Parts Per Million
Jun 29, 2025•20 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Episode description
A PhD candidate discovers a solution for climate change, but her advisor determines that solution may never leave the room.
This episode of Someone Dies In This Elevator is rated PG-13. Parts Per Million contains violence, betrayal, gunshots, mentions of bacteria, and death in an elevator.
Transcript here.
Parts Per Million was written by Fiona Clare and edited with additional materials by Jenna Rose. Produced by Fiona Clare, Hannah Semmelhack, and Paige Elizabeth Allen of Three Fates. Dialogue editing by Jenna Rose. Sound design by Taylor Tillman-Tess. This episode featured Tal Minear as Allison Stevens, Anusia Battersby as Nora Alia, Isaac Johnson as Dr Adam, Aryn Myatt as Eric Fitzgerald, Jenna Rose as Security Guard, and David Ault as Bill. Someone Dies in this Elevator is executive produced by Tal Minear. Someone Dies in this Elevator theme was composed by Trace Callahan. See the bottom of the show notes for SFX credits.
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SFX:
Nora footsteps
Allison footsteps
gunshot
gun slide
guard footsteps- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/c016ede1-684d-4b2c-82c8-16abe78939c7/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/ca237f66-6115-49cb-87a6-1858685052cd/
running pair footsteps
elevator- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/ee8c83f3-4502-48f7-aa9c-4802e1e8aa0f/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/cd1c9489-ffbd-49f7-a0e1-7322d058f332/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/7a720329-7652-43ab-8964-d4811e58f0cc/
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/freight-elevator-33694/
elevator button
ambiance- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/6f03a261-eb85-4cea-9562-e05b56548dc1/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/b02db458-0649-4977-a32f-aece7cce57b0/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/2548ab46-ec96-4b95-a987-c98a33677fc1/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/df171d9a-565b-43ea-b0d7-ecb8367e267d/
N/A hug
Keycard swipe
Keycard beep
male fighting- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/e37d49f9-7f59-4d53-ba60-9296950813fa/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/e89ca1ac-fd2d-447b-84a8-2c0aa9ad8226/
female fighting- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/2f7f2765-6bcf-4cb1-b6b8-43283c860234/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/5b2ff0ae-eede-479b-92cb-8477eba43ae1/
gasp
doors- https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/e6106c07-d7e6-4173-ad90-9898b7e281a4/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/b445734f-8516-4b1d-b386-4942d176ad4a/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/db64c238-cc91-4143-bc73-af31d031b385/
phone dial
call ending
chairs crashing- https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/chair-thrown-crash-bolt-fell-out-after-crash-92306/
https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/fa5ef45c-48f0-40fc-8a79-82a25c0da32f/
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/single-chair-hits-floor-bounce-107814/
Additional sounds recorded with the help of Morgan Hart and Natalie Gassert
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