The Magnus Protocol 30 - Dead End Job

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Speaker 6 The Magnus Protocol.

Speaker 6 Episode thirty Dead End Job

Speaker 7 You can't ignore her forever.

Speaker 8 I just don't know what to say to her.

Speaker 8 I was kind of hoping she wouldn't check her voicemail for another few hours.

Speaker 7 Really think she's that upset?

Speaker 8 Five calls in seven minutes and a bunch of messages.

Speaker 7 What does she say?

Speaker 8 Don't know.

Speaker 8 Can't quite bring myself to check just yet.

Speaker 9 Her listenes well, but she doesn't really understand.

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 8 Maybe she's right. What?

Speaker 8 When I started at the OIR, she told me not to let it get to me. Now look at me.

Speaker 7 You were attacked?

Speaker 8 Yeah, by something I released. Because I let stuff get to me.
Because I got curious.

Speaker 8 My head is killing me.

Speaker 3 I'm not surprised.

Speaker 7 When I saw you lying out there, I thought.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 7 yeah.

Speaker 7 Headache makes sense.

Speaker 7 You need water?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 7 Tough guy.

Speaker 7 You're lucky we didn't need to run to catch the last Oxford train.

Speaker 8 Unlucky.

Speaker 7 Second thoughts?

Speaker 8 I don't know.

Speaker 8 It's just starting to feel kind of far away now.

Speaker 8 I was so certain we had to get to the hilltop center Aesap, but no.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 7 I don't think there's another train back till tomorrow morning, morning, so we may as well do a bit of snooping.

Speaker 8 I know.

Speaker 8 Just wish I could focus properly.

Speaker 7 Rain's easing off at least.

Speaker 8 That's good.

Speaker 3 Thanks, Celia.

Speaker 3 For what?

Speaker 8 For coming with me. You didn't have to.

Speaker 7 Sounded like you'd have gone anyway. At least this way I can make sure it all goes to plan.

Speaker 8 There's a plan.

Speaker 7 Besides, you're not the only one who's curious.

Speaker 8 Well,

Speaker 8 I still appreciate it.

Speaker 7 Anyway, what if you were right? When you said we had to go now, or something terrible would happen. You just had a weird monster in your brain.
Maybe it was the truth.

Speaker 3 Christ, I hope not.

Speaker 8 I do not feel up to an apocalyptic conflict right now.

Speaker 7 Hopefully, the painkiller should be kicking in soon. Rest up.
We're safe here.

Speaker 3 Come on, Sam.

Speaker 3 You goddamn.

Speaker 3 Pick up, pick up, pick up.

Speaker 11 It's following you, you stupid.

Speaker 3 Excuse me, miss.

Speaker 6 I'm going to have to ask you to rain it in.

Speaker 3 Sorry.

Speaker 6 I don't want to have to ask you to leave.

Speaker 12 Okay, alright, I get it.

Speaker 12 Wait, where's the ticket office?

Speaker 6 Closed for tonight. Machine's over there.

Speaker 12 Are there any more trains going to Oxford tonight?

Speaker 2 Check the board.

Speaker 7 I know I can check the bloody board. I just thought you might be, I don't know, useful.

Speaker 6 You have a good night, miss.

Speaker 6 Right.

Speaker 6 Oh.

Speaker 6 X, Oxford, Ron.

Speaker 6 Adult.

Speaker 12 No real card. God, I don't know.
Any time they return,

Speaker 3 how much?

Speaker 13 Christ, no.

Speaker 3 Seriously,

Speaker 3 Alice.

Speaker 12 Yeah, Colin, I'm here.

Speaker 13 Are you in the office at the moment?

Speaker 12 Uh, no. Why?

Speaker 3 For God's sake.

Speaker 13 I need your help.

Speaker 3 Um,

Speaker 13 I'm in trouble.

Speaker 12 Like, right now,

Speaker 5 I'm not really.

Speaker 12 I'm kind of in the middle of something.

Speaker 13 I'm messed up, Alice. Freddy's

Speaker 13 messed up.

Speaker 12 I'll come round first thing tomorrow, okay? And then we can. You can tell me what you think is going on with Freddy then, yeah?

Speaker 3 Colin,

Speaker 3 yeah,

Speaker 3 sure.

Speaker 13 Sorry to bother you.

Speaker 8 Goodbye, Alice.

Speaker 6 Colin?

Speaker 12 Listen, I'll be there as soon as

Speaker 12 crap.

Speaker 14 Breena, I've just had a call from Trevor Herbert, MP.

Speaker 13 Oh,

Speaker 14 did he

Speaker 14 enjoy his visit? He certainly found it illuminating.

Speaker 14 I'm glad.

Speaker 14 If my job was all that was at stake here, I'd probably praise your initiative.

Speaker 14 I have no idea where you've been digging these files up from, but you've certainly used them effectively and bluntly. I have no idea.

Speaker 14 There is much more at play here than you know.

Speaker 14 And you are not prepared for the scale of responsibility about to crash down on your shoulders.

Speaker 14 I'm sorry. No, you aren't.
But I think you will be.

Speaker 14 Is that a threat?

Speaker 14 Goodbye, Gwen.

Speaker 14 What

Speaker 14 that's it? That's it. Give the others my regards and best of luck.
You're all going to need it.

Speaker 15 You're sure

Speaker 15 there's not much round here?

Speaker 8 We're fine, really.

Speaker 3 Fair enough. Cheers.

Speaker 9 So, I'm guessing that's it then.

Speaker 3 You alright?

Speaker 8 Just checking for tape tape recorders.

Speaker 7 Look, even if it was on the train, which we can't be sure of, there's no way it could have beaten us here. I mean, how many eyes did you say it had?

Speaker 8 Plenty.

Speaker 9 Then, yeah.

Speaker 7 I doubt it's getting a lift. So we're okay for now, at least.

Speaker 13 Come on.

Speaker 8 What unit did you say it was?

Speaker 7 17,

Speaker 7 according to Helen's records. But it doesn't say if there was a shop there or anything.

Speaker 8 So, how do we know which unit is which?

Speaker 8 Most don't even have signs left.

Speaker 3 This way,

Speaker 13 you sure

Speaker 7 call it a hunch.

Speaker 7 Sam.

Speaker 7 Oh,

Speaker 7 sorry.

Speaker 8 This place is just making me a bit nervous, you know?

Speaker 6 I don't think it's actually, like, properly abandoned.

Speaker 8 Some of the shops look in decent neck.

Speaker 7 Maps does still list a bunch of businesses here, but no websites or opening times or anything.

Speaker 8 I can see why.

Speaker 8 Like, that can't be a real dentist, right?

Speaker 7 We want your teeth.

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 8 that's not normal.

Speaker 7 I think it's normal for here.

Speaker 8 Maybe we should come back in the daytime.

Speaker 7 What happened to stopping that archivist?

Speaker 3 Yeah, well...

Speaker 3 Uh

Speaker 8 I think it's coming from that old appliance store.

Speaker 7 Then it's not unit 17.

Speaker 3 Ignore it.

Speaker 8 But it looks like it's open.

Speaker 7 Yes, it is. And it's probably coming from inside a washing machine, or a fridge, or something else with a suspicious door.
And we both know what happens if we open it.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 8 I really wish my job wasn't just to learn about all the horrible things that can happen to you in a place like this.

Speaker 7 Try to think of it as preparation.

Speaker 7 Now, I'm guessing that it's just around this.

Speaker 3 Oh, Christ. What was that for?

Speaker 7 Sorry, it was a reflex.

Speaker 16 That's one hell of a reflex.

Speaker 3 Here, let me help.

Speaker 16 What the hell are you two doing sneaking around here this time of night?

Speaker 7 We could ask you the same question.

Speaker 11 I'll work here.

Speaker 8 Sorry, you work here?

Speaker 16 Yeah, I clean up, make sure everything stays locked up.

Speaker 8 Like the one with all the banging.

Speaker 3 Ah, crap. Which one was it?

Speaker 8 Uh, Grey's appliances.

Speaker 3 Right, I better go lock it back up before it's well.

Speaker 3 Look, you two need to leave.

Speaker 16 It's no safe here. The lights are mostly gone, and the structure is weak, so.

Speaker 7 It's alright, you can just say it's haunted.

Speaker 13 Okay?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 16 This place is haunted, like ridiculously haunted, and dangerous with it. I don't know if you'd want to be ghost hunters or something, but trust me, this place isn't here for you.

Speaker 16 You should go.

Speaker 8 Celia?

Speaker 7 We have business in one of the units.

Speaker 15 Fine.

Speaker 3 Just leave me out of it.

Speaker 7 If you like.

Speaker 3 I do.

Speaker 16 Which unit?

Speaker 7 17.

Speaker 16 The old outreach center?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I think so. For the Magnus Institute.

Speaker 16 If you say so, no one's been in there in decades.

Speaker 16 Come on.

Speaker 15 I keep the front lock tight, but I can let you in the service entrance.

Speaker 11 Just like that.

Speaker 2 You learn to go with the flow here and stay out of the way of whatever goes on.

Speaker 16 I just keep it clean and lock up when I can. If you're stupid enough to go poking around, that's on you.

Speaker 16 I said my piece.

Speaker 8 Well, that's not exactly reassuring.

Speaker 16 No, I don't imagine it is.

Speaker 15 Where to?

Speaker 12 Hey, are there any other taxis working tonight?

Speaker 15 Probably, but I'm the only one here, so you take it or leave it.

Speaker 17 Sorry, no, yeah, it it's just I'm looking for someone.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 12 Uh, this guy, Sam. Have you seen him tonight?

Speaker 15 I can't tell you that. Client confidentiality, you know how it is.

Speaker 12 50 quid?

Speaker 15 Yeah, I took him and a lady friend over to that creepy old shopping centre up Cowley Way. Weird, but I don't judge.

Speaker 12 How fast can you get me there?

Speaker 15 This time of night? Ten minutes, easy.

Speaker 3 Wicked, you're on.

Speaker 15 Look, it's none of my business, but I'm not getting involved in any like crime of passion stuff, all right?

Speaker 15 I don't want to be a witness to anything.

Speaker 12 No, no, it's nothing like that, I promise. Now, can we go?

Speaker 3 Sure.

Speaker 15 After I'll get the 50.

Speaker 3 Fair.

Speaker 3 Shut up!

Speaker 13 Just one boring night.

Speaker 13 Is that so much to ask?

Speaker 13 Can't believe I'm still here after all these years.

Speaker 13 Looking after this place is as much about what you don't see as what you do.

Speaker 13 The first time I came here...

Speaker 13 The first time I came here, I knew something wasn't right. I used to clean hospitals and I know what dried blood looks like.

Speaker 13 And hear it.

Speaker 13 It was everywhere.

Speaker 13 I didn't believe it, of course. Didn't let myself recognize it, but I still saw it right from the start.
In the corners, in the cracks. Was it from the victims of this awful place?

Speaker 13 Was it mixed into the concrete when it was first raised? Or do the buildings just bleed?

Speaker 13 Is this place of wounds that never fully heals?

Speaker 13 I don't know, but on hot summer nights I can smell it.

Speaker 13 So I take the job. You wouldn't ask me if you could see my payslips of these last 30 years.

Speaker 13 Life was bad when I met the owner. He smiled so wide, like he was so unbelievably pleased to be offering me such an opportunity.

Speaker 13 I asked about the blood. I couldn't help myself.
He just smiled and added another 10 grand to the salary. I didn't ask any other questions.

Speaker 13 I never even learnt his name. From that moment on, it was just the three of us.
Me, the blood-stained silent concrete of the hilltop centre, and the duck.

Speaker 13 In all my time I've never come during the day. It would break some strange unspoken rule.
I don't know if anyone has ever come here shopping. I don't know what shops are still open.

Speaker 13 I don't know if it closed down years ago and I'm just another ghost loitering amongst the great grey corpse.

Speaker 13 I know that it gets other visitors though. I know because I clean up bits of them sometimes.

Speaker 13 A patch of torn out hair, a half-melted tooth, a rotted fingernail torn from the root, and never enough to matter to anyone else. I try not to see these days.

Speaker 13 I ward people away at night, warn them that they shouldn't be here. Usually they listen, but not always.

Speaker 13 I remember the first time someone wouldn't turn away. It was the winter of 97.

Speaker 13 A man staggered up to me, stinking a cheap booze and piss. He wanted to buy a lighter.
I told him to leave. I told him that all the shops here were shut.
He called me a liar.

Speaker 13 Then I noticed a light illuminating me from behind. One of the shop fronts, a news agent I'd never paid much attention to, was open and apparently always had been.

Speaker 13 What's more, there was a haggard yet eager old woman I'd never seen before stood behind the counter. I tried to warn the man, but he just shoved me out the way and walked inside.

Speaker 13 I went to clean the far side of the center and ignored the smell of burnt hair and charred meat.

Speaker 13 It wasn't all death though. Sometimes people arrived.

Speaker 13 Not often, but every now and then you'd find some thin emaciated soul wandering around, lost and confused. Ambulance would come take him away.
Maybe they're fine, but I doubt it.

Speaker 13 I only called the police once. Only once.

Speaker 13 It was the whimpering.

Speaker 13 There's always noises when you're cleaning, but you lock them up or curse them out and they shut up.

Speaker 13 But this time, it didn't.

Speaker 13 It just kept on going and going from one of the clothing stores near the East Exit. Patience, I think it was called.
And this time I broke one of the unspoken rules.

Speaker 13 I had a look.

Speaker 13 At first, there was nothing, just darkness and clothing and motionless mannequins. But the whimpering still filled the shop.

Speaker 13 I checked the mannequins and it was on the third one that I realised what was happening. Why the outfit was so mismatched.
Why the clothes had been pinned in place.

Speaker 13 Why it was bleeding.

Speaker 13 Why it was whimpering.

Speaker 13 Of course, by the time the police finally bothered to turn up, there was nothing to show them. A woman had been taken when I went out to greet them, leaving only one more bloodstain.

Speaker 13 I got a caution for wasting police time. Serves me right.

Speaker 13 The next day I got a call from the owner. He seconded and last time I ever heard his voice.
He asked me if I was still happy working at the Hilltop Centre.

Speaker 13 He asked me if there was anything I wanted to know.

Speaker 13 He asked me where my daughter liked to shop.

Speaker 13 I was never curious again. Even when I found the owner dead in his office, with every blood vessel stripped from his body and strung around the room in a grim cat's cradle.

Speaker 13 I just closed the door and kept cleaning, and the payslips kept coming.

Speaker 13 I tried to take time off. Holidays are important.
If you're here too long, too regular, you start to feel like you're part of the place. Like it's getting inside you, making you a fixture.

Speaker 13 That's when I take the caravan and get some space, remind myself of the world. Because at the end of the day, it's just a job.

Speaker 13 But I still dream of the hilltop.

Speaker 13 In my dream, it waits for me.

Speaker 13 Silent, grey, and eager for my company. Its concrete bones are streaked through with blood like rippled ice cream, and I reach out for it.
It's soft and cold and yielding.

Speaker 13 And then the gritty mixture snakes up my arm and begins to harden. It pulls me onward, scraping off skin and tearing muscle until I finally fall.

Speaker 13 It is rough

Speaker 13 and cold and silent inside.

Speaker 13 The world is locked away

Speaker 3 and when I open my mouth to scream,

Speaker 13 the cold grey pours down my throat and it fills my stomach with stone

Speaker 13 It fills my lungs with gravel

Speaker 13 and my blood.

Speaker 13 We

Speaker 13 are

Speaker 13 it is me

Speaker 13 and I'm it

Speaker 13 and we

Speaker 13 are

Speaker 13 we

Speaker 13 are

Speaker 8 gone,

Speaker 7 so use your phone.

Speaker 7 Oh,

Speaker 3 yeah,

Speaker 3 Alice?

Speaker 8 17 missed calls.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 9 You gonna call her back, or she can wait.

Speaker 8 Besides, I want to look around.

Speaker 7 There's not much to see.

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 8 they must have completely cleared it out.

Speaker 7 If they were ever here in the first place,

Speaker 8 maybe we should. There it is.

Speaker 8 You've got something.

Speaker 7 Stairs to the basement.

Speaker 8 Great spot.

Speaker 3 Well.

Speaker 8 After you.

Speaker 7 And they say chivalry is dead.

Speaker 8 Look, last time I went to a basement, I accidentally released a monster, so

Speaker 3 come on.

Speaker 8 Do you hear that?

Speaker 7 I hear it.

Speaker 11 Do you see that?

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 3 I see it.

Speaker 7 What is it?

Speaker 3 Look how it splits the light

Speaker 13 like a prism

Speaker 3 It's so

Speaker 3 beautiful

Speaker 8 Celia

Speaker 8 Do you know what this is

Speaker 7 almost

Speaker 7 Wait

Speaker 8 what does that mean?

Speaker 11 It's complicated then simplify it Sam listen for God's sake Celia Enough, okay?

Speaker 10 I'm sorry, but enough.

Speaker 2 I know you want want your privacy, but we are way too deep for that now.

Speaker 10 My head's killing me.

Speaker 11 I'm staring at God knows what, and there's some creature on its way to record us to death or whatever, so enough!

Speaker 11 No more mysteries, no more cryptic clues and weird half-truths. Just for once, I want to know what the hell is actually going on.

Speaker 11 It's a wound in the world.

Speaker 3 A tear between here

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 7 where I came from.

Speaker 7 And it wants me back.

Speaker 11 What are you saying?

Speaker 7 It's unbalanced.

Speaker 8 What?

Speaker 7 Institute, alchemy, all of it.

Speaker 3 It's all about balance.

Speaker 7 Duapruma. Four elements, seven planets.
It's all the same.

Speaker 7 You've got to keep things balanced. And if something is missing, if someone is misplaced,

Speaker 7 the equation doesn't balance.

Speaker 7 And that's when things get bad.

Speaker 8 Bad how?

Speaker 17 It keeps pulling me back.

Speaker 7 Closer and closer.

Speaker 11 It won't let me stay.

Speaker 8 But you don't want to go back.

Speaker 7 I don't remember much of how I got here, but I know there's nothing to go back to.

Speaker 7 Here, I have a life.

Speaker 7 I have Jack.

Speaker 3 He needs me.

Speaker 7 I have to balance it for him.

Speaker 8 What are we doing here, Celia?

Speaker 3 All this digging?

Speaker 3 The OIAR?

Speaker 8 The Magnus Institute?

Speaker 8 You just wanted to get me here.

Speaker 11 To make me trust you, so that what?

Speaker 11 You could just use me to pay off some kind of cosmic debt?

Speaker 7 It was your idea to come here tonight.

Speaker 11 Was it?

Speaker 11 I'm sorry, Sam. So it was all a lie?

Speaker 3 Not all of it.

Speaker 7 I really did like you.

Speaker 3 So what's the problem?

Speaker 8 We're here. Alice won't make it in time, and I know you're carrying that knife.

Speaker 8 What happens now?

Speaker 16 You push me?

Speaker 3 Stab me?

Speaker 11 Oh, do I need to jump in myself?

Speaker 3 Come on.

Speaker 11 What's stopping you?

Speaker 3 What's stopping you, Celia?

Speaker 3 I...

Speaker 3 I don't...

Speaker 7 When I first awoke, I knew nothing.

Speaker 11 Nothing but the dream of things that sliced my who from me with claws like scalpos.

Speaker 11 Oh god.

Speaker 7 They would blunt me and

Speaker 18 toy with what it meant to be me, peeling away my layers, first my name, then my memory, and then a whimper.

Speaker 18 and then the fearless one reached in and grasped me, tore me out, leaving my story to fall away like autumn leaves.

Speaker 13 I said, Leave her alone.

Speaker 13 This is it.

Speaker 3 Cool.

Speaker 15 And like I told the others, there's nothing here, so if you want me to hang around, Sam

Speaker 17 Celia

Speaker 17 Celia,

Speaker 12 Sam

Speaker 13 Sam.

Speaker 13 Oh god.

Speaker 12 Oh god, no, please.

Speaker 12 Sam is

Speaker 12 Rough

Speaker 12 and cold

Speaker 3 and silent

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 no.

Speaker 3 We are

Speaker 3 the hill talk.

Speaker 3 We are

Speaker 3 the hill talk.

Speaker 13 Not again.

Speaker 13 Sam,

Speaker 13 Celia.

Speaker 13 you dark horse.

Speaker 13 This is the OIAR.

Speaker 6 Uh, Bouchard speaking. Oh, hello, Gwen.
Just do I was after.

Speaker 14 Oh, that's uh.

Speaker 17 That is to say,

Speaker 17 what can I do for you, Minister?

Speaker 19 I'm guessing since it's you're picking up, you've spoken with Lena then.

Speaker 14 Oh, yes, she, uh.

Speaker 17 she left. Didn't make too much of a scene, I hope.
Difficult business, after all. Oh, no, not at all.
Great. In that case, congratulations in order.

Speaker 19 I'm sure you'll do a fine job.

Speaker 17 I'm sorry?

Speaker 19 I'll get someone to put the paperwork across your desk first thing tomorrow and make it official. But let's not stand on ceremony.

Speaker 13 As far as I'm concerned, you're the ringmaster now.

Speaker 13 Gwen,

Speaker 7 are you still there?

Speaker 13 Yes, yes, still here.

Speaker 13 So,

Speaker 13 what do you want?

Speaker 13 What should I do? Oh, don't worry about me. I'll stay out your way.
I've never been one to micromanage. You have my full support.

Speaker 13 Right.

Speaker 13 Anyway, I won't keep you. Congratulations again, and uh, best of luck.

Speaker 13 Sam

Speaker 13 Celia

Speaker 13 Alice

Speaker 13 Alice

Speaker 13 down here

Speaker 13 Celia

Speaker 12 Where's Sam? We've got to get out of here. That archivist thing, it followed you.

Speaker 17 It might be.

Speaker 17 What?

Speaker 3 What is that?

Speaker 3 What happened?

Speaker 11 Where's Sam?

Speaker 3 It attacked us.

Speaker 9 He tried to stop it, to protect me, even though

Speaker 3 they're gone, Alice.

Speaker 3 They're gone.

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