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Cool entry but I don't see why the showdown couldn't have just happened then and there

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Actually, Tim isn't alone. He's never alone.
He still has Masky.
And Masky has never hesitated to be violent towards Alex... whether or not those were direct orders from Hoody or not. Choking, punching, stabbing. I'm assuming the hatred he feels toward Alex is still present.

Maybe all Tim really needs to do is buy a gun and a knife and stop taking his meds. Oh, and leave Masky some detailed letters to let him know what's going on (unless Masky is actually aware of what's going on even when he's gone underground).

Sometimes I wonder who is the real "original" Tim... was it Masky? Maybe it was his headaches, speech difficulties, seizures, hallucinations and possibly violent tendencies that institutionalized him. Maybe he came first, and the Tim we know was born when Masky was medicated.

It seems like "current Tim" was not aware of the Operator until he started working with Jay. (The story is pretty obviously hinting now that the operator started with or was created by Tim.) If the Masky personality was dominant when Tim was a child, maybe, when he started taking the medication and Masky went "underground" the Operator couldn't find him anymore... then he started attaching himself to other people like Alex.

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For some reason I have an image in my head of Alex leaving a message on someone's phone saying something like "Hi Bob, it's Alex. I went to your house to drop off those books I borrowed. You weren't in so I burned your house down. See you later!"

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If Alex only recently came to the realization that Tim is to blame, and we know (or at least it has been assumed) that he watches the Marble Hornets footage, then Entry 84 could have tipped him off to that. He could have seen, like us, that when Tim appeared on camera, you get the first chronological instance of the visual tear, as well as the first chronological appearance (discounting Entry 37) of TO.

Entry 84, combined with the revelations in Entry 66, as well as Tim's medical records could point the finger at Tim being the one that "introduced" TO to the Marble Hornets crew.

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A thought occurs: we do have at least one other reason to think that the idea that this is all Tim's fault and he's the source is merely a theory that Alex (and to a lesser extent Tim) have bought into, rather than the absolute truth, is the fact that Tim and Brian were buddies for years without Brian ever being "infected".

Regardless of whether The Operator is a physical manifestation of whatever's up with Tim, or whether he's an independent entity that just happened to latch on to Lil' Tim-Tims, if this is solely a matter of Tim being a plague carrier Brian should have been well and truly Slenderfied before Marble Hornets even began filming. He wasn't.

That suggests to me that something prompted the Operator to come out during the filming process. Possibly Alex had also had an Operator experience when he was younger which he had forgotten, and it was bringing Tim and Alex together which caused the outbreak (much like bringing two pieces of radioactive material together can kick off an uncontrolled chain reaction). Or maybe something happened which stopped Tim getting to his pills just long enough for the symptoms to come back. Either way, count me in with the "Alex is oversimplifying things way too much" camp: Tim can't be the sole factor in sparking what happened during the filming of MH, something more had to be going on.

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If Tim or Jay went to the police, they would probably get thrown in an asylum if they mentioned anything about TO or claimed they thought what was on the tapes was real, the cops just wouldn't believe them.

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[Magyk]

On the subject of "why Tim won't call the cops"

Tim doesn't have to show the police all eighty five videos including ones where he may have broken the law, he could just be like "Hey, here's this video of a guy setting my house on fire - that same house that was on the news last night burning down. Please go arrest him."

I'm pretty sure even Tim would agree that the entire Tuscaloosa PD (or wherever we are IG at this point) would stand up better against Alex+TheOperator than just Tim alone.

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