Earth, Again
Julia Drake for Mira
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.
