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[Clairabel]

I don't know where to begin with this entry, apart from now I'm wondering if things are being set in motion for the final entries.

[ReeseSparrow]

I think I've got it;
Up until Alex's trip to the hospital wit Tim, TO was solely following Alex. Who knows what he was doing with him, using him to get stuff done, gathering stuff or people for him, I don't know. Anyway, by the hospital trip, Alex is desperately trying to throw TO off him, trying to disable his "friends" and leave them where the Operator would find them, so they see him and suddenly Alex isn't the only one aware of his presence, so TO has someone else to stalk. It didn't work with Brian, Tim ran away, and who knows what happened to Seth. Que him confronting TO at the park, afterwords he decides the only way to get TO off his back is to get rid of all the evidence he has, save for what he needs to remind himself of what he did to his friends in attempt to get away. Then Jay shows up, wrong place wrong time, or Alex's plan... He gives then tapes to Jay in hope that Jay will discover evidence of TO and becoming the person with most knowledge of TO, aside from Alex. Then he incapacitates him the same way he did with the others and leaves him for TO to make him aware of him.
----Time passes.
Alex has successfully thrown TO off his trail by getting rid of the evidence, and removing everything of his former life, he even decides to "get rid of his camera" and quit filming things. TO spends this time stalking someone else, maybe Tim, or the like, until Jay rediscovers the tapes and pops back up on TO's radar.
Everything since that can be pretty well explained by Alex being paranoid and desperately doing anything he can to throw TO off his trail, even if it means killing Jay. Also some of his behavior is undoubtedly influenced by TO... not the most comprehensive theory ever, but if that's the jist of what happened, it makes sense to me, not many theories do.

TL;DR version:
The "sacrifices were attempts by Alex to get TO to follow someone other than him, while he ran away to Rosswood town.

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[Grumplestiltskin]

@ Jiime_6: "Another" in this context could simply mean 'another in relation to the first burned tape.' But it's still possible that Jay might to be able to salvage some of the others that he and Tim got from the Distortion Hole.

[Oransel]

For those who completed Bioshock Infinite:

[CraicIsMighty]

What I'm curious about is why Alex chose to burn this particular tape. Amy wasn't mentioned on it as far as we know so she can't be the reason this time. Is it because this was the only original MH tape that actually showed Alex directly attacking someone? But why burn this tape and then keep entry 51?

Alex's attack just seems so random here. At first he seems fine, if a bit cranky, while dealing with Jay, then seconds after Jay walks out the door he leaps on him? Why?

[artemisfang]

[undervattensflugan]

This Jay-having-an-alter-ego-thing has got me thinking... What if Alex has got one too? And Slendy is controlling the alter ego? That would explain alot.

[Jiime_6]

[CraicIsMighty]

Something else I noticed:

Jay: it's better than the alternative being all dramatic and burning it.


Entry 54

Tim: Don't look so dramatic.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it seems like a weird that Jay and Tim both call Alex dramatic.

[BranRainey]

[TheManPF]

Did anybody notice that the scene at 4:29 is pretty similar to the one in Entry #52? In both videos Jay gets his memory wiped too

Sorry if it has been mentioned yet, not in the mood for reading through 146 posts

[Clairabel]

[ToxicityLevel]

Alrighty, so when I originally watched this, before reading all of the theories here I felt like between the distortion and whatnot that Alex handing over the tapes was an attempt to hand over the troubles with the Operator as well. That's why he's so emphatic about never wanting to hear about it again. He thinks the tapes equal the problem. He puts aside several tapes with especially incriminating evidence to burn, because as we all know, killing something with fire is the best way to get rid of it, and burning the few while leaving the majority to Jay should keep Oppy's attention on Jay, not Alex.

But then he realizes it's not enough to just hand over the tapes -- he has to give the Operator a way in. He has to beat the snot out of Jay, knock him out, and let the Operator work his magic on poor unconscious Jay. Because if just watching the tapes was enough to let the Operator in -- we'd all be infected. So he clobbers him, and then rolls him into his car, drives him home, stashes the tapes for a rainy day in his closet, and lets the rest happen, with the knowledge that he's now free because he's passed the problem on to Jay. Then he moves in with Amy, avoids all video camera contact and tries to live a normal life.

I don't know. I feel like the coughing/drowning/lack of air thing has some merit because if you can't breathe you pass out and eventually die. So maybe you have to be unconscious for the Operator to initially take hold.