The Ones

The Volunteers

In 2018, Case Parks wrote and directed a short film about souls who volunteered to come to Earth. His daughters, looking down at our planet, have a telepathic conversation about the craziest thing they've ever done. One of them says she went to Earth. The film was seen by over eight million people across social media platforms and translated into twelve languages.

The Ones is the story of what these volunteers actually look like when they are living among us, raising kids, cleaning up dog poop, sitting with people who are dying. They don't wear capes. They're just people doing the best they can in every moment, quietly changing the world.

You don't notice it at first.

Ordinary people are starting to remember.

Not things they forgot. Things they've always known but spent a lifetime running from. Past lives. Ancient connections. The quiet certainty that the people around them are not strangers.

One man returns home to say goodbye to his dying mother. And it spreads from there. Quietly. Unstoppably.

Chance is not the source of what's happening. He is the first visible ripple. The blue beings did not create something new when they activated him in that desert circle twenty years ago. They unlocked something that was already there.

He is not the only one. There are others. They don't know it yet.

The blue beings showing up at Fenman's was not a side effect. They were there for Jorge.

Jorge brought a fake gun. The universe brought the real thing.

Jorge went into that gas station one person and came out another. Not because Chance changed him. Because Jorge was always going to remember. Chance just got there first.

That is intentional.

The Story

THE ONES is an eight-episode grounded sci-fi drama set in a small town in Ohio, where an outcast son returns home to say goodbye to his dying mother. His fundamentalist brother is already there waiting. And the family he brings with him has no idea what they've just walked into.

The story begins small. Then you start to notice things. Cameras glitch when Chance walks past. Light behaves differently around certain people. Memories surface. Not new ones. Ancient ones.

Everyone here thinks they're right. That's what makes it so dangerous.

His presence doesn't change people. He unlocks what's already there. Love becomes more loving. Fear becomes more fearful.

At first it feels isolated. Personal. It's not.

The Souls

Chance

40 · Native American

A man who doesn't try to change people, and somehow does anyway. When he enters a room, most people feel seen in a way they're not used to. The ones who don't... feel it even more.

Chance & Adela

The Heart of the Show

They don't complete each other. They steady each other. Twenty years in and they still surprise each other. That's no accident.

Adela

40 · Latina

Still in a way most people aren't. Her silence when the world gets loud isn't absence. It's her superpower.

Zoel

Sharp, blunt, and doesn't put up with anyone's bullshit, including her father's. Something in her is stirring awake. She didn't ask for it… but it feels more true than anything she's ever known.

Cruz

Ten years old and already knows more than most adults will ever allow themselves to know. He doesn't seem to care.

Casey & Wendy

45 · The Brother

A man who's spent his life needing to be in control, and the woman who's learned how to live beside that. Casey isn't a villain. He's a man shaped by fear. Wendy already questions it. One day, so will he.

Kenny & Jen

40 · Lottery Winners

A big-hearted small-town guy who means exactly what he says, and his wife who documents everything like it matters. They have a good life. Simple. Solid. Then… they don't.

Kinsey

40 · The Inn

After losing everything she built a place where others can start over. Unknowingly saving herself in the process. She will.

Jorge

20s

Stuck in a small farm town feeling disconnected from everyone, he'll do anything to get out. Until an other-worldly encounter reveals he's connected to everything.

Ella

Late 20s

Her rebellious nature led her somewhere she knew felt wrong. Now the one person she truly trusted seems to have lost his mind. She has no idea that he just found it.

The World

Fear vs. Love

Every scene is about this choice. Not in a heavy-handed way, but in the way real life is about making moment by moment choices, without ever announcing itself. Chance unlocks what's already present. Caring people open further. Fearful people harden.

Every Scene is a Reunion

No encounter between characters is truly a first meeting. Chance and Jorge have been finding each other for centuries. Kenny has been Chance's family before. Every scene is a homecoming. Some are ready to see it and some are not.

Memory as Liberation

Loneliness, fear, and judgment thrive because we've forgotten how connected we actually are. When someone truly remembers what it feels like to have lived another life, judgment collapses and compassion thrives. And the people around them start to change.

The Quiet Revolution

The world will not heal through a chosen One. It heals through the chosen Ones. Ordinary people across every race, culture and income level. The revolution quietly spreading like a feeling one person catches from another. You can't explain it. And you can't unfeel it.

Zoel · 17

She doesn't believe in any of this. Which is exactly why it's happening to her.

Just listening.

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Episodes

45-55

Min / Episode

Genre

Drama / Grounded Sci-Fi

Self-contained, world built for continuation

Pilot Script

Episode One
"The Ones"

The outcast son returns home. In a single day he changes four lives who will spend the rest of the season trying to understand what happened to them. Nobody planned it. And it's already spreading.

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For the Industry

The Ones
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Eight episodes. The complete story of how it starts, how it spreads, and who is guiding it from just out of frame. Who knows. Who doesn't. And who will do anything to stop it.

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The Creator

Case
Parks

Writer & Creator

In 2018, Case Parks wrote and directed a short film called The Volunteers to explain a shift in consciousness he experienced firsthand. In it, his daughters, looking down on Earth, have a telepathic conversation about the craziest thing they've ever done. One of them says she went to Earth. The film was seen by over eight million people across social media platforms and translated into twelve languages.

THE ONES is what happens when that idea grows up and walks into the real world.

The series was written to answer a single question that has no satisfying answer in the current television landscape: what would it look like if a show explored why certain people feel deeply connected to strangers, why some memories feel borrowed, and why forces we can't name sometimes feel more real than the ones we can?

THE ONES is that show.

Ordinary people are starting to remember.

This show is ready to be made.

Episode One"The Ones"

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Episode One
"The Ones"

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