AMATEUR SLEUTHS TEASER

In 90s Malawi, two teenage cousins, Nettie and Aileen, find out a local shopkeeper vanished. After finding answers with a financier at a hotel, this leads the duo to an old shack in the mountains to find some answers, but it gets strange when they both arrive.

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1. AMATEUR SLEUTHS TEASER Original Story by Alfred Kumwenda Storyboard by Alfred Kumwenda
3. NETTIE: Just let me do the talking.
4. NETTIE: You... mumble your words a bit.
5. AILEEN: What happened at the party was a slip at the tounge--
6. NETTIE: You don't know this man, but I do. He's a teacher And he deals with facts like disappearances.
7. NETTIE: Do you have your camera?
8. AILEEN: (sighs) yes.
9. NETTIE: Great. Let's get--
10. NETTIE: -- this information.
11. AILEEN: (mutters) It was my idea anyway.
14. (Door creaks)
15. (Door creaks)
17. (Door creaks)
19. NETTIE: Hello? (echoes)
20. NETTIE: Hello? Is anyone here?
21. (wind blowing)
24. AILEEN: N-n-nobody's home. You know, a man--
25. AILEEN: -- living alone--
26. AILEEN: -- in a literal broken--
27. AILEEN: -- home always means--
28. AILEEN: -- trouble---
29. NETTIE: Come on, Aileen.
30. -- I've lived in this --
31. -- town for --
32. -- seventeen years. --
33. -- they’re no --
34. -- Psychos around --
35. -- here. --
36. -- Those science fiction --
37. -- books of --
38. -- yours warp your m --
39. -- what the-? --
41. NETTIE: Chiyani padziko lapansi?
42. AILEEN: Is that--
43. - - fresh food?
44. - - That's never a good sign.
45. - -Nettie, I don't think we should be here.
46. NETTIE: Kukokomeza. What could possibly be so bad?
47. NETTIE: Uh--
48. NETTIE: -- Wasn't the food just there?
49. AILEEN: I got a bad feeling about this.
50. AILEEN: I got a bad feeling about this.
51. (footsteps)
52. (footsteps)
53. (footsteps)
57. AILEEN: Awww---
58. AILEEN: It's kinda cute
59. AILEEN: It's kinda cute
67. AILEEN: In a creepy sorta way?
68. AILEEN: In a creepy sorta way?
69. AILEEN: In a creepy sorta way?
70. NETTIE: Monitors.
71. I never thought I'd seen one up close, or if they exsisted.
73. (MONITOR SCREECH)
74. (BOTH GASP. MONITOR CONTINUES SCREECHING)
76. (creak)
80. AILEEN: Why is coming closer?
81. NETTIE: Just as long as we--
82. -- don't make any sudden--
83. -- movements,--
84. -- movements,--
85. -- we’ll be-- (camera flash)
98. AILEEN: Uhhh...
99. AILEEN: Uhhh...
101. (Screech)
102. (Screech)
103. (Screech)
104. (Screech)
105. (Screech)
106. (Screech)
107. (Screech)
108. (Screech)
109. (Screech)
110. (Screech)
111. (Screech)
112. (Screech)
113. (Screech in unison)
114. (Screech in unison)
115. (Screech in unison)
117. AILEEN: We got to le--
118. - -Ahh!--
119. - - Hey, you little creep! - -
120. - - Hey, you little creep! - -
121. - - Let go! - -
122. - - Let go! - -
123. (AILEEN GRUNTS)
124. (AILEEN GRUNTS)
125. (AILEEN GRUNTS)
126. - - A little help, cousin?! - -
127. NETTIE: A little busy here!
128. NETTIE: A little busy here!
129. NETTIE: AYI!
130. NETTIE: AYI!
137. AILEEN: Whatta you--?
138. AILEEN: Whatta you--?
139. AILEEN: Hey!
141. AILEEN: Those aren't--
142. AILEEN: Give them back!
143. AILEEN: Give them back!
144. AILEEN: They're sensitive!
145. AILEEN: They're sensitive!
146. AILEEN: They're sensitive!
147. AILEEN: They're sensitive!
148. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
149. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
150. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
151. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
152. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
153. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
154. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
155. NETTIE: They are extremely annoying!
156. MONITOR: OooooOOOoooooo....
157. MONITOR: OooooOOOoooooo....
158. MONITOR: OooooOOOoooooo....
159. MONITOR: OooooOOOoooooo....
160. MONITOR: (chitters)
161. MONITOR: (chitters)
163. AILEEN: Enough of this palaka!
164. AILEEN: Enough of this palaka!
166. AILEEN: Enough of this palaka!
170. (Low screech)
171. (Low screech)
188. AILEEN: Say cheese!
189. AILEEN: Say cheese!
190. AILEEN: Say cheese!
191. AILEEN: Say cheese!
193. (Exclaims in Pain)
194. (Exclaims in Pain)
195. (Exclaims in Pain)
197. (Exclaims in Pain)
198. (Exclaims in Pain)
200. AILEEN: I told you we shouldn't have come here!
201. AILEEN: I told you we shouldn't have come here!
202. AILEEN: I told you we shouldn't have come here!
203. AILEEN: Come on, let's go!
204. AILEEN: Come on, let's go!
205. AILEEN: Come on, let's go!
206. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
207. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
208. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
209. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
210. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
211. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
212. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
213. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
214. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
215. (Monitors continue exclaiming)
217. NETTIE: Well, he's not here.
218. NETTIE: This just makes this a lot stranger.
219. AILEEN: No kidding.