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The Leviathan Chronicles

Internal Affairs | Part 1

The Leviathan Chronicles

Leviathan Audio Productions

Science Fiction, Comedy Fiction, Fiction

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This episode is made possible by the generous support of our subscribers on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠. Join us at ⁠⁠patreon.com/leviathanchronicles⁠⁠ to hear episodes ad free and unlock exclusive content. Internal Affairs dives deeper into the mysterious world of The Blackdoor Group. Of the 20 speciality ‘Doors’ that comprise the elite espionage division, Door #20 represents Enforcement - the Internal Affairs division of Blackdoor that assures its power is wielded responsibly. Led by Chief Hardwick, Door #20 is the only ‘Door’ that contains the power to shut down other divisions through Doorlock Termination.  When Jason Sterling goes rogue and becomes enmeshed with the extraterrestrials trapped in Leviathan, one of Blackdoor’s best agents is assigned to bring him in and will be forced to risk everything in order to do it.To discover more podcasts set in The Leviathan Universe go to leviathanaudioproductions.com or follow us social on media Written by Christof Laputka Produced by Robin Shore Directed by Nobi Nakanishi Executive Produced by Amish Jani Original Music by Luke Allen Sound Design & Editing by Luke Allen and Robin Shore Starring Amanda Lichtenberg as Celeste Harris Adam Royce Sonnet as Owen Monty Bratten as Gunther Klein Eric Dieter as Doorchief Hardwick David Ault as The Drill Instructor Samantha Parker as The Narrator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:15.1

Hey, everyone. This is Christoph.

0:16.7

And this is Robin.

0:17.6

And welcome to the first of our special edition episode series.

0:22.4

Our first episode we're going to be listening to is Internal Affairs.

0:26.7

This was one of the first special editions that we wrote.

0:30.0

And it is a deeper dive into the world of Black Door, exploring some of the ramifications

0:36.2

of Jason Sterling's actions.

0:37.8

Yeah, the special edition episodes or long-form episodes that we made over a decade now at this point.

0:44.4

And we've been talking about kind of refreshing and re-releasing them for a long time now.

0:49.7

So like Christoph said, the first one we're doing is called Internal Affairs.

0:53.3

And we just had the chance to

0:55.2

listen to this ourselves for the first time in quite a while. And I think we were both really

1:00.3

struck by how much our style has evolved since we first made this episode. Yeah. When we first

1:06.4

started, there weren't a lot of podcasters and there were even less fiction podcasters and most that

1:11.8

were authors that were narrating their books. So when we went about creating internal affairs

1:19.5

and the early episodes of Leviathan, we were really mirror, I saw myself more as a writer than

1:25.0

an audio drama creator. And I think that's reflected in how the

1:29.1

script is structured. Yeah, I mean, we've often said that in the early days of Leviathan Chronicles,

1:35.1

we didn't really know what we were doing. And part of that was, I don't know if either Christoph or I

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