Brandon: "Get up off the ground right now, Maria!"
Maria: "Mr. Brandon... I swear on my life, I didn't push the stroller!"
Victoria: "Don't listen to her lies, Brandon! I was standing right here getting some sun when I saw her push the stroller straight into the deep end!"
Maria: "You pushed it! You shoved it with your own hands while he was cooing!"
Victoria: "Look at her getting defensive! She's hysterical because she knows she got caught red-handed!"
Brandon held the soaking, shivering baby tightly against his black shirt, his face pale with intense anger and confusion.
Brandon: "Why would Maria ever do something like that, Victoria? She's cared for Leo since the day he came home from the hospital!"
Victoria: "Because she knows you're planning to fire her next week for stealing jewelry from the master bedroom!"
Maria: "I never stole anything in my life! You placed those missing earrings in my apron pocket last Tuesday!"
Victoria: "See?! She's unhinged, Brandon! She pushed your motherless child into the water out of pure revenge!"
Brandon looked down at Maria, who was still kneeling on the wet deck, trembling uncontrollably in her drenched black and white uniform.
Brandon: "Maria... is this true? Did you endanger my boy?"
Maria: "Sir, I jumped into the pool in my full uniform! My shoes are still at the bottom of the deep end! If I wanted to hurt him, why would I dive in to pull him out?"
Victoria: "Because she saw me watching her! She panicked and tried to act like a hero when she realized she was caught!"
Brandon: "Victoria, stop screaming for a second. Let me think."
Victoria: "Think about what?! Your son almost drowned! Call the police and have this trash taken away in handcuffs!"
Maria: "Mr. Brandon, please look at your son! He's freezing! Please take him inside before he gets sick!"
Brandon looked down at little Leo, whose tiny face was red from crying as cold pool water dripped from his clothing onto Brandon's shirt.
Brandon: "You're right. He needs warm clothes immediately."
Victoria: "I'll take him inside, darling. You stay here and deal with her."
Brandon: "No. Nobody touches my son except me right now. Both of you come inside to the study."
Victoria: "Why do we need to go to the study? The police should be on their way here right now!"
Brandon: "Because I am not calling the police until I figure out who is lying in my own house."
Brandon turned on his heel and walked inside through the sliding glass doors, carrying his sobbing child.
Victoria glared down at Maria with pure venom in her eyes before adjusting her gold dress and following him into the air-conditioned house.
Maria slowly pushed herself up from the wet concrete tiles, wiping her tear-stained face with her wet sleeve, her heart pounding with terror.