#and the DREAD when elias was all :)))) and fake-nice. going along with the lie.

[soveryanon]

Just Little Jon Things:

(MAG083) ARCHIVIST: Look, Georgie, it’s not… You don’t need to worry. I–I mean, I’m not, I’m not on drugs or anything. GEORGIE: [LAUGHS DISBELIEVINGLY] ARCHIVIST: What…? [SILENCE] … I could be on drugs! GEORGIE: Sure.

(MAG140) BASIRA: Drinking alone, then? ARCHIVIST: [SLURRING] It’s not a hangover. Well, not… [INHALE] I wasn’t drinking. [SIGH] BASIRA: Drugs then? ARCHIVIST: [GRUNT] BASIRA: You sick? Got some weird monster disease? ARCHIVIST: Seriously?

(MAG123) ARCHIVIST: Where did the– [PAPER RUSTLING] [MUTTERING] “Coma? Great! Let’s rearrange his office. Sleeping people don’t need… pens.”

(MAG140) BASIRA: But, I think… Have you got a pen? ARCHIVIST: Uuh… Yeah, i–in the drawer. [RUFFLING OF CLOTHES, MOVEMENTS, A DRAWER OPENING] BASIRA: Er… Jon. What’s this. ARCHIVIST: Mm? … Oh. That’s… [PAUSE] That, uh, that’s… my rib. BASIRA: … Right. [PUTS IT DOWN] ARCHIVIST: Yup… BASIRA: And… the jar of ashes. ARCHIVIST: Not– Not mine; I–I mean, it belongs to me, I–I guess, but it’s not… Er, stationery is in the other drawer?

(MAG108) BASIRA: How much do you know about the relationship between Edmond Halley and John Flamsteed? MARTIN: What, Halley like the comet? BASIRA: Exactly.

(MAG140) BASIRA: Well, by the way, he really hated the man who succeeded him. His… former assistant, Edmond Halley. ARCHIVIST: As in… “Halley’s Comet”–Halley?

(MAG074) ARCHIVIST: I’m rather glad I don’t really drink coffee.

(MAG140) ARCHIVIST: … [LONG-SUFFERING SIGH] BASIRA: Coffee. [MUG PUT DOWN ON A TABLE] ARCHIVIST: What��? BASIRA: Coffee. Drink it. ARCHIVIST: I don’t really, er… [INHALE] Fine.