The Magnus Protocol - What If #1

We imagine a world in which everyone listened to Colin...

Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall
Directed by Alexander J Newall
Written by Alexander J Newall
Script Edited with additional material by Jonathan Sims

Executive Producers April Sumner, Alexander J Newall, Jonathan Sims, Dani McDonough, Linn Ci, and Samantha F.G. Hamilton
Associate Producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius d’Raven, and Megan Nice
Produced by April Sumner

Featuring (in order of appearance)
Billie Hindle as Alice Dyer
Ryan Hopevere-Anderson as Colin Becher
Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid
Anusia Battersby as Gwendolyn Bouchard
Kazeem Tosin Amore as Teddy Vaughn
Dialogue Editor – Nico Vettese
Sound Designer – Tessa Vroom
Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella

Art by April Sumner
Music by Sam Jones

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[Rolld]

"Thank you for saving the world, IT person!"
"Think nothing of it citizen, just doing my job." [flies off into the sunset]

[Ech_The_Sentient]

If everyone listened to Colin, TMP would have two episodes and everybody would live happily ever after with no death or suffering at the hands of Johnny at all whatsoever.

[krispyso]

the server being the source of all evil is incredibly funny

[clydejohngeorge]

Finding out Alice had better numbers than her must've REALLY stung Gwen 😭

[TroublingZeal]

I don’t believe for a second that these asides are insignificant to the canon

[Speckaboo]

I was expecting this to be a classic Alexander J Newall meme ending but it was so painfully dry and real that it caused me actual psychic damage.

[personperson]

Love how the answer to "what if people responded properly to an existential horror?" Is just "capitalism lul"

Too fucking real

[ArgosSees]

Colin sounds so happy 😭

TEDDY YIPPEEE

Gwen sounds so empty without her sarcasm and condescendingness whahappon

"This is a bleak timeline"
"You forgot the one where colin goes mental"
💀💀💀

[captaincrazycreative]

SIROUSLY WHAT HE FUCKK IS TEDDY'S JOB????

[cantaloupegodling]

Can't wait to find out that Teddy is working at OIAR Part 2 which is equally evil and see that this isn't even a boring but happier ending and is just a different bad way for things to go.

If nothing else, someone is definitely still listening.

[jogailejurkonyte]

Sam and Alice turn to look straight down the camera lens: 10:28

[giha.]

Timeline where everything is just business as usual. People drift apart, having normal jobs and trivial worries, stuck in a routine
The thing about "what if they didn't engage with the horror" in a horror series is just, that just leaves our characters to be stationary

[sleeplessmoss]

"LISTEN TO COLIN" *we all joyously yell in unison* "COLIN IS NR.1 BEST BOY"

[robotpandapan]

The whole dynamic changed between everyone 😢

[notaromhack]

Ominous music
What if?
Horn blast
Everyone listened to Colin.
Shocked gaspes: Ominous music continues.

[iiiinkman]

the timeline may be sad but at least they aint doomed 💀

[robinpenn]

Oh no, these intermediary episodes are making me want more Colin, lol. 😅

[laughsingay]

If the original system was completely overhauled... what happened to Jon, Martin, and Jonah??? Did they just... disappear? Are they somewhere in this new system, just with less control? WHAT HAPPENED TO

[Cangeltibon]

Confirming Alice had better numbers than Gwen just makes it sink in that much more that Gwen is a smug brat 😂. She looks down on others and wants the power and position but she can’t actually think for herself which is crucial for being in leadership. She didn’t want people to tell her want to do but she wanted things that were already categorized and in order. She’s now the head of a organization that is held together on improvisation 😬

[table.]

I want there to be a continuation of this concept where the new AI assistants in the company phones are just Chester, Noris and Augustus again XD