Run: 2026-10-08-01M4DAB37BTPX0T80KAT3Y9NNF

**Voice Sheet: "Apples and Evidence"** *Scene: A café on Main Street, Alborn, MN. Morning.* Hunter: "Excuse me, ma'am. Are you Maria Ruiz? I'm Detective Hunter. I need to ask you about what happened at the Fenwick Orchard on Tuesday night." Maria: "Lo siento, no entiendo... Pero sí, yo estaba allí. Vi algo. Vi a un hombre con una linterna cerca del granero, y luego..." *(I'm sorry, I don't understand... But yes, I was there. I saw something. I saw a man with a flashlight near the barn, and then...)* Hunter: "Okay. Slow down. Did you see his face?" Maria: "No... Estaba oscuro. Pero tengo fotos. Las fotos... no sé lo que significan." *(No... It was dark. But I have photos. The photos... I don't know what they mean.)* Hunter: "Photos. Good. Can I see them?" Maria: "Mi cámara... la guardé para fotografiar el amanecer. Esa mujer, la de la chaqueta roja, desapareció a las dos. Ella no volvió, ¿verdad? Nadie la ha visto." *(My camera... I kept it to photograph the sunrise. That woman, the one in the red jacket, disappeared at two. She never came back, did she? Nobody has seen her.)* Hunter: "Red jacket. Dana Kessler was wearing a red jacket. Is that who you saw?" Maria: "Sí, sí. Dana. Dana Kessler." *(Yes, yes. Dana. Dana Kessler.)* Hunter: "Dana. Okay. Good. That's the name I needed." Maria: "¿Usted habla español? Por favor, dígame que alguien en este pueblo habla español." *(Do you speak Spanish? Please, tell me someone in this town speaks Spanish.)* Hunter: "Uh... no. Not a word. Sorry. Just English." Maria: "Inglés... no. No, no, no." *(She laughs weakly, then covers her mouth.)* "Perdón. Estoy muy asustada." *(English... no. No, no, no. Sorry. I'm very scared.)* Hunter: *(Pulls out a notepad and pen, slides them across the table.)* "Can you write it down? Anything you remember. Times, numbers, whatever you saw." Maria: *(Writes slowly on a napkin, then pushes it toward him.)* "Dos y catorce de la madrugada. Una furgoneta blanca, sin placas. Estaba aparcada detrás del granero con las luces apagadas." *(Two fourteen in the morning. A white van, no plates. It was parked behind the barn with its lights off.)* Hunter: *(Reading the napkin, squinting.)* "Two fourteen. White van. No plates. Lights off. Okay, that's something." Maria: "Y la foto, la última... mire. Ahí. ¿Lo ve?" *(And the photo, the last one... look. There. Do you see it?)* Hunter: "Yeah. Hang on. That's a figure by the van, right? Zoom in... Is that a second person?" Maria: "Sí. Y está cargando algo. Algo grande." *(Yes. And they're carrying something. Something big.)* Hunter: "Okay. Okay. I need to get copies of these. Can you email them to me, or should I take the card?" Maria: "¿Qué? No entiendo. ¿Usted se la va a llevar?" *(What? I don't understand. Are you going to take it?)* Hunter: "Relax, I'm not taking your camera. I just need copies. Nobody's—" *(His phone buzzes. He glances at the screen, his expression hardening.)* Hunter: "Yeah. Hunter. ...Where? ...How long ago? ...No, don't touch anything. I'm on my way." Maria: "¿Se va? Por favor, no se vaya. Acabamos de empezar." *(You're leaving? Please, don't go. We just started.)* Hunter: *(Stands and gathers the napkin carefully, sliding it into an evidence bag from his jacket.)* "I've got to go. Stay here, okay? Don't leave town. Don't go back to that orchard." Maria: "¿Qué? ¿Quédate aquí? No entiendo nada." *(What? Stay here? I don't understand anything.)* Hunter: *(Points firmly at the chair, then at the ground.)* "Stay. Right here. Got it?" Maria: "Vale... de acuerdo. Me quedo." *(Fine... all right. I'll stay.)* Hunter: *(Drops a business card on the table and heads for the door, already on the phone again.)* "Call me if anything else comes to you. Anything at all. I'm serious." Maria: *(Calling after him, her voice cracking.)* "¡Las fotos, señor! ¡Se le olvidan las fotos!" *(The photos, sir! You're forgetting the photos!)* *(The door chimes shut. Maria looks down at her camera, then at the card, and slowly turns the screen toward the empty doorway.)* Maria: *(Whispering.)* "Dana... ¿dónde estás?" *(Dana... where are you?)* *[END SCENE]*