The Last Ones

In a museum, a professor shows his students many familiar dying species.

Type:

Short

Status:

For sale

Page Count:

4pp

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Budget:

Independent

Age Rating:

13+

Based On:

My audio script.

Synopsis/Details:

A professor brings his students to a museum housing "The Hall of the Last Ones," a gathering of endangered species. He shows them animals like the last elephant and the last fox, explaining why science is unable to help them. He also unveils a terrifying example of cross-breeding gone mysteriously wrong.

Finally, he comes upon a dead subject whose demise saddens him. He explains to his young students that when he and his fellow aliens conquered the Earth, they tried their best to preserve all the animal species.

This subject was the last human being.

He allows himself a moment of sadness, then suggests they all have lunch.

Story & Logistics

Story Conclusion:

Sad

Linear Structure:

Linear

Cast Size:

Several

Locations:

Single

Special Effects:

Animatronics/puppets

Characters

Lead Role Ages:

Male over 45

Advanced

Time Period:

Near future

Submitted: October 14, 2019

Last Updated: March 19, 2024

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The Writer: Mike Murphy

Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories. A more complete list of awards is presented below by year. In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9). In the same year, Mike's screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the 2025 New York International Screenplay Awards. In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay... Go to bio