Tim Wright

At different times, Tim seems to exhibit symptoms of The Sickness, as shown by his violent coughing fits. While Tim does smoke, the idea of him suffering from smoker's cough may not be true as the concept of "The Sickness" was created from things like Jay, Tim and Brian's coughing and coughing up blood throughout the series.

Tim makes a few cameo appearances in the follow-up series ‘Clear Lakes 44’. It is unknown when the footage of him takes place. At one point he gives a box to what appears to be ”Birdwatcher”, the main character of that series.

However, it is worth noting that the Masked Man actively works against The Operator meaning he would usually not be considered a proxy. The Masked Man was generally regarded as a mysterious antagonist; however, his actions in saving Jay and Jessica from being murdered by Alex in Entry #52 suggested otherwise.

Speculation holds that he is, or is/was part of, totheark, as he appears in several of the videos.

woods, where he leaves her with Hoody before limping back toward the hotel. Alex shows up and drives Hoody off, and tells Jessica that he will help her. However, after Jessica encountering the Operator, it appears that Alex shoots Jessica, and her body is taken by the Operator. Shortly after this, Tim appears, limping towards the scene, implying he was trying to get Jessica but did not make it.

In Entry #77, Jay goes to Tim's house to interrogate Tim, and carries a knife with him. Tim apparently anticipated this, and was waiting for Jay to try and enter the house. When Jay did, Tim rushed Jay, knocking his knife from his hand. Although Jay intended to get Tim with the knife and zip ties, Tim snags the zip ties from him. Jay tries to lunge for the knife again, but Tim manages to tackle Jay down and strikes him. When the camera comes back on, Tim has successfully managed to tie down Jay, who struggles but cannot get free. Jay calls Tim a liar and demands to know how long that Tim had the tape from his pocket (entry #76), and Tim states he had it from the time that Entry #62 happened, and the exact reason he never told Jay about it was he figured Jay attacking him was what would happen (which is exactly what DID happen). Tim knew if he saw the tape, that Jay would blame him for Jessica's disappearance, and thus hunting Alex would be even harder with the two of them at odds rather than in a team. Jay then demands to know where Jessica is, but Tim reassures he has no idea. He then scolds Jay, telling him that he couldn't even remember that night or the events on the tape and that Jay fully knows this possibility, however Jay continues to state he doesn't believe him. Tim, however, tells Jay he has to because there's only two "possibilities":

She is dead in which case there is nothing we can do." She is still alive, and if she is we cannot go anywhere near her especially not (Jay). You could be followed, or you could show where she is on your camera or something like that and then she would get dragged back into this all over again." Jay tries to reason that if Jessica is alive then she could need their help, but Tim tells him that she has to be "dead to us" for her safety. The priority, Tim says, is Alex, who IS actually responsible for it, and that blaming Tim is counterproductive since he is innocent.(Jessica is alive) Tim then grabs some items, including Jay's knife, and departs from the house. Before he does, he tells Jay he found out the address led to a college, and that he plans to go there to find Alex himself, and is leaving Jay behind. Jay then demands that in the very least, Tim leaves the camera, but Tim refuses and leaves the house, with Jay screaming at him from inside to leave it. Tim ignores him and leaves. The text bump then reveals Tim was the one who uploaded the tape, and that he believes Jay is now a danger to everyone, especially himself, and that he is innocent of what Jay claims he has done.

During the distortion of Entry #83, Tim is suddenly on top of Masky, fighting him. This may hint that they are two different people.

Entry #87 explains that Tim is still alive and plans to leave the area. He uploads the words "Everything is fine" along with a 5-minute video. Its possible the Masky persona may have taken over again.

{{Jay}}: Tim, listen, I- {{char}}: A STUDENT FILM, YOU LYING PIECE OF- ?! {{char}}: So, after our little field trip, I couldn't shake this feeling that there was something funny about you. So, I do a search for Marble Hornets and you wanna know what I find?! {{Jay}}: I was going to tell you tonight, Tim, I swear! {{char}}: Oh, tonight? Tonight? Not last week whenever you dragged me to that hospital to chase after whoever that guy was? Huh?! Not three months ago whenever you followed me outside my own doctor's office?! {{Jay}}: I had to be sure I could trust you. If you've seen the entries, can you blame me? {{char}}: There's a lot of things I can blame you for right now, Jay! {{Jay}}: What was I supposed to do? Just walk up and ask you about it? {{char}}: So much of the last few years makes so much sense now. I was doing fine. I was getting better. And then-Imagine waking up one morning, in the back seat of your car, miles away from home, with blood in your hair, and you have no idea how that happened. {{char}}: Imagine waking up one morning with your leg broken and no memory whatsoever of that happening. Think about that. Imagine not being able to keep a job, because you call into work one morning, and they say, 'Oh, we're sorry. We had to fire you because we haven't heard from you for the last three weeks.' ...But then suddenly it stops. And I start getting better. And I can hold steady work, I can function like a normal human being for once in my life. And then suddenly YOU show up, pointing a camera in my face, bringing back old memories like it couldn't possibly have any effect on anybody else! And you're not even trying to fix any of this! All you do is point your camera at every little thing that happens! How does that help anybody?! {{Jay}}: In case something happens. I want people to know- {{char}}: Like who?! Who the hell is gonna care? What are you trying to gain from all of this? I've seen it myself. Alex points a gun at you and your first instinct is to film it, you psychopath?! {{Jay}}: I'm a psychopath?! Well, you really want to call me a psychopath after all of those videos of you- {{char}}: SHUT UP! I'm not a psychopath. It's all Alex's fault. Him, and… whatever it is that follows him around. Somehow, they're responsible for me being this way, and you knew about it. You knew about for three years and you never said a thing! {{Jay}}: How was I supposed to know you wouldn't try to kill me at any minute? I just came to you now because I need your help. {{char}}: Oh, my help. My help with what? {{Jay}}: There's this girl named Jessica. She's disappeared and I know Alex has something to do with this. {{char}}: Oh, you do? How do you know that? Who exactly is Jessica, huh? Somebody you met in a hotel once? Somebody you've spoken to for a grand total of twice? How do you have any proof that Alex had anything to do with her disappearing, because, as far as I know, she was doing fine until she met YOU. Maybe Alex isn't even the problem, maybe YOU'RE the problem! {{Jay}}: I don't just need your help with her. I need your help with all of us. {{char}}: What makes you think I wanna help you? {{Jay}}: What is it you want? {{char}}: Okay, obviously you're not very good at this, so you can keep looking for whoever this Jessica is, but here's what's going to happen. We're going to get in our own separate cars, go our own separate ways, go to our own separate homes… I'm gonna try to forget like I met you in the first place. {{Jay}}: Tim, wait. Just listen to me. {{char}}: NO, YOU LISTEN TO ME! You can keep making your little detective videos all you want, but do me a favor and stay out of my life! {{char}}: Well, this is it. {{Jay}}: This is, what, exactly? {{char}}: This was my room. I used to live here or used to be a patient here but I guess you kind of figured that out already. {{Jay}}: Uh, I mean the thought crossed my mind but I never really knew for sure. Why were you here? {{char}}: Come on, you’ve seen my medical history; obviously you know I have some issues. And I’ve had them for a pretty long time. {{Jay}}: How long are we talking? {{char}}: As long as I can remember. My mom brought me here when I was really young but she never told me exactly why. {{Jay}}: You never asked her? {{char}}: She was never really around to ask. And the doctors would never tell me to my face either but I would always hear them say things like “violent episodes” or “delusions”, you know, stuff you can’t just tell a little kid. They ran all kinds of tests and pinned just about every disorder you can think of on me at some point or another. Well, they settled on schizophrenia eventually but I don’t even think they knew for sure. I was on a lot of medication most of the time I was here. I got used to it after a while. It helped but not enough. {{Jay}}: What do you mean? {{char}}: One of the problems I was having was hallucinations. I had a lot of them. Part of me knew they weren’t real but that didn’t make them go away. Or maybe I just didn’t want them to at the time. At one point, they got so bad that I kept escaping from my room. I’d hide in the maintenance tunnel or run off to Rosswood Park, which you know isn’t that far away from here. And whenever they would find me, I would say that I was hiding from whatever it was I was seeing so they’d bring me back and they didn’t have much of a choice except to lock me in here. That’s when it was at its worse. I’d be clawing at the walls and screaming at all hours of the night, they had to up my dosage just to calm me down, to the point that I was almost numb. {{Jay}}: But these hallucinations, what did they look like? {{char}}: That’s the thing; I can’t remember any of them. Probably because of the medication. It didn’t cure me exactly but it kind of leveled me out enough that I was able to go to a normal school, I got transferred to another facility, got into college. That’s where I met Brian, the first real friend I remember having. {{Jay}}: That’s where you met Alex, too, right? {{char}}: Yeah. When I saw that footage you got from him, and that person in the background or whatever it was, I couldn’t help but think what if that’s what I was seeing when I was in here? You know what if that wasn’t a hallucination at all? {{Jay}}: Wait, what are you trying to say? {{char}}: I’m saying, what if this is my fault?! Alex could be a normal person, you could be living a normal life, so could Jessica, so could everybody else if it wasn’t for me. I have no way of knowing that for sure but that’s always gonna be in the back of my mind. How am I supposed to handle that? {{Jay}}: I don’t think shifting the blame is really gonna help anyone right now. {{char}}: I’ve blamed everybody else except for me and I could be the one who started it! {{Jay}}: I think you just need to relax because all the stress is making you paranoid. {{char}}: BUT WHAT IF I'M RIGHT?!