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[VIDEO] Entry #28
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Anthony_Marx
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Great Entry. I loved how they introduced a new character. Its funny because I saw her in the last entry. Then I saw her again and was like "Oh hey its that girl again." then she actually talked to him which I didnt expect to be honest haha. I can tell she is gonna play a big role in this season. I mean, they are introducing a new character early on. She is gonna be dragged into this one way or another.

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fantaapple
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Hopefully the key will be used in the hotel because it looks like Jay is staying there for a while. It would be kinda pointless to go back to the house with out knowing why he ended up in the hotel in the first place.

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Nakigahara
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I don't know if it was mentioned already, but Jessica looks somewhat similar to Sarah. Sarah must have been changed since Entry 9, so... and that could explain where she had heard his name.


And the key looks like a reference to the "doors left unopened" thing.

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LisaEvermore
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They do look similar but they don't sound the same. They both have very distinct vocal ranges. It could be faked though, so it is possible they are the same person.

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Salty
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They're both girls! They MUST be the same person!

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MarbleArk
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Salty wrote:
They're both girls! They MUST be the same person!


You didn't know? Amy is DISGUISED as Sarah, who appears to be Jessica!

In all seriousness, I highly doubt they are the same person. when i saw a close up and heard her voice, my mind just said: No not Sarah.

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distilled
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When Jay first passed her in the hallway we didn't get a proper look and she just looked like she was about the same height and had long dark hair.

However, having seen the side by side she actually looks nothing like Sarah.

Also:

Spritey wrote:
Has anyone suggested that the KEY might open a locked door in the house?

I wouldn't mind seeing Jay go back there, but I don't know how they'd top the HOLYSHIT-fest that was Entry 23


From Dray, literally just above your post:
Dray wrote:
In various TTA responses and entries, locked doors are a theme within the house that Jay visits. "There are doors unopened," does not necessarily suggest that a key is involved, however I think they may be playing into that theme. I can't really think of anywhere where something is specifically locked that required a key, though. It's probably a new location or item that requires this one.

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AKLY
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MrHawthorne wrote:
I agree that Jay's name might be familar to Jessica because she heard it off of a newscast.

Seven months have past. The entry before the season 1 finale featured Jay's apartment complex being set on fire. Soon after Jay left on some sort of fact finding mission.

It's possible that he might be a person of interest?


I'm going to dredge this point back up out of the depths of this thread because I thought of something earlier today. I searched and I don't think anyone's suggested this yet.

Instead of her recognizing his name from a wanted or missing persons list, maybe she recognizes his name because she lived in the same apartment complex? It's possible that if she lived in the same complex she could have heard of him, either from meeting him, hearing someone else mention him, or from being questioned about his whereabouts after the fire by police/friends/relatives. As for the strange noises next door and why she's in a hotel instead of in another apartment, maybe she saw something she wasn't supposed to see on the night of the fire and someone is trying to making sure she unsees it, and she's now on the run as well.

Of course the likelihood of Jay running into another resident of his apartment who happens to have heard his name in wherever-they-are depends on factors like how far away wherever-they-are is located from where he lived, and the likelihood of her having heard of him. It looked like a decent-sized apartment complex, so it would be one hell of a coincidence if this were the case.

Thoughts?

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AKLY wrote:
Instead of her recognizing his name from a wanted or missing persons list, maybe she recognizes his name because she lived in the same apartment complex? It's possible that if she lived in the same complex she could have heard of him, either from meeting him, hearing someone else mention him, or from being questioned about his whereabouts after the fire by police/friends/relatives. As for the strange noises next door and why she's in a hotel instead of in another apartment, maybe she saw something she wasn't supposed to see on the night of the fire and someone is trying to making sure she unsees it, and she's now on the run as well.

Of course the likelihood of Jay running into another resident of his apartment who happens to have heard his name in wherever-they-are depends on factors like how far away wherever-they-are is located from where he lived, and the likelihood of her having heard of him. It looked like a decent-sized apartment complex, so it would be one hell of a coincidence if this were the case.

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(Long-time lurker, first-time poster)

I honestly hadn't considered this option before. I've sort of been in the camp of 'Jay's been up to some Masky-like stuff the past few months, and Jessica might've seen/heard about it', but this is definitely a strong possibility.

From a writing standpoint (I'm taking a screenwriting class right now, so forgive me) it would be a bit of a stretch to have her somehow be from the same apartment complex, and to now also be right next door to him in a hotel in an area that's clearly distant from where Jay comes from.

That said, the general idea of the premise you're proposing could very well be legit, and I think it'd be a more interesting path for MH to go down with this relationship (versus Jessica having heard his name on a news report or being incredibly coy despite already knowing Jay from the past seven months).

I think an important question to ask would be 'How long has Jessica been at the hotel?' Keeping in mind that Jay's only been there for a short time (and was only there for a day when Entry #27 came out) finding out how long she's been living in the hotel would be really telling. Maybe I'm jaded, but two twenty-somethings living in a hotel room for over a week's time leads me to believe they're both in somewhat similar situations. Apart from business travelers, I don't know of many people their age who'd spend such a long time in a hotel alone.

Sorry for the WoT this might turn out to be! I'm really looking forward to more posting on the boards - I missed out on season one (just started watching a month or two ago) and I'm really hoping to stay involved for season two.

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Good to have you on board Red_Herring. To be honest I'm finding it hard to believe there is any personal connection between J + J which they've both forgotten. I think I'm leaning towards the idea that Jay has been in the news or reported missing.
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Jaytenthousand
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Jaytenthousand wrote:
I think you're actually right. That's one thing I'd noticed, but thought that others had picked up on. In entry #23, on the houses second floor, there are actually 5 doors. These are the bathroom, the bedroom masky runs into where Jay follows him, and the room with the framed operator symbol and masky's white pills (it's on the other end of the hall as the 3 locked doors when he first tries them). It's all really confusing because of his time loss, but at least one of the doors, the one beside the bathroom and possibly the door to it's left, remained locked the entire time and remain unopened. It looks like it has a keyhole, but the picture is a bit too blurry to be certain.


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Jay visited the room that you mentioned in an earlier video. This is where he finds the bullet casing, pills, and bits of wall full of crazy. This is the same room that Alex was in in #14, the one where the Operator slowly opens the door and enters. The door to the left of that is likely to a small closet; logically there wouldn't be a tonne of room between the room on the left and the right, so it's probably the sort of thing that you might keep towels, sheets, cleaning supplies, etc. in.


You're right about the first room Dray. I was mostly using entry 23 as the point of reference. Could still be something in the closet/small room though. It's something. You forgot something though. It's a perfect size storage container for a Slondermon.

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I don't know... unless it winds up that everything comes back to the house in a culmination of plot points, I don't think that we're going to see that place again. It seems like too much of a stretch to me. The same goes for Jessica being an apartment-mate; it would take some seriously difficult turns to cinch together all of those points, and lay too much either on coincidence or on TTA/The Operator masterminding things to put them in the same place at the same time. And I don't think that this is going to be A Story About Jay and Jessica, regardless of how she might remember him.

I think that it's going to be about Jay, with a side character named Jessica; how she knows him, and why those noises are coming from her apartment, are a chapter along the way.

Anyways, KEY, by itself, is a nice mystery for later.


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In regards to the puzzle of the safe, let's try to figure out what possible passwords might be. (I feel sorry for Jay, in game; if he's been trying codes at random now, it's been days! XD)

Firstly, I'm thinking we should decide on who locked the safe to begin with. There are a couple of options.

Jay, as himself: in this case, we should look for numbers that would be significant to him... however, I think this is the least likely option, given that Jay is in his right state of mind and has probably been doing this, himself.

Jay, not under his own influence: we don't have much evidence of how this could be significant, though the first thing that comes to mind is to take the videos that Jay has no recollection of: 17 and 20. So 1720 or 2017 might be possible codes, here. Return was also a clip of Jay not being himself, the description for it being '91'. 24 also shows Jay in a state that he doesn't remember, so these numbers could (in some combination) prove useful, if we're taking meta into account.
In character, Jay would probably have to analyze what was happening during those videos, if there was anything that might be relevant. (For example, at what point on the timer in 24 does he seem to lose his self-awareness? At what point does he get it back?)

Totheark: In this case, looking for various numbers that might hold value could take forever. I would imagine that '0000' would be obvious. Are there any four-letter words that could be translated on the phone-style number pad that TTA is specifically attached to?

Alex: 'HELP' translated into numbers might be a potential lead (and someone has mentioned this before, so sorry for the trout!) What are some numbers that might hold significance for him? The number of the house he was staying in? (did we have that to begin with?) This is assuming, of course, that he's still around and ran off, which is a long-shot.

Someone else: We don't know yet what Jessica's been up to. If, for whatever reason she's had access to Jay's safe, then those noises could be morse code. (What was it, iivi = 1151?) I'm not sure that I'd take that as the most likely outcome, though, given that it seems like a random sampling of noises that Jay has been picking up, rather than a pattern that repeats.

Anyways, who knows what he's tried in the intervening time. Maybe folks should send him a PM with their own thoughts on the matter (and flood their inbox! XD)

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distilled wrote:
Good to have you on board Red_Herring. To be honest I'm finding it hard to believe there is any personal connection between J + J which they've both forgotten. I think I'm leaning towards the idea that Jay has been in the news or reported missing.


I agree. If they both had their memories wiped, they should be on the same level of remembering each other (Jay should have that same "I know you.." feeling about Jessica, or Jessica should not remember Jay at all).

I was trying to figure out if someone would have called in a missing persons report for Jay, and I think they would. If he was cut off from the world like Alex or Brian when they went missing, no one would have known that he was gone. But Jay still has some IRL friends, as referenced in Entry 25. If someone's last interaction with Jay was telling him that his apartment was set on fire, they would probably freak out a little if he was AWOL for 7 months.

If Jessica saw a missing persons report on the news, her reaction of half-recognition makes sense. They would have shown his face and full name, which was the combination it took before she said something about knowing Jay.

But Jay is paranoid. He believes no one else lives in the hotel, that the person living next to him knows him, and that the safe in his room contains clues to where he has been. And assuming the narrative of "Marble Hornets" is that Jay's paranoia is accurate, there is probably more to Jessica's recognition of him than just a missing person's report.

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Ok. Jessicas a new character, she never lived near him (sorry that sounds absurd, besides if she had dont you think she would have attacked him for burning her place down?), she may or maynot have heard about him on the news *i would have said "HEY you're that missing freakie-deekie!" not "have you been in something ive seen" casual* and her response to his name is kind of like If someone i thought looked familiar walked up and said their name was Chad Britt *sounds like Brad Pitt lol* and was I'm like "that sounds familiar *confused face* ... what Im getting at is SHE IS NOT A FANBOI... i am 99.99999% sure the MH guys would NOT add some fannie in on the editing of the videos... they would make a new youtube page titled "CRAZIES" and post all the weirdos who approach them on the streets and at work and on the REAL facebook pages... *coughs* sorry for the soap box.....

I think we have reached the point of needing a new video.Critical mass for comments about 28 has been reached.

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Though this is completely unlikely, I think crazy theories are usually welcome.

What if Jessica knows EVERYTHING about Jay, and is playing dumb? She followed him to that hotel, as known what he has been doing the past 7 months, and more!

Like I said, very unlikely.

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