Run: 2026-03-25-01KMJ8P6VPHYY85EYGK8WGVRPY

**Voice Sheet – Café Encounter in Alborn, MN** *Setting: A quiet morning at the Rustic Bean Café in Alborn, MN. Maria sits by the window, quietly reviewing photos on her camera. Hunter enters, scanning the room. He approaches her table.* --- **Hunter:** Excuse me, miss. You were at the town square last night during the lantern release, weren’t you? I saw you with that camera. **Maria:** *(Looking up, startled. She speaks quickly, voice trembling in Spanish.)* ¡Dios mío! Sí, estaba allí... pero no entiendo qué pasó. Vi algo… algo malo. Una sombra cerca del bosque. Y luego… el hombre con la chaqueta roja… desapareció. Grité, pero nadie me oyó. Nadie habla español aquí… ¡No sé qué hacer! **Hunter:** *(Frowning, tilting his head slightly — clearly not understanding.)* Whoa, slow down. I… I don’t understand Spanish. You’re okay, you’re okay. I’m a detective. Hunter. I’m trying to find out what happened last night. Did you see anything unusual? **Maria:** *(Frustrated, trying to speak slower, still in Spanish, gesturing to her camera.)* No hablo inglés todavía. ¡Español, por favor! ¡En la foto… está allí! ¡La chaqueta roja! ¡Él estaba allí y luego… nada! *(She frantically swipes to a photo on her camera and holds it out — a blurry shot of the lantern festival, with a red jacket barely visible near the tree line.)* **Hunter:** *(Leans in, studying the image. Serious now.)* That red jacket… that’s the same one from the missing person report. You got this last night? **Maria:** *(Nods vigorously, speaking in Spanish again.)* ¡Sí! A las ocho y veintidós. Lo juro. Y había una sombra… más alta de lo normal. No caminaba bien. Como… como un fantasma. **Hunter:** *(Muttering to himself.)* Eight twenty-two… right around the time he vanished. You might’ve caught something real important here. *(His phone rings sharply. He hesitates, then answers.)* **Hunter:** Hunter here. ... What? Another sighting near the old orchard? Near the north trail? ... I’m on my way. *(He hangs up, looks back at Maria with a mix of urgency and apology.)* **Hunter:** I gotta go. But — stay here. Don’t leave town. I need to come back and figure out how to talk properly, but… thank you. You might’ve just helped a lot. **Maria:** *(Confused, in Spanish, as he turns to leave.)* ¿Qué? ¿Se va? ¡Espere! ¿Estoy en peligro? ¿El hombre de la chaqueta… está muerto? *(Hunter gives her one last look — sympathetic but helpless — then exits quickly. Maria watches him go, clutching her camera tightly, alone in a town where no one understands her.)* --- *[End Voice Sheet]*