40 threads across 4 episodes

Threads

Every episode has a new cast, and yet some things keep coming back: a person, a family, a number, a moth, a word. These are the threads, episode by episode.

How to read a thread

One ## per thread. A bullet starts with the episode that holds it; series-wide lines have no episode code. The first line of a thread names the characters and things it carries. Ideas marked {series gather} or {eggs sweep} are crew proposals for connecting the plots (Aaron, 2026-10-22: "start connecting the plots across episodes"); lines marked {E3 rev2 plan} are the working choices of Episode 3's Revision 2 crew (the night after Episode 2, Noor home, everyone who writes to the agent living in Rosie's house, the turn at 30:00), not Aaron's decisions. Episode 3's protagonist is "she" here, as Aaron says it; the screen never says. Merged 2026-10-22 from the six gather files and Revision 2's plan v1.

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The swimlanes

A row per thread and a lane per episode; each mark is one line of the thread in that episode, in its tier's shape. The last lane is the thread across the series: what connects it, mostly ideas.

Thread	E1	E2	E3	E4
Rosie's life			11
The Haddads and the Moon	·	8	10
Staying up for someone
Children awake at night
The girl with the tail
The hidden house and its warm window
The kitchen, the fridge and the house			7
Crimson Coil, the painting
The end room
Viewers like Aaron
The moth
Goodnight, again, the loop and the heartbeat			7
The five-minute clock, the quiet minute and the 20:00 turn
The Storm Bell
The 2.56 seconds	·
Red is the thing that's leaving
Four-twelve and the small hours		·
Fourteen
DAY 76 · 10:42		·
1-555-533-7437
Coil Black and the fine print
BUT WAIT				·
Stamps that move things far away	·			·
Things made and never watched		·	7
Working without seeing		·
The host's stories come back		·
The sneezer in the margin			·
The watermelon and the seed	·		8
Teo's work in the world	·
No work on occupied modules: the Homestead's habits on later machines	·		7
Processes nobody stops	·
The breathing card	·		·
PAWN and the draws	·			7
The lonely man and the machines that keep company	·		8
FEED 3 and the night watch	·	·
q, the oak table and the grey cards	·
Lantern and the regulars	·
"That's fine."				·
The address at 29:47
The boy's family and the earlier episodes	·	·	·

Rosie's life30 lines

Crimson Coil

On screenNine today, the caller's little sister; she asked him for "the girl with the tail" nineteen hours before his call. {E1 04:30.8-04:39} edit
On screenHe finishes her painting at 5:09 a.m., attempt #4, oil on a pizza-box lid, and falls asleep on the line. {E1 26:37; 27:25} edit
On screenThe credits: Rosie ........ nine today. {E1 26:55-27:25} edit

Earthlight

EggAbout seventy, grandma_rosie in longhand's chat, never read aloud: "my big brother used to stay up all night painting along with a man on tv. this is the same kind of quiet" {E2 07:27} edit
Egg"he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box. for my ninth birthday. still on my fridge" {E2 14:07.5} edit
Egg"somebody stayed up all night painting for me once. i was nine. stay up for her, love" {E2 27:51.6} edit
RunningUnder Aaron's steel she sits in the chat of the stream her granddaughter lives by, the night her granddaughter calls in; nobody on screen connects them. {E2 27:51.6; Aaron 2026-10-22} edit

The swimlanes

Rosie's life30 lines

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The Haddads and the Moon28 lines

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Staying up for someone13 lines

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Children awake at night10 lines

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The girl with the tail12 lines

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The hidden house and its warm window20 lines

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The kitchen, the fridge and the house16 lines

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Crimson Coil, the painting13 lines

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The end room13 lines

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Viewers like Aaron10 lines

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The moth10 lines

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Goodnight, again, the loop and the heartbeat19 lines

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The five-minute clock, the quiet minute and the 20:00 turn16 lines

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The Storm Bell10 lines

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The 2.56 seconds9 lines

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Red is the thing that's leaving6 lines

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Four-twelve and the small hours11 lines

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Fourteen9 lines

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DAY 76 · 10:429 lines

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1-555-533-74378 lines

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Coil Black and the fine print9 lines

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BUT WAIT5 lines

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Stamps that move things far away4 lines

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Things made and never watched18 lines

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Working without seeing12 lines

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The host's stories come back6 lines

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The sneezer in the margin6 lines