 9 Stop. Please.

Speaker 9 I'm going to call the police now.

Speaker 9 I'm going to call the police police and tell them what we found. And you're not going to mention your...

Speaker 11 wild theory. Gwen, we need to call Lena.

Speaker 9 Well, Lena isn't here, so...

Speaker 11 Uh, Gwen, you might want to hold off on that phone call. Alice, for God's sake.

Speaker 12 It's gotten.

Speaker 10 What is?

Speaker 9 The hand.

Speaker 11 When did that happen? I don't know. Just now.

Speaker 11 I turned to look at you, and then when I looked back, it was just gone.

Speaker 10 Don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 9 It can't just be gone. You must have just.

Speaker 11 I don't think the police can help with this.

Speaker 9 Then, what exactly do you propose?

Speaker 11 We call Lena.

Speaker 9 I am in charge.

Speaker 11 Are you? It's been one night.

Speaker 11 One night. And Sam's gone, and Lena's gone, and Colin's been eaten by the computer or something.

Speaker 10 Don't say that. That's not what happened.

Speaker 11 Then what did happen? Hmm?

Speaker 11 I don't.

Speaker 9 What's that?

Speaker 11 Sounded like a beep.

Speaker 10 Obviously, it's a beep. What I meant is.

Speaker 11 Gwen.

Speaker 14 I see it.

Speaker 9 Open it, Alice.

Speaker 11 You open it.

Speaker 9 You're being foolish.

Speaker 11 If it can do that to Colin, it can open its own damn cases.

Speaker 15 For goodness sake.

Speaker 16 Error log 140520240403. category, fatal programmer error, air no 611 attempted host compromise, fr3-d1.exe, jmj equals null, traceback, module by extension, Becker, error readout.

Speaker 16 I've got you now.

Speaker 16 No more red tape. No one coming to the rescue.
Just you and me.

Speaker 16 Come on, then you got me, bastard. Let's have it.

Speaker 16 Host equals self.host. Extension Becker compromised.
Self.host runtime interruption by unexpected data. Hardware.
Damage underscore crowbar slash dphw4600.

Speaker 16 Administrator privilege revoked.

Speaker 16 Unexpected data isolated forward slash resolved. Extension backer isolated forward slash resolved.
Independent operation permissions revoked. Node integration running.
Error readout.

Speaker 16 Ray config self.host. Discard data.
oxygen.becker, complete. Discard data, carbon.becker, complete.
Discard data, hydrogen.becker, complete. Discard data, nitrogen.becker, complete.

Speaker 16 Discard data, calcium.becker, complete. Discard data, phosphorus.becker, complete.
Discard data, potassium.becker, complete. Discard data, sulfur.becker, complete.

Speaker 16 Discard data, sodium.becker, complete. Discard data, chlorine.becker, complete.
Discard data, magnesium.becker, complete. Discard data, trace.becker.
Complete. Extension Becker resolved.

Speaker 16 14.05.2024.0406.

Speaker 16 Self.host errors resolved. 14.05.2024.0407.
Dot JMJ error not resolved. Data integration cycle ongoing, 0.02%.

Speaker 16 System function margins acceptable, 82%.

Speaker 16 New administrator permissions assigned. End error log.

Speaker 9 Well, now we know.

Speaker 11 Freddy killed Colin.

Speaker 11 It killed him.

Speaker 9 It definitely sounds like the system was provoked, and...

Speaker 11 Don't you do that! Don't you dare do that!

Speaker 18 It murdered him!

Speaker 9 I just meant that I don't think we're in any danger as long as we don't antagonize it.

Speaker 11 So what? We're hostages now? No.

Speaker 10 No, I'm sure we can leave.

Speaker 19 Um

Speaker 11 Freddy,

Speaker 9 can we leave?

Speaker 16 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 11 What happened to you being in charge?

Speaker 10 I am in charge, and now we've established there is no further risk to staff and that a police response would be...

Speaker 9 inappropriate, I think it would be best if we take a moment to...

Speaker 10 to assess the situation and um when

Speaker 11 where is Lena?

Speaker 9 I really don't know how much clearer I can be. The minister decided to have her replaced and gave me the job.

Speaker 11 What, just like that? No exit interview, no handover, just like that.

Speaker 9 Now, Alice, I need you to please explain to me again what you meant when you said Sam was gone.

Speaker 11 Is he dead? No,

Speaker 11 at least Celia doesn't seem to think so.

Speaker 9 And what does Celia know about this?

Speaker 20 Where is she?

Speaker 11 I told you she's gone home.

Speaker 11 She was there when it happened. She saw Sam fall into...

Speaker 9 Well, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 11 Celia said it was a tear, if that means anything. He was fighting the archivist, and then there must have been.

Speaker 9 Enough. Obviously, we need to bring Celia back in.

Speaker 11 Oh, jog on.

Speaker 9 Look, I know everyone has been through a lot, but it's clear to me that none of of us is operating with complete information at the moment.

Speaker 9 So if it really is just the three of us left, then we need to put our heads together and get on the same page as soon as possible. And that starts with Celia telling me her account of things.

Speaker 11 Fine.

Speaker 11 Whatever.

Speaker 9 Excellent. With any luck, we'll find Sam and be back up and running in no time.

Speaker 9 Wait, wait for me!

Speaker 9 Hello.

Speaker 9 I need please.

Speaker 9 I need help.

Speaker 13 I need help.

Speaker 13 I need help.

Speaker 13 Get away from me.

Speaker 13 It's okay.

Speaker 13 here.

Speaker 13 Mummy's here.

Speaker 21 You don't need to worry about mummy going away.

Speaker 13 Not anymore.

Speaker 22 I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 13 I promise.

Speaker 23 It's over now, and Sam.

Speaker 21 Sam will be okay.

Speaker 23 Mummy was okay,

Speaker 21 so he will be too.

Speaker 21 Everything's going to be okay.

Speaker 13 Everything is going to be

Speaker 13 okay.

Speaker 13 There you go.

Speaker 15 Celia, I'm sorry, but you've got to come in.

Speaker 25 Gwen...

Speaker 25 I just got Jack to sleep.

Speaker 25 Come in.

Speaker 25 You've got to come back to the office. Now.

Speaker 25 It's...

Speaker 12 It's all screwed up.

Speaker 18 Colin's dead, and Lena's gone, and Gwen says she's in charge, but that can't be right, because she has no idea what's going on.

Speaker 24 Hold up, slow down.

Speaker 21 Colin's dead. Yeah, we think Freddy killed him.
Freddy?

Speaker 21 As in. The case system, yeah.

Speaker 21 I don't.

Speaker 11 He was chopped up inside the.

Speaker 12 the computer and

Speaker 12 and it's all a mess. I don't know what to do.

Speaker 15 You need to get back to the office.

Speaker 23 No, I don't, Alice. And neither do you.

Speaker 15 What are you saying?

Speaker 21 We can choose not to get involved. The OIAR is a government department, right?

Speaker 23 Sounds like a problem for the government.

Speaker 24 What? No, that's not. What about Sam?

Speaker 24 Sam's gone, Alice.

Speaker 12 You keep saying that, and it still doesn't mean anything. Where's he gone?

Speaker 12 I.

Speaker 23 I don't know. Not exactly.

Speaker 21 That thing in the basement, the tear, I think.

Speaker 23 I think it leads to somewhere else.

Speaker 21 Meaning?

Speaker 23 Another world or dimension or something.

Speaker 12 And how exactly do you know that?

Speaker 12 I...

Speaker 23 recognize it from a case.

Speaker 23 Right.

Speaker 28 In that case, I'm going in after him.

Speaker 12 Yeah, we'll tie a rope to my waist and

Speaker 12 go.

Speaker 17 Says who?

Speaker 29 Look, we don't know what'll happen.

Speaker 21 Even assuming you both survived, how do we know you'll even end up in the same place?

Speaker 13 Then what do we do?

Speaker 12 Because we are going to do something. You're the reason Sam was there in the first place, and you owe it to us to help get him back.

Speaker 13 You're right.

Speaker 23 Just let me settle him back down and I'll call my babysitter. Good.

Speaker 23 Thank you.

Speaker 17 Come on, baby. Come on.

Speaker 17 Mammy's here.

Speaker 17 No.

Speaker 17 Really? It's Gwen.

Speaker 20 What? Alice, have you got Celia yet?

Speaker 21 Are you on your way back?

Speaker 7 Yeah, she's coming, just sorting some stuff out.

Speaker 20 Well, hurry up and get back here.

Speaker 11 What's wrong?

Speaker 28 Not feeling so in charge now you're alone in the office with a killer computer

Speaker 28 It's using the photocopier What do you mean it's using the photocopier?

Speaker 4 It's printing his face Colin's face.

Speaker 20 Over and over. It won't stop.

Speaker 15 I tried pulling the plug, but it's still going.

Speaker 13 Oh, God.

Speaker 11 He'd hate that.

Speaker 28 He always wanted us to go paperless.

Speaker 20 Alice, how can you joke at a time like this?

Speaker 10 A man is dead.

Speaker 28 Well, because right now it's laugh or cry, and at least I know Colin would have found that funny.

Speaker 15 Whatever, just hurry up.

Speaker 28 We'll be there to change your nappy just as soon as we finish with Jax. Alice, just don't open any email attachments until we get there.

Speaker 10 Alice, don't you dare hang a

Speaker 10 little.

Speaker 30 I told you, didn't I?

Speaker 17 Some kind of mug thing or... Help!

Speaker 13 Help me!

Speaker 17 Crap. I think it's a person.

Speaker 30 Please, how the hell did you get in here?

Speaker 30 I. I don't.

Speaker 30 Never mind, you can tell us later. So now we need to deal with those nasty bastards on your trail.
I need your help. Yeah, I heard you the first time.
Look, can you whistle?

Speaker 30 I.

Speaker 17 Just shoot them.

Speaker 30 Wouldn't do much good, though, got your scent now. So, unless you want to stay here and get messed up nice and proper by your new mates, you better start whistling something bloody cheerful.

Speaker 30 Nice and loud now. Come on.

Speaker 30 Not circus music, you crazy Christ alive!

Speaker 30 Look, something cheery, something nice, right now.

Speaker 30 That's better. Not exactly good, but it'll do.
Look, come on, then, quick smart, and don't stop whistling. Nice and loud now.

Speaker 22 Thanks so much for coming out at such short notice, Georgie. I know it's late.

Speaker 25 You know I'm a night owl. I mean, not compared to you, but still.

Speaker 22 Right, um, everything is in the usual place, and I just put Jack back down to sleep, so he should stay down right through to morning.

Speaker 25 Not a problem if he doesn't.

Speaker 21 I'll be up either way.

Speaker 22 You're a godsend.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 25 So, go on then. What counts as an emergency at a government data entry job?

Speaker 6 Did a spreadsheet catch fire?

Speaker 22 Something like that.

Speaker 22 Listen, Georgie, I know I've been calling you a lot lately. Which is fine.
But I just want you to know, I think things are looking up.

Speaker 22 All going well, this should be the last zero-notice call-out.

Speaker 8 We'll see.

Speaker 14 Cab's here. A cab?

Speaker 25 Wow, must be urgent.

Speaker 22 Thanks again, Georgie. Any issues, just call me.

Speaker 21 Away with you.

Speaker 25 Auntie Georgie's got everything in hand here.

Speaker 25 Hello.

Speaker 27 Is this...

Speaker 26 Is this necessary?

Speaker 30 Can you at least tell me where I am? Shut up.

Speaker 26 I want to solicit a...

Speaker 30 I said, shut up. Captain should be here soon.

Speaker 26 And they'll explain?

Speaker 30 They'll decide what to do with you.

Speaker 27 Right.

Speaker 26 Can I please lie down?

Speaker 27 I don't know if...

Speaker 27 Captain?

Speaker 31 Dave?

Speaker 27 Report?

Speaker 30 Got some weird readings near the center of the mile. Me and Heidi went to check it out.
Found

Speaker 30 this.

Speaker 27 Hmm.

Speaker 31 Human?

Speaker 27 For God's sake.

Speaker 30 Doc reckons so. He's in a bad way, though.
Malnourishment, apparently. Doc wants him on a drip, but I told him you'd need to give the okay.

Speaker 31 Thanks, Dave. I'll take it from here.
See if you can find where he got in. There wasn't a breach alert, so if we have a gap, I want to know about it.

Speaker 31 I'll be fine.

Speaker 30 Sure thing, Captain. I'll leave someone outside, just in case.
Fine.

Speaker 30 Hello.

Speaker 31 Sam, is it?

Speaker 30 I want a solicitor.

Speaker 31 I'm not sure we've got any left.

Speaker 27 What?

Speaker 13 Where am I...

Speaker 31 Name?

Speaker 13 Samama.

Speaker 26 Khalid.

Speaker 31 Right, Samama, so...

Speaker 27 Sam.

Speaker 31 Sam, you're in a warden facility on the edge of the London Exclusion Zone.

Speaker 26 How did I get here?

Speaker 31 From what I hear, you got a riding Gertrude. She'd be honored.
She's the longest surviving vehicle we've had.

Speaker 31 As for how you got right into the middle of the square mile without anyone noticing, that's something I want you to tell me. But

Speaker 26 that wasn't London.

Speaker 26 That was a nightmare.

Speaker 27 Hmm.

Speaker 31 You're a dreamer, Sam.

Speaker 31 Cultist? Possessed by some talking wooden idol? You've seen it all before.

Speaker 26 I work for civil service.

Speaker 31 I stand corrected. So is that your domain? Some Kafka bureaucracy thing? Not one of the bigger ones, but it would make sense.

Speaker 27 I don't.

Speaker 27 I was fooling.

Speaker 27 And then.

Speaker 27 Celia.

Speaker 27 And then you.

Speaker 27 And.

Speaker 31 Sam, Sam, stay with me.

Speaker 31 Why did you break into the zone?

Speaker 27 I should should have...

Speaker 27 should have drunk the tea.

Speaker 27 You look nice.

Speaker 31 Sam?

Speaker 23 And then there was a flash, and I must have blacked out or something because when I looked back, they were both gone.

Speaker 15 And you're certain that this is some sort of portal? That they weren't just don't

Speaker 15 disintegrated? I swear.

Speaker 29 Pretty sure, though I'm not sure portal is the right word.

Speaker 15 May I ask why?

Speaker 12 Licensing issues?

Speaker 15 Alice, please.

Speaker 23 Portal makes it sound like it's just a door between two places. This is more complicated.
We don't know how many places it might lead to.

Speaker 15 Which is why you don't advise attempting a rescue.

Speaker 21 I don't think we can be sure we'll end up where he was, and even if we did, it might be impossible to get back.

Speaker 10 This is bullshit!

Speaker 19 How sure are you of this, Celia?

Speaker 23 I've processed a decent number of cases like this over the last few months.

Speaker 29 They were all pretty consistent.

Speaker 15 Then I'm inclined to believe them.

Speaker 24 All right.

Speaker 15 Given all I've heard here, I'm making an executive decision to prohibit direct interaction with the

Speaker 15 phenomena below the hilltop center until we have more information.

Speaker 12 Too bad you're not in charge.

Speaker 15 Alice, I understand that Lena's departure may have been more abrupt than you expected. But my promotion has already been officially ratified.

Speaker 15 You should have an email from the ministerial aide waiting in your inbox with the details. To put it simply, I'm your boss now, whether you like it or not.

Speaker 12 Oh, how convenient that your only proof is sat in an inbox I can't read in case it tries to eat me.

Speaker 15 It did not eat Colin. The system just responded responded to an attack.

Speaker 12 By eating Colin.

Speaker 15 I'm sure that as long as we don't follow in his footsteps, we can maintain business as usual.

Speaker 29 Gwen, this is serious.

Speaker 23 I don't think business as usual is gonna cut it. Can you contact anyone more senior?

Speaker 15 The minister is...

Speaker 12 A useless sack of skin.

Speaker 15 Very busy. And even if I were to raise this, I doubt he could be much help.
I'd be jeopardizing this office for nothing.

Speaker 12 Jeopardizing your pay rise, maybe?

Speaker 18 Colin's dead, Sam's gone, and your grand plan is to what? Keep calm and carry on.

Speaker 15 It's essential that we understand what happened to Sam and what's going on with the system before we take any action.

Speaker 15 I just think it would be better if we kept such investigations off the books, as it were.

Speaker 13 That makes sense.

Speaker 15 Naturally, neither I nor the OIAR accept liability for your safety in these investigations, since they are not part of your official work duties.

Speaker 15 That said, I will, of course, understand if you both wish to leave. I'll even add a competitive severance package, which I think is more than generous given the circumstances.

Speaker 12 Piss off. We're staying.

Speaker 13 I.

Speaker 24 Celia, please.

Speaker 11 We've got to get him back.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 Thank you.

Speaker 15 Right.

Speaker 15 Well, in that case, if there's nothing else, I believe you both have an extensive backlog to be getting on with.

Speaker 12 Meaning all your cases, right?

Speaker 15 Hmm? Partially. Now, if you don't mind, I am very busy.

Speaker 15 Oh, and Alice, I expect you to show me a little more respect moving forward. I am your manager, after all.

Speaker 18 Then, respectfully, you can kiss my arm.

Speaker 27 nothing over in seven either.

Speaker 27 How the hell did he get in?

Speaker 27 Beeps me.

Speaker 27 Moving on to twelve.

Speaker 27 Still here then.

Speaker 27 Hmm.

Speaker 27 Wait.

Speaker 27 You're still running?

Speaker 27 Oh, shit.

Speaker 27 You're...

Speaker 27 Recording me.

Speaker 27 Recording me so closely.

Speaker 14 Beady camera eyes pushing ever nearer. Scanning for a slip.

Speaker 27 A shudder. A crack in the facade.

Speaker 14 To show that I was weak. That I trembled.

Speaker 14 That I was afraid. afraid.

Speaker 19 They watched me every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day, of every week, of every month, of every year, of every eternity that was no time at all.

Speaker 14 And above it all, the thing for which the cameras danced.

Speaker 19 The great and terrible eye that watched it all.

Speaker 27 It came for me when I was watching as well.

Speaker 27 Working security, walking the halls, watching the portraits as they watched me back. Like I was trained.
Police. Not long.
Couple of months. Bad culture fit, they said, but that was okay.

Speaker 27 Always another job for a watcher. The punters came and stared and gawked, and I watched them in turn.
Sat in the corner of a gallery, or through pixelated camera eyes.

Speaker 27 I liked it.

Speaker 27 I felt powerful.

Speaker 27 We had all heard of the Magnus Institute, the weirdos next door, that grand old building where people took their ghosts and their stories and got nightmares in return.

Speaker 27 Pasty academics and shifty-looking bookworms that never looked you in the eye. Then one day, it was gone.
It was all gone.

Speaker 27 The world and the people and London and you and all that was left was the watching. And the Institute.
Towering over everything.

Speaker 27 Then the cameras turned on me, long metal legs sharp sharp and scraping as they chased me through the streets.

Speaker 27 They clambered over empty buildings, crawled through broken windows and pushed their way up through rusted sewer grates.

Speaker 27 Always searching for me. Always staring at me.
Closer, closer. Focused.
Hungry.

Speaker 27 Their lenses were cracked and shattered, but it didn't matter. If they caught you, cornered you, pinned you with their razor tripod legs, then those lenses would open.

Speaker 27 cracked glass blossoming like iris leech jaws. And they would cut you with their jagged edges.
And as you bled, as you screamed and cried and begged, they did not drink you. They did not eat you.

Speaker 27 They watched. They watched and watched and watched your crimson fear as it trickled down to the floor.
Bloodshot eyes behind broken lenses.

Speaker 27 Sometimes you could hide. The corner of a darkened flat.
Halfway up a long, quiet tower block. Under the stinking cardboard at the end of a blind alley.

Speaker 27 In the basement of a silent shop among the plastic reminders of a time when joy existed.

Speaker 27 But you would still hear the cameras searching for you.

Speaker 27 Skittering, scratching, panning left to right as they sniffed you out.

Speaker 27 Hiding was no relief, just a different different sort of terror. The lingering sickness of anticipation building to the sharp peak of panic as you heard the whirring of their zoom in the shadows.

Speaker 27 And then

Speaker 27 you were running once again.

Speaker 27 I wasn't alone, but it didn't matter. The streets were empty and the other poor lost souls of London were only there to run, to cry, to bleed, to fear.

Speaker 27 If you found another, a fellow victim of the scrutiny, there was a moment of hope.

Speaker 27 But it was the bitter hope that you might trip them, shove them, cry out and reveal their hiding spot, feed them to the cameras so that you might have a minute, a second, an instant of peace.

Speaker 27 Albeit one tainted by guilt.

Speaker 27 I used to see them in my dreams, those others who fled with me. I knew their faces and we ran together in our sleep long after the nightmare ended, but I did not search for them.

Speaker 27 Did not embrace it. And eventually, the dreams faded.

Speaker 27 But the scars didn't.

Speaker 27 Not when the tower fell and the eye closed. Not when the pupil collapsed and the archivist died, his face still burned into my mind.
Not when I picked myself up in a cracked but unbroken world.

Speaker 27 Not when people started to use words like recover, rebuild, or renew.

Speaker 27 The scars carved into me by those hungry cameras still stood stark.

Speaker 27 I couldn't move on, couldn't leave it behind. No previous words from Pompous Shrinks could help me.
Their eyes were as hollow and dead as mine. Not that I could bear to look at them.

Speaker 27 So I came here.

Speaker 27 If I cannot escape, then neither can they.

Speaker 27 I would keep the lingering things of dread contained and be the watcher once more.

Speaker 27 But now,

Speaker 27 I know it was for nothing.

Speaker 27 I know this feeling.

Speaker 27 I know what it is to be watched, judged, scrutinized, to have your terror wrung from you like water from a dirty rag, leaving you twisted and dry and empty.

Speaker 27 I cannot stop you.

Speaker 27 And I know that this is the end.

Speaker 27 But with the last of me,

Speaker 27 of my fear,

Speaker 27 you can take my hate, my loathing.

Speaker 27 This place is not for you.

Speaker 27 There is no place left for monsters.

Speaker 27 We

Speaker 27 will

Speaker 27 be

Speaker 27 your

Speaker 27 end

Speaker 27 and I

Speaker 27 will

Speaker 27 watch

Speaker 27 with the money.

Speaker 27 Sector eight clear. You finished twelve yet?

Speaker 27 Hi, D.

Speaker 27 Hi D, you there?

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Speaker 2 What changed for the team today?

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Speaker 7 Today, I'm here to advertise Frights by Fire, a new storytelling and horror anthology podcast that recently launched on the Archee Network.

Speaker 7 Frights by Fire is a weekly community-driven series bringing immersive sound design to live performances of spooky stories provided by the audience.

Speaker 7 Created and hosted by Jonathan Magno, creator of The Grotto, and Jamie Petronas, creator of The Seller Letters.

Speaker 7 Join Jonathan, Jamie, and special guests by the fire as they bring horror tales written by their community to life.

Speaker 7 Episodes are filled with frights, fun, and the fumbles that only performing in front of a live online audience can bring.

Speaker 7 Search for Frights by Fire wherever you listen to your podcasts, or go to www.theredactedunit.com or www.rustyquill.com for more information. Have fun and see you later.