Run: 2026-09-23-01M36R27PBD42PSNXB7QZ67GG8

Hunter: [He stops beside her table, where Marie is studying the images on her camera.] “Marie Laurent? Detective Hunter. I need to ask you about Nora Bell and the Apple Festival.” Marie: [Startled, she grips her camera.] “Vous êtes policier? La jeune femme disparue—Nora? Je l’ai vue au festival.” [Translation: Are you a police officer? The missing young woman—Nora? I saw her at the festival.] Hunter: [His brow furrows.] “I don’t understand a word of that. Do you speak English?” Marie: “Je suis désolée. Je ne parle pas anglais. J’ai essayé de le dire à quelqu’un, mais personne ne me comprenait.” [Translation: I’m sorry. I don’t speak English. I tried to tell someone, but no one understood me.] Hunter: “Right. Okay. This isn’t going to work.” [He watches, confused, as she pulls out her phone.] Marie: “Attendez. J’ai une application de traduction.” [Translation: Wait. I have a translation app.] Hunter: “Good. Put it between us. I’ll speak into it, and you can speak French.” [He leans toward the phone; it displays his words in French for her.] Marie: “Samedi soir, je photographiais les pommiers près du verger nord. Nora est arrivée près de l’ancien pressoir à cidre. Un homme l’attendait.” [The app translates: Saturday evening, I was photographing the apple trees near the north orchard. Nora came by the old cider press. A man was waiting for her.] Hunter: “You saw Nora with a man?” Marie: “Oui. Il était grand, avec un manteau vert foncé et une écharpe remontée jusqu’aux yeux. Il tenait une lanterne, même si toutes les lumières du festival étaient électriques.” [The app translates: Yes. He was tall, wearing a dark green coat and a scarf pulled up to his eyes. He carried a lantern, even though all the festival lights were electric.] Hunter: “Did you get him in a photograph?” Marie: “Je l’ai cru. On ne le voit pas derrière elle, mais regardez le reflet dans la fenêtre du pressoir.” [The app translates: I thought so. You can’t see him behind her, but look at the reflection in the press-house window.] Hunter: “Show me.” Marie: [She scrolls through the images on her camera, then turns the screen toward him.] “Voilà. Là, dans la vitre. Et il porte une broche en forme de pomme.” [The app translates: There. In the glass. And he’s wearing an apple-shaped pin.] Hunter: “The festival committee wore those pins. Can you tell who he is?” Marie: “Non. Le reflet est flou. Mais j’ai pris la photo à dix-neuf heures dix-sept, juste avant la fermeture.” [The app translates: No. The reflection is blurry. But I took the picture at 7:17, just before closing.] Hunter: “Why didn’t you bring this to the police sooner?” Marie: “J’ai essayé. Je ne savais pas comment expliquer. Je pensais peut-être avoir mal vu.” [The app translates: I tried. I didn’t know how to explain. I thought maybe I’d seen it wrong.] Hunter: “You didn’t. This is the first solid lead we’ve had.” Marie: “Elle est vivante?” [The app translates: Is she alive?] Hunter: “I don’t know. But this may help me find her.” Marie: “Alors, s’il vous plaît, trouvez-la.” [The app translates: Then please find her.] Hunter: “I will. Keep the original photographs, and don’t delete anything.” Marie: “Je les garderai. Mais l’homme sait peut-être que je l’ai photographié.” [The app translates: I’ll keep them. But the man may know I photographed him.] Hunter: “Stay somewhere safe tonight. I’ll make sure someone who can translate comes back to talk with you.” Marie: “D’accord.” [The app translates: All right.] Hunter: [His phone rings. He answers.] “Hunter. …Where? The north orchard? Don’t touch anything. I’m on my way.” Marie: “Qu’est-ce qui se passe?” [The app translates: What’s happening?] Hunter: “I have to go. Keep your camera with you, and don’t leave town.” Marie: “Je comprends. Faites attention.” [The app translates: I understand. Be careful.] Hunter: “I will. Thank you, Marie.”