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One night in the 1950s an infant boy arrived on the boat ''[[The Infant, Male, Pollock, Francis]]'', which dropped out of the sky outside the town [[Bergsberg]], Montana.<ref name="ep206">''[[Girl Power]]''</ref> A local couple, [[Marina Cardenas|Marina]] and [[Hector Cardenas]], found the boy and took him in, raising him along their son [[Arnold Cardenas|Arnold]] in the [[Cardenas house]]. |
One night in the 1950s an infant boy arrived on the boat ''[[The Infant, Male, Pollock, Francis]]'', which dropped out of the sky outside the town [[Bergsberg]], Montana.<ref name="ep206">''[[Girl Power]]''</ref> A local couple, [[Marina Cardenas|Marina]] and [[Hector Cardenas]], found the boy and took him in, raising him along their son [[Arnold Cardenas|Arnold]] in the [[Cardenas house]]. |
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Revision as of 14:50, 11 December 2017
Project Moloch is a character in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Project Moloch is a Project Blackwing subject, a man that has been in a coma for a long time and may possess great power.
Biography
Early life
One night in the 1950s an infant boy arrived on the boat The Infant, Male, Pollock, Francis, which dropped out of the sky outside the town Bergsberg, Montana.[1] A local couple, Marina and Hector Cardenas, found the boy and took him in, raising him along their son Arnold in the Cardenas house.
The boy exhibited strange powers, in that his dreams while asleep became reality. Among the things he created were the other house pocket dimension in the Cardenas house, the air gun, the Purple People Eater.
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One morning the boy saw Arnold talking to government agents outside the house. He fled into the mural room and laid down on the murphy bed, intending to create his fantasy world and flee. When the agents came in and grabbed him, the boy struggled and then had a seizure, making the electric lights flicker and go out. He had exerted his power to new heights, an act of creation that made Wendimoor real as a whole world; this created an electromagnetic pulse that affected a miles-wide radius around Bergsberg, an event that came to be named "The '67". This exertion caused the boy to fall into a coma. Afterwards, Project Black Book took the comatose boy with them, and seized and fenced off the Cardenas house.[4]
Governmental project
In the government's care, the boy received the code name "Project Moloch", was was kept first by Project Black Book[3] and after that by Project Blackwing under Scott Riggins. He stayed comatose all this time.[5]
He was referred to by Friedkin as "the most powerful subject that Riggins ever brought in".[5]
Young Dirk Gently was allowed to visit him and used to talk to him, considering Moloch his friend and assistant.[5]
After Blackwing shut down he was transferred several times, and spent time in a normal hospital. When Blackwing was reinstated under Friedkin, Moloch was brought back in; during transfer to the Blackwing facility he suffered a stroke.[5][3]
Season 2 (The Middle of Everywhere)
Friedkin as new supervisor of Blackwing inspected Project Moloch, being highly disappointed by its 'boring' nature. Later he put Dirk Gently into Moloch's cell to observe interaction between Blackwing subjects. Dirk proceeded to talk to Moloch, telling him of his adventures and his friends he'd made recently in the outside world.[5]
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Character
Moloch is an older man with grey hair. He has been comatose for a long time, at least fifteen years.
He is an anomalous entity, described as a "reality editor"[4]. While asleep, he can alter reality and bring things into being, both inanimate and animate; his dreams and nightmares become reality.[2][3]
Behind the scenes
- Project Moloch is portrayed by actor Robert Corness. Young Moloch is portrayed by actor Dylan Schombing.
- His Blackwing code name is "Project Moloch"; the name stems from a mythical figure. His Blackwing project symbol is a circle, with two interlocking circles inside.
Appearances
- Season 2 (BBC America)
- Space Rabbit
- That Is Not Miami (Young Moloch)
- Little Guy, Black Hair (Young Moloch)
- Trouble Is Bad (Young & Adult)
- Nice Jacket