While in Pittsburgh, Gerard passed away from a brain tumour and Gertrude broke into the morgue to bind him to the Catalogue of the Trapped Dead. In , Gertrude had discovered the location of the Panopticon and planned to remove Jonah Magnus. She planned to survive attacking her own entity by destroying her own eyes to sever her connection. Before she carried out her attempt, she recorded a statement in case of her death, informing whomever would replace her about the powers and their place.
She hoped that Sasha James would be the one to replace her. She planned to distract Elias Bouchard from her action by setting fire to the Magnus Institute, concurrently with The Dark's attempted ritual in March She was also was testing the theory that it was actually impossible for a ritual to succeed, regardless of her interference.
The ritual of the Dark failed, but Elias was not distracted and he confronted Gertrude as she was preparing the fire. After they confirmed to each other that Gertrude knew the truth about Jonah Magnus and was working against him, Elias shot her in the chest, killing her moments before she could set the fire.
Elias reported her as missing on March 15, and she was presumed dead, with Jonathan Sims becoming the new Head Archivist. Gertrude's body is discovered in the tunnels beneath the Institute during the Prentiss attack on July 29, by Martin Blackwood.
The exact date of Gertrude Robinson's death is unclear as there are several conflicting accounts:. As the Archivist, Gertrude has a similar capacity for powers as Jonathan Sims, but she is more concerned with stopping rituals than fulfilling her role as Archivist [20] and seemed to have been more successful in retaining her humanity.
Gertrude's body is found in a room containing all of the statements that she personally recorded. These tapes are impounded by the police as evidence, but Jonathan Sims convinces Basira Hussain to let him listen to a few of them. Shortly thereafter, Elias brings the tapes into his office. The statements recorded by Gertrude Robinson and listened to by Jonathan Sims are as follows:. The Magnus Archives Wikia Explore. Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5.
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This recording notes was made less than a year before she died and indicates she had been fighting against the other Powers, dealing a significant blow to The Desolation. Geiger about a man possessed by a dust storm in Boise City, Oklahoma.
Gertrude discusses her plans to stop the ritual of The Buried and this recording also reveals that Michael used to be one of her assistants.
In , Ederle swam at the Olympic Games in Paris, where her freestyle team won three medals. In , she began training to swim across the English Channel, the 21 miles of water between England and the European mainland. Five male swimmers had already crossed the channel the first was English swimmer Matthew Webb in , but she wanted to be the first woman to achieve this goal.
Ederle's first attempt to swim the channel, in , was disqualified halfway through on a technicality. She made her second, successful try on August 6, She started at Cape Gris-Nez on the French coast, wearing a two-piece bathing suit with goggles and a swim cap.
She coated her body with lanolin as protection from jellyfish stings and the water's cold temperature.
Once Ederle entered the water, her progress through rough waves and powerful currents was supervised by a tugboat that sailed nearby, carrying her trainer T. Burgess and her family members. She arrived onshore at Kingsdown, England, after 14 hours and 31 minutes, beating the record set by the previous male channel swimmers. Ederle was greeted by near-riotous crowds when she returned home to New York. Excited admirers welcomed her at the dock, thronged the streets along the ticker-tape parade in her honor, and mobbed her upon her arrival at City Hall, where Mayor Jimmy Walker congratulated her.
For several years, America's "Queen of the Waves" was a sports star and a cultural sensation on par with Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. Her record remained unbroken until After her channel swim, Ederle made a profitable tour on the vaudeville circuit, giving swimming demonstrations. She also appeared in a short film about her life and career.
After suffering a severe back injury in , she was never able to compete again, although she did give swim performances at the "Aquacade" attraction of the New York World's Fair.
Her later life was quiet: She said that she had achieved her one ambition by crossing the English Channel. She taught swimming to children at the Lexington School for the Deaf. She never married and she lived quietly with several female friends in the Flushing, Queens, neighborhood of New York City.
A hearing problem that had troubled Ederle since her childhood caused her eventual deafness. Ederle died in Wyckoff, New Jersey, in at the age of The Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center, complete with a pool, bears her name on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, not far from where she grew up and first learned to swim.
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