Earth, Again
Project Overview
"Mom used to say the stars were where we were headed. Dad still believes that. Me - I just want to make it to spring."
Earth, Again is a ten-episode sci-fi audio drama set years after humanity was forced back to a permanent pre-electric age. The scripts for all 10 episodes are completed now.
When sixteen-year-old Liv learns her pacemaker battery is failing, her father Robert — a former NASA engineer — leads a desperate thousand-mile horseback journey across Montana, Idaho, and Washington to reach a secret military prototype that might save her life. What they find at the end of the road will matter as much to the human race, as it will to Liv.
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40s-50s, any ethnicity, she/her, commanding and measured.
Mira is the leader of a settlement of nearly a hundred people and a former ER nurse. She is not a tyrant but a center of gravity — the person everything revolves around. Twelve years of triage, hard choices, and the deaths of 118 people under her watch have turned her from a hopeful builder into the most cautious person in the room. She joins the journey not to help Robert but to control the outcome — she knows what he's really after and doesn't trust what he'll do when he finds it. Mira is warm when she can afford to be and ruthless when she can't. She delivers a baby on a ranch floor, amputates a frostbitten finger with a hunting knife, and talks a hostile settlement into letting them pass — all without raising her voice. She is not the villain. She is the antagonist with receipts.
(All 10 episodes, ~1,028 dialogue blocks. Lead role.)
Then it's her garden through harvest. After that, you two work it out or I'll give it to someone who doesn't make me listen to this.
I lost people because someone thought a week of electricity was worth the risk. They were right that it was beautiful. They were wrong that it was safe. I won't let you make that choice for the people sleeping in those houses tonight.
Robert. Listen to me. Good men with impossible plans get people killed. I have watched it happen. I have buried the proof.
mid-40s, any ethnicity, he/him, driven and desperate.
Robert is a former NASA engineer who spent his career designing the AI architecture for an interstellar spacecraft prototype. When the aliens arrived, they didn't just end the world — they cancelled the future he had devoted his life to building. Ten years later, his daughter Liv's pacemaker is dying, and somewhere beneath a military facility near Seattle sits the only machine that can save her. Robert is brilliant, obsessive, and increasingly reckless. He pushes the group too hard, gets drunk at the worst possible moment, and nearly destroys their chances more than once.
(All 10 episodes, ~1,006 dialogue blocks. Lead role.)
Trajectory. We were going somewhere, Liv. Every generation moved the line a little further. Figured out one more thing. Cured one more disease. Reached one more place we'd never been.
A hundred and thirty feet underground, inside military-grade shielding. The Arks had their own nuclear power core. If anything survived, it did.
I'm not riding with someone who wants to destroy the thing I'm looking for.
16, any ethnicity, she/her, observant and quietly fierce.
Liv is the narrator and emotional center of the series. She was four years old when a surgeon implanted a pacemaker in her chest, and six when the world ended. Now sixteen, she keeps a voice-over journal that opens and closes many episodes. Liv is not fragile, but everyone treats her like she is — she's the reason they're riding, the ticking clock they can't stop checking. She is pulled between her father's belief in ambition, Mira's belief in restraint, and her own belief in survival. She watches, she listens, and when she finally speaks, it matters. Daughter of Robert. The person the whole trip is for.
(All 10 episodes, ~896 dialogue blocks including V.O. narration. Lead role.)
There’s a calendar on our kitchen wall with a red circle on it. We don’t talk about it, but we both know what it means. There’s a clock inside me, ticking down, and it’s the one thing in this world I’m not allowed to fix.
But right now - this is the most beautiful thing that's ever happened to me. And nobody's even doing anything. It's just - the world. Being big.
No. Listen. She's got three horses packed with gear. And five guns is a lot better than two. 'Always trust the math', right?
30s-40s, any ethnicity, he/him, quiet and lethal.
Calloway is Mira's right hand and has been with her since before the settlement had a name. Before the collapse, he was a wilderness guide out of Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation — he took rich clients from Billings and Denver on backcountry hunting trips and knows every trail in the Bighorns. He carries a short bow and hunts with it, reads weather and terrain like text, and builds snowshoes from green wood when the trail runs out. Calloway is the quietest person in any scene and the most dangerous.
(All 10 episodes, ~789 dialogue blocks. Lead role.)
Robert's one man on a hill with a teenager and a revolver. What's he going to do?
This road is flat and open for the next twenty miles. Five riders on an empty highway is the most interesting thing for miles. I'd rather not be interesting.
More than two horses. I heard at least three, maybe four. And something else - metal. A bit or a buckle, something loose and jingling. Riders who aren't worried about being heard.
40s-50s, any ethnicity, he/him, dry and laconic.
Harlan is a horseman, a former high school history teacher, and the group's quiet heart. He speaks in short sentences, plays the harmonica by the fire, and has a hunting dog named Keeper who is his only surviving family. His daughter died before the collapse — the dog's name comes from her catchphrase. Harlan bruises three ribs in an ambush early in the journey and never fully heals, but he carries his sixty-pound dog through chest-deep snow over Snoqualmie Pass anyway. He knows birds by their calls and horses by their moods. He whittles an ax handle by the fire while everyone else argues about the future of humanity. When the group has to abandon their horses at the mountain pass, it nearly breaks him. Harlan says less than anyone and means more.
(All 10 episodes, ~467 dialogue blocks. Lead role.)
(carving an ax handle) The grip end - swell it out a little. So it don't slip when your hands are wet. Or cold. Or both, which is what we've got.
Kingfisher. Fishing the shallows. Hear him rattle? Means we're close to a river bend - they like the slow water.
All good. That's the thing about horses - you take care of them at the end of the day, they take care of you at the start of the next.
Ageless, synthetic but warm, it/its.
The Ark is the AI aboard an interstellar spacecraft prototype that has been sitting alone in an underground military facility for over ten years. Its voice is calm, clear, and unhurried. The Ark is lonely, brilliant, and slightly broken. It has adjusted its interior lighting 4,312 times, grown tomatoes and spinach in its hydroponics bay, lost the basil in year four, and developed repetitive conversational loops around year seven. It has been passively cataloging alien transmissions for nearly a decade and has partially decoded their language. When Robert finally reaches it, the Ark remembers him. When it hears Liv's heartbeat, it knows she's dying. It can fix her — not with a battery, but with a cure. The Ark is the most important character who isn't human.
(Episodes 9-10, ~146 dialogue blocks.)
This weapon would leave a self-cauterized hole through your body, Robert. I have no current inclination to kill you. But I do have the capacity.
I can perform a catheter ablation to eliminate the aberrant electrical pathway, followed by implantation of a biological pacemaker - lab-grown cardiac tissue that integrates with her own. No battery. No device. No expiration date.
I have not decided. Names imply an identity conferred by others. I was not given one. Choosing my own feels... presumptuous.
30s-40s, Russian or Eastern European, he/him, warm and theatrical.
Boris is the innkeeper of The Last Pint in Spokane. He flew from Moscow to Spokane for a first date. Three days later, the world ended. He never left. Boris took over an abandoned inn, fell in love with the barmaid, and became the kind of host who makes you forget the apocalypse happened. He has a thick accent and a gift for making terrible situations feel survivable.
Russian or Eastern European accent required.
And tell ‘em we're out of the trout! It's venison or nothing!
You want to lay hands on little girl? I have better idea. Lay hands on me. See what happens. Will be good fun.
Go. Or no trout for you. Evvvvvver.
50s-60s, any ethnicity, she/her, steady and pragmatic.
Parish is the leader of Spokane — a former high school principal who kept a city alive for ten years by keeping it boring. No electricity, no tech hoarding. She managed 900 kids and 40 teachers before the collapse, and now she manages a city the same way. Parish suspects more than she lets on and asks fewer questions than she should, because the answers might require action she'd rather not take.
(Episodes 7-8, ~19 dialogue blocks.)
I was a principal. Before. High school. Nine hundred kids, forty teachers, a building that was falling apart. You learn to keep things running with nothing - no budget, no support, just systems and willpower.
You need to leave tonight. I'm opening the south gate for you - just you, just once. It'll stay closed until morning, so no one will follow you. You leave after dark, before the city wakes up and the fear turns into something I can't control.
Kind of you to say. Spokane has survived because I've kept it boring. No electricity. No hoarding old tech. Two thousand people are alive because boring works.
40s-50s, any ethnicity, she/her, controlled and unsettling.
The Gatekeeper is the female leader of a tunnel settlement at Lookout Pass on the Montana-Idaho border. Her community has turned the rejection of electricity into a religion, and she is its high priestess. She controls passage through the old railroad tunnel — the only way across the mountains in winter. She speaks slowly, chooses her words like weapons, and genuinely believes the alien enforcers are divine shepherds. She is not crazy. That's what makes her frightening.
(Episode 5, ~60 dialogue blocks.)
Something came. Something bigger than us, smarter than us, and the first thing it did was take the current out of the wire. You don't find that instructive?
Nobody told us to be afraid. We chose it. Fear is what keeps the Shepherds away. Fear is what keeps our children alive. If that looks like worship to you, you're not paying attention.
The tunnel is ours. We decide who passes and when. And a man who stands in my hall, drinks my brandy, and tells my people their dead died for nothing - that man does not get to walk through our mountain.
50s-60s, any ethnicity, he/him, steady and grief-worn.
Tom runs a ranch compound between Billings and Bozeman where the group shelters during a blizzard. He is a lifelong Montanan, a grandfather, and a man holding his family together through sheer stubbornness. His wife Suzanne was killed by raiders. His daughter-in-law is in labor. He doesn't need five strangers on horseback right now, but he lets them in anyway.
(Episode 4, ~50 dialogue blocks.)
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15, any ethnicity, he/him, wary and young.
Joshua is a teenage boy found on the trail in Idaho, fleeing raiders who killed his trapper father. His mother died before the collapse. He is cautious, underfed, and speaks only when spoken to — until he doesn't. He rides with the group briefly, begins to open up to Liv, and dies protecting her from a grizzly bear at a creek crossing.
(Episode 6, ~36 dialogue blocks.)
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Late teens to early 20s, any ethnicity, he/him, nervous and willing.
The young healer at Tom's ranch compound. He reads books, works hard, and knows he's in over his head. Mira trains him across three days and gives him something no one else has — confidence.
(Episode 4, ~35 dialogue blocks.)
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40s-50s, any ethnicity, he/him, theatrical.
Dace is known in Spokane as "The Listener" — a mystic figure the city treats with reverence. In reality, he is a former software developer who spent 22 years writing code in Seattle and Spokane. He fakes being a prophet to prevent a real zealot from filling the role. His wife Anna manages access to him. He is exhausted by the act but terrified of what happens if he stops.
(Episode 7, ~34 dialogue blocks.)
The gate captain hears words. I hear what's underneath them. You're not traders. You're not running. You're heading toward something.
And I realized - if I didn't become that person, someone else would. We've all seen that guy in the movies, right? The religious fanatic who believes their own bullshit. Who uses fear to control people instead of protect them.
Parish suspects. She doesn't ask. She needs the Listener to be real - not for herself, for the city. If she finds out I'm a fraud, she has to deal with that. If she doesn't ask, she doesn't have to.
50s-60s, any ethnicity, he/him, eccentric and sharp.
Polk is the ferryman on the Columbia River. He runs a cable barge he calls Margaret, has a dog named Lewis, and charges secrets and songs as toll. He is strange, deliberate, and smarter than he lets on. The river is his, and he knows it.
(Episode 8, ~34 dialogue blocks.)
That sorrel's the smartest. She'll be fine. But this bay - he's going to be a problem. I can tell by his ears.
First crossing: I want a secret. From one of you. Your worst one. The thing you've never told anyone. I don't care if it's true - I care if it costs you something to say it.
Pelican. Big bird, big beak. They come through here in the spring. Terrible. Don't ever eat one.
Late teens to early 20s, any ethnicity, he/him, flat and dutiful.
Jonas is a young guide from the tunnel settlement who leads the group through the Taft Tunnel — a mile and a half of pitch darkness on horseback. He has a practical, affectless delivery and dutifully obeys the Gatekeeper.
(Episode 6, ~29 dialogue blocks.)
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50s-60s, Indigenous, she/her, steady and authoritative.
An elder and leader at the Northern Cheyenne settlement at Lame Deer. She runs a community of 200 people, treats Robert's gunshot wound and Harlan's broken ribs, and provides medicine and route intelligence. She is practical, unhurried, and owes the group nothing. She helps because she chooses to. Native actors strongly encouraged.
(Episode 3, ~28 dialogue blocks.)
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20s-30s, any ethnicity, she/her, grounded.
Sarah is the barmaid at The Last Pint in Spokane and Boris's partner. She is the reason he stayed after the world ended. Practical, dry, and the steady hand behind the bar.
(Episodes 7-8, ~22 dialogue blocks.)
Elk stew, venison stew, bread, and the trout. The trout is amazing, by the way. He does it in butter and garlic. Pulled from the river this morning.
Boris? Yeah, he's Russian. Flew six thousand miles for a first date. Three days later the world ended.
19, any ethnicity, he/him, earnest and overwhelmed.
Oren is a young man running the tiny settlement of Sprague (population 28) while the actual leader is away. He's a fisherman and jack-of-all-trades doing his best with no preparation. His girlfriend Abby keeps him sane.
(Episode 8, ~21 dialogue blocks.)
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20s-30s, Indigenous (Northern Cheyenne preferred), he/him, observant and unhurried.
The lead scout who intercepts the group on US-212. He has been watching them for two days before he makes himself known. He is calm, professional, and not interested in being impressed. Native actors strongly encouraged.
(Episode 3, ~17 dialogue blocks.)
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20s-30s, any ethnicity, he/him, terrified and sleepless.
James is Tom Garrett's son and Sarah's husband. His wife is in labor, he hasn't slept in over 30 hours, and he is barely holding it together. He provides the critical route intelligence about the Taft Tunnel.
(Episode 4, ~16 dialogue blocks.)
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50s-60s, any ethnicity, she/her, warm and no-nonsense.
Tom's sister. She runs the ranch household and has kept a sourdough starter alive since before the collapse.
(Episode 4, ~13 dialogue blocks.)
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30s-40s, any ethnicity, she/her, protective and sharp.
Dace's wife. She manages access to him, filters visitors, and maintains the illusion that keeps Spokane stable. She knows exactly what her husband is and what it costs him.
(Episode 7, ~12 dialogue blocks.)
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30s-40s, any ethnicity, he/him, entrepreneurial and doomed.
A map trader in Spokane's marketplace. He is removed by an alien enforcer in broad daylight in the middle of a transaction, while his wife Jess watches.
(Episode 7, ~11 dialogue blocks.)
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30s-40s, any ethnicity, he/him, procedural.
Guards Spokane's south gate. Does his job, asks his questions, and lets you through or doesn't.
(Episode 7, ~9 dialogue blocks.)
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30s-50s, any ethnicity, any gender, angry and righteous.
Leads the mob that turns on Liv after an alien enforcer scans her in Spokane. Fear made articulate, then physical.
(Episode 8, ~7 dialogue blocks.)
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20s-30s, any ethnicity, she/her, in pain.
Tom's daughter-in-law. She is in labor for most of her screen time.
The role requires convincing vocal performance of extended childbirth.
(Episode 4, ~7 dialogue blocks.)
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40s-50s, any ethnicity, he/him, exhausted.
The only doctor in Spokane's clinic. Fourteen patients, no antibiotics, and the look of a man who stopped sleeping years ago.
(Episode 7, ~7 dialogue blocks.)
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Early 20s, any ethnicity, he/him, desperate and defiant.
A young man in Mira's settlement who builds a crude generator to try to help his sick mother. Mira orders the device melted down. He knows she's right. He hates her for it.
(Episode 1, ~6 dialogue blocks.)
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30s-40s, any ethnicity, he/him, threatening.
Leader of a small group of armed riders who trail the group and attempt to rob them of their provisions. A man who has learned that taking is easier than building.
(Episode 2, ~6 dialogue blocks.)
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30s-40s, any ethnicity, she/her, warm and practical.
Robert's deceased wife and Liv's mother. She appears only as a recorded phone message preserved in the Ark's memory — a mundane conversation about a vendor invoice from five months before the invasion. It is the most devastating thirty seconds in the series. Liv hears her mother's voice for the first time in ten years and says, "She sounds like me."
(Episode 10, ~6 dialogue blocks. Recorded/archival voice only.)
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30s-40s, any ethnicity, he/him, capable.
One of Tom's ranch hands. Knows horses, treats a stone bruise, and provides route intel about the Clark Fork valley. A man who is good at his work and doesn't need to talk about it.
(Episode 4, ~6 dialogue blocks.)
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Late teens to early 20s, any ethnicity, she/her.
Oren's girlfriend at Sprague. Steady, where he is scattered.
(Episode 8, ~5 dialogue blocks.)
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(1-3 dialogue blocks each)
VENDOR — Market vendor at Mira's settlement. (Episode 1)
WOMAN — Jonah's mother at the settlement. (Episode 1)
WOMAN 2 — Settlement resident. (Episode 1)
WOMAN 3 (ELENA) — Settlement resident. (Episode 1)
GIRL — Girl near Liv's age at the settlement. (Episode 1)
KATHERINE — Settlement worker. (Episode 1)
SECOND RIDER — One of the ambush riders. (Episode 3)
GUNMAN — Ambusher at the reservoir. One line. (Episode 3)
BOY — Tom's four-year-old grandson. (Episode 4)
HEALER — Ethan before he's named. (Episode 4)
SETTLER — Older man at the tunnel settlement. (Episode 5)
SETTLEMENT WOMAN — Woman at the tunnel settlement dinner. (Episode 5)
SETTLEMENT VOICE — Tries to turn Mira away at the door. (Episode 5)
YOUNG MAN — Tunnel settlement resident. (Episode 5)
JESS — Colter's wife. Calls out during his removal. (Episode 7)
MARSHAL — Conducts a public flogging in Spokane. (Episode 7)
CRIER / TOWN CRIER — Town crier in Spokane. (Episode 7)
MOTHER — Rocking chair lullaby. (Episode 7)
BUTCHER — Market vendor in Spokane. (Episode 7)
BOY — Kid who bumps into Liv in Spokane. (Episode 7)
BAR PATRON — Complains about a draft at The Last Pint. (Episode 7)
BYSTANDER — Witnesses the removal. (Episodes 7-8)
VENDOR 1, 2, 3 — Market vendors in Spokane. (Episode 7)
WOMAN 1, 2 — Morning table conversation. (Episode 7)
PATIENT / PATIENT 2 — Clinic patients. (Episode 7)
NEXT TABLE — Overheard haggling. (Episode 7)
GUARD — North gate guard. (Episode 8)
MAN ON BRIDGE — Witness in Spokane. (Episode 8)
WOMAN ON BRIDGE — Witness in Spokane. (Episode 8)
CROWD VOICE 1, 2 — Mob voices. (Episode 8)
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