The Trip

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt You are sitting down for your first on-camera interview about Sam. You knew them best. The crew has asked you to start with who they were. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Talk to the camera like you're being interviewed by a documentary crew. Say these three things: 1. Your name, your relationship to Sam, and how long you knew them. 2. The thing about Sam that nobody who reads about this case will ever know unless you say it. Say it. 3. The first thing you remember about Sam, going back as far as you can. Speak slowly. Pauses are okay. Look slightly past the camera.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The crew sat you down. You have been answering questions about Sam for a year. You've gotten faster at it. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Documentary interview voice. Say these three things: 1. Your name, your relationship to Sam, how long you knew them. 2. The version of Sam that the documentary should know about. (Pick which Sam. Specific.) 3. The Sam-story you have told a hundred times that you would now tell a little differently. Be a little performative. Then, at one moment, slow down.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt This is the first time you have spoken on the record about Sam. You have been wanting to. You have also been afraid to. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Take your time. Say these three things: 1. Your name, your relationship to Sam, and how you came to be on that trip. 2. The Sam YOU knew, who maybe the others did not see. 3. The first thing Sam said to you the morning of the day they went missing. Long pauses. Careful words. The camera is your first audience.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt You worked the case. You're retired now. They asked you to do this interview after the badge came off. You said yes. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Old-cop economy. Say these three things: 1. Your name, your role on the case, and your years on the job. 2. What you knew about Sam before you ever met the family. (Be honest. Was it nothing? Was it something?) 3. The first thing about the cabin scene that struck you as wrong. Look at the camera, not past it. Short sentences.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The crew is asking about the drive up. The four of you carpooled. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say three things: 1. Who was in which car, and what the seating arrangement was. 2. The conversation that you remember most vividly from the drive. (One specific thing someone said.) 3. The first moment on the trip you remember feeling like something was off. Look slightly past the camera. Pause where it hurts.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The crew is asking about the drive up. Your version is going to disagree with at least one of the others. You know it. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say three things: 1. Your account of the drive — who was where, what was the vibe. 2. The argument that happened in the car. (You decide if it was you in it, or you witnessing it.) 3. The version of the drive you have always told. Stick with it or revise it on camera. Your choice. Performative-fast at first. Then slow down on one beat.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt You barely knew anyone in the car. You were the new one. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say three things: 1. What it felt like to be in the car with this friend group — being the new one. 2. Something Sam said to you privately on the drive that you have not told anyone. 3. Why you didn't say anything when the others gave their account of the drive to the police. Take your time. Words carefully.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The drive up. You took witness statements from all three on the drive separately. You noticed something. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Old-cop economy. Say three things: 1. The one specific detail about the drive that two of them agreed on and one of them denied. (You pick which.) 2. What that detail told you, or didn't. 3. Whether you followed up on it. Short sentences. The audience is leaning in. Don't lean back.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The night Sam disappeared. The crew is asking you to take them through it. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say three things: 1. Where you were between 10 PM and midnight, in your own words. 2. The fight you and Sam had earlier that night. Say what it was about. (Or refuse to. Either is valid.) 3. The thing about that night that you have never told the other two. Long pauses. Look at your hands when you need to.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The night Sam disappeared. You were the last one to see them. You've said it three different ways. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say three things: 1. The version of where you last saw Sam that you are giving on camera today. 2. Whether it matches the version you gave the sheriff. (If not, why?) 3. The thing you have not been able to stop thinking about for a year. Performative for the first beat. Then drop the performance.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The night Sam disappeared. You stayed in the cabin while the others were out. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say three things: 1. Why you stayed in the cabin that night. 2. The thing you heard from inside the cabin that you have never reported to anyone. (Pick what it was.) 3. The reason you did not look out the window. Careful. Slow. The audience is hearing this for the first time.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt You walked through the cabin scene the next morning. You wrote a report. The report said accidental. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Old-cop economy. Three things: 1. The state of the cabin when you walked in. One detail. 2. The piece of evidence you logged but didn't follow up on. (Time to say what it was.) 3. What you think it pointed to. (Or refuse to speculate.) Look at the camera. Don't blink first.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt A year of grief. A year of trying not to suspect your friends. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Three things: 1. How the past year has changed you, in one specific way. 2. The friend you have suspected, at some point in the past year, even though you know better. (Be honest.) 3. Whether you have stopped suspecting them. The grief is older now. The guilt has not aged.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt A year later. You lost your job. You drink more. You are not here for sympathy. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Three things: 1. What the year has actually been like, plainly. 2. The thing you have been wanting to say on camera since this interview started. 3. Whether you think you'll see Sam again. Slow down for all three. Don't perform.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt A year of holding something you should not be the one holding. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Three things: 1. The thing Sam told you on the first night of the trip, that you have been carrying for a year. 2. Why you have not told the others. 3. Whether you are going to tell them after this interview. The camera is your first audience. You are speaking to them for the first time. Make sure they hear you.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt You're retired. You don't have to be careful what you say. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Old-cop economy. Three things: 1. The theory you have now, that you couldn't say while you were on the job. 2. Which of the three friends you would interview again, if you could. 3. The question you would ask them. Be careful. The badge is off but the words still count.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The crew asks you for a closing statement, directly to camera. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Three things: 1. What you want the audience to understand about Sam, one last time. 2. The thing you regret most about the trip. 3. A message directly to Sam, if they're watching. Look at the camera now. Not past it. The interview is over. This is just you.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The crew asks you for a closing statement, directly to camera. You don't perform this one. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Three things: 1. The version of what happened to Sam that you actually believe, deep down. 2. The version you have been telling for a year. 3. Why they are different. Or aren't. No performance. Slow. Honest. End on a breath.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The closing statement. The last thing you say on camera. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Three things: 1. The truth about what Sam told you, fully. (Time to say it.) 2. What you think it meant, in light of what happened. 3. The question you have wanted to ask the others for a year. The pauses are the answer. Let them happen.

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role devon marlow cole investigator Player-facing prompt The closing statement. You are not a detective anymore — but everything you say will sound like one. Use that carefully. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Three things: 1. Your final professional read of the case. 2. Your final personal read of the case. 3. The advice you would give Sam's family, if they asked you directly tonight. Look at the camera. Make it count.

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