Two additional officers walked past the kitchen counter heading straight toward the basement door, holding heavy flashlights and plastic evidence collection bags in their hands.
Officer Hayes: Head downstairs and secure the server rack. Make sure no automated wipe scripts are running on those drives right now.
Mark: There's nothing down there! It's just old home furniture and personal boxes!
Detective Miller: If there's nothing down there, then you won't mind if my digital forensics team takes a quick look at your hardware setup downstairs.
Clara walked slowly over to Chloe, reaching down to take her younger sister's shaking hands into her own, offering whatever comfort she could manage in the moment.
Clara: Why didn't you call me earlier, Chloe? Why did you keep this terrible secret from me for so long?
Chloe: He took my passport, Clara... he locked my legal documents in his basement safe and threatened to report me for fraud if I reached out to you!
Clara: Report you for fraud? How could he possibly do that when he was the one stealing everything?
Chloe: He made me sign deposit receipts, Clara! He told me that if the law ever caught on, he would pin the wire transfers on my bank account!
Detective Miller: Don't worry, Ms. Reynolds. We have full wiretap recordings of your brother's phone calls with his offshore asset manager. Your sister is completely cleared.
Mark let out a bitter, defeated scoff as the officer pushed him down into a wooden dining chair near the broken porcelain on the floor.
Mark: You think you won, Clara? That money is gone! It's sitting in an untraceable account overseas! You won't see a single dime of it!
Clara: I don't care about the money anymore, Mark. I care that you treated us like garbage while pretending to be our protector!
Detective Miller: Actually, Mr. Reynolds, federal agents seized those foreign accounts two hours ago. Every single cent of the seven hundred thousand dollars has been frozen.
Mark's face went completely pale as the detective spoke, his jaw dropping open in total shock as his elaborate financial scheme collapsed around him entirely.