MOLE-1: character sheet · I Love My Evening Television

MOLE-1 is the episode's reveal. At 03:31 Teo stamps Sheet 2 on Earth, the picture pulls back out of his stream onto a cracked iPad in a child's taped hands, and outside her window a dark digger's beacon blinks on and its drums turn, in silence, on the stamp's frame. From then on the viewer knows the rule. At the end Teo's Rev B puts the whole fleet to cold sleep, "EXCEPT MOLE-1": it is sent to dig her deeper.

Who8 lines

RunningA knee-to-waist-high drum digger: counter-rotating drums, a sensor bar, tape on one arm. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §6.3} edit

RunningIt obeys every issue; it works the ring berm round the landing pad (sheet E-02). {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §6.2, §6.3} edit

On screenTwin of MOLE-2, which froze. {E2 03:31; 13:08} edit

EggLike the whole fleet it builds to the latest issued revision of Teo's public plan set (the ad's fine print). {E2 23:18-23:21} edit

SteelWhen the planner names a structure, the girl looks out and sees robots building it. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12} edit

RunningToo big to help dig her tunnel; she cut that with a ration scoop and PAWN's arm. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §8} edit

IdeaFor our own reference: it has been digging the same half berm, a metre high, for months; nobody issued anything else. {lore crew 2026-10-22; E2 WORLD_BIBLE §6.2} edit

IdeaFor our own reference: MOLE-1 and MOLE-2 always worked as a pair; since hour 9 it has worked the berm alone, past its twin. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit

Life on the Y axis4 lines

Runningabout Y+55..56 The fleet builds Phase 1; the berm is begun and left about half built. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §6.2, §10} edit

On screenabout Y+60 Dark and parked until Sheet 2's stamp; it wakes on it. {E2 03:31} edit

On screenabout Y+60 After Rev B it rolls to HAB 3 and digs a drift toward her tunnel. {E2 28:16-28:40} edit

Ideaabout Y+60..63 It keeps digging after everyone has gone. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit

By episode8 lines

Earthlight

On screenTeo: "...so the landings don't sandblast everything. Issued for construction." {E2 03:24-03:31} edit
On screenDark and parked until Sheet 2's ISSUED; then its beacon blinks on and its drums turn, in silence, on the same frame. {E2 03:31} edit
On screenThe picture pulls back out of the screen at that moment: the stream is on her iPad, the robot outside her window. {E2 03:31-03:35} edit
RunningHer copy of the stream runs 1.28 s behind Teo's desk, so the stamp and the robot land in the same frame. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT §6.1} edit
On screenRev B's note 2: EXCEPT MOLE-1: EXTEND HAB 3 TUNNEL TO 3 M COVER. {E2 28:10} edit
On screenAfter Rev B its light goes out; it rolls to the ground beside HAB 3, drums running. {E2 28:16-28:20} edit
RunningIts drums are felt through her floor as the hum comes back. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT S38} edit
On screenThe flyby's x-ray shows its new drift angling down to meet her tunnel. {E2 28:40} edit

Look4 lines

On screenA drum digger with a blinking beacon; its drums turn without a sound. {E2 03:31} edit

RunningKnee-to-waist high, counter-rotating drums, a sensor bar across its front, tape on one arm. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §6.3} edit

RunningBuilt from the existing GLB robot_1_digger; the same model as MOLE-2, without the frost. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §6.3} edit

RunningOne warm light, like every Homestead robot. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §6.3} edit

Ties5 lines

On screen Twin of MOLE-2. {E2 03:31} edit

On screen Woken by Teo Varga's The stamps: Sheet 2's ISSUED. {E2 03:31} edit

On screen The one robot Sheet 3, revision B gives work: deepening The hideaway for Noor Haddad. {E2 28:10} edit

On screen Part of Tranquility Homestead's fleet with LOOM, DRAY, FINCH and PAWN. {E2} edit

Running Answers sheets of EARTHLIGHT, as the whole fleet does. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit

Open3 lines

OpenWhether it finished the drift, and what it found. {E2 28:40} edit

IdeaIt kept going on the hidden page's line, TO THE PIT: 17 degrees, and it is what is below the door in the floor. {lore crew 2026-10-22; HIDDEN-01} edit

IdeaA later episode quotes it as a robot with MOLE-1 on its hull, still digging, or as a museum piece. {E2 QUOTABLES Q-E2-14} edit

MOLE-1

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