History Recap / TheMagnusArchivesSeasonFive

[[folder:199: See it Through]]

They return to the tunnels and discuss details. Melanie and Georgie will go to detonate the gas main while Basira distracts the archivists, who seem to know that something is happening. In order to prevent Jonathan being forced into being the Eye's pupil when Jonah dies, Martin will be the one to kill him. As they start to rest up and prepare, Basira pulls Jonathan aside.

Martin finds himself in a foggy house, unable to remember many things. He introduces himself to the tape recorder over and over, musing if this is his house, why all the chairs are so uncomfortable, trying to remember various details of his life until he remembers that he was following Jonathan through the house and fell behind. As Martin remembers and defines aloud who he his and remembers his friends, Jonathan finds him again. Martin admits that he had wanted to believe this places lies and forget everything, and though Jonathan offers him the chance to stay and do just that, but Martin firmly declines and renounces the Lonely for good.

Jonathan monologues of the swirling carousel whose riders' identies fall away from them and mix together as they spin and spin and are never able to get off.

As they walk past the carousel, Martin is surpised to hear that Jonathan's monologue ended in a poem and wants to know more details. As they are almost past, they are suddenly accosted by the carousel's attendant, the Not-Them. It and Jonathan exchange threats before Jonathan just starts laughing at it, and he explains to Martin that despite its best efforts, the Not-Them can't hurt them anymore since the Eye rules supreme in this new world and they are still technically its servants. As they start to walk away, the Not-Them spits a taunt about killing Sasha and Jonathan spins around to face it. The Not-Them starts to weep in terror as Jonathan forces it to experience all the pain and fear it caused to people. Jonathan commands the power of the Eye and obliterates the Not-Them.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The fire caused by an uncaring landlord is reminscent of the Grenfell Tower Fire

Jonathan and Martin trek through a dark neighboorhood street which Jonathan seems in a hurry to get past. Martin presses him on the subject and he explains that since the Eye prefers more complex, adult fears, all the world's children were sent to the domains of simpler fears, such as the Dark, to mature. Horrified and disgusted, Martin demands that Jonathan do something, at least destroy the avatar of the Dark whose domain this is, but to Martin's further horror Jonathan rings a doorbell and summons that avatar: Callum Brodie (#73: Police Lights). Although Callum was a bully before, his experience being kidnapped by the People's Church of the Divine Host and almost becoming the new host for the being inside Maxwell Rayner caused him to change his tactics to show the younger kids the true terror of the Dark. Furious, Martin demands to listen to Jonathan's monologue about this place in hopes of learning something they can do to save the children.

Jonathan tells the story of a woman who sees a gigantic monster, so huge that it blocks out the sun and can't been seen all at once, approaching her home. She packs her family into the car and tries to escape, but eventually it becomes clear that she could drive forever and not make it out of the beast's shadow. The monologue then reveals that the beast is actually comprised of millions of still-living humans, unable to control their bodies as the collective whole steps endlessly and painfully foward.

* BedlamHouse: Double Subverted. Wonderland House is a clean, modern mental health facility rather then the nightmarish victorian hellholes usually seen in horror fiction. However, under the facade, it's still a very, ''very'' bad place to be.

* CallBack: The concept of pigs as potential consumers of humans illustrated with the pig men that run the slaughterhouse harkens back to the monster pig in Episode 103 ("Cruelty Free").

Jonathan comes out of his monologue trance to find that Basira has been listening. Martin arrives to tell them that Daisy is nearby. They sneak towards her, but before Basira can take the shot Martin suddenly gasps in anticipation, triggering an argument between the three of them which allows Daisy to find them and attack. She starts to maul Jonathan until Basira begs her to stop. Daisy recongizes Basira and, dropping Jonathan, asks her to come be a Hunter with her. Basira can't do it and as Daisy angrily repeats her demand, Basira fires at her and she falls. As Martin patches up Jonathan's leg, Basira tells them that she's going to stay back and take care of Daisy's body before going to London on her own. Martin protests but Jonathan agrees that this is what she needs.

* AndIMustScream: Derek is torn to shreds by Daisy. It's explicitly stated he's still aware and concious afterwards.

* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: After being utterly immune to the domains and avatars for the whole of season five, [[spoiler: Jon is nearly killed by Daisy. He explictly links this to his personal connection to her before the apocalypse, implying other people he cares about could also hurt him]]
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: Basira finally lives up to her promise to kill Daisy]]

* WasOnceAMan: We don't get a descripion of what Daisy looks like after being fully consumed by the Hunt, but the [[VoiceOfTheLegion distorted]], [[EvilSoundsDeep unnaturally deep]] voice doesn't paint a pretty picture.

** Renee T keeps getting wheeled into an operating theater, where an anaesthetic mask is strapped to her face and the surgeons start performing cruel parodies of surgical procedures on her.

Nearing the Panopticon, Jonathan and Martin anticipate the looming confrontation with Jonah Magnus, and they realize that since both Jonathan and Jonah serve the Eye, then ultimately the Eye will choose the winner, which doesn't bode well for Jonathan since his final goal is to cast the Eye back out of the world. Struggling to find an actual way into the Panopticon, Martin decides to search around the perimiter while Jonathan makes another monologue.

Jonathan monologues about a minister who attends a goverment meeting where the only goal is to be the loudest rather than to make things better for the starving citizens outside, and he can only feel guilty as he enjoys the pleasures of his position.

Jonathan monologues of the ranks of war, fighting against a monstrous enemy. A soldier watches his comrades be obliterated, a drone follows him waiting to fire at its own leisure, and barbbed wire moves of its own accord to seize him before he is flattened by a tank. The tank's driver remembers how he enlisted to ensure his family would be supported, now waiting and praying for the moment a falling bomb will free him from this living hell, but when it finally happens he does not receive the mercy of death. A field nurse moves him into a hospital tent where hundreds of other soldiers suffer in their beds and thousands more are left outside, unable to be accomodated. On the battlefield, another soldier watches more carnage ensue while a jolly man in a suit praises him for his sacrifice while extracting his heart and stowing it in his wallet. The flattened soldier resurrects to a sergeant screaming at him to get back into the fray.

A tape recorder starts to listen to Martin and Melanie's conversation, which they leave running since Martin knows it'll be futile. Melanie explains that she and Georgie were unaffected by the Change due to Georgie's immunity to fear (#94: Dead Woman Walking) and Melanie's blindness keeping her out of the Eye's power. They discovered that they could temporarily keep others safe long enough to get them into the tunnels when they saved Laverne from the Spiral. As they took on survivors, they had to explain everything to them and "a few of them took it in a bit more of a religious direction", which wasn't improved when Melanie tried to give them hope by claiming to have had a vision of the world returning to normal, leading to them viewing her as a prophet. Martin and Melanie then move on to discussing their romantic relationships and then to who Jonathan and Martin met in their travels. Martin recounts how Basira had to kill the monstrous Daisy before making her own way to London. Melanie then warns him about Helen, who had visited them earlier and betrayed them by trying to claim Celia into the tunnels, but Martin reveals to her that Helen was destroyed by Jonathan. (#187: Checking Out) A knock on the door reminds Melanie that she promised to listen to poetry written by Arun, another of the survivors. After she leaves, Laverne comes in to invite Martin to join them for dinner and he asks her if she really believes that Georgie and Melanie are prophets. She says that while there's certainly something special about them that allows them to leave the tunnels and rescue people, she doesn't feel like "prophet" or "chosen one" is a fitting descriptor. Nonetheless, she still has hope in them.

* SealedEvilInAnotherWorld: By destroying the Panopticon and sending all [[SympatheticMagic the tapes]] through the gap in reality, the Fears are ejected into TheMultiverse, saving this world but giving them the chance to try again elsewhere... just as the Eye planned.

* ContinuityNod: Jon informs Basira about Oliver Banks' prediction about The End ultimately consuming all life in the universe if the world continues going through the apocalypse.

* PoliceAreTheVillains: The point of the prison is impressing this idea upon its victims. The people suffering within are those who believed the police were on their side (either because they were good citizens or because they ''were'' the police) and thus that they had nothing to fear. Pretty much every trope critical of the police is showcased within.

->''"What? What do you want? The world is... it's over. You've won. What can you possibly still need to hear?"''
-->-- '''Jon''' to a tape recorder, [[https://youtu.be/ubyWumYhNhk Season 5 Trailer]]

The house at Hill Top Road marks a crack in reality which no being knows the origin of, but remains slightly offset from the world around it. The first house ever built there was the home of a Saxon named Eowa, who was fled from the battlefield but in his solitude continued to exude fear to feed the powers until one day he awoke in a timeline distinct from his own where the enemy "had pushed further, had taken more" and he was soon killed by them. Over the centuries, the place that would become Hill Top Road hosted various inhabitants, and while a village grew around it "those who tried to make it their home might have felt a whisper, an echo of some other place, some place not quite their own." Later, the property was bought by a scholar named Geoffrey Neckham who took notice of the dimensional disturbances and studied them, thinking they could indicate a point from which Heaven or Hell could be directly accessed. His preexisting paranoia brought the Web's attention to the crack in reality and so it devised a plan, "working all the while to weaken that crack, luring in the servants of other powers, and so in the resulting clash pressing ever harder against the edges of our reality. This culminated in Agnes Montague's infiltration of Raymond Fielding's halfway house and her subsequent destruction of it and him, "and with that the crack finally became a gap. A hole around which time, dimension and reality began to bend, shudder and leak. An opening into, we believe, other worlds that this tired old thing. It was not wide enough to allow true passage, not yet, save for the odd accident. But it was wide enough for what we now intended."

Annabelle tells Martin that the crack in reality is on its way to becoming "a gateway to other dimensions", and admits that she was planning to make him into an avatar of the Web so that she could use him to get Jonathan to make "a final push", but she now knows that she "couldn't drive that kind of rift between you now". After considering her remaining options, she concluded that she now needs to be open about her plans with them. Sensing Jonathan approaching, Annabelle destroys the camera, reverting the place to how it appears in the post-change world: a great spiderweb suspended over an impossibly deep chasm. Annabelle starts to bind Martin in web to ensure he doesn't fall, and he sees that the web is spun all of the tapes recorded by the archival staff, still producing their audio. "All this time, through all of this, it- it was just you spying on us?" "Oh, Martin. You have no idea who's listening, do you?"

** While taking shelter from the carnage, Jon finds himself compelled to record a statement. The story he tells is of the Trench, the frontline in an unnamed place and war that will never end, and told from the perspectives of various soldiers and nurses involved, with every horror and atrocity of war on full display.

Jonathan and Martin trek through a dark neighboorhood street which Jonathan seems in a hurry to get past. Martin presses him on the subject and he explains that since the Eye prefers more complex, adult fears, all the world's children were sent to the domains of simpler fears, such as the Dark, to mature. Horrified and disgusted, Martin demands that Jonathan do something, at least destroy the avatar of the Dark whose domain this is, but to Martin's further horror Jonathan rings a doorbell and summons that avatar: Callum Brodie (#73: Police Lights). Although Callum was a bully before, his experience being kidnapped by the People's Church of the Divine Host and almost becoming the new host for the being inside Maxwell Rayner caused him to change his tactics to show the younger kids the true terror of the Dark. Furious, Martin demands to listen to Jonathan's monologue about this place in hopes of learning something they can do to save the children.

Jonathan tells the story of children living on Night Street, chased by the monsters unseen in the darkness and unable to get help from any grownups as they are all fast asleep. Callum leads the torment, telling the other children stories about new monsters, or giving away the ones that have found places to hide.

Martin is displeased with this monologue as it truly seems that they can't do anything for the kids here, but he is now more determined to reach the Archives and find a solution for the world as a whole.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion/ArmorPiercingResponse: Jon manages both of these in practically the same sentence. When Basira sarcastically asks if Daisy's victims were innocent, he calmly replies that some of them were, and even if they ''weren't,'' 'What crime warrants what was done to them?'