Perhaps it's a deliberate thing, this hole that MNHQ are supposedly digging.
A kind of bunker.
When it all gets a bit too much up in The Towers, they can throw in a stooge-plop, like Gabby, or Mitmoo, and retire to the bunker/hole whilst we amuse ourselves on tail-chasing threads.
Then they can come back in the morning, and blame it all on Olivia and the gin.