Informational Video

Three researchers in the Backrooms

Marvin E. Leigh

Ronald McCarthy

***Informational Video*** is the fifth main episode and seventh overall installment of the Backrooms series. It was uploaded to YouTube on 13th February 2022 and depicts an ill-fated expedition into the Backrooms where one of the researchers becomes separated from the rest of the group and tries to find his way back to the ASYNC Research Facility.

## Plot

The video starts with "Welcome to the project KV31 research and development team". The following scene states that "you'll be briefed on the required protocol in regards to project KV31, as well receive an overview of future development plans". Shortly then explains that "Project KV31 pertains to the study and development of the Async Low-Proximity Magnetic Distortion System. (model VI)". Shortly after the video shows an image of the "Threshold" of project KV31, being the backrooms door and a fragment of a blueprint possibly pertaining to the LPMDS.

The video continues to guide you with instructions pertaining to the backrooms door being "Never approach the threshold without guided supervision." and "Never enter The Complex alone." and explains that you must always travel in groups of at least three whilst entering the complex. Then shortly cuts to a date and time on the screen being "02/29/1990, 11:36 AM" (26 days after the video "Missing Persons").

The video cuts to a camera on a Asynch worker's chest showing three others (wearing yellow protective outfits) and shows the group of 3 entering the threshold and start exploring the complex (backrooms). It is unknown what the 4 workers are saying as they're exploring but we can see one worker holding a red line or rope presumably to stay coordinated in the complex. The video continues and shows the Asynch worker with the camera hearing distinctive noises coming a hallway to his right, and asks the other workers "guys do you hear this?". The noises are noticeably somewhat related to noises of background chatter or many people talking in an area.

As the worker with the camera enters the hallway he looks back at his workers and, within a split second, the camera glitches and the workers disappear and the noises go quiet. Later, in the video "Damage Control" it explains that that worker is named "Peter Tench" and says that he traveled 2 months in that one moment he enters the hallway (when the camera glitches). Peter starts panicking and tries to find the other workers, but fails.

The camera cuts to a scene of him exploring a new room and Peter finds an unknown substance (possibly the bacteria found in "Autopsy Report") looking as a pile of junk of unknown materials. Peter continues on to find a dark passageway weirdly placed or carved out of a wall (Area 3).

The video cuts to another area of the backrooms modified with a door and a dark window, Peter approaches the door, unlocking it, and is observing the equipment and computers in the dark room with noticeable background whirring noises. Very shortly after entering the room, an alarm starts blaring with the lights turning red and Peter starts panicking. The video ends with a scene being a fragment of a blueprint presumably being the LPMDS and a blueprint of an infrastructure of the matrix outside of the LPMDS.

## Trivia

* The episode is set on 29th February 1990, which is an impossible date since 1990 was not a leap year.
	+ This mistake was later corrected in Damage Control, where it states the mission took place on the 1st of March.
* By the end of the expedition shown in *Missing Persons*, one of the researchers appears to have disappeared in a potentially similar fashion, though that expedition ostensibly takes place 26 days prior.
* Just after the other 3 researchers vanish, Peter shouts for two of his colleagues. He shouts for George and Marvin, who both later appears in *Pitfalls.*
* The YouTube thumbnail for the episode appears to show the exact area where the three researchers accompanying Peter disappear from view; note the narrow gap in the right-hand side of the image.