Run: 2025-11-19-01KACPPMQ2N2A93WT0SQG5DS9K

**Hunter:** "Excuse me, miss. Mind if I take this seat? I’m looking for the woman taking landscape photos near the North Woods yesterday." **Melanie:** *(Startled, clutching her camera tightly)* "Oh... Entschuldigen Sie? Ich... ich verstehe nicht." **Hunter:** *(Flashes his badge)* "Detective Hunter. Alborn Police. I’m investigating the disappearance of the baker's daughter. I need to know if you saw anything unusual while you were out shooting." **Melanie:** *(Her hands tremble as she looks from the badge to his face)* "Polizei? Sind Sie von der Polizei?" **Hunter:** "English, ma'am. Do you speak English? I need to know where you were yesterday afternoon." **Melanie:** *(Shaking her head rapidly, distress rising in her voice)* "Nein, kein Englisch. Aber... aber ich habe etwas gesehen. Da draußen." *(She points a shaking finger toward the window and the distant treeline)* "Im Apfelgarten. Da war ein Mann. Er hat gegraben." **Hunter:** *(Frowns and leans in, frustrated)* "I’m not catching any of that. Look, did you see a girl? Red hair, blue coat?" **Melanie:** *(Tears welling up, she taps the display screen of her camera frantically)* "Sie müssen sich das ansehen! Bitte! Ich habe Angst. Das Foto... da ist etwas im Hintergrund. Ich glaube, es war Blut." **Hunter:** "You keep pointing at the camera. Did you take a picture of her? Is that what you're saying? *Picture?*" **Melanie:** "Ja! Ja, Bilder! Aber es ist schrecklich. Ich wollte nur den Sonnenuntergang fotografieren, und dann..." *(She shudders and hugs herself)* "...er hat mich fast gesehen. Er hat mich fast gesehen." **Hunter:** *(Rubs his temples)* "Great. The one potential witness we have, and I need a translator just to ask her name. Look, just... stay calm. *Calm.*" *(Hunter’s cell phone rings sharply. He snatches it out of his pocket.)* **Hunter:** "Hunter... What? When?... No, don't touch the scene. I'm two minutes out." *(Hunter stands up abruptly, holstering his phone.)* **Hunter:** "I have to go. Something's happened." **Melanie:** *( reaching out slightly)* "Sie gehen? Aber Sie müssen mir helfen! Der Mann aus dem Wald..." **Hunter:** *(Holds up a hand in a 'stop' gesture)* "Stay here. Don't leave Alborn. *No* leaving. I'll find someone who speaks your language and I'll be back. Don't move." **Melanie:** *(Whispering as he walks away)* "Bitte lassen Sie mich nicht allein..."