Run: 2026-09-24-01M39WM9BN6HSSAEHQRYXQEZ4M

**Scene: The Apple Blossom Café, Alborn, MN — mid-afternoon** *[Selvi sits alone at a corner table, reviewing photos on her camera. Hunter approaches, badge already out.]* **Hunter:** "Ma'am? Ma'am. Detective Hunter, Alborn police." *(taps badge)* "That's the camera, right? I've seen you around town with it. I need two minutes about Saturday night." **Selvi:** *(looking up, startled)* "म... माफ़ कीजिए? मुझे समझ नहीं आया।" **Hunter:** *(confused, speaking slower and louder)* "Saturday. Night. The old cider mill. Were you out that way?" **Selvi:** *(troubled, hand rising to her chest)* "मुझे अंग्रेज़ी नहीं आती... क्षमा करें। आप... पुलिस हैं?" **Hunter:** "I don— okay. You got any English on you? You speak Hindi? I speak— no. No, I don't." *(rubs the back of his neck)* "This is gonna be great." **Selvi:** *(her eyes drifting to the missing-person poster taped inside the window; her voice drops)* "वो लड़की... जो लापता है... क्या उसे कुछ हो गया है? आप इसी बारे में पूछ रहे हैं, है ना?" **Hunter:** "That's what I'm trying to ask *you*, yeah. Saturday, ten, eleven o'clock — you see anybody out by the mill? A truck? Anything." **Selvi:** *(fumbling with the camera, suddenly urgent)* "रुकिए— रुकिए। यह देखिए। यह देखिए!" *(turns the screen toward him)* "शनिवार की शाम की है। साइडर मिल के पीछे। मैं तस्वीरें खींच रही थी... और यह— यह परछाईं। यह कोई आदमी है।" **Hunter:** *(squinting, then leaning in)* "Whoa. Whoa, hold on. Is that— that's the mill. That's the mill, isn't it? The broken silo, yeah. Okay." *(points at the screen, then mimes taking a photo)* "When? When was this? Saturday?" **Selvi:** *(nodding quickly, holding up six fingers)* "हाँ, हाँ! शनिवार। शाम को छह बजे के आसपास। सूरज डूब रहा था। छह।" **Hunter:** "Six. Six o'clock Saturday." *(studying the screen)* "There's a guy standing right there. And that on his shoulder— is that a shovel?" *(half to himself)* "You're telling me something. You're clearly telling me something." **Selvi:** *(words tumbling out, shaken)* "उसने कुछ गाड़ा, मुझे यकीन नहीं... ज़मीन में। फिर उसने मेरी ओर देखा— मैं डर गई, मैं वहीं से चली गई। मुझे पहले बता देना चाहिए था, पर मैं किससे कहती? मुझे लगा... शायद कुछ नहीं है।" **Hunter:** "Okay, I can't understand a word of that, but I'm gonna guess it's not 'nice weather we're having.'" *(his phone buzzes; he answers)* "Hunter. ... Where? ... Yeah— yeah, don't touch anything. I'm five out." **Selvi:** *(watching his face change)* "क्या हुआ? क्या— क्या मिल गया कुछ?" **Hunter:** *(pocketing the phone, gently taking her camera and photographing the screen)* "I need this. The picture. I'm— yeah, I'm taking it, you'll get it back." *(fishes out a card and sets it on the table)* "That's my number. You— somebody's gotta translate for you, okay? Your program people, anybody. First thing tomorrow." **Selvi:** *(standing, clutching the card with both hands)* "रुकिए! आपका नाम? मैं आपसे बात कैसे करूँगी? कोई अनुवादक— कृपया जल्दी लाइए। और... और वो आदमी, उसने मुझे देखा था।" **Hunter:** *(at the door, pointing at her, then at himself — no-nonsense)* "Tomorrow. Ten a.m. Translator. And don't go out to the mill alone — you hear me? Don't go anywhere alone." **Selvi:** *(to the closing door, quiet, shaken)* "मैंने उसे देखा था... और मैं चुप रह गई। हे भगवान... मैं चुप रह गई।" --- *Author's translation key (not part of the voice sheet):* - "माफ़ कीजिए? मुझे समझ नहीं आया।" — "I'm sorry? I didn't understand." - "मुझे अंग्रेज़ी नहीं आती... आप... पुलिस हैं?" — "I don't know English... You're... police?" - "वो लड़की... जो लापता है..." — "That girl... the one who's missing... Did something happen to her? That's what you're asking about, isn't it?" - "यह देखिए... यह परछाईं। यह कोई आदमी है।" — "Look at this... It's Saturday evening, behind the cider mill. I was taking photographs... and this shadow — it's a man." - "छह बजे के आसपास। सूरज डूब रहा था।" — "Around six o'clock. The sun was setting." - "उसने कुछ गाड़ा... फिर उसने मेरी ओर देखा—" — "He buried something, I'm not sure... in the ground. Then he looked my way — I got scared, I left right away. I should have told someone sooner, but who would I tell? I thought... maybe it was nothing." - "क्या मिल गया कुछ?" — "What happened? Did they find something?" - "रुकिए! आपका नाम? ... उसने मुझे देखा था।" — "Wait! What's your name? How will I speak with you? Bring a translator — please, quickly. And... that man, he saw me." - "मैंने उसे देखा था... और मैं चुप रह गई।" — "I saw him... and I stayed silent. Oh God... I stayed silent."