This video was first sent out as part of an Ingress Update email and then later posted through other Niantic/Ingress channels
Ingress Anomaly Series: VIA NOIR – Every Light Casts a Shadow
Transcript and Analysis - a larger collection of screencaps can be found in this document
0:00 - 0:02
Video starts with a black screen and dull logo of Niantic Labs. There is the sound of a heartbeat and the logo seems to “blur” but it is the logo growing dull and then bright.
0:03 - The Niantic balloon logo is replaced by the Ingress copy in bright white. The sound of a heartbeat continues in background.
0:05 - The Ingress logo is replaced by the Via Noir logo. The sound of a heartbeat continues in background. Screens begin to appear replacing the logo
0:06
As the screen change - words appear - EVERY LIGHT CASTS A SHADOW
0:08 the screens fade the the text brightens - heartbeat sound still heard
0:10 Switch to a statue
Male Voice 1: The modern world was utterly in the dark.
0:14 Switch to a close up of a woman's face, potentially The Acolyte
The images continue to blur a little in and out with the background heartbeat sound
0:15 Switch to a image of a place
Heartbeat in background. Music/sound begins to build in background as well
Female Voice: Our friends wish to explore us; our minds. All aspects of us; even the dark ones.
0:22 Switch image of a city
Heartbeat and sound still in background
Female Voice 2: Fight the forces that would drag us back into the darkness.
0:28 Switch image of a place
Heartbeat and sound in background
Female Voice 2: Fight the forces that would drag us back into the darkness.
0:31 Switch image of a city
Heartbeat and sound in background
Female Voice 3: Turn the darkness of the N'Zeer into the dynamo of transformation.
0:38 Switch image of a city
Heartbeat and sound in background
Male Voice 2: I hear whispered voices in the dark.
0:41 Switch image to Devra touching a statue
Heartbeat and sound in background
0:46 Switch image to place with word SEOUL across screen
Heartbeat and sound in background
Female Voice 2: A blur of thoughts that had been ripping through his mind has been reduced to focusing on a never ending dark horizon, the vanishing point.
0:55 Switch image to image of Acolyte
Heartbeat and sound in background
Male Voice 3: Now you know my darkest secret.
1:00 Switch image to image of statue with VIA Noir Text on Screen
Heartbeat and sound in background
Male Voice (uncertain which voice as whispered): It will be perfect silence. It will be both the universe and the void.
1:04 Switch to image of ingress base logo
Sound in background then a mix of many voices
