Run: 2026-03-11-01KKFG6NEVR954VMJ5F0HRS6Y7

### Voice Sheet: Alborn, MN Corner Bean Cafe, 2PM Melanie: [softly muttering to herself as she scrolls through photos on her camera, too shaken to notice Hunter approaching] "Warum ist das nur passiert..." [trans: Why did this even happen...] Hunter: [slides into the booth across from her, badge flipped open on the table, gruff no-nonsense tone] "Ma’am. Detective Hunter, county sheriff’s department. I was told you’re the landscape photographer who was up at Pine Ridge Overlook last Tuesday, the day 19-year-old Lila Martinez went missing. I need to ask you what you saw that day." Melanie: [jerks her head up, eyes wide, voice shaking so hard her words stumble, slamming a finger on her camera screen] "Oh Gott, endlich fragt mich jemand! Ich habe sie gesehen, ich habe alles gesehen! Sie ist einem Mann in einem blauen Kapuzenpullover in den tiefen Wald gefolgt – nein, er hat sie gezwungen! Ich habe alles auf meiner Kamera gefilmt, ich konnte nichts tun, er hätte mich auch gesehen!" [trans: Oh God, someone’s finally asking me! I saw her, I saw everything! She followed a man in a blue hoodie into the deep woods, no—he forced her! I filmed it all on my camera, I couldn’t do anything, he would have seen me too!] Hunter: [blinks, thoroughly confused, flipping open his notebook to scribble a useless note] "Wait, hold on, slow down. That’s German, right? I don’t speak a word of that. Can you speak English? Ma’am, I can’t help you if I can’t understand what you’re saying." Melanie: [panicked now, fumbling for her dead phone in her pocket, holding up the black screen to show him, gesturing wildly at her camera] "Mein Handy ist tot! Ich versuche seit vier Tagen jemandem das zu sagen! Jeder in dieser Stadt spricht nur Englisch, niemand versteht mich! Schau, schau dir die Bilder an, da ist er, da ist der Mann!" [trans: My phone’s dead! I’ve been trying to tell people this for four days! Everyone in this town only speaks English, no one understands me! Look, look at the photos, there he is, that’s the man!] Hunter: [scratches the back of his neck, frustrated, fumbling for his own phone to pull up a translation app] "Okay, calm down, I can pull up a translator, we can sort this out, just give me one sec—" [Hunter’s phone blares from his pocket, he yanks it up and answers sharply] Hunter: "Hunter. What? You found what at the south shore trailhead? Jesus, I’m on my way now." [shoves his phone back, tosses a sheriff’s department business card on the table, gesturing hurriedly that he’ll return] "I have to go, that was my deputy, we got an emergency lead. I’m coming back with a German speaker, I promise, okay? Leave a note for the cafe owner if you leave, I’ll track you down." Melanie: [stares after him as he bolts for the door, clutching her camera tight to her chest, voice small and terrified] "Ich habe die Beweise. Bitte, komm zurück." [trans: I have the proof. Please, come back.]