hello mr j newall, I have a mildly obscure TMA question and figured this might be one of the better places to ask if you're in an answering mood. in early episodes, maybe up until midway through season two, when the door to the archivist's office is open there are very faint sounds like several people talking, phones ringing, clicking keyboards, etc. from outside in the hall, and that seems to conflict with what we know about it being just the four archival staff in the basement. do you have any rationale for why this was there, either from a production standpoint or any personal conjecture about in-universe explanations? thank you!

So originally it was just to add some Atmos, make it believable that there were other people working (Sasha Tim etc.) . As things progress though I quite liked the idea that people were giving more and more distance to the drama queen weirdo who was way too into his archive.