It's not like I've got anywhere I need to be.

[laughs] I was nobody.

Still am, really.

Used to work as a cleaner, now I help with construction.

Never cleaned anything special or built anything important, and I'm happy with that.

I've met important people, and I've seen their work, and let me tell you, being nobody is better.

The only thing that makes me different is that I'm not from here, but it's just a different type of immigration, really.

But you're still here.

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[ominous music] Rusty Quill presents The Magnus Protocol.

Episode forty-seven, Repetitive Strain.

[ominous music] [door creaking] [door shutting]

[phone beeps]

[phone beeps][sighs] [phone ringing] J-Jack! [sighs] Alice?

Hey, Celia.

Can you hear me? I'm in the airport and the signal's crap.

I do not wish to tarnish it.

Hang on.

Are you telling me...

Actually, no, I figured I asked.

Okay, so why do we think the address you found connected to the Friedrich programmer is a tattoo parlor? [footsteps] Heinrich?

[dial tone]

[beep] Who the heck is Oskar Jart? [birds chirping] Okay.

Well, it's better than nothing.

... you stay here whi- hey, the AO is not clear.

clear.[panting] Whoa.

You are not Colin.

No. Colin's...

Well, um, Colin's dead.

What happened to him?

Appendicitis.

We managed to get you to a hospital in time, but it wasn't long after Tower Fall.

There were hardly any doctors, no supplies.

They did what they could, but sepsis set in and then... [cries] I'm sorry, Sam.

I'm sorry I couldn't-

Mm.

Someone is yelling at me, trying to return something.

You can't just assume that everything bad is connected to the portal.

Watch me.

Look, I know I'm jumping to conclusions, all right? But until we can decode all this gibberish, it's all we have to go on, and it's the only way I can make any of this make sense.

So you can either get with the program or...

I've already lost two friends to this thing.

I don't want to lose another.

I'm capping your expenses.

Damn it.