History Recap / TheMagnusArchivesSeasonOne

* AmbiguousSituation: Once the nature of [[spoiler: the Powers has been elaborated upon as the series went on, it remains difficult to tell which was responsible for the sad fate of Father Burroughs. The torment he undergoes has features commonly found in the works of the Eye, the Spiral, the Desolation and the Flesh, and the presence of Breekon and Hope adds the Stranger into the mix, but ultimately the only thing we know for sure about it, or its mysterious Avatar, is that it didn't want the Web to claim him.]]

* BreakTheHaughty: Why the "demon" targets Father Burroughs. He had intense pride in his faith, believing he could exorcise any evil with the strength of it, so the demon decided to take it from him. Although since this is coming from his own shame, it's quite possible that the demon was simply targeting him because he believed himself to deserve punishment for it.

* EarlyBirdCameo: This statement contains our first mention of [[spoiler:Mikaele Salesa]], though he's not particularly important to the statement. It's implied but never outright stated that he was trying to aquire something to break his curse.

* EarlyBirdCameo: This statement contains our first mention of [[spoiler:Mikaele Salesa]], though he's not particularly important to the statement.

* ItisDehumanizing: Trevor only calls the vampires "it" or by their full names ("Sylvia [=McDonald=]" instead of just "Sylvia" every time), nailing how they're really beasts that have taken human-sounding names.

* UnreliableNarrator: Trevor's sanity is called into question throughout the episode, due to being an alcoholic tramp.

* OutDamnedSpot: Nicole's hand briefly touches the body, albeit with leather gloves on, and afterward compulsively scrubs at her hands over and over. She even concludes her statement with "I need to go wash my hands."

* AlluringAnglerfish: Something uses a lure in the form of a man asking for a cigarette in an attempt to ensnare Nathan.

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Sasha looks through police reports and learns of six disappearances in the area the story took place in from 2005 to 2010: Jessica [=McEwan=] in November 2005, Sarah Baldwin in August 2006, Daniel Rawlings in December 2006, Ashley Dobson in May 2008, Megan Shaw in June 2008, and John Fellowes in March 2010. Of the six missing persons, Baldwin and Shaw were known to smoke. Dobson sent her sister a photo shortly before disappearing, captioned "check out this drunk creeper LOL" and depicting the alleyway described in the story. By brighting the image, Sasha discovers a shape in the darkness resembling a long, beckoning arm.

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Before the recording, Tim asks Jonathan to rerecord some cases due to errors, but he refuses and mentions that audio recordings are only done for cases "too stubborn to work on anything else". Jonathan finds that the ''Tundra'' is still active under Solus Shipping PLC, owned by Nathaniel Lukas. Due to the Lukas' family's connection to the case, Jonathan can't do any investigation into the case where they are concerned despite the similarities to case 0161301 (13: Alone). Jonathan still mentions that the crew of the ''Tundra'' has been unchanging for the last ten years and there are no records of it loading or unloading cargo anywhere in the UK. As for Sean Kelly, he had disappeared in October 2010 from Felixstowe and was found dead and washed up on the coast of Morocco in April 2011, though evidence showed he had been in the water for only five days.

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Before the recording, Martin confirms to Jonathan that the delivery men seemed normal but thinks they should destroy the table, but Jonathan opts to study it.

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* DeathBySex: Immediately after Harriet and Timothy have sex, she dies.

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: This episode, a seemingly standard statement with no indication that it's any different from other statements that came before it, contains the first hints of vital plot details; the number of and connection between the [[EldritchAbomination Dread Powers]], that Jurgen Leitner's [[DeadlyBook books]] may not have been his creations, and Robert Smirike's involvement with the Powers. It also marks the first onscreen appearance of [[MacGuffinDeliveryService Breekon and Hope]] and the introduction of the spiderweb lighter that appears throughout the series.

* ClingyMacGuffin: Although the vase is a valuable antique, Andre is unable to sell it. Something always happens to derail the sale before it can be completed. What's more, the person he bought it from forgets that he ever sold it, and he refuses to take it back, claiming that he can't remember ever having it to begin with.

Tim enters the archive and finds a dropped tape recorder. He hears Sasha yelling before turning and seeing Jane Prentiss. Sasha tackles Tim, crushing some worms in the process, and they run off before Prentiss can react. Tim sees a worm-covered bookshelf about to fall and sends Sasha on to get help, then tries to hide from Prentiss in the office where he finds the hole where she and the worms came from. Tim jumps away into a pile of boxes where he finds fire extinguishers which he uses to kill the worms coming at him. He takes some more extinguishers before heading into the tunnels through the hole. Tim suspects that the worms were using the tunnels to build up their numbers so they could easily overwhelm the Institute but had to begin early when Jonathan accidentally broke the office wall. He eventually finds a thin wall he can hear Jonathan and Martin through and breaks in to get them out. Tim confirms that he never came across Gertrude's body, but he did find a room where worms were wrapping together in a doorway shape. Time empties two extinguishers onto the worms, destroying them.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Andre mentions that among Salesa's wares are a couple of crates of antique books. [[spoiler: This flies in the face of Salesa's assertion in his own statement that he refuses to deal in {{Deadly Book}}s; it is possible that they are entirely mundane, but considering that he'd had [[ArtifactOfDoom artifacts]] sneak into his purchases of antiques before, it still seems out if character.]]

Jonathan is disturbed that Gertrude Robinson died not by any supernatural means but by a human with a gun, meaning that someone in the Institute killed her. Jonathan thinks that Gertrude was murdered because she uncovered a mystery within the statements and the archives. Jonathan mentions that in addition to the tape Sasha lost, the recordings of cases 0051701 and 016204 are missing. Jonathan doesn't think Prentiss is responsible since she was only destroying the written records. Jonathan can't trust anyone, but he vows to solve the mystery even if it kills him.

Martin arrives in the office as Jonathan retrieves the tape recorder. The three of them flee to a saferoom where they need to extract a worm from Jonathan using a corkscrew. Jonathan explains to Sasha and Martin that he's recording because if he dies he doesn't want his replacement not knowing what happened to him, the way he doesn't know what happened to Gertrude. Jonathan refers to the statements recorded on tape as ""real"" since they have more weight to them than others. Sasha leaves the room to warn Tim when she sees him coming, however they end up fighting and going different ways with Tim entering the office. Martin mentions that he hid fire extinguishers in old case file boxes so the worms wouldn't know they were there, leading Jonathan to insist that the worms are unclassified parasites that can't plan or think. Martin asks Jonathan why he's still so skeptical after everything, and Jonathan reveals that he believes everything he sees and in the ""real"" statements but acts the way he does because he feels like something will come for him if he admits his fears. Martin sees Prentiss enter the archive and vomit something into a box. Jonathan asks Martin why he still chooses to work at the Institute, to which Martin answers that it doesn't feel right to leave.

Elias begins to evacuate the Institute as the fire alarm goes off when he runs into Sasha, who tells him that she set off the alarm and that Jonathan, Martin and Tim were trapped by Jane Prentiss, and Elias tells her to record the rest of their conversation, though the tape was lost according to Sasha. The two of them head downstairs to activate the carbon dioxide fire suppression system when they encounter a ""tidal wave of filth"" and separated. Elias makes his way to the boiler room and activates the system, after which he hears a scream of Prentiss and all the worms dying. Elias calls the fire department and the ECDC before going to the archive where he finds Sasha with Jonathan and Tim, who were in the process of getting infested when the carbon dioxide killed the worms. An hour later, the emergency responders are preparing to dispose of Prentiss' remains when Martin comes running out of the tunnels saying that he found the corpse of Gertrude Robinson, prompting Elias to call the police. Jonathan demands that Elias tell him what happened to her. Elias reveals that she had disappeared but her desk was covered in her blood, which the police at the time said was too much for a person to survive losing.

"Jonathan finds that Ivy Meadows had closed down a month before Nicole's story took place and burned down on September 4th, 2011 due to leaking gas, which Jonathan thinks could explain Nicole's experiences as hallucinations. There's no records of Bertand Miller's body being processed by any funeral home, though his death certificate states that he died a week before Ivy Meadows closed. Sasha finds that the last official count of residents at Ivy Meadows was twenty-nine, but there were only records for seven of them being transfered away when it closed. There's no record of Alenka Kozel working at Ivy Meadows, although it seemed to have some immigrant employees that went undocumented. Out of all the staff, only Hannah Ramirez could be reached, though she didn't know much as she had moved away shortly before Ivy Meadows closed and never heard from it again. There's also no evidence that John Amherst existed. The Baxters were reached, and apart from George they stood by the events in the story but didn't have anything new to add about from that fact that Nicole lost her left hand in a ""workplace accident"". Nicole's descriptions of fears remind Jonathan of case 0142302 (#32: Hive), and he would think the man at the end of the story would be Trevor Herbert (#10: Vampire Hunter) if he wasn't dead.

Martin can't figure out when the Hill Top Road house burned down but discovers it was first bought by Walter Fielding in 1891 who passed it to his son Alfred Fielding in 1923 and then to his son Raymond in 1957, and although there are no records of it being used as a halfway house it's still a possibility due to the Catholic church that supported it having poor record-keeping. The people of Hill Top Road confirm the history given by Anna Kasuma, who is also interviewed by Tim though she had nothing new to add. Raymond Fielding is found to have died in a house fire, and his obituary mentions his work with troubled youth. Martin also finds record of an Agnes Montague, who was found dead in her home in Sheffield at the age of 26 on November 23rd, 2006, the day Ivo destroyed the tree. She hanged herself and had a severed human hand chained to her waist, though the analysis reported that its owner died at the same time as Agnes Montague. Additionally, Agnes Montague is too young to have been the same Agnes from the story. There have also been no reports of supernatural events at the Hill Top Road house following the story.

* CallForward: This statement contains details of several factions, characters, and plots that wouldn't become clear until a hundred or so statements later, including [[spoiler:Raymond Fielding of the Web, Agnes Montague of the Desolation, and Michael and Father Burroughs of the Spiral]], all converging on Hilltop Road.

Keiran and his team of garbage collecters find a bag of doll heads that look like they were dragged across concrete outside 93 Lancaster Road. One of the team, Alan Parfitt, is amused and the whole team decides to pay closer attention to what is left outside 93 Lancaster Road in the future. A few months later they get a bag filled with strips of slightly burned paper with the Lord's Prayer written on them in Latin. Two weeks after this, they find a bag containing thousands of teeth in various stages of decay. Keiran and the others decide to call the police, but the elderly residents of 93 Lancaster Road don't know anything about the bags. Alan becomes troubled and begins staking out overnight at 93 Lancaster Road to try to catch whoever is leaving the bags, something Keiran secretly wanted to do as well. Alan gets fired from the team after he falls asleep while driving the garbage truck and hits a car, being replaced by Guy Wardman. At 2:09AM on August 8th, 2008, Keiran gets a text from Alan reading "Found him". When Alan doesn't reply to Keiran's texts back, Keiran decides to go to 93 Lancaster Road where he finds another bag with a dark green bow. The bag is filled with packing peanuts, among which is an anatomical heart made of bronze or copper with Alan's name carved on it, and feels like it just came out of a freezer. Keiran never sees Alan again and has a friend destroy the heart in a medical waste incinerator.