Run: 2025-11-19-01KACR0GQQE7XR0GPJ281DX50J

**Hunter:** "Excuse me, Miss? I noticed the Nikon. You’ve been snapping photos around the square all morning, right?" **Melanie:** *[Startled, clutching her camera strap tightly]* "Oh! Gott... Sie haben mich erschreckt. Ich... ich verstehe nicht." *(Oh! God... You scared me. I... I don't understand.)* **Hunter:** "The disappearances. The folks missing from the Apple Festival? I’m Detective Hunter. I need to know if you saw anything unusual near the orchard yesterday." **Melanie:** *[Her hands are trembling; she speaks rapidly, her voice wet with tears]* "Es war schrecklich. Ich habe nur Landschaftsbilder gemacht, bei den alten Apfelbäumen, wissen Sie? Und dann... da war dieser Mann. Er hat etwas in den Kofferraum geladen. Es sah aus wie... wie eine Hand. Ich habe solche Angst." *(It was terrible. I was just taking landscape pictures, by the old apple trees, you know? And then... there was this man. He was loading something into the trunk. It looked like... like a hand. I am so scared.)* **Hunter:** *[Frowns deeply, tilting his head]* "Okay, hold on. That sounded... serious. Is that German? I don't speak—look, *English*. Do. You. Speak. English?" **Melanie:** "Nein! Kein Englisch. Bitte, Sie müssen mir helfen. Ich glaube, er hat mich gesehen. Er hat mein Objektiv aufblitzen sehen!" *(No! No English. Please, you have to help me. I think he saw me. He saw my lens flash!)* **Hunter:** *[Rubbing the back of his neck, frustrated]* "I’m getting a 'no' on the English. Great. Look, I’m just going to point. Did you see... a girl?" *[He holds his hand up to indicate height]* "About this tall? Blonde?" **Melanie:** *[Shaking her head frantically, she pushes the camera across the table toward him]* "Sehen Sie sich die Bilder an! Die Speicherkarte. Er ist drauf. Der Mann mit der Narbe im Gesicht." *(Look at the pictures! The memory card. He is on it. The man with the scar on his face.)* **Hunter:** "You want me to look at the camera? Is that it?" *[He reaches for it, but his phone rings shrilly. He pulls it out and sighs.]* "Dispatch, this is Hunter. Go." **Melanie:** "Bitte, schauen Sie doch..." *(Please, just look...)* **Hunter:** *[Into the phone]* "Another one? Where? By the old cider mill? ... Yeah, I’m five minutes out." *[He hangs up and stands up abruptly.]* **Melanie:** *[Eyes wide with panic]* "Sie gehen? Nein, lassen Sie mich nicht allein hier!" *(You're going? No, don't leave me alone here!)* **Hunter:** "I have to go. Duty calls. Look, just... stay here. Stay put. Don't move. I'll find a translator and come back." *[He makes a 'stay' motion with his hand like he's commanding a dog, then turns and rushes out the door.]* **Melanie:** "Ich verstehe nicht... Hilfe..." *(I don't understand... Help...)*