Run: 2026-10-08-01M4DA5PDSEHD5Y21NC7910A45

**VOICE SHEET** **Scene: Corner Cafe, Alborn, MN. Late afternoon.** *Selvi sits alone at a window table, turning her camera over in her hands. Hunter pulls out the chair across from her.* **Hunter:** "Excuse me. Are you Selvi Raman? The woman from the college program at the inn?" **Selvi:** "मुझे नहीं पता आप क्या कह रहे हैं। लेकिन आपकी आवाज़ में कुछ ऐसा है जो मुझे डरा रहा है।" *(I don't know what you're saying. But there is something in your voice that frightens me.)* **Hunter:** "Okay. Hunter, I'm with the sheriff's office. I'm looking into what happened at the orchard road last Thursday. You were out there with your camera that morning, right?" **Selvi:** "कृपया, मैं बस अपने कमरे में वापस जाना चाहती हूँ। मैंने कुछ नहीं देखा। या... शायद मैंने जो देखा, वो मैं समझ नहीं पा रही।" *(Please, I just want to go back to my room. I didn't see anything. Or... maybe what I saw, I can't make sense of.)* **Hunter:** *(frowning, leaning forward)* "I'm sorry, I'm not following. Look, I just need to know whether you took any photos that morning." **Selvi:** "आपको समझ नहीं आ रहा, है ना? ठीक है। देखिए।" *(You don't understand, do you? Alright. Look.)* *(She turns the camera around and thumbs through the screen, then holds it out to him.)* **Hunter:** *(taking the camera, studying the image of mist over a field, and a dark figure at the tree line)* "Is that... a person? Standing by the orchard gate?" **Selvi:** "हाँ। और जब मैंने दोबारा देखा, तो वो वहाँ नहीं था। सिर्फ़ उसके पैरों के निशान थे, गीली घास में।" *(Yes. And when I looked again, he wasn't there. Only his footprints, in the wet grass.)* **Hunter:** *(pulls out his phone, opens a translation app, and speaks slowly into it)* "Okay, let's try this. Tell me... what time was this taken?" *(The app produces a garbled English phrase. Selvi stares at the phone, then at him, and gives a short, exasperated laugh that trembles at the edges.)* **Selvi:** "यह मशीन भी मेरी भाषा नहीं समझती। आप सच में मदद करना चाहते हैं, या बस मुझसे कुछ छुपवाना चाहते हैं?" *(Even this machine doesn't understand my language. Do you really want to help, or do you just want me to hide something?)* **Hunter:** "I want to help. Two people have vanished from this town in three weeks, and you may be the last person who saw one of them. Please, just tell me what you—" *(His phone buzzes loudly on the table. He glances at the screen, his jaw tightening.)* **Hunter:** *(into the phone)* "Yeah. Hunter. ...Where? ...How long ago? ...No, I'm on my way." *(He ends the call and looks back at Selvi, who has pulled the camera back into her lap and is gripping it tightly.)* **Hunter:** "I have to go. Something's come up. Stay in town, okay? Don't go out to the orchard road again. I'll come find you tomorrow, and we'll sort this out. Somehow." **Selvi:** "जाइए। लेकिन याद रखिए, मैंने आपको सच बताने की कोशिश की थी।" *(Go. But remember, I tried to tell you the truth.)* **Hunter:** *(pausing at the door, then nodding once, though it's clear he didn't understand a word)* "I believe you." *(He exits. Selvi looks down at the camera screen, where the dark figure still stands at the tree line.)* **END SCENE**