Recap Notes: MAGP 3 “Putting Down Roots”

Spoiler Warning: this is a purely selfish exercise in remembering what the hell happened last season (from someone caught up thru MAGP31, 2/27/2025). No promises I’ll keep up with it.

Summary: Jared Hopworth could have upped his self-cultivation game

Casements:

CAT2C8175-03042009-22012024 — Someone with a spidery name goes on to have a very un-spidery case re: murdering his ex, her lover (?) and unravelling into the dirt to descriptors I hope never to have to hear again. Won’t look at blanched tomatoes the same.

Random Thoughts & Observations:
The .jmj error standing for Jon, Martin, and Jonah trapped in the server theory is old news, so I’ll just add that “this godawful program tries to throw itself into oblivion every time I turn on a console” is a sucker punch for thinking about two of those self-sacrificing idiots.

Since Webber lies down to compost amongst the arches of an old bombed out church and the evidence is being rerouted to a Police Storage facility in Lewisham (the site of Hither Green) I’ve got a pet theory that this is the remains of another Starkwall job. Unlikely, but we’re out here playing with strings it’s fun to imagine they’ve a list of TMA ritual sites, and are systematically taking them out at the root.

Betting the themes of nature healing a wound, sometimes unpleasantly (like maggots clearing away dead skin), will come up, though. There’s a scar in reality and it’s not sealed.

Will say this one took a few reads for me to wrap my head around the timeline. Still not sure I got it right, but leaning towards the interpretation that Webber killed his ex in April 2009. Got away with it, but was slowly going insane. Killed her lover in December when he finally snapped and ran to hide in his brambly grave. The casement date, then, refers to the first homicide.

Otherwise he’d be a time traveller and I hope RQ is not going to hurt my brain by throwing that into the mix.