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[Jsor]

What we know for sure is that Jay needs to somehow come into possession of the tapes from Alex, this doesn't necessarily mean that he has to take them, but they have to get to his safe, in the hotel room.

The problem is, I'm having trouble of thinking of any good mechanisms:

Alex gives them to Jay. Unlikely, especially for OOG reasons (nearing end of season, wouldn't be climactic, Alex is a total dickbag).

Jay WTFpwns Alex (presumably after the camera cut in 38?)

Masky/Blasky/TTA takes them

Jay got attacked by Alex, the Operator abducted him like he did to the other guy Alex killed, for some reason the Operator gave him the tapes (could also be what happens to Jessica -- Operator abducted).

Any other ideas? I think the season finale (likely the next episode) will likely address this in some way, which is why I think it's pertinent as an extension of this video and 38.

[pravado]

i just can't see them doing all this in 1-2 entries though with the length of the average entry being like 5-6 minutes

they need to come full circle if they want to end the season properly (show us how jay got into the hotel with the tapes and jessica)

hopefully they release two more entries

first one being end of entry 38/29

second one being a 15 minute finale showing us how they got to the hotel / whats going to happen to jay that will leave the account inactive for a few months while they plan out s3

[Foood]

I may have said this a couple times on the forums already, but I hope that they re-show Entry #38 and #29 within the footage of the new entries, rather than imply that we need to go back and re-watch them to put the pieces together. Not like it's hard to re-watch them, it's just it would have a much cooler effect if we are shown new footage of Jay and Alex meeting at Rosswood, and then BOOM, out of nowhere, the familiar footage from Entry #38 kicks in.

[Leminnes]

I had missed the last two entries before this one, so I went back and watched 37, 38, and 39 all in a row. I thought it was some really good film making going on there. The return to previous important areas, the dialogue, the story progression. It's all really impressive to me.

On that note: Did slendy just eat that dude?

[madammustard]

Well, I've been reading the threads for the last several episodes, and an idea occurred to me so I thought I'd run it by you guys.

I'm thinking of starting up a food company centered around Marble Hornets. In light of recent episodes, the name of the company would be "Slendy Snacks". We would have features such as Slendy Livers, Slendy-flavored Mind Control Popcorn, Slendy Cough Syrup, Slendyloaf (it makes you teleport!). And last but not least, Slendymilk: It helps you grow thin and tall. Currently working for copyright on that slogan.

And as far as contributing something worthwhile to the thread, I can't help but have the feeling I get when I'm really close to solving a puzzle or a math problem. All or the majority of the pieces are there and you're so close to solving the mystery or parts of it, and yet so far because there's still so much that doesn't make sense yet.

[NewInTown2]

The tunnel isn't some secluded place in the park. Jay found it by just following the path. Remember what Jay said in Entry 48? "I lose Alex almost immediately" Jay didn't follow Alex to the tunnel. He just found it while he was trying to find Alex again.

Bruce might have taken another route. I think the tunnel could even be a bridge with a path above it. He saw Alex sitting there in the tunnel and might have thought he was a stoner or something


I lose Alex almost immediately...
Jay wasn't around Alex when he muttered: "Don't follow me, I know you're there"

This could mean:
1) Alex was talking to someone else, most likely the operator (if he was talking to one of the maskies he would have gone in for the kill)

2) Alex was talking to himself "Please Jay don't follow me, I know you're there. But just leave now."

I'm going with nr. 2.

Now to another thing:
I'm guessing the first time he went that way into the forest (going under the overgrowth) was entry 43 (he was looking around a lot like you would expect from someone that isn't familiar with the place). There he met The Operator and I'm thinking he lead him to the tunnel.
So why does he have to go there again everyday?

[sjhartsfield]

[SecretPerson]

[Latent]

[Sleight]

Let's think about this:

You are sitting out by your car, maybe waiting for someone to arrive, to talk a stroll thru the park. You have seen someone go into the forest and watched someone else follow them (rewatch 48 if you don't believe me, but Alex walks in the main entrance, Bruce is there in the parking lot, I think could Bruce clearly can see Jay following Alex in).

Within the next 10 minutes you see the person who followed the other in, panting, and rushing to get in his car and drive off. You head into the forest out of natural curiosity and see the kid who got followed: you ask if him if he is all right.

Now keep in mind Jay says Alex sits there "about 15 minutes." Does that mean 16 minutes? 18 minutes? Did Jay really mark the times? I wouldn't worry so much whether not the timing is super supicious.

I think Bruce is an innocent bystander and is supposed to represent Alex's delusion that Jay or the Maskies were following him (maybe both). I think Entry 50 will make it clear why Bruce died, whether he was involved, and whether or not Alex thought it was TiMasky or Jay

[Riovas]

I have to admit it's odd that we've seen two random people "following" jay and alex now (tothepark in entry 31 being the other.) Out of everything I've read from prevado so far, the only statement I can view as being possible is that these two might not actually be random (I'm NOT saying I agree, just that this statement actually hold water while his others are just crap.) My own theory is that slendy only wants selected humans, not just anyone will do. So, Alex may kill, for example, Amy, Jessica, and even Brian, but slendy-sickness would stop at people who are "unworthy." So, either Bruce was really meant to be killed, and we haven't seen him in Alex's chestcam as of yet, or Alex has just became a serial killer and slendy is pissed about his apprentice.

Also, as far as Marble Hornets be scary still, I see it as we're getting to the root of the story here, which ,to me, means we're passed the fear tactics and its on to more story and action. Like when I played the silent hill series, yeah the first half or so would scare the crap out of me, but sooner or later you are revealed whats going on, and the fear tactics are null. In MH, we are seeing Alex as being slendy's advocate, so the fear tactics are dwindling.

[Seraphim]

The best part about this murder is how it's foreshadowed way back in the beginning of the season, with the footage of Alex nearly killing Tim. Alex is already developing these tendencies right from the get-go....something happened to him right before season 1(they're all gone) and when Amy got kidnapped.

Either he's snapped completely or he's the Operator's bitch now(a so-called proxy)...or maybe a combo of both. Maybe his insanity makes him an ideal go-to guy for our slendy friend.

Also, I'm thinking that we'll find out who the other Masky is at the end of this season...Jay needs someone to interact with and Alex will either be absent and insane or dead, Jessica will probably be dead(I could see that happening I guess), and Slendy doesn't like talking to people I guess...same with Tim.

[Kitchenyou10sull]

Alex says "Stop following me" but this can be directed at a number of people. If he was muttering this to The Operator, perhaps his M.O. of rock smash was supposed to kill The Operator. If "stop following me" was directed towards a masky, then maybe he thought he was disposing of a masky. Or lastly, and my heart and stomach sinks when I think of this possibility, he was directing his frustration of being tailed towards Jay, then Bruce's untimely death was supposed to be Jay instead.

So either Alex wanted to kill Jay, masky, or The Operator... or perhaps he did snap and killed Bruce just to kill?

[Susil]

Wow. Late to the party I know, but this really was a pivotal entry. I'm not surprised Jay didn't want to make an entry out of this.... I have a couple of thoughs that after (scanning) all these pages I'm not sure have been picked up.

1. When I first heard Alex muttering, I thought he was saying "don' fall" instead of "don't follow". This might just be me getting confused by the mumbling but it would also make sense - might he be pep talking himself into carrying on?

2. Alex doesn't seem to care about the consequences of what he just did to himself. Put yourself in his shoes - would you leave a bloodstained rock by a public trail, and walk out with videotaped evidence of you killing a man in cold blood?? If Alex had planned to be killing people, surely he would have smashed the SD card to bits and chucked the rock in a river (we know there's running water in Rosswood) at the very least. Does he just think he has nothing to lose?

Future speculation....

1. Like others have mentioned, I think this might be where Jessica returns. From Jay's behaviour in #48, he seems to be pretty scared of Alex now. If I were in his place, I would probably want the support of somebody - and with Alex as he is, Jessica is the only person Jay can contact that he might be able to trust. Remember Jay mentioning in #38 that "its getting dark" - perhaps Jessca was in a car outside Rosswood with the instruction to do something if Jay hadn't returned by nightfall?

2. The other common theory is that Alex attempts to do the same to Jay. Buuut, don't forget we know that Jay gets through the 7 months (physically) unscathed. I think we'd know if #27 had started with "I have no memories, I'm in a strange hotel, and there's a rock shaped imprint in my face. Wonder where that came from." Plus, there's nothing to suggest either Jay or Alex work out at all. In a toe to toe fight, the advanage would have to be Alex's, partly because he's quite a bit bigger and partly because, well, he's frankly batshit. I'm not so sure it's going to come to a struggle.

[stringbeanman]

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